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Title A name given to the resource Post-picketing chow line at SIU HQ Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Black and white photograph Subject The topic of the resource United Financial Employees Description An account of the resource After the close of business on the second week of striking against Wall Street, the UFE protestors and their allies made use of the restaurant space located within the SIU Headquarters for an invigorating meal. 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Title A name given to the resource Herb Brand Historic Files Description An account of the resource Herbert Brand was Chairman of the Transportation Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based organization engaged in maritime industry research and promotion. The Institute directs its major efforts toward the preservation and promotion of a strong maritime capability in the United States. Mr. Brand assumed the position of chairman of the Transportation Institute when he retired as its president. He was instrumental in developing the Institute since 1967 when the organization's board of trustees named him to an administrative position. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Mr. Brand was associated with the Seafarers International Union of North America, AFL-CIO, where he carried a wide variety of functions including Director of the Departments of Public Relations and Organizing. Brand joined the SIU in 1946, and was a close confidant of the union's late president, Paul Hall. Born in New York City on September 3, 1913, Mr. Brand was involved in the maritime industry for almost fifty years. He was honored by the U.S. Navy League, a 68,000 member patriotic civilian organization dedicated to maintaining America's sea power. Mr Brand received the Navy League's Vincent T. Hirsch Maritime Award for contributing substantially to an increased public awareness of the vital defense and economic role of a privately owned American-flag merchant fleet. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1946-1988 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers at the old Brooklyn hall Subject The topic of the resource SIU Halls - Brooklyn Description An account of the resource If you have any further information on this picture, leave a comment! 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Title A name given to the resource 1948 United Financial Employees Wall Street Strike Subject The topic of the resource United Financial Employees Seafarers International Union Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Herb Brand Historic Files Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3/29/1948-4/30/1948 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 36-13, 36-14, 36-15 Description An account of the resource 1,100 United Financial Employees members marched on Wall Street to protest working conditions at the New York Stock Exchange throughout the spring of 1948. The SIU provided around 500 of its own members as security. Many of the UFE employees were office workers and women who needed protection from police violence. The strikes lasted a month, from the end of March 1948 to the last day of April. Although UFE was able to get the concessions they sought from the Curb Exchange, the Stock Exchange bosses refused to compromise with the union. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant New York Financial District Wall Street New York Stock Exchange New York Curb Exchange Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers join the UFE picket Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color photograph Subject The topic of the resource United Financial Employees Description An account of the resource Outside the American Stock Exchange building, SIU members join the ranks of striking United Financial Employees. As always, the SIU men can be identified by their signature white caps, the "Lundeberg Stetson." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seafarers Log Photographic Collections Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1948 Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 36-13-002 1948 Strikes and Beefs United Financial Employees http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/2615adaf35171aa5b27d43f496640bfb.PDF e823c30bb0bb7cae1016cdf01887353f PDF Text Text Official Organ of the Seafarers International Union of North America VOL. IX Seafarers Aid CIO Union To Stop Scabs NEW YORK. N.Y., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 1947 SIU MEN AT WORK NEW YORK—The presence of hundreds of white-capped Sea­ farers t IT i s w e e k prevented stj-ikcbreakers from forcing their way through picketlines estab­ lished by the CIO Shipyard Workers around two Brooklyn plants of the Bethlehem Steel Company. The lines were set up by Lo­ cals 12 and 13 more than 12 weeks ago, but early thi^ week the company stated that it would ''throw its gates open" to any employes who wanted to re­ turn, a move that the union im­ mediately branded as "strike­ breaking." Charles Leone, regional rep­ resentative of the Shipyard Workers, called upon the .Seafaiers foi- help and, with the 'Answering ihe call of Brofher unionists, the CIO shipyard same speed that the SIU has Workers, these Seafarers went forth to Brooklyn to help keep shown in the past, aid was dis­ the Bethlehem Steel Company's shipyards closed down tight. patched to the 29th Street and Their help came in mighty handy, and as a result the company 56th Street, Bi'ooklyn, plants of stopped its strike-breaking tactics. This was the second time the company. the SIU had thrown its weight behind the Shipyard Workers in REAL UNITY a beef, and don't think those men don't appreciate it! All the SIU members who went to join the picketlines did so on a volunteer basis. A special meeting was held on Tuesdai morning, September 16, at which time support was voted The bosses' answer to rising Concern over mounting prices to the strikers and volunteers costs, which today threaten an; this week reached epidemic prowere requested to report to the inflationary period second to portions as city after city repicketlines. none in the history of the United ported price at unprecedented The response was very good, States, came last week when heights. with hundreds of Seafarers mak­ A 27-year lecord was shatter­ ing their way to the two Beth­ Senator Robert A. Taft advised the American people to "eat ed when, during the week end­ lehem Steel plants. less." ing September 6, wholesale In much the same arrogant prices of food rose 1.2 percent to Names of the volunteers ap-. manner Marie Antoinette, whbii pass the previous record estab­ pear on page 8. A full page told that the French people had lished in June, 1920. of pictures of the picketlines no bread to eat, said, "Let them appears on page 9. BLS REPORTS eat cake." According to the Bureau of La­ Labor leaders were quick to On several occasions within point out that Taft's statement bor Statistics, this was the eighth the last year the SIU has aided was motivated by a desire to consecutive week that the aver­ the Shipyard Workers- on the reduce the American standard of age of all wholesale prices had picketline. Only last winter a living, and that the same phil­ set new postwar records. mass picketline, supported by osophy was behind the drive by On Monday, September 15, many Seafarers, forced the the National Association of Man­ cotton prices soared $3.00 a bale, Bushey Shipyards to bargain ufacturers to pass anti-labor leg­ soy beans rose 8 cents a bushel, honestly, and brought to an end islation such as the Taft-Hartley corn went up six-to-seven -^cents a bushel, and it- was estimated Act. (Continued on Page 8) AFL Council Refuses Te Sign Nen-Cemmie Oath; NLRB Stymied The ruling of the National Labor Relation Board's general counsel, Robert A. Denham, that top AFL and CIO officials must sign anti-com­ munist affidavits under the Taft-Hartley Law be­ fore their affiliated unions can have access to the board's machinery, backfired in the board's face this week and threatened to leave the huge agency and Denham minus a job. This blow at the NLRB was touched off by^ a decision of*, conform Z Ito 77 77 7 777777, the Denham ruling. the AFL's executive council Lewis contended that labor's have thrown down a chal­ to by-pass the NLRB, fol- foes lenge and that labor must ac­ owing a vigorous debate, in cept it. In Lewis' view, the which John L. Lewis led the younger men in the labor move­ opposition against filing of the affidavits. Aftei- the meeting, AFL Presi­ dent William Green announced that "the Executive Council has decided that the Taft-Hartley Act is reprehensible, vicious and destructive of the workers' legal rights. It therefore could not Spiralmg Costs Cut Workers' Pay Commission Will Study Dangers Of Nitrate The dangei s of combustion and | recently in Texas City and Brest, explosion of ammonium nitrate France. As a fii'st step, three measures aboard ship is to be studied by for the safe handling of the a five-man committee appointed highly valuable plant food, but recently in Washington. very dangerous explosive, were Headed by Major General Phil­ suggested. They are: ip B. Fleming, Federal Works 1. Education of ship officers Administrator, the committee is and others in the proper hand­ authorized to go completely into ling of ammonium nitrate; the situation and to make rec­ 2. Ammonium nitrate should ommendations which will pre­ be the last cargo loaded and the vent tragedies such as took place first cargo unloaded; 3. Loading and unloading of ammonium nitrate should only be undertaken at isolated ter­ minals. A spokesman for the City of New York stated that the ban on loading and unloading the explosive in New York would stick until more is known of the properties of the ammonium nitrate so that better methods may be developed to safeguard combustion and explosion. No. 38 that the end was not yet in sight. Meat, butter, and eggs, also kept pace with the rise in grain, although in New York those prices did not rise, mainly as a result of an increase in consum­ er resistance. In Chicago, subpoenas were is­ sued calling officials of large and small meat-packing companies to appear before a special grand jury which is expected to con­ vene on or about September 22 to investigate a possible con­ spiracy to keep up the prices of food, clothing and shelter. ORGANIZED RESISTANCE Meanwhile, consumers through­ out the United States rallied to force prices down. Consumer resistance was re­ sorted to on a voluntary basis in most places, but in the big cities organized groups refused to buy certain commodities until these commodities stopped their dizzy spiral. Many cities, notably New York and St. Louis, instituted two meatless days per week, and there was talk of more cities following suit. ' Nevertheless, prices continued rising, wages stayed at the same level, and the workingman and his family were caught in the well-known vise. ment wanted fight and action. He said they did not want to in­ dulge in a long war of attrition. CIO Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey has announced neither he nor Philip Murray, CIO presi­ dent, had any intention of sign­ ing the affidavits. NO BUSINESS As the situation now stands, the NLRB, with its huge staff and generous Congressional ap­ propriation, finds itself without any business, except for a hand­ ful of independent unions. However, it is believed that at the AFL and CIO conventions the problem will be fully dis­ cussed and positive programs will be adopted to deal with the situation posed by Denham's rul­ ing. By virtue of the Denham rul­ ing, none of the AFL's 43,000 lo­ cal unions and none of the ClO's approximately 25,000 locals can use the NLRB facilities as long as a single national official of their respective oi'ganizations re­ fuses to take the oath of dis­ avowal. Thus it may be that organized labor's vigorous opposition ta the (Continued on Page 8) Correction The resolution on nomina­ tions for office in the Atlan­ tic and Gulf District, which was reported in the LOG last week, contained a typograph­ ical error in that it stated that only one position of Joint Patrolman would be on the ballot for New York. This is incorrect as there will be two Joint Patrolmen elected for New York in the coming election. 'I'elegrams of correction have already been sent to Port Agents. �Page Two THE SEAFARERS SEAFARERS LOG LOG Friday, September 19, 1947 AM mi| brothers keeper...!'' Published Weekly by the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor At n Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. HAnover 2-2784 International Officers S-j- lU HARRY LUNDEBERG President 105 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. PAUL HALL First Vice-President 51 Beaver St., New York 4, N, Y. MORRIS WEISBERGER Vice-President 105 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. CAL TANNER Vice-President 1 South Lawrence St., Mobile, Ala. EDWARD COESTER Vice-President 86 Seneca St., Seattle, Wash. JOHN HAWK Secy.-Treasurer 105 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. District Officials J, p. SHULER - Sccy.-Treas. Atlantic & Gulf District P. O. Box 25, Bowling Green Station, New York, N. Y. HARRY LUNDEBERG - Sec.-Treas. Sailors Union of the Pacific 50 Clay Street, San Francisco, Calif. FRED FARNEN - - - - Secy.-Treas. Great Lakes District 1038 Third Street, Detroit, Nlichigan HUGH MURPHY Secy.-Treas. Canadian District 144 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, B. C. Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. GEORGE K. NOVICK, Editor 267 It' •> The Long View There was a time when unions existed merely to gain higher wages, better conditions, and fewer hours for work­ ers. This was a fine objective, and resulted in raising the standards of living of workers and their families the world over. And for a long time labor was satisfied to go along that way. But union members arc more than just members of an organization. They are men and women who take an interest in the world around them, and in what goes on in that world. Events of importance affect the lives of all who work for a living-. That is why labor in the U. S. in general, and the American Federation of Labor in particular, has taken the . lead in helping to rebuild the shattered labor unions abroad. When the war was but a few weeks or months old, long before the attack at Pearl Harbor, the AFL had al­ ready started its "Labor's League for Human Rights." This organization was the instrument through which the AFL kept alive the few sparks of real unionism that exist­ ed in Europe—kept the sparks alive in spite of Nazi and Communist efforts to kill off all democratic trade union­ ism in the countries that were overrun. Mote than $ J,000,000 was raised through contribu­ tions from unions and rank-and-file members. This money was spent in Norv/ay, Britain, France, Poland, China, and other countries where red or black or brown fascism had iert Its mark. Besides helping to keep the union spirit alive, the League established homes for merchant seamen, hideouts for groups which smuggled refugees from totalitarian countries to places where they had a chance to live, and passed food and armaments to the brave underground groups in Poland, France, Italy, and the Scandinavian countries. Today, even with the war over, the League has not ended its work. Labor movements abroad, as well as in the United States, are facing many problems. That is why the AFL has organized a new committee, the "Free Trade Union Committee for Democratic Trade Unionism' in Europe and Latin America," to help combat the totali­ tarian forces that are trying to enslave workers. The small view of unions as just pork-chop getters Is' ended; the long view, of international solidarity between labor movements the world over, has arisen to take its piace. Hospital Patients When entering the hospital notify the delegates by post­ card. giving your name and the number of your ward. Staten Island Hospital Men Now In The Marine Hospitals These are the Union Brothers currently in the marine hospitals, as reported by the Port Agents. These Brothers find time hanging heavily on their hands. Do what you can to cheer them up by writ­ ing to them. NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL JOSEPH DENNIS L. GROVER C. MACON BOB WRIGHT JOHN MAGUIRE CHARLES BURNEY J. J. O'NEAL E. L. WANDRIE E. M. LOOPER D. G. PARKER LEROY CLARKE J. ZANADIL D. f. KORALIA WILLIAM MOORE L. COOPER REUBEN VANCE t t NEPONSET HOSPITAL L. CLARK J. S. CAMPBELL E. FERRER J. R. HANCHEY C. LARSEN L. L. LEWIS J. R. LEWIS R. A. BLAKE L. TORRES C. SCHULTZ J. HAMILTON H. BELCHER J. T. EDWARDS • L. BALLESTLRO X C. C. MOSS D. TULL J. SILLAK t- % BALTIMORE HOSPITAL J. NUUHIWA F. O. O'BRIEN W. T. ROSS J. W. TAYLOR MAX FINGERHUT M. J. LUCAS E. FREMSTAD » » » GALVESTON MARINE HOS.P W. BENDLE G. E. LEE A. BELANGER A. V. O'DANIELS' R. S. SINGLETARY t X i STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL J. A. DYKES F. CHRISTNER W. SATTERFIELD P. GELPI F. ZOLLER T. COMPTON W. R. HALL A. SWENSON J. J. RATH M. EVANDSICH J. M. MARTINEZ J, HOUSTON You can contact your Hos­ pital delegate at the Staten Island Hospital at the follow­ ing tiems: Tuesday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (on 5th and 6th floors) Thursday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (on 3rd and 4th floors.) Saturday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (on 1st and 2nd floors.) E. P. O'BRIEN J. S. MOLINI T. J. KURKI F. J. SCHUTZ J. P. MCNEELY E. DRIGGERS I. WHITNEY JOE O'MALLEY X X ELLIS ISLAND HOSPITAL D. MCDONALD M. MORRIS J. KOSLUSKY N. NEILSEN EARL GOOSLEY » » » BRIGHTON HOSPITAL R. LORD J. BARRON E. DELLAMANO H. SCHWARTZ E. LESSOR E. JOHNSTON J. TEN EYCK D. BOYCE R. GREENWOOD E. OVERTURE (SUP) XXX SAN FRANCISCO HOSPITAL JOHN B. KREWSON J. HODO �Friday, September 19. 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Strike Clearances All members are urged to obtain strike clearance for the period covered by the Isthmian beef, at the earliest possible moment. This ap­ plies to all Seafarers whether or not they participated in the strike. Clearance may be obtain­ ed at any of the ports in the Atlantic and Gulf District. In New York, the commit­ tee handling clearances is lo­ cated on the 6th floor, 51 Beaver Street. Page Three Huron Negotiations Nearing Compietion By RUSSELL SMITH DETROIT — Negotiations with titions which the SIU now has the Huron management are still pending before the Board. in progress, and will probably be Four of these election petitions concluded within the next week. are in their final stages, that is, Then the new Huron agreement before the Board in Washington will be subject for ratification or awaiting a final decision. These By PAUL HALL rejection by all Huron Seafarers. are: the Hanna fleet (13 ships), We are not at liberty to print Shenango (3 ships), Wilson (12 The annual Seafarers elections are coming up soon. Plain olddetails regarding the Huron ne­ ships), and Kinsman (Steinbrenfashioned, vote-for-the-man-you-want style. It's an election con­ gotiations at this time, other than ner—5 ships.) ducted by the membership for the serious business of choosing men to say that a substantial wage All of these elections will prob­ to carry out their decisions, to represent them in dealings with the increase will be provided for, ably be scheduled for some time operators, and otherwise conduct the business of the Union. plus several other gains which within the next several weeks. Qualifications needed for a place on the ticket have already will probably top any other con­ We are endeavoring to have the been published in the SEAFARERS LOG, and will be run con­ tract on the Lakes. NLRB push them through just tinuously both as a matter of information and as a I'eminder to all There is only one drawback as rapidly as humanly possible. hands. Summed up very briefly, they only require a man to be which we cannot overcome, and One other election, Nicholson a proven, qualified seaman and a Union member. Thus, any mem­ that is the question of the closed (Ecorse—1 ship) will probably be shop and the union hiring hall. held just as soon as the Detroit ber can qualify without difficulty. Under the Taft-Hartley Act, NLRB is notified of our comAs many' guys as possible should throw in their credentials neither of these sections can be liance number. and run for some Union office. Besides the qualifications as out­ Two other petitions for TomNEW YORK — The American included in a new contract ne­ lined elsewhere, all a member must have is an honest desire to be gotiated after August 22, 1947. linson (11 ships), and Schneider of service to his Union and his Brother members and to dedicate Federation of Labor spent -$275,However, we anticipate that, (2 ships) are in the formal hear­ his efforts to furthering the Union's aims, as decided by the entire 000 for the purchase of food and as a result of the SIU'battle and ing stage, and probably go to group. clothing textile packages in the that of the entire organized labor Washington for ordered elections past year to help European trade movement against these Taft- just as soon as the formal hear­ Easy To Get On The Ballot unionists and their families in Hartley restrictions, these pro­ ings are completed. It is not necessary for a meeting to offer a man's name in visions against the closed shop Several other Great Lakes nomination. Any man so desiring can nominate himself. But he dire need of bare living essen­ and union hiring hall will bo fleets are showing marked pro­ should take his nomination seriously. No one should think that a tials. either eliminated or modified. gress as the SIU's organization union election is a popularity or pretty baby contest. At the same Another meeting with the drive continues at a rapid pace. The AFL-purchased packages time, however, it shouldn't be thought that a man who isn't widely were sent to unions in Norway, Wyandotte management is sched­ Although none of these fleets has known cannot be elected. For any seaman with the necessary Holland, Czechoslovakia, France. uled as this article is being writ­ been petitioned for elections as qualifications has shipmates, who in turn, have shipmates in all Austria, Finland, Geianany, ten. Negotiations with this com­ yet, we are in high hopes of se­ ports and when a brother's shipmates' think he is okay for a job Greece," Hungary and Poland. pany have not reached the same curing sufficient pledge cards it doesn't take long for word to get around. from them to petition within the 'fhey were procured by the next few weeks. The Seafarers is one of the few unions that holds referendum AFL's Labor League for Human VICTORIES EXPECTED elections for officers annually. This means that if a un'iqn officer Rights from CARE—Cooperative The SIU Great Lakes District fails to do his job or doe.sn't care to continue in his elected position, For American Remittances To is-fully confident of winning elec­ the membership can replace him, or he can step down, the whole Europe, a non - profit, govern­ tions in all of the fleets which ment-approved service, which process taking but a very short time. have already been petitioned. makes it possible for Americans Summing up, any one who thinks he can do the job, and has to aid friends, relatives and la­ This is no idle boast, but is based the proper qualifications, should throw in for office and help the bor groups in war-torn lands. upon sound proof in the form of Seafarers maintain its reputation for providing substantial, firstsigned pledge cards, membership Matthew Woll, a vice-president rate representation through democratically-elected officials. books, and countless letters of of the AFL and head of its La­ support which have been sent in bor League, is also a vice-presi­ No Factional Campaigns to the SIU offices. dent and member of the execu­ Despite the fact that the LCA In the SIU there are no slates like those which plague some tive committee in the CARE or­ companies have raised their rates advanced stage as those of Hu­ other unions. No groups put up special candidates and extoll their ganization. to a par with those of the SIU, ron, but we anticipate that a virtues in leaflets, campaign speeches and expensive fanfare. In this has not had the effect desired 14 PACKAGES satisfactory Wyandotte agree­ the Seafarers, a man is elected on the basis of merit. He is elected by the LCA. ment will be concluded shortly, purely by virtue of his shipmates opinion of him. The Seafarers Individual AFL members may Great Lakes shipowners were and submitted to the Wyandotte never has and never will tolerate factions selecting and campaigning also use the CARE service to confident that if they increased seamen for their approval or re­ for chosen candidates. help persons or groups in 15 jection. their rates, that they could of­ A glance at the past few years' annual election reports (these European countries. The organi­ fset the organizational gains be­ reports can be found in the bound editions of the SEAFARERS zation now has available 14 types TAFT-HARTLEY COMPLIANCE ing made on the Great Lakes by LOG, available in all union halls and on many ships) will show of packages. We are now awaiting a compli­ the SIU. This has not happened. that there has been a very large turnover in union officials. In On the contrary. Lakes seamen Among them are the standard ance number from the Depart­ 1945, 17 new Port Agents and Patrolmen were elected and assumed food package, containing a wide ment of Labor in Washington, are seeing more clearly than ever office in 1946. The 1946 elections saw this number increased to 24. variety of tinned meats, and and as soon as it is received, it that the SIU is spearheading all Naturally, the big turnover doesn't mean that the outgoing of­ other food stuffs; infant and ba­ will be forwarded to the NLRB gains which have been made by ficers were incapable or lacking in any way. Lots of them quit by food packages, packed with in order to expedite the seven pe- the Lakes seamen. to go back to sea and some of them will probably be back on the sufficient essentials to feed a youngster from four weeks to ballot again this year. three months, depending on the Annual elections assure the membership of the chance to ex­ child's health, and a kosher food press themselves frequently. It also provides them with a means Qualifications for office in the Seafarers International Union, of checking those officials—by returning them to office when package. as provided for by the Constitution and By-laws, are as follows: Also available are a cotton they fill the bill and by replacing them when they do not. (a) Thai he be a citizen of the United States. package, which gives the recipi­ (b) That he be a full member of the Seafarers International ent materials necessary for mak­ Year Has Been Notable For SIU Union of North America, Atlantic and Gulf District, in continu­ ing cotton clothing. S i m i 1 a r The growth of the Union, the opening of additional ports, andj containing woolen suitous good standing for a period of two (2) years immediately the many victories in the organizational drives have necessitated ing materials, blankets and shoe prior to date of nomination. the appointment of many officials in between elections, as provided repair materials, and knitting (c) Any candidate for Agent or joint patrolman must have for by the Constitution. This year these appointive jobs will appear wool and -utensils can also be three years of sea service in any one of three departments. Any on the ballot. The electon of sound Union officials this year candidate for departmental patrolman must have three years sea will be a great factor in the continued progress and expansion of service, as specified in this article, shall mean on merchant ves­ Except for the 10-povmd lard the union, the winning of more contracts and the establishment of sels in unlicensed capacity. package, and the 25-pound flour an even firmer security for the membership. (d) That he has not misconducted himself previously while package, both of which are pric­ employed as an officer of the Union. This year has been notable for the Seafarers. For it has marked ed at ,"54.00, all CARE packages (e) That he be an active and full book member and show the period of both the greatest struggle thus far and the greatest cost $10. four months discharges for the current year in an unlicensed strides in expansion. Victory in the Isthmian and the many other CARE guarantees delivery to rating, prior to date of nomination, this provision shall not ap­ companies did not come as a matter of course, but because of a any specified recipient in 15 ply to officials and ither office holders working for the Union strong, united membership intent on procuring ever-increasing countries. If the purchaser does during current year for period of four months or longer. standards for the American seamen. not have a special individual or Any member who can qualify may nominate himself for But the Seafarers will not rest on its laurels. Every member group he may designate a clas­ office by submitting, in writing, his intention to run for office, of the SIU should go all-out to make the coming year a banner- sification, such as "a French or­ naming the particular office and submitting the necessary year in waterfront history, measured in terms of gains for seamen. phan, a needy Norwegian, sail­ proof of qualification as listed above. The best way to start is for every member to get to the Union or," etc. The notice of intention addressed to the Secretary-Treasurer Order.s may be placed with Hall as soon as voting starts and cast his vote for the man he thinks must be in his office not later than Oct. 15, 1947, when-nominais best qualified for the job. Let's make this a record year for total CARE, 50 Broad Street, New iions will be closed. York City. votes cast. lb Labor Abroad Gets CARE Aid From AFL Qualifications For Office i.i..:A. -.I- .' �'-T};.T'':rf,-^'?*r;«ir!>'.-'' ' Page Fou* r THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. September 19. 1947 — LIFE ON THE GREAT LAKES Seafarers Sets Alroa Port Steward 5P0RT5 Straight On Contrast Obligations AFLOAT Hansen, when faced with the solid Union spirit of the crew, Alcoa Steamship Company's decided to accept Miller as Chief New York Port Steward is an Steward. old hand at trying to cause disLater it came out just what sention within the SIU. Hansen meant by "personalities." To him. a good Union Steward He has just come up with an­ was not cricket; what he wanted other scheme to drive a wedge was one of his fair-haired com­ between the Stewards and crews pany stooges to land the soft of Alcoa's ships, but once more he came out on the short end. berth. FAST WORKER The Port Steward, G. H. Han­ sen, thought he was an excep­ Before being slapped down he tion who didn't have to bother employed another neat tactic to with the SIU agreement but relieve the mounting pressure could choo.se the Chief Steward against his plans. He contacted aboard the Alcoa Cavalier. one of our Union m e nvb e r s He thought he could hire his aboard the ship and asked him to own fair-haired boys for posi­ get a gang of Stewards Depart­ tions aboard ship but this at­ ment men together to go to the tempt, like many he has made Union Hall and intercede in be­ before, backfired in his lap. half of the Steward standing trial. His last previous attempt to This. too. backfired as the divide the solid ranks of the SIU Union member immediately con­ took place in January when he tacted the Union Hall and re­ engineered a little deal he ported what was afoot. thought was sure to turn the Hansen, no doubt, thought that Chief Stewards against the through such action the Chief Union. Steward would be cleared of He sent out a letter to Chief charges and' reinstated aboard Stewards telling them that Alcoa the Cavalier. was very sorry that it could not On this, he got a kick in the give Chief Stewards vacations, By LOUIS GOFFIN face when the Trial Committee as the company desired, because I've noticed quite a number of used to using initials to stand for barred the Steward from Alcoa the Union forbid it. ships. articles in the LOG pertaining to words or phrases. Franklin De­ CROCODILE TEARS Thus ended his attempt- to cir­ the Taft-Hartley Law, and so lano Roosevelt became FDR, the War Shipping Administration is cumvent the Union contract. The com'pany wanted to give here go my two cents. Many known as the WSA, and the When the spotlight was turned vacations only to Stewards, and years ago, in my home town, I Wage Stabilization Board was on him he withered like a three in his letter Hansen stained the became acquainted with the Taft shortened to WSB. day old gardenia. pages with tears when he said; family. Guess where that leaves Rob­ In spite of all his honey-coated "The company cannot do for one There were two brothers, one ert Alonzo Taft? words and phrases about "the Brother Isaac Miller. When Mil­ who was quite a footbaU and ler reported to Hansen he was Union is not doing right by the basketball player at Yale Univer­ BLIND HATRED told that he was not acceptable Chief Stewards," and "I would sity, and the other a phony char­ very much like to see you get After getting that off my mind to the company. acter even as a young man. paid for vacations," his past rec­ I'd also like to say a few words Miller, like any good Union The athletic brother was well about the wacky union-haters ord tells a much different story. man, informed the Union as to liked and well thought of, and who write those letters to the PINKY RECORD what had taken place. the other, who grew up to help "Voice of the People" section of A Patrolman was dispatched He possesses the dubious rec­ author the infamous Taft-Hartley the New York Daily News. to visit the Port Steward who, ord of being a fink on the water­ act, was thought to be strictly CLEVELAND—Here's one for when faced with the question of front which is borne out by the Reading and digesting this out for what he could get. the books. It happened recently refusal, replied that as far as act that he finked on the SIU literary trash, I've come to the His record in Congress proves on the Great Lakes, and should Miller was concerned he could during the 1941 Bonus Strike. A conclusion that the birds who that the Senator from Ohio hasn't open the eyes of many Lakes not thing of anyone more quali­ man such as this does not have write those letters have no know­ seamen who do not as yet know fied for the job, but due to per­ the welfare of Stewards or any changed a bit since the days ledge of labor, and in their blind the real score concerning SIU sonalities he could not and would seamen at heart. He is strictly when he was growing up, not hatred of organized labor they too well liked by his neighbors. and AFL unionism in action. not accept him. out for himself. are undermining every advance He's a union-hater, labor-bust­ that has been made since the During the past month, from The Patrolman went aboard Hansen has' been taught an­ August 4 to August 27, hearings the ship and acquainted the crew other lesson that he will not soon ing politico, and it's a sad fact Declaration of Independence. were held before the Railroad with the beef. The crew imme­ forget. This "subway caesar" that a guy like Taft is the leader In my book, the guys writing Arbitration Board concerning an diately went on record to refuse should realize now that he will of the Republican Party. the letters are a bunch of cranks increase for all non-operating to sign-on until the beef was never be able to break our con­ In the past ten years we in who probably refused to join a personnel working for the rail­ settled according to the contract. tract or working rules. the United States have become union so they could save on dues roads. and initiation. At these hearings. Captain Van But I'll bet those guys don't Buren, international vice-presi­ refuse the eight-hour day, vaca­ dent of the Masters, Mates & Pil­ tions with pay, higher wages, ots, appeared in company with and everything else that organ­ Richard Walton, ILA vice-presi­ ized labor has won for the work­ dent assigned to the Great Lakes ers. region. W. R. Kane 3.00 A. Totentino 20.00 M. Landron 3.00 R. Dunsemoor 2.00 Due to the fact that MEBA V. Rodriguez 5.00 Harry Gassaway 20.00 S. Day 10.00 M. E. Potiriadis 3.00 JUST IGNORANT representatives were not free to V. Ventre 5.00 C. Story 20.00 H. Estwick 5.00 W. Smith 5.00 They probably figure that, as attend. Brother Van Buren rep­ SS WATERMAN S. A. Swistowy 20.00 L. C. Brown 3.00 J. W. Silkowski 3.00 free Americans, they are en­ resented the MEBA as well as E. Santos 5.00 D. P. Rivers 20.00 R. Savior 5.00 H. L. Bates 3*.00 titled to jobs anywhere and any­ the MM&P. SS LUNDY M. H. Munster 20.00 A. H. Kasselman 3.00 P. Dehrend 3.00 time. Being without brains, they Although the NMU has several Wm. F. Walters 20.00 D. Cruz 20.00 R. M. Curry 5.00 Eli Ware 3.00 don't stop to realize that only contracts covering the carferries C. E. Grierson 20.00 W. P. Jackson 20.00 S. M. McConnel 5.00 P. H. Bordelow 2.00 through organization can they be on the Lakes, not one NMU rep­ J. W. Dunlap 5.00 Bobbie Jones 20.00 J. R. McPhaul 5.00 S. F. Ureta 3.00 sure of jobs being available, with resentative put in an appearance James Lewis 20.00 G. Bonefont 2.00 L. C. Rieger 4.00 F. A. Gunter 2.00 decent conditions and good at these hearings! W. S. Brady 5.00 Geo. Huber 20.00 J. J. Pellum 5.00 G. W. Wall 2.00 wages. This is the type of representa­ C. R. Broome 5.00 W. Perry 20.00 K. A. Bilson 5.00 T. Pilkington 5.00 tion which NMU members on H. C. Smith If these fanatics would stop 20.00 John Tisso 5.00 Joe Kite 5.00 R. O. Karlsen 5.00 the Lakes can expect from their John Sigurdson 5.00 A. A. Sampson 20.00 A. Dunbaughh 10.00 J. J. Perera 3.00 reading old line labor-haters like union misrepresentatives. Paul Tranunell 20.00 R. Perryman 5.00 E. Mi.stich 10.00 A. H. Gonzalez 3.00 Pcglcr and his ilk, and instead Final settlement, as approved L. Saucier 20.00 D. Burton 6.00 T. D. Reilly ' 5.00 E. M. Howell 3.00 try to find out the truth about by the participating unions, was E. E. Cooper 20.00 O. J. Hogon 5.00 A. Nordahl 5.00 J, A. Dihian 4.00 labor's- aims and objectives, the an increase of IdVzc an hour for A. H. Gronberg 20.00 H. Nichols 5.00 A. Swenson 5.00 S..J. Barras 5.00 world would be a better place all non-operating personnel. Gerrt Bass 20.00 SS SEATRAIN TEXAS R. E. Evert 5.00 W. M. Stewart 5.00 to live in. Once again, the AFL Maritime E. J. Hruska 5.00 H. A. Lecompte 20.00 M. Riechelsos 2.00 F. Gonsalves 5.00 We should do our level best Unions have proven by their ac­ Robt. Beach 5.00 C. C. Flintjer 1.00 T. Sullivan SS DOROTHY. 10.00 to show these people the error of tions that they are the only R. L. Pewitt 4.00 E. Pepper 5.00 L. F. Rivera 5.00 A. DeForest 5.00 their ways, and at the same time unions in the maritime industry Nick Bigney 3.00 J. Megill 25.00 M. Fernandes 5.00 SS CAPE JOHN which are in there fighting for Jackson Forest 20.00 C. L. Gonzalez 3.00 A. Claud 5.00 V. Gerner 15.50 fight to maintain a strong labor increases and improved condi­ Fred Hardy 20.00 H. C. Randell 3.00 B. A. Center 1.00 A. Horvath 5.00 movement which can stand them Geor. F. Murphy 20.00 M. Hovland 5.00 A. J. Maroles 1.00 M. Baloh, Jr. tions. 5.00 off, if need be. By RAY GONZALES and not for another and, there­ fore. we have to live up to our agreement with the Union." Hansen's phrase, "we have to live up to our agreement with the Union" is just as question­ able now as it was then. Only a double-talk artist would talk about living up to the Union agreement and then attempt to choose the Chief Stewards in di­ rect violation of the Union agree­ ment and Shipping Rules. The tu.ssle with "Alcoa's An­ gel" began recently when the Chief Steward of the Cavalier had charges signed against him by five book members. Under the constitution no man under charges is entitled to remain aboard or sail any SIU ship un­ til cleared by a trial committee. "NOT ACCEPTABLE" Inasmuch as this left a vacancy aboard the Cavalier, the job was put on the board and taken by Even As A Youngster, Taft Was Considered Just A Poiitician AFL Maritime Unions Prove It Again .^• Irsi; w. �-. l'BB SB",,4P'A.B.BB..S Friday. S.ptember 19. 1947 Page F!ft . LOG Don't Pile Off Because Of A Beef, Press It Through Union--And Win: By FRED F ARNEN DETROIT-Recently, received Philly Locates A lew ·auHdiai, Resolution Goes Before Ports By E. S. HIGDON PHILADELPHIA - Shipping members coming port is on the increase stating that they have not col­ ·with Isthmian, Newtex and Cal­ lected the $17 .50 raise that was mar ships paying off in this port granted last year, and that they in this and signing on. We have a few of the old­ had written to the company on the west c o a s t several times us again: Joe Wendt, about the matter. Each letter they have written Charlie Nangle, Sam Foss, Jim­ mie Doris and others too numer­ has brought the same answer: ·w i th timers ous to however, mentioni they are all on the list and are ship­ ping out soon. Lo and behold! We have lo­ preparing a payroll is a tremen­ dous task and as soon as it is completed, tlement will be forwarded. cated another building and I do hope we mittee get this one. inspected reported that they have it spot and was the best seen around here. to date. The building is located at 136 N. Street. 5th It 30 is 80 by with four floors and a good base­ ment. This is really ideal, as in cases of emergency we can sleep and feed quite a few men. cost of cash. the The Oh yes, it has oil heat and is ideally located. The membership here lost no Silence this week from the Well, I believe from the 26th 12, 1947, is quite a while to wait for this raise. understand We are given to that all the freight ships and American Pacific have paid this money but the tankers have not paid off yet. the May be guys ing ports: due this money are rushing the company DULUTH JACKSONVILLE MONTREAL TOLEDO ASHTABULA due, etc.. is the Monday preceeding pub­ lication. While every effort will be made to use in the current issue material re­ ceived after that date, space commitments generally do not permit us to do so. to got the his Hall where he registered and shipped back on the same ship as Pumpman. 1 P.M. He only to was quit aboard the 2nd by next morning before he turned to. beat this? Electrician. · JOST A M01, etto'f ��':> MO'! Instead of finding a super-seaman they found D Skipper aboard who appeared as ncrmal as any- are brought to regular tankers fe a t u r e is that The Patrolman took the Skipper aside and about with we asked him what the Chiefs once more have charge of their _Departments. Know Your Sbippiag Rules Clarification of an Reading of rule 30 makes often mir::understood shipping rule: this Rule 29-"Any man may be men, Wipers must not promoted on a ship provid­ meeting it is then up to the Departrnent manner? [ beef. Remember member you that as are a an part SIU of a democratic organization, and that all of your beefs must be taken up in a democratic way. That is meetings sl)ould be the crew. "' clear: "Ordinary and Sea­ Messmen be promoted on ing he is capable of perform­ board vessel. but n1ust come ing the duties required, but off and register at next rat­ he must make one trip be­ ing fore promotion." to sail at next highest rat- Promotion in this case is possible o n l y if the man ing." before Reading being permilted of rule 30 clears complies with the above, has the necessary endorsements up most of the difficulty on and is from a rated job. this score. in report back to the affected c1·ew The Patrolman took the mat- members, telling them that the ter to the paymaster and ex- Captain refuses to settle, the beef. That's where your shoreside of­ amination showed that the man He was short about ficials come in. It is then up ·to $64. This is a good reason for the delegat-e to report the un­ checking your money before leav- settled beef to an SIU Patrol­ was correct. man 'Or Agent at the next - ·of ing the pay table. The matter was just an excus- call where an SIU Hall is located. able mistake on the part of the Then the beef will be taken up paymaster, but it showed an even with the company officials. If these company officials do bigger mistake on the part of th-c crew by allowing the payoff t..:i not see their way clear to satisfy begin without a Patrolman pres- the SIU's demands, then it is up to the port Agent to bring the m at te r up before eith�r a spe � ial Beefs or no beefs, there's a lot or regular membership meetmg. more ·to paying off a ship than In the SIU, as in all democrasettling beefs. tic unions, the membership meetJust a word on overtime: ing is the highest ruling body in Delegates of each Department the organization. Whatever is two legs and on'2 head . they would make a normal trip Another bad shipboard Delegate to see k a settlement Whenever you, as a member of f m th,: departm ro ental head in the SIU, have a haef regarding volve d. wages, hours, overtime, working If no settlement is reached, and living conditions, there i s · then it is up to the Delegate to only one thing to do about that should keep record of each decided by membership that the meeting, whether it is s ome form hours, turned into the Mate. of direct action like a strike or man's a overtime, including Th1's i's so that ,·•vhen a Patrol- a su1·t case parade or o th'2r presman checks overtime he can tell sure move, must be carried - immediately whether the num- through by the SIU members and ber of hours turned in are the officials. same as the company's sheets. ed into the head of the Depart- ment. By consumed the slip. doing this at payoff STRIKE . " notifi ed of the The crew "'as the time time and told siderable ing. He was told that the crew felt the Patrolman was unneces­ sary as they had no beefs. NO TRANSPORTATION t>uring the strike some of the men left ports where there were no Isthmian ships hit New York. tied some up wind-jamming over a beef and who has pi led off his CLEARANCE two started the payoff without wait­ YOUR RESPONSIBILITY Whenever you run into could SIU member who is doing con­ Now that the Isthmian Strike Patrolmen is over we have been running were befng sent down and would into a bit of trouble with strike be there in a short time. clearances . If you were on the The crew, however, went ahead beach during the strike, make and began the payoff. During sure you get clearance from your the payoff a Patrolman came port before shoving off for an­ aboard and asked why they had other. delay That's the only way that we in addition, each man should the SIU can satisfacto:i:ily settle keep a copy of his overtime turn- any of our beefs. In refer it all to the west coast for quite a bit and the crew felt that aboard another Alcoa ship across he cut in half. the�;e the After DUTIES has rec0mmended certain action, ent. one else, having t wo arms and men are having an easy time for Th e guy, accord.mg t o th'e p aWe seem to be having quite a the most part. a of possessed was time with. the American Pacific trolman, Baltimore will> get the maships and the tanker outfits from mother-hen complex and thought jority of Isthmian payoffs, so if the west coast. They generally the ship 1'ust wouldn't operate you want an Isthmian ship, that's give the Stewards a hard time unle,ss he was everywhere to su- the place. pervise the operations. regarding the food stores. T.he Nuttall, Alcoa Steamship At the payoff on those ships, At the sign-on a few days later, Company, was in port this we-ek espceially the tankers, they do the Skipper looked as if he had for the payoff. The payoff was not want to okay any of the a long talk with his psychiatrist. scheduled for lO A.M. �ut the overtime, ins t e ad they want to Anyway, he had calmed down Patrolman assigned was held up settlement. DELEGATES' looks fine with a lot of SIU ships portation along with the rest of you and watch his high bl-ood pressure. Can . the way we do things in the SIU. He didn't have He then asked for a day's pay the deal was. as 2nd Pumpman when he was much to say in his defense, so the already paid a full day's pay as Patrolman told him to slow down Assistant the Regular There was a guy on a ship as as a one-man crew. morning, • This week, New York harbor that he didn't receive his trans- By JOE ALGINA Assistant Electrician who quit at came . .. The deadline for port re­ Here's the best of the season: all Departments and ran the ship the contract every It's high time that SIU mem­ mon horse sense. This, also, is bers began to realize that as important. Y.our shipboard meeting is the members they have certain re­ light in MARCUS HOOK · and SIU once FARERS LOG of recent date con­ should be elected-and be sure certain conditions that when you elect a Delegate aboard one of the Browning you choose a member who is re­ sh ips liable, sober and has some com­ those conditions NEW YORK-When a Pat�olin port. There are about 50 or which, when it hit the floor at ma � :"'ent aboard the Sully Hills, 60 ships in at the moment with . the meeting Wednesday night, Pac1f1c Tankers, thJ.S: week he exjobs in plentiful supply. There went over unanimously. pected to be greeted by a hydrai� .a nee.d for Black Gang men Here's hoping that we are able headed ·monster or at least an. ahd. A s. B to get this Hall, as we sure overworked octopus-for accordAlso in port are about eight would like to move out of this ing to the telephone report of the Isthmian ships. Most of them are hot box. ship's Delegate the ship was beno job to payoff and the PatrolONE FOR BOOKS ing run by one man. who bossed in all demning How is any shoreside official of the Union going to improve con­ ditions on the vessels unless :A°ORFOLK SAVANNAH monies least anything about improving condi­ further action in order to remedy conditions. tions aboard those vessels? MOBILE ports, at Crew Learns Not To Pa,off Without Patrolman signed by quite a few members, dough aboard How are condi­ first place to bring up your beefs tions going to be improved if the After a thorough discussion on men who do the most squawking your legitimate beefs, a motion pile off the ships without doing should be passed recommending too much, or are they? time in drawing up a resolution 10:30 have held about ships sponsibilities. CLEVELAND TAMPA of November, 1946, to -September is $35,000 building NO NEWS?? SAN FRANCISCO LOTS OF TIME A com­ the checks for final set­ we reports two poor conditions aboard SIU-con­ weeks. This is a must. tracted vessels. In fact, one At these meetings, an SIU Brother wrote an item in a SEA­ Delegate for each Department Branch Agents of the follow­ Hall the into several and When they came in to get their strike clearances The Patrolman then went over t_hey had no proof of being in the the pay vouchers with the men port they left during the strike. ship as a result, sponsibility to it is your re­ remind him that he isn't doing either himself or the Union any good by piling off the ship with an u nsettled beef. No member has a right to squawk about conditions aboard a ship, if he was too damn lazy to do anything about improving those conditions himself. These is only one proper way to take care of a beef in the SIU,· and that is as we have outlined above. Remember, the next time that you have a beef, don't pile off and found that they were short So, to save yourself trouble, your ship. S ti el\ with the ship, several hours of overtime. get your clearance in the port until your be ef has been fought One Brother, after receiving where you were when the Isth­ through and another victory for his dough, told the Patrolman mian strike was taking place . SIU conditions won. �THE SEAFARERS Page Six LOG TO Grain Shipments Are Expected To Boost Great Lakes Shipping Friday. September 19, 1947 STUDY ABROAD By HERBERT JANSEN CHICAGO — Shipping has slacked off in this port somewhat due to the laying-up of several excursion ships. However, we expect shipping to pick up con­ siderably in the near future, especially for the hauling of grain cargoes. Laying in the South Chicago shipyard is the SS City of Grand Rapids. She is having several plates changed due to the licking she takes locking through the Chicago Locks during the season. The Rapids is expected to leave for her winter quarters at Ben­ ton Harbor when the repairs arc completed, and according to the company she is up for sale. Finishing her job on Calumet Park, the SS Michigan went into the shipyard for repairs. She will start on the airfield project next Thursday, and will probably be on this job for more than a year. Last week, the tanker Westcoat paid us a visit, her first since last spring. She used to be on a regular Chicago run, and some of the boys hope that she will make a steady run here from now on. Also in port during the week was the Midland ship, SS W. G. Pollock. She loaded grain for Buffalo. The Clipper Line is again con­ templating the operation of the SS Milwaukee Clipper all winter. V I'MAUMIOM, . \ TMA UMiO/0 I'MAurJio*;, ETC. At the present time, the Clipper is making a trip-and-a-half a day, and will go on one trip daily starting with September 15. After November 1, she will op­ erate one trip daily Monday through Friday, and lay over in Muskegon, Michigan for the weekend. ORGANIZATIONAL PROGRESS There is still a steady flow of Lake seamen coming into the SIU halls in both South Chicago «nd downtown Chicago. Many of these men are taking out SIU books, and the outlook for our organizational drive on the Lakes looks very good. Many of these Lakes seamen are up-in-arms over recent legis­ lation like the Taft-Hartley Act. and are fed up with the news­ paper columnists trying to tell them that Unions are no good for them. Lakes seamen are educated, and can read and understand newspaper accounts for them­ selves. They know that the majority of politicians and newspaper columnists are owned body and soul by the big business inter­ ests, and that anti-labor laws like the Taft-Hartley Act are meant to protect the business interests so that they reap more profits and huge dividends. Propaganda is a very useful ar­ ticle used by the big companies. take the Lake Sailors Union, un­ affiliated. This so-called union was actively promoted by the Cleveland-Cliffs managementL LSU propaganda tries to put over the idea that the LSU is a bona fide Lake sailors union, controlled by and for the Lakes seamen. If this union were actually a bona fide one, do you think that they would attack the SIU so viciously? The truth is that the LSU is much more interested in protecting the rights of the poor downtrodden operators rather than the rights of the Lakes sea­ men. Another interesting point to re­ member is what is being done with the dues which are collected from Cleveland Cliffs seamen. Certainly, what little money is paid into this phony outfit is not used to improve conditions of the seamen. Instead of that, it is used for the purpose of putting out slick propaganda attacking the only union on the Lakes which is ac­ tually doing anything for the Lakes seamen — the SIU Great Lakes District. Despite the filthy propaganda put out by the LSU, they cannot lie about what happens to money that is paid in to the SIU by members. They know that SIU funds are used to fight for conditions and wages for all seamen, and they know that every last penny has to be accounted for and itemized in the SIU annual audited finan­ cial report. Lakes seamen v/ho belong to this company union should stop and think it over. Don't let a phony outfit like the LSU use your money to bat­ tle against improved conditions and wages for the seamen. Make sure that your money is used in a good cause fighting for job security and improved con­ ditions on the Lakes. Join the SIU today and become a part of the only seamen's Un­ ion on the Great Lakes which is constantly fighting to improve wages, hours and conditions. That way you can be sure that the old days of slavery on the Lakes will be gone forever. Five young Americans, interested in the labor movement, sailed for England Monday, Sep­ tember IS. for a year's study at Ruskin College, Oxford. They will study on scholarships award­ ed them through the Institute of International Education. Left to right, Gerald G. Redlin, mem­ ber Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America; Homerta F. 'Watson, secretary to the Secretaify-Treasurer of the Kentucky State Federation of Labor and member of the Office Em­ ployes International Union, AFL; James Tyree, member of. Local 596, United Automobile Work­ ers, CIO; Lucille Thornburgh, reporter for the Knoxville Labor News; and Robert Repas, House Councilor at the school for Workers, University of Wisconsin. Bucko Skipper Headed For Waterman's Brydock By KEITH ALSOP GALVESTON—When .shipping is good, as it is now in this port, it always means that on one of the many ships in port there is going to be something wrong; such was the case this week aboard the Bret Harte of Water­ man. There was quite a bit of dissention aboard and it all seemed to stem from the Master, Cy Hancock, a well-known charact­ er to all men who have sailed Waterman ships over the past 15 years. The matter didn't get out of hands as it is with great satis­ faction I report that we will not be bothered with Cy for some time to come. He was taken off the ship and sent to the hospital with the gal­ loping ^hakes. The company re­ lieved him as Master and had him sent to the Mobile boneyard where the company drydocks its bad boys. FUTURE BRIGHT The excellent shipping now be­ ing enjoyed in this port promises to continue for some time to come. We expect quite a few ships in shortly to take the places of those due to pull out. Those in for payoffs this week were the Lorenzo McCarthy, Jor seph Teal, Bret Harte, John Laurence, all Waterman; the Daniel Willard, South Atlantic; Del Aires, Mississippi; Warrior Curran Takes Commie Issue To New Orleans NMU NEW ORLEANS—Joe Curran last week invaded what used to be the communists best strong­ hold in the Gulf, and before a packed membership meeting vowed to fight "until the com­ munist party, which is now seek­ ing control is driven the hell out of this union." His words were well received, and prove again the fact that the rank-and-file members of the Na­ tional Maritime Union are not communists, but are actually the captives of a small and deter­ mined communist group in the union. Joe arrived in the wake of Bill McCarthy, an NMU national of­ ficer who was appointed to re­ place N. O. Agent Richard Sulli­ van. Sullivan and Patrolman Harry Alexander were suspended awaiting trial on charges brought by Vice-President Chester Young and Secretary Ferdinand Smith. A special meeting of the New Orleans branch was held on Wed­ nesday night, September 10, .and there Curran faced the Red is­ sue, and promised to continue the hammer-and-tongs battle to The conference soon turned in­ to an exchange of sharp words between the two union officials, FRAME-UP while the repoiders feverishly "At meetings in New York," took notes. he said, 'the communists have TURN OTHER CHEEK heckled me and called me a ship­ Curran started off by warning owners' stooge. I say that the McCarthy against violence in the National Office led by Chester port. McCarthy replied that Young and Ferdinand Smith rail­ there were only seven commun­ roaded through these charges ists on the beach, and besides, against Richard Sullivan and Har­ ry Alexander in an illegal man­ "we are under order to use no ner for the sole purpose of gain­ violence, to take a beating if we ing control of the New Orleans have to." Curran retorted; branch." "What red-blooded seamen Both Sullivan and Alexander have admitted to member.ship in would take a beating?" His face red, McCarthy leaped the party, but both quit some­ time last year, and threw their to his feet and shouted, "The Red Army retreated all the way weight behind Curran's fight. As soon as that happened the to' Stalingrad. But when they communists started an all-out hit back they hit back all the attmept to force them from the way to Berlin." One charge thrown by Mc­ port, and this was climaxed in Carthy, that Curran had talked the investigation conduced by to a steamship operator and then Young. agreed to release a ship, brought Before the meeting was held, Curran invited the press in for this retort from the NMU Presi­ a conference, following which dent: "That's a lie. Under any other McCarthy did the same thing. Curran walked into McCarthy's circumstances I'd beat your ears pre.ss conference, explaining that off." McCarthy retracted. he worked for the Pilot. stamp out the NMU. communism within Point, Pacific Tankers, and sev­ eral SUP cargo ships. In transit were the Del Rio, Mississippi; Ingersoll, Waterman; James Gillis, Smith and Johnson; Richard A 1 v e y , Isthniian and Edith of Bull Lines. This week Charlie Kimball, e.xofficial of Mobile, came in and paid off the Ingersoll. Two other oldtimers cooling their heels here at the moment are Neil Harmon and Jack Kelly. On the organizing front the towboats are shaping up good under the Marine Allied Work­ ers. So far we have had ex­ cellent response to our organiz­ ing efforts. The Logans Port and Cantigny of Cities Service were in port and were covered by the organ­ izers. All the men aboard seem well satisfied with the way the SIU is going after the Cities Service Fleet and are sure the SIU will cop the election when it comes up. HOSPITAL DONATION The crew of the Del Aires at the payoff last week deviated $29.50 to the brothers in the Ma2-ine Hospital here in Galveston. I'm sure the boys at the hospi­ tal will well appreciate the gen­ erosity of their Brothers aboard the Del Aires. Last week-end Brothers John­ son and Sweeney went fishing and made' a swell catch of 31 trout. The catch sure looked good, but, oh, what an o^or those things left around here! For a while this place smelled like a fish cannery. The tropical hurricane which hit this area a couple of weeks ago made quite a splash, but all hands came out of it safely. Every one down here hopes the birds with the new hurri­ cane buster have a lot of luck with their experiments. We can use something to put an end to these blows. �Friday, September 19, 1947 THE SEAFARERS All Serene In San Juan; Called 'Perfect Port' By SALVADOR COLLS LOG Gear-Grabbers Hurt Union The membership of the Seafarers International Union has consistently reaffirmed its position that geeir-grahhers can't he good Union men. Any individual* who stoops to pilfering gear such as coffee percolators, linens, etc., which are placed aboard SlU-contracted ships for the convenience of all hands, is, above all, guilty of a malicious disregard of his shipmates' welfare. . Crew conveniences on most SIU ships today are not there by accident. They are there because of the Union's successfullyfought struggles to bring greater benefits and comforts and to provide decent conditions for the membership whil6 out at sea. These hard-won conveniences are for the benefit of ALL HANDS. They ARE NOT to be appropriated by any individual for his own personal use. Violators of the membership's wel­ fare will be dealt with in accordance with the firm stand taken repeatedly by Seafarers in all ports. SAN JUAN—For the past two weeks San Juan has been the perfect port. During the' past two weeks I haven't had any beefs of any description to settle on our ships. Things are quiet and very or­ derly, thus the title, "The Per­ fect Port." The only happening to break the serene calm of the Island was a bit of gcndarming by the local police. They put out their hooks and picked up all of our well-behaved beachcomb ers. ment and the new way of life They have been making a halSit One Of The First aboard Isthmian ships.. of this for some unknown reason. NEW -YORK—One of the first To some of them this will come I sent the Dispatcher down to Isthmian ships to hit New York in due time, but others who' re­ police headquarters where he after the Isthmian Strike was fuse to pay any attention to the was told that they were after the the William H. Allen which tied new contract will have to be guys who have been living off up after a three and one-half talked to and impressed with the months trip to the Far East. the gay senoritas in this port. fact that things are different. We went aboara for the payoff This leaves our men out as all The crew of the Allen had of them work in shoregangs at and found her to be in fine style. good reports about the ports they least three or four days a week. The crew of the ship had been visited while on the other side. These fellows are supporting led by a few SIU members who They all managed to have a good themselves and are not sponging had done a fine job of making time while ashore. Much of it the Allen a heads-up vessel. off any of the local populace. was relief just to be away from She was almost as easy to some of the rough conditions We staged a bout here last week pitting Joe Rodriguez, handle as some of our best ships, aboard the ship. That should all Messman off the Jane O, against for the overtime had been cleared be water under the bridge now a fellow named Max Morales. up before hitting port with all that a contract is a reality. One thing that-should be point­ Our boy got trounced, but it was of it okayed and out of th^e way. Part of the credit goes to Broth­ ed out to the men of the Isth­ because the second told him the er Brown, AB, the ship's Dele­ mian fleet and the other com­ fight wouldn't paj'. gate. He did a fine job and the panies as well, that dll overtime It was a good fight until the crew worked with him all the should be turned in within 72 third round when it started rain­ v/ay. hours after the completion of the ing and our boy slid three times Of course, all is not peaches work. If the overtime is two in the ring. His second said that it was no use fighting under such and cream in the Isthmian Fleet. weeks or a month old, it is very There are still some Skippers, difficult to collect. conditions and told Joe' to lay licensed personnel and Stewards Another thing in this i-espect is off the fight. who refuse to see the light of day the fact that sometimes men miss Everyone attending seemed to and i-ecognize the fact that the a ship while in a foreign port enjoy themselves while it lasted. Isthmian fleet has a contract and, unless they catch the ship We set up a strike clearance with is unlicensed personnel. before the payoff, they stand to committee to handle clearances NEW WAY OF LIFE lose all the overtime worked and from the Isthmian Strike. A.ll of not reported. These people have yet to learn the men on the beach here dur­ By putting in for the overtime ing the strike have been cleared. the provisions of the new agree­ Page Sereft Baltimore Shows Real Solidarity, Aids Striking Shipyard Workers By WILLIAM RENTZ BALTIMORE — Last week striking CIO Shipyard Workers at the Bethlehem Steel Yards voted on whether or not to end their strike. By an overwhelm­ ing vote they decided to stay out until their demands are met. Our men backed up their playin no uncertain terms. We col­ lected $122.00 at a meeting, and the money was immediately turn­ ed over to the Shipyard Workers strike fund. The Patrolmen Say... Isthmian Replacements Help Shipping In Boston By JOHN MOGAN BOSTON—Shipping and busi­ ness slacked off during the past week, although the waterfront was busy enough. Isthmian vessels have been coming in here at the rate of three each week—this week the SS Steel Recorder, SS Steel Scientist, and the SS Lynn Vic­ tory made stops here and were covered each day of their stay. There are still beefs a-plenty on these ships; but it should be only a short time before the working rules are on paper and Isthmian crews may feel that they are sailing a Union ship. It would appear that Baltimore and New York will benefit most so far as Isthmian jobs are con­ cerned; however, nearly all the Isthmian vessels putting in here so far have called for replace­ ments—sometimes only one man and, very often, as many as five. GALLUP SQUARED The SS John Gallup paid off here during the week with only a few disputes in overtime, and these were settled promptly and satisfactorily. The only other beef on this ship concerned scanty stores and slop chest sup­ plies. These beefs were rectified before sign-on. smooth payoff. Also signing on this past week was the SS Madaket, and it is fairly safe to say that her next voyage will be a great deal hap­ pier than hej^ last. This ship ordinarily doesn't have much turnover at the end of the voyage.- Most of the crew has been on there close to a year. On looking over the galley and sampling the chow put out by the Stewards Department this is readily understandable, as it is the cleanest and best feeding ship the gang ever sailed (indi­ rect quotation—just in case some of our excellent Stewards read­ ing this let out a bellow of rage). The SS Kings Canyon (Pacific tankers) came in here from the Gulf without Cooks. It's a tough situation to have the' Deck De­ partment on time off haunting the Hall trying to shanghai a couple of Cooks, especially when the boys can show indisputably that it is a good ship with good officers. But Cooks are getting to be as rare as the dodo bird and were not available in Boston either. Fortunately for the crew of the Kings Canyon, New York was able to send a couple up here to make the ship before sailing time. The crew was all for getting rid of the Steward, who was no The Gallup had a good crew great assistance during the Cook which contributed greatly to the shortage. Time did not permit any change, however, so no doubt this issue will arise on her next trip up this way. The prospects for the coming week are not so good at this writing, but additional news may be in by the first of the week. pay as soon as the task is com­ pleted there is small chance of losing out at the payoff. Whitey Tannehill Walter Siekmann % % % Bad Mess Those men have been on strike for clo.se to 100 days, and they are just as staunch now as they were the first day they hit the bricks. .We've been respecting their picketlines, and we are with them until they win their fight. Shipping is just about fair, but .should pick up soon. Only three ships signed on here last week, and that's just about par for the course. Six ships paid off and each one was a headache. MUTINY, LOGGINGS The big beefs last week were on the Joshua Slocum, South At­ lantic, and the Eli Whitney, Al­ coa. There were more loggings on the Slocum than there are labor-haters in the U. S. Con­ gress. But we beat most of them, and the ship pulled out with a new bunch of officers on Deck— after the Union insisted that the old ones get off. But on the Whitney, it was far different. Here the crew was charged with mutiny, and that's not a charge to be loosely thrown around. It took a lot of work, and even a spot of luck, but we finally succeeded in clearing all but one member of the crew. One crewmembcr was put off the ship, and the crew held up the vessel for four days. The company then saw the light, and the man was taken back. Plenty of men on the beach here—too many to list in just one column. As soon as shipping picks up, however, they will be on their way to far-off shores and new adventures. MONTREAL The Alcoa Pioneer arrived here in this northern port ten days ago and she was the filthiest scow that 1 have ever .seen under SIU con­ tract. The Stewards Department was in terrible shape with most of the blame for the ship's condition resting with this department. Charlie Moats and I proceeded to straighten her out and, after spending quite awhile aboard ship, -w-e found out where most of the trouble was. Charges were preferred against the Steward and -we per.suaded him to payoff and go to New York to stand trial. After sampling a meal on the scow a change of cooks was de­ finitely in need. This was taken care of to the crew's satisfaction. A few^ other sore spots were T-H LAW HARMFUL weeded out in this Department Most. of the gin-mill discus­ and we finally left her looking sions here are concerned with the like an SIU - ship—clean. Taft-Hartley Law. All hope that This might not have been so it will be defeated soon because easy had it not been for the new it could do labor a lot of harm. Steward, Brother Ross, who is a Working men fought for many real credit to our Union. He took over the Department when it years to make gains, and along was a real mess and within three come the politicians and take days he had whipped it into those gains away by passing a vicious law. shape. We shipped a couple of Can­ Real labor solidarity can put adians to him where they will be an end to all the sly tricks that fortunate enough to ship with a are used to rob the working men. good Steward who is a fine e.x- If labor doesn't unite against the ample of a Union man. vultures real soon, it may be too Mike Quirke late. WITH THE SIU IN CANADA By HUGH MURPHY .the Ireland Prince and the Alaskatheir beef. A new ventilating Prince. The first named is al­ system is being installed, and now VANCOUVER — Negotiations ready tied up by the SIU, and everybody's happy. with the Union Steamship Com­ Our Dispatcher is rapidly go­ pany, the Canadian National the other one will be treated to ing white-headed answering all tSteamship Company, and the the same thing if the company the silly questions that are asked. refuses to bargain in good faith. Canadian Pacific Railway Com­ He worries when there are beefs, The cable repair vessel, the and he worries when there are pany are at a stalemate. Weeks of effort have gone to waste, and Restorer, took on a skeleton crew no beefs. All in all he has a a Conciliation Board has also to shift from Victoria to Seattle happy time. for repairs. In a few weeks she given up hope. I also share part of his misery. will return to Victoria and sign We have applied for an Arbi­ on for a cable repair trip to the The membership keeps me going tration Board, and that is the South Pacific. around in circles, trying to find last resort. It appears that the jobs for unemployed Brothers, • JOB ACTION companies are not willing to give and squaring all sorts of major anything without a fight, and so The coastwise passenger ves­ and minor beefs. the bricks are beckoning. sel Chilcotin was held up for Last week we had the oppor­ Our bargaining sessions with \wo hours right at sailing time the British Columbia Steamship because of a beef. tunity to buy a swell building. Company, Limited, have also The crew demanded ventila­ But we were faced with 30,000 stalled. tion of crew quarters, and after reasons for not doing so—ALL. This company has two ships. a lengthy discussion they won DOLLARS. �7" THE Page Eight AFL Council Refuses To Sign Non-Commie Oath; NLRB Stymied (Continued from Page 1) Taft-Hartley Law may lead off on this particular provision of the law as interpreted by the NLRB's general counsel. ' MAY SEEK WRIT ll'- .i' Already the AFL has threat­ ened to go to the courts to ob­ tain a writ ordering the NLRB and Denham to make available the board's facilities to national unions, despite the ruling that all top AFL officers must sign antiCommunist affidavits. Should the Board comply vol­ untarily, the AFL will refrain from making a court case. This was revealed to Board members this week when Joseph Padway, general counsel of the AFL, appeared before it at the request of William Green _and Daniel J. Tobin, president of the International B r b t h e rhood of Teamsters, AFL. Padway told Denham and Seafarers Help Shipbuilders To Stop Scabs (Continued fro7n Page 1) a strike that could have gone on indefinitely. The day following this latest demonstration of solidarity, the company met with representa­ tives of the union in Washington, and there seemed a chance that the long strike might soon end. Henry H. Gordon, assistant to Mr. Leone, expressed the appre­ ciation of the Shipyard Workers in glowing terms. He said, "All the Locals in­ volved in the strike against Bethlehem Srcel in the New York area deeply appreciate what the Seafarers International Union has done for us. "At a very trying time, the appearance on our picketlines of hundreds of seamen, and the SIU Jeep, built up our morale. "On behalf of the membership of Locals 12 and 13, I thank you." Get A Receipt Every member making a donation to the Union for any purpose should receive an official receipt bearing the amount of the contribu­ tion and the purpose for which it was made. If a Union official to whom contribution is given does not make out a receipt for the money, the matter should immediately be referred to J. P. Shuler, Secretary-Trea­ surer, SIU, 51 Beaver Street. New York 4, N.Y. In advising the SecretaryTreasurer of such transac­ tions, members should state the name of the official and the port where the money was tendered. HEARINGS LOOM POSSIBLE Although it did not commit it­ self definitely, the board may ask AFL and the CIO to pre­ sent specific cases to the board so that they may be consolidated for oral hearings, with the board making its decision after the hearings. Meanwhile, the AFL United Textile Workers Union joined the Teamsters and other unions which seek access to the NLRB on the ground that they have complied with the Taft-Hartley Act by having their local and national union officers sign the anti-communist affidavits. If the NLRB decides that the Denham ruling is correct, it is believed the AFL will not wait for actual dismissal of the cases now pending but would probably go to court to seek an injunction restraining Denham from dis­ missing the cases. LOG Fric^ay, September 19, 1947 Seafarers On Shipbaifders' Picket Watch other members of the board thftt the ruling was unfair and ar­ bitrary and urged extension of the 20-day period before which pending election cases may be dismissed unless the affidavits are signed. It is believed that the CIO has similarly requested an extension of the 2G-day period. SEAFARERS The following: is a list of Seafarers who responded to an appeal by the Shipyard Workers Union for picketline assistance ag^ainst Bethlehem Steel. These brothers turned out in true SIU spirit for the picketline trick at two of Bethlehem Steel's yards in Brooklyn, where they gave much-appre­ ciated support to the CIO shipyard workers in their strike. The LOG publishes their names to give credit for their fine spirit and a well done job. t Eugene Milanesi Danioli Pietro John J. Rombone Jack M. Ford J. Pawlouvich Richard Pinckney F. White Louis Corne James Lawyer C. Esolan George J. Miltner George R. Graham Elmer Abodilis L. Siorkowski W. Mash H. Hill John J. O'Neil C. Busco George J. Smith John L. Nappi Wm. Atchason A. P. Perini B. Bautista L. F. Cambaro George Bryan Bill Brown P. H. Parsons W. Tannehill Walter Siekmann Lindsey Williams George Ruf A1 KenJoe Algina C. Cotrones C. Jacques V. Remolar F. Goavin A. Miltner E. Asmussen A. Lotertc G. Williams C. Skinj'nski J. Dailey C. Loades M. Rialland M. Caldas J. Diaz J. Mayer D. Roszel A, Montemaran V. Matarrese R. Grunder J. Wernboe A. Reeder V. James J. Lopata F. Aponte George Kasprzuk August Hornath Jesus Fernandez Wm. Stephenson Jose Ramerez Arnold Katenbcrg J. A. Wernboe A. G. Nohmid Pauils Kronbcrg Ralph Muller ^ Anthony Esposito Wm. Hichason David McCraken John Wimer Joe Ranivez M. Hansen Frank Amodio Luis Ligon F. Dacanay August Schroter Will Doran Will Jennings H. Childs Frank Keeler L. Edstrom K. Stenberg J. D. Shea G. Clark J. Maldonado J. Wiinderlich, Jr. B. Molonado J. Van Dusen J. Pritz W. Gilman A. Larsen C. Busel M. L. Etchevry R. Korner A. Montemarano V. Matarresi A. Reeder J. Nasser J. Pritz J. O'Neil W. Masko Sawer C. Skszyski F. Aponte S. Kushner G. Smith J. Daily D. Roseel J. Pannolwich R. Grundner E. Gaitmaitan T. Corcoran Lopata R. A. Ektvedt •> W. Kieruif M. Calpas J. C. Diaz J. Prezedpelski C. L. Jacques G. A. Williams R. S. Newnom P,cD. Mouton Harvey Hill Alexander Stumpp Fred Veit Sam Hudgons Patrick Maesbas James Byrne John White Leo G. Burnett C. O. Slary A. Logan W, W. Bickford V. L. Meehan J. F, Fiddler H. Burkhardt Frank Baskaniski A. W. Hauffe L. Lempiainem S. Rathman W. Dolberry A. Slipaneau Q. F. Calnan N. Lyons B. Deval N. V. Erikson W. C. Salainaz G. E. Walton M. A. Andreano F. Edwards A. S. Wins F. Scott E. D. Miller ' MC Calls A Halt To Tanker Sales BOSTON INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS C. Buser. $2.00: D. Albright, $5.00; SS John Gnllup $2.00. NEW YORK INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS J. I. Arrn.s, Arabasz. $1.00; $1.00; j. DeAngelo, T. M. $1.00; Diangson. $2.00; P. Danieli. $2.00; J. Brazil,'$3.00. S. Cambridge, $2.00; J. Keesley, $3.00; T. A. Pukki. $5.00; R. E. James, $1 00; I. Brose, $1.00; V, Speys, $1.00. E. P. Bligh, $2.00; T. Corcoran, $1.00; M. Carrillo, $1.00; W. McNulty, $1.00; F. Reyes. $1.00; Eddie Crvavoha, $1.00; P. Nnujalis, $3.00; C. Morgan. $2.00; R. E. Thomas, $1.00; A. Belyk, $2.00, D. II. Moore, $3.00; R. M. Brangman, $7.50; H. Bursey, $1.00; M. Iturrino, $3.00. ASA. GREY C. J. Blaney, $10.00; G. O'Connor, $3.00; J. Millican, .51.00; W. Wilcher. $2.00; J. Sarayo, $1.00; I-. Dioz. $1.00; W. Kivitchoff, $2.00; J. Antorades, $2.00; M. Schuller. $2.00; A. Schuiling, $4.00; L. Harper, $1.00; B. D'Ornelles, $2.00; S. Integra, $1.00; H. Eriksen, $2.00; E. Marte, $2.00; I. Garcia, $1.00; I. Usera, $1.00; G. Argyroptjulos, $4.00; M. Fasado, $1.00; G. Arnim, $2.00; R. McCullock, $2.00. SEATRAIN N. V. • W. Dargan, $2.00; A. Thomas, $2,200; M. V. Moore, $1,00. SS R. LOCKSLEY O. F, Klein, $1,00; J, F. McLaughliB, $1,00; H. D. Binder, $1.00; D. E. Worster, $5.00; V. E. Schrninke, $2.00; T. W. Ulinski, $2.00; J. M. Prohownlk. $2.00; M. Reeves, $2.00; F, Ploppert, $2.00; A, H .Anderson, $2.00; F. W. Latraverse, $1.00; J. M. Bang, $2.00; E. E. Sullivan, $2.00; C. Oberlander, $2.00; F. J. Balger, $2.00; N. 'Williams $5.00; J. Axelson, $2.00; M. E. San­ chez. $2.00; J. Brown. $2.00; W. E. Porter, $2.00; P. Toniazzo, $2.00; F, Piiikowski, $1.00; J. W. Kaiser, $2.00; ,M. J. Quinn, $2.00; O. W. Hand, $2.00; J. W. Faircloth, $5.00. SS JEAN Caravallo Molina, $2.00; L, A. Beltran, $2.00; P. J. McGinhity, $2.00; Frank Chrop. $2.00; P. C. Eggert, $2.00. SS PATTERSON A. R. Beck. $2.00; F. LaGuardia, $2.00; W. Grohulski, $1.00; A. Espo.sito. $2.00; T. Mcl-lenan. $8.00; A. Padumets, $2.00; J. O'Brien, $1.00; A. Montemarano, $1.00; B. DeLima, $1.00; O. Nelson. $5.00; F. Mastcrson, $1.00; J. Laugaudus, $1.00; S. Kosfeld. $3.00; C. Kasko, $2.00. SS KNOX VICTORY L. J. Oien. $1.00; S. Furtado, $1.00; O. Johanisson, $3.00; W. Lonergan, $1.00; B. G. Bautista, $1.00; Mike Dikun, $1.50. SS WIW. ALLEN H. B. Thomas. $3,00; W, L, McClure, $3.00; Robert I le'nderson, $3.00; W. Carnley, $3.00. SS KATHRYN Julio Figueroa, $1.00; Pedro Gandia, $1.00; Evaristo Juminez. $1.00; Mari­ ano Cortez, $1.00; Z. L. Oliveras,_ $1.00; J. V. Rodriguez, $1.00; Pedro Perez, $1.00; G, Camacho, $1.00; A. Saavedra, $1.00; F. C. Rocafort, $1.00; Wil­ liam Hare, $1.00. SS R. SHERWOOD G. „W. Lowery, Jr., $5.00; A. Pedro, $1.00; F. L. Travis, $2.00; T. Torres, $1.00; K. Vivian, $3.00; G. E. Berry, $2.00; L. Zompetti, $1.00; A. Arancibia, $1.00; y. Meehan, $1.00; C. P. Achoy, $5.00; W. Wentling, $3.00; J. J. O'Donnell, $1.00; H. L. Loll, $3.00; K. Kristensen, $2.00; J. Rasmussen, $5,00; E. Rosa, $1^0; B. Torbick, $1.00; C. Preclaro, $T.00; B. Husjord, $3,00; L. L, Gormandy, $2.00; A, Pedicini, $1,00; G, A. Vila, $1,00; J, Waters, $2,00; C, F, Costanzo, $3,00, SS EVANGELINE R. Peck, $1,00; R, Hillman, $1,00; G, E, DcGrcve, $1,00; M, Vego ,$1.00; J. Polotis, $2.00; T. J. Whelan. $2,00; J. L. Moore. $2.00; P, J, Serranino. $1.00; T, llcggnrty, $3,00; J, R, Smith. $2,00; H, A, Stowe. $1,00; G, Ruggeiro, $2,00; K, L, Madsen. $2,00; E, J, Jazwinski. $1,00; R, A, Ektyedt. $4,00; B, Bailv, $1,00; V, Allen, $2,00, SS BELGIUM VICTORY C, Gansis, $2,00; H, White, $1,00; C, Zygmont, $1,00; F, Prince, $2,00; J, Wilaszak, $1,00:- P, Deveau, $2,00; N. Ritrovato, $1,00; H, W, Ryan, $2,00; C, MacQueen, $1,00; R, Petrio, $3,00, SS YAKA W, Rozalski, $1,00; C, Tillicia, $1,00, SS ED HURLEY R, Hawkins, $2,00; B, M. Baxley, $1,00; L, Reinchuck, $^,00; H, Carey, $2,00; B, Mixon, $1,00; R, Phillips, $2,00; V, Guatafson, $2,00; J, M, Stone, $1,00; G. Reese, $3,00; J, R, Daley, $1,00; W, L. Deery, $1,00; L, Reinchuck, $3,00; J, M. Gurganus, $2,00; E. H. Searcey, $1,00; L. VanSchaik, $2,00; L, M. Dolan, $3.00; W, L. Peel, Jr,. $3,00; J, W, Atkinson, $10,00; C, M, Kirkland, $20,00; B, H, Mead&, $3.00; C. M. Burke, $3.00; T. M. Peacock, $3,00, SS MONROE A. Galza, $1,00; J, G, Napoleonis, $1.00; A. Ramirez, Jr., $2,00. SS R. RUSH W, Clarke, $2,00; S. Woodruff, $2,00; P. Reed. $1,00; R. Sipsey, $1,00; C. Honorowski, $2.00; D. Ramsay, $2.00; R. Pinckney, $1.00; R. Don®van,<. $2.00; C. Emmons, $2.00. ,v'7 A halt has apparently heen called by the Maritime Commis­ sion on sales of United States tankers to so-called foreign in­ terests planning to operate under the Panamanian flag. This indication stems from the Commission's rejection last week of all 38 applications for the pur­ chase of sui'plus tankers for this purpdse. The commission's action thus disposed of all applications on the docket filed by foreign groups interested in purchasing the tankei^s and operating them under registry in Panama. There are still 'other applica­ tions, which intend to seek Pan­ amanian registry. The commis­ sion said thcs'o applications are from companies controlled by in­ terests in the United States. ITF To Hold Meeting In US For First Time For the first time in its his­ tory, the Executive Committee of the International Transportworkers Federation will meet in the United States. This meeting will take place in Wash­ ington, D. C., on September 22 and 23. Most of the U.S. unions af­ filiated to the ITF will be rep­ resented, as well as a delegation of European Railway Union chiefs and representatives of the twenty American Railroad unions which recently became a part of the ITF. This historical meeting will have a great effect on the fut­ ure activities of the ITF in the Western Hemisphere, as well as in the rest of the world. 7 �THE Friday. September 19. 1947 SEAFARERS LOG Page Nln* SlU Helps CIO Shipbuilders Stop Scabs The telegram, at the right, received from the CIO Shipyard Workers, touched off a chain of events. From a special meeting, straight through to a mass demonstration on the picketlines. the men of the Seafarers International Union went to bat for their CIO Brothers. WESTERN UNION CXA.S9 Of SlAVKI Thi» I* • futl-Tk(c T«lctr»m or CiWrwolcM Hi 6*' ICTTtd cliarsrm It irw (tica'rd t<r • tuuabk rrmbol sbovr oi precMin(fh< addre^ rx LC-l«<rtfrdr>)U ^ fillAI UM ttvVBis i^ba dau Itaaeo ulnraa.! asd dayUiUra M tn'iL.SDAKIr TIMB al pMt af eric^ Tiaa at naipt la STANir'iUlOTIUI.ai t^( cdOrii ci FiOCC cU ^2 PD i EXTRA It was the same story last year when a dif­ ferent Local of the Shipyard Workers was on strike against the Bushey Shipyards. There. SIU support forced the company to bargain, and brought a quick end to a strike that threat­ ened to continue for months. The strike against the Bethlehem Steel Com­ pany has been in effect for more than 80 days. The ranks of the strikers held solid, in spile of company attempts to split the group by phony "peace proposals." Failing in everything else. ^ NEWYCfiK NY 909A SEP 11 1947 PAUL HALL VICE R^ESIDENT SlU-A F OF L 51- BEAVER 3T NYX THE BETHLEHEM STEEL COMPANY ATTEMPT INC TO b^tAK OUH STRKE BY OPENING THEIR GATES AT STATEM ISLAM!) AMD .r^TTH AND 56 STREET BROOKLYN YARDsCvILL APPRECIATE YOUR SENDING SUPPLEMENTARY ASSISTANCE OfQ 4 UR PICKET LINE 80 THAT YE CAN WI N|A£ HAVE -iEEN OUT 76 DAYS PLEASE HELP LOCAL 12 AND IJ CHARLES A LEONE REGIONAL DIRECTOR. SHIP YARD AORKERS UNION A special meeting was held soon after the receipt of the telegram. The situation of the CIO Shipyard Workers was explained, and at the conclusion of the meeting, after the members present had passed a resolution to assist the st.'ikers in resisting scabs, more than a hundred SIU volunteers left to join their CIO Brothers on the Bethlehem Steel picketlines. the company stated that it would open the doors of the 29th Street. Brooklyn, plant, and that meant a "back-to-work" movement. But this was foiled when hundreds of whilecapped Seafarers shov/ed up on the line. Any plans that the company may have had to im­ port goons came to a dead halt when the SIU joined the Shipyard men on the picketline. This sort of solidarity with other sincere unions has gained the SIU the respect of the entire labor movement. And it has helped the Seafarers, too. During the Isthmiaji Strike, messages of sup­ port came in from many unions, pledging money* muscle, or what have you. Fortunately, we didn't need any help, but it was good to know it was there, in case. Meet the nevx SIU Jeep. Equipped with amplifier, record player, and microphone, this good-will messenger appeared at the Shipyard Workers' picketline, and helped bolster morale. Music was played for the marchers, whose ranks were swelled by the addition of hundreds of white-capped Seafarers. :4 Upper left shows some of the Shipyard Workers as they, with SIU support and assistance, stopped a phony "back-to-work" move on thfe part of the Bethlehem Steel Company in Brooklyn. PJWwF' Left is part of the crowd from some of the industrial plants in the vicinity of the picketing. They gathered by the hundreds to see how an AFL union like the Seafarers came to the aid of a CIO union like the Shipyard Workers. -V - - , ;• 'Mm. Above is what the Bethlehem Steel Company's yards looked like at 29th Street. Brooklyn. Not a soul worked behind#the picketlines. aid the only sign of life is the guard standing in the foreground. Note the dead booms rising in the background. •J - <1 �.-.r THE SEAFARERS Page Ten LOG Friday, September 19, 1947 SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS • h i-j Seafarer's Musical Career Launched By Stringed Gift Okay, BrothersLet Us In On It Some secrets are to be kept, but ii you had an in­ teresting trip, or if you met a .character who sent you, let us in on it. That goes for your views on the union, cur­ rent events, or any sugges- u • James Marshall strums a few chords on his recently ac­ quired guitar, a gift from Brother Richard Young, former pro­ fessional musician. Marshall came by the instrument when he and Young were shipmates on the SS Jean LaFitte. If someday the foc'sle fills with rhythmic melodies plinking off a smooth guitar, you might check to see if the master musician is a Seafarer named James Marshall. Jimmy isn't quite ready for a crack at Carnegie Hall, but he might get around to entertaining his shipboard Brothers in fine style if he keeps up his practice strumming sessions. How Brother Marshall and his guitar happened to start going together came about quite acci­ dentally. Marshall, to whom a guitar just meant something you listen to, was aboard the SS Jean LaFitte as Deck Maintenance. Ship's Delegate on the vessel was Richard Young, whose many years of experience as a strum­ ming member of an orchestra had made him expert at tugging at your heartstrings via the guitar strings. GETS GUITAR Young and Marshall got along nandily on the LaFitte's spring \oyage. Jimmy showed an in­ terest in Young's guitar and be­ fore you could say "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar," Broth­ er Marshall was the proud owner of Young's stringed instrument. Now all he had to do was learn how to make the thing work. ... Following up his gift. Young took Marshall under his wing and throughout the trip gave'him lessons in the fundamentals. Four months later—in May—when the trip ended Jimmy had an idea how to handle the guitar with­ out getting snarled up in the strings. "He was a pretty good teach­ er," Marshall said of Brother «' .. JC. ^^3 lions you may have. All beefs of general interest will be an­ swered. Seafarers who think in terms of moon and June and vine and wine can give vent to their rh3^e and rhythm in Log-A-Rhythms. If you have a -camera we will give prominence to your lens ef­ forts. The items sent to us will be displayed before an ap­ preciative audience of 60,000 readers from coast to coast who read these pages every week. Put down the highlights of your experience including the place, time and names and send them to the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG, 51 Beaver St., N. Y. We will return all snapshots, poems and stories, if so desired. Now is the right time, too! Isthmian Ship, Damaged In Bay, To Enter Drydock Marshall puts his'^hand to the wheel aboard the SS Jean La Fitte. The SS Yugoslavia Victory, an Isthmian freighter, is scheduled to go into drydock for repairs of damage caused when she struck a submerged wreck in Barnegat Bay last Tuesday night. The ship pulled into Pier 17, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, under her own power. She was on her v/ay from Baltimore, when the mis­ hap occurred, filling the No. 2 hold with water. Her own pumps and those of two tugs and a salvage barge began removing the water from the flooded hold as soon as the ship made the pier several hours later. She was six feet down by the head when she arrived. The extent of the damage was not immediately determined but SEAFARING FAMILY a diver was expected to go to A member of the Seafarers since 1944, Marshall took part work shortly to inspect the ves­ in the Isthmian organizing drive sel below the water. The Yugoslavia Victory had \A ith a four month stint on the SS Twin Falls Victory. He's not 36,000 tons of cargo- aboard all the first in the family to turn to of which will have to be remov­ the sea for a career. On his ed now. The vessel's skipper, mother's side most all of the men Capt. N. J. Oakland, said there in the family engage in sailing had been no danger that she for a living. would sink after the collision Now if Jimmy's musical efforts with the wreckage. can keep pace with his shipping Carrying a crew of 60, the career he ought to do right well ship hfed been scheduled to leave with that there guitar. this week for the West Coast. Young. He really hopes that in a short while he'll be.able to give out with some tickling tunes. Lately, Jimmy who is out of Baton Rouge, La., has been ship­ ping out of New Orleans aboard the SS Del Sud. Food Okay, Need Elbow Room, Is Complaint On Del Norte The beef at the meeting of the crew of the Del Norte wasn't directed against the chow, there was enough of that and of good quality, rather it was the lack of space in wliich to devour the tidbits and gastric feasts set be­ fore them. On previous' trips the crew had an oral agreement with the company allowing the Chiefs to eat in the saloon, but the prac­ tice was discontinued when the Chief Reefer was sent from the saloon and inasmuch as the un­ licensed personnel are supposed to eat in the messroom there Further, the crew recommend­ ed the construction of another pantry and galley for the use of the crew. This, they contend­ ed, would eliminate the need for a seuond pantry and wi)uld. at the same time, greatly increase the speed with which the food is served. The Stewards Department felt that in the meantime the feed­ ing of the crew would be a. simpler task if all members of the crew with the exception of the pantryman and the me.ssmen kept out of the pantry dur­ ing meal hours. This was put in the form of" a motion and car­ ried. ¥C3C3£>'S GOCJD - IF ONE HAS-THE STRENSTH' DELEGATES REPORT was little the crew could do about the matter. Exploring the matter further the crew generally agreed that with the entire unlicensed crew eating in the messhall the space is entirely inadequate and a recommendation was made that the messi'oom be enlarged to facilitate feeding of the crew. The crew of the Del Norte meeting on July 13 while at sea previous to the discussion of the crowded condition of the messhall heard their delegates report on conditions in the re­ spective departments. The deck delegate and engine delegate reported all in order and the stewards delegate re­ ported a large number of new men in his department who were a little new at their tasks but would soon shape up as a fine bunch. An election was held for ship's delegate with Winsley, second electrican being elected by ac­ clamation. The meeting was chaired by Frank (Scotty) Findlay and re­ corded by J. E. Seltzer. Crew Wants Med Care Probe Blasting the lack of speed and diligence in locating medical facilities for injured and sick crewmembers by persons respon­ sible, the crew of the MV Del Oro unanimously voted for a joint SIU and company inves­ tigation in to the matter. Particularly concerned over the lack of medical facilities and equipment on the "West Coast of Africa, the crew felt that they were working under a hardship inasmuch as there were no hos­ pitals of any caliber to which they could take ill crewmembers should they become sick while in Africa. THOROUGH DISCUSSION Both the Jack of hospital facil­ ities in Africa and responsibility of those aboard appointed to handle such cases were thorough­ ly discussed and the decision to caU for an investigation of the matters was drawn up for presentation to the Patrolmen when the ship reached New Or­ leans. Moving from the matter of health to entertainment, the crew passed unanimously a motion to have the radio moved from the chartroom to the crew's messroom. Under discussion it was brought out that the Union had fought for radios to be put aboard ships and as long as it remains in the chart room the crew is "under the mercy of the brass hats as to programs and the time the radio will be played." DELEGATE APPOINTED The ship's delegate was ap­ pointed to carry out the crew's request. Other motions carried called for the putting, into shape of the P.O. mess for the next trip and that the slopchest be moved to another location so the present space could be converted into an oilskin room for the deck gang. Send Plx Every candidate for office in the A8EG election sched­ uled to begin on November 1st, must submit with his qualifications a passport pic­ ture of himself and a short biography of no more than lOd-words, dealing only with the candidate's Union record and activities. These pictures and biogra­ phical notes will "be carried in the SEAFARERS LOG in order to familiarize the mem­ bership with all candidates. Send your qualifications, picture, and short biography to: Secretary-Treasurer, Sea­ farers International Union, 51 Beaver St., New York 4, N. Y. �THE SEAFARERS Page Eleven LOG SIU Ships' Minutes In Brief ' CADILLAC, Sepl. 8—Chairman Kaulsch; Secretary L. Aman Motion by A. Martin, seconded by J. Gladys that linen be changed at least once a week and a better system of distribution • be inaugurated. Brother Pearce moved that a washing machine be furnished for Deck and Stew­ ards departments; seconded by E. Felicijan and carried. A motion calling for shipboard meeting forms to be furnished by Great Lakes District was made by J. Parker and seconded by Brother Szyakacs and carried unanimous­ ly. It t, FORT DONELSON, Aug. 19— Chairman Harm Nordhoff; Sec­ retary D. Grigsby. Suggested by Brother Lewis that Eng. Dept. blow tubes during the day to de­ crease discomfort to men sleep­ ing on boat deck during hot weather. Brother Clark suggest­ ed that lime juice be available at all times; Steward agreed to speak to Captain m trjdng to meet this suggestion. Captain Robertson was receptive to all suggestions made by the Dele­ gate. 4. S. t DEL SANTOS, May 3—Chair­ man M. B. Ackerman; Secretary Jimmie Davis. Chief Steward elected ship's delegate. Motions carried: thai .slopchest prices be posted; th.Tl man doing sanitary work in each department make a daily check to see that laundry room is clean. Each man is to do job a week, beginning with deck department. Committee of five men elected to handle cases of violations of rules of shipboard conduct. 4 S- 4. FRANCES, Aug. 18—Chairman Frank Rose; Secretary A. Fertera. Delegates reported no ser­ ious beefs. Motions carried: That padeyes be installed on masts and kingposts for safer working conditions; that desks be in­ stalled in rooms not having them, and that Ch. Mate get sufficient soap and matches for trip. 4» 4* 4 EDITH. Aug. 14 — (Chairman and Secretary not given.) Special meeting held for the purpose of donating money to the boys pick­ eting Isthmian ship. Money to be turned ovur to the Baltimore Agent. A. committee appointed to see the Agent and present the money and the names of the men contributing. Comrnlllee: Stan­ ley Kasmirsky, B. Hall and Jeff Gillette. Total $66. RICHARD \AT^S. July 20— Chairman Janowski; Secretary R. Bailey. Delegates reported on their departments. Deck Depart­ ment repprted that all work done by the Captain and Cadet is being recorded. New Business: Motion carried that the next crew get more than prom­ ises before signing on. Motion carried that ship's Delegate see Captain about a larger ration of cigarettes. Motion carried that all personnel, including licensed, clean their mess after playing cards. CORNELIUS GILLIAN, July 4 —Chirman V/illiam Alvaro; Sec­ retary Philip Tole. All delegates reported all in ord'er. New Busi­ ness: New ship's delegate elect­ ed. Motion carried that all erew quarters be painted. Motion car­ ried that no one but unlicensed deck personnel to do sailors' work. Good-and Welfare: Dis­ cussion in regards to keeping all heads and messrooms clean. One minute of silence for biothers buried at sea. YAKA, July 8—Chairman Coifen; Secretary Orlando. Delegates reported on state of their de­ partments. New Business: Mo­ tion carried that no one sign on until all repairs are made. Broth­ er Smith suggested that all dele­ gates make out ixpair list to be sent in from Antwerp. Good and Welfare: One minute of silence for brothers lo.st. at sea. 4 4 4 ALCOA PAG ASUS, Aug. 10— Chairman T. C. Deal; Secretary Charles T. Gilmore. Motion by Paul Valdes reporting permis­ sion of a permit for Charles Vaught. Motion carried that Pa­ trolman and delegates check all ice boxes to see that proper stores are aboard. Motion ..•arried that, after payoff men staying aboard will clean their foc'sles. 4 4 4 J. B. WATERMAN, Aug. 3— Chairman Lavoie; Secretary Can­ tor. Delegates reported all in order. New Business: Motion that one crewmember be brought before patrolman for negligence at work. Motion defeated. List of repairs made and approved by all members present. 4 4 4 JANE O, June 30—Chairman Oscar Nielsen; Secretary William Mims. Delegates reported all in order. New Business: Motion carried to get rest of gear and repairs which were ordered in Galveston. Motion carrirti to levy $1 fine for the following: leaving cups on table; putting cigarette butts on deck, coming in messroom in shorts. Motion carried to go into Good and Welfare. Discussion on keeping messroom clean. 66T YOUR ISTHMIAN STRIKE , CLEARANCE I 4 4 4 HALF HITCH,'Aug. 25—Chair­ man Thomas C. Hickey; Secre­ tary John C. Peet. Delegates re­ ported on their departments. Good and Welfare: Motion cairied that a man be delegated from each department to find out what is needed aboard ship. Vote of thanks to Stewards Depart­ ment. Crew was loud in its praise of Chief Mate J. K. Howell. Mate was very cooperative and all around good egg. Captain Jay also a fine officer to sail with. Motion carried that Steward use his own discretion as to supply of cold drinks. One minute of silence for brothers lost at sea. IM By HANK 4 4 4 MORNING LIGHT, July 21— Chairman Frank Dobbs; Secre­ tary William H. Ormsby. List of repairs necessary made up and approved. Good and Welfare: Motion made to see about canopy on fantail. Motion made to see that everyone be more quiet in messroom. Charges against a crewman listed with recommen­ dation that he be put on Social Register. 4 4 4 JOHN HAWTHORN, July 13— Chairman L. Joyner; Secretary J. Ladiner. Motion that ^rew strip bunks and leave rooms in clean condition before getting off. Mo­ tion carried to inquire of Brother Higginbotham's condition and if he is still hospitalized to give him financial assistance. Motion car­ ried to replace pillows and mat­ tresses. 4 4 4 WILD RANGER, June 29— Chairman D. Rice; Secretary A. G. Nelson. Delegates reported all in order. New Business: Mo­ tion to have the company install porthole fans. Motion by Sulli­ van to have electric griddle in­ stalled to cook steaks. Steward thanked the Chief Cook for the efficient manner in which he has run the galley and kept down beefs. 4 4 4 JANE O, July 27—Chairman E. A. Reid; Secretary R. A. Creel. All Departments m order except Engine which reports some dis­ puted overtime. New Business: Motion carried that when Patrol­ man comes aboard that ice boxes and store rooms be inspected. Motion carried that no one pay­ off until all overtime is paid. Good and Welfare: Decision to leave the ship clean at payoff. 4 4 4 4 4 4 DEL MONTE, July 13—Chair­ man R. E. Tunison; Secretary J. SEATRAIN NEW ORLEANS, DiCarlo. Motion carried that July 17—Chairman Maxwell; Sec­ water in shower be changed to retary Spencer. Delegates re­ insure reasonably cool water for ports accepted. Old Business: Exshowers. Motion carried to have tention of time recommended for both messhalls put in first class Chief and Third Cooks. New condition so they can be used to Business: Motion carried to have give full seating capacity for black gang quarters and toilets crew. Motion carried to have repaired. Motion carried to no­ laundry equipped with a new tify Mate to let Steward Depart­ clothes wringer. Crew wishes to ment know 1 hour in advance of express its appreciation of Cap'- early or late meals. Motion car­ tain John Owens. He has shown ried not to payoff unless Patrol­ himself to be a seaman and a man is on ship for payday. One gentleman. Crew hopes he con­ minute of silence for brothers tinues to sail SIU ships. lost at sea. Although shipping in Our Town is a little slow right now this week there are quite a few jobs up on that board from day to day —with no takers. Let's not fool ourselves—every job is a precious thing—and is to be taken seriously. Let's not delay a ship and have it sail short-handed . . . Brothers, before you sail make sure you have a few week's copies of the latest LOGS—and when you're finished with them—don't throw them at the sea gulls—save them for some LOG-hungry SIU ship you're bound to see in a foreign port—and they'll really be glad to get the latest union news . .. In the days to come there will be plenty of shipping when the Manshall plan to help European countries with food, materials, etc., gets rolling along. The Merchant Marine will be busier than ever—if Congress allows the American cargoes to be carried firstly and mostly in American bottoms. 4 4 4 News Item, Jersey City: "The Merchant Marine Veterans Association of the U. S. went on record today at the closing session of its fifth annual convention in favor of making the Merchant Marine a part of the new national defense set-up with a. status equal to that of the Army, Navy and Air Forces under an Under-Secretary of the Merchant Marine." Speakers for the resolution expressed the hope that a merger of the Merchant Marine with the other services would give "the veterans of two wars at sea the same rewards given their comrades in the other services." . . . This finky plan by this small and unheard of organization of presumably retired seamen to shackle the civil­ ian life of the Merchant Marine under a military set-up plus somebody called an Under-Secretary of the Merchant Marine is a dangerous threat to the peace-time life of seafaring union men. 4 4 4 Brother James "Rebel" Melton just sailed in from his eightmonth trip shuttling between Argentina and Spain. Brother Melton says that it sure was a swell trip and that the cheapest part about it was romance . . . Brother Robert McQueen, the oldtimer is in from a trip . . . Brother Dutchy Moore just shipped Chief Electrician on the Isthmian ship. Steel Scientist, which is going to Mobile, then to New Orleans and then to that fly-and-heat filled part of the world—the Persian Gulf . . . Brother Martin O'Connor just came in from a trip that had a lot of laughs. "That's the stuff that makes many a trip worthwhile—sometimes! . . . Brother James W.. "Scotty" Atkins says that the Anchor Hotel in New Orleans is the: only Anchor Hotel and the only SIU hotel down in New Orleans, Indeed! 4 4 4 Brother "Tex" Morfon, who is always buying roses, keeps wearing a coin in his ear, and just recently got himself another tattoo, said that he was going down to Baltimore with his ship­ mate, little "Scotty" Morton ... To Brother Bill Replogle up there on the Great Lakes aboard the SB F. G. Hartwell: Your first and second drawings of Life on the Lakes were excellent. Keep going strong with your artistic work. That second drawing of yours was a perfect masterpiece of truth and humor as it re­ produced what occasionally happens in the deck department when tying up or letting go. Send in some more sketches, BilL some day you'll be glad you kept up the swell art-work! 4 4 4 Here are some oldtimers and the ships they came in on: A Swenson, Seatrain Texas; T. Tighe, J. McCosh; C. Henry, SS GrayJ, M. Richelson, Seatrain Texas; J. Wiscoviche, SS Span Splice; J, Canon, SS Knox Victory; C. Patraiker, SS Coringa; A. D'AmioQ, SS Delaires; E. Blaha, SS Cavalier; A. Banes, SS Jean. �QUINTET OF SOLID SEAFARERS ON THE SS CORNELIA Measures To Curb Cut-ups Urged By Seafarer Good Shipmates Abound Aboard SS Frank Spencer To the Editor: To the Editor: I don't often write to the LOG but like Instant Postum, there is a reason. Enclosed you will find a copy of the minutes of the last regu­ lar meeting held aboard this ship, the SS Del Norte. As long as this ship has been in commis­ sion we have been turning in copies of our minutes to the New Orleans officials to- bo sent in to the LOG for publication, but so far no soap. This is a good ship and a good run. I am the Bosun's Mate and have been on here ever since she came out of the shipyard. Have turned down the Bosun's job several times as I have a regular dream job. The last couple of trips we have had some trouble with gashounds, rum-heads and other performers. Also v/e have the type that after signing articles thinks he is on a pleasure cruise like the passengers and can do as he wishes. If he doesn't like getting up to stand his watch, he doesn't and if he wants to play poker all night and sleep the next morn­ ing, he docs. if any of the crew says any­ thing about it the guy hops on him and calls him a company stooge. Most of us aboard think there should be a set of rules drawn up by the Union to take care of these guys. The rules, however, must be enforced up and down the coast. Also a penalty be placed against Patrolmen and Agents who do not act against these characters. Scoity Findlay SS Del Norte Just a lino in my spare time saying we've a good bunch of shipmates aboard this old South Atlantic scow and a few oldtimers, too. Some of the men aboard the SS Frank E. Spencer are; M. McCune, Steward; Red Barnes, Fireman; J. Kelly, Third Cook; A. Vantillo, AB; J. Costello (Dock Delegate), AB; Joe James (Eng­ ine Delegate) Oiler, and Grady Faircloth (Steward Delegate), Second Cook. DUKE KEEPS BUSY COUNTING 'EM OUT DOWN TEXAS WAY To the Editor: I have been down liere on the border for about two weeks as my wife has been sick. Vv'hile down here I have been refereeing wrestling matches and to­ morrow night I will be in there with the boys. They won't let me wre.stle down here as the boys say I'm too fat. I told them that I was ira SIU condition. I told them I started in the SUP with tin cups and tin plates and if I could take the old days I could take any­ thing that could be handed out in the ring. There has been a lot of squab­ bling coming up about tripcard shipping. Before the war a full book member took 60 days to get a job. Now is the time for a full book member to protect him­ self and his union by taking the jobs. It is our job to talk to the younger members and give them the score. The Agents can't do it all and the Patrolmen are doir^g all they can with the tools they have. Duke Himler T'WO IN HOSPITAL Aboard the Bull line ship on its recent trip to Bremerhaven, Brother John F. Hisko took this photo of five of his shipmates. From left to right, as identified by Hisko, the Seafarers are: Charles, Ching-o-ling, Ernie, Jumbo and Defrettes. Lack Of Union Savvy In Members Depresses Oldtimer; Action Needed To the Editor: In his column, "Clearing the Deck," which appeared in the LOG July 25, Paul Hall stressed the necessity of closer coopera­ tion between the Assistant Elec­ trician and the Chief Electrician. (How true this is). Many members are depending on their union book to do the job for them. And everyone will agree that such a thing is an impossibility. But it happens on many SIU ships. It seems you t..n no longer teach some of t'" . .. oung Broth­ ers the ropes. If you attempt to do so many of them blow their tops. Either they tell you they are good book members, or if they are permit men they say they believe you're riding their backs for that reason. CAN FOUL UP AG,\TN If they act like this when an effort is made to help them do, a neat job while on those rosebox Libertys, then they probably will do the same thing when they get on our fine ships. Of course, they tell you that this is a lot of chicken and that there is no difference between a Liberty and a CP-3. I'd like to ask t'ne SEAFAR­ ERS LOG to keep on batting on the matter of Union education, taut at times it makes me sick to do so. Every time we hit port and get copies of the LOG and a few magazines, the first thing some of these youngsters Check It - But Good • - Blfc. Checa itie slop cnest Pefore your boat sails. Make sure that the slop chest con­ tains an adequate supply of all tho things you are liable to need. If it doesn't, call the Union Hall immediately. get rid of is the LOG, while the magazines with the nudes linger on week after week. In view of this attitude on the oart of some of the guys 1 feel the program must be changed. 1 don't know how, but it must be done. It doesn't pay to sail Stew­ ard or Bosun anymore under these conditions. If we try to do our part, we must either carry the agreement in our pock­ ets to make dead sure we are right, or we are dragged before a trial comniittee. It is true that charges are thrown out in a good many of these cases, but who wants to be bothered by a group of young­ sters who are quite sure you are too old to sail and too fatherly to make counter-charges against them. 1 wish I knew what to do. 1 wish someone would suggest what to do in many of these cases. 1 have been going to sea longer than I care to remember. Sometimes I feel that perhaps it is best to forget all about it and make believe that the next trip will be different. V. Perez SS Smith Thompson Log-A-Rhythms At the present time we have two of our Brothers in the hos­ pital and it looks like we'll have to leave them here in La Pallice, France. Red Barnes and J. Kelly are the men who are hospitaliz­ ed. The ship's erew took up a collection for these two men and everybody aboard gave money, cigarettes, candy, chewing gum and other items they ean use. The skipper is a good head and he likes the SIU way of doing things. Also calling at this port is the SS Fort Stevens, Pacific Tankers, with an SUP crew from Frisco. We joined some of them at the local bar for a drink and a chat on the news of the day. Stan Cooper SS Frank E. Spencer It Doesn't Pay By JAMES (POP) MARTIN You say, in this atomic age. Just write the LOG and till a, page With guff and gossip and stories Of things befall you on the seas. One must get on in modern days. Been told that poetry never pays; I'm going places; on my toes. Come on along, to Sloppy Joes. Send ballads, sonnets, anything Besets your mind while wandering, Bui tell me. Matey, if you please. Is there any future in such as these? Let Lady Gregory weave the spells Your Chanons, Popes and Sue Glaspells, Gene O'Neill, Synge, John Gay, We heard that writing does not pay. I cannot sail the writer's craft. Am not a bloke can take that gaff. "Burn midnight oil," and all that rot. Your poetry page can go to pot. WJiere's Milton, Shelley, Walter Scott, Shakespeare, Shiller, all that lot In the marble orchard, all unsung. For a grave to seek by setting sun. Who is Francois Villon, What did he do? "Through the door of darkness," he passed through With Omar, Keats and Goethe grey; Who wrote the 'Ancient Mariner,' pray? No, Matey, I'll just stop along. In seas and ships where I belong; Let laureate Masefield weave the rhyme, I'll serve the ships that sail the brine. For I've a date in Val Parais With a dark-eyed dame that's all the rage. So douse the beers; I'm on my way, ' I know that writing does not pa.y. Bobbie Burns and Thomas Moore, Dante, Browning, Goldsmith, sure. V/ho'd travel with a crew like that? Why, Mate, you're talking through your hat. Give me a skipper—hard as nails, A Mate who knows where for he sails. When we dress ship, you bet your poke It's not for any scribbling bloke. So, can the chat, I'm on my way, I'll write no poetry today. �Friday, September 19. 1947 Sees Union In Position To Expand Further THE SEAFARERS All Smiles LOG Page Thirteen Uncle Otto Serves Up Some Choice Items Concocted Aboard The Seatrain New York To the Editor: Just a few notes on the Seatrain New York as she plows her The Isthmian Line win puts way along heading for New the Union in a strong position to York. grow even larger. The Union is The Seatrain New York has a now beginning to take its place very good crew at present. Jack in the sun, whore it should have Van Gelder is Skipper at the been all these many years. I moment but Captain Dalzell will have been in the Union since it return when he recovers from started and have watched it grow an illness. The First Mate, Aug­ and have been in all its fights ust Haiiin, doesn't like the fel­ and it can bo said that of all the lows to bring beer on board but wonderful fights -we have been he's a good old skate and will in and won, the Isthniiaii is prob­ leave soon. ably the greatest of all of them. Robert Hillman is bosun. Rob­ It seems tliat the last couple of ert Hemekens, a demon for fish, years the Union has really start­ is acting AB Maintenance. He's ed going places. a king-size Seafarer weighing I remember for a long tinie 220 pounds. Seafarer Red Turner, Oiler, when nobody has even heard Olar Reiersen, Car Deckman, about the SIU, and we were just rests on the rail of the Pacific takes care of his police dog like a very small outfit without even Tanker SS Fort Stanwix, dur­ no one else I've seen. He even a decent place to sit down to ing voyage between Curacao takes him to the Seatrain Tavern Uncle Otto says the 540 pounds of Seafarer membership in and England. wait for a job. photo above were "two hungry boys on the Seatrain New York." in Belle Chase for a glass of At left is Robert Hennikens, AB, weighing 220 pounds, who is Lots of us Seafarers have had beer. "a great lover of fish." His shipmate is Jim Stickney, 320-poundthe opinion that some day with SS WM. MULHOLLAND On sailing day, after coming er. Jim won't turn his nose up at any food, according to Otto. the right kind of breaks and the DECK DELEGATE aboard from the Seatrain Tavern, right kind of fellows in office and a special meeting was called. the right support by the mem­ HEAVES A LINE Boy, this was a hot one and wants a cup of coffee in a clean turned in his overtime sheet he bers all that could be changed. To the Editor: listed 28 hours of overtime. nearly ended in a free-for-all cup. In New Orleans he was paid Well, Brothers, it has been This was a good turn and it I am sending a few lines to battle in the crowded messroom. changed. There is no reason now was really a success at Belle off for the two weeks trip minus ON THE WARPATH from the way things are going, the LOG before leaving this Chase. The pantry was clean and overtime for peeling potatoes. port. and from the attitude of most no dirty cups — even the Cap­ He was to take another trip but Uncle Otto demanded an ad­ My ship is a Waterman Lib­ the crew made him take a walk everybody in the Union, that we tain washes his own cups. journment claiming the meet­ down the gangway. Performer's cannot really start some sort of erty, the SS Wm. MulHolland. The crew's messroom is the ing was out of order. Cause of not wanted. action now to make the Union We signed on in Mobile on Apiul the trouble was the tardiness of cleanest I have ever seen in port Other than this experience, even a hell of a lot bigger than 11 and loaded in Gulfport for tripcard men in returning to take and at sea. Everyone cooperates Japan. we have a fine bunch of men it is. their watch. This put the book- to make things pleasant and they By the way, any of you Sea­ and a smooth operating ship. Every man should obey the are really pleasant. I know, members on the warpath. farer's pulling into Nagoya, Union rules now and do any and Uncle Otto The Saloon Messman also took having been on 107 ships. everything he possibly can to watch your step, because our This is an example, a messSteward off for two days without any help in the Union's beefs without dear MPs over there are plenty room can be kept clean at sea Seatrain New York one to take his job. tough on us. having to be asked or told to. or in port. A good crew did it. Chief Cook Dickson returned We left Japan bound for Hon­ Fi-aternally, from the hospital. Baker BurCREW'S PROBLEM olulu to load scrap for Montreal, N. S. Ellis but after six days of waiting and ron acted as Chief Cook assisted We had an unusual experience still no scrap iron, we wound by Uncle Otto while the ship last trip. By mistake an extra Don't hold your pictures SIU BLOOD DONORS up hei-e in Vancouver loading was short a Chief Cook. messman was on board in New and stories of shipboard acti­ grain for England. THANKED BY A new Steward Utility came Orleans and made a round trip vities. Mail them to the Sea­ Well, it looks like the boys on aboard at Belle Chase in com­ back to N.O. MEMBER'S WIFE farers Log, 51 Beaver St„ this scow will get a nice payoff pany with his load of eight suit­ During the voyage he didn't To the Editor: anyway. We had a few minor cases and trunks. He is moving New York 4, N. Y. If you turn to and when he was told from New Orleans to New York beefs when we pulled in, but haven't the time or don't feel I wish to try to express my to peel some potatoes for the deep gratitude to the Seafarers the Patrolman here, who is I'eally where he will pile off. in the mood, just forward de­ cook he refused to do it unless who so generously donated their on the ball, got them all squared Good food and a clean ship is he would receive two hours tails. We'll do the rest. Pic­ blood to save the life of my away. the motto of the Seatrain New overtime. He finally peeled the tures will be returned if you Our old man is a nice skipper, York. In the Officer's pantry a potatoes for one meal in five husband when he was seriously wish. I wish all of Waterman's skip­ sign reads: Please wash your days. He took off in New York ill. pers were like him. We also cups and dishes, someone else for two days and when he re­ My husband, who is also a SIU member, is recovering nicely have a swell crew, most all of them from the deep South. thanks to his union brothers. Well, guess I better sign off I can only say that this action for now, you will be hearing proves to me that the motto of To the Editor: from me in other ports. and the SIU was just the out- ^ the LOG, along with my new adyour union "Brotherhood of the fit to do it. Good luck all the dress. As you can see I am Would have written sooner, Sea" really means just that. H. E. Franklin way. down Norfolk way. I'll drop into but this Navy keeps a man busy Thanks a lot. Deck Delegate I wish I could have hit the the Hall the first chance I get. and no overtime, either. I just SS Wm. MulHolland Mrs. F. Barth got the dope on the Isthmian bricks with you guys, but I had LOG IS POPULAR strike. I figured it was just to be content with rooting from Oh yes, before I forget it. I about time someone showed the sidelines. those boys what the score was— I am enclosing a donation for received a letter from a fellow on a ship in Antwei'p. He ask­ ed that I send him my copies LAFITTE SHIPMATES of t'nc LOG when I was finished with them. That is rather im­ SUGGESTS "WHITE CARD" HOLDERS-WAIT possible for me to do as there are quite a few SIU-SUP men in UNTIL BOOK MEN THROW IN CARDS this outfit and that paper takes Because of the many "white card" men hanging around the quite a beating by the time aU Dispatch counter on the second floor of the New York Hall during hands hav^e gone over it. I'll en­ shipping hours, the members are forced to keep crowding back. close his address and trust you'll I would suggest, therefore, that holders of the white cards be kept send him the LOG regularly. away from the counter until the members have thrown in their That's about it, fellows. Hope shipping cards. to hear from you all soon. Un­ (Name withheld on request.) til then, the best of the best Book No. 49283 I and smooth sailing to you all. To the Editor: Send 'Em In Navy Man Rooted For SIU In Isthmian Beef THE BEEF BOX ANSWER:—The Brother's suggestion is a good one since it would facilitate the dispatching procedure. The "white cards" referred to are simply cards giving the bearer admission to the Hall. These men wait around to take jobs rejected by book men and permit men. If they would step to the rear of the dispatch­ ing room until the members have thrown in their cards as sug­ gested above, the possibilities for confusion and delay would be greatly reduced. It would result in speedier action for all hands, including the "white card" holders. David (Red) Harvey, F 2/C 105th C. B., USNAB Annex 3, Barracks 13 Little Creek, Va. Mike Castro (left) Wiper, and Fred Perry, AB, get up off their aching backs to allow Brother James Marshall to get a "shot" on a recent run of the SS Jean LaFitte. P.S. Give the Marcus Hook ! Hall and Blackie Cardullo a 'hello for me. �r"" THE SEAFARERS Pdffe Fourteen f. ; Taft-Hartley Law Fated For Doom, Says Member To the Editor: 1- J S In all probabilities certain portions of the Taft-Hartley Law will be complied with by the executive board of the Ameri­ can Federation of Labor, particulary the requirement of signed affidavits stating that Union of­ ficials are not communist party members. This does not mean, however, that the board has any respect for this requirement, and it will be a bitter pill even for some of the board members who have been outstanding in their cpndemnation of communism. Some of them have been more outspoken than Taft and Hartley themselves on this important subject. EXTENSION POSSIBLE can people for the law, and it should be a lesson to the legis­ lators of this country that when the people 6f the nation as a whole do not respect and believe in a law, it is impossible to en­ force it. But, nevertheless, they will try for years to put this yoke around the neck of the American work­ ers, just as they tried for almost 1.5 years to enforce the Prohibit­ ion Act. Henry W. Chappcll Seafarer Rates Atlanta, Ga., Second To SIU Maybe some day it will also be To the Editor: a requirement for these elected Just a short line to say I really officials to sign statements to appreciate receiving the LOG to the effect that they are not mem- keep in touch with the up-todate news of our Union, the SIU and^ fellow shipmates that I have sailed with during the time I spent with the Seafarers. I quit going to sea a year ago, to my sorrow, and found my­ self a shoreside job in Atlanta, Georgia. The life at sea was hea­ ven compared to returning ashore and finding scabs and money pinchers, all of them anti-union. Long live the SIU and may it prosper in the years to come. As a book member and one­ time seaman, I know the SIU is getting my backing even though bers of this odious party. A the shore and the idea of home certain well-known radio com­ life has me baffled for the time mentator (Walter Winchell in being. People don't know what his broadcast of Aug. 31) said they are missing until they get a that President Truman would taste of the SIU. oppose Taft and Molotov in the Since I am in an unbalanced, presidential race next year. insecure financial position at Too much interference by gov­ present, my donation to the LOG ernment officials in labor-man­ will have to come later. Keep up the good work and agement affairs only tends to create more strife. Witness the here's hoping that luck and suc­ current trouble in England's cess will carry the SIU all the coal mines. The same that hap­ way to the top. I'd like to take time out to say pened last year is again breaking hello and good cheers to fellow out this fall. shipmates that I had the oppor­ English workers resent too tunity to sail with during some much of this type of interference fine voyages with the SIU. and show their resentment by Thanks a million for sending me •means of labor's only weapon— the LOG. the strike. American labor will B. C. Blair, Jr. do the same. Atlanta, Georgia. SAME FATE The Taft-Hartley slave act is going to be just like that noble experiment of Prohibition. The 18th Amendment to our Con­ stitution took the saloon away from the corner and put it in ed an era of lawlessness and most American homes, and crcatviolence, until finally it was re­ pealed in its entirety. The repeal was the result of the lack of respect of the Ameri- LOG THE-- ^SMILING BOSUN' •'< • Dutchy Claims New York Gals Top The Crop To the Editor: Saw "Bull" Sheppard talking to Mike Rossi, the original "Smil­ ing Bosun," whom we now call the "bouncing bartender." He is firmly anchored at Miles Bar on 47th Street, New York. He still makes with that famous smile when one of his old shipmates heaves alongside. Incidentally, they have a gal there nafned Sonja who is as swell a person as the Sonja who owns the bar under the Philly Hall. Must be something in the name. Let's change all girls' names to Sonja. "Bull" claims there are some pretty girls in New Orleans, too. I've been on Bourbon Street, so if you New Orleans boys can produce any gals to compare with these New York chicks, I will come down and stand drinks for the house. A small house, that is, suh. Are you there, Keith Winsley? These New York girls are just Seafarer Mike Rossi, now referred to by his pals as the dying to mee you. Never let it be said that Keith Winsley stood "bouncing bartender," according to Dutchy Moore, is holding back and let a poor girl suffer. down a job in New York. He's mixing them up for the guys I don't believe Now Orleans who have one foot on the brass rail. can top these gals unless Dotty is back in town, and she don't count unless I can get a date. I'm staying at the Sherman Square on Broadway and 71st Street where the folks all meet. If you get here and I'm not beef led the entire formerly dis­ around just mention my name To the Editor: gusted crew to commend the of­ and you'll get^along. After reading the September ficials of Baltimore for a job well Dutchy Moore 5th issue of the SEAFAPiERS done. LOG, which included the ^letter Men can talk a lot, but action of Brother V. Perez blasting the means more to the membership Musician Keeps Tuned Baltimore Hall, I feel that it is of this union. I can say that with With Seafarers Log time to put forth a word in be­ all the charges that were against To the Editor: half of the Union officials here me and the rest of the crew, the My brother-in-law, a mem­ in Baltimore. Baltimore officials did a fine job. ber of the Musicians Union, Having just returned from a I feel that this brother should trip on the Joshua Slocum, South have looked into the matter fur­ asked me to request you to send Atlantic, aboard which we had ther before sounding off. We all him the SEAFARERS LOG. He more beefs than any ten ships, can blow our tops whenever we is a good Union man but his I wish to praise the manner in wish; that is our right, but in my work keeps him with the bosses which the beefs were handled book Baltimore is doing its best so much he doesn't have time to by the officials of the Baltimore for all members hitting that port. hear the workers' views. En­ closed is his address. Branch.. Michael Thornton M. Collins Their manner of settling the New Orleans, La. Baltimore Baltimore Doing Good Job, Replies Brother To Critic PREVIEW OF THINGS TO COME Send Those Minutes Send in the minutes of your ship's meeting to the New York Hall. Only in that way can the membership act on your recommendations, and then the minutes can be printed in the LOG for the benefit of all other SIU crews. Hold those shipboard meet­ ings regularly, and send those minutes in as soon as possible. That's the SIU wayl Friday. September 19. 1947 A soon-lo-be-repeeted scene on fhe Great Lakes shows the SS George Ingalls, automobile carrier of the T. J. McCarthy Fleet, carrying a fresh batch of automobiles across Buffalo Har­ bor. Breaking its way through the ice floes, the Ingalls was one of the first to ply the Lakes after the ice broke last spring. Photo was submitted to the LOG by Great Lakes official Alex McLean. SS Newhall Hills Survivors Find Smoking Prohibitive This ship is up for sale, so if any of you brothers would like This is my first attempt at a dead end ship, here is a chance writing to the SEAFARERS to become a shipowner. LOG. Is there any chance of getting We have just received clip­ the LOG sent to us here in pings from the LOG, and it was good to read the articles about this ship, the Newhall Hills. ^POFF-PUFF) NOT There are only 13 of us left ^ BAD FOR % 1.25 on the ship, more or less one big happy family with more rank and file man than officers, so there isn't much room for beefs. After this ship was moored here the British customs put us on a dead ship status. This means that we can not purchase cigarettes from the slopchest anymore, .so if we want to smoke we have to buy our butts ashore. England? We- may be here for BUTTS AT PREMIUM some time and it is always nice The weeds they refer to as to know what is going on around cigarettes here cost 68 and 70 the ports. :ents a pack. Two weeks ago Well, this is all for the time the Kings Customs allowed each being. Hope you can send us man one cartoij from the slopthose LOGS. chest, at $5.37 duty per carton, Barney McNally plus the six bits they cost in Gravesend, Eng. the slopchest, making a total of $6.12 per carton. How's that for (Ed. Note: The LOGS you cheap smoking? requested are on their way.) To the Editor: �THE Friday, September 19, 1947 SEAFARERS Page Fifieen LOG m BIIUJETIN M/' 11 PERSONALS Unclaimed Wages — Moran Towing Co. JOSEPH YONICK Contact Miss F. Juhiisuii, 1200 Fitzgerald Street, Phila. 48, Pa. J. 1 t FPANCIS PASCHANG Get ii touch with Messrs. Freediuan, Landy and Lorry, 1015 CliesLnut Street, Phila., Pa. This is in connection with the claim of Paul Tansky against the Lucius Q. C. Lamar. % % ERIC SHEEHY Write to your mother, Mrs. Alice ShcehjT td Castkmaine Street, Padd W 2, Brisbane, Aus­ tralia. XXX HUGH DAISEY McWILLIAMS Your si.st'jr reports that your mother is sick. Contact Miss Edith . McWilliams, 812 Pryor • Stieet, S.W., Atlanta, Ga. XXX THOMAS L. LESTER Contact your wife at the fol­ lowing address: Box 57, Worces­ ter, Mass. XXX RICHARD ASPLUND Get in touch with Bruno Zagorda at the SIU Hall in Phila­ delphia. 17 BATTERY PLACE, Lloyd Thomas MV FARALLON Donald Furr L33 Carl Appleov. Jr Willis Reed 11.20 Clifford Heudrick Saichi Kinoshita 1.60 Bradley J. Heydorn William Taylor 1.60 Clyde Parker Raymond Sly 5.87 Eugene Walter Clarence Hancock 9.07 Edmund Giza Gunnar Gundcrson 9.07 Trent Doscher 7.74 John Schulte Frank Carbone 9.34 Milton Walker Lloyd Fanum 9.34 Lloyd Tiiornas Afton Bush 9.87 Michael Hanson Carmen Immediate Vladislav Turlik 6.04 Richard Surmacz Cary Appleby, Jr. 13.60 Michael Motieska Richard Han.son .... 13.07 Russell Lee James Reynolds .... 5.60 John Hawkins .... 2.94 Wiley E. Parratt -. Bull Allen 3.20 Ricliard Motley William Belcher .. 4.54 Clarence Hancock Richard Kipp Carl Appleby, Jr. 2.40 Raymond Sly 37.98 Lloyd Fanum Johannes Lorents Russell Lee 51.44 Carmine Imrnediato Burl Allen 3.69 George Petroff William Belcher 4.32 Jack Mclndoe Thomas McBrayer — 35.15 Monte Blue .. Bernard E. Samuels 5.94 MV FIRE ISLAND Cecil Saunders 1.36 Berm.rd Turk Fi-ed Henderson 34.05 J. H. Asiiurt Wallace Kent 3.78 Royce C. Biene Henry L. Pruitt 7.85 Arnold Comeaux Arthur Grosham 7.85 Joe C. Arnold John Devcls 15.02 Cecil Garner • JAMES^ H. BLACK Homer Gilbert 1.75 William T. Cowart Please get in touch with G. E. Robert Page 44.70 Weaver RR No. 2, Green Ridge, Lester H. Bell James Stephenson 26.96 Vernon E. Jacobs Missouri, as soon as possible. Harold Barnes 2.16 Robert G. Huff Norman A. Powers 2.51 Thomas R. Moses Francisco Tirelli 11.34 Kerney A. Pugh Paul M. Lo Cicero 2.15 Lexie Tate ASHTABULA 1027 W?st Fifth St. Roland Squires 22.72 Phone 552:3 Robert J. Glover 14.87 Andrew N. Boney BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. Frank Nowakoski Calvert 4539 Charles Moravec 18.00 James P. Ansbro BOSTON 276 State St. Philip Syrax 2.24 Homer O. Diamond Boudoin 4455 Cecil Williams 11.08 James E. Keyser BUFFALO 10 Exchange St. 15.18 James E. Stewart Cleveland 7391 Aaron Jenkins 46.37 James W. Mclnnis CHICAGO 24 W. Superior Ave. Walter Connor * Superior 5175 Richard Pittman 33.30 Hugh T. Collins CLEVELAND ...1014 E. St. Clair Ave. Robert Rosekraus 19.99 Melvin C. Foster Main 0147 17.17 Melvin J. Smyly DETROIT 1038 Third St. Joseph Woodington 13.26 Joseph J. Kemps Cadillac 6857 Fred Cook DULUTH B31 W. Michigan St. William T. Shaw 2.24 Joseph Kaplan Melrose 4110 Clifton Goodwin 23.45 Paul Beck GALVESTON 308 Vi—23rd St. Alfred Healy 11.89 Raymond R. Pfeifer Phone 2-8448 David Arscott 5.52 John L. Morton HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. Phone 58777 John Burke 6.72 John J. Culeton JACKSONVILLE 920 Main St. Paul Magro 7.51 Douglas H. Sylvester Phone 5-5919 Robert B. Mitchell 5.22 Willie A. Raley, Jr MARCUS HOOK l>/i W. 8th St. Charles Potter 5.69 Thomas J. Hilburn Chester 5-3110 David Johnson 24.53 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Thomas O. Cain Phone 2-1754 Valand Copeland •. 20.79 William' Hawkins MONTREAL 1440 Bleury St. James Reynolds 106.11 George Allen Burke NEW ORLEANS 339 Chartres St. Eugene Walter 8.44 Antonio Fazzio Magnolia 6112-6113 Clyde Parker ; 84.69 NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. Lewis L. Gill 7.33 Billy J. Williams HAnover 2-2784 John Schulte SIU HALLS NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. Phone 4-1083 PHILADELPHIA 9 South 7th St. LOnibard 3-7651 PORTLAND Ill W. Burnside St. Beacon 4336 RICHMOND, Calif 257 5th St. Phone 2599 SAN FRANCISCO 105 Market St. Douglas 25475 S.\N JUAN, P. R. ..252 Ponce de Leon San Juan 2-5996 SAVANNAH 220 East Bay St. Phone 8-1728 SEATTLE 86 Seneca St. Main 0290 TAMPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. Phone M-1323 TOLEDO 615 Summit St. Garfield 2112 WILMINGTON 440 Avalon Blvd. Terminal 4-3131 VICTORIA, B.C 602 Boughton St. Garden 8331 VANCOUVER 144 W. Hastings St. Pacific 7824 Isthmian Seamen On June 16. the wages of Isthmian seamen were in­ creased 11 3/10 per cent ef­ fective that date with no re­ troactive _^pay. Men sailing Isthmian did not receive the April six per cent increase with retroactive pay to Jan­ uary 1st won by the SIU from its operators. Thus men sailing Isthmian have no retroactive pay due them for the last wage in­ crease. Edwin E. Hancock Jack M. Sumerlin Jimmie Jackson Roy M. McCance Rease C. Lumpkin James D. Hicks George T. Brannon Jackson E. Rogers George M. Hamoek Felix M. Welch Je.ssie L. Painter Paul L. Painter John F. Elmquist Thomas E. Tucker John MeKenna W. W. Soderman Frank Bernzatt R. L. O'Dowd B. R. W. Guthrie .-. Salvatore Candela Joseph J. Kemp NEW YOPJv 5.26 4.27 Harold W.. Lawrence James H. Andrews 3.22 James B. Dixon 2.40 Mai-vin J. Blanton 2.58 2.40 Truman Solomon Gay ...... William Crimbic .. 6.34 Laurie P. Smith 2.40 Culbcr E. Stevens 6.79 1.34 Donald L. Sollie Truman S. Gay 9.07 '^ATilie E. Parrott 2.14 T,ouis B. Clyde 3.22 Ben H. Faulk . 3.47 James H. Andrew.s 63.64 3.4" Roy Lee Belz Henry L. Puritt 35.98 Kenneth A. Jaeger 2.67 Geor.ge A. Haase 31.17 13.0" Jo.seph Kaplan 13.0' George T. Brannon 24.35 i-k-ed McDonald Easter Pl.C" Paul Beck .. .. 34.25 j.Jarne.s D. Hicks 6.14 Raymond R. Pfeifer ,. 20.06 .40 ' Cliaries T. Donaldson Lloyd F. Walker ,. 8.17 2.40 Kenneth L. RickcLs Joh;i B. Ram bo ,. 2.14 l.GJ Jolrn A. H':)rfman Ferral McRancv 2.14 Au.-<tin G. Evans 2.20 Wilbur L. Smith . 3.50 Toiral .McRancy 2.0) Arthur F. Sabourin . . 3.66 1.60 '.urthur F. Si bourin Ted B. Lewis 4.39 |.John B. Ra:nbo .80 Albert .1. Tiioma.s . 14.55 Jihn T. iiic-k;-, 9.2) George M. Hamiooek . . 12.78 9.20 dOi'iiCKt E. Durden Joe C. Arnold . . 8.50 j Tiiomas E. Tuelccr 21.0! John W. Diuvan 9.30 Jor.eph J. Kemp 23.47 W. J. Marioneaux 8.91 Mu" Anderson 36.44 Edward Wicak . 5.20 iilal R. EliK 2.1.5 William L. L:r.vski . . 3.73 11.-i3 N. M. Hum William L. Mayficld . . . 34.54 William L. Law.ski 31.22 Ellis I!. Williams . 7.00 3.27 Robert W. Hrbert 11.81 1 Iireniy Co:; Wendell L. Lakewood . 14.93 1.92 Ralph H. Crego 4.23 34.54 5.95 J. H. Weaver 1.03 William L. ulovfield 33.14 5.95 Marion O. Salver 1.08 Ja.nres Lvnch . 14.93 10.43 Claude Simpson i.oa Frederick G. Madsen 2.34 30.43 Lloyd F. Walker .72 Edward Wicak . 30.79 Robert Hebert 46.54 Albert W. "Gatewood .... 3.23 . 34.54 44.05 J. A. Ferdensky 3.26 John W. Duncan . 16.33 W. J. Maricneau.x 2.10 Char!c:5 Jcffers ,3.7.3 1( George T. Swoder 51.14 85.30 James R. Bright .3.73 i 5.14 33.45 F)-ank Bernzatt 39 0 )! Lowe Worrsl M. J. Delaney 9.24 G.05 B. R. W. Guthrie 6.72 7.00 2.13 John P. Stanford 7.00 i George L. Seymour' 1 David B. Scb.aufler 26.60 22.20 Andrew T. McDonald . 15.49 ] 3.26 8.56 ' Currie W. Harges 8.87 James Marshall Preston R. Ttiompson 3.73 9.62 John McKenna .94 31.01 4.80 Kenneth W. Spiers 28.94 Peter J. Pa.sinosky Dominick Gonzalez 3.26 25.32 James S. Kizcr 7.12 21.50 Irwin L. Benefield 3.35 10.64 Hugh Vogt 2.26 1 31.72 Jean Batiste Saucier 1.95 i 25.70 William L. Donald 2.02 CHARLES 0. LEE 19.17 Willie J. Squires 2.34 Get in touch with R. F. Weav36.66 Charles F. Ward 1.18 er. Paymaster. Overtakes Freight 29.26 Thomas J. Winey 9.9.9 Corpo'-ation, 19 Rector Street, 89.97 Albert R. D. Shull 8.80 New York City. 30.31 3.85 3.85 33.77 33.68 The SEAFARERS LOG as the official publication of the Sea­ 29.20 farers International Union is available to all members who wish 7.67 to have it sent to their home free of charge for the enjoyment of 2.94 their families and themselves when ashore. If you desire to have 5.55 I the LOG sent to you each week address cards are on hand at'every 8.18 " SIU branch for this pm-pose. 12.61 However, for those who are at sea or at a distance from a SIU 12.90 hall, the LOG reproduces below the form used to request the 34.36 LOG, which you can fill out, detach and send to: SEAFARERS 22.07 LOG, 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. . . 10.80 18.79 PLEASE PRINT INFORMATION 10.82 ^ 20.43 To the Editor: 20.37 I would like the SEAFARERS LOG mailed to the 73.85 2.50 iddress below: 2.32 83.84 Name 79.04 3.07 Street Address 5.34 i54 City ^ State. 4.54 4.54 Signed 4.54 4.54 Book No. 7.74 22.67 3.73 5.93 6.73 1.87 34.54 34.54 19.14 10.74 32.66 2.34 13.07 29.84 3.20 5.60 2.34 .91 1.40 14.74 23.31 16.19 23.61 25.11 .94 10.97 3,27 NOTICE! Notice To All SIU Members �n-- .-..-v; 'T' Page Sixieea THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. September 19, 1947 r ; 'S- I _ I SeAFAReRS INTfRNATIONAL UNION OFN.A. • A.F. L. I I -J � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 19, 1947 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. IX, No. 38 Description An account of the resource Headlines SEAFARERS AID CIO UNION TO STOP SCABS AFL COUNCIL REFUSES TO SIGN NO -COMMIE OATH;NLRB STYMIED SPIRALING COSTS CUT WORKERS'PAY HURON NEGOTIATIONS NEARING COMPLETION SEAFARERS SETS ALCOA PORT STEWARD STRAIGHT ON CONTRACT OBLIGATIONS EVEN AS AS A YOUNGSTER,TAFT WAS CONSIDERED JUST A POLITICIAN AFL MARITIME UNIONS PROVE IT AGAIN PHILY LOCATES A NEW BUILDING RESOULTION GOES BEFORE PORTS DONT PILE OFF BECAUSE OF A BEEF ,PRESS IT THROUGHTUNION-AND WIN CREW LEARN NOT TO PAYOFF WITHOUT PATROLMAN GRAIN SHIPMENTS ARE EXPCTED YP BOOST GREAT LAKES SHIPPING BUCKO SKIPPER HEADER FOR WATERMAN,S DRYDOCK CURRAN TAKES COMMIE ISSUE TO NEW ORLEANS NMU BALTMORE SHOWS REAL SOLIDARITY,AIDS STRIKING SHIPYARD WORKERS ISTHMIAN REPLACEMENTS HELP SHIPPING IN BOSTON AFL COUNCILREFUSES TO SIGN NON COMMIE OATH;NLRB STYMIED SIU HELPAS CIO SHIPBUILDERS STOP SCABS SEAFARER'S MUSICAL CAREER LAUCHED BY GIFTED STRINGED GIFT CREW WANTS MED CARE PROBE Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/19/1947 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1947 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/05dfda6f1d725311601963ac387612b6.PDF ba3fa0d9a8da28fc8038fb88540a4b2f PDF Text Text OFFICIAL OBOAN 07 THE ATLANTIC AND GUU' DISTBICT. dEA7ABEBS' INTMcNATlON^ UNION Of NOBTfi AdSEBICA VOL VI. NEW YORK, N. Y„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1944 No. 27 SIU Settles $11,200 In Week's Beefs US Seamen Again Lauded For Their Fart In Invasions New York Officers Of Union Work'As A Team To Make Strong Gains For Membership NJEW YORK, N. Y., August 31—Disputes which will show the membership of the Union that the organization is actively working for their interests were settled here this ^ WASHINGTON, D. C., August 28—American mer­ week, Paul Hall, port agent, announced here today. The result of the settlement of chant ships with their civilian crews continue to make a these disputes amount to nearly $11,200 in cold cash for the members involved Brother vital contribution to the successful invasion of Europe as Hall said. He further declared that the settlements which are from many different ^ Allied armed might pours over the Southern beaches of companies and from many differ--* France, the War* Shipping Administration announced today. ent ships of each company — many of which were sent in from Hundreds of American freight-• goods and troops to hold the es­ other ports — were obtained by ers were among the 641 vessels which the Navy has announced flew the American Flag in carry­ ing the invasion forces and their supplies to the Southern beaches of Hitler's "fortress Europe." The ships carried men, combat equip­ ment and supplier and will con­ tinue to reinforce the beachhead as it is enlarged. During the early days of the Normeuidy invasion more than 150 American merchant ships, averaging about 10,000 dead­ weight tons each and largely made up of Libertys, carried men and material to the beachhead. With them were nearly 120 Brit­ ish merchant ships of similar ca­ pacity and a large number of smaller British craft. American and British seagoing tugs played an important part in the invasion effort. s Despite heavy enemy fire the volunteer civilian crews of the American Merchant Marine took their ships in. They worked long hours operating deck machinery to unload cargo and delivered the tablished beachheads. The difficulty and dangers of Sheir task was reflected in letters to the crews by Admiral Sir Ber­ tram H. Ramsay, Allied Naval Commander - in - Chief, Invasion Forces, and Vice Admiral E. S. Land, USN (Ret'd), War Shipping Administrator, commenting on a job' well done and successfully completed in support of our arm­ ed services. Many of these same ships have continued to operate shuttle ser­ vice across the channel and the supplies and men they carry have been largely responsible for the sustained speed of the present drive toward Paris. Large num­ bers of ships have left Atlantic coast ports to unload their car­ goes on the shores of France. Three-fourths of a recent large convoy was flying the American flag, in contrast to the last war when the greater part of Ameri­ can men and supplies was car­ ried on foreign flag ships. the thorough teamwork display­ ed by the New York Branch of­ ficers. "Working as a team," he said, "the patrolmen tackled the many problems encountered by the dis­ putes. Where one officer of the Union was unable to carry through a dispute because of pressure of other work another officer took it up and held on until final settlement was made by the company involved." . He continued that many of the patrolmen and Union officers had worked many hours overtime to collect the monies due to the members. "Sometimes they would stay in a company office until eight or nine P.M.," Brother Hall said. "Even at that they were prepar­ ed to stay there until morning to get the disputes settled. They worked on the principle that where the members had worked overtime, if necessary, the officers (Cqnfinned on Page 3) Belgians Re-establish "SIUAt War" National Trade Union Flying Lifeboat Booklet Out Off the press and already dis­ tributed is the 48-page booklet, "SIU At WAR," a graphic story of the part SIU men have played in the fight for freedom. Dedicated to the more than 1900 SIU seamen who have died along the sea routes to the fight­ ing fronts, this booklet contains outstanding stories of the war at sea. , ^ Of particular interest to the • older members is a description of a voyage to the Carribbean in the days before convoys and off­ shore patrols, when ships sailed alone, unarmed, through waters lined with U-Boats. There is also the story of the Robin Moor, first American ship sunk by enemy ac­ tion in World War 11^ the story of . the City of Atlanta, from .which only three men survived; the Star of Scotland, SlU-manned windjammer that was sunk by an enemy sub in the South Atlantic, and many others. The Belgian National Trade Union which was dissolved by the Germans in 1940 has been re­ established in secret, according to the London radio, and the United Nations Information Of­ fice. . The new organization is issuing circulars to help the resistence against the enemy, and has also composed a manifesto proclaim­ ing the principles of the Belgian workers' party. IMPORTANT! The membeiship assembled at all Branches of the Union have many limes gone on rec­ ord that all members of the organization shall pay their dues in the port of payoff. Refusal to follow this policy of the organization will result in charges being brought against members violating this rule. Designed For Sea Rescue Work A new power-driven plywood lifeboat designed to be dropped from planes to sea-stranded per­ sonnel has been developed by the Army Air Forces Material Com­ mand, according to an article which appears in the August is­ sue of Air Force, official AAF service journal. Successfully tested in the Gulf of Mexico, the 27-foot, air-rescue craft now is in mass production. It provides shelter, carries food and clothing and enough gasoline and sail to permit a 1,500-mile voyage in the roughest weather. Light, strong cables hooked to conventional bomb shackles hold the boat snugly against the un­ derside of the B-17 fuselage from which bomb bay doors have been removed. Standard bomb hoists aid in, attachment process which requires only thirty minutes. America Joined ILO lO MONTREAL—In the ten years in which the United States has been a member of the International Labor Or­ ganization, a number of tangible benefits to labor have resulted, the ILO said in a statement marking the tenth anniversary of this country's membership. Pointing out that America join * ed the ILO on August 20, 1934, officers on merchant ships, and following a joint resolution pass­ annual vacation with pay. The conventions on the marine ed by the Senate and the House authorizing the President to ac­ industry were introduced for thecept an invitation to join, the of­ greater part by the late Andrew fice recalled that, through Samuel Furuseth, founder of the Sailors Gompers was active in getting the Union of the Pacific, AFL, and ILO started, this country did not long a fighter for the American come in until fifteen years after seamen as weU as for those of the rest of the world. the organization was set up. Though most of the world has been at war for five of the ten years since the United States joined, and the annual confer­ ences were suspended from 1939 i until this year, a number of tan­ gible benefits have resulted. More than a hundred Americans, rep­ resenting the government, union labor, or employers' organization WASHINGTON, Aug. .29. — have attended conferences. President Roosevelt today auth­ New Merchant Marine Awards Authorized Before the war, the U.S. Senate orized a" series of awards for the ratified five ILO conventions, all merchant marine, including a applying to maritime employ^ ment - setting an eight hour shipping Administrator for working day; a minimum age (15 distinguishing itself during the years) for child labor at sea; ship according to the Associated owners liability m case of sick- p^ggg ness, injury or death of seamen;| A ribbon bar citation was cre­ minimum requirements of pro­ ated for officers and mqn of ves­ fessional capacity for masters and sels honored for "outstanding ac­ tion against attack or in gallant action in marine disasters or other emergencies at sea." . The order also established a meritorious service medal for Future meetings of the Sea­ award to officers and men for farers International Union of "conduct or service of a meritori­ NA in the Port of New York ous character, but not of such an will be held on the 3rd floor of outstanding character as would the new hall of the Union' at warrant an award of the Merch­ 51 Beaver Street. ant Marine Distinguished Service The location is easily acces­ Medal, established by an act of sible from the old quarters of April 11, 1942. the Union at 2 Stone Street, Until two years after the war being only a few block away. the administrator was authorized Any officer of the Union will to issue a distinctive service rib­ direct any member enquiring bon to crews serving at any time the location. between September 8, 1939 and L -cember 6, 1941. ATTENTION! J,-- r <i\ �r;--^-ii THE Page Twp SEAFAREKS LOG Friday, September 1. 1944 WKSrS BOEIG Published by the SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OP NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Around the Ports way civilized is to make just one beat the members of a certain' more trip into the port of New ship out of their subsistence, and Afffliaied with the American Federation of Lahqn York on an SIU ship. He will by he finally ended up by getting a V/e had our first meeting Mon­ that time be converted the same cab, (it must have cost him $5.), day night at oiu: new HaU and as some of the rest of them have and delivered the money down to we bad one of the largest meet­ HARRY LUNDEBERG ------ President the men at 7:30 P.M. at night. been. The Hard Way. ings we ever bad before at a 110 Market Street, Saa Francisco, Calif. "Lo and behold! But did the Branch meeting in this Port. All SHIPBOARD BEEFS hands were very pleased with the We still hfive quite a few ship­ •Waterman Company catch Rell JOHN HAWK Secy-Treas. set-up there and were very proud board beefs here with .disputes from the Coast Guard. They were P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City of the layout throughout the new that range all the way from chiseling or trying to, on the Se­ "cooks who can't cook, to bucko curity Watches. building. MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - 'Washington Rep, The Coast Guard copped a It was only fitting that at the mates who have to be educated." sneaker on two of the Waterman 424 itb Street, N. W., Washington, D. C In addition to this, it appears first meeting In our new Hall rust-buckets, late at night, and that we should have in this that all the old rustbuckets are brother, oh Brother, they reaUy going to pieces at one time and Branch the largest week in the tagged the Waterman Line. What Union's history as for business as fast as one comes in, we have a the outcome is, we do not know list of repairs about as long as and shipping. And to top it all at the present time, but I am po­ and make a grand - slam, this your arm to take up and have PHONE . ADDRESS BRANCH sitive that "Mr. Waterman Com­ Branch also had the largest the companies fix so as these NEW YORK (4) 2 Stone St BOwHng Green 9-3437 pany" will really pay a nice fine. BOSTON (10) 330 Atlantic Ave Liberty 4057 amount of beefs ever settled in a same scows will be livable for The same said outfit is really BALTIMORE (2) 14 North Gay St Calvert 4539 the crews who take them out. week. PHILADELPHIA 6 North 6th St Lombard 7651 squawking about Stewards hav­ NORFOLK 25 Commercial PI Norfolk 4-1083 . The total number of disputes And Brother, if you don't think ing to ship through the Union NEW ORLEANS (16)... 339 Chartres St. Canal 3336 that some of these rustbuckets SAVANNAH 2 18 East Bay St. Savannah 3-172b ran over $11,000. TAMPA 423 East Piatt St Tampa MM-1323 are not absolutely filthy and Halls, and in fact, they are JACKSONVILLE . , 920 Main St. Jacksonville 5-1231 There is no need in duplicating scummy, then you ought to go squawking about most every­ MOBILE !! 7 St. Michael St Dial 2-1392 the men's names and amounts on board some of them. SAN JUAN. 28. P.R.. thing. The Company was inform­ PUERTO RICO 45 Ponce de Leon San Juan 1885 due, so all of you fellows, look in . -GALVESTON 219 20th Street Galveston 2-8043 It is getting tougher and tough­ ed that they could get their this week's LOG under the money er to crew such jobs up. Eventu­ eleven cent Stewards in the past, due list, and see as to how, when ally some of these companies are but that now we were going to and where to collect the money going to wise up to this fact.j send them real Union Stewards. PUBLICATION OFFICE: settled in your favor; although a Then they'll drag them into dryThat big song hit—"BLUES IN ROOM 213, 2 STONE STREET few have already collected. THE NITE" must have been writ­ dock and give them a genuine New York City (4) BOwling Green 9-8346 There is no need in saying that going over from stem to stern so ten for and by Waterman, for •267 in knocking out these beefs, it that they can get competent men they are really singing same took a lot of the local placards' to take them out, instead of full along with day and night. George M. (OVERTIME) Thom­ time. The Patrolmen in this crews of tripcard men who don't Branch are really doing a bang- know what the score is and who as, and H. (Screwblal) MiUer up job by handling the affairs of bring them into port in even a from South of the Border, or to be exact, New Orleans, came up the membership and all of 'em rottener shape. to the Smithfield Ham village, are due a vote of thanks from the GREENISH COMMIES and just before departing these membership as a whole for the I noticed a couple of green hard work they have put in here looking objects walking down the shores, they politely informed the guys in this port that they recently. street the other day and upon Due to shipping being so good examination, it turned out to be were leaving Norfolk, as there Pursuant to the final resolve in a resolution passed by here, and the fact that I men­ a couple of the local Commies was too much action here, and that they were going home to all ports, all Stewards and the so-called "Key-Ratings" in tioned same before, quite a few from down NMU-way. It seems rest. You did a good job while any department must register at the Union rfalls for em­ of the boys from outports are now that the Seafarers in rigging up you were here, O.T. and Screw­ drifting in. Among the many fa­ such a beautiful layout as we ployment and ship from the rotary hiring lists. ball, so keep up the good work miliar faces that came in here in in our new building, is caus­ wherever you may be. Any failure to abide is shown in the resolution's pen­ the past week or so are: Curly have ing these guys no end of grief. The Hall is all painted out, and Rentz, Keith Alsop, Red Sim­ alties, as follows: Their big selling point to the when some of the older men who The resolution signed by sev-*^ ^ 28495. S. Turner mons, Eddie Janowski, Andrew public up this way in the past have been shipping out of here €nty-nine members, andwas pass­ 7199, E. Anoyo 6933, W. G. Rue- Bailey, J. B. Ross, Oscar Grimes, has been of their so-called c^me in, you just hear them yelp: ed, rea(is as follows: rap 27402, C. H. Starling 6220, and Harold Nelson, all old Sea­ "union" hall's layout. Until we "Holy Cow," but is this the same got our new place, we were in no • BE IT THEREFORE RESOLV­ Ray White G57, J. Algina 1320, C. farers members. haU we had last year. But all These boys seem to like the big position to compete with them on kidding aside, Brothers, there is ED, that any man registering at E. Cummings 23347, L. N. John­ a company office or bearing a son 108, E. R. Smith 20057, W. town and no doubt, they will be that basis*. Now we not only really a great improvement in the letter of recommendation to a Hamilton 3400, C. B. Masterson shipping out of here regularly compete with them, but can put Hall, and we are going to try and them completely in the shade, keep it that way. specific job be fined Fifty dollars 20297, J. H. Houners 256, J. P. now. and we can do it without sound­ ($50.Q0) and be suspended from Shuler, GlOl, C. G. Haymond We had a case the other day a Harry (Doghouse) Harnsdorf is Ibe shipping list for a period of G98, W. Paul Gonsorcbik 749, H. lot of the -boys would get a big ing any party lines. in our midst down here, and Yours for better Seafarers every now and then, he pays a sixty (60) days for the first of­ W. Greenlee 21066, S. M. Arruda kick out of if they had been fense, and for the second offense 22512, Tbos. E. Maynes 22367, J. around. We had a mad-dog Skip­ Union Halls and more green visit to the Hall, and when he be fined one hundred ($100.00) M. ScbeU G298, D. S. Beacbley per on an Alcoa ship in and at Commies. takes off his hat, we turn off all PAUL HALL. Agent lights, as he has lost the other and never be allowed to ship in a 24369, John H. Morris G309, W. C. the pay-off time, the guy acted rating as key man again, and Francis 20832, P. T. Lykke 21466, as though he was a complete bug. two hairs that he had on his head Joe Glick 7516, W. J. Kirby 852, P. --F. Werstlein Pac 186, B. F. He wanted everybody to know when he left New York. Incident­ NORFOLK L. Paradeau A 9, L. F. Hotb 22018, Sellers G202, E. Taylor 30264, H. that he was strictly god almighty ally, the guys are now calling him A Nozva 21522, J. R. Velasquez C. Michels 7602, L. Gonzalex 3247, and an absolute master, not only Things ai-e rolling along pretty "SPOTLIGHT DOME." on the ship he was on, but on well in this old Virginia Port, and 20424, S. S. Celon 22896, Henry It really does look nice when P. O. Peralta 21397, R. Anderson everything within his eyesight. Buckmann 22899, J. Cruz Jr. many members are coming in you read the minutes from the 3538, Jose G. Lopez 4874, M. Pac 39, J. W. Prescott G114, C. J. The Patrolmen here, using their from other ports such as Tampa, other ports and see that "build­ Lancbron 4197, M. A. Ducban Sobczyk 27763, H. Peters 4478, V. usual system, managed to hold Mobile, New Orleans and others. ing fund" rising. It certainly 22566, Thomas W. King 24238, J. Vomias 27712, F. De Haney 24385, this bum down long enough to Shipping has picked up quite a denotes, our strength, Brothers, E. Brown 6794, H. Nelson 7016, D. Horn G166, W. H. Moore 596C-, handle the crew's disputes to bit in the past ten days or so, but and when we manage to buy E. Sebweiger 864, S. Heinfling their satisfaction and then left we have a shortage of key men Union Halls in all of the key H. Ward 26009. Pas 30, P. Silverson 38731, E. in all three departments, and es­ ports, you can rest assured that the ship. Flowers 23876, L. Williams 21550, This guy evidently took it the pecially a shortage of coal burn­ we won't have to worry about L. 3. Johnston G53, F. F. Seufert (coloredl, so if any Landlords who can be controlled hard way because a few days ing firemen 24020, G. Blancbette 31257, Mar­ later, it appears that one of the of you coal burning firemen care by the shipowners, throwing us tin 25278, A. H. Lopez 38898, R. Coast Guardsmen told him to to, you can just come to Norfoljk, out in case we do something that Corcla 27374, P. H. Parsons 27751, JAMES DONOVAN, Book 32566. quit smoking on deck and im- and hit the front door with your they don't like, when this war is Your book is being held in New mediatly the Skipper, who was gear. Louis Pinnilla 29166, E. G. Hurst over. 22716, C. F. Locknisb 30414, A. York, as you did not pick it up still sore at having to shellout at A few old-timers showing up This Palooka Hunter of the Lorrie 25334, S. S. Ary 24572, .W. at pay-off of the SS Henry Rice. the pay - off.' He went into his great South Atlantic Line came down Norfolk way is always in • • • Darougb 21981, N. C. Casbewf song and dance with a loud, loud into the Port of Norfolk with the order, so just hit the front door PRESTON WITMORE 21732, E. Kelcb 6523, R. E. Porter cry of "I AM THE MASTER!" idea of putting over his chiseling with your seabags. Jr. 10786, A. CoUett 24602, S. Regards to all SIU Brotjiers. Will you please send in W. This didn't make him any the tactics, but when the smoke had Frey 28438, F. D. Foster 26801, C. Wilcher's Book No. 21655 to New more popular and this "dearly cleared away on two of the SA's overseas; on the beach and where R. Watson 23186, W. E. Culliman York Branch. Your application beloved" character is now resid­ wagons, he was a sad and very ever you , may be, so with steady 24952, H. L. Babbitt 10243, W. for Dup. Book is being held here ing in the local calaboose. much disillusioned gazuni, and he as she goes, Gentry 7689, A. Micbelet 21184, until called or sent for. CARL M. ROGERS, Agent All he needs now to be half­ even went so far as to try and Directory of Branches Union Clamps Down On Rules For Stewards' Shipping List NOTICES NEW YORK �p Friday, September 1, 1944 THE SEAFARbUa LOG Page Three A Labor Day Message SIU Settles $ 11,200 By GEORGE MEANY Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of Labor •jr As another Labor Day comes around, the millions of men and women who comprise American labor—together with the workers of . all nations that stand with ns in the effort to put an end to the barbarism of Hitler Germany and fascist Japan —- take justified satisfaction in the great changes which the war picture has undergone since twelve months ago. These changes—changes all for the better— could not have taken place, as the head of one of the United Nations has publicly acknowledged, had it not been for the astounding production in the war plants of the United States by America's production soliders. In Week's Disputes SS R. McNEELY M V BOONE ISLAND South Atlantic SS Co. Moran Towing Co. Watches broken—Bangor, Me. F. Russo, $43,45; E. Garcia, Deck Dept.: P. C. Bailey, AB. 12- $123.24; T. Linton, $50.56; C. Mc4, 198 hrs; J. Sobjebko, AB, 12-4, Farlane, $26.07; E. Schon, $30.81; 198 hrs; C. Digenva, OS, 12-4, 198 G. Service, $45.03; M. Franggos, hrs; W. Osmonski, AB, 8-12, 136 $42.93; C. Starke, $56.09; D. Evans, hrs; B. Hamliem, AB, 8-12, 136 $48.98. Collect at Company Office. • • « hrs; D. Richardson, OS, 8-12, 136 hrs; B. Crawford, AB, 4-8, 259 M V POINT VINCENTE hrs; M. Todd, AB, 4-8, 259 hrs; W. Moran Towing Co. Hutras, OS, 4-8, 259 hrs. Collect J. Sappanfiend, $3.16; S. Caseat Company Office. rez, $20.54; A. Dumas, $1.58; W. • • * Bean, $18.96; A. Ahrens, $15.01; Our duty here at home is to do everything that lies SS WILLIAM PATTERSON S. Ahrens, $3.16. Collect at Com­ within our power to guarantee that the victory is brought Bull Un& pany Office. * * * about sooner. For every day the lives of some young Am­ Aben Moxey, Chief Cook and M V YAQUINA HEAD John Gibbons, 2nd Cook. Di­ ericans are being snuffed out by Axis guns and bombs. Vic­ Moran Towing Co. vision of $55.8. Collect at Com­ tory advanced by only one day will bring home safely to C. Owens, $18.17; C. Dixon, pany Office. their families hundreds—perhaps many thousands—of Am­ • • • $56.09; N. Raines, $55.69; Z. G. ericans who otherwise would not return. Stephenson, $12.46; E. E. Benton, SS ALCOA BANNER $44.24; H. Steele, $41.87; D. E. Alcoa SS Co. Some charge that there js complaceny on the home Five weeks' linen money for Bales, $52.93; G. D. Olive, $41.08; front. Perhaps complacency does exist in some sections of the entire crew. Collect at Com­ A. Snyder, $21.33. Collect at Com­ the home front. But if it pany Office. pany Office. • • • exists anywhere it is not SS CRAWFORD among the men and wom­ Amer. Range SS Co. en who have been serving Alfred Cedeno has 1 day's pay, so valiantly on the produc­ no 2nd cook; R. E. Edmondson SS BABCOCK "No Strike—Post-War" Bridges has 21 days' pay, night cook , and tion lines. The continuing Bull Line baker sick; J. B. Arroyo has 27 flood of war production is W. G. Geiger has 264 hours due And "No Bonus Now" Curran Both dance to the tune days' pay, no galley boy; Robert the direct result of the un­ for standing throttle watches Of certain things foreign. Cavender has 63 days' pay, no remitting, efficient and de­ aboard ship. Collect at Company utility man. Collect at Company They're scavenger boys voted efforts of America's Office. Office. » » » Of the Browder Brigade wage - earners and consti­ * * The cut-rate concessionists SS FRANK R. STOCKTON SS T. G. MASARYK tutes proof positive that Of secret deals made. Calmar SS Co. Robin Line there is no complacency ....Charles Bobbins, AB and Don­ G. W. Crossman, $553.99; F. What price Labor standards? within the ranks of labor ald Gin, AB have a division of Padila, $354.36; W. Zytz, $559.26; There's Stalin to save I but on the contrary, a OS's wages, 14 days—June 17 to The N. Krivitsky, $484.54; E. Cinna- " Future of Russia office. clear realization of the im­ 30. Collect at• company mon, $512.65; W. A. Foster, $309.Is all that they crave! • • 09; H. Stevenson, $83.13; W. portance of working hard SS ROBERT TOOMBS They give you fair promise Brown, $518.80; W. Hardin, $534.and producing much. South Atlantic SS Co. Of a far future day 62; E. Pariseau, $371.06; W. Halko, GEORGE MEANY Coupled with our feel­ Disputed overtime now payable While employers seize pork chops $315.13; J. M. Starr, $15.64; C. ing of joy at the progress of the United Nations along the to C. E. Mainers, $162.82; S. An­ In the midst of the fray. Ziegler, $515.95. Collect at Com­ highroad to victory over those who sought to enslave the toinette, $116.60; W. Rush, $61.86; They're volunteer shipowners pany Office. « * » world is a feeling of profound concern" at the almost total R. Krowe. $37.17. Additional over­ Who shoulder their grief time for first assistant's failure to SS WILLIAM PATTERSON failure to date on the part of industry and government to break watches will be payable in With mask of "Labor leaders" Bull Line do anything more than talk about the problem of giving a few days. Collect at Company Instead of a thief. Paid off Aug. 10, 1944—WUUam decent jobs in the days of peace to the many millions of ex- Office. They're now "Extra Legal" Alston, 100 hrs; Rosevelt Stewart, » • » war workers and ex-servicemen. Of inconcfusive and sweetAnd flag-waving blighters 100 hrs; Alfred Layne, 100 hr$. ALCOA PILOT Hoping to be made Collect at Company Office. sounding prattle the American people have had a great deal, Alcoa SS Co. » but of realistic, practical action to guarantee that war's end A Thompson, AB; M. Wright, Tomorrow's Gauleiters. SS JOHN HAY will not mean widespread unemployment there has been Bos'n; N. Temple, AB; D. Herlihy. Wrapped in the Flag Bull Line scarcely any. ' > AB; T. Overland, AB; E. Bum- They must curry favor Three oilers: D. Denoyer, 47 owski, AB; S. Birkland, AB; 2 And deliver the profits hrs; F. Koster, 83 hrs; R. Carlson, For more than two years the American Federation of hours each at $1.10. Collect at To the shipowners' flavor. 79 "A hrs. Collect at Company Of­ Labor has served repeated warnings to industry and gov­ Compauiy Office. fice. They Pledge to Longshoremen: » » » ernment that full employment, achieved in time of war, • » V Post-War balls and chains SS R. McNEELY SS BEN CHEW must be made to prevail also in time of peace. This is not While .they cut seamen's Bonus South Atlantic SS Co. Calmar SS Co. And sing their refrains! merely something for which workers and veterans will be Watches broken beef, Bangor, H. Eaton, Oiler, 4 hrs; J. M. wistfully hoping. On the contrary, this is something they Me. Engine Dept. R. Chandler, Volunteers for the Bosses Clark, Oiler, 4 hrs; W. Roux, Fire, will insist upon having. Oiler, 8-12, 136 hrs; V. H. Kessler. Free tools of Reaction! 4 hrs; T. Breunan, Fire, 5'/i hrs; , Oiler, 12-4, 198 hrs; R. Reynolds, Traitors to the workers F. Peralto, Fire, 4 hrs; A. W, Having sweated and bled to preserve the nation, hav­ Oiler, 4-8, 259 hrs; L. L. Thack- And a sinister faction. Thompson, AB, 4 hrs; J. Silkowing seen with their own eyes how prodigiously the country's ery. Fire., 8-12. 304 hrs; W. D. sky, AB, lJ/2 hrs; F. Werling, OS, The secret idolaters industrial plant can produce for war, they will have no Durance, Fire., 12-4, 304 hrs; B. Of 4 hrs; M. P. Galusha, OS, 4 hrs; the Stalinist creed patience whatsoever with alibis allegedly explaining why Henricksen, Fire., 4-8, 304 hrs. With Party-line standards K. Nikula, 4 hrs; D. Webster, 4 Collect at Company office. hrs; J. A. Sersen, Oiler, 4 hrs; F. full employment was not achieved. Selling out workers' need! * * * Werling, OS, 43 hrs; R. Belzer, SS JOHN HAYE "No Stcike—Post-War" 'Arry On this Labor Day of 1944 we warn again that after AB, 5 hrs. Collect at Company Bull Line And "No Bonus Now" Curran Office. the war there must be work for all who want work. For Missing utility men for 28 days, Exposed by Life's sunlight V Americans of this decade, unlike those of the years 1929 now payable to A. Delgado, util­ As ripened and rotten. and 1930, will not sell apples on street corners or queue up ity; Standmore Bell, mess. Divis­ for free soup. When a thing is necessary Americans will ion of $81.66. Collect at Company Away with these fakers Pipe hands ship and shore THOMAS TISHNER put up with it cheerfully. But Americans of 1944 know Office. • • » Uphold honest standards Oiler, on SS Tulas, has 59 that mass unemployment is not necessary, and knowing With one mighty roar. SS JEAN hours disputed overtime coming. that it is not necessary they will not tolerate it. Bull Line Pay vouchers have been mailed Away with these agents "One missing utility for 2 months to his home address and he can The hour is late, but there is still time to make ade­ and 5 days, payable to Herbert Of the false, phony creed collect same by signing and re­ And purge these corrupters quate provisions for peacetime production and peacetime Smalls—^William Jenkins. Divis­ turning them to the South Atlanemployment of every war veteran and worker—there is ion of $189.58. Collect at Com­ To fill workers' need! tice Steamship Company in Sa­ pany Office. still time if we move fast from here on. vannah, Georgia. —Top'n Lift. (Continued from Page 1) of the Union would work over time to collect the money due." The settlements range from the collection of disputed over time to the illegal breaking of watches; lack of security watches divisions of wages for men short in different departments; failure of officers to break watches as provided for in the .Union's con tracts; as well as linen money for crews, and payment for a fire man-watertender having to stand a "throttle-watch." Some of the settlements made for the individual members amount to as high as $559 while many of the amounts that were in dispute were of a much lesser amfiunt. All monies are payable at the respective offices of the compan­ ies involved. A full list of the disputes settled follows hereun­ der: siiiiii Money Due Two Vultures Norfolk n iI �Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOG New Friday. September 1, 1944 ATTENTION! WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 28—More efficient operation of the Merchant Marine is anticipated tiirough use of a "Captain's Technical Library," now being placed on each merchant ship, the United States Maritime Com­ mission announced last week. Recommended by the Crews NOTICE Will Ernest Benton, former A.B. on the SS WILLIAM JOHNSON, please conununicate with the undersigned promptly. S. C. Berenholtx 1102 Court Square Bldg. 3 Baltimore 2. Md. Quarters Committee, a group of* 28 technical publications has been of USCGS Charfs; Four Nautical Almanacs; Azimuth Tables, and selected for the library. ^ H. O. complete Set of Number Texts chosen were designed to 214. be of assistance to Captains in wartime operation of merchant vessels. Ready reference is pro­ vided on many important subjects affecting the ships of the Mer­ chant Marine. Initial selection of books for the library include-s: Standard Seamanship for the Recently a $10.00 BUILDING ASSESSMENT WAS Merchant Service, F. Riesenberg; PASSED BY THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE SEAFARERS Robinson on Admiralty; The Raft, INTERNATIONAL UNION ON A REFERENDUM BALLOT. H. Gaty; Pacific Hand Book, E. The membership voted for this almost unanimouslyl G. Mears; Weather Around the Don't beef at your Union Agents and Patrolmen when ap­ World; I. R. Tannehill; Bible proached for payment of this assessment. The membership • (large print); Master's and Mate's which we are all a part of voted for this because they Manual of Naval Architecture, believe: Manning; Oil Tanker Operation, 1: That Union Halls owned outright by the Union's Hillman; (for tanker's libraries membership are a back-log to the Union's finances. only); Medical Care For Seamen 2: That such properties will help the Union and keep At Sea, W. L. Wheeler; Seamens' it from the action of the shipowners, who would un­ Wage Computer Tables, B. Mar­ doubtedly attempt to influence hostile landlords dur­ tin. ing time of strike or lockout. Publications printed by the 3: Thed such halls are the property of the members Government Printing Office were themselves and should be the finest possible to gain. also included: U. S. Navigation 4: That such Union Halls owned by the Union should Laws, Modern Ship Stowage, give the members and the membership better condi­ Load Lines, Manual For. Safe tions in their own shipping halls while they are on the Handling of Inflammable and beach. Combustible Liquids; Buoys in 5: That they want to have clean, well ventilated Union Waters of the U. S.; Aids to Mar­ Halls in which they can hold their meetings, check ine Navigation; Pilot Rules for their baggage, spend their time while ashore, read, Inland Waters Coasts and Gulf; have leisure and past-limes such as cards and checkers. Rules of the Road; Laws Govern­ 6: That the Union shall progress and carry forth a ing Marine Inspection; General comphrensive program of education in the best man­ Rules apd Regulations Prescribed ner in the best quarters obtainable. by BMIN for Ocean and Coast­ 7: That the Union shall be independent of any out­ wise Manual of Shipping Econ­ side influences and shall truly belong to the niemomics; and Form Manual Used in bership. Shipping, not as yet published, 8: Thai they may have Union halls where the mem­ will be added to the ships' li­ bership can plan economic action for the betterment braries. of their own wages and conditions when required. Books issued by the HydroSince the membership own fhe Union and control it by graphic Office and the U. S. Coast majority vote, and since the passing of the Building Assess­ Guard in the librai-y include: ment was by referendum—it is a membership edict .th^ Bowditch; Table of Distances; must be carried outl Catalog of H. O. Charts; Catalog The SIU Building Assessment Seamen Must Have Passports By Nov. 15 WASHINGTON, D. C.—^All American seamen must have their passports in accordance with a recent ruling o£ the State Dept. announced by the War Shipping Adminis­ tration here late last week. The decision of the State Dept. requires all American seamen on vessels bound for foreign ports to carry their passports^^ after 6:00 A.M., November 15, passports by the August 15, 1944 date. 1944. The detision applies to all citi­ The ruling also states that up zens or nationals of the United to November 15, but not after States signing on all vessels in that date, a receipt for a passport the United States ports and bound application will enable a seamen for foreign ports. . to sign articles of a foreign-going Application forms are available vessel as previously provided that for those who have previously the receipt is not more than six made attempts to get their pass­ months old. ports and have had them forward­ The six months' limitation on ed to other ports than they enter­ the acceptability of a receipt in­ ed on return from a voyage. The stead of a passport became effec­ new form will allow the Collec­ tive August 15, it is said in the tor of Customs to have passports announcement. for such seamen forwarded to The extension of the deadline them at their new port of payoff. was granted after representatives A sample of this form is shown of the Union pointed out the im- below and can be obtained in posibility of all seamen obtaining the Union's Halls. Date. Collector of Customs ,.,1944 Port to which Seaman Requested Passport to be sent Dear Sir: . Will you please forward my American Seaman's Passport to the Collector of Customs at , where 1 will call for it. ' 1 am enclosing twenty cents in postage stamps. Please send my passport via air mail. Very truly yours. Signature of Seaman Name Address Place of Birth .; Date of Birth Certificate of Identification No.... or Continuous Discharge Book No.. What Labor Day Means ; AN EDITORIAL 'i • Labor Day in this year is particularly signifi­ cant for it marks the fifth Labor Day in this war: And as a matter of fact it marks the an­ niversary of the start of hostilities almost to a day! For it was only a few days prior that Hitler unleaseil.his Nazi hordes upon Poland and started a war that has inflamed the rest of the tuorld. This war was made possible by the StalinHitler Pact of August 23, 1939, and was in­ tended to overwhelm the democratic countries according to the sneers of the Soviet Cnmmunists in Russia and their Stalinist counterparts in Am­ erica and throughout the rest of the world. From the war's inception until the historic attack of Hitler's armies upon Stalinist Russia itself in June, 1941, the American Conamunists were busy trying to sabotage the democracies. And many of them were doing that through their control of CIO Unions of which they pro­ fessed to be the "leaders." One notable example of such attacks upon the democracies came from the National Maritime Union and its so-called ^'leadership" which has been exposed countless times as being Stalinist demagogues. For they not only attacked the war effort of that time and the state of American prepared­ ness but they also attacked the conditions of the workers under their control and doped them with propaganda. THEIR HEADLINES SCREAMED IN COUNTLESS WAYS AND SABOTAGED THE AMERICAN SEAMEN'S EFFORT TO PROTECT THEMSELVES ADEQUATELY FOR SAILING SUBMARINE INFESTED SEAS. Not so similar were the NMU's so-called "leaders' " screams after Russia was attacked by the Hitlerian "divorce." But their .sabotage of the seamerds conditions continued and still does! ' Demagogues and parasites they can be called but certainly not labor leaders—for they would sabotage the seamen again, and again, and again, to make sure that their political ideas get across. They have consistently tried their tricks and have been as consistently defeated by the wide awake efforts of the real leaders of the real sea­ men's Unions—the SIU-SUP of the American Federation of Labor; for which Labor Day was founded! The American Federation of Labor pioneered Labor Day to bring .about the right of free trade Unions, democratic education and the rights of all individual workers: Things that the stooges of Stalin in America have always dispised, even though they would today set themselves up as the great "super patriots." The NMU's so-called leaders fall into the Stalinist category and have long been the tools of totalitarianism. AS SUCH THEY ARE THE TOOLS OF THE BOSSES AND ARE SHOW­ ING THAT CONSISTENTLY BY THEIR TODAYING TO THE SHIPOWNERS AND THE PETTY BUREAUCRATS IN WASH­ INGTON. But the American seamen are wide awake to the NMU's misleaders and know that they don't represent Labor much less represent Labor Day. Forewarned the American seamen are fore­ armed and are waiting the time that these par­ asites are swept from the labor scene and back into their pettyfogging political fold where they belong. This is indeed an historical Labor Day! For the Victory of American Labor can be made sure! ' � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1939-1949 Description An account of the resource Volumes I-XI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. 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point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/01/1944 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1944 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/60eedd3c5ad614e5fd8dc95e9bde3a71.PDF 65f073b8ea8b3e5837b059a1be6e81fb PDF Text Text ''rFr­li'^;'­'  , ­;­'t^W!^<^Smit.«\­­­­. "­­ ­  r  ­  v.  ­'.S>E^.'!'^ ."­; ,;v  ­.,  .,  ­  •  •  • ' ;V  'vVV>  l  .­ SECURITY  I N  UNITY  The Seafarers' Log  Seafarergi'  International Union of  North  America  Official Organ of the Atlantic^ Gulf and Great Lakes Seamen  VOL.  I  NEW  YORK,  N. Y.,  FRIDAY, SEPT.  1,  1939  446  NO. 17  P&O STRIKE  STILL ON  Bull Line  Contract  TWO  ISTHMIAN LINE SHIPS  Ratified by Members  AS MEN STAND FIRM  STRUCK  IH 6ULf  PORTS  NMU Officials Play Fiiaky Game  But Plans Fall Through  INW^  Changes to  Be  Made  Before  Signing  li­:.­ Announcement  of  the  comple­ tion  of  tlie  voting  on  the  Bull  Line  agreement  was  made  at  last  Miami,  Fla., Aug.  29—On  July  25  the  men  walked  off  the  Monday  night's  Atlantic  District  P&O  ships.  On  July  28,  negotiations  were  broken  oft",  and  Headquarters  meeting.  The  re­ sults  were  as  follows:  the  U.S.  Conciliator  declared  a  deadlock.  GENERAL  RULES:  Ten days later Soup Kitchens were  set up along  with  com­ Deck  Department—  missary  to­take care  of  married  men  and  families.  Yes  145;  No.  33  On  August 21, an  injunction was­^  Eng.  Department—  served  on  the  SITJ,  because,  ac­ "NMU  two­book­carrlers"  will  de­ Yes  91;  No  40  cording  to  the  press,  there  would  liver the  ships.  To  whom  does  he  Steward's Department—  be  bloodshed  when  a  crew  was  mean?  He  can  mean  only  the  Yes  81;  No.  29  recruited.  shipowner.  WORKING  RULES:  Finks  Shipped  Deck  Department—  Commies  Plan  Flops  On  August  22,  the  P&O  Com­ Yes 135;  No  42  pany  began  hiring a crew, and  the  The  commie  stooges  are  run­ Eng.  Department—  ning  around  frantically  because  links  went  to  work.  After  scurry­ •   Yes  97:  No  34  ing  around,  the  company  finally  their  plans  have  fallen  through.  Steward's  Department—  secured  enough  to  take  the  ship  They  had  a  sweet set­up,  but  they  Yes  81;  No  36  ^  forgot  that  the  men  have  been  out, but  could  not  get  a full  crew.  The  total  vote  cast  in  favor  of  sold out  by  dictators often enough,  On  August  25,  the  ship  (SS  Florida)  sailed,  and  arrived  back  and  under  the  banner  of  the  SIU  the  General  Rules  was  317,  and  102  against.  On  the  Working  on  August  28,  with  two  ambu­ we  have  a  true  democracy.  Rules  305  voted  in  favor,  and  112  NMU  agent  Jones  was  reported  iances  and  a  hearse  meeting  her.  Approximately  fifteen  finks  quit  aboard  the  SS  Florida,  contacting  v,rere  opposed.  In  other  words,  the  finks,  and  this  was  reported  the  agreement  was  ratified  by  a  the  ship  and  scrammed.  by  a member  of  the SS  Mimargo's  better  than  seventy  percent  mar­ The men  are still on  strike, and  intend to  win.  They will  win with  crew.  He  also  went  aboard  a  gin.  the  wonderful  financial  support  Standard  Oil  tanker  today  to  or­ ­However,  although  the  agree­ ganize  the finks,  and  was  told  by  ment  was  ratified  by  the majority  they  have  been  getting.  the  crew  that  they  were  100  per  of  the  men  on  the  Bull  Line  Fighting  NMU  Officials  The  strike  is  now  in  its  sixth  cent finks,  and  didn't  need  to  pay  ships,  it  will  not  be  signed  until  week,  and  going  strong,  in  spite  dues  to  an  organization  that  certain  requested  changes  have  of  the  fact  that  we  are  not  only  OK'd finking.  This  seems  to  be  been  made.  Emergency  Board  fighting  the  shipowner,  but  also  the  policy  of  the  officials  of  the  Chairman  Dushane,  in  company  the  NMIi  officials.  The  Pilot  NMU,"—to  organize  finks,  whether  with  Arthur  Keleey,  met  with  came out  on  August 18, with  state­ there  is  a  picket  line  or  not.  Bull  Line officials  last  Tuesday af­ ments  which  were  absolutely  un­ When  an  AF of  L  picket  line  goes  ternoon, and  it was  agreed  by  the  tfue,  but  which  indicated  what  out,  it  seems  to  be  the  signal  for  company  that  the  necessary  the  company  planned.  However,  the  commies  to  come  flocking  In  changes  wiil  be made  in  the agi­ee­ the  statement  were  not  made  and  do  a  little  fancy  finking  and  ment.  As  soon  as  a  corrected  through  the  public  press  until  fink­herding.  copy  is  drawn  up,  the  agreement  five  days  later.  How  did  Fi­ank  The  Central  Trades  is  backing  wili  be  signed.  Jones,  NMU  agent  in  Miami,  get  us 100  per  cent, and  Walter  Hoyt,  Althougli  the  new  agreement  his  information  if  he  was  not  Secretary  of  the  State  Federation  has  met  with  some  adverse critic­ of  Labor,  has  given  us  wonderful  ism  by  certain  parties, it  is uever­ working  for  the  company?  Jones  stated  this  week  that  the  cooperation.  thelos.s  a  vast  improvement  over  the  old  one.  When  the  clarifica­ tions  and  changes are  inserted,  it  will  look  much  differeut  from  the  original  draft.  FINKS  ON  SS  FLORIDA  i  M  CIO MOVE  ON WEST  KYSKA  FLOPS  ON WEST  COAST  New Bedford Line  Signs Agreement  Teamsters Ignore  Phoney Picket  Line as Commissars Rave  ­ '  \­ •  ­'in  Company Agrees to  Terms,  Following  Militant  Action by Membership  CONDITIONS  GAINED  BY  SIU  New  Orleans, La.,  August  22—Struck' SS  Atlanta  City  in  Mobile  on  August  18.  Struck  SS Steel  Ranger  here  yester­ day.  Longshoremen  backing  our  beef  100  per  cent,  and  re­ specting  our picket  line.  Crews off  about 90 per  cent on  both scows.  Stew­pot  here  —• set up  for  pickets.  Strong  picket  lines  being  maintained.  This  crummy  outfit,  in  the  past,  has  bought  off  the  pie­cards  of  the  ISU,  NMU  and  several  other  out­ fits.  At  last  they  are  struck  by  the  SIU,—which  is  run  by  the  Charges  Marfhey  With  membership,  with  no  danger  of  a  sell  out!  Sailing  Hot  Oil Ship  So,  in  the  near  future,  we  will  be  able  to  sail  these  scows  with  Attention  Claude  Marthey:  Reports  come  to  me  in  the  port  A­1  conditions.  After  all,  these  of  Houston  that  you  have  taken  are  the  only  freight  ships  sailing  it  upon  yourself  to  write  an  ar­ to  the  Pacific  Coast  with  phoney  ticle  questioning  my  stand  in  the  conditions.  Of  course,  the  M.C.  operates  the  Baltimore  Mail  Line  marine  industry.  It is beyond  doubt that Marthey  to  the  Pacific,  with  lousy  condi­ wishes  to  impress  the  members  tions and  NMU  crews.  Soon, that  of  the  SUP,  and  the  commies,  to  also  will  be  rectified.  whom  he  has  suddenly  shown  The  SIU  is  out  to  gain  ana  such  favoritism  that  his  record  as  maintain  the  best  wages  and  con­ a  militant  Union  man  is  beyond  ditions  possible  to  achieve.  We  are  being  sold  out  daily  by  the  reproach.  NMU  top  committee,  who  advo­ Stand  on ESSO  Strike  cate  political  activities,  compared  Brother  Marthey,—why  haven't  to  the  SIU  direct  action.  you  informed  your  SUP  brothers  "Red"  Deaii  as  to  your  stand  during  the  Standard  Oil  strike,  while  you  The  beef  on  the  Atlantic  City  were  In  the  Port  of  New  York?  and the  Steel Ranger  was straight­ Why  don't  you  tell  your  SUP  bro­ ened  out  when  the  company  was  thers  where  that  ship  you  sailed  contacted  in  New  York,  and  from  the  Port  of  New  York  got  agreed  to  pay  overtime  for  all  its  bunkers?  Hell!—Marthey,—  work  performed  on  Saturday  af­ be  honest  for  a  change,  and  give  ternoons,  Sundays,  holidays,  and  the  working­ox  a  chance!  Tell  after  5:00  P.M.  and  before  8:00  Buckley Declares  your  SUP  brothers  the  truth  Gon,  A.M.  jt  ^a.s  agreed  that  food  cerning  my  stand  during  the  would  be  improved,  and  working  tanker  strike;—tell  them  why  11 conditions  adjusted  satisfactorily.  was  so  damned  long  ashore  in  The  company  also  agreed  to  re­ New  York!  Had  I  been  as  job  move  the  men  who  refused  to  conscious  as  yourself,  it  would  leave  the  ships  when  they  were  have  been  easy  to  get  at  the  struck.  This  was  done,  and  a  point  of  production;  but  you  crew  for  the  Steel  Ranger  was  know  it  was  because  of  the  dis­ shipped  from  the  New  Orleans  tasteful  odor  that  emitted  from  SIU  Hall.  "scab­oil"  that  kept  me  so  long  from  the  point.  SIU  Does  It  New  Orleans,  La.,  Aug.  29—Re:  the  Isthmian  S.S.  Co.  beef:  SUP  GIVES  COOPERATION  Militant  Action  By  Being a  Gulf  man,  and  knowing  Crews  Gets  Results­ this  phoney  company's  tactics,  San Francisco,  Aug. 24  (WCS)—Hailing from  the Port of  and  their  trjdng  for  quite  awhile  Mobile,  operating under  closed shop agreements—manned  by  On  Thursday,  August  17,  an  to  evade  having  their  ships  or­ a bonafide  100%  strike­clear  crew—shipped  from  Union  hir­ agreement  between  the  Seafarers'  ganized,  the  SIU  has  done  some­ thing  that  neither  the  phoney  ing  halls—comes  the  handy  little  ship  called  the  SS' WEST  Int'ernational  Union  of  North  America  and  the  New  Bedford,  NMU,  nor  the  phoney  old  ISU  EYSE^' into the  Port  of  San iFrancisco this  week.  Martha's  Vineyard  and  Nantucket  could  do.  This  vessel  is  owned  by  Waterman,  and  usually  runs  Line  of  the  New  England  Steam­ The SIU  has  gotten West  Coast  across  to Europe  from  South  Atlantic  Ports.  ship Company,  was  signed.  conditions  on  two  of  this  com­ This  company  operates five  ves­ She  is  chartered  to make  a  few  trips  intercoastal.  pany s  ships,  and  as  fast as  their  sels  on  this  seasonal  run, and  all  '  Sudden  and  flhristensen  are  the  agents  ­from  this  ship  ships  hit  port,  the  same  West  the  employees  come  under  the  Coast  conditions  will  be gotten on  while  on  this  coast  but  have  nothing  to  do  with  the  crew  of  Railway  Labor  Act. The  members  them.  or  the ship,  which  is  operated  dU^—  of  the unlicensed  personnel aboard  Ships  Lousy  rectly  by  Waterman.  shipping  through  Union  halls.  the.se  ships,  after  the  1936­37  The  beef  for  conditions  started  This  agreement  was  won  bj­  the  strike, were  unorganized,,and  ne­ A  Union  Crew  when  the  SIU  patrolmen  contact­ Gulf  seamen  through strike action  The  Waterman  Line  ships,  in­ gotiated  an  agreement  for  them­ One  Track  Mtnd  ed  the  crew  of  the  Steel  Ranger  cluding  the  WEST  JrVSKA,  have  by  the seartien  on  these ships,  and  selves.  According  to  Brothers  To  permit  yourself  to hold  to  a  and  told  them  the  score.  They  Seafarers'  Intl. crews, shipped  out  they  have  continually  improved  Dushane  and  Frank  Berry,  these  one­track  mind  because  of  your  responded  by  walking  off  and  hit­ of  Union  halls  in  the  Gulf.  The  their  conditions  on  these  ships  men  are  a  very  militant  body  of  personal  feelings  towards  a  few  ting  the  picket  line,  with  the  re­ Gulf  District  Seafarers'  have  through  job  action.  men,  and  went  to  town  for  the  individuals,  is  proof  of  stupidity,  mark:  "We  have  been,  waiting  agreements  with  the  Waterman  conditions  gained  under the  terms  and  a  sign of  lacking  in that  type  for  this  for  a  long  time,  for  con­ Previous  to  the  arrival  of  the  of  the  newly  signed  agreement.  of  principle  which  every  militant  ditions  on  these  ships  are  really  Line  which  are  on  a  level  with  and,  in  some  instances,  better  West  Kyska in  San  Francisco, the  They  had  previously  informed  man  has  within  himself, to  come  lousy!"  than  some  of  the  West  Coast  Firemens'  and  Cooks  Unions  in  the. company that'  if  an  acceptable  out  openly,  regardless  of  the  re­ Well, the  picket  line  was  going  ,  (Continued  on  Page  3}  (Contimied  on  Page  2)  agreements.  They  call  for  all  (Continued  on  Page  3)  (Continued  on  Page  3)  ;  [ BROTHERHOOD  OF THE  SEA  Can't  Take  Heat  There  is  one  thing  that  has  al­ ways been  noticeable among  those  men  who  shout  In  hai'­rooms,  and  on  street  corners,  of  their  mili­ tancy:—they  are  damned  hard  to  find  when  the  heat  is  the  heavi­ est;—where  it  takes  more  than  booze  to give  a man  intestinal for­ titude  to fight  the  opposition  in  the  Labor field.  If  you  think  it's  a  picnic  in  the  West  Gulf,  take  a  stroll  down  in  this  country,  and  we  will  show  anyone  who  may  be  interested  to  that  extent,  what  type  of  RATS  and finger­men  we  men  in  the  marine  industry  are  forced  to  contend  with  in  our  en­ deavor  to  build  up  the  SIU.  (M  • m  •  Jtf  .Ml ' •   7"^ J  �2  THE  S E  A  F A  R  E R  S*  L O G  NEW  BEDFORD LINE  Publishea  by  the  Seafarers^  International  Union  of  North  America  • /«  }  ' >'S  15."  1^  Friday, Sept. 1, 1939  Mliltaiit Activity  On SS Pan Atiantic  (Con timed  from  Page 1)  agreement  was  not signed  by  Au  gust  17,  they  would  hang  the  hook.  These  men  weren't  fooling  Strike Fund Favoredi  Affiliated  with  the  American  Federation of  Labor  —they  meant  what  they said!  Marine  Hospital,  By  Crew  Members  Staten  Island,  N.  Y.  Negotiations  had  been  broken  HARP.Y  LUNDEBERG,  Acting. Presldwit  Editor,  off  the  week  previous, when  a sat  110  Market  Street, Room  402,  San  Francisco,  Calif.  DONATE TO  P&O  The  LOG  isfacfory  settlement  could  not  be  reached,  and  the  men  then  in  ­Atlantic  District  Dear  Brother:  SS  Pan  Atlantic  HEADQUARTERS  I  hope  you  can  And  room  in  formed  the  company  tliat  if  they  At  sea.  did  not  sign  on  the  dotted  line  by  New York  (Phone:  BOwIing  Green  9­3437)  2 Stone  Street  your  next  publication  of  the  Sea  Editor,  The  "LOG":  the  following  Thursday,  their  BRANCHES  farers'  LOG  for  this  artide.  "Scotty  Ross'  Navy": —You  Bo^on  ,^30  Atlantic  Avenue  In  the  hospital  here,  it  is  prac­ ships  would  be  struck.  Negotia  Providence  ."r­.  ..465  So:  Main  Street  tions  were  resumed  on  August 16  know;  fellows,  I've  read  that, and  tically  99  percent  NMU,  but  one  Philadelphia  .6  North  6th  Street  witli  Emergency  Board  Chairman  heard  it  so  often, — that  when  I  would  be  surpfioed  to  observe  Baltimore  .14  North  Gay  Street  Dushane  and  Providence  Agent  shipped  on  the  SS  Pan  Atlantic  these  men  and  see  how  lax  they  Norfolk  60  Commercial  Place  Frank  Berry,  assisted  by  a  crew  at  New  Orleans  on  June 17th,  my  San  Juan,  Puerto  Rico  ...8 Covadonga  Street  are  in  the  matter  of  militancy.  member  of  each  of  the  Ave  ships  bags  stayed  unpacked  for  several  One  can  point  out  to  them  how  involved.  A  satisfactory  agi*ee­ Gulf District  days,  kecause  I  couldn't  believe  the  comrafs  are  selling  the  mem  ment  was  then  reached,  and  the  mese  Baldwin  County  and  Mobile  HEADQUARTERS  berahin  down  the  river,  and  it  contract  was signed  the  following  nay  rust  pot  jumpers  could  real­ New  Orleans  309  Chartres Street  doesn't  faze  them  a  bit.  Some  !  ly  be  so  militant  and  determined,  BBANOHESu  contend  with  the  idea,  that  since  day.  Included  among the  gains was  a  Savannah  ­.  218  East  Bay  Street  to  get  what  was  coming  to them!  the  real  rank  and file  of  the  Gulf  Jacksonville  136  Bay  Street  The  spirit  of  Unionism  they  ten  cents  an  hour  raise  in  the  was  thrown  out  of  the  Union,  Miami  .809  N,  B,  First  Avenue  showed  in  sticking  together  100  overtime  rate, and  a  like  increase  there  is  nothing  they  can  do  but  for  stand­by  work.  Previously,  Tampa  206  Franklin  Street  percent  on  every  real  beef  to  bet­ wait  for  the  axe  to  fall.  Mobile  55 So. Conception Street  the  unlicensed  personnel  was  ter  conditions  on  this  ship,  has  Houston  ...­.  1712  •  75th  Street  obliged  to  pay  the full  cost of  any  changed  my  opinion,  and  those  of  Keep  Check  on. Phonies  Great  Lakes District  When  the  axe  falls,  it  is  going  uniforms  they  were  obliged  to  you  who  read  this  could  beneAt,  HEADQUARTERS  to  be  too  late  to  do  anything  wear,  but  under  the  new  agree­ and  be  better  Union  men  in  fol­ Detroit  1038  Third  Street  about  it.  It is my  belief  that  this  ment,  the  company .assumes  Afty  lowing  some  of  the  examples  of  September  will  see  the last  of  the  percent  of ,  the  cost.  Double  days  Unionism  this crew  has  shown  In  ADDRESS  ALL CORRESPONDENCE  CONCERNINO THIS  PUBLICATION  TO:  NMU.  But  what  then?  The com­ pay  for  Sunday  work  is  also  in­ the  tight  places.  missars are  going to  rush  into the  cluded,  and  tlie  overtime  condi  Donate  to  P&O  "THE  SEAFARERS'  LOG"  tions  are  well  taken  care  of.  AFL  and  try  to  pull  it  apart,  as  Before  reaching  Tampa,  the fel­ P.  O.  Box  522,  Church  St.  Annex,  New  York,  N.  Y.  they  have  always  done.  The  agreement  expires  in  June  low.s  took  up a  collection  of  thirty  1940.  dollars for  the  beneAt  of  the  boys  In  my  estimation,  it  would  be  out  on  the  P&O  strike.  Every  a  good  idea  to  keep  a  check  on  all  the  stooges  trying  to  get  into  laugh!  When  they  were  leaving,  member  of  the  crew  contributed,  the  SIU, and  refuse  them  a  book.  told  them  to  call  again  next  and  some  of  the  licensed  person­ Furthewiore,  close  the  books  week, and  I would  give them  some  nel  gaie.to  the collection.  • when the  NMU  folds .up.  Why  I  more  truth  about  the  way  tlie  At  the  last  meeting  held  on  board,  the  crew  also  unanimous­ say  this,  is  because  everyone  has  NMU  is  selling  out!  What  does  all  this  mean?  Is  ly  voted  In  favor  of  the  following  Itnmediately  following  a  motion  at.  last  Monday  night's  a  chance  to.^join  now,  and  they  the  membership  of  the  NMU  fall­ Atlantic District Headquarters meeting  to donate fifty  dollars  know  the  NMU  is  phoney  by  this  ing  out­ so  fast that  they  are  be­ resolution:  Inasmuch  as  the  agreements  time.  If  they  don't  know  it  by  to  the  P&O  .strike  fund,  the. following  motion  was  unani­ this  time—well,  you  don't  want  ginning  to  feel  the  dues  collect­ between  the Waterman SS Co., the  mously  carried:  Bull  Line,  and  the  Mississippi  people  in  the  SIU  who  are  as  ing  racket  leaving  them?  Shipping Co.,  all  expire on  Decem­ Don't  Want  Too  Strong  dumb  as  that.  "THAT  AN  ARTICLE BE  PUT IN THE  'LOG'  Before closing this, I  would  like  ber 1st, of  this year—that"  for  our  CONDEMNING  MEMBERS  ON  SHIPS  WHO  Committee  Galls  to  know  why  the  NMU  oAlcials al­ protection  and  Insurance,  in  the  HAVE NOT  DONATED TO  THE P&O STRIKE  I  put  out  some  literature  yes­ lowed  the SIU  to  get such  a  hold  event,  there  is  trouble  in  securing  tei­day  about  noon, and  you  would  on  the  E.G.,  if  if  isn't  any  good,  from  these  companies  an  agree­ POND."  be  surprised  at  the  results.  No­ ment  satisfactory  to  the members  It seems to  us that  a  rather deplorable state  of ffairs  must  body  said anything  right then,  but  as  they  elaim?  The  NMU  had  of  this  Union,  that  a  strike  as­ been  in  full  power  for  three years  exist  when  it  becomes  necessary  to  even  introduce  such,  a  after  supper  T  was  visited  by  a  before,  the  SIU  came  into  being.  ses.sraent  fund  of  $5.00  per  mem­ motion  on  the floor,  and  if  the  poor  response  met  with  on  committee  of  three.  They  asked  If  they  were  leally  sincere  with  ber  be  started.  This  fund  to  be  the ships  is any  criterion  of  the  true  Union  spirit of  some  of  me  who  was  putting  out  the  dis­ the  membership,  they  would  have  placed  in  trust  in  the  Gulf  Head­ ruptive literature.  I  told  them  it  had  the  E.G.  tied  up  tighter  than  quarters  bank,  with  the  under­ • our members,  then  a  sorry  state  of  affair.s  certainly  does  wasn't  disruptive,  in  the  Arst  all  Hell,  But  no,  they  don't  want  standing.it is for  use  in  strike re­ exist!  place;  in  the  second  place/  since  it  too  strong,  because  they  could  lief  work  only,  in  the  Gulf  Dis­ they  came  direct  to  my  bunk,  not  pull  it  down  when  they  want­ trict,  Also  that  no  loans  can .be  REVERSE  YOUR  POSITIONS  they  have  known  it  was  me.  ed.  They  don't  like  to see  things  drawn  against  it  in  any  way  by  It is,  of  cour.se,  quite  true  that  a  good  many  ships  have  I also must  asked  them  why  they didn't  going  too  smoothly,  because,  after  the  officials  of  the  Union,  and  the  been quite generous  with  their  donations to  this very  worthy  read  it, and  learn  the truth.  They  it  is  a  known  fact  that  they  distribution  of  the  funds  may  be  cause,  hut  a  whole  lot  more  haven't  kicked  in  with  even  a  said  they  had  read  it, and  I asked  all,  thrive  on  dissension  and  human  made  only  after  expenditures  are  solitary  dime!  No,—they  can't  afford  to support  a  bona fide  them  if  the  truth  hurt!  They said  misery.  approxed  by  a . committee  elected  strike  of  their  Union  Brothers,— hut  still,  they  can  well  af­ they  didn't  give  a  damn  if  it  was  Ill  coiiclusiuii,  ali  I sau  say  Is;  by  tiie  Gulf  niembei ship.  ford to stand  up against a  bar  and  guzzle their­money  away I  the  truth  or  not,  as  it  was  still  When  will  the  members  wake  up  Strike Fund  Advocated  disruptive,  and,  furthemore,  that  join  a  real  Union,  and  .quit  The foregoing  motion  was  unan­ Place yourself  in the position  of  these brothers who  are on  the  men  in  the  hospital  weren't  and  being  kidded  by  the  party? ,  imously  carried,  and  the  thought  strike, and  think  how  you  would  feel if  the members  of  your  going  to  read  it.  I  told  one  of  (Signed)  SUP  Number  4840  was  expressed, that  in  having  a  them  that  it  was  a  helluva  union  own  organization  didn't  dig  down  in  their  pockets,  and  lay  P.S.—There  are  plenty  of  party  separate  strike  fund  in  the  Gulf  it  on  the  line,  in  order  to  keep  you  from  going  hungry  and  where  the  membership  couldn't  members  who  would  like  to  know  District  such  as  the  West  Coast  read  what  they  pleased.  They  who  wrote  this,  therefore,  with­ without a place  to flop. How would  you like it?  You wouldn't  Anally  member's  have  for  their  District,  wound  up  the argument  by  like it at all!  Some  day you  may find  yourselves  in  this very  asklug  uie  if  I  didn't  think  that  hold  my  name,  i,f  possible.  Thank­ that  the  Atlantic  District  wi!!  ing you  for  same,  I  remain  yours  also start  similar  action  along tlie  same  position,  and  then  you'll  be  the  very fir.st  one to  holler  putting  out  those  papers  wasn't  for  a  bigger  SIU!  Atlantic  Coast.  if  your  Union  brothers  don't  contribute  their financial  sup­ a good  way  to  keep  from  growing  old?  Now  can  you  imagine  any  Have You Voted on the  In conclusion,  would  like to  add  port  to keep  you from  going  hungiy!  that  we  feel  biothers  Gunnison  commy getting  militant enough  to  and  Curry are  deserving of a word  HELP  DESPERATELY  NEEDED  dump  anyone?  That  makes  me  Proposed Constitution?  of  conAdence  for  the orderly  man­ To  you  men  wlio  are  at  the  point  of  production,—on  the  ner  iu  which  they  are  conducting  ships:  It  wouldn't  be  working  any  particular  hardship  on  RESULT WILL AFFECT ALL the strike  against  the  P&O  Line.  you to  donate  at  least  a  dollar to  help your  brothers out, and  It won't  be  long now  before the Evangelinfe  will  be  going  The  crew  of  this  ship  also  feel  by  so doing,  you  will  he  well  aware  of  the  fact  that  you  are  to  Florida  to  go  on  the  rim  with  tliese  struck  ships,  and  that  if  contact  ^as made  with  the  contributing  to  something  well, worth  while,  and  that  your  whatever  agreement  is signed  by  the  P&O will  he  applied  to  ships'  delegate  of  those  vessels  generous  aid  will  be  more  than  appreciated.  HOW  CAN  the Evangeline.  IF THE P&O STRIKE IS LOST,  THE MEN  .that  regularly  make  Tampa,  be­ the.se  ships  arrived  at  this  YOU  CALL  YOURSELVES  UNION  MEN  UNLESS  YOU  ON  THE  EVANGELINE  WILL  ALSO  BE  DIRECTLY  AF­ fore  port, and  were requested  for  Anan­ ARE READY  AND  WILLING  TO  HELP  YOUR  BROTHER  FECTED !  And, as  yet,  the crew  of  tlie Evangeline  have  do­ cial  assistance in  helping  to carry  UNION  MEMBERS?  THESE  MEN  WHO  STRUCK  THE  nated  very little  to the  P&O strike  fund 1  on  the  work  in  connection  with  this  P&O,  would  be  made  to­ t&O  SHIPS  NEED  YOUR  HELP  DESPERATELY,  AND  However,  although  the  Evangeline  will  be  the  only  East  wards  this  P&O  strike  fund.  YOU  CAN'T,  CONSCIENTIOUSLY,  AFFORD  TO  LET  G.  Shelton,  Book  No. 71,  Gulf  Coast  ship  affected  directly  by the  result  of  the  P&O  strike,  ^THEMDOWN!  Of Mllltaficy in NMU  RESULT  OF P&O STRIKE  WILL AFFECT  ALL  a  r,;­ • &'  K ^  every  ship  on  this  Coast  will  sooner  or  later  feel  the  effects  These men  strnek  these  .ships  in  a  sincere  effort  to  better  of  it.  IF  THE  MEN  OFF  THE  P&O  SHIPS  LOSE  THEIR  SHIPMATES HELP  their conditiou.s  through  the  signing  of  a fair  working agree­ STRIKE,  IT WILL BE  A  DIRECT LOSS  TO  EVERY MEM­ Company  has  refused  to  grant  these  men  BER  OF  THIS  ORGANIZATION!  ^  As  ample  proof  that  goodfeilow­ their  just  demands, .and  are  doing  their  best  to  break  down  ship exists  between  crew  members  COME  ON  FELLOWS;—SHOW  YOUR  TRUE  UNION  of  the  SS  Texmar  and  the  SIU,  their morale.  IF  YOU  LET  THEM  BREAK  THIS  STRIKE  YOU  ARE  ALLOWING  THEM  TO  DO  SOMETHINCJ  SPIRIT,  AND  DIG  DEEP  IN  THE  OLD  SOCK,  AND  LAY  a  fund  of  $17.50  was collected  for  ­­ WHICH  WILL  AFFECT  THE  FUTURE  OF  THE  ENTIRE  SOME  REAL  HARD  CASH  ON  THE  Ln(E  TO  HELP  Dominic  Spalla,  who  was .stricken­ with  appendicitis  and  rushed  to  SIU!  IF  HIS  STRIKE  IS  LOST,  YOU  MAY  AS  WELL  YOUR  UNION  BROTHERS  IN  DISTRESS!  thio  ItospUal  before  aijival  in  ^iLOSE  UP  THE  MIAMI  AND  TAMPA  HALLS!  DON'T  LET  THE  P&O  STRIKE  BE  LOST!  Boston.  smii  �­C^• ­­ y;;  Friday, Sept. 1, 1939  T H E  S E A F A  R  E R S '  LOG  ; f^:^| • • rW A­ HERE  and  THERE  Results  \  in  the  GULF  WEST KYSKA  BEEF  ASKS  MEMBERS  TO  COOPERATE  ^  (Continued  from  Page 1)  P&O  DONATIONS  San  Pedro  wei­e  notified  by  the  SS ROBIN  ADAIR  ?30.00  SS' Evangeline,  highei­ups  at  Headquarters  to  tie  F. J.  Klippberg  ;,  1.00  Boston, Mass.,  up  the  West  Kyska  upon  her  ar­ G.  W.  McQuay  5p  August  28, 193.9.  rival  at  that  port.  However,  the  W.  Mackin  1.00  "United  we  stand,  divided  we  San  Pedro  Branches  of  both  F.  Baron  1.00  unions  lefused  to be  used  to drive  fall."  A.  M.  Wonson  1.00  That  phrase  has  been  stai­lng  bona fide  union  men  off  a  ship,  G.  S.  Grant  1<()D  and  passed  the  matter  right  back  the  membei'ship  in  the  face  time  A.  'Wright  1.00  and  time  again.  To  some  of  the  into  the laps  of  the  top­flight  mas­ .50  members  these  are  just~  meaning­ A  Shipmate  ter­minds.  W.  Beebe  '  .50  less  words.  The  books  that  some  Phoney  Move Starts  "  Mobile, Ala.,  August  28—­During  the last  week, things are  1.00  carxT  are  just  for  the  sake  of  a  J.  J.  Jackson  shaping  up  to  where  the  members  are  on  the  pin,  and  want  On  August  21,  in  San  Francisco,  job.  Do  you  call  that  Union  S3 SEATKAIN HAVANA  28.70  Bruce  Hannon  of  the  Maritime  5.50  to  know  what  is wrong  if  there isn't  some ship  alongside  the  Federation,  Walter  Stack,  and  spirit?  If  all  the  members  were  SS  ROSARIO  SS MARGARET  7.00  interested  in  the  Union  just  for  dock  for  conditions.  The  prize  was  the. Atlanta  City,  one  of  Cayton  of  the  MC&.S  infox­med  SS  OREMAR  2.4'J  the  rust  pots  running for  the  Isthmian Line.  This scow  was  Sudden  aijd  Christensen  that  the  the  sake  of  a  job,  tlxe  shipownei­s  SS  DELNORTE  22.50  tied  to the  dock for  nine days, ^d^  SIU  crew  would  have  to  get  off  would  be  in  their  glory.  Sooner  SS  DELPLATA  62.74  or  later  there would  be  a  collapse,  the  whole  beef  should  have­Jieen  the  ship,  and  be  replaced  by  men  SS  DOROTHY:  settled  In  a  few  hours,  but  a  gen­ who  would  be supplied  by  them.  and  the  bosses  would  again  hold  Beebe  5(1,  *  tleman  on  there  who  is  masquer­ This action  was  taken  up at  the  the  whip  hand.  Thei­e  i­emains  SS  CLARA:  (Continued  from  Page 1)  ading  as  master  of  the  ship  had  regular  SUP  meeting  that  night,  In  a class  by  themselves, members  P.  White  LOO  full  blast,  with  the  longshoremen  who  know  what  they  want—who  other  ideas, and  brothers, Admiral  and  after  the  matter  was  ex­ SS  POINT  ARENA  ....  1.00  supporting  us 100, per cent,  by  re­ know  what's  right..  It  is  those  Land  is  a  piker  compared  to  this  fusing  to  go  through  the  picket  plained  to  the  members,  they  men  who  attempt  to  better  condi­ Sailors'  Union  of  the  guy!  Pacific  .'  100.00  lines.  When  the company  saw  the  went  on  record  to  back  up  the  tions  and  get  higher  wages,  but  Skipper  Fires  Two.  SIU  crew  on  the  West  Kyska  N.  Y.  Branch  SIU  I00:0a  unity  and  solidarity  of  this  port,  First,  he  couldn't  see  us  at  all,  they  quickly  came  coco.  100%.  The  MFOW&W  was  noti­ their  hands are  tied  becaxxse  thei­e  SS  BOSTON  3.75^  then  when  he  saw  that  the  ship  The Steel  Ranger  here,  and  the  fied  that  if  there  were  any  re­ is a  small  percentage  of  spinelp.ss  L.  S.  Ortiz  .25  individuals  who  call  themselves  was  set  until  he  did,  then  he  Atlanta, City,  which  was struck  In  placements  to  be  made  in  the  SS  NEW  YORK:  started — and  I  mean  started!  Mobile,  sailed  with  100  per  cent  black  gang,  they  would  be  made  Union  men,  who  will  not  cooper­ (Eixg.  DepL)  J,...  6.50,  ate,  but  who  aie  content  to  sit  W.  Love  There  were  two  men  on  the  ship  SIU  crews.  1.00.  from  the  MFOW&W  hall.  back  and  be  satisfied  with  any­ SS  EVANGELINE:  whom  he  refused  to  take  back  at  Credit  Given  Stack  PerfoiTOs  thing.  (Steward's  Dept.)  ....  2.00^  any  price.  One  of  the  men  was  I  comment,  brothei­s,  that  the  The  West  Kyska arrived  in  San  It  has  been  proven  numerous  SS  ST.  JOHN:  a  swacko, and  the  other  was fired  officials  and  niembers  of  the  SIU  Francisco  on  the  morning  of  Au­ (Eng.  Dept.)  4.75  lor  incompetency.  The  lad  who  should  be  commended  for  the  gust  22,  and  were_met  by  a  picket  times  that  there  is  strength,  and  50  was  a  swacko  said,  "Sure,  that's  way  they  handled  this  situation.  line  of  MC&S  members,  Wednes­ in  the  case  of  the  shipowners,  Dan  Barrett  G.  Kinghorn  50  right,  I'll  get  off  the  ship;  the  I  think  with  our  brothers  organ  day  afternoon,  comrade  Walter  might  makes  right.  Up  and  down  tlxe  coast,  nomina­ SS  YARMOUTH:  other  man said,  "What  the Hell,  I  izing the  SIU, a  real  rank and file  Stack  called  a  rump  meeting  of  (Eng.  Dept.)  4.00  made  a  six  months  trip  on  this  democratic  organization  is  being  the MFOW,  and  went  on  record  to  tions  and  election  time  ai­e  draw­ (Deck  Dept.)  3.75  ing  nearer.  Will  it  be  the  old  built  up.  I  was  on  the  picket  same  ship  some  time  back,  and  picket  tlxe  ship. A  picket  line  was  got  along  O.K.  I've, been  on fhe  lines, and  observed  the  SIU  mem:  dispatched  the following  morning,  story  of  "You  vote  for  me,  and  SS  BOSTON:  (Eng.  Dept.)  2.15  /  ship  now  for  three  weeks,  and  bership  and  officials  really  going  but  when  the  pickets  discovex­ed  I'll  take, care  of  you?"  Or  will  H.  Lavender  25^  the  members  wake  up  to  the  fact  to  town  for  a  bona  fide  rank  and  when  I start  squawking,  I'm fired  what  the, beef  was  all  about,  they  .25­ because  I  can't  do  the  work/'  file  organization,  to  gain  better  immediately  retux­ned  to  their  that  they  want new  blood?  Honest  J.  Kicklighter  J.  Pinkus  .501  Yeahi  we  thought  so  too,  so  when  wages and  conditions.  hall,  and  stated  that  the  beef  was  seafaring  men  who  are  capable  of  T,  Kerig  ..SO,  Fraternally. yours,  handling  the  job;—men  who  are  the  ship  stayed  for  another  phoney!  R.  Paul  .50.i  E.  M.  Boudreattx, SUP  4191.  twenty­four  hours,  and  then  he  In  the  meantime, the Teamsters,  now  working  on  ships,  who  assm  F.  Roche  .50 .  took  the  man.  vvho  have always  respected  a  legi­ ciate  with  the  crews,  and  know  G. Lepp  1.00..  of  faults  that  have  to  be.  reme­ timate  picket  line  in  Frisco,  dcr  But,  i.ere  is  the  pay­off:—When  SS  NEW  YORK:  dared  the  picket  line  phoney,  died.  This  is  your  Union,  boys  we  told  the  skipper  that  the  lad  (Deck  Dept.)  9.10,  SS  Delplata,  and  drove  their  trucks  through.  you  benefit  or  lose  by  its  govern­ M.  R.  Gustavus  who  took  a  drink  once  in  awhile  1.00  ing.  Pilottown,  La.,  was contciit  to  get off  the tub,  but  Injiunction  Granted  E.  Smith  1.00  August  23, 1939.  that  the  other  lad  was sailing  the  On  Thursday,  August  24,  Dean  The  time for  house­cleaning  has  SS GEO.  WASHINGTON:  arrived.  Cooperate,  and  do  your  ship,  he  turned  around  and  said,  Dear  Bi'othei's:  Wayne  Morse,  longshore  arbitra­ (Eng.  Dept.)  7.00 ,  "No  smoke",—that  he  would  take  We  are  now  bound  South  again  tor,  handed  down  a  blistering  in­ bit',  by  taking  part  iix  your  Union  (Deck Dept.)  9­5';), .  the drinker, but  not the  other one.  on  the good ship  Delplata.  We.ai­e  dictment.  of.  CIO  tactics  used  in  activities.  (Steward's  Dept.)  ,  5.75  Vincent  J. Yakavonis,  SS  ACADIA:  So  you  can  see  that  he  was  going  proud of  "Red" Dean  and  Finp fox*;  the  West  Kyska  beef,  and; ren­ Book  No.  1774  out  of  his  way  to  cooperate.  settling  all  overtime  beefs,  and  dered  a  decision  that  the ­picket  (Eng.  Dept.)  15.75,  "Old Man" Sees  Light  perfect  conditions  and  chow.  Laborer's  Local  No.  850,  line  was. not  only  in  violation  of  When  the  cx­ew. returned  to  the  We  are  all  100,  percent  SIU  of  the  agreement,  but  was  illegiti­ Miami  15;00  •   ship Saturday  afternoon,  the "Old  NA.  S3 CASSIMIR  18.00  jaate,.and  hot  even  official.  Crew of  SS DELPLATA  man"  said  that  the  crew  would  F.  Lauritano  2.00:  •   New Orleans, La.,  Judge  Griffin,  to  whom  ship­ H.  Rocafort  .25­ turn  too at  once, and  no  delegates  Aug.  29,  1939.  owners  had  applied  for  an  injunc­ H.  Estwick  1.00;^.  ..allowed on  the ship.  So, off  again  tion  in  this same  dispute,  granted  To  Roland  Dean,  Gulf  Org.:  25^  came  the  crew.  Then  I  blew  my  It, forbidding  the  CIO  to  continue  I am  calling your  attention  con­ V.  E. Raymon  A.  Seott  1.00  lid,  and  told  the  master  and  the  picketing  the  West  Kyska.  cerning  the  ex­boatswain  of  tlxe  SS  Delplata,  5'D  Thus  was  tlxe  phoney  attemi^  SS  Edgar  F.  Luckenbaclx,  whose  B.  Johnson  agent that  if  the crew  had, to take  New  Orleans,  La.  of  the  CIO  foiled.  Their  efforts  name  is  VV.  Dean  Lea,  SUP  Book  SS JEAN  LAPITTB:  their  gear  ashore  again,  that  it  Dear  Brothers:  (Bos'n)  50  would  stay  ashore  until  evei'y  Leaving. Houston,  in  the  ship  to  have  bona fide  members  of  the  Number  3201.  thing  was  reduced  to  writing.  channel  we passed  the SS Mackay,  SIU  removed  from  the s'hip  in­ ox'­ I  have  learixed  through  reliable  SS MAJOR  WHEELER  .  3.10  Tb^n  we  got  some action.  We sat  laying  at  Deer  Park.  This  is  a  (ier  to  make  jobs  for  their  own  sources  that  this man  applied  for  SS  PAN  ROYAL  .......  5.05  on  the  dock  and  argued  with  thi.s  new ship  constructed  by  the Mari­ iiierabex's,  were  defeated  tlirouglx  membex­ship  in  the  NMU,  and  I  Boilermaker's  Union,  Tiimpa  25.00 .  skipper  for  an  hour  until  we  time  Commission  for  the  Pennsyl­ the  complete  cooperation  of  the  have  done  a  little  investigating  10.50.:  gained  our  point,  and  to  make  it  vania Shipping  Co. There  is a full  SUP, and  the refusal  of  the Teanx­ myself,  and  found  out  that  this  SS  TOPA  TOPA  Pipe  Fitters  Union,  certain,  we  had  him  buy the  crew  NMU  ci*ew  aboard  the  vessel,  who  otex's  to  recognize  a phoney  picket  man  now  has  a  NMU  book.  Tampa  5.00  Jheir  dinner  ashore  before,  they  shipped  out  of  the  Maritime  Com­ line.  Being a  ex­delegate of  said  ship,  J.  E.  Smith  45  turned  to.  Today,  Monday,  the  mission  "Fink  Hall"  up  East.  I  have  looked  back  into  the  min­ SS IPSWICH...  12.50  ship  is  back  in  from  Port  St.  Joe  These  phoneys  were  painting  nutes,  of  which  I  have  the  rec­ Boilermakers  SAL &  aiid  all  hands say  things'are fine.  over  the  side  at  6:00  P.M.^—Marl­ ords,  and  a  copy  of  said  minutes  ACL  RR's  5.00  was. sent  to  SUP  Hcndquai tors.  SS  MAE  Labor  Day  Parade  time  Commission  Training  Ship  4.49  '  (Continued  from  Page  1)  Now:  —the  minutes  show  that  SS  BELLINGHAM  .  . .•   6.00  On  the  Coast,  if  a  few  of  our  style.  On  inquiring  at  the  dock,  proach  he  expects  to  receive  re­ SUP  patrolmen  will  get  these  we  waie  hifovrned  that  the  crew  garding  his  former  stand  to  the  this  man  was  charged  with  vio­ Gene  Don  .10  ships  that  come  in  there, and  get  of  this  ship  work  overtime  for  opposition.  For,  were  it  not  for  lating  the  working, x'ules  at  vari­ SS PAN  ATLANTIC  .....­  ,30.36 .  them  to sign  the SIU pledge cards,  time  off.  If  these  donkeys  could  those  men  within  the  Labor field  ous  times,  while  boatswain  on  SS  HASTINGS;.  '  it  will  give  us  a  big  boost;  as  a  see  the  working and  living  condi­ who  are  willing  to stick  out  their  said  ship.  He  had  to  quit  here,  (Bro.  Guess).^  2'.00  lot  of  these  ships  run  from  the  tions  we  have  on  this  SIU  agree­ necks  in  order  to  steer  their  fel­ on  his  own  accord,  saying  he  SS  CLARA  1.94  East  Coast  where  they'can't  be  ment  ship,  they  would  ditch  their  low  worker  on  a  steady  course,—  would  go  to  Headquarters  and  SS SHICKSHINNY  .....  9.00  contacted.  So  how  about  it?  commie ­ controlled  NMU,  and  we,  in  the  marine  Industry  would  stand  trial.  It  looks  like  the  SS  TEXMAR:  (Deck  Dept.)  ll.'OO.  We  are trying  to  get  a  real  La­ strike  these  ships  for  SIU  nego­ still  be  working for  slave  wages.  phoney  has  no  intention  of  de­ (Eng.  Dept.)  6.00  i fcor  Day  parade  lined  up  here—  tiations  for  conditions.  The  sneers  that  you,  or  any  of  fending  himself  against,  .said  (Steward's Dept.)  ..._»  5.00  .  the first  in  ten  years.  Watch  our  The  general  working  conditions  your  type  wish  to  throw  my  way,  charges  at  a  trial, and  openly  ad­ 1.20  on  this  ship  (SS  Delplata)  are  matters  not  to  me,  for  whatever  mitting  his  guilt  and  phoney  tac­ TUG  MONTROSE  smoke!  3.20  '  have  done  has  always  been  in  tics,  by  clianging  his  book  at'  a  TUG  SAMPSON  ­  The  Point  Clear  Is  due  to  take  good;  quarters  and  living  condi­ Baltimore  Meeting  a  crew  very  soon,  and  by  the  tions  are first  class—much  supe­ the  open.  Can  you  say  as  much  time  like  this.  The  NMU  has  lots  of  phoneys  collection  6.37  time  this  Is  printed,  all  the  rior  to  many  West  Coast  ships.  for  yourself?  YOU  SHA­LL  AL­ One  good  featux'e  of  the  SIU  is  WAYS  REMAIN,  i,N  MY  in  their  union,  so  I  think  one  Members  in  Baltimore  Swayne  &  Hoyt  ships  in  the  Gulf  Bx­auch  23.00  the  industrial  type  of  organiza­ THOUGHTS, AS  THE  MAN  WHO  move  will not  hurt them.  The old  will  be  back  in  operation.  Add  to  DONATIONS  to  P&O  saying  is:  "Birds  of  a  feather  SAILED  WITH  SCAB  OIL!  The fishermen  here  are  coming  tion,  which  Insures  the  membex­s  SS tJUijABEE  «• • • • • • 27.50    ight  along,  and  very  soon  they  of  a  united  front  of  sailors, fire­ YOU  SHOULD  REALIZE  THE  flock  together."  SS  ACADIA:  Fraternally yours,  will  be  a  force  to  be  reckoned  men  and stewards  departments, in  DEFINITION  OF  ANYONE  WHG  8.00  SAILS ON  A  HOT  CARGO  SHIP!  E.  M.  Boudreaux,  SUP  4191,  (Deck  Dept.)  any  beef  against  the  boss.  with.;:.  :  •  Jos.  S.  Buckley,  SS PANAMA  CITY  21.50  Ex­  Delegate,  Fraternally,.  :steady as  she  goes!  Book  No.  312  Gulf  SS  PENNMAR  v  SS  Edgar  F.  Luckenbach  Robert  A.  Grimes, SUP  2015  ;Armstrong, SUP  2983  Skipper Sees Light^ as Crew Hits  Dock  to Enforce Demands  SHIP  STRAIGHTENED  OUT  ISTHMIAN BEEF  CREW APPRECIATIVE  PHONEY EXPOSED  NMU CONDITIONS?  BUCKLEY  �Friday, Sept. 1,19319  THE  SEAFARERS'  LOG  ­Xs  NEWS  and  VIEWS  from  the  LAKES  BUFFALO  10  Exchange  Street  MILWAUKEE  730 S. Second Street  DETROIT  1038  Third  Street  STEWARDS^ON GEORGIAN BAY|Anti­dosed Slnp  BOATS  COMING  INTOiS IU  Secord's Phoney "Union" Loses Out  As "Agent" Refunds Money to  Men  CLEVELAND  1426  Third  Street  ATTENTION  SEAMEN!  • 1  COMPUT.ATION  OF  SEAMEN'S  WAGES  DEPARTMENT  OF  COMMERCE  Labor  Forces  Fighting  Vicious  Legislation  LEWIS­CIO  BLAMED  CHICAGO  8101/2  N.  Clark  Street  OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY  WASHINGTON  Department Circular  No. 305'  ­ Montgomery,  Als.,  August  21  Bureau of  Marine Inspection  and  Nairigation  (SLNB)—This  great  state,  which  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  August  19—Organization  of  the  steward's  gave  to  the  United  States  Con­ To United  States  Shipping  Commissioners, Collectors  and  Deputy  department  on  the  Georgian  Bay  boats  proceeds  at  a  steady  gress  it's  Speaker  of  the  House,  Collectors  Acting  as  Shipping  Commissioners,  and  Others  pace.  The chief  steward on  the SS South  American,  who  had  and  to  the United  States Supreme  Concerned­.  that  great  exponent  of  lib­ acted  as a  willing Secord  Agent  at  the  beginning  of  the sea­ Court  May  7, 1938.  eralism,  the  Hon.  Justice  Hugo  son,  withdrew  gracefully  from  the  picture  by  refunding  to  Black,  and  to  the  United  States  The  follotving  rules  will  be  observed  by  United  States  the  crew  25%  of  all  money  he  had  stolen  in  the  name  of  Senate  that  great  Roosevelt  sup­ shipping  commissioners  and  collectors  and  deputy  collectors  Secord's "union".  This 25%  represented the Steward's 'cut'.  porter,  Senator  Lister  Hill,  and  of  customs  acting  as  shipping  commissioners  in  computing  At  the same  time  that  Secord's agent  weakened  under  pres­ that  stalwart  Democrat',  Senator  amounts due  American seamen as  wages—  sure  of  strongly  organized  crews,  the  company  shows  signs  Bankhead,  is  now  showing  indica­ tions  of  becoming  the  most  reac­ 1.  The date written in  the column  of  the shipping articles  of  desperation.  tionary state in  the South,  if  bills  headed "Time at  which  to he on hoard" is  taken as the  time  came  from  the  Steward's  On  the  "South"  the  crew  is  Introduced  in  the  State  Legisla­ pocket.  when  a  seaman's  wages  should  commence,  provided  he  was  100%  organized.  Everything runs  ture  here  are  to  be  taken  as  Bmoothly  on  that ship.  The  crew  "Time  is  short!  Take  action  an  Interpretalion  of  Alabama's  on  hoard  or  duly  presented  himself  to  go  on  board  at  that  now!"  received  part  of  the  money  stolen  time.  thought  and  philosophy.  from  them.  Plans  are  being  laid  Signed—  If  he went  on  board  before that date  with the  consent and  Labor  Forces  Fighting  for  a contract  next  season.  Leon  Mitchell,  delegate  .subject  to  the  orders  of  the  master,  he  is  deemed  to"  have  A  bill  has  been  introduced  in  Stooges  Start  Rumor  Seafarers'  International  Union  the state legislature making  it un­ commenced  work  and  to  he  entitled  to  wages from  the  date  Just  after  the  "South"  sailed  SS  South  American  lawful  for  an  employer  to  sign  a  going on hoard.  from here  the SS Alabama docked.  The  men  on  the  SS  Alabama  If  he failed  through  his own  fault  to  join  the ship  at  the  On  the Alabama  the Steward's  de­ want  to  force  the  chief  steward  closed  shop  agreement  with  a  partment  is  not  organized  as  there,  one  Mr.  Bailey,  to  cough  union  of  his  employees.  It is  the  time specified  in the articles,  his  wages accrue  only  from  the  strongly as on  the other  two ships  up  the  25%  "take"  he  pocketed  first  time  in  the  South's  history  time at which  he went on  board and reported for  duty.  in  this outfit.  Among  this  partly  from  money  stolen off them.  Swift,  that  such  a  hill  has  been  intro­ Disputes in  regard  to  the  time  when  the wages  began  to  organized  crew.  General  Manager  chief  steward  on  the "South,"  did  duced  in a state  legislature. Labor  forces  are fighting  the  proposed  accrue  rarely  involve  more  than 1 or  2  days,  and  they  are  Hatch  and  some  of  his  stooges  it!  Why  can't  Bailey?  measure,  and  it  may  be  that  the  usually  adjusted  by the ship's  log, although  if  there is  doubt  whom  he  has  placed  in  key  posi­ Vicious  Rumora  thinking  people  of  the  state  will  tions  there are  spreading  the  fal­ bo  able  to  keep  the  legislature  arising  from  the  absence  of  proper  entry  in  the  log  or  sus­ Next  trip  our  organization  on  lowing  rumors:  1)  that  the  picious  interlining"  or  other  cause,  the  seaman's  statement  Georgian  Bay  Co.  has  signed  a  the  Alabama  ought  to  be  solid  from  enacting  the  bill  into law.  may  he  accepted,  enough  to  force  the  hands  of  the  With  the  Now  Deal  being  contract  for  another  year  with  racketeers  there.  At  present  it is  praised  far  and  wide  for  the  con­ 2.  The column  in the shipping articles headed "Place  and  Secord;  2)  that  the Company  will  lay  its  ships  up  if  members  of  the  vicious  rumors  spread  by  the  sideration  of  the  laboring  people;  date  of  signing  this  agreement"  contains  the  date  of  the  the stewards  department  join  the  company  that  is  keeping  the  men  with  Speaker  Bankhead,  and  Ala­ agreement.  It  does  not  indicate  the  time  when  wages  are  to  Seafarers;  S)  that  if  the  Seafar­ divided.  Nothing  could  be  more  bama congressmen  being a big cog  begin.  ers  force  the  company  to  sign  a  slanderous  than  the  rumor  that  in  the  wheel  of  the  New  Deal;  3.  The  agreement  is  considered  as  referring  to  calendar  contract',  white  men  will  be  the  Seafarers  want  to  replace  the  with  Senator  Lister  Hill  of  Ala­ bama  being  one  of  the  following  months,  defined  as  the  tin e  from  any  month,  to  the  corre­ shipped  to  replace  the  negroes  negroes  with  whites.  In  spite  of  these  rumors,  mem­ supports  of  the  New  Deal;  with  sponding  day  (if  any,  and  if  not,  to  the  last  day)  of  the  now  working  there.  bers  of  the  steward's  department  Senator  Bankhead  being  a  stal­ No  Contract for  Secord  next  month.  are  coming  to  clearly  understand  wart  leader  in  the  hosts  of  Dem­ These are  lies,  lies,  rzesr  Hatch  For  example:  ocracy  which  claims  so  much  would  not  dare  sign  a  contract  that  the  Seafarers'  International  credit  for  looking  after  Labor's  January 29  to February  28  is 1 month.  with  Secord  for  next  season.  As  Union  is  an  organization  of  sea­ interests,  and  with  Justice  Hugo  men,  run  by  seamen,  to  improve  tor  laying  up  the  ships:  Hatch  January 31 to February  28 is 1 month.  Black  being  such  an  outstanding  knows that  there  is  danger  of  his  conditions and  raise  wages of  sea­ advocate  of  the  New  Deal's  pr>  February  28 to  March  27  is 1 month.  ships ­not  running  next  season,  men.  In our  ranks today  are sea­ gram  that  he  was  appointed  to  March  28  to April 27  is 1 month.  only  if  he  and  Mr.  Secord  put  men  of  various  races,  religious  be­ the United  States Supreme Court;  liefs,  nationalities  and  political  4.  In computing the amount  due for a fraction of  a month,  their  heads  together  again.  Hatch  with  all  of  these  Alabama  leaders  has  already  agreed  to  sign  with  views.  We  have  to  all  stand  to­ constituting  so  much  of  the  New  30  days  is counted  as a  month  without  regard  to  its  length.  the  Seafarers'  net  season.  There  gether  to fight  for  better  condi­ Deal's  power,  it  is  remarkably  or  example, . 5 days  in any  month  are  one­sixth  of  a  month.  is  no  question  any  longer  about  tions  for  all  of  us.  The  attempt  strange,  according  to  Labor  lead­ 5.  Any  fraction  of  a  day is  counted  as a  whole  day.  For  whether  the  men  want  imion  rep­ to  divide  workers according  to  ra­ ers here, .why it Is  that their  state  cial  and  national  lines  is  not  a  example,  from  the  afternoon  of  March  1 to  March  4,  both  resentation.  The  "North"  and  legislature  is  becoming  the  most  inclusive,  i.s  reckoned  as  4  days;  and  from  March  1 to  the  new  trick  of  the  boss  and  his  "South"  are  100%  Seafarers'  i­eactionary  in  the  Union.  *•   stooges.  ships.  Union  men  from­the  three  'orenoon  of  March 4,  both inclusive,  is reckoned  as 4  days.  CIO  Blamedl.  Georgian  Bay  boats  are  holding a  But  if  a  seaman  he  entitled  to  wages  from  the  afternoott  The  one  man  responsible  for  of  one day  to the forenoon  of  another  day,  the two fractions  meeting in  Chicago  this  month  to  this  deplorable  stats  of  affairs  is  draw  up  a  set  of  working  rules,  that  muchly­touted,  self­appointed  of  a day  are considered as  I day only.  For  example, the  time  and  wage scale, and  to  elect  a ne­ Membership  books  for  the  dicthtor,  John  L.  Lewis.  Many  of  Tom  the  afternoon  of  March 1 to  the  forenoon  of  March  4,  gotiating  committee  to  present  following  men  are  being  held  the  advocates  of  the  Alabama  bill  )oth  inclusive,  is  3  days.  same to  Mr.  Hatch.  They  are  de­ at  New  York  Headquarters:  outlaw  closed  shop  agreements  termined  to  get  a closed  shop con­ 6.  In computing  the amount  of  wages  due, the  number  of  Milton  Weiner,  A  No.  4—Deck  frankly  admit  that  it  is  directed  tract for  next  season.  M.  Btanchi,  A  No.  2319—Deck  calendar months  (commeficing on the day on  which  wages  be­ Frank  E.  Harvle,  A  iNo.  2671—  at  John  L.  Lewis  and  his  CIO.  Stewards Militant  gan  to accrue)  is to  he determined first;  to this is to  he added  Students  of  government  and  Deck  ' Characteristic of  the high  union  the fractional  part  of  a  month  determined  by  counting  each  Bpirit„ nvevalent  among  the  stew­ Charles  W.  Johnson,  A  No.  politics  say  that  Alabama's  reac­ tionary  attitude  is  but  a  forerun­ and  every  day  beyond  the final  day  of  the last  full month.  .  3163—Deck  ­ iBIfd's  department  members  is  ner  of  that  thought  which  will  E.  Rivera,  A  No, 273&—Eng.  For  example:  ithe  following  statement  mimeo­ graphed  and  sent  to  all  boats  by  L.  Culafato,  A  No.  2401—Stwd.  lead  America  in  1940  into  one  of  January 29  to March 3  (inclusive)  equals 1 month  most  reactionary  four­year  the  crew  delegate  off  the  SS  Burgess  W.  Davis,  A.  No.  3556  3 days.  —Stwd.  periods  this  country  has  ever  South  American:  Erasmo  0.  Vega,  A  No.  4034—  known,  and  that  it  is  the self­im­ January 31 to March  3 (inclusive)  equals 1 mopth  "To  all  members  of  the  Stew­ Stwd.  posed  and  exceedingly foolish lead­ 3 days.  ards'  Union of  the Great  Lakes:  C.  F.  Stowch,  A  No.  4642—  ership  of  John  L,  Lewis,  and  the  June 15 to  October 13  (inclusive)  equals 3 months  "On  Thursday,  August  17,  the  Stwd.  support  which  he  receives  from  29  days.  I  Steward's  Dept.  on  the  South  If  the  foregoing  members  communists  that  is  solely  re­ American  received  reimburse­ will  write  to  Headquarters  sponsible  for  the  terrible  condi­ /•   ­  June 15 to  Nov. 13  (inclusive)  equals 5  months.  ' •  ment to the  amount of  25%  on  stating  What  Branch  they  wish  tions  wl^ich  will  be  imposed  upon  June 15 to Nov., 14  (inclusive)  equals 5  months.  the  dollar  paid  In  said  union.  their  book  sent  to,  It  will  be  working  people  at  no  distant  Approved:  "All  these  funds  supposedly  forwarded to  the  Agent  of that  date.  STOOGES  START  RUMORS  mi­:  p;..  [rifi  NOTICE  „Ps  |!1­  )  W V  IP; '  '  ...  r  • ;•   ­ lAlf  ­  f  'iaf  .  __  ^  ,1  s  VS,  It U the  Duty of  Every  Member to  Vote.  hlL  _  tiave  tour  f'v.V  particular  Branch.  Members  wishing  their books  to  be  sent  to  a  private  address  will  be  requested  to  give  a  description  of  themselves.  • M  &• '  DANIEL C.  ROPER,  Take  an  Active  Part  in  Your Union Affairs,  ­ Vote!  Secretary  of  Commerce.  iThis  circular  supersedes  Treasury  Department  Circular  No  60  t  entitled  "Seaman's  Wages,"  dateu  April  2«!­lg9a. •   '  67924r—38  a  � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource September 1, 1939 Description An account of the resource Headlines: P&O STRIKE STILL ON AS MEN STAND FIRM BULL LINE CONTRACT RATIFIED BY MEMBERS TWO ISTHMIAN LINE SHIPS STRUCK IN GULF PORTS CIO MOVE ON WEST KYSKA FLOPS ON WEST COAST NEW BEDFORD LINE SIGNS AGREEMENT SIU MAN FINDS LACK OF MILITANCY IN NMU MILITANT ACTIVITY ON SS PAN ATLANTIC RESULT OF P & O STRIKE WILL AFFECT ALL ACTION BRINGS RESULT ON SS ATLANTA CITY ASK MEMBERS TO COOPERATE STEWARDS ON GEORGIAN BAY BOATS COMING INTO SIU ANTI-CLOSED SHOP LAW FOR ALABAMA ATTENTION SEAMEN! Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/1/1939 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. I, No. 17 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1939 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/7c5b0eec7e87e19f76dbb9f0b3244869.PDF cefe601eabfc3d0267c04f2a1c3f5512 PDF Text Text f Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America VOL. XII No. 17 NEW YORK, N. Y.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1950 ~=================================================================================:::z::==========================================:::;:::====== • e 1·ve ore 1gn ~~--,..--~~~~~~~~~~~~~.,,.-~~~~~~~~--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A_...,,...:,.an . 11.1:e·..,.hant .J.ri4 111a...:ne ...I. .,..,1 Scuttling .,.,.,'he 11~1 J .lr1~ I-.,, I • . There's a ·war on, but apparently that fact -hasn't yet penetrated some sections of our government. Last ;,eek a blind, befuddled federal agency came forth with one of the most outrageous set of proposals ever cooked in washington. . . . . The nub o.f recommendation was that . the United States .should get rid .of its merchant marine - lock, stock and vessel--even ..going so far as to drive US ships from our own coastal waters,•the agency said. . Here's how the government bureaucrats proposed that this be accomplished: · ' I. Put an end tq the Congressionally-enacted requirement that 50 .Percent of all Marshall Plan cargoes be carried in American bottoms. . ·: 2. Take 100 American· · flag .tankers. and dry cargo ,yessels and transfer them to foreign na~ions. . ~ 3. Stop the payment of YY I 'A ·J ~ . operating subsidies ~o U6 flag ships. \;J y l . 4.· Allow ships flying for.. . ~o D ~ eig-n :flags to enter . the US :,, •.. . ... . ~ . ...... up '•'HY. 00,._,,T ViOU r- I\. liE H IM. u s HI p s coastwise trades. : Each of these recommendations are individually capable of dealing a reeling blow to the US merchant · ~ d fleet. If all were adopte at o~ce, . the American mer:. chant marine would vanish from the seas. The pr,opos .. al of such . a fa'.t e Jot our fleet, werel it to b~e offered i n· peacetime, 1 'CAAT · ~t:,6.'v t14..\)~ . . V a • (Continued on Page 2) , SS ,Camas M1eadows Again G·ives Aid To . o·istre.ssed ·Vess·el For the seconq time since_sailing from Mobile last December 5, the crew and office:r:s of the SS Camas Meadows have· lent · their assistance• :to . a · ·'Vessel- in 1 distress. in the - Pers ~·n- Gulf: ac- : cording · to· an· airmail' account by her radio opera~or, Floyd J. Wil- : son. . ~ Last December they. tow~d the disabled Panamanian tanker · SS Callh-oy into Arub~. 0n· Augiist 21, they. assisted the crew of the ~~t~"f':f~r~:~:~i~ SIU Craw_ Ma~s First Tanker To Switch To her ~reroo~ 4 • Th.e modern, 1~,000-ton : SS Le~ than- hau-a.n-hour after Olympic Games,\ first tanker to oil from · an overflowh:lg bu~er be · switched to American registry ' ~nk flooded the fi:i:-eroom of the since the outbreak of the Korean c'q mker and burst into flai:n~· tlte war, sailed out of ;Baltimore last ·C~was . Meadows . was alon~side, week manned by a SIU crew. Prior to the swit$ th,e Olym·putting fire hqses abp~ and ~hooting · continuous streams of ·pie Games had been · flying the water dowJ:?. ·µtto~,her . stac~ and Honduran flag under chartel," to :~ver the cha.~d. after-'. housing, the· Socony-Vacuum Oil, Com.~on , ~ee h_ours ...; , . ·· ; ptny of New York ~d w~s hand· :Whe~ ,the,~ fire. '.ha~'1! b1:ll"lled .it-. led .by a 0-reek crew. · ''• (~ !0# P•p 1') ·-. Built 'a t the BetMehem . Steel I . • shipyard in Baltimore in 1948 for the Olympic Oil Lines of Panama, the streamlined tanker is now being op-erated bY.i t~e US ·Petroleum CatTiers, an SIU-contracted company. . Equipped with a completely modem engine room a.nd navigational - insiruinents, the Olympic Game~ .is pro}>ably. the finest _ta·n kef operatijig under the American .flag today .. : · The shift ef the Ho~~uran flag ' tanker touched off speculation 'that similar action by American owners of -foreign flag ships may be in the offing. A . strong factor in support of this view is vessels flying ·the US flag are given pr9tection on the .high seas that foreign-flag ships do not get. According to figures available, .52. percent · of ~ the Panamanian fleet is ownee by Americans , who also control ·11,lost of the ve!wels The SIU's Headquarters 'fiegO- tiating committee brought five . more contracted companies into the Seafarers Welfare Plan this week and trimmed the list of those not yet signed to a feW small outfits. . Following a series of confer- · ences, representatives of ·the American Tramp Shipping Development, Metro Petroleum, Seatrade, and US Waterways corporations signed the Welfare Plan Agree~ . ment in New York on Wednes- . ' day afternoon. They joined the Philadelphia .. Marine Corporation which had agreed to participate in the Plan earlier in the week. All five out.. fits are affiliated with the Martrade Corporation. RETROACTIVE In accordance with the terms of the Welfare Plan contract,. which affects all signatory companies in like manner, the five new signers will contribute to_ the Welfare Fund 25 cents a day.for each man employed on their' vessels. The companies will make · payment retroactive to January 1 of this year, the date on _which ~ previously signed operators began payment. . Participation in the Plan by the five additional companies broadens its coverage of Union members. Seafarers who have worked aboard any of tl1eir ships for at least one day since Janu•. ary 1 are now eligible for the hospital and death benefits. The hospital benefits paid by the Plan to Seafarers are $7 for each week of confinement. The death· benefit, which goes to the beneficiary designated by the Union member, is $500. Th~ Welfare Plan went .into -operation on July 15, with the hospital and qeath benefits re;placing those previously paid by the Union. . .... Conferences with the few companies not yet signed to the Wei-. ·:· fare contract have been schedul-. . · · ed by the Negotiating Commit-· tee in an effort to bring all SIU. operators into the Plan. US Registry operating under the Honduran flag. Although it is not a certainty' that additional foreign-flag ships · will be transferred to US regis- _,, try, there appears little likeli- · . hood of further switches 1trom· US to fo~ign registry., Sh'ottlyafter the Korean war began· tile · Federal Maritime Board ti41iten- ' ed regulations, making. the ti'anS· · fer of i>tivately-owned ships almost. ~mp~ible. · �P.ublished Every Other Week .by the 1':- ·s E.A FARERS INTERNATJONAL .U'NION "•. ' OF NORTH AMERICA .Atlantic and Gulf District A:ffili.deci with the kneriaan Federation Of · Labor At f J Beaver Street, New York_4, N. Y. �orld War '• By JOHN BUNKER CHAPTER 15 BOATS. AWAY . The story of SIU ships in World War II includes many incidents of .!orig voyages in small • boats after ~eamen left their sinking ships . . There was the 1,200-mile trip of the Star of Scotland's men after their big schooner was ~ shelled by a sub in the South Atlantic, and the long, cold voyage in the boats after the Liberty ship Jonathan Sturges was torpedoed in ·· the Nort~ Atlantic, a voyage that ended in the capture of the survivors· by a German submarine and their internment for the duration of the war. Some of these_ lifeboat voyages were strenuous ordeals in which only a few of the men were By BJLL DRAKE . . event.ually rescued. In other. cases, like that of - Ancl then, before they realized what was hapCaptain Staley had a sextant but this was oi ~ . o~e lifeboat from the SS Maiden Creek, the sur- pening, a shape loomed up directly in their path no .use without the necessary tables to go with vivors were never found. -the black hulk of a submarine. it, so he relied on dead reckoning, while the More fortunate was the SIU crew of the SS "It was a big, one," say Dolar, "and we were helmsmen steered with a compass held between 1 James W. Denver, a: brand new Liberty wqich headed right- for it." their legs. was bound for North Africa ori April 11, 1943. While they watched the raider in amazement, When the food .ran out, the men became diSCaptain Everett Staley reckoned their position the lifeboat grated against the submersible's hull, couraged .and from time te time some of them as 400 miles west of the Canary Islands, ·as the sheering off just in time to . keep from riding had to be restrained fz:om jumping overboard, · _ Denver hurried--along at lll,2 ~nots trying fo re- right onto the ~ow tlying deck. One of1the U-boat's for they dreaded the prespect of becoming crazed. · join the convoy, which it had lost sometime officers shouted at them from tlie conning tower. from sun and salt spray. < previously .during ~ prolonged and heavy fog. "What ship are you from?" Every once in a while someone struck up ·a .'" A11 lookouts were scanning the horizon for wisps - They knew it ,was no use to evade the query, song and they all joined in. When the water was . · ' of smoke that might indicate the "missing" fleet. for the Germans could inspect the -lifeboat ·and doled out the Skipper would say, "It may be They never. even saw the track of the torpedo find out anyway. that hit them. It smashed into number-two hold "Denver;'' they replied, "the James w. Den- water now, but keep your spirits up and it'll be juicy steaks one of these days." and all hands abandoned ship soon after. No ver." . casualtie~ occurred, for the boats were well The men on the conning tower had a good The songs and tl~e promise of steaks-it helped handled; and they stood some distance off from laugh over the fact and the SIU men guessed that · to buoy their spirits-make them forget some- . the liig Liberty as she settJed slowly beneath the this must have been the sub which sank them. . what the discomfort, .the hunger and the monwaves. "Well," the German answered· in good English, otony. They all looked around to see if the sub was "so you lads are from one of those Lib,e rty ships." Finally they saw fish spawn in the water, a The remark sounded sarcastic, ·b ut before the sure sign that they were coming into shallower going to surface and spray them with machine gun fire, for such a possibility was in the minds sub moved off in the darkness a sailor came down depths. This was followed by the gradual chang- " of all torpedoed men during the war. .But the the deck ~o hand them a carton of cigarettes and ing of the sea from .blue to green as they entered U-beat never showed itself-not even -coming up from .the bridge the officer shouted a cours~ for the 100-fathom curve. Their ho~ soared, f9~ f<?r an inspection of its kill. . · them to ·steer. During. ~he next hour th~y sighted they knew now that the shore wasn't too faro~ . ::Qeck Engineer Dolar Stone tells about the 34- two more U-boats, ·e vidently part of a' wolf pack. On the 5th of May they sighted land and, witli - ;- : day odyssey taken by the 18 men in his boat ROUGH SEAS the· wind still holding good, sailed right up . on . after· the survivors separated that night. to the sands of Rio del Oro. "There was a little half-hearted joking at first,!; All hands continued to be seasick .as the h~avy By this time none of them could walk and he recalls., "but, in all, it was a pr:etty' solemn . weather persisted; and the ·lifeboat-. made more they tumbled out of the boat like so many crip- · .: affair. We hated to lose o~ ship, ~nd ·to see her mileage ~p and down than it did toward the east. ples_to ~rawl across_the welcome sands on their" go dawn: without even having fired a shot in de~ations got low after the first 12 d~ys. Crack- hands and knees. For a while they exulted in fense."· · ·_ . ers gave out, wate:r was limited to three ounces the luxury of just being on dry land, but this ~ .· -The Skipper gave them a course to steer, an4 a day ·per man and there was· nothing left to_eat joy was tempered when they discovered that all .:, . told each boat ·to "hoist sail and.. get going. . . : . but malte~ milk ·tablets. .Three !JY,ing psh. landed arounq. them was a vast desert-nothing .but .... the sooner we sail, the sooner we' ll land." in the boat . most opportunely and were cut up dunes and endless sand.' Th~re was. no habita~ioli .. Dolar's boat ·stepped its mast, hoisted the little in equai...parts, to · be eaten .raw. It was not the or sign of life anywhere-not even a tree. At night there · were terrific sandstorms and _-. '" · red .§.ail with . which Liberty ship lifeboats were ·first time that these aecy fish . helped to sustain equipped, and set out for the east. Seas were torpedoed crews! during the day the blinding sun. · making up fast under a sharpening wind, and On the night · o( May ·11, the 1sea-t-ossed surThey m,ight have died there on the sands of ' they soen haa~ to ,.rig . a -sea anchor ~and heave-.to vivors saw moving lights s~II).e .distance off. These Rio del Oro and never been found if it hadn't "hefore the waves. The . other boats by this. time . immediately disapp.ear~d . -when the. men shot been, strangely enough, for a German · submar: w..ere . out of sight .and they rode the sea alone, flares. · "Probably more subs/' Dolar believes. · -ine which had been sighted.- and depth charged " _ a t tiny · flo~sam, se.·-it. ·seemed,· .o n that huge ex• · J4st ) hree day~ lat~r, .~oweve:,1 · ~he'i.long voy- l!Y British pat~ol 'planes, not fa: offshore from i : p~se ·of dar~eriirig-, ocean -and breaking white age ended, Spamsh ·fishermen s1ghted1 the boat, the spot where they had landed ·JUSt a few days. · _.·. . picR:ed them up and took"tliein ·to La ~guera in . before. · . _-.. :: caps.. ., .. . .'··A life~oat in placid- w~ters · is anything b1:1t. th~ Canary Islanc:Is·, from .}wh~nce they. later ·got On the 10th of May, five days after the. wealt -.· · comfortable, and the-keelless craft · pitched, roil- passage back' to the States by way of ·Cadiz. and hungry men had beached their boat on the ed and wallowed all that first night and for the After the torpedoing, the _Captain's boat had African coast, these planes were out searching ; • day and. night that followed, ·making ~11 hands . set a coµrse for the hearest land, whicb! ·the Skip- for the U-boat and sightpd the Denver's men \\i:et and miserably seQSick. · ' per . figur~<l to be R~o del ·oro on the coast of sprawled about on the sand. : Just at dusk '?n the third night, the lookout Africa; . Not -many hours later a patrol vessel came by statio~ed in the bow sighted a yague. shape loom- · · For the first 12 days, thing~ weren't so bad. At and landed a party armed to the teeth · with reing up •ahead, . and in the excitement of this dis- -least there were. crackers to munch on 1.and some volvers and rifles, for they thought the men covery yelled, "Desti;oyer!"' As soon as the look- of the sickeningly sweet purilmican 'Yhich had from the Denver were· survivors from the hunt"; . . out had 'sung out, Dolar lit the boat's lantern ~!1d, been devised. foi: lifeboat crews. But oq the 13th . ed _U-bo~t.. . · standing up on the bow thwart with one han<! day the ~ood gave out and from then on it was It is a tribute to the hardihood of these SW c:>I?- the mast, waved- it .back. and f.orth ·as a sig~al, . :i;iothing but water. Even at that, tlie water was men and the' Navy armed guard gunners that all ·, . · on the chan~e .that the $hip wo.u ld see them, if limited .to two ounces a day per man. survived the ordeal and went back to sea after · indeed .there was· one up ahead: · _ ·· 'fhe. winds held strong,· which was a blessing, reac}rlng _the States some weeks later. Lucky they were for, according to their res... · , · ..- To ' better attract attention, each man switcheii ~u~ ·it also made life tinco~fort~ble, Ithrowing the· little lights ...that .w~r~ · fa~tened to ".a pin spray oyer them continually for ~ach bf the 25 cu~rs, i4 bodies had been found at that~ $am~'"1:' ~d· .lanyard 1 onto.,.~~e~ ,. lifejacJ:tets, hoping ~hat days t~.ey w~re adrift. At nig~t . it was !cold and, . spot sq~e ..months before. They also had been .~ ­ he red gl~w . W,p~ld shine enbugh ~() .be · seen. ·being thoroughly wet,. th~y almost fro· e before· castaways who . had run out of food and . water !Ough, t4e night. . · ' · the sun broke acrQss· the seas each. m rning. bf'.fore a 'rescue ship came by. · ' all I I on ' . • :, �The rider ·to .SIU contracts ;vering war risks in ' the Far "• Eastern waters has been· supple,. ment'e a to provide a $10,000 war J... tls1t bonus in the waters adja. cent to Hong Kong, as described j in Section 5 under Area V in the rider below, ·and pictured i on map on the right. 1 ~·/ It is mutually agreed that: 1, ., 1. Any vessel operated by any 1 "·, of· the employers party hereto in · 1 · "·' the China coastal waters in the following described areas shall 1 , ·" be considered to be in areas ·,. render~d unsafe by hostilities. ,. AREA I · All waters within and boundby the fqllowing lines: beginning at a point 6n the China doast at 23° north, thence east to . the intersection with longitude; ·.. 119° east, thence northeasterly to · .... the intersection of a point at I . latitude 26° 15' north and long, . ~ itude 121 ° east and thence west ' -.,. iilong the 26° 15' parallel of · ·nor.th latitude to the China ~~ · eoast. •• r AREA II :, - ' ·All waters within and bounded ''~~ )~y :the· following lines; beginning '~ :at-·a point on the China Coas.t at .. :. , 33° north latitude, thence east t ti1tJ:ie .i ntersection with longitud~ " 124 ° · east, thence north along ·if f2.4 ° east meridian to the China r::: ·~ "··coast. . asT CHINA SllA ~~ .'~o /.T~g~Slt.Jm& AREA III . "r~ Gwlto. ~ . . .All waters within and bounded · • Suwanose Shima. " ·t' by the following lines: beginTakara Jima .!;> . . 1 ' ning at a ·point on the China • f· ·~ N.AltSEI SHOTO · ·· Coast at 26° 15' north latitude; . '1)~---!o Shi · · thence east to the intersection Tori Shiaia.!::. & • .nu&iUl&I. • ma. ·c with . 121 ° east longitude, thence • · • Okino-erabu Shi• northea.sterly to a point at the . iritersection of 30° north lati":·~'!JDP -f~ ,;~ tOkioawa'Shim'.a. . -".: . , tude and 124° east longitude ~'!S ~YSeWbt.;; ' 'J> • • 'lWa ~~Ima ' · tltence north to the intersection I f 10,000 Wiil RISK :.-· .oi 3·3 ° ·north latitude and 124 ° · ; east · longitude ~d thence west INSURA~ "· ~long ·the 33 ° parallel of north '· J: latitude to the ' China Coast. 1• AREA IV _ .All waters within and .bounded ~ by the following" lines: beginning -~at a point on the China Coast #. .- LUZeN STlfAtr: : ~ ' and 23.11 north latitude, thence . ~. ~'BataiaJe . ' . east to fl9° east longitude, then ~ · · northeasterly to 30° north · lati_~..:...~--~--~--~~i--~~-~.----~--.~~---· -----------------~ --·~~----Mll .;, ~.-~e and 124° east longitude and · L"fiam _30° north latitude and 124°· .<east.' fongitude southerly to Sho-loto· Sho, then westerly to Shic•. hisei Seki, and then from Shic, .· · hisei Seki westerly intersecting able under -.this paragraph shall Risk Policy shall be pro'Vi4~d. .in. China CoaSt at 23• . north: lati6. Each party ·-reserves the ~· ·at . the China· Coast 23 '! north be set off against. and . in red,uc- the maximWDi·-swri of $10;000 .for tude, thence easterly to · a ~int right durllrg the .effective. period _ ;-.·lft~itude. tion of any amount · payable as· each member of .th~ cyew -em:.. ~ 0 30' north latitqde and 118° of this SuppleJpj!lltary Agreemen~ _ AREA. v an attack bonus under Maritime ployed bn and aboard such ;a ves- east longitude thence. weste.rly1 to req.uest further negotiations . · · l. All · waters within and War Emergency Board Deci.i'io~ .Sel while~ ~suCh _waters describ-' to .Gap Rock thence due west' pon the subjects of increase or : bounded by the following lines: 2-D. . · ed in .A reas=I,. H, llI, W ·~ V a:long the' 21° 5-0! lin~ ~orth lati- · ~ductiori of the ar~as _ d"escribed· ' bE!ginning at the China Coast· 4. Wa-r RISk Insurance -C~:ver- abov.,e , ;~ in. ·the, ..waters witlhin tude· ..fo· ~ China .eout. , ~erein · as ·· unsafe, · increase or..and ·124'0 • east longitude, thence age· r.especting loss of life ~d .and · bo.nnded 'b;x ,the · followinl 5. ·7his ..#>UpPlement.ary. Agree-' reduction of ,the. amoUI'lts paf,able. . . ". · · . ~. ment .shall · ~· as hereimder/ or .cancellatio.n of_- this.·, ' ,s9µth to 30° north latitude and disability in the form pr~scribed. ljpeS: · ~' f2~ 0 eastlongit~de- :and· from3~ 0 by . the Second Seamen's War · Beginning_ at a. P,~int on, the-0.f :~e .'date . hen!of. • ~µpplemeij~ · ,Agreement. . , ;· north. latitude and 1.24° east Ion,. . · ~ · . . . . · " _. efi 100%' ·tJ3onus. _ 11~000 ~ , ~rJ(is,( l11s11r11itce ·1100· Atf't1cf!JtJn11s ·. ~- I ... :e.ecithte ·!!:2£~::i::%!~% ·:! P~~ladelphia Shipping ~'8d :And,,l.HJcs. Brigid For f ublre? . Siberian Coast. . , · -""'· · · Each crewmember of such By STEVE CARDULLO Delegate and Department ~heads. Thesi charac.te.,r~ are ~ d~triment doesn't .' he · ch~k :the. ·records " ' "~essel who is employed •under. PHILADELPHIA _ Shipping ti ~ save a lot.. of -~i~t and· .t o th,~ .Unio~<"".'and here in this and fiha ·that .the combined ·,{... -, th.~ ~erms of the wage agre~ment has been good fo~ .the past iwo pass1ble clia~ges- · that wilL be port are· gomg tq get ·the full . :to~ Of the snt,' and· .:m:A -. •'of June 15, 1949, shall receive in weeks and looks good for the brought.. . agaml:!t men . missing works. : · · ·~ · · · .ha<t.te kept the .commies :off· the ,. . : ' addition· to . wages · 'a nd . allow- immediale future. There is' a· ships. ' ".. . . ~ . . 1 noilce wh~e .'&()me ·charactet: .watem~ts..-of the Gulf an~ Eas~'. : '. ances· set for.th in said agree- shortage of rated men, ·both Deck '. "J{.e .have ,also had "'quit~ >ta :1ot i& ~lasting "the .. ILA for.; refusing ic'o;i~t tot over~ 12 .years . ., ~ent, 100% of . his daily basic and- Engine in this port. :several of . trouqle with gashounds who. *4)- unlqad the · Cr.a~eat t~at_. ..J98 . " !~..~ n t be diplomacy, ~u~ wages .for ,each day while em- -~imes we have had to call other were unable ' to dQ their ,w.ork &ta,lin's ·stooges traded to. Eng- .ft ha& sure ps hell produced. re.:., · ·, · ployed - on aboard such vessel in Branches for men in order to and giving "their Btother's .a hard. land for maehiner>'.'• .. He states. sulfS. That js more ~h~n · s~m~1 .. su~h waters pescribed in Areas keep the-ships from ~sailing short- time. foul bail char~cters» that the 'HA ... thinks · it . is· ~1.omats I :..kngw can state~ , • f I, II, ·III, "IV and V ·above. handed. . . . rare ~ pulled <$tl the. ship ·irtimedi-.. hurting the .CommupiSts · lh~ . · It ~is a pity that these ~ charad· 11 .~ 3. It is further.· agreed that. There suddenly have 'been ately- and placed' on ~harps. lt'si ~ra!.Y, ..' . ·"',. · : .. , ters ·.~lin!t · have a· firSt hand ' les~"t: \lV~e-. such vessel is in a . h~bQrr ~ot ·~oubl~ with. ships ·calling a h~ ..of a note .how they sci;emn. , 1 as I ·see1-~t, . if . boy- son ~~· some ' !)lo~f'.;;\Va~ettroit:,. 1 m i-,any of the -abav~ quthn~d m ~ !>~t shor~-handed due to _-they w~e frant~ : after,· ·~e 1~tt all ~~iatL. ~ th~ - , , beef, ¢~~~ C?C?JWB·ies;ttl'J;~ ,~l1 0 ~-a~ . one $100 bonus 'will be p~1.d ~en-.' ~mg shi:ps. In several ·bo~ze w.em:s' ,c51f! · . ': .1 : ._" ~ 1 ·- ·~.·~ "~ ,fpry~ ·t .c )'stpp, seµ~ :hpps. lie co.iµd,, s:ee'.:1~s to ~;each m.e:rµb~r . of the crew if ~cases ·the men didn't check tbe · · don't .._seem ,tfi, ~are :that ·~ ""mathffi~.,' to. .coinmte11' «true. light:' ,'; · .1 ... " . -; • • 1··, , ;I''· 1 .•i~e~ .u eh v.essel or " th~ harbar s~ ~- lb~d before ·· going 1bej- .11a~ , placed ~e~ Broth~-' t~ . ·~~ "~ :. _ . '. ig~ .'t.Mi~~ather 'b:efe Ji*s r~~. . ~ctly ·attaeked during .sw;h ~ore. :__ r: ~. tm a ~ 4fbsWOR' or ~t'.' ;tl(e, '1lli ~ ~ the '~ 8'1· i,tice. -. $0 afi. you tll~"· . ~ ;' m the -~~rbor, _,:~x:~vided, , jlf tries~ is : ~&;- S81~g ~4; ar~ b~lriOS :the coji~;,Whi . ·"J: ~~ JtjJn ~/that ".we . ·~en't:. men· w o · • ~ .~~ '"~~~ .howf!ver, - that -._any , amount par- •post.e d,,- cbeck .,with th~ -·"Sh1p's w.e have fougb.t so ' l:.ard for. ~cl·,to" ~t A)pk>~ - b\l~ why •ge,Wnj IJPps ·comebJl<.to ';J - • ·,. .. . _,.- 2. s-m>, . 1 ' I. . . . These · !£ 1 a are· _we1:1,: . we They pi:,thefif , /th.et· war; -.· •, • ' ., . l , • ; ' '" .• • • ~- t. ~ ., . .. r wit . .' . . . ; ... •· t see·"• .' ��When ~n December 2~, 1949, the first group of SIU-contracted benefits. From their point of view+ the· high cost of living-they . companies signed th'e Welfare Agreement wi~h the Union, it marked probably weren't high enough. But ithe poi.ht . that the j:rustees of another great milestone in the history of maritime unions. There are those funds _didn't realize was that t~eir funds were not bottomless, few accomplislu;nents that have had a greater impact_ upon the lives that they had to be built up and stabilized t-0 take car.e · of all conof merchant seamen. tingencies. These experiences of oth~r organizations were taken to There was the Seamen's ' Act of 1915, of, course, which emanci- • heart by the members of your comm~ttee, who were determined that . . _, this. would not hap~-9 to . the .~. eafai:e.r~ Welfare Fu.nd. ·. pated seamen from the semi-slavery under w~~h t hey h ad be. en . 1~v~ng . _ t . and working. And there was the legal recogrution of the uruon hiring Some · of -the !ot!ier suggestu:~ns-mcreased hospital payments, pay.:. hall, which gave them job security and freedom from ~µiployer favor-:- _ ments ·to . 4iStressed·· families; et~~.:::.._are; som~what~ cl06e~ at hand, but itism and fink halls. • still await the-. c~mplete financial stabi~ty of the Fund. . The Seafarers Welfare· Plan, however, has. given them .somet<hing:' - '. ' · : Ali . Q~ these .are. fine ideas .. But .tipe Welfare ·plan is ' only a. few else they have sorely needed: peace of minq-t~e knowled~~-. ~hat they. months ol~ and. there are a "lot of ·Ye.ars1a_he~d of us, years in which our will not be financially helpless if they become ,sick ar are m1ured; .th~ " ·..; ll:lembersh1p . m~y, drop to-a lower l'evel;1thus . cutting· the .pa•yments into knowledge that ·their families will not . be left destitute if they should . ~ ·. th~: fund by ·the·-operators. By taking· i't on the .slow bell, we can feel our die. . . _ way' along until we see how . the .s~rpluf fund stands.' · · : If we ~e -:-a la.rge sur,plus building .. up, . the ·trust-ees will set up . - It is>not .that the Welfare Plan, as it stands now, is perfect-far _,.,, 'from it. .The hospital payments are small .and the death benefit.·.will ·additional . be~efits right · aw..ay. ·.After .. aU, the purpose of- the fund is ·ffot ·to save ·money, but to provide · Wnefits for the members of· "the . not carry; one~s survivors very far. The importance of the WeJfarePlan lies in the fact that the wall has been breached, a beachhead has SIU. The·niore benefits· the.Fund can piiy, the better otf every member .- been made in our unceasing fight against insecurity and fear. of ol~ age. . · .will be. But until the .Unfo.n is _positive the Fund can absorb additional · · payments without threatening the en~~re set-up, the best course is a Now that the course has been charted, we shall go ahead, .and the . slow orie. · time -is not too far distant when the Seafarer can face the unpredictable future and old age with the assurance that neither he nor his .·· · . . Meanwhile, it is of prime impor.tance that eyery Seafarer cooperate .. family will be left penniless should anything happen to him. . · ·.· --f ully to make the Welfare ..Plan work smoothly and with a minimum of confUsion; so that all hands may obtai.n their benefits in the shertest The Union has asked for, and received; suggesti~ns as to what the possil11e'··time. I Welfare Pl~n should provide . for. The many varied suggestions that · · have come into the Headquarters offices show the great interest of the What C.an Seafarers do to make tnis possible? Only a few tl~ings, d and all of them are simple and reason,ble. For example, when applying membership in this question. Some of the .replies were discarde at . for hospital benefits, see to it that you have with you the necessary .once, as they were already covered, eithe~ by present l'rovisions of the papers attesting to ·your eligibility for benefits~ .U nion contracts, or by Feder~l law. ' . When the We~fa~e Plan te~uest~ certaiI?-. infoi:mation, ~r ~he filing Others, however, were of the type that the Committee wanted of forms ~ch as It ' IS. now doing to establish the, benefic1aries of all and they have been seriously considered. When the time is ripe-that members, do y6ur bit by getting this information in at ~he first' possible is, when· the Fund is gre.a t enough to cover the increased costs entailed .opportunity., ~they will .be pushed by the Union· for incorporation. into the Agrf;e· It is advisable that all Seafarers learn everything they can ·abou:t ~ent. the Welfare -Plan---the eligibility requirements, how the plan operates · a.n d .so on·. All of this information appears in this special secti9n devoted Some of these, of course, are still a long ways off. Even a casual .contemplation of the costs involved will show that they are not cap~ble to the: Plan.. Keep it and. study it. It 1 contains every_t~ng . a Union <' of being realized within - the coming n{onths: A pension plan · for member need k.q.ow to see that he gets what he is entitled to. . t · . older Seafarers, a Seafarers Rest Home-these are· projects that must · be· planned carefully, that must 'be set up on a secure financial foundaRead your SEAFARERS LOG care~ulJy when asea or ashore. Any :tion 5o that they will not send the Fund into bankruptcy. _ announcements or .developments in connection with the Plan will be given full coverage in your Union: newspaper. The· Committee, in its negot1at1ons with the operators, always '" -· held in mind the lessons that it ha,d learned from other -unions-from --By ·keeping your ear to the gro~11d, by keeping- fully informed · ·_ those shoreside uruons that, in the first flush of victory in having won . on all aspects of the Welfare Plan, . you'll :.find that your benefits can , . . welfare plans and perision plans from their employers, set the beltefits .be obtaineil simp~y and quickly-without delay or confusion. - 50 high that these funds were soon milked dry and i.t'loperative. It The_ Seafarers ·welfare Plan is yout" plan. Help yoµr plan work . ;was'n't that tl.ie ~embers of _those unions didn't deserve t~ose ·~Jg~ · effi.c iently and effectively by .. giving it your cooperation. ' ; 1 1 • ~ . . . , I . • 'Great Ac_ hievement_ ', -S·ai- Negotiating QQmmittee · . / · We, the. undersigned members of the SIU Ne- ·, types of benefits other than those of .hospital and . ma.n ner, we can !iron out. any kind.- of ·ki~ks in gotiating Committee, hereby make the following death .. Such new be:q~fits will ·be negotiated on the. process. · befo~e we inc;rease ' the siz~ of ·d~r report" and .recommendations on the matter of . the basis of the amount of money on hand in ,th~ benefits. " : · the Welf~e Plan. . fund and the ability ; of the ~und's -income to In addition;"' by i· starting out· by paying benefits . We have negotiated on this matter of welfare pay S.@ffie. in the amounts .spown in this report, it . wnr·-a1;;. with SIU-contracted operators for a period of . a: The Plan at this--: time calls for weekiy hos:.. Jow the Welfare Plan to buifd up a cash. reserve. 1 over 6 months. We have come to a final agree- pital lienefits/ of $7.00 -.and death benefits of $500. of funds in such ~ manner so as to continue<the · ment with the · operators and attached hereto is . . . ' - . / . . ;successful ·financi~l operation of the Plan itself-. .. a complete copy of the contract we have negotiThese payments w~l b~ _paid m ~he sam~ ~anThe membership is to be made aware of ~the t, . ~· ~ted, subject. to the approval of our membership, ner as ~e ~he regular' Um.o n Hospit~l a~d D.eath ·fact once ag~in t~at, once ~he Plan is functidil· · · /( as per our constitution. Benefi~s paid now. In any ·event, there sh~~ be ing, and we .see t~t we have the necessary cash .. : r TQis contract, among others, makes the followno _wait for any of out me~bers for re~eip~ . of reserves pn hand j~~ ~he' i~~ome comes in prop- ~: · mg. provision_s: • . thell' benefits. erly, -we can at t~at tune, µ we see fit, re-hego:.1. The SIU Welfare Plan will not be adminisYour Committee feels that this Welfare Con- tiate any ~yp.e o{ ·new benefit . o'ur me~bership · tered by . any i,n surance company as is the case tract, as . it is negotiated, 'J'..epresents. great may feel lS nec~ssary for the welfare of Oltr in other union welfare plans, but instead, will achievement for our Union. It is to be pointed·out people.. .. . _. . I : . .. . . ~ . : be _handled . by representatives from . both the to the membership that, .t he ·: benefits ,we hav:e In v.1ew of th1st we the~:fore recommend the union and the company: as prescribed by law. agreed to pay under this Plan-are at this time foll~mg: I . . Not· usj.ng an insurance company will save con- few in num,ber, a'nd s~aU .iii ·~oun~ of mpney. 'Yfe recom~en~ to our1 .membership, \iVheth~ , sjderable money. The actual business functions The reason ·for this, is· that y~ur P'~n Negotiat"'. ashore · o~ on ship, tha~ . this contraef and report . of .the Plim will b~ handled by an Administra- ing Committee feelS that, before ··~uch , a Welfare be ac~ep'ted ii?. th~ir entirety.- . "· -tor,r-Who .wjll work according to .the contract and Plan ' as ours ' is _c~l~d\ on ~: · spend ,. ~oo much ._. PAUL ,. H~LL . ·., · . · . ...:._ '-under · sµperyi~ion of ·t1le Uni~n:· and Company· money, we sho't'ld ·first asce).1.aJJJ. as to 3ust wha~ . . · . . LIN~$EY WILLIAMS" . ,rtnJstees. · .. • ., -· the · entire' cost -.Will nm "into·;anil:<tpe .manner ih:· ROBERT MA~ E\l{S· . L~OYD GARDNER ·:). .; · ~.~ Th~ · Union~· has the right ~o. negotiate new which · jt wiU .operate: ·By ~anirig in ·a ._~all JOSEPH VOL:P · If=' .rJOSEPH A'LGlNA .'. · I . "). . a �. On ' this .page are answered some of the questions that have been asked of us on the Seafar~rs Welfare Plan. · As . with •nything new there are some .who do not iully understand the provisions of th~ Plan; . some who misinterpreted some Of th~ · · .~auses-on. eligibility, for ·example-;-so~e who were not quite sure about this or that. We hope that all questions have been.· covered in this compilation. But if you, have any doubt in your mind abol!_t any part of' the WeJfare Plan, do not hesitate- to- let · 5 Its know. They will be ~nswered 1 as clearly and promptly as we can. In addition, ·as· we poinf out elsewhere in these pages, sug~' ) · -gestions and criticisms 'a re welcomed by ·Beadqu~rters. If you-think you ·c an i·mprove the workings of the plan in any way, dr@P ,,. , its· a line. If you ·have ·suggestions as to -further benefits t~at can fit in with the Plan-holding in mind tha:t it has just' $tarted ;: and that its funds have not yet accumulated to any great, extent~ome out with it... If what you offer cannot be incorporated . : into the Plan· as ·y et, it .will be·held until the appropriate time-if it has merit. . . • . ··. Who is eligible for ·benefits. under the · Seafarers Welfare_Plan? . T • ~- ,, '- • - To be eligible to receive benefit&, a man must have worked a,t .least one day since_ an~ary 1, 1950, for any . one .of the companies .t hat ~e signatories _of !h.e Welfare Agreement. _. .r .• .. What are the benefits? Any eligible seaman, wl;io fulfills .th~ hospital requi~ements, will receive .seven dollars a week during such ti~e as he.is an in-patient in a quali- ·· b.ed hospital. However, h~ mus~ b~ -in such hospital for seven consecuti~~ days, . before he Call: - :r~eive benefit~; No payments w;ill be I}lade tor less than a· full s~ven-day .-P~z:iod:_-.Thus, a person in• a hospitil for twenty..:fi~e µay:s will \be paid _for . ttwenty-ot?-e days. _ Cla~s f~r h~s.pital -benefits . must be presen~ec!. in writing not later than· 14 days after discharge from the hospital. ' In addition, .a $500 death benefit ~ill be pajd to~-wliomever is designated by the ·e~igible seaman. The. beneficiary may be anyon.e the seaman prefers; not· necessarily the next of kin. However', if no. beneficiacy ·is named, the death benefit will to the legai next -of. kin> according. to the' laws . of New York .State. Claims for the benefit must be presented within one year of death, along ·with the necessary proof of death . 1: • "' .,: •• - • •·go' .. ·.Must a .. man, be hospitalfzed benefits·? tO receive ,.... ·- . Yes. To receive the weekly hospital benefits~ · · · ~.a member must · be a .p atient in a US .Marine _f{ospital, a US Public Health Hospital, or a hos-" '- pital located in a port in tlie continental United- · States· where · the Union or an e~ployers main.;. iairis offices. ' · .~ A .. niember who . is ~ 'patient in .any· !_lospital located in a .seaport · of continental ·United States· iS als·o eligible for the. ben,efits, provided' he en- · · · ' tered that hospital as the result of an emerg~ncy : <?D.ce: 11110re· the SIU has "brought home the ~aeon.·~ With its recently-won Seafarers illness or injury, requiring hiS ·.'re~~v~ . to the . Witlfan Plan -D~w o~ratlDg . smoothly. and paying benefits promptly to eligible Union institution .from a vessei ..du,.-~g -~'the ~(>ur.s~ .of .a ,.. -.. ' . ---·· . ·. . . _~. · ~rs;· 'tile SIU. ·co~tinued to set the pace in -establishing top wages. conditions and ·r. ' . r voyage. ~· . . ... ;:; -· . _ .. · ~Y in muttlme. - -.: . . . ... . . .: .. . I . Men· receiving .:h ome care . are:.·nGt· . entit~ed .1'<>· hospital. benefits. ,... .. - ....r" . , • k . . Are men in hospi~als ·in inland ·States covered under the Plan? Unit~ · : · "'·:r ·· ~ Seafarers in· inland· hospitals are eligibl~' :tio . hospital 1benefits, if' they are in -a Mar~ne~; HQ&oi ;< · pital or a United· St~tes Public. Health Hospital~:~·; The' US Public Health ·service maintains hos--;".-~ pitals in most -large cities through-out th~ coun~; ' · and no where iD: the country_is a seaman ~'many/ �• ' '! " iWfil~ fi':QJll a hospital • ~ • ·~ -) • ~ - • •- coverea under th~ Plan. Private inland hospitals,. howeyer, are ·not c-o v~~ed,- ··: . '. - . ..: The . Seafarers Welf~e . Pl~n· is. financed solely : Fund~ . ~by contributions-rnot one cent is " ' None of th e T rus t ees; emp · 1oyer or· · u" mon, • • · . shipowners' • ~ is . - .Approving· payments to men in private hos- paid 25 by t~e seaman. Each operator pay~ c~nts paid for the performance of his duties. The only pitals would be · taking a long chance, the trus- per workmg day for each man on his paYJ'oll ones who ar · · t ra· t or and'. · " e pa1"d are · th - e Admims .tees ,feel, be~ause there is no way to check o:o, · mto .· the Seafarers Welfare . Plan. -AU such paywhate ff' h ddt ~ • t th e · . ,-. . ~ I . • . . Ver 0 .l ee e1p IS nee e , ·O -carry. OU tlie men, whereas the m~rine hospitals' records . ments, regardless of when . any md1v1dual coin- functions of the Pl ·' • · · . are· standard and the trustees are wiiling to ac- pany._,signed the AgreeIJlent, are retroactiye to an. ,.. ~- · ·c~pt the discharges from these institutions. January 1, 1950. This provision was ·insisted up+ . ,.. . ' Can the present payments be· increased, on by the Union to .p revent stalling by any comAre men hospitalized in foreign port~ pay or companies, who might be tempted to pro- or more benefits added to the Agreement? long - negotiations to sl!_ve themselves money. Certainly. As .the Fund grows, the way is open; _-eligible for hospital benefits? ·Thus, companies which signed in August, ·for under the Agreement, for present benefits te be · ·' These men do not receive the hospital bene- example, ar~ obligated to assume the ·same obli- increased or otheF :benefits ·to be added. !\[any ·~· ' ii.ts, because · they are already well · takeh care Qf gation toward their employees as' those compan- su·ggestions have been made .b y · th~ · membership y;. under the provisions of the SIU contract. When - ies which signed in Dec~mber, 1949. for additional benefits they would , like to see a . seaman is hospitalized in a foreign port, -the incorporated. Howe'[er, under present conditions Who administers the Fund? · cofnpa~y foots· his hospital bill and continues to, ·-the fa.c t thaf the Plan is but a few months old, - Jteep him on the payroll at full wages until the t The operation and ~dministration of the Plari and not en6trgh money has been accumulated voyage is ended or until he becomes well, which- is the responsibility of six Trustees, three from to .safely expand the benefits~these are not as , -ever is first. The seaman also receives full main- the Union and three representing the operators. yet feasible. But there ·is no doubt that, as the · · 'terrance and cure, which amounts to $42 a week. The Trustees are authorized to choose, from out- · Fund expanqs, benefits will be increased. U:tider - To add 'the W-elfare Plan hospital plan benefits side their ranks, an Administrato~, who will di- the Agreement, · 60 days ·before Septeml;>.er 30, to ~~e money already being received by the sea- . rect the day-to-day workings of the Plan. Each 1951, either party. may request negotiations for ~ .~an might we~l give ~he operators an\ argument of these, of course, is. under the fidelity bond, for a change in the amC>qnt .of the employer contri' · .. ._ for discontinumg mamten~nce and cure pay- the complete protection ·of . the seamen. _S uch b,u tion. '' ~ents ·now in e~ect._ qualification shall make a man eligible. for the · next twelve calendar months . . How~ver; once What is · tbe life span· of the Welfare· · · , ..: ·Do men in mental hospitals qualfry f o~ hospitalized, an eligible seaman will · continue Plan? to draw benefits for the entire period he\ is in ; ;_ ·~~nefits? the hospital. The weifaire Agreement was signed for a period No. ·otherwise qualified employees who are of five years - and cannot be abrogated before .committed to an institution for the insane by a . Who are the Union Trustees? Jun_e 30, 1955, at :which time it will be ·subjecf · · ._ . -4-o~der ~re· specifically exclu _ ded from ~he · · ll R for further n_e gotiations by· the Union arid ·the C0 tu" Representipg· the · SIU ,,.are Paul Ha " - ober4; emp . loyers.· In the unlikely 'event that the '.ltgree-: ., o·s·p1·.tal. .benefits but are eli·g ible. for death hen_e- M · tth ws and Joseph Volpi·an The•... alte·r nates · · a . e' . . .' . • .u.. - ' . , merit is not extended, the surplus money ih: the: ·.&,l.i,;·. 'f.1'rrie· sp · ent in the hospital pri·_or to the is- who may act upon ·t he absen.ce· o·f an-y Un1'on - · "n. · ·' · · ··· · · ·Fund .will be transferred into any--new Plan tbaf '.~~.•s·,,.,_.,...,.-..._.. o_f the court order qu.alifies a__ member for Trustee are· Lloy·d Gardner - To"'eph Alg1·na and ,·' ~....... · ' · . ' ·" ~ · . may pe created or-if no new -Plan · is .·,agreed~ ~,\.; ~~e hospital benefit~· Linds~y .Williams. to--the -Trt!stees will continue· to· pay- out berte-·: &'£-· "" : . . · . . C~n the w·· e· l~J.8Ie ,i,; F · b e. · ·~Sat - ·..J f · ~0-W - ·-are dea .• th ben-ef1°tS Collected? . Un d ever Or fits under the' prese~t Plan 9ntil the' Fund' .be.-' ., ';, comes too small to function: . Whatever sum is '· . . . f d th b . fit b the purposes other than the welfare of the f . b . d. . 1et All app11cations or ea ene s Y . l"f" 'd ? · · · _w1 11 · · e · g-1ven to ·a mutua11y agree '. upon " · designated beneficiary must -be made to Uruon qua 1 le seaman· ' . seamen's charity or- charities. ~~~Headquarters in New York, and must be accomNo. The Agreement speeifically provides that It should· be pointed out, however; that .such a · ·, panied ·oy a certified copy of the deceased's death "no amendment shalr alter the·: purpose of the .contingency 'is extremely unlikely, · as the em-· , certificate his· book number and social security Plan ·or ·divert the Fund to any · us~ other· than ployer:s· - no. less than the ·Union :-· . admit ·the· Wi-~~umber ~r .Z:.numbef,· . and proof that the de_- the exclusive 'benefit'~ .o~ . qualified ·seamen and necessity for the Plan· and . agree . that it·· is'" a· l~ · "cea.sed · worked ~or one of the signatory com- . their dependents or next-of· kin. forward step for . the maritime ihd_ustry. 1 rr:- ~~ ~panies. ' .-: · S~ifically exempt from tne deat~ benefit are \ I :fhose deaths resulting _from war risk. These, how:>>- . covered by other provisions of SIU , ;i,t ' . SEAFARERS W.ELFARE -PLAN llBroadway . . - Who can be ,named as beneficiary? • Snite-, 612 . ·- Date ........................................... }............. .. .· . - . .,;-- I, ·················M············· ..................... ,.....-............ .- .......·...... , herebv · ~ , designaie .(-Please Print l'oll Name) .:................. '(Pi~~· ·P~~~- :F~ii. N~~~ · . · .· w • - iaMl~.a.ueled -t~qugh, ~-a· J>~a!ls .~ .it/,. . ' .. ·~~ ',I... • .-.. .. ; ~ ~- . . ·__,- . - · , . . · . • ~ ' .. • 0 18 · ' my ···· '.· ······.......................--;....... :... ·._...... : ...... .. .... , to receive -ihe (Relatiomhip: . Wile, Mother, Friend, etc.) · · · · · l · · ·- .... · r benefits under the S_e afarers W elfa .." Plan tqton my. '1eath. ~ . .......................... .................................... ·.. 'WiU.e8sed ~~:: ·-w-~·~;~-- ... ' ' • " • f • • • •• ············••!.•··········•11 •. ·········'•' ••···· ~ . ............... ~ Si~~~ . ·. :,'!· ·: i: . · ·· .:.•. ·:; ·;·:. ·j~I' -A • )" ................ :... .-·....._. .......... . ' ·. ~ On January 1 the companies which had signed · \tb:e .Plan began contributing money to the fund. _, . t fund lay dormant. until a surplus was built _-P,l apd on July 15 the Plan went into effect. The •Vni_p~ planned to start the Plan on July 1, but held, up until the .Bureau of Internal Reveriue .gave its okay tQ,.· the Pl~n. Death benefits, · -·W;~ .are paid ~ only in th~ cases of death. on or ' : r July. 15. All·,~~ath :b~ne'!i~ _clajms B;r~ hand- . " • ~ 1 ~-' throµgh . Headqu~rt~Ji~ · .aµ~ ~ho,uld · not . be . ~.r h i ' · .- a~dress~ ...... .~.. :.......... ., ...... :...... :...... city ......._. ...·............ : ....... ·stat4,' ....... : .:~. . h •. . ,· -. . . . • . This $500 now covering every member of the ;~SID A&G District is not assignable. In other '· words; a man cannot borrow money. against this · ·~ fusur~ce, ·nor will the trustees honor the clainis : ....t' i: anyone for .debts. The money goes to ·t he beneiarY named and to no one else. If the 'm ember liSts the money goes to his next ,,., .. _,no . beneficiary, . of kin, according to the insurance laws of New ~dtk State. ·· · . next of kin of Seafarers who It~ . since January . 1 eligible for the , d~th ·benefit? •. • . NewYork41tN. ·Y. . .: ..· .;,_ ·. l!J nder the Welfare Plan each Seafarer is cove~ed by a $500 death benefit. Thls money, unlike ,i .. the former SIU burial fund, is paid out to -the . ._ ,beneficiary named by the Seafarer whether or · .n ot they handle the burial. A Seafarer can name ·. -~"~yone he wishes as his beneficiary, his wife, :re_lative or a friend. · \ fJ . ~: " l ' ...... ·-· : •• ·W ltne88ed . ' ' • • • • • • • • • • •11 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • -. ' -. -. ... '· The above·r~ut shows the - Ji••~ impr~v~ ben~ficla'ry. 'i~~. i:~~e,~tly.; .--~dop~ec:J. ihe .P~~~- :~, . These forms a~e - b~lng distri,bu;_leC:f. ~Q ;a~l Vnion ~emb~rs when . they sign ·_artiqle~ _ aboa~d Sit~- ..,~ contracted spips. '· · ·, All Seafa~er~ arfit :urged to,·obtaJn_one o~: these fOrms'. at_-the ·sigp.·on -'. and :fiU ·u out pro:Perly, :· . designating the ~rson whom 'th~-- wS..~ as"beneficiary-for -the -$5bO·:IMnefit In ther.event· of. :death. , -,- · Note that the signatures of three Wltnesses···are required. - : ... · - -- ,, " '. . . , .~ ~. ~ Please fill out" one card· only,. ; Upon: conipletl:rig-the forms. menihers ahc>u:ld · turn them. over,· •.. ·. · r .. to Branch" offlClalS in . any:' .-~rt, or 'mail them. di!ect:. to ·1he Seafarers ·_ w~1fi!re 1>Jan.· RC>Oin' 6l2i -~"' ll' Broa dway,· N ew· 'Y'. · J&: J ~ · !i -' y ·.:.,: ... • . . . or .. • • . . . . . ~ 1. ~ .. A ,. . . -. . ..J'..:. 1»~ ~ f/1" '' ~ ~~ :-by • • . f • • • ' ' .... I • .- ,;. .. • , . :# ./ / ·'"'-' ..-.... ' ·: ' . .. • • • J • . - : • • t ... : ,...... . . I : ., 1 .:'ii. . .;.. < • " • ~ • ~ I .. .. .... . . ' . { It ls ..bn~r~an~. t~t . *~- 19~:"" ·_fU~; 'J.!rO,~~~Y~- otJa•~ise; . ~; •h• 1•ven,. :'>t4••t·~·. :P,~Y- ""·;! ment wlll ·he·-m• .to ·:n•t -~{•·k!zl.,_.,, ·r~cL~'l• ·1~e~Jo->'~. at_ pnc;e,,,a~ make,.. ~µre~'tha~- tJ.e- p,r:~ . .·. · ,!:.:.. "¥ 'a.d !I" "' .t. ,"•"' l '•. ·" •-i.;~ ~, i •:. ..i.:11 ~ ·~cL -A, , ._•.;, ', .r," :~ •' ·f• ., ~ 'J I • •• ,i ,...-,,i. -'4. 4 1' ,1• a, .. I ., r so~ you '!~t ~~!.yq\ll',.~M!D~u.i:. . ~~ -~P¥ .:~ ;"~~1!81 ~.; :fil.C.' .,i ~ ' f Yl .. ~ . ~·~ r·.:;·" -,~::·: '.,. ...,....';;! ~ '· y. -_. · >'i ~-• ·Jt. t .:. - ~:;.{ '.tt'· - . t.:..i ' · J<- '. •. 1' ;.J I '• �Co;ntplete · · Text Of -Welfare ·Agreement ·signed By SIU-Contracted 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 a~d JOSEPH YOLPIAN, who, with their alternates cv.id successors designated in the manner provided, · are hereinafter called "Trustees;" SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION·OF NORTH AMERICA, Atlantic and Gulf District, hereinafter called ''Union;" and the various Employers who, in writing, a~opt and agree to be bound by the terms and provisions of this instrument and any ame:ndments or modifications thereof, hereinafter called "Employers." collectively and shall include their alternates when acting as Trustees. 7. Seafarers' Welfare Plan. The term "Plan," as used herein, shall mean the benefits provideq. for in this instrument, including ariy amendments J:\ereto -o r modificatfons hereof. 8. Seafarers'· Welfare Fund. The term "Fund," as used herein, shall mean the moneys or other things of value whicli are under the control or in the custody of the Trustees for the administra·tion and operation of the Plan. stood and agreed between the Employers indi-· ,, viduaiiy 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 SUfh majority vote shall be relieved . of the obligations under this agreement and shall cease to be ·a party hereto, and no Employee shall be entitled to recefve benefits. under this plan by virtue of employment with such Employer. ~ · 5. The Trustees, in their names as TrusteeSa shall have the power to demand, col1ect, receive and hold the Employer payments and they are authorized to take such steps. as may be necesl. There is hereby created the Seaf~rers' Wel- sary or appropriate to effectuate the collection of such payments, including the institution and WITNESSETH fare Fund to be used for administering and ope- · . prosecution of, or the intervention in, any pro·. WHEREAS, various Employers having collec~ rating the Seafarers' Welfare Plan which is here- ceeding at law, in equity, or in bankruptcy. tive bargaining agre.e ments with the Union ~ave by created. Each Employer shall pay to the 6. The Trustees are authorized and permitted . agreed in writipg with the Union to creatE'. a Trustees for deposit into the Fund, currently on Welfare Plan for the benefit. of the unlicensed a monthly basis, the · sum of twenty-five cents to receive and accept from any source whatsoseamen employed by them ..for whom the Union .(25_c) per day per u~licensed seaman, represented ever any moneys or other things of value as a is the collective bargaining representative, and _b y the Union for the purposes of collective bar- gift, contribution, payment, dividend or otherWHEREAS, the said Welfare Plan is to be gaining, employed 6n. v,!?ssels manned· by such wise, for deposit into, or_to be madt! a part o( Employer and actually ·'1V'orking thereon. Stich the Fund. · known as the Seafarers' Welfare Plan, and or payments for.each m'onth shall 7. The Trustees shall deposit all moneys re- contributions . WHEREAS, it has been mutually agreed that the Plan shall be .f.or -a period of -not less than be made not later than·· the tenth of the second ceived -by them in their capacity as Trustees in . live years· and shall be irrevocable during the month su-cceeding that of the payroll termina- such bank or banks as they may designate fortions; provided, however, that the first payment that purpose; provided, however, that no bank' i>eriod of -its crea.tion, and : WHEREAS, it is desired to set forth the terms of e~ch ·Employer shall be ~alculated retroactive- shall be selected as.·a depository of the funds of.. · and ·Conditions under which the Plan as finally ly to January 1, 1950. Checks for contributions this Plan whic~ -is not a member of the Feder~ ag:reed. upon between the Employ~s and the or -P~Yments shall be made· payable to the order Deposit Insurance Corpq_ration. Things of value, other-than money, shall be kept in an appropriate Union is to be established and administered, and of "Seafarers' Welfare Flind." 2. An Employee is qualified to participate in depository as may .be selected by the Trustees, WHEREAS, it ·has been mutually agreed that and receive the benefits of the Plan the or, at their discretio~, may be converted into the Plan shcµl be administered by Trustees it is desired to define the powers and duties of the Employer is obligated to pay the Trustees the money and deposited into .the Fund. sum of Twenty-five cents (25c) on his behalf 8. The fwids shall be qsed by the Truste~- · said· Trustees. . . NOW, 'THEREFORE, , in consideration of the or such other sum . as may be agreed upon as (a) to pay or provide for the payment o't the . premises, it--is mutually und~rstood and agreed provided for in . Paragraph 4 of this ArtiCie, and benefits described. in Article Ill, Paragrap~ .1 shall remain qualified for such benefits .for a hereof, and (b) to pay for the sound and efficient. as follows: period of _twelve (12) calendar months. after the operation of the Plan, including the expenses of Emp~oyer's obligation to make such · ·payment the Trustees incurred in carrying out their dl!ti_ e s. ' ceases; provided, however, that in the event a as Trustees. qualified Employee becomes a patient in a hos9. M~neys, and other· things of value, of th~ pital such twelve (12) month period ,shall pe ex- Fund may be withdraw~ from any depository tended fo~ a time equal to .th_e time the Employee upon the signature of two Trustees, one of whom , 1. Employers. The term · "Employers," as used i~ so ·nospitalized; provided, furlher,-tpat no qual- shall be an Employer Trustee ~d one of whom herein, shall mean the various ~mployers of _· ified employee shall be eligible to ·receive the shall be a Union Trustee. 10. N~ ·Employer, nor the Union, nor the fu-:unlicensed merchant seamen having in effect a benefits of this .plan while he is so qualified to coHective bargaining agreem~nt with th.e Union receive welfare benefits"by virtue of employment dividual Employees shall have any vested riglits ~ and who are, or who may herea~ter become; s1g- with an employer :who ma~es no contributions to in or to the Fund or any part thereof except the :natories hereto. . this fund and who has ·a collective bargaining right of the .qualified· Employees, or their depend, ·2. Administrator. Tire term "Administrator," agreement with the Union. ents, or their ·beneficiaries or next of kin, · to as used herein, shall mean the Administrator ' 3. The-former Employees who~e naJlles appear receive the benefits provided for in the Plan to ·. on a list attached hereto and made ..,a part hereof which they may be . respectively entitled, and prpvi<ied for in Article VI here0f. 3. Employees. The term "Employees," as used who have had long employment with the Em- upon termination of the trust hereoy created, the erein, shall mean all of each Employer's em- players and - w~o, -on July _1, 1950, are unemploy- , funds shall be put to the uses and purposes spe, ployees for whom the Union is the collective able because- of physical disabilities, _are for the cified herein. 11. No Employee or dependent or beneficiary argaining representative. · · purp'oses o.f .this Plan considered Employees and , 4. Rospital. The term "hospital,"_as used hel'.e- ~hall , be qu~lified to receive the benefits of the or next of kin of an Employee shall have the -~, ~ s~al~ ·mean ~y hospital ill: the United States Plap. ~til the Public Health Ser;vice certifies that right to assign any benefits to which he or 'she or ' any of ·its territories or poss~ssions; pr-0vide.d . ·such. a fo~er Employee has no physical dis- .may be entitled hereunder and any such assign~uch h~spital is_ either a UID:ted :Stat~s . Marine ability which prevents his emplo~e11:t; provided, ment is v.oid; nor shall any benefit be s~bject ospi~al, a United States Puplic Health hospi- however, that the hpspital benefit~ .provided for to attachment or other legal process for or against · I,. a hospital located in a port in the continental in Article_III, Paragraph ~ (b) hereof, shall be an Employee or a dependent or beneficiary or nited· States where the Union or ·a n Employer made only when such disabled ~ployee is con- next of kin. aintains offices, or ~ hospital in a seaport in fined in a hospital as an in-patient. . 4: Eii~ef the Employer. 'l;r.ustees ·on behalf of e continental United States in which the Em:ioyee becomes· a patient due iO 'acute: illness· or the Employe.r s ·or the ..Union Trustees on beha~ •' jury which necessita.t es his being taken eff a of the' .lJnion may, upon application . within sixty ip during the course of a voyage. (60) days prior to Sep~ember 30, 1951 request 5. Union• . ·term. '~Ullion,'L, as· used· herein, that negotiations be opened for changes in the all mean the Seafarers InternatioiiaL Union of . amount of the . Employer .payment. No such orth America, Atlantic and Gulf District. · chang~ shall be made unless the Union. and · the ~· . ~r~t.~,s-. : ·(a), Th~ .term ., "Employer.....Trus- Employers by ~ajority vote ag:ree to .such change 1. The -Fund .s hall be used and applied for the . s,'' as ·Q~e.d, ~e~eih, ~~pap. .m~,an .:the ,trustees . and any change ~o agreed . upon shall not· affect · following purposes: . any of. the other provisions of this plan..The said (a)' Upon .the.death ·of each E:r,nployee qualified. . ppointed by the Employers. ... · . (b) The 'term . ''Uni~n Trustees," as· used herein; vote shall: be in : accor~~ce with the vote speci- to receive the benefits hereunder, other .t~an;, all mean ' the . trustees appoiri.ted by' the Union. fied in Article .IV, Paragraph 2 hereof, at a meet- death resulting from war· _dak. to pay or provide · -(~). The term.·"'hustees,~'- as....used ~er.ein-, shall :: ·ing. ·called , under ·the :proVisions .of ·. Article ·1v.. .for ·the payment to the- designated beneficiary,· .· an <Employer '. Trust~- ~d Union · ·-Trus~s . P..ai-agraph 9· hereof; , it ·· b~ing. .specifically . under- or in the absence of·· a ·designated . beneficiary, to . ·' ,., . , ARTICLE. ·II when ARTICLE I Definitions 1 .ARTICLE III Application Of ·The Fund · By The Trustees The .,_ �:, . . :.. -... · ~e next· of kin of . the d~e~ed Employ~, the ·. ~ ~ '-of 1 $50Q.OO. ~ .· · .,· .-- · ~. "- (b) 'The . paymen! · of hospital benefits in .the . ·· amount Qf $7.00 -per week to each Employee . . qWilified· to receive the benefits· hereunder dur;,.. ·iiig· such time as he is aµ in-patient in· any . bospital as defined in Article .I, P~ragraph 4 · .,: · ·' hereQt: Such Employee shall not be entitled to ~ ·receive any payment until he has been ~onfined _. 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 ·-~_ I days in the hospital from the first day of con1.: ·.. ' finement. Q~lified . Emp1oyees 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 a • . benefits as may be determined by unarumous ., agreement of the Tru~ees; the cost of such ac;ldi, tional benefits shall be controlled by the amount ·: . . qf. moriey. actually .in the .Fund, an~, bas~ on ··expe:R.ence, tp.e benefits it .is estimated the Fund ~". provj.d~ without undue depletion or exc~ssive . . accumulation. in order to accomplish this pur':: ' pose, tpe 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 proyided for in ,_....,. Paragraph i (a) of 'this Article shall not be ~/'. made unless necessary and appropriate proof . for such benefit is presented, in writing, to ' the · . Adntinistrator within one year from 'the date oL _-.: ··. the Employee's death. · · · 3. Payment of the benefits provided for. fu . 1r:l>aragraph 1 (b) of this Article wiU be made t6 ' ' tlie Employee personally or to a representative '. : · ~f the .Employee when such representativ;e has 1 • }\ been duly authorized to receive such payment «.;-~· on behalf of the _Employee; · provided, however, · · that application for the said benefits shall be presented, in writing to the Administrator not ~ -...: , ;can • · l~~~;l::(. ~;~~!if~~~~;·.' iii-patient. ,';/ · · 4: The Trustees shall not recei;ve· compensa~ ,. -tion for the perfermance of their duties as Trus~r ·· tee~;· but the Trustees are by majority vote au. .· thorlzed to be -reimbursed from the Fund, tqe :tast 0 { aii expenses incident to the· perfo~ance .... .:of their duties as ·Trustees and there shall be , >paid directly from the Fund the cost and ex·penses provided for ~erein and the cost of fidelity bonds and the ·expenses,. including counsel fees, of any suit or proceeding ; · (a)' brought . against the Trustees, ari~ing out '<· ~, . of within the course and scope of the · . · powers. and· duties of the Trustees; or · ·;· .. j · (b) brought by the Trust-ees as authorized in ".7.:·: : Article II, P~ragiaph 5 hereof. !.I{' ·I."._ S. ·If upon loss of qualification as prescribed ~-· _·t n Article II, Paragraph 2, hereof, a qualified . ·..,··Employee has, since disc.b arge from the hospital, , . :·,.. been continuously unemployable bec.ause of phy.,(sical disabilities, the Trustees may in their dis~-etion further extend the qualificatien- period ,'.. · ··.i ong a& the ·-Public Health Service .certifies that .;~ueh Employee should not be employed because - ·()fr ibis physical condition; , · ,;Ai .ARTICLE IV :Appointment Of Trustees . "' 1. _The · operation and administratfon of the tPlan shall be the joint responsibility of th~ three .Trustees appointed by the Employers and the . ~hree Trustees appointed 'by the ,..Union. The ·;; ·~ployers shall appoint an alternate trustee for~~~~ .. ·~mpl~yer Trustee who shall have full · aullionty . to act as a "Trustee hereunder. in the ~S~J:\Ce of the Emp~oy~r Trtistee for, whom he a8 ·aiierrtate: The Union spall appoint an l~ernate · trustee· ·for each Union TruStee who 1 . ~"Ji.~ve fuU authority to act as a· Trustee here. ~d'et' ·in the -"'absence·· of l tlie i.Triion ·Trustee for q }iviiJ.om lie a~~- a-s~·a terrlate, Any'' mrec!S?ssor Trus.. ;'. s: «, - ~.. f ,p • · ; ~ ' ' • • ' ' t ' ;. ' I I He • ., • · '/~ :.~\~.··;•:., ·~.!?~~~'" . ,...·. ·· · · '!':;~~. _ '-~~-: . · r,An~·l.~· :.~;.~~ ··::;?~~ ~· . . .. ·. . J)IJr/il/. ' Ul /I •:o.;··· .,,,... ~%;!:n~4 ~ar~!:;; ~~ ~:i,:;P~Y: aets . • . "·"':~~· . . . 'fJ.l\l ·.... } ---: . ~ .. , , , _ ., . ....~~ • r. . t . · w:-..:.:_.. r-.-.. · ·-;.f.e•• · '~~°'\;: . - _--~~~~~. "':'"f" · · No mailer ho" s.l ileere : 9r. well~intentioiied they may he.. tributes 9ffer DO ..Curity. Never the victim · o.f illusory lhlpklng,, the ·s1u has.· always followed a realistic ·policy in its hopes for broader economic security fo~· &eameD.. -. When the tumalt · and the shouting of World War II had di~ do.WJl• . ~nd iJ became apparent .t hat our pr0ud. efficient . merchant. marine was ·once aga~ ·to go . on the sc::rap heap. the SlU began to gl,-e . serious thought alid. mudi time to the development of a welfare program that w9uld ·g1ve Seafarers • kind of seeurlly never before dreamed o.f for seagoing wo~kea 'The result Is ~he Seafarers Welf'1'.e fJ~ . which _now gives Union' members. unable to work · r because of illness or lnJury.. increased. hQSl>U.a l benefits and pays death benefits to .their 1>4!ne-. . · · . ficiaries.. · · · · The SIU does not regard the Plan· in its· present form as the final answer to Seafarer$' security probleim. . Bathei it looks ui>on It as a step in the right direction· and the o~e whicli lies the hope for a brighter future for the men. who dedicate their li°'.!S lo sea~ This ls one of the reasous".w hy Seafarers look . upon their Union, as , thif o~ly solid monu- . ment C:l8dicated to ·their Interests.. · · · · ·· . . ,, . tee shall, .u~9n the acceptance-in Writing the right herein reserved by· the ·various Employers:: terms of this ·trust, be vested· with all the- rights, who subscribe to this· inst.rument. · ' powers and -dutie8 of his predecessQr. · . . . · 3. All Trustees and alternate 'JTustees . slialP 2. Succ~ssor EmploYer :.~ abd' successor · obtain.fidelity bonds ·in eqttal'·amoun'.ts· and to be . alternate :gmployer ~ .m.an be a~ted ' secured bY. such sutety ·companies ·as shall qse.: by majority vote .<Jf the ,varleus-- employers· who· determmed 'by the Trustees. 'The Trust~s sb;all,J are subscribers to this ··mstrmn~f at '· the ·time from time to ~ tune, ·~eview the amount of - said". · such appointmeritS ate made;: provided;· however, · . bon'ds ·as - compared with ·tile ·tOtal of ·the Fund· that ·not more than: . one ·(1) ···E mployer TrUstee and" shall. require adju,s~ents ·a8 appropriate.' t' or alternate 'ElnP.loyer- Tnt$tee~may be employed. -. 4. In ail meetingS' .of the 'l'rustees, fomr sh'a:W. by or affiliated ·Wttb the :san1e- ·Employer. Each co~ittlt,e· a quoru#i fer .th:~ transaction of ,bij~ . Empl~yer shall be entitied · tcf ~ast 'one ·vote· for ne~, providing«th~re at'e least tWo ~plo¥er­ each unlicensed se~~, r~preileptecl' l>y the Yn- Ttqsfe~s and' ~o· u~toh ::Trµstees pr~sen~ ~t ~lie ion, it ·would employ· at th~ tiln~ of· subsod6ilig · meeting; and · at ~ me~tings the Empfoyer ~~. to this instrument and -tbeteafter ·on Jilly 1 of tees and . the Uni,pn 'lT.Ustees shall have e.q u« each yearf if vessels' m$ed by . it' had a votitig strength.' ·.The v(Jte. o( any absent '.Tr\1$~ full complem_ent .. employed · t'1er~n · at?-4 rthe: sh~U·"..l)e cast· by tli'e Trustees present deSigna~'. nominee receiVing' the ·Jhajon~'f of ·the ·votes so by tlie- _saµie··p~y wiih +the ~rune ·force ·-and af• cast shall' be appomtetf by-::~ ·.tbe ._,_~Pl?Ye:r$: ' ·· .f~ ,.~s . ~ ·;~~ch ·a~~ertF 1 TruSt~:~s wer(' p~s~t.~~ ~j .. The' .Employe~s .who . ~~~~e t?. ~~s~ m~tru- tb.Ef ev'.eli~· ·~ny ~atter p~~~n~~~ · for,· 'dec1si~n,.,<¥,l ment reserve -~hems~fv~· tli.e .tj:g~t ,t~. ' ch'~ge;" np~ be '.ld.sc1ded pee~~~ .~, a ·tte .vtjte the ··mat'-~. at any ~e, th~·~provis~~ns )>f.fhi~. :{>*1-ak,i:apli ·1>~< sh~''te~-~· ~· ~at~' q\l~ .Pt:ndlJi(llll?itr~tipl).,~Q· a 'vote of 'tw<rthirdS (2/3~;~aj·cnicy:·,,o~ .~e total . se,t ·,~rtli llt· !\lltfole•''W~hereo~r L, '1.., .' /iJ;' · vote,s s9"-cast as above. P.reviei~: 'r)ie· uDibn ftilct: · -. 5!:iitonp'. 9\1~, 1With' Er;s. ·Wfosdaf lii,$ .'uI:.. the 'Trustees''. ere by'" b'b'1sent ·; .. a <attr~~ .'fol tlie'; fate,, .~iate' .f!h :a ~d, :with' I?ona.lq.,':w. I s"~' · in the of ·a.'. • 4 " ' ,., au j • 1 to t: . ,,r ~ "' r .. ffli' , • > ' e. ,,.,_l?f, • ' • 1• }i ~.. If " , •1.;"" ,r: it 11' for. i ~ , • '"rt l r • • . )•: ' �• bis ~temate Frederick ·c. ~bald•. with regulations to faeilitate ·!he proper functionmg Willard· A. Kiggins, Ji, is al~ernate,- have ·been of this Plan, · provided the same are not .incoJ14.: · ~lected and are hereby appointed and designated sistent with the terms hereof. . . Employer Trustees, and al~mate Employer 10. The Trustees shall appoint an Administra~uthority Liab~ities Trustees, respectively.. Paul Hall, Robert Mattor as provided in Article VI, Paragraph 1 nei~ , thews and Joseph Volpian · have been ~selected . of, and may delegate any of their ministe~ and ·. are . hereby ~ppqinted_ .and designated powers or duties hereunder to him or to any of · Union Trustee~, and Lloyc;I Gardner, Joseph ,Al1. The Trustees shall have the power to require their agerits -or employees; provided, howeve~ gina and Lindsey_ Wi~s h:ave b~n sel~ted - each- Employer to furnish appropriate Wormathat the Administrator and any such agent or ·and are hereby · appointed and designated alter- tion to establish that he is m~king full payment employee authorized to have access to money -or nate Union ~tees, any. one of whom ~ay act to the Trustees of the amounts requireq af set things of value· belonging to the Fund, shall obas a Union Trustee in the absence of any Union forth in Article II, Paragraph 1 hereof: tain a fidelity bond in such amount and secured Tru~tee. The '.J'rustees h~reby agree to accept the 2. The receipt given by the Trustees, or .any by such security company as the Truste~ shall ·t rusteeship ·and furtyer agree to·accepts1i1ch ·Fund person acting with their specific · authority, for determine. · for the purposes herein provided and -~eclare that any moneys or other things of value shall ef- . 11. Any Trustee or alternate Trustee may re-:they will receive and ~9lcl · tne Em.,loyer's con- fectively discharge the person or persons paying tributions or payments m.d · any- other · money or. or transferring the same and such person or sign . by instrument in writing executed for ..that preperty ·. or Rolici~s ~·Of Insurance which m'a~ persons shall not be ·bound to see to the applica- purpose and delivered to the remaining. Trustees; come into their. custody ~r ·under· their control tion of such moneys or other things of value or provided, however, no vacancy or vacancies in pursuant to this Plan as Trustees · thereof for be answerable for the loss or misapplication the office .of Trustees :shall impair the powers oi the remaining Trustees acting in the manner ~roger uses and purpo~es and ~th . the ..powers thereof. and duties herein set forth.: The ·~lternate Trus~. The Trustees by majority vote may obtain hereinabove provided to administrator the aftees hereby agree to ·~ccept the obligations and administrative, consultative~ legal, technical, and fairs of this Plan; and further provided that ·for perform the duties of a Trustee when called up- oth~r services and assistance which in their opin- ·the purpose· of determining the voting strength ~n to act as , a Trustee. ·' ion are . necessary or advisaJ>le in the sound and of the Trustees any unfilled vacancy shall ti9 considered an absence and the provisions of Ar· 6. All Trustees and alternate Trustees shall efficient operation of the Plan and to affectuate ticle IV, Paragraph 4 hez.:eof sha11 apply._ · be appeinted to ~erve for the duration of this · its purposes 'and objectives and all ·expenses iil· trust. · ~After ; the. expiration of the initial term, cident thereto· shaJ,l be a proper charge against all Trustees and alternate Truste~ shall serve the Fund. ·· for ~erms lasting for the duration of any new ·4. At _the first meeting of the Trustees they frust or, ejetension hereof. · Employer Trustees or shall elect a Chairman _a nd a Secretary whose their al~ernates may be removed at Will by the terms shall commence on the date of their eleGEmployers and ·Union Trustees or their ~lter- tion and ·shall continue for one .year, or until his 1. The Administrator specified in Article V, nates may be removed at will by .the Union. or' their successors have been elected. At no time ' Paragraph 10 hereof, shall be appointed as fol.7. Except as provided in Paragraph 6 of this shall both such office~ be held by\ Trustees des- lows: $."ticle, a Trustee can be removed only for .mal- _ ignated by the same party. In a meeting of the Trustees held for the purfeasance in the execution of his trust. Any Em- . 5. Meetings -·o f ' the Trustees shall be h~ld at ployer or the Union may initiate charges. of such place or places as may be agreed upon by po_se of appointing an Administrator, the Employm::tlfeasance against a · Trustee by filing such the Chairman and the Secretary- and may be er Trustees shall submit a list of twelve (12) charges wit~ the other parties to this agreement called by the Chairman or the Secretary ·upon persons as nominees for the position of Admin~ and with the Trustees. Such charges shall be re- five days' written notice an'd may be held at · istrator and the lfnion Trustees shall select from ferred by the Trustes to a Board of Inquiry any time without notice if all of the Trustees . the list one (1) individual who shall be the Ad:which shall consist of an equal number of mem- consent.thereto. Individual members of the Board ministrator. · bers appointed by the Employers and -by the of Trustees may not -take. any action for or on 2. The Employer Trustees or the Union Trus. Union. The members so appointed shall attempt behalf of the Trustees between meetings, exeept tees may initiate charges of malfeasance or :ids-; feasance against ·the Administrator and such to agre~ upon an· additional member to _act as as may be specifically authorized in writing. impartial chairman and if Iwithin a period of five · 6. The Trustees s~all keep full minutes of all charges sh~ll be referred to a Board of lnqtiiry days an impartial chairman is not agreed upon their meetings, resolutions and actions. In the under the procedure set forth under Article IV~ then applic_ation by the Trustees sha!l be made absence of the Chairman, the Secretary shall act Paragraph 7, hereof. ·in the event the Adm~ to a Judge of the United States District Court fQr as chairman and shall appoint another Trustee trator ,resigns or is removed ·or for any reason is the Southern District of New York, who at the from the group of Trustees to which the absent unable to. perform his duties, a meeting of the tmie is sitting in chambers, for appointment of Chairman belongs to act as secretary for the Trustees shall thereafter be held as soon a8 an impartial cnairmari. All, records and other meeting. In the absence of· the Secretary, the practical for the purpose of appointing a. new information avail~ble to the Trustees shall be Chairman shall appoin,t another Trustee from the Administrator as provided in Paragraph 1 of made available to the B6ard of Inquiry. If a .ma- group, of Trustees to which the . absent Secretary this Article. . ·jority of said Board of Inquiry finds that a Trus- belongs to act as secretary for the meeting. In 3. The Administrator shall perform the duties , ~ee has been guilty of malfeasance he. shall be the absence of both the Chairman and the Sec- delegated by him by the Jfrustees and his salary · removed and may not thereafter be eligible to retary, there shall be made pro. tem appoin.t - and the , salaries of his assistants, clerical or serve as a Trustee or alternate Trustee.. All ex- ments by the Trustees present. otherwise, shall be fixed by the Trustees and. pense~ incident to a Board of Inquiry shall be ·a 7. The Trustees shall caus.e to be kept true and · shall constitute a proper charge against the Fund proper charge· against .the Fund· and the Trustees accurate books of account and records of all their 4. Each of the Employers shall furnish to the are authorized and directed to pay such expenses, transactions as· T~ustees w~ich ~hall be audited Trustees, through the Administrator, necessary· · including the fees, if any, of the members of the annually by· certifie~ public accountants, or more and appropriate records pertaining to their r~ Board .. often as ·may be determined by the concurrent spectiye Employees, including records of the . ..8. If for any .reason a. Trustee cannot serv-e or action of the Employers and the Union. The cost names and classifications of such Employees; the · l;'esigns or is removed before. ·the, -expiration. of of all audits shall be a proper ch~rge against the number of days worked by such Employees with ~ the term for ~which ·he .is appointed, his alternate Fund and - the Trustees are authorized ~md df- place of employment; Social Security numbers, 'hall succed him _.until a successor is appointed · rected t0- pay such charges. Copies of an audits if any; identification numbers of the U.S. Coast · in ,.t.he same .manner .as the Tru!:!tee to ·whose shall be furnished to each of· the Trustees, to the Guard, and any ot4er information that the TrUS.: ~ice he is succeeqing .and,~.subject -to Paragraphs Administrator, to each of -the Employers ·and to tees may ~equire in connection with the sound 6 -and · 7 ·of this ·41'ticle,_shall complete the unex- the Union. A -statement of the results of such and efficient operation of the Plan. The Union • pi;i:ed te)"m. . - ' audits shall be available for ' insp~cti<;>~ by inter- shall furnish to the Trustees, through the Ad-9. Any Employer ;t.1.rustee · or alternative Em- ested persons at the · office· of ~he Administrator ministrator, necessary and appropriate records ployer Trustee is authorized f:lnd ·e mpowered to and at . such other places ..as may be .designated or other information available to the Union per.;. taining to the Employees as defined in Article ~ call a m.eeting in the. City of New York, N.Y. of by the Trustees. 8. Each Trustee shall be protected and held Paragraph 3 hereof, which the Trustees may re- . the var-ious - employers who are subscriber& to this instrument upon five (5) days written notice harmless · in regard to any action which may be quire ip connection with the sound an~ efficient -~ :and such a meeting shall be· called whenever a ·taken ·upon any paper or document believed by operation of the Plan. yacancy occurs· in the office of Employer Trustee him to . be genuine and o have been made, ex5. An C'laims for benefits shall be present-el l>r alternative Employer Trustee. An individual ecuted, or delivered by the proper parties pur- to the Administrator who shall, with reasonable. Jn.ay, at any such meeting, represent: more than ported to h~ve made, executed, or delivered the promptness, certify to the Trustees that the reo-. o:ne - Empl<;>yer and any Employer ·shall forfeit same; and :no Trustee sha~l be held liable for any ord~ available to him indicate that each benefit the. ·right to vi)te· ~t any such ''meeting at which: action -taken or omitted by hjm in good faith, nor claimed is or is not properly payable. The· TrUsbe fails.to. appoint and have present a duly auth- for the acts of the Administrator or a~y ag~nt tees, ·by maj"ority· vote. shall have full authority ~riz~cl representative ·but ·such' forteiture .shall -or employee · seler.:ted by the Trustees, nor for to determine. all questions of coverage ·and qualification to participate in and receive the bell'efits ·tn · no .way relieve such ·Employer of his obliga~ any act or omission of a~y other Trustee. ·tion.to .b~ bound by,,.any action taken or decision 9. The Trustees. ~re authori~ed to formulate of the Plan and shall have the power to con./and promt4gate any ·and all · necessary rules and. strue the provisions this Agreement a~d - the J:nade· at suchi1meeting. · and ARTICLE· V And Of Trustees ~ AR.TICLE VI Administrator And Records of �••·:.··Uied- que.mm. :., ·Phan: and~.~ .n.i.a ...t"'8n~~,-'ira/~~'1reft· e;.;, ~; ~:·Iii:;: anf ·beJein and · atiCh . determfued__. or any· ci>nstruction sa adopted by· ~··fie 'rila3o,.-ity ot the TruStees im good faith .·shall 1 _ ;i,e., .p irufing. upon· all parties . and persons cQn: ~· · ·'"" · · 'i.. ARTICLE VII·Arbitration , , 1. In the event the Trustees cannot .decide any ' .. , ~atter or resolve any. dispute becau~e of a tie - ...vote, then and in such event the Trustees shall 1 . •attempt to select an impartial arbitrator. If' the · jaid Trustees cannot agree on an impartial ar' . '.b itrator, application shall be made to the Judge .. ;' ~the District eourt of the United States for the · .;, · ~·qthem District of New York who, at the time, > . is sitting in chambers, for the appointment of an · .. ~partial arbitrator. · :., , ;-· 2. The decision or award, whi~h .snall~ be in . . ;"-' ~riting, shall be final and binding' ~Il.:. ail parties .... 8nd persoI,lS concerned, it being the iiit~Jj'tion that f; '.1.f llch written decision shall be mj.de ¥:thin -~ve " 'i'egular working days after the .Imp8ftial N.bi~irator receives all the evidence. j ~ · . b"t t· th f ·~ · .., In the event of an ar 1 ra ion e expenses d. • . . · ' . • . /.thereof, l.PCludmg the fee, if any, Q.f the Impartial _ " ;, ~bitrator, shaµ be a proper ch~ge . against- -;Uie 'Fund and the'"• Trustees are autli6rized and ~­ to pay ~bch charges. ·; · ,Jeeted . ~~ VII~I Miscellaneous ARTICLE :.. : .... L The E~P.Joyer contributions paid, or · to be . ·· .. paid,. into t!ie Fund shall not constitute or· be " ·· deemed w~ges paid · or due to Employees, nor Shall the-~Fund in any manner be liable for or ~e subJect to d.ebts, contracts, obligations, or liabilities of any of the ~mployers or the Union «. "" any of tli~ Enwloyees. . .. -~-~ - 2. None of:,.the Employers or the Union · shall '.. :· ~in any way b~ liable in any respect for any ~f ,~ ·jthe obligations of the Trustees because such ;~ ·,.Trustees ·a re off..icers of or- in any way associ~t~d _.'f " .ittth..any Emplpyer, or the Union; it being the . .:.·;tfii.tention that ~each of. .the Trustees designated f' , ·&s a l"epresentative of the Employers, · or, of. the ; · Uni~· . acts as ·a representative in a ·statutory ~:.J only and not ~s agent of any person, firm, · .. "" ·corporation, or- organization. ,. , . "(' - .;.. . " · \ _ 3. Whenever : this instru!llent sp~ifies that the \ Employers are · to perform any obl.igB:tion or duty may perform any function or take any action, '• · /~· provided for in ·Article IV, Paragraphs 1,, 6 '·· ~. tnd 7, Article ,V, Paragraph 7, and Article VIII; ,.. ·~Paragraphs 7 ahd 8, hereof, such collective obli. ",« llgation, duty, f®ction or action .shall be determ. Jhed in accordance with and under the provisions 1 ·:. ArfiCle . IV, Paragraph 2 hereof: / ;;ense , ot: :p1· : ¥<. -=- ·. • . • ·~--·~~).: .This Plan;.is accepted by th~ Trustees in".the t~le. Qt N~w Y<>TJ:t, and, regardle~s . of the .domjc~i: -~f·,_ the'· p~~~~s ,. ·hereto, shall' . ~, ~nt~rp~ed" .,. . 'ff . gov,emed: in accordance · with the laws of ... ' . ~ , at State. -'· - · · ;" } 2/ ~. The place of business of the Fund shall be . AW York, New York. Any written communica.._ n. .to· an· Employer Trustee, ".individually, shail We~. dee~ed pf-.Qperly address.e<l· 'i f addressed . to w- . . . ~~ 'emce .of such individual T~ustee and any .~i(j 1 :·.tten. communicat.i on to the Employer Trustees, Ue.ctively, .s hall be deemed,.'p roperly address~d ., addressed to the offic~ of :.the Administrator. .~Y . wfi.tten :c()J1lJiluni~op ·~tD the Union Trus~. eitper individu.ally , o~ collectively, shall be i'eemea· pr~ly add·te.Bsed if addressed to the i~a,~ql!~~~rs- Qf -the _ UJ'l,~n in New York .. ·~ 6~ ~ ·Plan ..sh(lll ~~t 'become eff~ctive uptU : ·~ '~ ;eQntri.butio:ns .011 p;,iym~nts thereto by the :ShA-ll .Jia¥~ be~l'.1- approvep by the Bu-,t''·....pl~yerf " ,~ ·ot ~rn,fd ·B;*:~JJ;~e, ,a~~~:I?rQper_ curr~n~ de.. · tio.qs f(.)r ~x P,._1gp0ses. . · , :. ·.7. 'r.hiS ~gr,eemep.t ~;iihlf ' Dec:J;at~ ~pf Welfare f' ,f , .,_ ' - • ... l . ~ ·:. . . - 1 ~ ' ~r r'f'· i F • • . ·•. ·~ ,_,_ -~~ ,~~ .. -~ ;·1 · '-= , ,, ) t •. • '· , • T ;,"· . I I tt', ., ~.: JI"· ' he~ ·~ay ~ ~endect at ~ ~r ~e· b~ an-·1*" ~·-~ · ~-~·~:the .~f.When : ~ · strument in Wri~ f[Sec\lted -~ "11 Of, ~e Ent.;: -residual ·moneys~.ah~ be given ·to such . ~-'1 ployers and- by the :cJmon 8;1lcl subscribed to hY>- chuity~ or . ch~ties· .as . the: Trustees in their dik the Trustees; p~cl~ -~~~"~~no amend{ . cretma·,sha:li -.det~ ·· ·, ::..: · ,,..:·. ment shall alter· the purpose of the Plan or di~. · &."'"'I ncome ·on · the""'Fuhci, ~ff ·earned1• is ·incidentWI vert the Fund to ~Y ·use- other 'than for -the1 otiy' 'ant! the ·P und' is not intended . to ·proouci exclusive ·~t of Empl~yees- qualified tG f.neeme·.i other than as may be collateral or in.; ceive the benefits, pr their dependents,.-~ne~- ci"'dent.'1 to its operation_ -and the providing of ciaries or nm of .kin. ( benefits anfl to avoid waste._Shc;>ula any income 8. If the trust herein c~ted ·is not e~d~ be~ eanledP it shall be ~edit-eel to tile: Fund and for a -specified period from· its tetJDination date, ahal~ ·Witft · reaso~ble dispatch be. applied . ancf· tlie Trustees shall, upon terminatiQn .or. liquida;.; eXpe!lded..· ~· -the .purposes · of the · Plan. Jn• the tion of ~he trust and the fulfHJment gf the piJr.. eV'ent the 1 Titlstees " ·d~ide to .invest or relnveSt poses specified in .Article HI hereof, transfer .any any- of': the rlriio~eys received by 't hem, :,suchdn~ -. surplus moneys in the Fund, to any new-.or. other .vestments ·or reinvestments may be . in sucll trust fund or welfare fund that · m~y be ci:eated. stQCks, bonds or other securities or pr.operty aa by 'and between the Employers and:.... the. Un- the Trustees in their, sole ·discretion. may dete~ ion. If the trust herein created is not· extended mine; provided, howeyer, that no investment ' or and .no new or other trust fund· or we~are · fund reinvestm~nt· shall be mad~ ·other than·· in'v~ is created by ud between the Employel'S ~d ments in which ftin~s of. 'l ife insur~nce· camp~.: the Union, then and in such .event, the Trustees fes, .organized' under the lavys ·of >the State ef shall' continue 8fter the termination date heiieof New York,' may be · legally · invested. '·. to perf.omi mid carry, .out the provisfoJlS of this ·10: This ,Agreement and ·neclaration of Welfal?e' " Plan on the .~asis that all ·Employees .then qtUali- Plan ~ay be exe~uted -in a .~umber of counter7_ fied to receive the benefits of the Plan shall . parts, eacli of ; which shall have the force of an continue to remain qualifted wtil the ·disbUl'se- .~~'\o:dginal. Subscribing Employers are not required . ~ · . ments of the moneys in the Fund reduca the ; to· execute more .than one counterpart. ~ ret ' I • untilmidnight,June~1M: · al - tlt~, ,. ,._ j~en ~:Ji~- ~~· ~1>e..,. ~·1 H,.,.;· . �.i · ··· ~- ~ . ~ -- . Fort Stanton Men , Aide~ By Crew Of. 8orthwe.ster.n Vic Yoling Seafarer Sails Under Foreign Fl3g, « Leams _WhatOldtimers Mean BY Blue Linen~:: (The wtiler of the following letter ia a re.tired Seafarer who rec:enlly graduated from the Colleg.- of the City of New ~ork and has gone lo Israel to observe conditions there. In this letter, and another lo be published hr a sUbsequent issue, he tells of conditions aboard a ship of the new republic.-Ed.) · 'The hospitalized Brothers bere · at FoJrt Stant-on wowd . Mke to To the Editor: ,We our thanks in the SEAFAR- . ' E1lS LOG to the Brothers of the Standards achieved by the SIU SS Nor~hwestern Victory for the have not as yet been obtain~ mone¥ they so thoughtfU11¥ sent by any othel" union". I am now to us from Portland, Ore. · sailin' as 2nd Cook and Baker The .money ' was - split. among ,on an Israeli ship which is orseven of us, whose names and ganized by the Israel Seaman(s book numbers are as follows: ~ Union. This ship is a Canadian · Peter Smith, 30567; William J .. ' Victory-type, built ,in 1944 and Faviour, ·36183; Gidlow Woad, J was recently purchased by the 1~15; Joseph B . . Lightfoot, 7453; ·Israeli-American Line and put · A. McGuigan; 22945; R. A. Rat~to service on a N:ew York, ciiff.. 102016, and the undersignPhilly-Haifa run. In -fa¢t1 this ~ whose pook number is 27835. D~pite that sharp look, Ma- is its mai_ d en voyag~ under the ! Thanks a lot, fellows, and good ... dillna Mane Murphy wu ·i Israeli ftiig. . · . lJACk to you 'all. · , · • · .a . . ...u ..... __ Although I ha¥e :been with · Donald Mol>o"nald · mare a•• ~ monthl· viv. w.nwa the crew since. they · "took her Hos~ital_, D~legate· ~·· photo -. was taken. Now over in· Halifax, Ne-va SCGtia, I pushing 11 ~onlbs. she's ~· have· .seen. .Gmy.. one case of JOO Boyer Says Sgt. Hand's daughter of J'im Mu~hy, 3rd action. Th~ Bosun was asked by Reef•r· Engineer on the· Puerto the. crew aft to speak to the old Is Place To Fuel Up WALTER BLAZER man about the deplorable conRico. To the Editor: ditions that _existed. They re~ Just to inform ·the boys of Harry The Barkeep fuSed to work ·if these coridition8 the storer-ooms and boxes. We place where they cari meet wer-e not corrected. had one day in which to clean all their SIU Brothers, dhie and-- Changes . His Setting . They -had received ·a set of her ·UP and take on the meager ' ~et their whistles when they To the:- Editor: linen, c0ilsistmg ·of one bath stores we were to use till we drop anchor down yonder in towel, one blue sheet, one blue reached New York. She should "N,00 Awleans." . Here's something some of the pillow case ·ahd one ditty olank- have stayed at the dock another ··And that's the Austin Inn, 416 .fellows· ftlight ~ interested in et. They had nQ mattresses, no week. C!._hartres Street. It's operated by kaowing: . . . soap, no matches 'Mid very little ·T he Bosun made some demands our good friend Sergeant Hand. . Hal'.ry, , or "Red," the bartend~ _cfmw. The- ship- nad just come· of th~ SkipP.er, who assured him ~ Occasfonally, · Moon . Kouns er formerly at the 1'r1idtown Cafe out of ah eight·~onth lay-up' that all would be taken care of 's~ps :~P · and puts. one· on. Hold in West .47th Street,. New York and had many broken pipes, in New York. Everything would el(erything! . I mean,,- a song. City, is now working -at McHal<?'s lousy foul water and in gen- .be done 1n New York..;....gold in. . .. l'ercy · Bo.Yi'r Bar at. 335 Eighth Avenue. eral was· laid.heads, platinum seats, every. .. SS Planter J'ohn (Bananas) Ziereis . The galley was filthy as wer,e thing-but New York was two a: &DaW: Aleoa ~ -~ ti . Of - U.n1·f · or~-w ··. e_ a .. :- r1·~g -~aws ~ueS ~!l a ·aa J..IC Opp08JDg • ' rb' ':t ' 't· • weeks away. Cargo in St. ~ John, ; New Brunswick and Baltimore . saw to that. It was hurry up ' and wait all the way to New York. In New York conditions def-";.~ initely improved but they never .· did reach SIU par.' Some of tbt!·'. inequities I have noticed are: 1. Topping booms with thr~e; men plus the Bosun while the · "' , · ' others chip paint. ·~ 2. The 4-8 watch going to wor.k,fr-· ·• ·. at 7 AM- and on their afternooii~t · .. watch working till dark. r • · 3. Messmen going on the dock:~.: .• for stores--no overtime. .lr ' 4. No overtime for loading ·· · • ~ , stores even after _7- PM. 5. Messmen cleaning geeing heads as part daily work. · 6. Mates working on deck day. , .,,, 7. Securing for sea after leav- · · ing port. After we left New York there· was a better supply of lineii and soap but I found out that the crew aft did not have sprnigs · ' on their bunks. Most of the .i , r ~ bunks were constructed out of : · ·wood and the dirty mattresseff that were taken from the _officers' quarters were placed direct- ' ly on the wooden base. We, the· ·.: . Cooks, were lucky to have. . ':I .. ' H spqngs so they took away out · ~I v1·ewsmattressesandgavethemtothe· ,· ): crew. We were- supplied with:- .. · ' / · · ·· , thin straw roll up affairs. Each · ' in t'liat -coi:li'llry' gOt ·themselves -sia or any _o f its satellites. t;lniforms as it identif:ies the time I lie down the spring ~ ' 1 uniforms. it ·may : hwe helped When. a man puts on a uni- wearer. Most people abroad have and I hit the wooden base any:.:·-· En:ct-,·o f f~eedom their morale~ althcmgh :t aeubf fonn 'he prunediately loses his w<trt:t some uniform at some time how. · "'' it, but it certainly ' -did ·help individuality and becomes just of· their- lives. Or, their relatives LONG HAUL I hav e noted, . with deep inter- smash the &~e trade wiien _mov~- •another guy ,in a mob. D~n't get hav~. . . , . This ship is so constructed . est .the ola argumenf ·o:t "l:lniforms ment of Qermany. · me wroug, Im not knocking the Some time ago, after having that the chow· must be carrieq. 'for .mschant seamen ·:Which· was _ During Wotld ·war II, ,. Rus- armed forces, for their uniform ,had a shipboard discussion about fro:r.n the galley, which is mid-·.. started re_gently in ~he LOG, so sian · ships' · crews . C'ould always ·~ a necessary part' ?f ~iscip~e uniform.s, :t~~ ·.DM and I went ships, ·way back aft where tlle·; ·· ~ I would like to add my opinion be seen wearing monkey suits- ~ a ne_cess~ otgamzation. ashore m civilian dress. crew sleeps and eats and 3Jso' . 't o ..those already ghrin. and brass 'Quttons but you or" It is ttue that some .men feel A couple of days afterwards; forward to the saloon. Two Mess-1·_ . ' ~ln 1933-i. ~hen the: Nazis tqpk ,. anyone - ~e never heatd "of a they have mo~~ security. when I put on my. blues, and the· DM men work aft and they have ta · · ·over Germany, , a lot of p~ople . militant seamen's t.Ulion · in Bus-· they wear a uniform-thats why his old USMS 2nd class petty of- set up, carry the food, serve it,; · · many go for them. · But that ficer's blues. What a difference! breakdown, wash their dishes,} : t · is definitely. not . the ,,, attitude The people treated us more glassware and silverware, serv-·· · -AFL seamen have shown, nor is friendly. We were- charged less ing spo~ns and carrying po~/ . · '.· . .. ~ " it the attitqde that built the SIU for merchandise. In some cases then clean the messhalls, ... two•. · : ·to its ·present strength· and mili- we · received free drink$ and heads and the aft passageways. ,, ;:,;L ·' tancy. were invited to homes and had On SIU ships .this work iS' .. k No Brothers, for, my mon~ a a general, - goad time. People done by two other men-a dish- "·· ;~ - ._,b y lJenito. Zieliits i unifprm foY: seal!!-lm spells the just opened up. waSher and utility. In tlie .(::.:•";~~ , ,, .end of 'civilian status .and in.diWe asked: · "How come?'' An- loon they also have two men but:·· · ;_ ·>Jae'i~ ,i i -.~ f~·- ~·.]~§;._far -to t.~e west~ . viciluai frei!dom.- So. let~s . kee-p swer: With you Americans one only because they are carrying . \ ~ ~-. · ations our sailors free. We have enough never knows if a fellow in civil~ ele~ passengers. ' lBe~~-b~ ~mott· prospetous of all fl · trouble with the ' Coast Guard ·ian dress is a worker, a businessTh·e· s-- 1 00~ Messmen have 1't! ' / ,A. ,.,~hu•-. of Motlier E-1'th that is greatly bl~ · Wllera. p,eople live in brotherhood.. and patience. ,Without being part of it. in-an or a rich plaboy. All you easier. They don't have to carry · · ~ ~There, 'fHl'I 1.:igo~ ~• .,., men set feet after many ~ala: · Allan ·MacDonald ' feilo\vs dress pretty- smart, ·bet- the food: as far and they don't ·. '...,, . · ,. ~ li th fr ·ter than our mayor on a holiday. have to~ do any heads. Instead;,_, · J~nd .~J!iadi' it clear .14at th~~·fiff ·.Should ve !lJllOng 8 ." · Can Be Useful ~ Who-can tell the difference? And they have to take care of the 1·· :(~~~ ~ve~ creved !hould ~hip- according to its own d if a .f~ilow . can afford to dress stor.e-rooms and the linen locker./ . ( J: . conS:C1ence: .. . ~broad, He Fin s· l'k . h ll th .One thing they cherished most 0~ all was personal liberty.. i e t at, we en we can There is a fifth man who makes ~ ' . · · .To ,t he Editor: charge him more and get a few up· the '25 sacks- for the officers ~· . .lfbw that the world is threatened by nii.$ery Pd· 4~lon. .111 your ·recent . issue "Mrs. o1 his su:rplu5 dollars. and passengers and in his spar&.,,; ~ · ~•· aie- a~,·aff~d to _. , ... ~d tar 1?'~· truth . ' ~ook No. 50688" Suggests the But, with you -fellows ih uni- time paints and soogees. · , ~ ·. · · wearing of neat uniforms by our form, we know · where we are. The Deck Department carries.:; ' , 1 To -~eep ·~:rom feeling ~h! 1~ Of 8}• nism, Flung at -~apioccmt P89P~• 'by lackeys 1~ by shameless leaders. · seamen. · Editorially, _ y.ou.- ~e. Yau work like we do and you two· men to ~ watch. One is mi'~·,. ,. ·.~ patrip~ ~ ~ w.Ufully .~ - to ~atic:ilm; . . .a gainst it . but you also btvi·t e don't make -t oo darn much money AB and the other is an Ordinaiv.. ~ . ' ~~'ft ,8• tbF ~.... l~'riD!r· ~Ov~ .~~ .bebbu:l in ,cha,ins ,. ·~our· re.adellS .t o discl.ISS this con-· .either. So we won't oveFCharge. They take turns at the ,wheel. .. .'..;,Digb)man ' w...-, thim th. inqui&iti.oD'f dark~ -clay1,, ~ . "ti-oversial subjP :.. .t The DM and I tried this ·ex- During . the day the.y work ·OD i, < •' t X "~...::i....a:.. _ > I + I '°L.· - - " -'Ls<iil o .&'L.-1• • ' • •1< , ~at m,akM *d-;r.--,... , ~a ,.u~ ; c:m.u ~~Te~ : \Y'ell.-lrert. .0 £e my two cents; periment in. France, Italy, Eng- · deck in their etf hQUl'S. '· '} ' '\Ve~ ~'' !told~~ 0u piiiadlpJ-. ·. wonh of o ;ti: . . '.' land. and North Africa. Same T_!US has ~ written whUe v_,~' ·..l~·. i,laoUlcl ~ - -WldriwbMf '",iOf ~~ ~et ,,mike lt:: ·pays ..JJ .• wear , a unifo~ thing all. over. · , ·we are still at sea. I will . write · ' ti" r' »l:.r. . . . . · ~~ · · : 1 _ , • • • ,.1 • -1 · ~. ~ , ";"""~ ·-,. ' · _ ,. · :y.>hen i81!1\1..Ke abroad! ~ , Well-I h•ve ~tuck my~ neck a -sequel ..when ·we an-ive ..r, ~··. · •· •11 -~ :1 -'h~H · ani ~om· • -~·· tsam91-;-~ · · .. ~ '. _: ;lb. ,Europe,; ·~ ;gJ~tflU . and ·,~t. :yvho's next?, .. · • ' H~-.~- OUI' 6rst ~of call. 1 • ,, · · .1~" - ' . .. •· • - ~~ 1 Plft~~;; <'· . , . iSO\I.~ Ameriea, · · ~ple .r~· ·~ ~H•wse ' Pipe~· . Waller;,-...r .. ~· 1 •1....... 1 ·. • ;" •]!. ~· .~ ·u~iforms i\t~n . _ . Amer1:ca L~g:A-Rliythiil.s. . --. . 88 '&4 :our · .-, · <"' : •; • - >; ..' ,. • l : I '• ' I •i:t It ' o. 0 ' ~. '1 j,: )' ·, ~~\. I ' "\ , I . , , /j ' ' .f �. .. ' PAOLI. Aug. 13-Chairm.8.n. LILICA. J)ily ~h~~ Robert Brown; Secretary. MauB._. ff~ ~now; Secretary. H. O• ~ce Culp. Delegates reported no Ridgeway: Delegates reported all beefs. Mike Prochak elected okay. :Motion carried t9 buy new Ship's Delegaie. Four men reicebqx in Frisco, also have lifebelts ·replaced. ~ quested letters of recommendaCARO 'TO tion and received same. Delegate 0E~EF•C•ARY. UNDER iHE Sl!AM t ·t t · repor-ted that too many men are W&LFARti Pl.AN WILL SE G\VEN -ro'rb) PETROLITE, Aug. 19-Chair· quitting ships at the last minman. V. Perez; Secretary, H. vJHE:N You· SIGN YOUR ARTICLES • TO .ute, making it almost impossible Rosenstiel. Delegate- talked to PRE-.JENT ..CONFUSION I AND "'10 PRorECT to replace them. Captain about painting of crew's · YOVR tNTEReS'fS : . ' . · ;t. t,. ;t. quarters. Ship's Delegate . read TAINARON. Aug. 9- Chaircommunication from New York man. M • Burns t"1ne: s ecret ary. p • Agent. Delegate reported that Fox. Delegates reported no beefs. ALL he felt the crew had had a minEngine Delegate reported that FORMATION D imum of. performing considering 1st Engineer i.s unwilling to co• StSN YOUR ~· IN_K,.. the extreme length of the . trip ope~ate with different members and the little time ashore. State• WHERE NAME. pf the crew. Crew made up a ' ~ent by B. Haper that anyone HAVE: INDICATED. collection and sent wreath and writing to Union officials about, telegram to Brother B. F. Bean· SM1PMA7JS crewmembers . should do so by ~n~ his wife expressing sympathy to to " having a meeting first. FILL ·sEAWIND. July 26-Chairman. in loss of his son, who died of ru..11 v ~ ;\; t.. t UoweVE -r•&..1 l»'E · .John Reisback: Secretary. E. polio. Chairman Burnstine gave TRINITY, July 30-Chairman, Boyd. Delegates' reports accept- an explanation of the Welfare To R 1 1 You B. Sweeney; Secretary. P. Pia· l-IANGI? YOUR ~ ed. Boyd elected Ship's Delegate. Plan from th,e Shipboard Forum. acik. Ship's Delegate reported F=1c1ARy -n.tE Fl B&IEDeck Delegate reported on shore t. t. t. $23. 75 in ship's fund. Ship's Delegang replacements in Germany, MAy Do uru~, MOTHER M. L., Aug. 13 gate also reported that Port ·:;,nd it was decided to have crew- Chaiz:man. J. Rawlins; Secretary, ANy liME. So A.I . Captain had insp_e cted mattres· , f;nembers notify Delegate in ad- J. Byrd. Delegates reported numses and agreed that they were Qf ', ~nee if time off is desired. Crew ber of books and permits in poor. quality, and he would see . ·~greed to allow Stewards De- their departmenis. Delegates insuppl~er about having · them re~ ·· 'partmeilt to get overtime paint- structed to investigate cigarettte placed. Vote of thanks given ing their own quarters if deck shortage when ship hits port. Ste~ards Department for a job men have more painting than Vote of thanks given Stewards well done. Vote of thanks given they can handle. Department for efficient performRadio Operator for posting the ance of duties. ' to " t FRENCH CREEK. Aug. 19 not dock until 3 PM. Motion baseball scores daily. SEAWIND. Au·g. 20 - ChairChairman. John Harvey: Secre- carried that letter from Chiwawa man, John Reisback: Secretary. tary. Bl~ckie Wagner. Delegates about transportation in Lake $ $ $ • E. Boyd. Motion carried not to reported some . .disputed over- Charles be- concurred in. Brother - CARRABULLE, Aug. 17 P.ayo·ff until all beefs are settled. time. Motion carried that meet- Manl~y gave a good Union pep Chairman, Willi~m; Kuschke; Discussion concerning replaceings be alternated so that both talk on the importance the Cities Secretair. T~omas Johnson. Deck . ;i:ients for missing Stewards De12-4 and 4-8 watcbe!) · cqn get a Service- drive means to the en- Delegate reported some men partment men in foreign ports. chance to be present. Short talk tire tanker industry. were ~rying to settle their own Blood tested replacements were by Wagner explaining how ·the. beefs instead of referring them found hard to get and crew de· ;\; ;\; tWelfare Plan can help build a $ $ $ to department delegates. Motion cided that Stewards men double PORTMAR. Aug. 13 - Chair- better Union, and that thei Union FAIRISLE. Aug. 7-Chairman. carried to contact headquarters up _and replace each other when man. G. Douglu: Secretary. V. is considering the establishment George • 1:eide~~; Secretary~ or 'ge~ a Patrolman dO\vn to ~ime off is required. Mey~r. Delegates reported num- of a ; ~redit union. P. Nau1abs. Ships De~egate re- settle Article 3 section b of the ported on. . condition of water contract. ·Crew feels they 'are ent t t ber of books and permits in their $ $ t tanks. Various Stew~ds Depart- titled to money for ' their shoes . CLAIBORNE. Aug. 20-Chair- departments.' Deci~ion ~.ade to CHIW~WA.. Aug. 13 - Chair- ment complaints were ironed every time they enter tanks for . let next crew rebuild ship s fund, G • Brac t on: S ecret ary, H • man, cleaning, when no boots . are pro'.. : · D t t d $ . as . present . crew h a d pureh ase d man. A. Lewu: Secretary. Bob- out to satisfaction of crew. 59 1tt . . . G runes.- e1ega e repor e - t. t. t. vided. . • f d D t ted washing machine. Schedule made art E. Hommel Delega:tes' re:. s h 1p s un . e1ega es repor f . . · . _.. _ . f up 01 rotatron on care of wash- ports accepted. Motion· carried to THE CABINS. Aug. 13-Chairno b eefs. V ot e of th ank s t o Chie . . . El t · · f t· t . mg machine. All hands asked to have ventilator from head conman. Joe Viuonelte: Secretary•. . . ~c ncia? or rm7 spen repair- coopeJ,"ate in keeping messroom tinued on up to next deck. M_p- J. JCouyardu. Delegates reported _ ·mg washing machine. clean. tion carried ¥> see Captain about no beefs. _M otion carried that ANDREW JACKSON. Aug. 13 ....:.Chairman. Wesley Young; Sec· ntary, Hyman Pitkofsky. Delegates reported few · beefs. Ship's Delegate V. · E. Bunak · read Ship's Bulletin and led discussion on Welfare Plan, War Bonus and Insurance. Motion . carried that all beefs will be submittea in writing to Ship's Delegate for , qiscussion with other , .Delegates · before being presented to boarding Patrolman. Purpose is to get 'beef accurate and to eliminate petty beefs before . ship docks. 'llie OFF~IAL PESISNATE~R RS Nec:r . l· . f~''!r 2 ir.--1.--.3. RE~~~ • WITNe~f{EE • ourYouRSIG"NAT~ ·94 . ~ c You &.1{1c.-~ IN •· 1 t. t. i, awning for fantail. Discussion on Delegate contact Patrolman co~SEATRAIN - NEW JERSEY. need of another messman be· cerning the work done by CapAug., 22-Chairman. Walter Bey- cause of heavy .work load. ' tain ·and · Mate. Motion carried .. der: Secretary. Gene Auer. Dele$. $. · $ · ~hat no one payoff without okay . gates l'.eported number of books FAIRPORT; Aug. 12-Cha:lt· of Patrolman ~nd no vouchers . t. ;to and permits in their departments. in8"' D. C • .Jones: Seciretary• .J.I be sigqed before. the. payoff.. Ste- . LOGAN'S FORT. Aug. 14 _ Ship's Delegate reported that 'o ne Gibbs.. Delegates reported every- wards Department given vote of . Chairman. Charles Shaw; Secre- man missed ship in Edgewater. thing · running sm~othly. Paul copftdence. . " · tciry, William Morris. Delegates Steward informed crew that Port Morris reelected Ship's Delegate t; t; t · $ " $ $. • reported no beefs. Pumpman Steward in New York is short- and ~iven vote of thanks for . DEL NORTE. Aug. 6 _ChairPUERTO RIC01 Aug. 20 . ·wanted to know, when the other changing on stores and sending fine. JOb do~e on past; voyag.e. man. Bankston; Secretary. Lewis.' Chainnan. Reid Humphries; Sec· . . Pumpman came back from his inferior supplies. Motion carried that all fans m S gg t' d th t ftball retary. George Boney. Delegate crew ~ess b~ cleaned,· rep· aired t. ~ - esb ton tmt a e afr a sto 'd pointed out- that coowniembers va:cation, who was going to pay t. t. t . earn e go en up om ops1 e h -. · i. ·his transportation back to New OREMAR. Aug. IO-Chairman. and made to oscillate. for 'a night game ·with the: crew ·are not · ~o us;, t e passe~ger. · York. :.. He was told to see the A. Harris.on; :.iecreta.ry, Edgel in Santos. · Discussion on how· _gapgwa! m San Juan. Del~ga.t~ . Patrolman when th ship got . L D 1 l t k th h. . • f ,. reporte""" bn number of . books -., · e m uzur. e egates i·eported no arge o eep e s .t~ s unu-. and ' permits· in their depart:. 1 port. Chief Mate to be seen about beefs. Motion carried that someBrother Bankston explained the··· . "' £ " - ' ·a "th" · b .- "" ._.i · 1 ..# f · th t' · . t f d n+' t menis ..an · · e num er OJ. _ m~IJ, ~ . 1 .. ~--~ans or; . e recrea ton room. t_h ing be done about securing for ~p~r anc~· o t e uc~1ona ~ee - paying off. Ship's· ~d reported 1.· .-_ ·steward agreed t<>' a cold meal on sea at Cruz Grande. Brother mgs, not on~y for. perrmtmen a~ $SOO.l 2. Chief ·Electrician· re.i..'. h~t Sunday evenings. Cobb reported he was almost ?ut f9r book hoJders also. Var- ·ported it would be · necessary for ·· t; $ $ swept over the side while dogious crewmembers spoke . on ~e him to see the Chief Eng'i neer JOHN B. WATERMAN. Aug. ging down at night after ship . need for . a. ifeater , variety m about additional fans for the I-Chairman, E. Buhrman: Sec- had left port. Amendment: That $. ~ $. meals an~ improvem~nt of the glor¥ hole and messhalls. - ._ " retary, A. Martel. Delegates re- Headquarters take special note FORT BRIDGER. July 9 meat. Editor of ship's paper -. . · parted on number of books and of this situati!'n. Patrolman to C~ A. Arthoefer; Seer•- repo~d a staff meeting_ would . $ t. . ii . _ permits in thejr departments. be requested to bring LOGS and tary. M. Olvera. Discussion on be held the followi:qg · day and ·MASSMAR. Aug. 13-Chair· ~ Motion carried for letter to be ·overtime sheets down to~ ship ·loggings and pe:rformings. Pump- contr,ibutors were invited to at- man. E. Hog~e; S~etary. W. written to headquarters in refer- as crew has no time to go to man sugge_sted that men whp do tend. . . ' Compton. J?elegates reportrd no ence to the manner in which the Hall. not smoke refrain from purchast; t t beefs. Suggestion made that · . 1 last St~ward left the ship. Dist. t. t. iµg cigarettes for . sale · ashore. . ALCOA PLANTER. Aug. 12-,,. more v~iety be incorp.orated in cussion on keeping quarters, recELLY, Aug. 6 Chairman; Steward reprimanded f-0r being Chairman. -E . Cole; Secretary. H. meals. Motion c:arried that there reation room and laundry clean. John Fedesovich: s 8 c re tar y. late at meeting. . Gallagher. Delegates reported no be, ~o card playing ~fter, meetin~ t. $ · t. Thomas Dyba. Delegates' reports t. t t . beefs.. Committee eleeted, to sum- ·begm~. , ' ·· -ELIZABETH. Aug~ 20-Chair- accepted. Fred Israel elected FRENCH CREEK. Aug• . 9 marize the incidents provoked · $ $ t; i ~ ~· Ferrara; Secretary. R. Ship's . legate. Wipers accept: Chainna,n. William ~anl1ty; Sec· . ·by 1- ~rother in Los Angeles ~nd ' KATHRYN. Aug. 6. - Chair.: -~ralicki. Delegates rt:;ported some· et.:. ; .:sun's invitation that· the retary. Blackie Wagner. Motion give report ·to Patro~man. E. nuan. ..L. Guellnits; ~ secretary• .s. disputed· o.vertime. Repair list to paint officers' rooms. Motion car- carried that men who- came ~e · suggested that Delegates re- 'Masten. , Delegates, ireported 1'e hand.ed ' into the- head of the ried that Union be informed 'that aboard hi Port Newark -make sign :at e11d of each -trip, {lS- they ieve:rything 1j>by. Motioµ. ca11ried de'partment.· Men who take time Steve Johoski. AB. was taken out .an expense account · for · sometime assume too mu~h re-, ~t .-:·'1st As1:1i~tant.' draw ·m~ Oft were instructed · to call .a off ship on July 23 at Guantan- transportatiop. . and ~two .~eals, sponsibility. ·-Ship's , Delegate cleanllig gear for W~. ~o~iou · dby and get in · writing the imo Bay, suffering from acute ·:i,hasmuch as : they 'were · to re- conuiu~·ndej:i.. for the.. good job he carried that . an improved:, bra11d ·port at 7 .AM the ship did 'did du;ing~ trip. . ot coffee b'e put aboard the sJUl>• . oper paymerit f~r work done; ·appendicitis. " '° 1 md �MOBILE-Chairman. L. Keira. I ...28393: Be cord in~ s.cretary, J'&111H · I.. CarrolL S9; Reacliag . ..Clerk, Harold J. Fischer, 14. Minutea of other Branc}). meetings read and accepted. Port 'Agent reported on the prospects ·of shipping in the n~t two weeks. The SS Carroll Victo~y. -be said, taken out· of .the boneyard, is going to South Atlantic Steamship Company and will crew up within ·a week. He ad.v ised the membership to take jobs off· the board · b.ecause thlti ·would' eliininate need to _ issue emergency cards. He · also reporte~hat the city's 70~day bus BtriJFe was over. Headquarters · repqrt and Secretary-Treasurer's jilu,mcial report we~e. D~ad and approved. Meeting adjow·ned at ~:30 PM, with 1S5 members cept committee report that G. ~ _,. P...eteusky be allowed to become • · reactive-. Under ·New BusineS'S,,. · . motion (by . H. Gunther, .second- t ·· ed by W. Lamb) carried thatf .4R£c. SHIPPED -REC. TOTAL SHIPPED SHIPPED TOTAL STWDS. · ENC. REC. DECK ENC. STWDS. Sj-{IPPED meeting go on record as in; ' ,1·• structing Headquarters to inves- · · ~ 13 11 43 15 17 9 41 tigate possibility of increasing , . 131 127 76 395 88 61 225 war risk insurance for maximum , 21 27 21 23 86 21 69 of $25,000 for seamen. Meeting . 73 (No Figures· Received) 83 51 207 adjourned at 7 :45 PM with 300 ~ 20 16 62 6 2 1 9 members present. 3 14 1 5 3 4 ~ ~ to (No Figures Received) (No Figures Received) PHILADELPHIA - Chairman. . 42 60 37 121 41 47 148 A. S. Cardullo, 24599: Recording 82 66 67 203 79 91 252 Secretary, Bill Rowe, 34607; 24 112 19 16 60 26' ~ Reading Clerk. G. Everett, 38389. 4(!_ 36 49 135 59 63 168 Motion carried to accept min. 368 411 349 _1,171 412 360 1•183 utes of previous Branch meet- . ings as read. Port Agent said on the half-hour, instead of on had been six payofffs, five sign- that shipping had been good for . the hour. In discussions it was ons and 30 ships iri-transit. All the past two weeks and that the . .pointed ou·t that the motion's beefs have been settled either prospects for the · immediate fn- intent was to eliminate confu- at the payoff or sign-on, with ture appear bright. He added sion, inasmuch as the SUP had exception of one on the Del Mar that , the John Stagg ~ad paid job calls every· hour on the hour. which will be squared away. off with several beefs due to- a Meeting adjourned at 8:10 PM, Brother Monson, the SUJ> Agent gashound crew. He pointed out with 30 members present. in New Orleans, asked SIU men that this was the kind of stuff ' t " " to understand that if they take that membership repeatedly went NEW QRLEANS - Chairman, ships here, they will not be ptill- on record .to cl~an up. He thankLeroy Clarke, ·23062; Recording ed off on West Coast but will ed the membership for its coopSecretairy, a• rm an Troxclair, remain for full voyage. He is in eration on the door. Motions car6743; Reading Clerk. Buck Steph· need of ABs. Communications ried to refer written excuses to . ens, 76. read: from crew of Jefferson the Dispatcher, and to acce!>\:: Minutes of previous meetings City; from Central Trades and communication from the Marine in all Branches- ~ead .and approv- Labor Cou~cil urging unions to I Co:rps League. Headquarters r~..ed. ·Port Agents r~port stated support Wilfred Desamare for port and Secretary-Treasurer.."s · that· affairs of Branch are in Representative of the Sixth Dis-I financial report. read and a~·.; very good shape and that ship- trict in coming election. Mo- cepted. Meeting adjourned •at : ping had picked up since last tions carried to ac~ept commun- 1 7:30 PM, with 111 membeTs·" meeting. Since that tinie there ications. Motion carried to ac- present. · ~ ..; A&G Sllipp;dg· FrOm A•I· 9 To Aug. ,2 3 REC. DECK PORT Boston.................................... New York .......................... .. Philadel,Phia ......................... . Baltimore.............................. · Norfolk~ .............................. .. Savannah.............................. Tampa .......................... :........ Mobile..:... '. .................... ,...... :. New Orleans ......, ................ Galveston.........:.................:.. West Coast............... .......... . 19 137 42 GRAND TOTAL ................· 454 I 26 6 42 .:10 62. 50 1 ================================================================================= Agent d~cussed shipping · in the port, saying that it has been fair. He ieminde4 JJ}en no~ to '- '- " . be £hoosey about jobs and to SAVANNAH _ Chairman, E. take them as they appeared on M. Bryant, 25806; Recorc:ling boapd. He also .blasted the Secretary, K. -0. Broadway, report. issued by an W)Damed 88215; Reading' Clerk, G. w. government agency, which pracBiµoneu, 37344. tically recommended the liquida. Motions carried to accept tion of the American nierch~Pt Headquarters report and Secre- marine. ·He asked. for a· :motion tary-Treasuret's financial report t? conde~n !he recoromen~a• as read. Agent said that shipping, tions. Motion...mad~- and earned was very slow. A few calls for that the. Umon go on record jobs came from ships in the cond~mnmg the government- agyard that had" recently come out ency s report. In Hea?q~arters of ·a yup. He also said that the report to, thetmembertsh1p it was 1 Union had sent a wreath to the reported tha ~ due o the fact mneral of the wife of SIU mem- that many ,ships had been taken ber Paul Thortan, Minutes of o~t- of the G~lf ·boneyards, and ptqer Branch meetings read and will b~ · operatmg_ fr~m the 'Yest approved. Meeting adjourned at Coast, ~eadquarters had assign7:30 PM with 29 members in ed Lloyd G~r.dner t<?. the Coast bttendance. · _for the duration of the emergt t- t ency. The move was made to , NORFOLK _ Chair an Ben protect the interests of the mem-_ Rees, 95: Recording :'ecr'etary; ~ership ·out there and .to give James Bullock, 4747: Reading them broader representatio~. The _ Clerk, J. ·wyiin. report also s~at~~ .that if the emergency situation warrants 1 Minutes of meetings in other such further shifts, the member. '!\rai:iches r.ead and ap~roved. ship will be informed of them ~o.tion carriE:d to .~onc~r m R.e- as the n i eds arise. The repo~t C~~L S.M ITH • JAMES DAVIS mst~tem~qt .e.omm1~tee s report. .further said that meetings with KARL HELLMAN You can claim your galoshes Commum~ations. were r~ad, and Cities Service representatives .Get iz:i touch with J. Frank in· the baggage room of the New those. askmg. to be excused fro~ -were ·continuing and that the Kelly, '204 S. Royal St., Mobile, York Hall. ~etmg ~e~~~. r_eferred ~o the par.ties were separated by a few Ala. He says he has important $ $ " pispatcn~~· . Mob?n ca:ried -to ma-jor points. Meeting adjourned information for you. J. SCHENK elect repair and inspection coi;n.- at ..7 t45 PM. · . :t. The pictures you su~mitted 7 ~ittee to chec~ our ·. heatmg ·· . " . '- I; iPETEJl BLUHM are very interesting and t -> I:.OG plant . .The following were electGALVE . ·sT'l'>N Ch - • ~ Your draft board classified you would lik~ to use them 1t the ed L J A A ~· IU rm. an . . r .R : C othnzellr 0 wdencs,. o' . S. . de .1s, Keith ~lsop,... 7311: Recording as 2-A until . August 1951. It prmts ar.e too ight for repro1 • ? re . an . . ~un ers. Sec:retarr, . C.. M. TanDebi11, asked that you give them your duction. If you can let us have M~etiµg a.d Jeurned at 7 .30 PM, ; Roding Clerk, .R. Wil~ present employer's name. . the negatives, · we may be able 25922 with 65 me~be_:s .present. ,bura, _ • • ~ ~ to make more suitable prints. 37739 ._. ._. ._. RICHARD J. ·EGAN _ Please let us know: Editor, SEA., BALTIMORE-Chairman, :WilMotions carried to accept 1t • N . . FARERS LOG. ' u-• Branch minutes of all ports, SecP1ease get ·in touch with . .aa.au Rents,· · 2644.S:' Recording to $ · $ Secretary, . Al Stansbury, 4683; retary-Treasurer's financial re- E. Wheaton, Manager, Uncla1mROBERT M. GARROD Beading . Clerk. Leon J.ohnson, port, Headquarters re~rt to .t~e .e~ Equities Division, Prudential - Contact Draft Board, membership. Port Agent describ- Life Insurance Company, P.O. Local No. your Upper Darby, 108. ed shipping in this area as pretty Drawer 594, Newark 1, N. J. 59, Pennsylvania. ; Motion carried to accept min- fair. Motion . carried at· 7:20 PM Important to you. utes . of other Branch meetings as to . adjourn meeting. $ - $ $ .' . TROY$M.$ ckvER ~ad..' Several , men were excused· -:;_ ,.. ·$ . S~ WINTER HILL .fr.om the meeting upon valid • • . Conta~t Catherine Carver, 422 ~~uses. Port Agent discussed - 6AN FRANCISCO-Chairman. . ~en who were aboard this Neckar Ave., - Com;ord, Staten : shipping in the port. Motion car- Jeff Morrison. 34213i Recorc;ting slhp for: voyage that commenced I~iand, N. Y. J'ied to concur in Port Hospital Secretary, R. E. Melay•. 50404: on or about ·March 10; ·1949 and· $ " $ (b ·Reading Clerk G M. Hildreth for the voyage betw:een the FRANK J. ANDREWS ·•tt" , t M t• C ommi ~e s repor . o ion Y . . . .' • ' d t f M 10 1949 d J T T M t ) · d th t 11 37371. a es 0 ay ' an une It is important that you get ,.. · ..or 01,1 carr.ie a a ·. . 14 1949 and who know any- · · · men be in the Hall the morning Minutes of other meetings m · h! t' th Lnf Ed . m touch with your wife at 71h · m · the a11 B ranch es. read an.d . approved . B t mg o b e d..LL!Dess o .· . wm · N · J ac · ks on St., M obile, Al a. . • f)f September 18 to aid th 1 11. e1~ction w6rk. ' Discussion :on men: Port Agent reported that ship'- rewer- ~ ot a~ ."th eHs ip, pRea~e , " " t; .. . , h' . d h 7 . . •. • th erman aJ:,Jc.an~LT H•~P'C'R tms11mg Ore s ws a.n avmg pmg m e past t wo week s h a d commumca Bee .wi . St -4 ~n.nu n.n ~ . ,, · 2 1 to• be replac~d off · the . dock. been f:O~·d. Two .ships paid off Bson dQI? . '. N~ammy· k er mNe.'y · Your wife's new · address is to..iv.u~etm~ .. ' • • •t H e roa way, · ew or 4' · ·· · · 5216 E"ig hth A ve., B roo klyn, adJourned' . at 7:35 • PM, an d th ere were 2·7 ·m- t'ran~i. . with 208 members present. s·a id that the next couple· of $ "I; t. New York. She asks that you : . $ , ·to -t . .. . . , weeks look goo~,. \oo, with a SS SA'lfDCRAF7 write to he-r there. · 1'0STON ~ M~eting • lac~d a .nilmber of ships . s~heduled to . The below.:named inen.. s~rt $ t. 11 quorum, so special m,eting w~ _call here. · He asked the mem· Vivors of . the Sandcraft smkm · CARROLL E. HARPER ~eld f6r p.u~e of . cheeking , ~i:s · to' . pay · a :visit tb Un~ort . on ~~lY. 2, 19?0, · are ~ged to "Please get . in touch with me. lilipping cards; ., ·. ,, BrotJiex:s in ·_ the - lac.al Marµle get m teuch with Madeline Old- I'll be on the beach when you . -:. ~ t " ,·· · ~ . · 1*ospital. Moti?n carrl~d to · ~~· field! Chief ~ocial Worker, US get home: Frank Bianco, 310·Jef; · N·E W . -.1' o ·R K \.~ 'Cflairm&n; fer all .iex'cuses··-to -the ~rial and Marme fiosp1tal, Staten · Island ferson St., Brooklyn 6, · N. ~.'' , ~Yi· ~Ar~, ''29838:~ ReeOCd~ ~<?use· Ce~~i{tee.' T.he· · f?llt~- 4, .N. Y. · . $ $ - t. Becr,etut, Fr~e· ·&.ewa,t~. ng r~ports were .read and. ~on.. :Myiles ·St'erne, Ben Schwartz, .RAYMOND L. l'ERRY s:~ Reading:' Clerk, Robert curt ed ' in: Headquarters, · Rein· Charles Vf· Cothran, , .Fr.ank Mo"' . . Your wife, father and sister ·· htnra. L. ' . - • • ~ statem~ntj ~ccmmiittee, -'!lrial· aiid ran,. Persons ~ Campbell, Ra- !p'e worried about you. Please ~u~e~, 0rot~.er . l!h;anch :~eet.-. ~cuse ·.~~~~~· .~otjo~ - car- jner ., J~ Raner, ~anuel A. Pope,. get . in touch with tthe~ at 120 ·s ·i&ad ~ ~i;ia "' approve·d~IJ ;Poi't r1ed ·to 'have JOO ·ca~ every hQUr and Berke Schtiler. West ~erson St., Meh'ose, Mass. the °" " °" ,!,a 1 = ts,:·· · }I~., ' ' JAMES H. POPE The insurance company is · ready to pay for damages to your home under terms of your policy and has deposited the · ~· money in the registry of the Court. You are requested to get in touch with Chilton Bryan,. Commerce Building, H9uston 2, Texas, in regard to this matter. to ' to JOSEPH SMIJH Get in touch with your family... r or the SIU Port Agent in Phila'- ·~ delphia at once. :i. - $ "' ~ CLIFTON B. COLE Your . mother is ill. Get in / tc;mch . with E. Cole, 139 Fay.....d. weather St., Cambridge, Mass.. · r . "" ~ . ( ARNO CLUE GAnNET •I'.'[ Get in touch with Mrs. ShirleY1:l Wessel, 25 South . Street, New... B .. . York City. ..1.r . · ~ .v " ~ CLYDE BUTLER Your mother is very anxious.I to hear from you. Please write.-x to her at 125 Merchant St., Bilt~'I more, l':lo. Carolina, as soon asq possible. NL " $ ~ 'l"OM LANGAN II : t~) Please mail your present ad..~ l dress to .t he LOG for publicatioll':> in ·these columns. A number ofi't your former shipmates on th& Steel Mariner are anxious to communicate with you. "~" · HERMAN JOHANSSEB · Y-0u are requested to get hi ~ · touch with Mrs. -0. M. Bennet~ ., , 856 Little .- Farms Ave.,- Littleo Farms PaPk, New Orleaiµ; : 21,rs ' Louisiana. ..q · .. �'IY Agent .Rips -. li~u,idators {J.f Merc.hant Fle·et By .JOE ALGINA • NEW YORK-Fair· is the word Did you .know that, as a result o currents and edd'ies, for shipping in this port. During the Hud~on River deposits from 2 to 18 jeet of silt against' .the past two weeks, we held our the docks on the Jersey side betwee ·Edgewater and . J erown. Although it could have sey City. The Seatrain pier in Ed~gwater is one of the been heaps better, shipping was not~ing . to really gripe about. hardest hi~, with an average .mon~ .Y accu~ulatiOn of Getting down to the· ships that 1.46 feet.- As a result of this, the Seatr~ slip has to be • _paid off in the period just end- dredged .t wice yearly to maintain thel nece~ary· thirty-:foot ed, t4ere ·were the Frances, depth. ~ Puerto Rico, Elizabeth and Mon· i .'roe, Bu 11 Li nee s ; Claiborne; While we are "don't vou knowing, ' we hope we are not Chickasaw and Fairisle, water9 revealing military secret; when we state that 32 SIU con"." mai;i; Seatrains Texas and New tracted ships are under charter to the l\1STS and undoubtYork; Coral Sea, Orion; . The· edly on their way to the place which I am not supposed to Cabins, · Mathiasen; Evangeline, mention. Anyone who does not get what I mean should Eastern· Couer d'Alene Victory . · ·11 h · f seaw1n . d , s'eat ra d ers,· write me a. personal letter and I w1 isend t -em copies . ' C arriers; . . · o ·a nd the Trinity, Carras. news pertammg to the Korean War. B the· way, Waterman The Coral Sea, Claiborne, alone is operating twelve of those wa ;ons. Their names are Couer d'Alene and Seawind .were none of my business ... Seafarers who lsailed the St. ·Auguson foreign articles, . the Fairisle tine Victory when she flew the Isthmi~n flag will be happy wa~ intercoastal and the , rest to know that Mississippi Steamship Co; is reconditioning her. were coastwise. Francis, sometimes known as Frank, (Blackie) Otvos paid . Signing on were the Robin -Tux.ford, Coral Sea, Couer off from a 4%-month trip to the Far East on tlie SS Steel d'Alene, Steel Worker, Isthmian, Mariner to learn that he }:iad been a ~nalist .i n c'o~p~tition ~nd the Christina, Carras. for the Ruskin Scholarship . to-Oxfprd, I but ,had missed out because the Mariner had stayed out longer than orginally _ BUREAUCRATS AGA!N I f " ,f , .... . Attenti~ii · War Deparimenf: Eddre Larkin, i memb~r ·of this Union who occasionally forg~ts pimself and ships out as Electrician, }\as vital information for you~ He pinch~ ed a cu~e wa~tres~ in an uptown,,. nightery and is nq:v( . qu_alified to tell you _all .a~out "flying saucers/'... A. Wilk, through his mouth-piece, Paul Gensorchik, informs us that his forn:ie~ buddies in the ~arine C~rps ~re. now op th~ firi~ line. , · .· .: To give credit ·wh~re credit is du~, the . following· wa~ ·lifted verbatim from the "SS Puerto Rico Advocate," which is ·printed py the crew of that ~hip: ''For the benefit of the · new men, the itinerary of 'this .cruise and distanQes between ports of c~ .are as follpws:. New York to the 'New Carioca:-+J.399 miles; San Juan ta the 'Hotel · Jaragua'~ 239 miles; Club 77 ~o the 'Ca.r ibe Hilton'-232 miies; 'Ba'y; view Rest' to Hudson & Jay-·1410. Signed by MGM r~ leases-'Murphy-Goldman Marbles.' " · 1 I , . Steward . George Stei~berg's so:µ, Calvin, pitching fo~ the Cleveland Indian's Class "C" farm te.am, the '~Mattoon Indians" pitched· l?<>th--ends of a . double-header and won both. Cal gave· up three hits in one game and··faur in the other. Musta been g~tting weak. . . . - The Seafarers · w ·e lfare :Plan has sent four checks of five hundred dollar~ each to beneficiaries of deceased A new high- in bureaucratic scheduled. Anyway, Blackie, we know you weren't behind me111be~s to date. Members hospitalized at .the various TB stupidity was ,reach~-d last week the door when the brains were passed. out. hospitals such as Fort Stanton; Manhattan Beach, N·epon• with the recommendation by a Quite some time ago th~ Union went on. record against set, etc., have writteri numerous letters to the Union ex.;, government agency whi.ch in ·efgashounds, performers,. weedheads and lsimilar breeds. · As a pressing their satisfaction and pleasure over the increased tect ·c alled for the liquidation of result. w.e have not only been ·able t-0 k~p and improve· our~ weekly 'benefits they n~w receive as a result of ·the Wel~ our merchant marine. · conditions, -g ain inestimable respe~t for seamen, maintain a fare· Plan. ·One men)ber .at Fort Stanton writes, "Where . For apparently good re~son, _ . the government agency respon.- strong Union and lead seamen in · theiv eternal fight to im- . once we had . to dep.end on the generosity of our Union •, : ,,sible. was not named. Here's prove their lot-:-but we 'have also kept the Coast Guard .and Brothers w.ho made :·domttions - from · aboard ship to keep · ' · . what it recommended: the military at bay in their demands to take over the US us from running short of cigarette, candy, . stationary ~nd 1. That the 50-50 provision remerchant marine lock,stock and ships. 1Certainly now, with toothpaste money, we are now well provided for. A pa~~ quiring half of the Marshall Plan cargoes to be shipped in Ameri- these people looking for excuses to take us over if the war out of the hospital is now a pleasure, for there is a dollar 1 can bottoms be done away with. hysteria. ouilds up, this. Organization i~ not going to relax, or t\YO in our pocket to spend. fo. million ' thanks· to th~ few crackpots and pertormer~ jeopardize all ~hat SIU."-and a milli~n than~s to you for your lett_er, Brother. · 2. That the government cease and let payment of operating subsidies. the seamen of this Union- stand for . .If l an~one ·reaQing this TQe arm~ reports clearance for Jap tramp cargo ships 3. rhat 100 tankers and dry fits into one. of the unpopular categories i l isted above, let hi~ to hit ·us 'ports. Some joker in Washington . wants a bill cargo ·ships be transferred from the American flag .to foreign na- stand warned that if he gets by the Coast Guard he will passed all~wing foreign flag . ships to run coastwise. The not get by.-thi~ Union, so that he-Jnay ajsecond time put our Union should chec~ up to see if' our· maritim~ policy-male.. " tions. 4. That foreign .flag ships be rights in p~ril. Certainly no qne that I kpow of in this mem- ers are aliens or citizens. .. · . . ' ; allowed to sail· in the US coastbership c~res one bit about . being a fivilian with stroi:ig Th_fs column Wi.ll .appreciate ·news ·of inter.est from wise trade. military rules to abide by, or worse yet,_,without any con. Any one of the foregoing re·c- ditions, seeing this .country's merchant ~arin~ i'n .the co~- -members -on .all coasts. Just wrl.te to "Fo!"e & Aft" at th~ ornmendations, if carried out, plete hands of the mili~ary. Personally, it .se~ms to me that New York Hall. Give us the tid-bits and we;ll write them would 'deal a severe blow to our ·s hipping, especially in the cur- the Army, Navy, Mariries, Air Force, all:>ng· With the femin- · up for yo~.... Since the first· of August, the New YOI'k rent crisis. All of them together ine branches of the Aimed F'orces shoultl be enough for the Branch has had . to ship 46 tripcard men, while :meml;>ers would completely crush us mer- brass to handle. Pardon -me, how did t hie s ea- B ees ever get of all ·r atings were· on the"beach. This is not a healthy c~n~ .dlant marine · activities. left out? To continue my tirade, while iChas me hot, ·if diti6n. Permit members, should, in their own-interest, grab · ,. The government ought to latch these foul-ups care to see us as a b4nch of the Ar!Jled _'these 1obs. When an~ · if- the so-called boom col~apses, t.heY. · qnto · the characters who cooked Forces, do us a big favor-join th~ Navy. It's patriotfo right will fin~ themselves competing with all the surplus wbich ..up these recommendations and Jet tpem know in no uncertain now. If they draft you after you lose yc!>ur papers-somt! of th~y themselves· will be·'responsible for . . terms that our merchant marine the glory is gone: Crewm·e mbers of the ·Cuuer de Aiene Viet~.i-y, weU is an important factor in our deAll members . who have the necrs.s ary seatime are satisfied with the conditions ~nd officers aboard the ship, fense these days. They might urged to brush up and get higher ratitjgs. Ratings such as are trying to set a record of some sort for "mass ho:r,n~ also be .asked just who, or wha~ governments, they are supposed Electrician, Refrigerator Engineer, PuTpmep, and .Mach- steading.". Daye Buckley, . ~ho rode for months ~ in ,Cit.i:eli to be wo:king for. . • inists will ship with ease, so get those ~~dorsements. )'here Service as a v,olunteer org~ri~zet just ·got of:f that ship aft~' are specimen questions and answers for Reefer~, Elect.de- almost thirte~ert -jnon~hs of '.oiling. . Bosun John K~Irh.ic ~ MUTUAL CONSENT ians, Deckt Engineers, Firemen, . Oilersf and Watertenq~s . still abGard ._ after-: t~~te~fr Jiion:tp_s; "Tjny" ,(li}te . ~. h~lise)· ~r . On the subject of mutual conI Thomas is .on: over .six . rttonths, ~- along with .sev.ei.al . otlier_~ . . · 8ent payoffs, it appears that available in the baggage room here ~n :r:iew York. You · , ",t .some more · thinking and inves- can re. ceive then in an outpprt by wr.i~l.·If_..g in. ~o~ them. too rtumerol.!S to 1'!1enti'on: . · , : . ~ tigation on the part of some -1· __ ., , Cities Service' firecl men• by the dozens ih an_attemp~ ,in.embers are necessary. For ex' ,• . ' to. beat the STO's _o~ganizip.g . campaign in it's fleet. A fe\v; _ample, if. a man joins a ship that of the .fellows · who . are·· back· _in 'the. fleet pitching,. . as . ~ . bas already signed on articles - · , ~ ':in another port, he should find · .. ·-result· of · the Labor. Board Order wherein the "·company, .. -out what the score is. must rehire the men they _fired for Union activity;- are: If he's taking the place of a . Eddie Bamberger, Roger Carr., Roy ·Brace,, Roger Lappinte; man who has paid off because · (C<mtinuetl from Pdgt 1) _After thr e· hours ·and ,.58 min- Mike Carlin, Charlie Wysocki,' Mike Reges and Willie Dinn· a SS Camas Mea.dow.s . nc·.e·- Ag.a·in Goes lo Aid Of .Stric ·ie·ll- .Ve9sel - r' .J • • self out, and the heat had bee~· utes, th~ · atrine Maersk, was .. reduced enough to enter the fire- able to start; her· deisel ei;igines widdie. More of these nam~s ,w ill b, printed as ti.me pass~s. roo~, the crewmembers of the and procee~ 35. miles into Ras- They rate: a vofo o~ thanks from t_ he' membership for ~ j~l> Katr1~e Maersk c~me forwa~d tanura, _to rwait. 'r epairs. . • well done. Ted Weaver ·and Floyd WUt just got off th~ carrymg the remams of their The 22-y ar-old Third . Assist· - . , ·. · , · ·· . . · • 1· · · 1.'hird Assistant Engineer who, ant who I oked forward ·to the Wiµ~er H_i~ with a .year ~ vacatioi:i pay coming. : .f the seeing the oil overflow, .had at- end of ,th voyage :· when he , Union .issued· Pur.ple Hea'i:ts>these·boy:s' would have sev.eral tempted to shut off· the b~iler would ' ret . to Denmairk and - . ' ·.. n · . I • h c"·~. ' 's " f' . Ii )1':t fires and was caught in the flash . . ., . . . . • . . dqe tqem. rresentlYt· on t e . • 1t~~s.. .~rvi,ce i~g . n~ a u~g . . · home, bes i a- weighted .canvass ·· , . '. . .i .. . • • 'L. . • As the body was carried up . · "'; . · . h · 'L.c ....tt • .. . ...~ . th-· with ·the . ~bove . mentioned re-U)Statements are . Joanny th t lk ·th fl f ho.th wi:qppmg at t e , uu om g... e ~ " .. , . • . . .. . .. - - .. . Ir --~ so ' el. _.:.~,ow: .~us... w ,a ,e ca wa , e ags 0 . ' .• • • ' , ' • •• Kleczek Joe ·scaramutz Charlie Asllcom and Wally Ho~pJ. . ~s ~iUed to. TP"en. ·there~~ ~~" vessels dropped to half-mast and ~e.rSI!;ln off '\h~_. ~l.l~l~~ . •'· . : · ' - '. . '· ~. 1 • -' '.· . • •, •• ··· conf1u~ion la~· Qn. . ·,,. ~ '· .remained· ·sq. coa~t ,. · · ner. G!,.v e. them, 1~ h•n.d! · )le· was sick or injured, or who · was firE?d, then the new man is -entitled to transportation money !• ~ the p'~yoff port. . · .If he is not replacm~ . a man one of these categories, then Jae ·is not entiiled tO transpor' -· )ion· .money. ·I ' --~e: nnint -·is that ·he should i ..1.'.£1'! • r., · · tdmine; ·· the :t~cts .' whe.n he ... ,.... . h. 'll, 1.w. . .,, h t · m, p • ~ • ' II ' ~ °"""'* . °:?"' ' .. ,.,.; � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 1, 1950 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XII, No. 17 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Description An account of the resource Headlines: FIVE MORE SIGN WELFARE PLAN SCUTTLING THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE SS CAMAS MEADOWS AGAIN GIVES AID TO DISTRESSED VESSEL SIU CREW MANS FIRST ANKER TO SWITCH TO US REGISTRY MOST CANCER CASES CAN BE CURED IF DISCOVERED IN ITS EARLY STAGES BALTIMORE SHIPPING STILL GOOD PHONY CANSHAKERS THE SEAFARERS IN WORLD WAR II HONG KONG WATERS COVERED BY INSURANCE PHILADELPHIA SHIPPING GOOD AND LOOKS BRIGHT FOR FUTURE SEAFARERS WELFARE FUND IS REAL MILESTONE IN MARITIME HISTORY 'GREAT ACHIEVEMENT', SAID NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE ANSWERS TO MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ON SIU WELFARE PLAN COMPLETE TEXT OF WELFARE AGREEMENT SIGNED BY SIU-CONTRACTED OPERATORS NY AGENTS RIPS LIQUIDATORS OF MERCHANT FLEET Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/1/1950 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1950 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/9d06c7c26ccf101ecadb9bb4158a2726.PDF 8d4752a9fae750128b579d6190dbe634 PDF Text Text Vol. XXiX No. 18 SEAFARIBRS^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO SlU-Manned Fairport Rescues Navy Pilot off Vietnam Coast ' Page 5 It. T' \ Ship Appropriations Measure Wins Congressional Approval^ ^ House Committee Okays Independent Agency Bill^^^^ ^ Hall Urges 'Knuckling Down' To Resolve U.S. Ship Problems Page 2 �IJtSuif Page Two New Maritime Authorization Measure Awaits President's OK to Become Law WASHINGTON—Congress has passed a bill requiring Congressional authorization of funds for Maritime Administration programs. The bill now awaits the President's signature in order to be­ come law. The legislation was approved first by the House, where it was Congress, alone among all the ties (including reimbursement of sponsored by Representative branches and agencies of our gov­ the vessel operations revolving fund for losses resulting from ex­ Edward A. Garmatz (D.-Md.), ernment, of the need for prompt penses of experimental ship op­ action now to rebuild our U.S. Chairman of the House Merchant erations; Marine Committee. The House merchant fleet. • Reserve fleet expenses; "Both these measures represent bill, H.R. 158, then went to the • Maritime training at the important steps forward in the Senate under the sponsorship of Merchant Marine Academy at Senator Daniel B. Brewster (D.- effort to create a maritime pro­ Kings Point, N. Y.; gram for America that will re­ Md.), a member of the Senate • Financial assistance to State verse the present downward trend Merchant Marine Subcommittee. of our shipping and shipbuilding marine schools; The bill requires that maritime policies in the interest of our na­ • The vessel operations revolv­ programs be reviewed and au­ tion's growing commercial and ing fund. thorized annually by the maritime defense requirements." "Enactment of this bill," Sen­ committees in both houses. At Hall added that the Congres­ ator Brewster commented "would present, they come under review sional action indicates "that our place the Maritime Administration only by the Senate and House Ap­ lawmakers in both houses recog­ on a basis comparable to that now propriations committees. nize the public interest and are in effect with regard to principal The measure is expected to pro­ prepared to act to protect that activities of the Department of vide for a closer and more effec­ vital interest." Defense, the U.S. Coast Guard, tive annual review of the Ameri­ •The Senate bill, S. 340, iden­ the Atomic Energy Commission, can merchant marine, and to re­ tical to the House version, H.R. The National Aeronautics and verse the current trend of an age­ 158, was accompanied by an ex­ Space Administration, and other ing, shrinking merchant fleet. planatory report by Senator Brew­ major programs within the execu­ "One of the conditions that has ster. The document explained tive branch." caused deterioration of our Mer­ that the bill is intended to go into The Senator then outlined the chant Marine," Senator Brewster effect December 31, 1967, and history of the present legislation, remarked, "has been lack of Con­ would thereafter require specific citing the urgent need for Con­ gressional interest. ... If we are Congressional authorization of ap­ gressional review of maritime pro­ to regain our position as one of propriations for the Maritime Ad­ grams: the world's maritime leaders, we ministration. The following cate­ "At the present time section must rekindle this interest." gories of activity would now come 209(a) of the Merchant Marine Paul Hall, President of the SIU under review: Act, 1936, as amended, provides • Acquisition, construction or for continuing authority for ap­ and the AFL-CIO's Maritime Trades Department, praised the reconstruction of vessels; propriations by the language: • Construction-differential Congressional action, saying, "This " 'There are hereby authorized week's passage by the Senate of subsidy and cost of national de­ to be appropriated such sums as the Merchant Marine Authoriza­ fense features incident to the con­ are necessary to carry out the pro­ tion Bill, which already had been struction, reconstruction, or re­ visions of this Act.' cleared by the House, and the ap­ conditioning of ships; "When the Merchant Marine • Payment of obligations in­ proval of the bill for an independ­ Act of 1936 was originally enact­ ent Federal maritime agency by curred for operating-differential ed the administering agency was the House Committee on Mer­ subsidy; the U.S. Maritime Commission, chant Marine and Fisheries, once • Expenses necessary for re­ an independent agency responsi­ again illustrates the awareness in search and development activible to the Congress. The pro­ grams authorized by that act were set up in a fashion intended to permit their efficient administra­ tion under broad enabling author­ ity. The availability of a con­ struction revolving fund mini­ mized the need for seeking spe­ In a Labor Day address presented by the AFL-CIO over the cific annual authorization for ap­ nationwide radio network of the Mutual Broadcasting System, SIU propriations for major program President Paul Hall called on "government, industry and labor to categories. knuckle down to the problem of "Since shortly after World War developing the kind of program troops go to Vietnam not by plane II, however, such matters as the that will assure that U. S. shipping but by merchant marine shipping. transfer of the administration of and shipbuilding can make their Hall noted. He pointed out that maritime functions to the De­ maximum contribution to our even with the need for a strong Maritime so apparent, "neglect of partment of Commerce, the denial economy and our defense. of the availability of the construc­ "This isn't just a maritime prob­ this industry by the government tion revolving fund, and other selflem—it's an American problem," since World War II, and the fail­ imposed limitations have had the Hall said, noting that "If we as a ure of the Defense Department to practical effect of placing the op­ nation fail to resolve this prob­ foresee and admit the need for erations of the agency on a strict­ lem, the impact of that failure will merchant ships to transport troops ly annual basis. be felt by every American—busi­ and supplies across the seas" have "These developments have nessman, farmer and worker, pushed Maritime to "the point made the advisability of annual of crisis." The U.S. has already alike." review of the Maritime Adminis­ (The complete text of HaD's ad­ slipped to 16th place in shipbuild­ tration's policies and programs of dress, scheduled for broadcast ing, Hall said, and sends only increasing importance. Enactment over the 537-statiott Mutual net­ seven per cent of its cargo in of this bill would necessarily re­ work, appears on page nine of this American ships, and may soon sult in the Senate Committee on find itself subject to a superior issue of the LOG.) Commerce and the Merchant Ma­ Soviet merchant marine. Hall expressed the vital need On the economic side. Hall ex­ rine and Fisheries Committee of for a strong, growing and mod­ plained that America's industrial the House of Representatives an­ ernized American merchant ma­ complex depends on 77 strategic nually reviewing the policies and rine. The importance extends not materials, of which 66 must be programs of the Maritime Admin­ only to immediate security of this imported. As it is, the U.S. de­ istration in fulfilling the authoriza­ country. Hall said, but also to the pends largely on foreign shipping tion requirement this legislation preservation of our way of life for these items, and with the would provide. through a sound economic system. U.S.S.R. on the way to gaining "While enactment of this bill The military factor can be seen a two4o-one-lead over the U.S. would require the Maritime Ad­ clearly in the American merchant in merchant shipping, Russia may ministration to appear annually marine's role in World War II, the achieve a measure of shipping before four committees of the Korean War, and, presently, in control for these 66 items—unless Congress rather than two, this Vietnam, Hall said. Even in this the United States Government could well enhance the finding of "Age of Air-Power," 98% of all acts quickly and firmly to upgrade workable solutions to the many supplies and two-thirds of all its own fleet. problems of our merchant fleet." Hall Cites Importance of U.S. Fleet To Nation's Security in Radio Talk September I, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG Report of International President by Paul Hall Any indications that management has become more enlightened in their attitude toward the rights of the working man are certainly dispelled in reports recently issued by the U.S. Labor Department and the National Labor Relations Board. According to its report for the fiscal year 1967, the U.S. Labor Department discovered $76 million in wage chiseling by employers under the minimum hourly wage scale established by the Fair Labor Standards Act. It also found that its investigators are having an in­ creasingly diflicult time in keeping abreast of violations. During the same period, a preliminary report by the National Labor Relations Board says that new records were set in the number of unfair labor charges that were filed against employers for the fiscal year ended June 30. It may be that labor-management relations are on a more sophisti­ cated level than ever before and that the actual mechanics of negotia­ tion are more intricate due to the technological revolution, but such disclosures of continued victimization of workers by those who employ them indicates that management has not changed its stripes to any great degree. The attitude of management when it comes to volun­ tarily granting a worker his fair due is just as negative as ever. The ground rules might change from time to time but the name of the game will always be the same and the American labor movement must always seek new ways to step up union organization with an eye to the eventual protection and education of all workers. The NLRB and Labor Department reports are just further proof that a wide segment of management devotes a great deal of energy to getting around the law or defying it outright. The $76 million in wage chiseling represents money that did not go into the pay envelopes of 368,000 workers who earned that money. Some of them were not paid the minimum hourly wage set by law, many did not receive overtime due at time-and-a-half, others were denied equal pay for equal work. Of the total, less than one third— only $27 million—has thus far been recovered for these workers. In 1966, some $90 million in underpayments to $430,000 workers was discovered and only about a third" of that total was recovered. The $14 million drop between 1966 and 1967 appears at first glance to be an improvement but actually reflects a serious worsening of an intolerable situation. Last February 1, amendments strongly supported by organized labor were incorporated into the Fair Labor Standards Act which raised the minimum wage for 32 million previously covered workers and covered 9 million more for the first time. True to its historic image, manage­ ment immediately set out to either ignore or become conveniently "care­ less" about complying with the new amendments. The only reason fewer cheating employers appear in the figures for fiscal 1967 than were shown in 1966—when the Labor Department admits only about half were actually caught—is that government investigators didn't have time enough to get around to them. The explanation for this is that there are not enough investigators to enforce our wage-hour law provision. To help alleviate this problem, the AF-CIO launched its own pro­ gram last February 1st to seek out violators and called on Congress to grant President Johnson's request for more wage-hour inspectors. As a result of this AFL-CIO program, labor central bodies across the country have offered their services to all workers—union members or not—in the drive to enforce the law against chiseling or careless employers. The wage-hour administrator of the Labor Department says that even if he could expand his staff by 15 to 20 per cent it could not inspect as many companies as it did in 1966 and claims his agency must depend more and more heavily on violations being called to its attention. But how many violations are there which are never reported because non-union workers live in fear of their jobs and don't dare expose the gougers they work for? We have no way of telling but we can be sure there are too many. The labor movement in the United States must intensify its efforts to organize such workers and do every­ thing possible to protect them until they are organized. Employers are well aware of the difficulty in enforcing labor laws and they delight in it. If uncontrolled wage chiseling is not proof enough, we need-only to look at the NLRB figures which show a record 17,040 unfair labor practice charges being filed in a one-year period. The 17,000 registered complaints against management, plus an un­ told number of short-changed pay envelopes, certainly indicates that management's bad manners has not changed much over the year. �September 1, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG Meany in Labor Day Message Sees U.S. Teriod of Decision' Page Three House Marine Committee Approves Bill for Independent MARAD WASHINGTON—The United States is midway in a "great WASHINGTON—^An independent maritime agency moved a big step closer to reality last week period of national decision" and that decision will be made "in the minds and hearts of all Americans," AFL-CIO president when the House Merchant Marine Committee approved a bill calling for its creation and sent the measure to the full House of Representatives with a strong recommendation for quick passage. George Meany declared in his ^ since World War II, the U.S. has Representative Edward A. annual address prepared for de­ become not just democracy's arse­ Garmatz (D-Md.), Chairman of and too few ships must still be be a Federal Maritime Adminis­ livery on Labor Day. coped with," he said, "but this trator, appointed by the President nal but its principal defender Involved are a new look at our throughout the world as well. It both the Merchant Marine Com­ legislation does, I think, take a with the advice and consent of the society at home and a new look at is a costly and uncomfortable role mittee and the Subcommittee on very sound and constructive step Senate. With the exception of the our role in world affairs, Meany for a nation so long used to isola­ Merchant Marine and Fisheries in the right direction." first Administrator, whose term said. These two main channels tionism, he said. The war to de­ which had okayed his bill (H.R. would expire June 30, 1969, all "It is the overwhelming convic­ of thought will eventually con­ fend the freedom of South Viet­ 159) earlier, said he intended "to future heads of the FMA would tion of the Committee members verge into the "great decision that nam is difficult for some young push for speedy consideration of serve four-year terms. and myself that a separate inde­ will determine the shape of Amer­ people to understand because this bill on the floor because I pendent agency is needed," Gar­ The bill also calls for a Mari­ ican life for many years to come "they have had no experience with consider it most important that we matz continued. "We feel that time Board composed of three and perhaps the future of the despotism or with conquerers." expediate its passage." past experience has demonstrated members and established within world as well." "The continuing decline of our conclusively that the type of orga­ the FMA. Chairman of the Board But some of their elders, "with Explaining what he called the less excuse" forget what they have merchant fleet," Garmatz de­ would be the Administrator of "mid-point" of decision, the Fed­ lived through and against all logic clared, coupled with the lack of nization proposed here is the most FMA and the other two members effective in dealing with these myr­ eration head said through their say that if the U.S. was to give any concrete maritime policy, has would be appointed by the Presi­ elected representatives—and sup­ way "the Communist forces would created a devastating kind of iad problems." dent—also with the advice and Citing the fact that some 104 consent of the Senate. ported by a national consensus at once be converted to sweetness inertia that becomes more alarm­ the American people had launched and light—in Vietnam and every­ ing each day. We cannot afford bills have been introduced in the Transfer of Authority House calling for an independent in 1961 an unprecedented cam­ where." On the other hand the to wait any longer." MARAD, Garmatz expressed the Certain powers now vested in paign to correct the social evils "super-hawks" show little concern (Meanwhile, the Senate passed that blurred "the vision of Ameri­ for the human race "as long as the on the same day the Merchant opinion that a majority of House the Secretary of Commerce would ca that most Americans cherish." last survivor can wave the stars Marine Authorization bill which members are sympathetic to the be transferred to the Administra­ Continuing at an accelerated pace and stripes." puts approval of funds for mari­ problems of the merchant marine. tor, and other powers would be Under the bill which the full transferred to the Board. through 1966, he continued, this Here, too, common sense is time under direct control of Con­ Further, the Administrator campaign attacked racial discrim­ vital, Meany said. "By defending gress for the first time. That bill House will now consider, an ination with new force, overthrew the freedom of one small nation has already cleared the House agency known as the Federal would appoint a Deputy Maritime barriers to equal education and by arms and by helping to pre­ and requires only the President's Maritime Administration would Administrator who would serve in declared poverty an unnatural serve the freedom of many others signature to become law.) be created. This FMA would not his absence or disability as Acting state for any free man. be under any other department in Administrator. The Deputy could with dedicated manpower and Referring further to thfe bill for "Ugliness in every form" from sound financial aid, America is an independent MARAD, Gar­ the executive branch of the gov­ not sit as a member or acting water and air pollution to con­ making its contribution toward matz conceded that it would not ernment or under the authority of member of the Board under any sumer abuse to littered streets and the attainment of a peaceful fu­ produce miracles. "The basic the head of any such department. circumstances, however. Another requirement of the bill more became "suddenly matters ture for all mankind." problems of insufficient money At the head of the FMA would is that within one year of enact­ of national concern." ment of the proposal, the Board Wrong Inter|Hetation must submit to the President and But, Meany noted that since the the Congress a report on the "cur­ 1966 elections the campaign so rent condition" of the American well begun had slackened off be­ merchant marine in relationship to cause many Congressmen took the the criteria set forth by the 1936 view that lack of a consistent pat­ Act. The report is to include ap­ tern in the election results meant propriate recommendations for the voters wanted to slow down such further legislation or pro­ a bit. "We believe this interpreta­ grams as the Board deems nec­ tion was wrong ... by accepting WASHINGTON, D. C.—The AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department has placed the blame for essary. it as a guide for action or inaction. the current manpower crisis in the U.S. merchant marine directly on the shoulders of the Johnson Congress made a serious mistake." Administration. The campaign started in 1961 In a signed editorial in the ^ ^ had identified needs and started to the SIU to increase its educational about revitalization of the mer­ meet them but the "result of the August issue of "Maritime", capacity to several thousand chant marine through creation of subsequent slowdown has been official publication of the 6-mil- trainees, should the need arise. an independent Maritime Admin­ disillusionment among many and lion-member MTD, SIU and The SIU currently operates the istration provide the focus for a disorder by a few. The disorders, MTD President Paul Hall said Harry Lundeberg school of sea­ signed article by the Department's Monday, September 4 will in turn . . . have led some Ameri­ that "the government's failure to manship which each year gradu­ Executive Secretary-Treasurer, be a day of special AFL-CIO cans of good will to question the devise and implement a vigorous ates more than a thousand men Peter M. McGavin. programs on both radio and basic concepts of the campaign maritime program, and the con­ for deck and engine room jobs. In the article, McGavin makes tinued downgrading of the mer­ TV. itself." "As a result," Hall said, "no ships it plain that the maritime industry AFL-CIO President George "To put it bluntly," Meany said, chant marine, have combined to under contract with the SIU have is not asking that the government Meany, AFL-CIO Vice-presi­ "the conscience and idealism of put a damper on the normal ever experienced delay in sailing set up a department that would dent Pall Hall, AFL-CIO the affluent majority is being recruitment of young men into for lack of available manpower." become "the official fairy god­ this industry." Vice-President Joseph A. tested in the crucible of reality In addition, the SIU is engaged mother" for merchant marine in­ Beirne and AFL-CIO ViceHall said that the government's (and) it would be an unthinkable in a joint training program with terests. failure to pursue a program aimed President I. W. Abel will be tragedy" if they failed to meet MEBA District 2 to upgrade What the MTD, which speaks heard on nationwide radio ac­ that test. Riots and their accom­ at expansion of the merchant ma­ men to licensed engineers and for most of maritime labor, and cording to the following i panying destruction cannot be rine "has resulted in far too many deck officers. Between February the majority of maritime manage­ I schedule: condoned but neither do they offer young men rejecting maritime and December 1966, the jointly ment wants, he went on, is that AFL-CIO Vice-President "the slightest justification for call­ careers on the theory that future run school turned out more ma­ maritime be given "the chance to prospects are bleak—which, under Paul Hall, Mutual Network, ing a halt to programs that strike rine licenses than the Federal stand alone in the councils and present circumstances, they are." 9:15 P.M.; at the evils which breed riots." Maritime Academy at Kings agencies of government to present AFL-CIO Vice-President The MTD president reported Point, N. Y., did during the entire But this is just what the reac­ its program for the consideration I. W. Abel, CBS 7:35 P.M.; tionaries would do, he warned, that organized labor throughout year. of the legislative and executive AFL-CIO Vice-President the maritime field has played an and some well-meaning people are Hall pointed out in his editorial departments of government. This Joseph A. Beirne, ABC, active role in trying to meet the tempted to agree when aid to the that "In the last analysis the includes being made safe from 7:15 P.M.; manpower crisis, adding: "This is poor is called appeasement to manning problems will be cor­ an over-zealous rabbit punch or AFL-CIO President George rioters. "This is a terrible un­ part of maritime labor's continu­ rected only when the government blackjacking within the corridors Meany, NBC, 10:45 P.M. ing recognition of its responsibili­ truth. . . ." moves vigorously on a program of government." All times listed are EDT. ties to the industry of which it is "This is a time for the common to expand, modernize and up­ McGavin noted that the Ad­ i Local listings should be check­ sense of the American people to a part, and to the country which grade our fleet—for only then will ministration is still trying to have ed, since network affiliates puts such reliance on its merchant come to the rescue ... the crimi­ young men see in the merchant the Maritime Administration may carry the programs at ships." nal madness of a few must not be marine the long-range opportuni­ placed in the new Department of different times. The publication noted that visited upon the many, of all races, ties which will attract them to Transportation, despite Congres­ "The Liquid Fire", a dra­ who desperately need all the help organized labor has mobilized its this vital service." sional rejection of this move in matization of the life of Sam­ and inspiration they can get. It full resources in the training field 1966. The current efforts, he said, uel Gompers, founder of the A s long as the Administration is not just their future which to help meet the manpower crisis. are "honeyed" by 'new' approaches American Federation of La­ "igno res the legitimate needs of hangs in the balance; it is ours as In this direction, the Seafarers and suddenly discovered "underbor, will be televised by at this industry," the MTD president well." has greatly expanded its training . standings.' But no matter how least 129 stations in 41 states Meany then turned to the sec­ apparatus by acquiring a property said, "it will continue to dilute new the building nor how modem and Washington, D.C. Check ond channel of decision, Ameri­ at Piney Point, Md., which will what efforts are taken to ease the the office furnishings, we still local listings for date and ca's role in world affairs and the be used for a union training cen­ manpower shortage." recognize a spider's web when we time. Vietnam war. He pointed out that ter. This will^make impossible for The MTD's efforts to bring see it." Lack of Firm U.S. Maritime Policy Called Cause of Manpower Crisis Ah'CIO Programs To Be Broadcast On Labor Day �Page Four SEAFARERS LOG September 1, 1967 Siemiller Urges Independent MARAP Soviet Shipbuilding Pate Menace To US, Machinists Head Warns The Atlantic Coast by Earl (Bull) Shepard, Vice-President, Atlantic Coast Area It is difficult to understand how giant companies such as J. P. Stevens, and others who reap huge profits from government con­ WASHINGTON—"Ever since the end of World War 11, we have watched—with growing alarm tracts, can still be allowed to deny their workers the legal right and dismay—not only the dismantling of our own merchant marine but the rapid build-up of the to organize which is supposedly guaranteed by the same govern­ sea-going fleets of nations whose political and economic interests are directly opposed to ours," ment which insures their profits. Judging from the harassment, P. L. (Roy) Siemiller, president ^ abroad program would mean high­ pendent federal agency is, I think, mass firings and other unsavory after a long vacation and is in­ of the International Association er unemployment in the U.S. and the key to winning this kind ot tactics still employed by union- terested in a deck engineer or of Machinists, told this month's understanding within the Execu­ harm the American economy by busting companies in certain parts engine utility slot. seminar of the AFL-CIO Mari­ tive Department." adversely affecting our balance of of the country, these big outfits Baltimore time Trades Department. Representative Edwin Reinecke payments. consider themselves beyond the Jessie Winfield will spend some Speaking on 'Revitalizing the (R-Calif.), a member of the House Pledging the full support of his law. We would hope that the time on the beach before shipping Merchant Marine,' the theme of Merchant Marine and Fisheries city for an independent MARAD, labor subcommittee now hearing out. He last made the Seatrain the day-long symposium, Siemiller Committee, said that "under no Mayor Theodore McKeldin of testimony on management's abuses Texas on a run to Vietnam. noted that Russia has built 502 circumstances" would he support Baltimore told the group that a will take steps to see that they are merchant ships since 1962—as the transfer of MARAD into strong merchant marine means a John Dellinger would like a compared to 87 for the United Boyd's department. He told the strong port, and a strong port not continued in the future. Calmar intercoastal run for a New Yoik States—and spends 10 times more seminar the Transportation head means a strong city. change of pace. His last job was on shipbuilding than we do. He had appeared "arrogant" during Seafarers are still taking ad­ as a FOWT of the Robin Hood's Also addressing the seminar urged full support fpr an Inde­ his testimony at the recent hear­ were officials from two SlU-con- vantage of the upgrading facilities Vietnam voyage. pendent Maritime Agency in or­ ings on the merchant marine." Just off the. Portmar, David tracted companies, Michael G. offered by the SIU. Among the der to get a program underway "We have been hoping that he Mitchell, vice president of Penn latest to make FOWT are Walter Pontes will take a rest before which would help us close the would at least come up with a Shipping Company, and the vice Napier, James Newsome, David looking for an AB's job on a Seagap in the race. program for the maritime indus­ president of Marine Carriers Gower, Everette Spencer, Larry Land or Calmar ship. Bon, Ken Beverly, William HiU, Turning to recent develop­ try, but he keeps talking about it Corp., Henry R. Dowd. Boston John Yuhas and Glenn Howard. ments in labor's negotiations with and we haven't even seen it yet," Mitchell advocated government Peter Gerardi should be ready Qualified to sail as electricians the railroads and airlines, the un­ Reinecke said. "After hearing him action to make U.S. ships more for another trip soon after catch­ ion leader said the political powers before our committee, I person­ competitive with foreign vessels are M. Kennedy and Frank Bose. ing up on some time with his fami­ who are undermining collective ally am going to do everything and said our unsubsidized bulk Frank also passed his FOWT ly. Pete's last job was as messman bargaining in these areas have I can to prevent him getting his carriers are the least competitive exam. on the Neva West. already served notice that they teeth into the maritime industry. of all because "they said almost Philadelphia Walter LeClair will vacation at intend to rewrite the labor rela­ And I am going to enlist the help half the time in ballast." He stated Roosevelt Rohins is back from tions rules for all transportation of my friends on both sides of that the group he represents can his summer home in Maine be­ Vietnam where he was sailing as industries. This, he added, brought the aisle for this effort." become competitive only when it cook. Roosevelt is NFFD now, fore throwing in for a Bosun's the result of a demand in Con­ slot. Walt's previous slot was as a The Chairman of the seminar, is able to earn profits carrying gress by well-known enemies of MTD Executive Secretary Peter cargo between foreign ports or "in but should be back at sea shortly. bosun on the Jefferson City. Bill Linker and John Renski the American working man for a McGavin, reminded those assem­ trades where the arm of our gov­ Martin Hitchcock is also look­ are looking for ships that need a permanent system of compulsory bled that when President Johnson ernment cannot or will not directly ing for a bosun's job after sailing FWT. arbitration—not only for railroads first started exploring avenues for protect us." V. D. India is registered again aboard the Eagle Voyager. and airlines but for all transporta­ a new maritime program, he asked Competition was Dowd's con­ tion. Such a system could include for a consensus "and he got one." cern, too. He said that to "re­ maritime, Siemiller warned. The report has been laying on his vitalize the merchant marine it is desk since last May, McGavin essential to build new ships and Cites Open Hostility Representative Fernand J. St. said, but instead of doing anything grant operating subsidy for these Germain (D-R.I.) also spoke at about it the President told Boyd ships . . . with priority to existing the seminar and noted the open to go out and get another con­ operators." of "We cannot continue to rely on hostility to the merchant marine sensus. The first Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship students to "It seems like he is listening MSTS and government-aid cargo," upgrade under new reduced seatime requirements received their of the Secretaries of Defense, State, Agriculture and Transporta­ only to Mr. Boyd," the MTD offi­ Dowd said, because it is too lim­ FWO certificates recently after three months experience at sea as tion, "to name just a few." St. cial said, and pointed out that ited. "But with an operating sub­ wipers. ^ Germain emphasized that "there Congress has now seemingly run sidy plus building subsidy, the regardless of any time spent in the The Lundeberg School has is no one who is carrying the out of patience and has started American ship owner can compete school. ball for the merchant marine with­ to work on a new maritime pro­ and obtain a fair percentage of been certified by the Coast Coast Guard Commander Guard to participate in a pro­ Douglas H. Clifton presided as in the Executive branch of gov­ gram of its own . . . "and we the world commerce." ernment." He added that "the have still heard nothing from the "The time is already late for gram whereby satisfactory com­ Lundeberg students Bruce Loland, President." few friends you do have are the independent owners and we pletion of instruction at the school Paul Fable and Bruce Beattie muzzled by their superiors and Vernie Reed, first vice president urgently require action now," will be equal to three months or were presented with their certifi­ stifled by bureaucracy so that they of the Laborers' Internaliunal Un­ Dowd concluded. "You can be 50% of the seatime required to cations at Coast Guard Head­ cannot speak up freely in your ion, re-emphasized his union's assured of (our) continued co-op­ upgrade to fireman watertender, quarters in New York. behalf." support of an independent mari­ eration and support" of the MTD oiler. Previously, a man needed Commander William Derr, also six months of seatime to upgrade. present at the ceremonies, ex­ The Rhode Island congressman time agency and said a build- program. scored Transportation Secretary plained to the men that the privi­ Alan Boyd's recent claim that the lege of ugrading under the new U.S. could not launch the proper reduced seatime requirement is kind of shipbuilding program in available only to those men who this country because it would be have attended an approved up­ "inflationai^" and said he won­ grading school, such as the SIUdered just what Boyd was talking operated Lundeberg School. At about. the present time, the Lundeberg "What's so 'inflationary' about School is the only school in New creating more jobs . . . taking York authorized by the Coast people who are now tax users, and Guard to operate in conjunction making taxpayers out of them. . . with the reduced seatime require­ creating new and expanding mar­ ment. kets for the products of our mills The certification of the Lunde­ and mines and factories? What's berg School followed an inspec­ so "inflationary" about a build-attion of the school's facilities by home and a ship-American pro­ Coast Guard officials. gram—when the two elements, to­ The Coast Guard inspection gether, would take some of the team, assisted on a tour of the pressures off of our balance of school by its administrator An­ payments? thony Goncalves and school safe­ "I am often amazed at the way ty director Joseph Algina, paused some of these Administration offi­ in several classrooms to observe cials are able to view one single instruction periods and watch stu­ facet of a problem and not see dents operate some of the school's the whole problem — and the modern equipment. whole solution that it requires." Captain Garth Read, chief of "The present campaign in which Making an inspection tour of training facilities at SlU's Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship recently licensing and certification for the the MTD is engaged," St. Ger­ were representatives of the U.S. Coast Guard. During the tour they paid a visit to lifeboat instruction Coast Guard, commented after main concluded, "the campaign class held at the Union's facilities in Mill Basin, Brooklyn. Shown here during the tour are (l-r) Ami Bjorn- the inspection that he had never to reconstitute the maritime ad­ sson, school instructor; Chief Machinist Mate Robert M. Lonchek; Captain Garth H. Reade; Com­ before seen such "expert facilities" ministration as a completely inde­ mander William D. Derr; SIU Director of Manpower, Joe Algina and Tony Goncalves, school administrator. offered to students of seamanship. ffrst Trainees Upgraded to FOWT Under Reduced Seatime Provisions �September 1, 1967 SlU-G'ewed Fairport Rescues Pilot 300Miles OH Coast of Vietnam Participating in the rescue of Navy flier 300 miles off the coast of Vietnam were Fairport crewmembers (l-r) Mike Potter, Russel Joyner, Gene Bailey, Gary Shaneyfort and William "Goat" Fillingim. SAIGON—After nearly twelve hours of bobbing in choppy seas 300 miles off the coast of Vietnam, a downed navy pilot was rescued by the alert crew of the SlU-contracted ship, the Fairport. With the backdrop of a wartorn country 300 miles away, navy pilot Lt. Commander Mike heavily rolling seas, hard rains, Kavanaugh had given up all hope the danger of sharks, and dark­ of being rescued. ness fast approaching, downed Earlier, in the evening of July 27, he and a crew of two men had taken off in their Skytanker jet from the carrier Oriskany, based off the Vietnamese coast, and were headed for the Philip­ pines. At 42,000 feet, the star­ board motor burst into flames, and the port engine "started to act up," Kavanaugh said. Kava­ naugh told his meifi, "We're hitting The per capita dues increase, .the, silk at 14,000 feet!" At 9:20 adopted by the delegates to the P.M., not long afterward, the convention of the Seafarers Inter­ emnty plane had rocketed into the national Union of North America ocean, and the men were left in last June to finance an expanded the black waters 300 miles from program of development and as­ Qui Nhon. sistance to affiliated unions and At 8:50 A.M. the next morn­ their members, goes into effect on ing, a navy rescue patrol plane Oct. 1, 1967. sDotted the jDilot and requested The convention delegates called the SIU ship Fairport to perform for a monthly per capita increase the rescue mission. The Fairport per member of $1.00—from the altered its course and plowed 37 present 75 cents to $1.75—for miles through churning seas be­ each affiliated union, to be paid fore Seafarer William "Goat" Fillby the members of the affiliates by ningim, sighted the downed flier. a one dollar monthly increase over The Number 2 lifeboat was im­ their present dues. mediately lowered, and within 27 Under terms of the delegates minutes, the Lt. Commander was action, the per capita dues in­ crease applies to members of all safely aboard ship. The lifeboat was manned by affiliated District and Local un­ ions, effective Oct. 1 next, and be­ Chief Mate J. C. Adams, 3rd Mate comes payable for the dues quar­ Wayne L. Korb, and SIU crewter beginning on that date. Ac­ members Robert Broadus, AB, cordingly, the dues payments of John Hazel, AB, J. W. Fleming members of the Atlantic, Gulf, AB, Gary Shaneyfort AB, Keith Lakes and Inland Waters District Swillie, OS., Gene Bailey, OS., will increase by $1.00 beginning Michael Porter, wiper, Russell with the fourth quarter of 1967, Joyner, wiper, and Joe Kulakowpayable on or before Oct. 1. ski, wiper. The program adopted by the The other two crewmen of the Convention delegates provides for Skytanker, an Ensign and an en­ intensifified activities in the fields listed man, were never found and of education, organization, ad­ are presumed dead. ministration, strikes, legislation and public relations. Lt. Commander Kavanaugh, a The action was taken by the native of Palo Alto, Calif., told International body "to represent of how he could still remember our members more effectively." the beautiful sight of the Fairport The resolution calling for the per as its outline came dimly into capita increase noted that gov­ view. Prior to leaving the ship, ernment with its pervading re­ he praised the work of the crew sources is progressively having in saving his life. greater impact upon the functions The Fairport brought the navy and affairs of the members, the International and its affiliated un­ flier to Subic Bay to be treated ions, "which require greater effort for shock and exposure, and then on all matters affecting our col­ steamed away toward Okinawa, lective interests." its next port of call. Per Capita Dues ForSIUNA Raised by $1.00 SEAFARERS LOG Page Five Brewster Urges Congress Bar BuiUing of US. Ships Abroad WASHINGTON—Senator Daniel Brewster (D-Md.), recently told the Senate that the U.S. mari­ time decline "has reached crisis proportions" and declared that Congress must enact legislation barring the construction of any U.S. vessels in foreign yards. Brewster, who is a member " from the seas altogether. I think of the Senate Merchant Marine it is at least incumbent upon the out the extent of merchant marine operations under war conditions. Subcommittee, told Congress Congress to pursue policies which He explained that 97.6% of all that such a ban would be an im­ are not detrimental to the Mer­ American supplies and 60% of all portant rrtove in rescuing the in­ chant Marine and shipping indus­ American troops go to Vietnam dustry from a decline of "crisis tries." by ship, and that the merchant proportions." He said that he was fleet provides enough materiel "for Threat to Security "distressed" that the Senate De­ all but a half-hour of fighting each Senator Brewster went on to fense Appropriations Subcommit­ day." On this aspect, he con­ tee had deleted this ban from the note the dangers, both economic cluded: "In two world wars, and Defense Appropriations Bill now and military, of a weak maritime: in the Korean war, our merchant pending; the House earlier had "By no stretch of the imagination fleet outmatched all others in get­ approved the proposed restriction. can deletion of the proviso against ting men and supplies across the Senator Brewster stated "The foreign shipbuilding be construed seas fast. There is no reason to American Merchant Marine and as anything but harmful to the believe that this record of achieve­ the United States Navy have suf­ shipyards of America. Eighteen of ment cannot be achieved during fered from a gradual deterioration our yards have gone out of busi­ the current conflict, just so long as of the shipbuilding industry in ness during the last decade. More we buckle down and give our mer­ this country. Obviously, the pur­ yards will close in the coming chant fleet the governmental sup­ chase from foreign shipyards of years if we take away their busi­ port it needs. ness and transfer it to foreign vessels for our own Navy will "We must insure the reassertion yards. And every yard closed only accelerate this deterioration." means that much less security for of the nation as a pre-eminent As a result, Brewster said, "Con­ the United States in the event of maritime power. We must act gress will have to enact a massive an emergency." now before indifference or old age maritime revitalization program or In a previous speech before the leave us with no fleet at all," he watch American-flag ships vanish Senate, Brewster had pointed said. YOU R DOLL AR'S WORTH Seafarer's Guide to Better Buying By Sidney Margolius You can learn a lot from the recent Congres­ sional hearings on the proposed "truth in lending" bill, that will help you protect yourself from over­ paying for credit and from getting involved in even more serious abuses. Representative Leonor K. Sullivan (D., Mo.) has introduced a bill which would strengthen the disclosure bill already passed by the Senate. Mrs. Sullivan's bill would require that true annual in­ terest rates be disclosed on revolving credit ac­ counts as well as on cash loans and traditional installment plans for cars and furniture. At Congressional hearings, the AFL-CIO strongly backed Mrs. Sullivan's proposal to in­ clude revolving charge accounts, and also small debts on which credit fees are under $10 (ex­ empted from the Senate bill), and home mort­ gages. The bill also would ban the use of garnishees to force payment of debts. This would be a par­ ticular help to moderate-income wage-earners. They often are trapped by deceptive credit plans based on the use of garnishees to club buyers into paying even unfair bills. The urgency of eliminating garnishees is being stressed by Mrs. Sullivan and the co-sponsors of her bill—Representatives Frank Annunzio (D., 111.), Jonathan Bingham (D., N. Y.), Henry Gon­ zalez (D., Texas), Joseph Minish (D., N. J.) and Seymour Halpern (R., N. Y.) However, some of the other organizations back­ ing "truth in lending," want to wait until a federal investigation of garnishees is finished, to have more information on that problem. They also are concerned that the garnishee controversy may keep the rest of the bill from passing. Whether or not the garnishee ban gets enacted this time, the hearings brought to public atten­ tion the way working families get lured into credit purchases of overpriced used cars; appliances, jewelry and clothing sold by credit stores; goods sold by house-to-house canvassers; high-priced correspondence school courses; even auto insur­ ance and wigs sold on credit. Then they get hit by garnishees before they know what has hap­ pened, and sometimes even are frightened into paying unfair debts by the fear of job loss if garnisheed. Here are points made at the hearings that can help you protect yourself whether or not Mrs. Sullivan's improvements get passed: AFL-CIO Legislative Director Andrew Biemiller warned that credit rates as now quoted, such as 1 Vi per cent a month, imply that they are very low when in fact they are not. A "service charge" of IV2 per cent a month is the equivalent of a true annual rate of 18 per cent. Biemiller also supported the proposal to tell home buyers the full dollar cost of the interest on mortgages. For example, a $16,000 to $17,000 mortgage for 30 years at 6 per cent, means the home buyer actually will repay about $35,000 in­ cluding the interest and principal. Professor Richard Morse, of Kansas State Uni­ versity, author of Shopping for Credit, a pamphlet used by many teachers, reported on a survey which showed that a consumer who now asks dealers for the annual rate on installment credit, is most likely to get a quotation that is only about half-right. He reported the case of a bank ad­ vertising 5 per cent interest on deposits and also 5 per cent on car financing. The 5 per cent on deposits was accurate enough. But the claimed 5 per cent on financing actually was approximate­ ly 10 per cent per annum because of the way the bank figured the finance charge on the full original debt even though it was being paid back each month. The hearings also showed that buyers who use store and bank revolving credit plans, but fail to pay within the period of free credit, then have to pay an effective interest rate of 18 per cent not only on the succeeding months, but even the first month. A shrewd buyer might get as long as 59 days of free credit before incurring a service charge, Robert Klein, Consumers Union economics edi­ tor, pointed out. But a less-shrewd one, or one with less cash on hand, would have to pay interest back to the date of purchase. Now banks even are urging doctors to approve credit cards for medical services. William Dochterman. Executive Secretary of the Sacramento County Medical Society, has criticized the bank campaign aimed at doctors. "Any payment method which increases the actual cost of professional services to patients is considered unethical," Dochterman states. �September 1, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG Page Six Two More Seafarers Licensed As Ei^iaeers, Total New 173 Two more Seafarers have been added to the list of those who have passed Coast Guard examinations for an engineer's license after attending the Marine Engineer's School jointly sponsored by the SIU and District 2 of the ^ Marine Engineer's Beneficial American shipping by the conflict Association. This brings the in Vietnam. Engine department Seafarers number of Seafarers who have are eligible to apply for any of upgraded to their engineer's li­ the upgrading programs if they cense to 173. are 19 years of age or older and have 18 months of Q.M.E.D. watch standing time in the engine department, plus six months' ex­ perience as a wiper or equivalent. Those who qualify and wish to enroll in the school can obtain additional information and apply •for the course at any SIU hall or write directly to SIU headquarters at 675 Fourth Avenue in Brook­ Van De Beek Angel lyn, New York, 11232. The tele­ phone number is'Hyacinth 9-6600. A new third assistant engineer, The training school is operated Nicholas Angel is 46 years old under a reciprocal agreement be­ and previously sailed as a FOWT. tween the SIU and District 2 of A native of Greece, he lives in MEBA. SIU men who enroll in New Jersey. Angel joined the the program are provided with union in 1964 in the port of New meals, hotel lodging and subsist­ York. ence payments of $110 per week A newly-licensed third assistant while in training. engineer, Herman Van De Beek As a result of the reciprocal joined the SIU in 1962. Born in agreement between MEBA Dis­ Hilversum, Holland, he lives in trict 2 and the SIU, unlicensed Astoria, New York. The 35-year SIU men receive full credit and old Seafarer previously held an complete protection for all of their oiler's rating. accumulated pension and welfare Establishment of the engineer credits. While sailing as engineers, training program was spurred by they will also receive pension and the growing shortage of licensed welfare credits. As a result, upon marine engineers aboard Ameri­ reaching retirement eligibility their can-flag ships, particularly as a pension will be paid, based on result of the demands placed on combined time. THE INQUIRING SEAFARER QUESTION: What are some of the sporting events that you wit­ nessed in the ports you have visited? Ramon Ayala: In Japan, summo wrestling is very popular. The wrestlers are much taller and wider than the average Japanese. They go through all sorts of ges­ tures and it's quite a ritual. The men are skilled and not clowns like the American wrestlers. Most matches are serious and very exciting. Charley Wilson: In Thailand they have a form of boxing where the partici­ pants use their feet as well as their hands. This is an exciting, in­ tricate and fastmoving sport. Using the feet adds to the danger and as a result, there are more injuries in the Thai version than in American boxing. 3 Jim Harrison: Soccer and rugby are popular in England. Soccer is played some here, but rugby is rare in America. It's a lot like foot­ ball, but the Brit­ ish claim their version is much * more dangerous. Two big differ­ ences are that rugby players don't wear padding and you can pass the ball in any direction. 4/ — Frank Lebbda: I saw some dog races in Florida. Down there, it's almost as popular as horse racing and of course, there is plenty of heavy betting. If you want to run the risk of going to jail, you can see cock hghts in Miami, but these are illegal and also, pretty bloody. Lawrence Casey: I've seen a number of bullfights in Spain and Portugal. The sport is different in Portugal be­ cause they don't kill the bull. If the bull gets the upper hand, they declare him the winner, in Spain the bull will never leave the arena alive. Arenas are sold out almost all the time. Bruce Washburn: I once saw a cricket match in India. The play­ ers were all In­ dians who learned about the game from the British. I didn't under­ stand the game so it was hard to really enjoy it very much. I've seen some soccer matches but that sport is becoming fairly common in the United States. DISPATCHERS REPORT Atlantic/ Gulf & inland Waters District From Aug. 11 to Aug. 24# 1967 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 1 7 42 64 7 11 25 21 1 11 12 7 6 1 33 26 37 21 52 33 15 7 41 48 1 12 298 234 All Groups Class A Class B Class C 1 2 1 22 36 3 6 5 10 19 18 14 8 6 4 5 4 0 5 4 0 26 25 14 43 26 7 27 24 4 11 8 14 51 26 38 16 14 14 249 187 125 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groups Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Class A Class B 4 1 62 35 10 6 19 20 10 6 5 13 5 2 19 17 19 29 36 27 7 11 64 48 1 15 232 259 Class A Class B Class C 2 13 50 30 19 7 4 7 13 20 11 4 3 4 0 5 0 2 1 1 16 21 12 25 37 13 19 24 1 4 6 16 26 27 52 13 13 16 181 192 155 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco . i Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 4 D 50 10 5 5 g 22 4 6 6 5 4 2 12 31 28 22 20 13 2 7 33 29 1 7 191 146 All Groups Class A Class B Class C 2 0 1 24 15 12 8 10 4 22 8 2 3 6 3 0 4 4 10 0 16 10 19 22 20 7 13 9 4 8 8 8 37 24 45 11 8 9 167 122 118 All Groups Class A Class B 19 5 292 121 19 10 113 66 19 22 19 12 13 10 67 25 136 78 118 118 22 0 47 0 49 16 933 483 All Groups Class A Class B 9 2 153 106 13 11 56 35 21 12 12 12 4 4 31 12 109 90 91 78 14 0 41 0 22 2 576 364 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 12 5 162 47 12 16 73 53 9 9 10 4 9 4 40 11 107 82 74 53 7 0 44 0 29 7 588 291 Nine U.S. Senators Urge Formation Of Special Unit to Study Maritime Ills Nine U.S. Senators have proposed a Congressional study of the nation's merchant marine. The purpose of the study would be to provide leadership in maritime affairs—which they said the Pres­ ident has failed to do. He emphasized that unless said. He expressed dismay that The group of nine Senators, meaningful legislation is enacted the President had not fulfilled his headed by Senator John G. by next year at the latest, "I doubt 1965 promise to develop a new Tower (R.-Texas), reconv- we shall have the problem of a maritime policy. mended the establishment of a vanishing merchant marine. It fifteen-man "advisory commis­ shall already have vanished." SEAFARERS^LOG sion" composed of Senate, House, The new commission would in­ and Presidentially-appointed mem­ clude three Senators and three bers. Its purpose would be to Representatives, appointed respec­ Sept. I, 1967 • Vol. XXIX, No. 18 investigate the ability of the Amer­ tively by the President of the Sen­ Official Publication of the Seafarers International Union ican merchant marine fleet to ate and the Speaker of the House, of North America, cope with present and future na­ and nine persons appointed by the Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes tional needs, including emergency Executive. In this way, the Presi­ and Inland Waters District, situations, and the need for and dent could choose members from AFl,-CIO proposal of specific legislative various segments of labor and in­ Executive Board PAUL HALL, President solutions. dustry, to insure a wide range of GAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD The plan is presently under viewpoints. Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President AL KERR LINDSEY WILLIAMS study by the Senate Commerce In addition. Government agen­ See.-Treas. Vice-President Committee, headed by merchant cies would be required to help ROBERT MATTHEWS Vice-President marine supporter Senator Warren develop information for the com­ HERBERT BRAND G. Magnuson (D.-Wash.). mission. It is expected that par­ Director of Organizing and Publications The group proposing the com­ ticipants will include the Mari­ Managing Editor mission includes Senator Tower, time Administration, the Defense MIKE POLLACK Senator Edward Brooke (R.- Department, the Department of Staff Writers Mass.), Senator Peter Dominick Agriculture, and such regulatory (R.-Colo.), Senator Sam J. Ervin units as the Federal Maritime PETER WEISS (D.-N. C.), Senator Paul J. Fannin Commission and the Interstate HARRY WITTSCHEN FRANK MAROIOTTA (R.-Ariz.), Senator Hiram L. Commerce Commission. Fong (R.-Hawaii), Senator Mark The American merchant fleet. Pikllihet kiwtekly at 810 Rhoti lilind Annae Hatfield (R.-Ore.), Senator Win­ Tower said, is ageing and N.E., Waihlniton, D. C. 20018 ky the Seafaren international Union, Atlantle, Oalf, Lakee ston L. Prouty (R.-Vt.), and Sena­ dwindling, not being renewed, and and Inland Waten Dlitriet, AFL-CIO. 675 Foarth Aoenao, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. Tol. tor Strom Thurmond (R.-S. C.). the nation is turning increasingly HVaclnth 9-6<00. Soeond olait psetaio paid at Waihlnpton, D. C. "We simply cannot wait any to hiring foreign vessels; thus POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Feral 3579 longer," asserted Senator Tower; quick remedial action is necessary. eardi ihoald ke lont to Seafaron International Where the Administration has Already, as seen in the American Union, Atlantle. finlf. Lakes aad Inlaad Waten DIstriet. Airi-no, 879 Feirtk Ayean, Bnakover and over again failed to act, merchant marine operations in lyn, N.Y. 11232. and where the need is so great, Vietnam, "We are literally scrap­ ir iiarnfifiilki ir ing the bottom of the barrel," he we must act." �September 1, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG AFL-CIO Urges Senate Reject Education Bill Amendments WASHINGTON—^An amendment-riddled federal aid to education bill passed by the House threatens "the very fabric" of the nation's education system, the AFL-CIO warned in testimony before a Senate Labor subcommittee. Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller urged the Senate to reject House amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and instead pass Administi;ation-proposed amendments that "build upon successful progress we already have." The Administration bill, sponsored by Senator Wayne Morse (DOre.), subcommittee chairman, authorizes $3.5 billion in federal funds and strengthens a number of provisions of the Act passed in 1965. In the House, Administration forces, aided by some Republican votes, defeated an amendment by Representative Albert H. Quie (RMinn.) which would have abolished direct federal grants to school districts for programs to aid the education of children from low-in­ come families. The money would have been handed over to the states. But the House did adopt a series of amendments by Repre­ sentative Edith Green (D-Ore.) that applied the "states rights" ap­ proach to other sections of the Administration legislation. One amendment turns over to the states the entire program of de­ veloping new teaching techniques carrying 15 per cent of federal school aid funds. Another takes money allocated to the U.S. Office of Educa­ tion for interstate activities and turns it over to the states. A third strikes the Teachers Corps authorization from the bill. The fate of that program now depends upon its inclusion in a college aid bill. The House also adopted an amendment by Representative L. H. Fountain (D-N.C.) that would curb federal procedures enacted in 1966 for use against school districts not in compliance with the Civil Rights Act's provisions for desegregation. Biemiller told the subconunittee that the "impulsive and hastily put together formulas" for block grants to states now contained in the House bill would "diminish the education opportunities of low-income children who need help the most." "It would, to say the least," he added, "be a peculiar response to the dangerous wave of unrest which has swept across the nation to blunt the effect of a major program that can help to eliminate the causes of that unrest." The present law, Biemiller said, "was carefully formulated legisla­ tion which for the first time provided a way out of an impasse." Ex­ perience has shown that it "endangers neither local control of educa­ tion nor separation of church and state." The House bill "could destroy the entire balance that made it possible to resolve the con­ flicting demands on federal aid," he declared. Biemiller said the Fountain amendment to prevent the government from holding up funds to segregated school districts "would encourage and in effect subsidize continued defiance of the law by recalcitrant" segregationists. To illustrate how badly the government needs the right to maintain pressure for school integration, Biemiller cited the recent report of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission which shows that in 1967—13 years after the Supreme Court decision declaring segregated schools uncon­ stitutional—75 percent of the Negro children in Southern and border states will attend all-Negro schools. The AFL-CIO has reiterated its opposition to a proposed "cen­ tral wage board" to set pay scales for the federal government's blue collar workers. Legislative Direc­ tor Andrew J. Biemiller told the Senate Post Office and Civil Serv­ ice Committee that the local area prevailing wage policy is sound and should be strengthened by giving unions a greater voice in all steps of the wage-setting pro­ cedure. The goal, he said, should be to "approach collective bar­ gaining practices in private indus­ try as closely as possible." given when 80 per cent ot tneir local unions have affiliated with their appropriate State AFL-CIO bodies. The number of unions with 80 per cent affiliation or bet­ ter, now stands at 19, Stanton E. Smith, coordinator of state and city central bodies, said in a report to AFL-CIO President George Meany. The following newly qualified unions will receive plaques for their affiliation record at the December convention of the AFT--C10 in Miami Beach: American Bakery & Confection­ ery Workers; Broadcast Employes & Technicians; Glass & Ceramic Workers; Glass Bottle Blowers; Laundry & Dry Cleaning Union; Plate Printers, Die Stampers & Engravers; Retail Clerks. ^highlighted by a Contract goals substantial wage increase were spelled out by 100 delegates to a conference in Atlanta, Ga., called by the Tobacco Workers in anti­ cipation of negotiations with five Robert S. Johnson, a member major employers. The delegates, of Seattle Typographical Union representing more than 22,000 Local 202 and publisher of the members covered by the contracts, labor-backed Auburn, Washing­ also voted to push for the elimina­ ton, Citizen until publication tion of wage inequities and the im­ ceased on June 1, has been ap­ provement of fringe benefits. They pointed education director for the expressed strong opposition to State AFL-CIO. The post was long-term agreements unless they established at last year's State have built-in safeguards to pro­ AFL-CIO convention. Johnson's tect purchasing power. duties will include the develop­ ment of labor education programs Seven more national and in- for the state's public and parochial i ternational unions qualified in- schools as well as for affiliates of 1966^ for the AFL-CIO awarid- the state central body* Page Seven The Long Sleep Commercially marketed meat, food and drugs should not be a source of fear to the citizens of the United States. The average citizen believes that the law has long since insured his protection in this vital area. The average citizen is wrong. Under present statutes, federal inspection of these products is, at best, on a spot-check basis. Vast quantities of meat butchered, sold and consumed within individual state boundries are under the exclusive control of the states. What state inspection require­ ments do exist are largely hamstrung by lack of funds for enforcement and laboratory facilities. Attempts in state legislatures to secure appropriations necessary for effective meat inspection are consistently tabled or defeated by pressures from powerful meat packing and processing interests who fear any check on their operations. In the mean­ time, an unsuspecting public is allowed by both federal and state governments to con­ tinue endangering its health with products known to be prepared in criminally unsan­ itary conditions. The only possible way to protect all of our citizens is the federal inspection of all, meat, processed foods and chemicals used in their preparation. Partial inspection is in­ defensible when a representative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture goes before a House subcommittee and admits that "fastcuring processes, artificial tenderizing, arti­ ficial smoking, coloring agents and other additives" used by the meat industry "are potentially deceptive or dangerous to one's health." This same witness publically ac­ knowledged that there "are many opportu­ nities for illegitimate operators to introduce into human food channels meat derived from dead, dying, disabled and diseased animals." In spite of disclosures such as these and others even more outrageous, the Agricul­ ture Dept. and the National Association of State Agriculture Departments persist in a policy aimed at shielding the uncaring pack­ ers, and promoting the sale of their products, rather than at protecting the health of the nation. After decades of bureaucratic indifference to the quality of meat consumed by Ameri­ cans, a bill designed to broaden federal in­ spection and hit at the filth long tolerated by the states, has been introduced in the House of Representatives. We strongly hope a human tragedy or national scandal will not be necessary to gain this bill the combined congressional and administrative support required to pass it into law. • A Lesson in Geography A- basic geographical truth regarding America's need for a merchant marine secdnd to none was recently advanced by Rep­ resentative Robert O. Tiernan (D-R. I.). Noting that three-quarters of the earth is covered with water, Tiernan, in testimony at hearings held by the House Merchant Marine subcommittee, pointed out "the sometimes startling fapt that the continent of North America is an island," and that even though the United States is the indus­ trial giant of the world, she still uses half the globe's raw materials produced outside the Communist bloc. Since most of that material moves by sea, the U.S. must be capable of moving it for her own use. A strong merchant marine goes with a strong nation. The Soviet Union knows it and is striving for it. If American commerce were ever to become dependent on foreign ships or seamen politically controlled by a hostile power, a crippling economic block­ ade against this country would be a distinct possibility. �TF Page Eight September 1, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG US Fleet Would Be 'Sitting Dutk' In Boyd's Agenty, Retell Warns Unionists from Turkey Visit SIU WASHINGTON—The American merchant marine would be a "sitting duck" if it got "shang­ haied" into the Department of Transportation, a West Coast labor union official said in a statement recently filed with the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Thomas A. Rotell, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Pa­ the labor leader's statement con­ trucks would help to choke it off, particularly with a Secretary who cific Coast Metal Trades District tinued. "With the biggest subsidy bill in world history—and never knows nothing—twice nothing— Council (AFL-CIO), strongly ad­ a dime of recapture—it's been about maritime matters and has vocated an independent maritime fighting the 50-50 law since the 'telegraphed his Sunday punch' administration and declared that day it was passed. It conspires for the American merchant ma­ it has been shown that MARAD with the Justice Department to rine." cannot fulfill the merchant marine frustrate the enforcement of the Rotell claimed the American policy of the United States while law. Agriculture, Justice and merchant marine can never oper­ a subservient agency to another State condone foreign agents op­ ate efficiently as a "naval and mil­ government department. erating within the United States itary auxiliary" or carry its He referred to the declaration putting pressure on for the repeal of policy, as set forth in the Mer­ of this law. These three depart­ "domestic water-borne commerce" chant Marine Act of 1936, that it ments are a triple threat to the with MARAD in another depart­ ment, and particularly in the is necessary for the U.S. to have American merchant marine. You Transportation Department. a merchant marine sufficient to gentlemen, as members of this "The intercoastal and coast­ A delegation of Turkish union officials were conducted on tour carry its domestic water-borne committee, know this well, but wise ships have practically dis­ of New York headquarters recently. The lady is group's inter­ commerce and a "substantial por­ the public does not—and I won­ appeared," he said. "How any­ preter. SIU Rep. John Yarmola (partly hidden) guided the group. tion" of the water-borne export der if Transportation Secretary body can expect them to come and import foreign commerce of Boyd does. back when MARAD is a poor the country, and added: "The 50-50 law has kept 200 little orphan in DOT, dominated "It's been said a thousand times American ships sailing since by the railroads with their phoney before, but a 'substantial portion' World War II. That's 1.5 million loss-leader rates on water com­ of our foreign trade means no tons of lift capacity immediately petitive routes, I'll never know." less than half, and MARAD has available to Uncle Sam whenever demonstrated that it cannot, in its Bitterly attacking Boyd for (present) status . . . bring this and wherever the Communists wanting to build foreign and ac­ about. And neither would the De­ start burning up the world again. cusing him, among other things, That's 10,000 seafaring jobs— partment of Transportation." 200 drydockings and voyage re­ of wanting repeal of the 50-50 The Maritime Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, has pledged Rotell noted that the State De­ pairs a year. The American mer­ shipping law, Rotell maintained its "full and unstinting support" to the 5,400 Canadian SIU mem­ partment fights for the foreign that the only thing left for Con­ lines continually; the Justice De­ chant marine would be a sitting gress to do is to write the U.S. bers who are on strike against Canada's inland shipping companies. duck in DOT. It's bad enough in The assurance of the MTD's ^ partment throws "road blocks" in Commerce, but if it got 'shang­ merchant marine policy itself— the way of the conference sys­ "full backing" was contained in your members by a management tem and is "the only government haied' into E>OT, the rails and "to grab the ball and run with it." a telegram signed by department that is apparently unwilling to ac­ cept the facts of twentieth century agency—the only one, mind you head Paul Hall and Peter Mc- labor-management relations." SIU —in any maritime nation of the Gavin, MTD executive secretary- of Canada President Leonard Mc­ world that does this. And I un­ treasurer, to Leonard J. McLaugh­ Laughlin said that he had recently derstand that if we ever do away lin, President of the SIU of Can­ sent a telegram to Canadian La­ with the conference system, it's ada. bor Minister John R. Nicholson goodbye American merchant Canadian Seafarers went on requesting that Nicholson appoint marine." strike August 18 after bargaining a mediator to try to get bargain­ "And the Agriculture Depart­ by Frank Drozak, West Coast Representative was stalemated beyond a noon ing talks rolling again. ment is the biggest joke of all," strike deadline. One hundred Municipal Judge Milton Marks narrowly defeated Democratic eighty-one ships are involved in Assemblyman John Burton in a runoff election for the Senate seat the work stoppage against 32 vacated by the death of Senator J. Eugene McAteer. Burton was Great Lakes shipping companies. Canadian Seafarers are asking endorsed by the SIU and most labor groups. wage increases and application of The Republican victory splits the 40-seat Senate evenly and Canada's 40-hour work week to The linking of the Hudson and means that GOP Lt. Gov. Robert ^ Jesse Puckett, who retired re­ seamen, along with corrections of St. Lawrence Rivers for the pur­ Finch could cast the deciding vote cently, came around to visit old inequities in other working condi­ The day is coming when man poses of commercial navigation, on straight party issues. Most ob­ tions. The Canadian Government will be able to extract from the shipmates and told us he enjoys has been ruled economically un­ servers feel that more Senate Com­ the life of ease. Jesse still travels has proposed an 18-month mora­ oceans enough Fish Protein Con­ feasible, by the United States-Ca­ mittee chairmanships will go to torium on the application of the centrate (FPC) to feed all the quite a bit. nadian International Joint Com­ the GOP next year. 40-hour work week law to mem­ hungry people of the world and mission. F. Debeaumont, a 22-year SIU bers of the Canadian maritime in­ erase the specter of famine. San Francisco The commission first gave this man, is scanning the boards for a dustries. Soon, too, the day will come opinion in 1938 after the initial Shipping is active and we ex­ bosun's slot. His last ship was the Hall's telegram read in part: when man will live and work un­ investigation of the limited exist­ pect this situation to continue Transhartford as bosun. "This strike has been forced upon der the seas, tapping new sources ing waterway. The commission's awhile. We had 20 sign-ons and of minerals and energy, operating most recent examination conclud­ pay-offs. The Falrland, Seamar, sea-bottom ranches and farms, ed that construction of a passage living in ocean-bed colonies. suitable for commercial shipping Steel Seafarer, Geneva, Mankato He will be using oceanography is technically possible and the best Victory and Halaula Victory are to master the difficult tricks of route would follow the existing in transit. weather forecasting. And if war shallow passage with its more than Wilmington is still a constant threat, he will 20 locks and 6Vi-foot draft in be using the sea bed and the Winston Battle would like to important areas. ocean currents for aids and bar­ ship out as steward on the Iber­ The report, shown to Canadian Shipping companies who want to do business with Red China riers against nuclear submarine and U.S. officials, stated however, ville when that ship comes out of must be careful not to insult Mao Tse-tung, the "great leader attacks. that "in view of the ^ide disparity drydock in San Francisco. He en­ of the 700 million Chinese people," British shipowners have With the underseas future in between the benefits and costs of joyed his last stay on that vessel. been warned. mind, the U.S. Naval Reserve Re­ improving the waterway for com­ Walter Marcus, an SIU pen­ A copy of the statement issued by the China National Charter­ search program recently hosted a mercial navigation, no further or sioner, visited the hall recently. ing Corporation of Peking has been sent to New York shipping national two-week seminar on ad­ more detailed studies of the com­ Walt spent some 20 years in the interests. No American-flag ships trade in Red China. The state­ vanced underseas defense and mercial navigation aspects of the SIU and said that he misses the ment cited an incident aboard the British freighter Lord Glad­ ocean technology at the Naval waterway are warranted.'.' stone as an example of what cannot be tolerated. life at sea. War College. The commission said that the With the "connivance" of the ship's Master, a cook "wantonly It^as noted that oceanography Shipping is extremely active and estimated potential traffic for an defaced" a Mao portrait in a book, "Quotations from Chairman and ocean engineering is a young improved international Champlain the outlook is for more of the Mao Tse-tung." Since his thought is "the beacon light guiding program that promises wi^in a Waterway would be "meager in same. Rated men are shipping people of the world," the Chinese protested to the British Em­ short time to become as advanced spite of the apparent advantages immediately. bassy in Peking. and as challenging as man's ex­ of linking two great industrial and As a reprisal for this "insult," the Lord Gladstone's Captain, ploration of outer space. Seattle commercial areas." Costs of the E. S. Marsden and the crew were detained, then expelled. Cap­ "The depth of the sea is a new William Holland would like to improvements would nm from tain Marsden is banned entry into Chinese ports. The Lord environment for man's explora­ $100 million for a minimal pro­ ship out as Chief Electrician on Gladstone is owned by Ships Finance and Management Com­ tion and development, just as ject to $2 billion for a 27-foot a Far East-bound ship. His last pany Ltd., of London. crossing to the West was a chal­ draft passage. job was on the Minot Victory. lenge in centuries past." m MTD Pledges Full Support To Strike by SIU of Canada The Pacific Coast Ocean Science Holds Solution To End Famine Uidson-St Lawreute IM-^i Ruled Out Uo Afore Slow Boat to China if You Insult Chuirman Mao �Text of Hall's Labor Day Address on Merchant Marine (The following is the text of the Labor Day address by AFL-CIO Vice-President Paul Hall entitled "American Labor Looks at Our Merchant Marine," presented by the AFL-CIO over the national radio network facilities of the Mutual Broadcasting system.) F OR millions of Americans, this Labor Day is a holiday—but for millions more, it's business as usual. For our American forces in Viet­ nam, for example, there's no thought of a Labor Day holiday. In countless defense plants across the country— the ones that are making the planes and tanks, the guns and ammunition—American workers are manning the production line. And aboard the ships of our merchant fleet—the ships that are keeping the lifeline open to Vietnam—American seamen are on the job just as they are any other day. This is as it should be. Whenever democratic concepts are threatened —whenever freedom is endangered—American labor, as a matter of principle, supports, and is involved in, the efforts to preserve the ideals on which this country is founded. That is why the AFL-CIO—13.5 million mem­ bers strong—is in full accord with our national policy that we must win this struggle for freedom in Southeast Asia. The American labor movement is deeply con­ cerned about South Vietnam—because a threat to the freedom of any country, anywhere in the world, is a threat to American freedom, too. There's an old trade union saying—that an injury to one is the concern of all—and it applies to the freedom of nations as well as to the free­ doms of the individual. We, in the maritime industry—and I'm talking about maritime management, as well as maritime labor—know something about America's struggle for freedom. After all, it was our merchant fleet— our civilian-owned and civilian-manned cargo and passenger vessels—which played such an impor­ tant role in the winning of World War II. And it is our merchant fleet—our civilian-owned and civilian-manned cargo and passenger vesselswhich are maintaining the sealift to Vietnam to­ day. Sea Power Indispensable This may be the age of air power—but the oceangoing ship is still indispensable to our na­ tional welfare. This is being proved everyday in the Vietnam war—where 98 percent of all of the supplies, and two-thirds of all of the troops— are being transported, not by planes, but by ships. But this has been an assignment for which our nation was not prepared. The unhappy fact is that our national maritime policy has nut provided us with a merchant marine adequate for our com­ mercial or security needs. To get enough ships for this Vietnam sealift, ways had to be found to meet this emergency situ­ ation. Vessels had to be pulled off of their regular commercial runs. More than a hundred ships had to be taken out of mothballs—ships that were old and out-dated, many of them which had served in World War II. And seafaring unions had to rapidly expand their training programs so that we would be sure of having enough skilled crews to keep these ships operating. The American labor movement recognizes the serious nature of the problem which confronts America on the high seas. As recently as a year ago, the AFL-CIO Executive Council, meeting in Chicago, had this to say about our merchant marine: "Today, the American merchant marine is being called upon to meet a war situation for the third time in 25 years. "Owing to the neglect of this industry by the government since the end of World War II, and the failure of the Defense Department to foresee and admit the need for merchant ships to transf)ort troops and supplies across the seas, the con­ dition of the merchant fleet, its supporting ship­ yards and available skilled manpower have reached the point of crisis. "Merchant shipping has played a vital part in American history. Today, as the result of short­ sighted policies on the part of government officials with no understanding and sympathy with the significance of commercial seapower, we have fallen to third-rate status among the maritime nations of the world." That's what the American labor movement feels about the plight of our commercial fleet. Feast or Famine The sad fact is that—since the beginning of this century—the lot of the American merchant marine as been one of feast or famine. During peacetime, the U.S. maritime industry has starved for lack of attention. During the fat days, our nation has been unwilling to spend the funds necessary to build up our merchant fleet. It's only when our security is threatened that America wakes up to the importance of our mer­ chant fleet. In spite of today's obstacles, the American merchant marine—the civilian-owned and civilianmanned fleet—is getting the job done. But we're doing it with a fleet that is not large enough nor modern enough for our position as a maritime power. Just look at the record; At the end of World War II, we had a merchant fleet of more than 5,000 ships; today we have less than one-fifth that number, and few of them are modern vessels. At the end of World War II, American ships carried 40 per cent of our oceangoing exportimport cargoes; today our vessels carry only 7 per cent of that cargo—in other words, ships of foreign countries carry 93 per cent of America's cargo. At the end of World War II, our merchant fleet provided jobs for 80,000 sailors; today these jobs have shrunk to only about half that number. At the end of World War II, we were first among all of the nations of the world in shipping; today, we're sixth and still going down. At the end of World War II, we were first in the great craft of shipbuilding; today we've dropped all the way to 16th. And while we've been going backward on the high seas, the Russians have been forging ahead at breakneck speed. The situation is so acute that, within the next few years, the Soviets may have a 2-to-l superiority over the United States in merchant shipping. Over the years, Russia has threatened to "bury" the Unitfcd States—and today she is in danger of "sinking" us—of driving us from the world's sealanes, of dominating the fishing industry, of taking the lead in the science of oceanography. The Soviet Union today is well on the way to becoming a dominant maritime power—perhaps the world's leading maritime power. If the Rus­ sians get the upper hand, they'll be able to with­ hold their shipping services whenever it serves their political purposes. Remember this: America's industrial complex depends on 77 strategic materials—and 66 of these have to be imported. At this moment, virtually all of these strategic materials move in the holds of foreignflag ships. Suppose those ships were the ones flying the hammer and sickle? Does anyone believe that Russia—the nation that has threatened to "bury us"—would deliver these strategic materials to our shores? The answer is obvious. We would be under Russia's thumb—without a missile having been fired. The Russians know that a merchant marine is far more than just a part of a country's defense posture—as important as that role is. The Rus­ sians know that a merchant marine is part of a country's economic strength—and a part of its international strength. That's why Russia—and every other maritime power in the world—actively supports its mer­ chant marine with strong public policies—poli­ cies that make possible the building and manning of larger, faster and more modern commercial ships. And therein lies the difference—therein lies the reason why other nations are moving forward, and we're moving backward, in maritime affairs. A modern merchant marine is possible only with full government support—and full public support. This is true with virtually every industry, when you stop and think about it. Here in this country, the industries that are making the greatest strides are the ones that have adequate public programs to support them. American agriculture, for example, could not continue to be the world's leader in the produc­ tion of food and fiber without the countless pro­ grams of government assistance. Our aviation in­ dustry could not stay ahead of its foreign com­ petition—particularly in the race for supremacy in the supersonic transport field—without billions of dollars of public investment. We've got to put the same sort of government investment into our maritime industry as we're putting into aviation. This kind of investment is vital if we are to carry our proper share of Amer­ ican cargoes in time of peace. And it is vital if our merchant marine is to be available to back­ stop our armed forces in time of conflict. We've got to start—and start right now—to build a fleet that is modern enough, fast enough and large enough to serve all of our needs. And we've got to make sure that this fleet is built in American yards—because this will reinforce the entire American economy. A domestic shipbuilding program means a lot more than just jobs for American shipbuilding crafts and profits for American shipyards. When you build a ship in an America shipyard, you're using steel manufactured in Pennsylvania —from ore mined in Minnesota. America ship­ building involves electrical equipment from Ken­ tucky—lumber from Washington—machine tools from Connecticut—valves and fitting from Idaho —and so on. And the men who are employed in all of these industries are able, as a result, to buy shoes made in Missouri and clothing made in Tennessee. They're able to feed their families crab from Alaska and lobster from Maine—and oranges grown in Florida and brought to the market aboard planes made in California and powered by fuel from Texas. Provides Needed Jobs What's more, a strong and growing merchant marine can provide needed jobs—for the young men from the ghettos of Harlem and Detroit and Chicago, and from the pockets of poverty in Appalachia—as the union I represent, the Searfarers, and others have been doing for years. In other words, America's maritime affairs— shipping and shipbuilding alike—affect all geo­ graphic areas of the country and all economic levels. This industry can contribute to a healthier American economy and to a stronger defense shield against aggression. No one disputes the importance of our merchant marine—yet we have no positive national program that inspires the confidence of all who are con­ cerned with the future of this vital segment of our economy. Government and industry, labor and manage­ ment, are all agreed that we must have a bold new maritime program—but up to now there has been no agreement on what this program should contain. On this Labor Day, we in the trade union movement call on government, industry and labor to knuckle down to the problem of developing the kind of program that will assure that U.S. ship­ ping and U.S. shipbuilding can make their maxi­ mum contribution to our economy and our de­ fense. This isn't just a maritime problem—it's an American problem. If we as a nation fail to resolve this problem, the impact of that failure will be felt by every American—businessman, farmer, and worker, alike. A strengthened, modernized and expanded merchant marine, is essential to America's future as a healthy, thriving, prosperous nation. �SEAFARERS LOG Page Ten September 1, 1967 Threats, Blacklisting, Cited at House Hearing Fear Tactics Still Used by Employers To Balk Union Organizing Drives ' i'. i. WASHINGTON—Workers from American mills and factories came to the Capitol to tell in thenown words the methods their employers use to prevent them from doing what the law says they are free to do—organize into unions of their own choosing without unlawful interference. As one witness told the SpeLillian Hux told how she cial House Subcommittee on record details of widespread com­ munity interference with unions worked three days at the Roanoke Labor, it was a story of "dis­ and workers; Organizer Claude Rapids plant and was fired after crimination, coercion, intimida­ Davis of the Molders, who told of a union organizer handed her a tion, surveillance, threats, com­ being beaten by an employer in leaflet. pany and community interference Tuppers Plains, Ohio, when he "Someone told me to get rid and massive illegal discharges." went to the plant to seek reinstate­ of it, quick. There wasn't -any The intimidation and the dis­ ment of five workers fired for join­ trash basket handy so I handed charges are still occurring, an­ ing the union. it to my cousin who was due to other witness testified, "this week Other union representatives also go off duty. Her supervisor saw and last week and every week, gave evidence supporting their her put it into her purse and I despite the law and the courts. belief that the law against employ­ was fired for interfering with an­ As the witnesses left the stand, er harassment of union members other employee. Then they fired some in tears. Representative Wil­ should be given "real sharp teeth." my cousin too," said Mrs. Hux. liam D. Ford (D-Mich.) observed But the most moving testimony "I haven't worked since," said that "even union people wouldn't came from rank-and-file workers. the witness, the mother of two believe that this is still happening" Mrs. Doris Hicklin of Rock children. Sobbing, she cried "J. P. unless they can read the testi­ Hill, S. C., mother of a soldier Stevens has denied me my rights mony. It is, he added, "like some­ now serving in Vietnam, tearfully as an American," and rushed from thing out of Alice in Wonderland" accounted how she was fired by the hearing room. to hear of events in sections of the J. P. Stevens & Co. for wearing A solemn witness was Jess nation that have been "totally cut a union button in the plant where Cudd, from Whitmire, S. C., who off from what has been happening she had worked seven years until worked 50 years for the Stevens for the last 25 years in this coun­ 1964. firm and was discharged for join­ try." "I was called into the office and ing TWUA. Worse than firing, he Subcommittee Chairman Frank told to take off the button. This I said, was management's attempt Thompson (D-N.J.) scheduled refused to do," she said. Mrs. to get him to help "run out of additional public hearings until Hicklin has n(^job now because town" his son, also fired for join­ all who want to testify are heard. she was fired from her last two ing the union. Thompson's invitation to appear jobs—a report Thorppson referred He said: "They come to me and was rejected by President Robert to the Justice Department for in­ say 'Mr. Cudd, how come you T. Stevens of J. P. Stevens & Co., vestigation of possible witness don't adopt that boy's two chil­ Inc., big government textile con­ intimidation. dren and you could make about tractor which has fired more than Shirley Hobbs of Roanoke as much out of it as you could 500 workers to date and has re­ Rapids, N. C., said she was fired in the mill by getting social secu­ fused to reinstate any of them by Stevens management after join­ rity and run him out of town?'" while it appeals lower court ing the Textile Workers. So was Cudd's story previously led a her husband. Of her experiences National Labor Relations Board rulings to the Supreme Court. Union witnesses included Rob­ Mrs. Hobbs said "Lincoln freed trial examiner to cite the incident ert Starnes, assistant AFL-CIO the slaves but J. P. Stevens en­ as a "horrible example" of em­ regional director for Mississippi slaves his workers with fear, black­ ployer callousness. The Cudds and Louisiana, who read into the balling and work overloads." were among 71 fired Stevens em­ ployes that the NLRB, and two federal courts, ordered reinstated with backpay of 1964. The comrany president announced during the Thompson hearings that he will appeal the latest adverse deci­ sion to the top U.S. court. Four committee witnesses came by Fred Farnen, Secretary-Treasurer,Greet Lakes from Hartwell, Ga., to relate how they took part in an attack on Members of the SIU's Inland Boatmen's Union and the ILA union handbillers at the Monroe were back on the job in Duluth following a disagreement involv­ Auto Equipment Co. plant in ing a layoff provision in the contract. The dispute was triggered 1963. One quoted a company by the company laying off four men on 15 minutes notice. Ac­ foreman as telling workers "it cording to the contract the men were to have five days. The strike might mean your job if you don't run them off." lasted one day and affected 50 The union men were attacked reached with the Ann Arbor Rail­ SIU men. by 50 employees who poured out­ Local 112 and 118 of the Amer­ road Company which will be pre­ side the plant to manhandle them sented aboard all vessels shortly ican Federation of Grain Millers and burn their handbills and for ratification. called a strike. against 11 grain leaflets. The union lost one elec­ Ward Johnson will receive his elevators in the area. Local 1 in tion there, won a second one but Minneapolis and St. Paul are also first SIU pension check shortly. still is fighting for recognition, on strike. A cooling off period the committee was told. was called for by the Federal Ray Smithhart of the Rubber Mediator, who arranged for a Workers said he was arrested in meeting in Duluth. Mississippi for passing out hand­ Tom Newgren and Axel ErickThe SIU Great Lakes Dis­ bills, jailed and fined $10 by the son are both planning to take a trict is holding several checks i mayor of Ripley, Miss. In Tupelo, bride shortly. Tommy is a watch­ i in the Port of Detroit for: Miss., his car was riddled by buck­ man and Axel ships as oiler. Fred Great Lakes members we can-1 shot but he himself was not hit. Leske, who sails as an oiler is not locate. The money rep­ Local police made no attempt to going to be a father soon. Con­ resents grievances settled be-1 investigate, he said. gratulations and the best of luck tween the Union and the James M. Pierce of the AFLto all of these men. Reiss Steamship Company. CIO Industrial Union Department Cleveland wrapped up his experiences with Name Amount Stevens Co. by calling it a "story Word should arrive shortly Donald Montgomery $ 17.51 of firings and discrimination." about the unemployment bill for William Duffy $ 19.15 "Fighting unions in the South is Great Lakes seamen. The SIU i Stephen Williams $ 2.741 big business," he testified. Naming has been pushing this bill along Messaid El-Jahmi $ 7.301 several law firths that specialize in co-operation with MEBA. We i Qasim A1 Shamman $145.0: in combatting unions, he said re­ have gone all out in this fight. I Lloyd Hope $ 8.95 tention of these firms "automati­ V -r Frankfort ! Carl Johnson $ 8.95 cally means a campaign of fear i - A contract agreement has been and cotBrriiinity • interfereride." ' The Great Lakes Money Due '-'".UVv,:-'-i II i f ; Passing Of Ambrose Lightship Marks the bid of an ba mmf Closing a tradition begun in 1823, the last lightship in New York Harbor, the L/S Ambrose, surrenders its domain to a modern, stilt-like, light-tower, leaving only its name behind. The 7,800 pound mushroom anchor was slowly plucked from the grey sea, there was a dismal honk of a foghorn, and the lonely sentinel of New York's Ambrose Channel, the last Am­ brose Lightship, plodded away from the site of her 17-year vigil, never to return. A 104-year tradition of lightships bobhing in New York Harbor has come to an end. Her place has been taken by a bleak, clumsy four-legged light tower. A group of lightship buffs had sailed 22 miles to see the gal­ lant hulk uproot and drift into the mist of memory. The 16-man lightship crew stood on deck as L/S Ambrose slowly circled the ungainly tower, some at attention, some mere­ ly looking, few showing regret. They were bidding farewell to a life of deadly monotony, of danger as well as drudgery. The L/S Ambrose had had a single, unchanging mission: to split the darkness. Ships of all types, from stubby tugs to majestic liners, would beam in on the lightship's bleary foghorn, its 5,500,000 candlepower light, and its powerful radio beacon, and would try to come as close to the lightship as possible. In a channel 38,000 feet long and only 2,000 feet wide, the crew of the lightship faced a possible collision every seven minutes. In 1947, the lightship Nantucket was snapped in two by the 47,000 ton White Star liner Olympic, killing seven of the Nantucket's 11man crew. On June 24, I960, the sixth and last Ambrose light­ ship was fortunately in dry dock for an overhaul when her re­ lief ship was torn asunder by a freighter. Amazingly, since the present lightship location was chosen in 1908, there have been only four collisions, but the danger still existed. Even though it had excellent television reception and a comprehensive library, the L/S Ambrose also provided her crew with a plentiful supply of monotony. Perhaps this is why the skipper of the cutter Mahon­ ing, Chief Warrant Officer Ted Polgar, remarked that there were only two assignments comparable to lightship-tending: assign­ ment in Vietnam, and assignment on an isolated radio navigation station in the Pacific. The new tower is designed to be more efficient, more comfort­ able, and less monotonous than its floating predecessor. The pre­ fabricated structure stands on four strong legs which have been driven 170 feet into the ocean floor. Perched on top, 60 feet above the water, are the mess facilities, office, crew quarters, and stowage area. The flat roof serves as a heliport. Of the small six-man crew, four will be on board at all times, serving for two weeks and then taking a very welcome one-week leave. The main light will gleam with 6,000,000 candlepower during periods of low visibilty. At full power in clear weather, it will be visible for 17 miles, whereas the old ship's light would shine for only 13. In addition to the powerful radio beacon, the new station has a complement of eight electric foghorns which operate simul­ taneously, each individual horn having a range of six miles. As the Ambrose Lightship glumly puttered around its suc­ cessor, commissioning ceremonies were under way. Now the squat lightship "Papa Charlie" code flags flapped in the breeze, signifying "I am not in my correct position." The time had come. It was the end for L/S Ambrose, which had survived storms, collisions, and German submarine forays off the U.S. coast in World War 11. An overhaul in Staten Island loomed ahead. Soon, the lobster-red ship tfrill begin a new vigil somewhere off the coast of New England.; . ; �September 1, 1967 Receives Death Benefit Mrs. Reba Sue Martin, widow of SlU pensioner James Martin, re­ ceives Union death benefit check for $4,000 from SlU Representative Ken McGregor in San Francisco. With Mrs. Martin are her children. The Gulf Coast by Lindsey Williams, Vice-President, Guif Area The Maritime Council of New Orleans and Vicinity and the fe'' Greater New Orleans, AFL-CIO, staged "Political Candidates Night", recently to back pro-labor legislators in danger of being gerrymandered out of office due to reapportionment. Right-To-Work committees have already opened a public office in Baton Rouge and will make every effort to defeat pro-labor he is not particular about his next candidates. President Victor Bus- ship or run. sie of the AFL-CIO has urged all Clarence Trippe made a voyage of those eligible to vote to make to India on the Transhudson. certain they are registered. A list After a bout with illness, he's of labor-endorsed candidates will looking for a saloon messman's be announced at a later date. job. COPE of New Orleans will take an active part in the election of 30 members of the House, 12 in the Senate, plus Governor and other statewide jobs up for elec­ tion this year. COPE's motto is "Elect our friends, defeat our enemies." New Orleans Charles Cassard would like a South American or Vietnam run. Villoria Jaroclnski He didn't care for the West Afri­ Charles Hyde's last trip was the can trip he made aboard the Del Steel Navigator as salon pantry­ Valle. Felix Jaroclnski was on the Del man. Charles took a vacation Norte when illness forced him off after that and is now registered in La Guaira, Venezuela. He said and ready to take to the seas again. Houston Upgrading here has been quite good. Joseph Matejek just passed his exam for Chief Engineer. Shipping is still good and we are moving men and ships very quick­ lyI. Glass got an AB's job on the Del Sud. He said he was really SAN JUAN, P.R.—The SIU of sweating it out because he likes Puerto Rico has signed a new this ship. three-year contract with Esso R. Villoria caught the Del Valle Standard Oil of Puerto Rico call­ and J. Kirchener latched onto a ing for a monthly wage increase job aboard the Achilles. amounting to $15 the first year, Mobile $14 the second year and an addi­ O. B. Davenport wants a change tional $15 during the third year. of scenery after four straight runs The new pact also gained a to the Far East. He sails as FWT substantial increase of 33% in or oiler. employer contributions to the wel­ H. C. Cain is registered and fare plan and a substantial in­ would like a Far East run. He crease in paid vacation time for runs a local nightclub while each employee. ashore. All employees, regardless of seniority, will receive a total of John Tilley said he hopes his 20 paid annual holidays. next ship is as good as the FanIn talks between the SIU of wood. John's a 25-year veteran Puerto Rico and Texaco De and sails as steward. Puerto Rico, negotiations have Shipping is good here and been stalemated over the com­ should improve now that Alcoa pany's insistence on the mainten­ has added the Alcoa Commandor ance of membership clauses, and Alcoa Roamer to the Vene­ rather than union shop clauses in zuelan runs. These trips had been any new agreement. discontinued for awhite. Puerto Rico SlU Signs New Pact At Standard Oil SEAFARERS Page Eleven LOG Corporations Should Bear Brunt Of New Tax, Meany Tells Congress WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO President GeorgeMeany told Congress last week that labor agrees with President Johnson on the need for a tax increase but firmly opposes his method of applying it. Testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee, Meany backed higher taxes in both principle and practice. An in~ "On the personal income side, crease, he said, would be m viduals with less than $1,000 is keeping with the tradition of not adequate to approach the prin­ we propose that the taxpayer list his income from these three cate­ equality and sacrifice in the de­ ciple of ability to pay. fense of freedom; would finance "For example, under the Ad­ gories, deduct a generous $10,000 the rising costs of the Vietnam ministration's proposal, a family and apply the same tax rate as the war while still allowing for con­ of four with a taxable income of surtax on the remainder, if any. "With a deduction of $10,000 tinued domestic progress, and $1,999—gross income of about per tax return, moderate-income would reduce the dangers of tight $4,900—would pay its regular tax money, very high interest rates of $290. It would pay no sur­ taxpayers would be exempted and an unbalanced economic charge. Another family of four from the tax on excluded income. advance." with a taxable income of $2,001 Moreover, the tax rate would be —gross income of slightly over much lower than the regular tax But "equality of sacrifice should be based on ability to sac­ $5,000—would be required to pay rates. Yet a significant portion of rifice," he said, and the Admin­ its regular tax of slightly over excluded income would be sub­ istration's proposals recognize this $290 plus the 10 percent surtax, jected to some taxation and ad­ precept "only to a minor degree." or $29. For the extra $2 of tax­ ditional federal revenue would be raised at a time when it is needed. The federation leader called for able income, it would be required "On the corporate side, we rec­ three major changes in the Ad­ to pay $29 in additional taxes. ommend a similar listing of those This is clearly unfair. ministration bill; a surtax on cor­ categories of excluded income, a "Moreover, this proposal also porations "at least twice as great very generous deduction of $25,as on individuals," a lump-sum fails to give sufficient recognition 000 and application of the same deduction for individual and fam­ to the ability to pay principle as tax rate as the surtax to the ily taxpayers in calculating their one moves up the income scale. remainder. surtax, aimed at strengthening the Families with incomes of $6,000 "The deduction of as much as principle of ability to pay, and a or $10,000 would pay the same $25,000 would exclude small cor­ plan for applying the war tax rate 10 percent surcharge on their total porations, and most medium-sized to income not now subject to tax liabilities as families with in­ corporations as well. However, it regular income tax because of comes of over $1 million. would subject the excluded in­ loopholes. "In addition, the proposal fails come of wealthier corporations to Compared to the Administra­ to recognize that the after-tax a low tax rate—much lower than tion's estimate of about $9 billion weekly take-home pay of most the 48 percent on reported in­ return from its proposals in a groups of wage and salary earners come. At least part of the revenue year's time, Meany said the AFL- has increased only slightly in the of excluded income would be CIO alternatives would yield about last two years. The weekly take- tapped. $8 billion if based on a six percent home pay of the average factory "This proposal seems to us to surtax on individuals and 12 per­ worker, with three dependents, be simple, clear and direct. It is cent on corporations, and about was $100.39 in June—only 62 not structural reform of the de­ $13.4 billion at rates of 10 per­ cents per week greater than in tailed problems in our tax system. cent and 20 percent, respectively. June 1966 and $3.40 greater than But it would raise additional reve­ nue, as part of a war tax, by Meany offered these arguments in June 1965." applying a degree of taxation to in support of the proposed The plan can be made much the large sums that are now ex­ changes: fairer, he said, by allowing each cluded from the income tax." Corporation Taxes. Restoration family filing a joint return to of the seven percent tax credit for subtract $300 from its tax liability new business investment this year before calculating the surtax. That has given corporations a $2 bil­ is, a family paying $300 or less lion annual tax cut. Despite a in regular taxes would pay no sur­ minor decline in very high cor­ tax. A family paying $600 would porate profits since late 1966, they pay surtax on $300, and so on. show a rise of 74Vi percent after For individual returns, a $150 de­ taxes since 1960. Dividend pay­ duction was suggested. The Navy's navigation satellite ments have soared more than 69 Excluded income. "Tax loop­ percent in the same span. Total holes of special privilege for system, which enables a ship to wage and salary outlays have gone wealthy families and corporations determine its position at sea in up only 54 percent, reflecting are numerous and notorious," in­ any weather with tremendous ac­ higher employment as well as cluding the exclusion for tax pur­ curacy, is going to be made avail­ higher individual incomes. How­ poses of half of capital gains and able for U. S. merchant ship use. ever, after-tax take-home pay of income from tax-exempt state and The move, announced by Vice a factory worker with three de­ local bonds, as well as depletion President Humphrey, means that any American ship at sea could pendents rose only 24 percent, allowances. be equipped to tune in on the and in terms of buying power, a While structural tax reform is mere II percent during the 6V2- not the present issue, the special radio signals beamed from the year period. A double-rate tax on circumstances surrounding the three Navy satellites that form the heart of the system. Until now, corporations is clearly justified. surtax proposal justifies the appli­ the system has been limited to Special deduction. The Admin­ cation of a tax, at the surtax rate, military ships, and has been a istration proposal to exempt from to excluded income in the above closely-guarded secret. the surtax families with less than categories, after a "generous de­ Although the system has been $2,000 taxable income and indi­ duction." in operation since 1964, the Vice President said that in the last year there has been increasing interest SIU WELFARE, VACATION PLANS in the Navy's system of oceanographic research. And, he said, June 1 - June 30, 1967 since many nations are "intensify­ Number of Amount ing their use of the sea's resources Benefits Paid ... it is essential that we work Hospital Benefits $ 57,981.08 with all countries, including the Death Benefits 84,993.50 Soviet Union, bilaterally and Disability Benefits 172,200.00 through international organiza­ 967 Maternity Benefits 5,270.00 tions, in exploring, understanding 27 and using the seas and their re­ Dependent Benefits 94,466.78 sources." 467 Optical Benefits 13,671.35 917 Complete details, such as cost OuNPotient Benefits ..... 3,923 31,410.00 and the question of which nations 693,281.05 will be allowed to participate, are Vacation Benefits 1,680 not yet available. The Depart­ ment of Transportation has been Total Welfare, Vacation asked to set up plans to use the Benefits Paid This Period.. $1,153,273.76 13,601 satellite system for militaiy ships. Satellite System Made Available For Navigation a. �4 Page Twelve t I't I 5^ September 1, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG SlU-Crewed Ship Our Lady of Peare Sails Through Two War Zones A can of TNT found attached to the ship's anchor, a dangerous shipboard fire, and a trip through the Suez Canal shortly before an outbreak of war might give one the impression that the SlU-contracted vessel Our Lady of Peace is the most misnamed ship in the fleet. These were some of the experiences of recent voyages related to a LOG reporter at a never been too friendly to Ameri­ came aboard," Allen related, "a recent payoff in Bayonne, N. J. cans, especially in the last ten small can of TNT was found at­ "We may have been the last years," Luketic said. Most sea­ tached to the anchor chain." The SIU ship through the Suez Canal," men find they don't get what they ship was in Nha Be, with another Luke Luketic of the deck depart­ pay for. "You have to watch your American ship and two Panama­ nian vessels. A mine exploded at ment related. The ship went wallet .there," he added. Another incident aboard the 1:30 a.m., sinking one of the for­ through on June 3, three days be­ fore the Israeli- ship, this time in Vietnam, was eign ships and a second explosion Arab fighting and recalled by Luketic. Last Decem­ eight hours later broke the an­ it was apparent ber, in Vietnam, some gas highlos chor chain on the second Pana­ that Egypt was caught fire in number two hatch. manian ship. Some Navy divers searched the preparing for war. Damage was slight and was put Seafarers Arthur out quickly. "We were carrying bottom of the two American ships Lesh and Lars ammunition and there were 250 and found the TNT can. It had Wejemark de­ pound bombs in the area," Luke­ a time device on it that was due scribed the reac­ tic recalled. If there had been an to detonate the explosive at 4:30 tion of the Egyp­ explosion "all of us would have p.m. The bottoms of ships are Lesh carefully searched now, and the tians as the ship been goners." headed through the canal. Bosun Enos Allen told of an­ SlU-contracted Oceanic Spray "They stood along the banks other close call the ship had on found a TNT can on its anchor and shook their fists, shouted, and the Vietnam run. "Just before I a few weeks ago. even threw some rocks at us," Lesh said. "A few did seem JASMINA (Wall Street Marine), July WAYNE VICTORY (Marine Carriers). friendly," Wejemark said, but the July 30—Chairman, Tom Driscoll; Secretary, 2—Chairman, Donald M. Kintr; Sec­ Gilbert Delgado. Ship's delegate reported retary. Louis W. Pepper. Brother Donald majority were clearly anti-Ameri­ M. King was elect^ to serve as new everything running smoothly. Captain is can. The Seafarers could see ship's delegate. No beefs reported by well satisfied with the crew. Brother Raymond Perry was elected to serve as department delegates. Vote of thanks Egyptian soldiers lined up along given ship's treasurer. $1.00 to be donated by to steward department for job well crewmembers. Some disputed OT re­ the canal bank, along with shore done. Discussion held on improper use of ported by deck department. Discussion washing machines and lines for drying batteries, anti-aircraft guns and clothes. on cleaning up the ship in certain de­ partments. machine gun nests. "We spoke to MANHATTAN (Hudson Waterways). some canal workers and they said July 23—Chairman, Woodroe Lawton; DEL SUD (Delta), July 30—Chairman, Secretary. Bill Padgett. No beefs reported Mike Dunn: Secretary, Gary Bryant. No. there wouldn't be any war, but it by department delegates. Brother M. J. beefs reported by department delegal^. was obvious it would come soon," Berry was elected to serve as ship's dele­ Captain reported a good voyage. Motion made that proper medical supplies be Lesh stated. brought aboard ship before leaving United States. Motion made that sick crew mem­ The Egyptian authorities made bers be fiown to United States from no effort to interfere with the foreign ports. Motion made to have pro­ bationary members who continually miss ship, although some officials ship in foreign ports pay penalty to Union or assume Foreign Probationary boarded the vessel. "They have membership with Union. Compliments these canal crews that help you given to first trippers for being clean cut young men and conducting themselves in dock and lend a hand during any the true manner taught by the SIU school. A vote of thanks was given to the steward emergency," Lesh said. Some department. men, a few armed, came aboard CONNECTICUT (OrienUl Exporters), from one of these craft but they July 2 —• Chairman, Leo Paradise: Sec­ just looked around, asked a few retary. A. W. Morales. $14.00 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department civil questions and left," Lesh gate. Vote of thanks given to the stew­ delegates. Brother E. R. Hall was elected ard department. Also vote of thanks said. He added it was not usual given to Captain for co-operation with to serve as new ship's delegate. Crew pledged $1.00 to be collected for ship's crew. Discussion held on thieves coming for them to board a vessel. fund next draw. Discussion held on ac­ aboard. quiring new washing machine and re­ The crew wasn't really worried, pairing old one. Air conditioning unit CUBA VICTORY (Alcoe Steamship), being added for benefit of crew. Luketic stated, because nobody July 16—Chairman, R. V. Ceiling; Sec­ C. J. Quinnt. Ship's delegate.re­ thought the Egyptians would ac­ retary. HALCYON PANTHER (Halcyon ported everything running smoothly. No tually fire on an American ship. beefs reported by department delegates. Steamship Co.), July 9—Chairman, G._S. Stanley; Secretary, A. W. Hutcherson. C. J. Quinnt was elected to serve "There were no special precau­ Brother $11.00 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by as new ship's delegate. Discussion held on delegates. Brother A. S. sanitation after using head. All agreed tions taken, but the crew was to co-operate. Ship's delegate will see department Turner was elected to serve as new ship's silent and our main concern was Chief engineer about repairing washing delegate. Will post list of movie donations. machine and laundry tubs. All hands asked to donate. to get out of there as fast as pos­ sible," he added. One SILl ship, the Observer was trapped in the Entry Rating Lifeboat Class No. 10 Canal, and is still there, along with vessels from other nations, including some ships from Com­ munist nations. According to Luketic, one prob­ lem that arose concerned the of­ ficial clearance for the ship to pass through the canal. "A mes­ sage was sent to the company regarding the possibility of trou­ ble with officials, but they wired back and said that no trouble was anticipated," Luketic said. Sea­ farers were worried about the fact that they might have had to turn around and return to the States by way of the Cape of Good Hope. Meets the Intrepid Our Lady of Peace met the air­ craft carrier Intrepid in the Red These Harry LuncJeberg School of Seamanship entry rating students Sea, just before the freighter went have qualified for a lifeboat ticket after passing examinations through the canal into the Medi­ conducted by Coast Guard. In front row (l-r) are: D. Godfrey, F. terranean. The fact that crew Jossi, R. Willis, R. Titchell, M. Chapman, J. Tierman. In second members didn't get a chance to row, P. McGaharn, instructor, R. Dobbs, D. Lee, K. Schwartz, D. disembark in an Egyptian port Hollifield, W. Ellicott, J. Babbiano, and senior instructor Ami was of no major concern to the Bjornsson. In the third row, G. Gauer, J. Goodrich, E. Smith, J. Seafarers aboard. "Egyptians have Fitzpatrick, A. McHale, H. Jackson, T. Browne, and S. Marshall. ' ' <\ Around the The camera's eye caught Sea­ farers at work and play in New York, Yokohama, Bang­ kok and Saigon. f.J' ^ iY'fi ' Sy&r'''' Leon Levin (right) is greeted by patrolman Sacco when the De Soto arrived in New York City for recent payoff. The Seafarers were glad to return after a long voyage. Seafarers are usually well-fed on ships where the, chief steward is Yasser Szmanikjs (right). The SIU veteran supervised "loading of stores aboard Steel Maker. When the Lucile Bloomfield docked in Bangkok, a few crewmembers got together to discuss the voyage. Left to right, Tom Pruitt, Charles Thorpe, Roger Pinkham. Terrence White and Roy Jones sailed in De Soto's deck department. They were caught by camera in Yokohama. Bill Pope, deck dept., en­ tertains shipmates in Sai­ gon with country �September 1, 1967 Praises Graduates Of 5IU Upgrading Widow Thanks Crew For Thoughtfulness To The Editon We have several graduates of the New Orleans upgrading school aboard the Duval in all three departments. They are all exceptional young men and they will make worthy seamen to take our places when we retire. This is a good crew and a good over­ time ship for the black gang. We were in Morocco for two weeks and had no foul ups, no beefs and nobody missed the ship for any reason. William (Dick) Mmsey To the Editor: To the crew that was aboard the Columbia Victory along with my husband, Frank Nel­ son, who died aboard that ship, July 5, in Yokahama, Japan, I would like to say many thanks for the donation and the flow­ ers. He often spoke of the good crew aboard that ship. Also, the Mates and Captain he worked for. He was a wonder­ ful husband and father and will be really missed by us. Thanks again. Mrs. Catherine B. Nelson and Cheryl Ann Nelson Savannah, Ga. Smooth Sailing On Viet Trip To The Editor: The Halcyon Panther is on its second trip to Vietnam and is scheduled to make two more from the West Coast before re­ turning to the Gulf. Jimmie Darouse, steward, is doing a fine job of feeding the boys. Chief cook A. W. Hutcherson and Sam Martin, night cook and baker, are doing a good job with their cooking and baking. A1 Blain, chief electrician, is keeping all the lights burning. We had a smooth pay off in Sacramento last voyage and are looking for­ ward to the same after this one. Walter Conner, Ship's delegate Halcyon Panther Thanks Union For Pension Plan To the Editor: After 22 years with the Sea­ farers International Union, my husband has retired. He re­ ceived his first pension check this week. It has been a good feeling through the years to know that if sickness or accident should occur the Union Welfare Plan was accepted in any hospital without question. His pension is also a big help. If not for it, it would be impossible to get along, as Social Security pay­ ments are not enough to main­ tain a home decently. I'm proud to say that my husband has been a member of such a fine organization for so many years. Yours Truly, Mrs. Walter F. Mueller — ^J> — Boyd Program Undermines Fleet Support Maritime, Seafarer's Wife Says To the Editor: I've just read Paul Hall's 20joint Maritime program. I have written our State Representa­ tive and Senators to have this reviewed and considered as a new U. S. maritime policy. You know, we wives must get behind oui; husbands. We must help them just like in domestic life. We, as wives and dependents are directly affected by the outcome of future ship­ ping. Ask your family and friends to get behind this effort to save our American fleet. It is im­ portant to our national economy also. So, please write your own State Representative and Sen­ ators, and get this program go­ ing for us. Mfrs. Joseph Schoell Seattle, Wash. ^ British Seaman Enjoyed the LOG To the Editor: This is to advise you that my father recently died. I would like to thank your union very sincerely for sending him copies of the LOG. During his retire­ ment from the sea, he enjoyed reading it very much. M. Haddock Swansea Glam United Kingdom Page Thirteen SEAFARERS LOG To the Editor: Ever since the Secretary of Transportation, Alan Boyd, first started talking about what he thought should be done about the American merchant marine, I find myself wondering more and more who's side he is on. When one reads of his plans to take jobs away from Amer­ icans by building ships in for­ eign yards and his willingness to throw away much of the pro­ tection guaranteed by our cargo preference laws, it is hard to believe that President Johnson or anybody who knows any­ thing about maritime could even take him seriously. Com­ petition in world commerce is tough enough without a mem­ ber of the U.S. Cabinet propos­ ing that this country deliberately hand over whatever potential advantage it has to a foreign nation. As Edwin Hood, the presi­ dent of the American Shipbuild­ ers Council has said over and over again, U.S. shipyards can build all the ships we need, to again become the big maritime power we were after World War II. We wouldn't even have to build any new yards—just re-open some of the ones that have closed ifor lack of ship­ building work. Instead of ex­ porting jobs to foreign yards, we should worry about our ovm people and put unemployed American shipyard workers back on the jobs they have al­ ways done so well when the chips were down in the past. Ted Luce Seafarers on the Raymond Reiss (Reiss) were thanked by a Union brother for their consideration in sending his father a card while he was hospitalized. Meeting chairman Gary Loomis reports. Meeting secretary Robert Denning reports that a lively discussion was held concerning "the pros and cons of making coffee with or G. Trosclair, meeting chairman without salt." Deck delegate telephone should be installed in Howard Reagan suggested peri­ the passageway forward of the on the Platte (Platte Transport) writes that a vote odic discussions of a deck hand's crews mess, to be hooked directly of thanks was to the bridge house in case of duties would be more effective extended to Cap­ emergency calls to the man on than safety meetings. Other sug­ tain S. H. Cogsgestions included standby in mess room. When the dale for air-con­ the posting of ship arrives in New Orleans for ditioning units ship's meeting the payoff, we'll see about getting and the speed times 24 hours our radio repaired, Briggs re­ with which the in advance. En­ ported. old linen locker gine delegate Wil­ was converted to liam Duffy re­ Two heavy trucks hauling mu­ Trosclair a sleeping dormi­ ported that mem­ nitions from the Free American bers of his depart­ (Fargo) to the air­ tory. It came in handy during the ment had few port at Vung Ro stay in India and the hot nights Shircel beefs. Ray An­ were blown up at sea, Trosclair reported. derson, steward delegate, reported when they ran A request was sent from Cos­ that all is well in his department. over land mines, Collections were made from those meeting chairman mos Mariner (Cosmos) to SIU headquarters for who have not contributed to the George Bryan re­ Logs to be sent ship's fund, Carl Shircel, treasurer ports from Viet­ to the Seamen's reported. A suggestion was made nam. Meeting secClub in Cam to fix the TV set in the galley. retary M. WesSan Filippo writes that Ranh Bay, Meet­ ing C h a i r m a n Peter Hammel, new ship's dele­ Bill Bryant is hospitalized in Sai­ William Phillips gate on the Bangor (Bermuda gon and the crew wishes him a „ ^ writes. Our Un-Shipping) will speedy recovery. No major beefs iw ion has "the mahandle the mail thus far, Wessing reports. A vote „ jority of the ships delivered to the of thanks was given by bosun Joe in the harbor, the vessel. Chuck De- San Filippo to members of the mers, meeting sec­ deck department for keeping the majority of the time," Phillips in­ retary reported. fans running in hot weather. The forms. Meeting Secretary Robert Demers said that steward department turned out Spencer writes that there is some the captain ex­ good food and service, it was disputed deck overtime. The ship's pressed his satis­ agreed. The payoff will be in San treasury has $13 in the kitty. The payoff will be in San Francisco. faction with the Francisco. Demers crews perform­ ance. Plenty of good food and service, in addition to a smoothrunning ship, has made the voy­ age a pleasant one. The only problem is some disputed over­ time in the engine department. The next port is Durban. Juliane Paidn, bom July 9, Curtis Soutbwick, Jr., born Jan­ 1967, to the Francis J. Papins, uary 21, 1967, to the Curtis SouthMeeting secretary W. H. Sim­ Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Jamestown, N. Y. wicks, mons reports that the Del Oro (Delta) "was a fine SIU style trip Jose Carlo Morales, bom May Audra Micbele lovino, born with every mem­ 8, 1967, to the Jose C. Morales, ber on his toes May 2, 1967, to the Luigi lovinos, Ponce, Puerto Rico. and all hands do­ Oceanside, L. I., N. Y. ing a fine job. No Lori Lynn Stevens, born June beefs or disputed Amy Denise Wofford, bom overtime except July 7, 1967, to the Kenneth Wof- 21, 1967, to the Calvin Stevens, Mobile, Ala. for a small fords, Vinton, La. amount in the deck departAubrey Rankin, bom August 1, Warren Waldrop, born July 19, 1967, to the Aubrey A. Rankins, T. Briggs, meeting ment. chairman reported $31.08 in the 1967, to the James Waldrops, Mo­ Mobile, Ala. treasury. It was reported that a bile, Ala. <I> <1> \I> <t> ^I> Timothy Frankovitcb, born July 9, 1967, to the John G. Frankovitchs. Rapid River, Mich. Shipboard Reunion — — James Cbisbolm, bom January 26, 1967, to the Charles Chisholms. Port Arthur, Texas. ^ Dennie Pelky, bom July 5, 1967, to the Franklin J. Pelkys, Honor, Mich. — — Stacey Lea Jones, born October 31, 1966, to the Robert L. Jones, Arnold, Mo. ^ George Harvey Flowers, bom July 7, 1967, to the Cecil L. Flowers, Swan Quarter, N. C. When Norberto Capay called at Qui Nhon, Vietnam, Seafarer John Devaux (right) contacted his son, John Jr. through the American Red Cross. John Jr., stationed in Saigon, was able to visit aboard, the ship for a few days. The crew went all out to make the visit enjoyable. They were a great bunch of men, John Jr., said. ^ • ..... ^ Middalia Roma, born July 7, 1967, to the Rudolph Romas, Houston, Texas. <1> James Thomas Beatty, born No­ vember 23, 1966, to the William Beattys, Jr., Lake Charles, La. �Page Fourteen • I 5. Appears on Alan Burke TV Show I iii' If if I: ? a '• if ' I . Lifeboat Class No, 183 Graduates Seafarer Urges Seamen Have Access To Vietnam Gl Recreational Facilities ^: ! f? i! September 1, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG f iil' ^ l^i • rr? Seafarer Owen Quinn, in a recent appearance on the nationally televised Alan Burke show, urged that U.S. merchant seamen be allowed to use some of the recreational facilities which are presently operated solely for U.S. servicemen. Brother Quinn has made sev"When I saw these people talk­ eral supply runs to the war zone. safer trip. The Seafarers who died ing about different things, I when the Baton Rouge Victory He told the show's audience thought I would take the oppor­ was hit by a mine attest to the about one particular incident tunity to talk," said Quinn. "I danger of sailing in the war zone. while sailing aboard on the CoeurIn talking with a LOG reporter felt people should know something A'lene Victory (Victory Carriers) during Christmas of 1966. Quinn about his appearance on the show, about our role in the war effort." and several shipmates had arrived Quinn said that "there is a lack Burke was sympathetic and agreed in Vietnam with some 700 tons of facilities where a man can have that seamen should be entitled to of vital ammuni­ a beer, see a movie, relax after certain recreation privileges, tion and other a hard voyage, or even learn about Quinn said. Seafarer Quinn said that he intends to continue "going what's going on at home." war material. The Bob Hope show "was a to Vietnam every chance I get. "On December rare opportunity to get a slice of I remember the ships calling on 23, we learned home," he said. Burke told Quinn Korean ports when I was a sol­ that a Bob Hope on the show that he didn't think dier there shortly after the war. show was being Seafarer Quinn was the subject Hope knew of the incident, or staged at Cam of a Log feature in the issue of would have approved if he did. Ranh Bay. We April 15, 1966, concerning his The program, which originates thought that we being in Malta at the time of that out of New York, includes in it's Quinn would see it, so we went up there and found sev­ format an opportunity for people country's independence. He is a eral thousand military personnel to come up from the audience and member of the deck department plus about 300 seamen in the express whatever is on their mind. and lives in New York City. audience. The show was held in a huge open field." When the show began, Quinn noticed that Military Police were circulating through the audience "picking out all those not in uni­ form." The MP's asked these men to leave, Quinn told the audience. Arthur Payton, 52; A heart at­ Bain Gilford, 50: Brother GifFinally, the MP's came to the tack claimed the life of Brother ford died in Hospital Averroes, section where Quinn and his bud­ Payton, July 12, Casablanca, Mo­ dies were seated. "They asked in Sacramento rocco, on October us to leave," said Quinn, and we County Hospital, 22, 1966. A resi­ "politely protested" that all we Sacramento, Calif. dent of Seattle, wanted to do was see the show. A resident of East he was bora in Spokane, Wash. Liverpool, Ohio, "We told them that we had just Brother Payton Brother Gifford made a long voyage carrying vital was bom in that sailed in the stew­ cargo. The MP's wouldn't let us city. He joined ard department stay in the audience, even though the Union in San and joined the we could prove we were indeed members of the merchant marine. Francisco and shipped as an AB. Union in Seattle. Gifford had "They made it clear that the show His last ship was the Oceanic served in the Marine Corps. He was only for those men who were Tide. Payton served in the U. S. is survived by a cpusin, Philip performing duties in Vietnam," Army from 1943 to 1947. Burial Corneil, of Seattle. Burial was in was in the Columbiana Memorial Ben Mosik Cemetery, Casablanca, Quinn said. Park Cemetery, Columbiana Morocco. County, Ohio. Perform Vital Job Seamen believe, Quinn told the David Blumlo, 53: Brother audience, that they perform "a Blumlo died aboard the TransAutrey Johnson, 59: Cancer york on April 19. vital job" and art entitled to claimed the life of Brother John­ He was serving as "some of the recreational and offson, July 12 at chief steward hour facilities." A number of the Brewton, Ala. A aboard the ves­ Seafarers had served in the armed chief cook and sel which was baker, he joined forces during World War II and docked at Yoko­ the union in Phil­ Korea, Quinn said, and many oth­ hama, Japan, at adelphia. A resi­ ers were on the supply runs during the time of death. dent of Mobile, both wars. Born in Ohio, he Johnson was born Perhaps Seafarers don't carry made his home in Covington a gun or expose themselves to in San Francisco. Brother Blumlo County, Ala. His danger as much as front-line last ship was the Yellowstone. He joined the union in San Francisco troops, Quinn said, but their part served in the Navy during World and sailed as night cook and in the war effort cannot be denied. War II. Surviving is his wife, baker before attaining a chief Quinn pointed out that many sea­ Martha. Burial was in Pleasant steward's rating. Surviving is a farers not only fought in the past, Home Cemetery, Covington Coun­ half-brother, Paul Whitlow of San Francisco. The body was cre­ but they volunteered to sail on the ty, Ala. mated. Vietnam run, rather than take a FINAL DEPARTURES After attending SIU lifeboat training classes in New York, these men passed Coast Guard examinations. Seated (l-r) are: G. Mc­ Laughlin, J. White, P. Castro, A. O'Connor, C. Miranda, N. Caputo, and instructor Ami Bjornsson. In back: P. McGaharn, instructor, J. Costello, J. May, F. Unger, E. Colon, J. Ruiz and R. Benjamin. Hayward Henderson Your family is anxious to get it touch with you. Get in touch with Dixie F. Henderson, Rt. 3, Elba, Alabama, 36323; telephone 897-6582. <1> WiUiam Stark P. McGeoghegan, Drew Road, R. D. 2, Sussex, N.J. 07461, is anxious for you to contact him at the above address. i I I iSs i' Seafarers are reminded thai when they leave a ship aftet articles expire in a foreign portj the obligation to leave a cli ship for the next crew is s^e as in any Stateside poit.j Attention to details of hoi keeping and efforts to leav quarters, messrooms and oth® Thomas Morris, 38: Seafarer Morris died on January 7, in Leggett Memorial Hospital, Hous­ ton, Texas. He was born in Greensburgh, Pa., and made his home in Pitts­ burgh. Brother Morris sailed in the SIU's Great Lakes and A&G divisions. He held the rating of AB, joining the Union in San Francisco. Brother Morris served in the Air Force from 1951 to 1955. His last ship Alexander Garibaldi, 70: Heart failure claimed the life of Brother Garibaldi on July 19, at South Amboy, N. J. He was on an SIU pension at the time of death. Brother Garibal­ di joined the Un­ ion in New York City. A native of Italy, he lived in Lawrence Har­ bor, N. J., with his wife, Chris­ tine. He held the rating of bridgeman and was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Please contact Billie Engler, 3910 Hollygrove St., New Or­ leans, La., or phone 488-2034 as soon as possible. vt' Charles W. Thorn Your mother, Mrs. Jessie Thom, 409 Richmond Avenue, Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, would like you to get in touch with her. ^ Anthony Sorrelli, Jr. Your sister, Mrs. Ella De Santis of 8663 15th Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. is very anxious to hear from you. Roger O'Rourke Kindly contact Mrs. M. L. Van Gessel, 27 Fresno St., San Franr Cisco, Calif., 94133, in regard to mail she is holding for you. <1> Kenneth Wayne LeBlanc Please contact your mother, Mrs. F. A. LeBlanc, 314 Roose­ velt Avenue, San Antonio 10, Texas, as soon as you can. Albert W. Spanraft Please contact Anita Reed, Route 2, Box 2A, Slidell, La., or phone 643-9206, as soon as pos­ sible. <|> Seafarer in Vietnam Joe Simmons Please contact James Hart aboard the Monticello Victory, Victory Carriers Steamship Com­ pany, 647 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y., 10022, as soon as you can. Benjamin (Frenchy) LeBlanc Please get in touch with Dora Lietz, 611 E. Baltimore St., Apt. F, Baltimore, Md., as sbon as possible. <!> ronEieN PAYom LEAVE CLEAN SHIP James W. Gaid Richard V. Gelling Please get in touch with your wife Mary, in San Francisco, re­ garding illness in the family. Seafarer Richard Hartley (right) is shown with SIU Rep. Pete Drewes ih South Vietnam where he is serving with paratroopers. Dick is anxious to resume his seagoing career when discharged. Leslie Brilhart Contact your mother at 223 Braham Blvd., San Antonio, Tex., 78215, as soon as possible in re­ gard to an urgent matter. �September 1, 1967 UNFAIR TO LABOR DO NOT BUY B Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) fw. If Stltzel-Weiier Distilleries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin StiU," W. L. Weller Bourbon whidteys (Distillery Workers) KIngsport Press "World Book," "Chlldcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) ^ S>' i- Jamestown Sterling Corp. SEAFARERS LOG FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Guif, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision tor safesuardinK the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank -and file auditing committee elected by the membership. Ail Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. Ail trust funds of the SIU AUantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust fun^ are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shijrawners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Batteir Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union ofiUcial, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract righu prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from amoog its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PENN EXPORTER (Penn Shipping Co.), July 17—Chairman, Henry W. Mil­ ler ; Secretary, Z. A. Markis. Repair list was turned over to patrolman and repairs will be made this trip. No beefs reported by department delegates. Brother Padget was elected to serve as new ship's delegat. New members are urged to keep visitors out of rooms and passageways while in foreign porta. (United Furniture Workers) ^l> White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) Baltimore Luggage Co. Lady Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starlite luggage Starflite luggage ALCOA VOYAGER (Alcoa Steamship Co.), July 23—Chairman, Frank Russu; Secretary, M. P. Cox. Captain will payoff crew in New York. Some disputed OT reported by engine department. Vote of thanks given to the steward department for job well done. Ship's delegate was asked to see that additional exhaust be installed in galley over grill because of fumes and smoke when grilling. CALMAR (Calmar Steamship), July 23—Chairman, Thomas R. Glenn ; Secre­ tary, Vernon Douglas. Some disputed OT reported by all departments. Clari­ fication concerning raise. Request pa­ trolman at payoff for purpose od settling disputed CT. CORTBZ (Crest Overseas), June 26— Chairman, D. L. Parker; Secretary, J. E. Hannon. Some disputed OT reported by engine delegate. Brother Hardcastle was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Crew was requested to put items back when done with them. See about having all rooms, also messhall painted. Request for drain boards on sinks in crew's wash­ room. Vote of thanks given to the steward department. (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves, Richman Brothers and Sewell Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) ^ Peavy Paper Mill Products (United Papermakers and Paperworkers Union) Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) •4> Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) . KENYON VICTORY (Columbia), Au­ gust 3 — Chairman, A. Bourgot; Sec­ retary, R. Brown. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly. No disputed OT and no beefs. Brother Grant Marzett was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. COSMOS MARINER (Cosmos Naviga­ tion), August 15 — Chairman, William F. Phillips: Secretary, Robert Spencer. $13.00 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck department. It was discussed that the ship be fumigated for roaches. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. ROBERT D. CONRAD (Maritime Op­ erations), August 13—Chairman, G. B. Gapac; Secretary, J. Conyers. Brother John Wallack was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $7.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. FREE AMEKCIA (Fargo), Augrust 13— Chairman, George Bryan; Secretary, M. Wessing. Motion was made to ask the patrolman about a change in the un­ licensed personnel's quarters. Also to check ice box temperatures before storing for next voyage. Exterminators to be called in San Francisco. Vote of thanks given to Brother Joe Sanfilippo, bosun, to Hanks and Viik for keeping the fans running in the hot weather. Vote of thanks to the steward department for the good food served. HENRY STEINBRENNER (Steinbrenner), August 4 —• Chairman. A. Pedersen; Secretary, None. Motion made to contact patrolman about providing OT slips in crew's hall, and having a clock put in galley. DEL RIO (Delta), July 3—Chairman, S. Pappas; Secretary, D. Worrell. $27.10 in ship's fund. Motion made to negotiate for retirement plan for those with 20 years membership in SIU, as to years of service etc. BANGOR (Bermuda), August 6 — Chairman, Peter V. Hammel; Secretary. Chuck Demers. The Captain is satisfied with the crew in general. Brother Peter V. Hammel was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for the good food and service. Some disputed OT in engine department. STEEL FLYER (IsthmUn, July 28— Chairman, C. M. Brien; Secretary, P. Lucaaon. $1.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. BURBANK VICTORY (A. L. Burbank), July 30 — Chairman, P. Clarke; Secretary, H. B. Gaskill. Two hours delayM sailing at Long Beach Is disputed. Beef in engine department regarding the PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an oflScial receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in ail Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in ail rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS, One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitutional right of access to Union records or in­ formation, he shonid immediaUIy notify SIU President Paul HaU at headquarters by cortifled mail, return receipt requested. Chief Engineer entering and trying to run crew foc'sles. NICOLET (Gartland), July 23—Chair­ man, Robert Zurflub; S<Mretary, H. "Don" Gilbert. Beef in engine depart­ ment regarding unfair distribution of OT. Engine room is dirty with lots of oil on deck. WILD RANGER (Waterman), July 23 —Chairman, B. Lowderback; Secretary, C. Frey. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly. He asked to resign as ship's delegate and his re­ quest was accepted with a vote of thanks. Brother B. Lowderback was elected to serve in his place. $3.60 in ship's fund. Patrolman in Yokohama will be con­ tacted regarding engine room dispute. Page Fifteen RAYMOND REISS (Reiss), July 28— Chairman, Gary D. Loomis; Secretary, Robert Denning. Safety meeting was criticized. Suggestion was made for teach­ ing of round turns and proper handling of lines and other deck duties, especially for the new men. It was suggested that a check be made on lighting of the cargo hold which is inadequate on deck also. Other repairs needed. CRAPO (Huron Portland Cement), August 1—Chairman, Seth Lockwood; Secretary, George Sylvester. Complaint about oil spillage while loading cement in Alpena, which is very excessive, costly and unnecessary. The deck department wishes to make it clear that they are going to put in for full-scale OT for shovelling and would like to see the excessive spillage eliminated. PLATTE (Platte Transport), August 6 — Chairman, G. Troeciair; Secretary, L. Bianchard. Few hours disputed OT in deck and engine departments, otherwise there are no beefs and everything is run­ ning smoothly. Vote of thanks to the Master, Captain S. H. Cogsdale, for the air-conditioned units and the speed in converting old linen locker to a remodeled sleeping dormitory. TRANS SUPERIOR (Hudson Water­ ways), No date—Chairman, T. Sawyer; Secretary, Donald B. Farmer. No beefs were reported by department delegates. It was request^ that the stores be check more carefully when coming siboard. None of the repairs were made as they were turned in on the repair list. It was requested that the Company and the Union come to an agreement as to smok­ ing on the wheel watch. * Schedule of Membership Meetings SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans Sept. 12—2:30 p.m. Mobile Sept. 13—2:30 p.m. Wilmington Sept. 18—2:00 p.m. San Francisco Sept. 20—2:00 p.m. Seattle . i.. . Sept. 22—2:00 p.m. New York . .Sept. 5—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Sept 5—2:30 p.m. Baltimore . . .Sept. 6—2:30 p.m. Detroit . .. .Sept 8—2:30 p.m. Houston .... Sept 11—2:30 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit Sept. 5—2:00 p.m. Alpena Sept. 5—7:00 p.m. Buffalo Sept. 5—7:00 p.m. Chicago . . . .Sept 5—7:00 p.m. Cleveland . . .Sept. 5—7:00 p.m. Duluth Sept 5—7:00 p.m. Frankfort . . .Sept. 5—7:00 p.m. SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner Earl Shepard VICE PRESIDENTS Lindsey Williaitij Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Chicago . . . .Sept. 12—7:30 p.m. tSault Ste. Marie Sept 14^7:30 p.m. Buffalo Sept. 13—7:30 p.m. Duluth ....Sept. 15—^7:30 p.m. Cleveland ..Sept. 15—7:30 p.m. Detroit Sept. 11—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee . .Sept. 11—7:30 p.m. ALPENA, Mich BALTIMORE, Md Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Sept 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Sept 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. ^Norfolk Sept 14—10a.m.&8p.m. Jersey City Sept 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. United Industrial Woihers New Orleans Sept 12—^7:00 p.m. MobUe Sept 13—7:00 p.m. New York ..Sept 14—7;00p.m. Piuladeljihia Sept 5—7:00 p.m. Baltimore .. .Sept 6—7:00 p.m. 4:Houston ..Sept 18—7:00p.m. 127 River St EL 4-36I6 1214 E. Baltimore St. EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Mass BUFFALO, N.Y 177 State St Rl 2-0140 73S Washington St. SIU TL 3-925? IBU TL 3-9259 IBU ES S-9570 CLEVELAND, Ohio DETROIT, Mich SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Sept 12—5:00 p.m. MohUe Sept. 13—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia Sept. 5—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and unlicensed) Sept 6—5:00 p.m. Norfolk Sept. 7—5:00 p.m. Houston . .. .Sept. 18—5:00 p.m. 475 4th Ave., Bklyn. HY 9-6400 DULUTH, Minn 1420 W. 2Sth St. MA 1-5450 10225 W. Jefferson^Ave. 312 W. 2nd St RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich I" 415 Mam St. EL 7-2441 ""w®r.'ja JACKSONVILLE. Fl. JERSEY CITY, N.J MOBILE, Ala NEW ORLEANS. IM# F.'H ». EL 3-0987 99 Montgomer^S^ I South HE 2-I754 . 430 Jackson Ave. Tel. 529-7544 N®"'®^"'" PHILADELPHIA. Pa 2404 PORT ARTHUR, Tex I34B Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO. Calif., 350 Freemont St DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R 1313 Fernandez Juneos Stop 20 Tel. n4-2848 SEATTLE, Wash 2505 FirU^AvMU^ ST. LOUIS, Mo TAMPA Fla TAMPA, Ma •"V.c'l Cc 1*1434 312 Harrison St. 229-2788 WII^INSTON, Calif. .. 505 N. Marin^^ YOKOHAMA, Japan .Iseya BIdg., 1-2 Kaigan-Dori-Nakaku 204»7I Ext. 281 �Vol. XXiX No. 18 SEAFARERSKLOG September 1, 1967 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT > AFL-CIO ON THE S -> -M I ~• 1 DINNER TABLE ome 60 years ago a young author named Upton Sinclair wrote a book about the Chicago stock­ yards that turned America's stomach and brought about a storm of irresistible public pressure for reform. Within six months from its publication in January of 1906, "The Jungle" was largely instrumental in the passage of pure food laws which had been successfully stifled by unscrupulous meat packers for more than a decade. Prior to this, statutory super­ vision of the meat industry was of no practical significance. The book so impressed President Theodore Roose­ velt that he sununoned Sinclair to the White House to discuss the sickening charges it contained. Once satisfied that "The Jungle," though a novel, faithfully described the deplorable conditions under which meat packing plants were providing food for the nation, the president moved swiftly to force reform. The time was ripe. A bill aimed at tightening laws to protect consumers had been laying untouched in Congress for a long time and consumers had not yet forgotten the "embalmed beef scandal of the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt himself had an­ grily testified before a Senate committee investigating the scandal that he would sooner have eaten his old hat than the canned food sent to his soldiers in Cuba under a U.S. government contract. He carried his concern over unsanitary food production with him when he entered the White House but, once there, found Congress disinclined to do anything about it. Sinclair's book—and its earlier appearance in serial form—^was the lever needed to get the ball rolling. The author did not cater to the squeamish in his graphic portrayal of the filth in the stockyards. After an appalled public read passages such as those which follow, it was clearly impossible even for Con­ gress to protect the so-called "Beef Trust" for much longer. ". . . there would be hams found spoiled, some of them with an odor so bad that a man could hardly bear to be in the room with them. To pump into these the packers had a . . . much stronger pickle which destroyed the odor. . . . "There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage. There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and saw­ dust, where the workers had tramped and spit un­ counted billions of consumption germs. There would • be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it ... a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfulls of the dried dung of rats. These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them, they would die, and then rats, bread and meat would go into the hopper together. ". . . the meat would be shovelled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even if he saw one—there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit. There was no place for the men to wash their hands ... so they (washed) them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage. . . . "There were the butt-ends of smoked meat, and the scraps of corned beef, and all the odds and ends of the waste of the plants, that would be dumped into old barrels in the cellar and left there. Under the system of rigid economy . . . there were some jobs that it only paid to do once in a long time, and among these was the cleaning out of the waste bar­ rels. Every spring they did it; and in the barrels would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale water —and cart load after cart load of it would be taken up and dumped into the hoppers with fresh meat, and sent out to the public's breakfast. Some of it they would make into 'smoked' sausage—but as the smoking took time, and was therefore expensive, they would . . . preserve it with borax and color it with gelatin to make it brown. All of their sausage came out of the same bowl, but . . . they would stamp some of it 'special' and for this they would charge two cents more a pound." Packers Deny Accusations Even following such a vivid description of their methods, however, the meat packers fought bitterly and tried to deny Sinclair's accusations. Articles appeared in major. newspapers and national maga­ zines defending the meat industry, and the industry— in turn—spent huge sums on advertising in an at­ tempt to save its tarnished image. Powerful pressure was brought to bear on Congress aimed at killing or at least weakening any legislation aimed at federal controls over the industry. A com­ mission dispatched by the Agriculture Department returned from Chicago persuaded by the Beef Trust that Sinclair was merely a sensation seeker. Unimpressed by all of this, Roosevelt sent to Chicago a two-man commission of his own which not only confirmed the main charges leveled in "The Jungle," but came up with some shocking personal observations of its own. The President hoped to gain reform and industry agreement to government in­ spection ^with just the threat that he would publicize the commission's report. After the packers refused to bend, the report was released and a new wave of indigation swept the country when it was told the meat and canned goods it consumed were prepared in filth. Only after meat sales fell off by more than half did the industry agree that some legislation must be accepted. After bitter debate. Congress quickly passed modified versions of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Beef Inspection Act. Watered down from the beginning, and amended only slightly in the ensuing 61 years, the Meat In­ spection Act stands today as little more than a token relic of retarded progress. The threat to America's health posed by rotten meat and meat products is, without doubt, more deadly now than it was in 1906—for several reasons. For one, the Beef Trust is bigger and stronger and more capable of undetected fraud than ever before. Calculated misuse of modern scientific tech­ nology makes it possible for today's meat packers to get away with deceptions their grandfathers would never have dreamed of. All the garbage no longer has to go into sausage; much of it can be salvaged by chemical means and marketed as more costly cuts of meat. And if the meat itself doesn't make you sick, the chemicals used to doctor the look, taste or smell of it are apt to make you sick. Another reason is the outmoded structure of the law itself which allows vast quantities of meat to escape federal inspection entirely. Too much au­ thority is left up to the states—only 26 of which require mandatory inspection of animals before and after slaughter. Nine states have no meat inspection laws at all and 15 have "voluntary" inspection statutes which unscrupulous meat dealers can ignore without fear of punishment. AFL-CIO Urges Amendments Many organizations concerned with the well being of the public—including the AFL-CIO—share in­ creasing alarm over the worsening trend in the meat industry and have been pushing for amendments to the law which would require federal inspection of all meat. Some Americans mistakenly believe this is already the case. As Andrew J. Biemiller, director of the AFL-CIO Department of Legislation, told a hearing of the House subcommittee on Livestock and Grains in July, American families are unaware that some 15 per cent of meat slaughtered in the U.S., and 25 per cent of all meat products processed, are not federally inspected. This accounts for enough meat for 30 million people for one year. Some of it undergoes state inspection, Biemiller said, but even "the best" of state programs "leave something to be desired." Meat and meat products sold "intrastate"—that which travels from slaughterhouse to the dinner table without crossing state lines—are generally immune from federal scrutiny. The laxity of individual state controls gives the guilty meatpacker all the leeway he needs. The U.S. Agriculture Department admits that over 22 million pounds of meat have been condemned by its inspectors as tainted, contaminated, rancid, odor­ ous or mouldy in a single year. Consumers who buy intrastate meat don't enjoy this inspection protection. Hamburger and processed meat is often found to contain horsemeat, meat from sick animals and contaminated meat. Such revolting carcass waste as chopped hides, lungs, eyeballs and hog blood turn up in bologna and hot dogs. Sulfite, banned by federal law, is widely used to give old meat a fresh pink color. Detergents camouflage unfit meat and doses of Aureomycin replace sani­ tation. (A sample survey in New York State found 26 of 30 hamburger samples to contain sulfite, and an Albany oflicial estimated that deceptive labeling is used on 90 per cent of the uninspected processed meat sold in the state.) When it could no longer completely ignore com­ plaints and warnings from university scientists, along with labor and congressional sources on the serious­ ness of the situation, the Agriculture Department sent out a fact-finding team to examine intrastate meat slaughtering and processing methods. The re­ sulting report—made to a House appropriations sub­ committee back in 1963—^was no less shocking than the one given to Theodore Roosevelt more than half a century ago. But nothing was done about it. Typical charges against the modem Beef Trust were: "Allowing edible portions of carcasses to come in contact with manure, pus, and other sources of contamination during dressing operations; allowing (contamination) with filth from improperly cleaned equipment and facilities; use of chemical additives and preservatives that (are illegal) under federal meat inspection." Also charged was the "failure to use procedures to detect or control parasites transmitted to man that could lead to diseases such as trichinosis and cysticercosis" and to "supervise destruction of ob­ viously diseased tissues and spoiled, putrid and filthy materials." The use of "false and deceptive labels and "inadequate controls to prevent possible adulter­ ation of food products—^with substitutes such as water, gum, cereals or sodium caseinate" was also cited. A second portion of the 1963 report—includ­ ing vile pictures, documentation and affidavits—^was never made public. The facts were all there. Agriculture had only to request congressional hearings on the matter, but chose instead to let it lay and continued its policy of co-operation with the meat industry in promoting the sale of its products without unfavorable pub­ licity. Not until June of this year, largely through the efforts of Representative Neal Smith (D-Iowa), did the hearings at which Biemiller and numerous others called for updating and strengthening of the Meat Inspection Act materialize. Only portions of the strong bill proposed by Smith for the last six years were incorporated with a more lenient one backed by the Administration, but at least a bill has finally been put together and is scheduled to hit the floor of the House later this month. And at least six congressmen are preparing amendments which would give the law teeth sharp enough to reach a good percentage of the jungle of rotten meat. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 1, 1967 Description An account of the resource Headlines: NEW MARITIME AUTHORIZATION MEASURE AWAITS PRESIDENT’S OK TO BECOME LAW HOUSE MARINE COMMITTEE APPROVES BILL FOR INDEPENDENT MARAD LACK OF FIRM U.S. MARITIME POLICY CALLED CAUSE OF MANPOWER CRISIS SOVIET SHIPBUILDING PACE MENACE TO U.S., MACHINIST’S HEAD WARNS NINE U.S. SENATORS URGE FORMATION OF SPECIAL UNIT TO STUDY MARITIME ILLS AFL-CIO URGES SENATE REJECT EDUCATION BILL AMENDMENTS U.S. FLEET WOULD BE ‘SITTING DUCK’ IN BOYD’S AGENCY, ROTELL WARNS TEXT OF HALL’S LABOR DAY ADDRESS ON MERCHANT MARINE FEAR TACTICS STILL USED BY EMPLOYERS TO BALK UNION ORGANIZING DRIVES CORPORATIONS SHOULD BEAR BRUNT OF NEW TAX, MEANY TELLS CONGRESS SIU-CREWED SHIP OUR LADY OF PEACE SAILS THROUGH TWO WAR ZONES SEAFARER URGES SEAMEN HAVE ACCESS TO VIETNAM GI RECREATIONAL FACILITIES Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/01/1967 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXIX, No. 18 1967 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/9e6419924aa876798ec43fbfc3bf691b.PDF 8f8d2da8cb58296e441085e627189614 PDF Text Text k  ^AHERSJOQ  •^    OFFICIAL ORGAN  OP THE  ATLANTIC AND  GULP  DISTRICT,  SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION  OP NORTH  AMERICA  VOL.  II  NEW YORK,  N. Y., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER  10,  1940  Two Policies,Two Results  An  Editorial  on  the  P  and  O  Agreement  and  the  Tanker  Elections  440  No. 13  Voting on Amendments  To Constitution Begins  At  All S.I.U. Branches  Two important events of  immediate interest to all seamen  took  place  last  week.  One  was  the  oig^ng  of  the  P  and  O  closed shop  agreement by  the Seafarers'  International Union.  The other  was the  losing of  the NLRB  elections  on the  tank­ O  ers  by  the "National  Maritime  Union."  No  Accident  —  A  Sign  of  the  Times!  NEWS  FROM  It was  not at  all  accidental  that  these  two events  should  occur  at  the  same  time.  They  only  symbolize  the  trend  of  developments on  the waterfront —  the decline  and  discredit­ ment  of  the  scabby,  Commie­ridden  NMU  and  the  rise  and  iiicreasing strength  of  the  democratically  controlled union  of  Donation to Conners the  seamen,  the  S.I.U.  Aid to Scandinavians Suspended! NMU  Brags  and  Boasts  Voting  on  the  amendments,  which  are  to  bring  organiza­ Both  in the case  of  the  P and  O  as well  as in  that  of  the  tional  procedure  of  the  constitution  in  line  with._the^recent  tankers,  the  braggarts  of  the  phoney  "Pilot"  continued  to  Douation to Cannery Union  referendum  decision  to  amalgamate  the  Atlantic  and  Gulf  assure the  rank and file  that  NMU  control on these  ships was  The  regular  meeting  on  Mon­ Districts,  begins this  week.  Members of  the Seafarers' Inter­ "in  the  bag."  Pages  upon  pages  of  this  rag,  in  issue  after  day,  Sept.  3  voted  to  donate  $25  national  Union,  Atlantic  and  Gulf  District, started  voting in  to  the  striking  Fish  Cannery  issue, carried long articles and photostatic copies of  telegrams  Workers  Union  of  the  Pacific,  af­ all  Branches  on  Monday,  September  9.  Balloting  proceeds  that  blared  forth  the  boast: the  NMU  is  ruling  the  roost  in  filiated  with  the  Seafarers'  Inter­ from  that  date  to  Monday,  October  14,  1940,  on  which  date  the P and 0; the tankers are 100% sold on Curran's crummy  national  Union  of  North  America.  the  balloting  will  tefiuinate.  crew!  Aid to  Scandinavian Seamen  Time  to Vote  The same  meeting also  voted  to  (In each instance, the Pilot's "news" turned out to be noth­ S.I.U.  members  may  east  ing more  than  idle and  stupid  boasts—nvhich  is usually the  take  $10  worth  of  tickets  for  a  their votes on the amendments  ball  game  sponsored  by  ease  with  the bilge  that  passes for  information  in  that lying  soccer  at  any  regular  Branch  meet­ the  Scandinavian  Seamen's  Club  rag.  ing  every  Monday  night  dur­ of  U.S.A.  and  to  return  the  tickets  to  that  organization  for  SlU  Brings  Home  the  Bacon  ing this period, or  at the  halls  Without any fanfare, the SJ.U. organizers plugged along  resale.  The  affair  Is  for  the  bene­ every  day from 12  to  2  P.M.,  fit of  union seamen from  Denmark  and did  their  job  on  the P  and  O  ships.  While  the  NMU  and  when­a—balloting  committee  Norway  who »are  stranded  braggarts were tooting  their horns,  the real  representatives  here as a result  of  their countries  Rumor has it that "No Coffee will  he on  hand.  Time" is going places — in that of  the  seamen  managed  to get  90  PER  CENT of  the  men  being  overrun  by  Hitler.  Special  Arrangements  dream-ioorld in ivhivh the Comin the  P and  O  fleet  to  sign  cards  certifying  the  S.I.U.  as  Suspended!  Ship's  crews  can  cast  their  bal­ munist Party and all its stooges lots at  other  hours during the  day  their only  bargaining  agency!  They  left  the  empty  talk  to  Upon  petition  from  the  crew  of  live. if  necessary,  by  making  arrange­ the  S.S. Greyiock,  Raymond  Caivo  the commie loud­mouths.  THEY GOT ACTION!  His  advancement  to  the  Presi­ Fernandez  was  suspended  by  the  dency  of  the  C.I.O.  city  council  ments  with  any  Branch  office  of  Company  Unions  Profit at  NMU  Expense  the  S.I.U.  o  vote  in  a,  body.  If  New  York  meeting  for  99  years  In cpite of reams upon reams of propaganda, the NMU for  actions  detrimental  to  the  in  New  York  is no  more than  just  the ship's  delegate  will  notify  the  a  warm­up,  according  to  certain  got less than 90 votes out of a total of 328 men eligible on union.  sources.  The  candidacy  for  Con  office  of  the  exact  time  when  the  the Tidewater Associated Oil Co. tankers. Even the company gress  is  Just  the  blossoms.  The  crew  wishes  to  vote,  the  office  will  see  to  it  that  a  balloting  berries  are  yet  to  come. . . ,  union on the Tidewater boats got nearly twice as many votes committee  will  be  on  hand.  as the NMU! On the Standard Oil tankeivs, the best that.^he CC.C Boys  Trained  Joe Is  Groomed . . .  Exercise  Your Rights!  And here's the berries: Joe is The  amendments,  as  proposed  boastful band of Commie stooges could get was a neck-and- As  Finks  by  NEWjrORK  Membership to Be Polled At Halls on Vital Issues; Balloting Ends Oct. 14 C. p. Grooming  Joe Curran for  John L.'$ Mantle?  u being groomed by the comical by  the  Atlantic  and  Gulf  District  comrades for nothing less than Agents  Conference  lasf  June,  the mantle of John L.! No, not were  printed  in  the  last  issue  of  New Pink  Hall  John L. Sullivan. Emn laying of] the  LOG.  200  more  C.C.C.  enrolees  are  to  coffee couldn't help Joe into that Study  them  carefully.  be  turned  over  to  the  United  position. We are talking here of States  Maritime  Commission  on  the mantle of John L, Leivis, no Make  arrangements  at  once  to  utilize  your  democratic  right  in  Sept.  16  for  training  in  the  mer­ less! casting  a  vote  on  them.  chant  marine, according  to an  an.  According  to  these  same  nouncement  by  James  C.  Mc­ sources,  the  comicals  are  seeking  Entee,  director  of  the  C.C.C.,  in  to  take  advantage  of  the  current  In  the  last  issue  of  the  LOG,  we  called  attention  to  the  Washington  last  week.  rift  between  Lewis  and  Sidney  new  Pink  Hall  Bill,  II.R.  10316,  introduced  in  Congress  by  Hillman  (which  has  become  an  Stepping Up Program  Representative  Bradley,  mouthpiece  of  the  Great  Lakes  Nine  hundred  of  these  lads  had  open  seci­et  by  now)  in  order  to  shipping interests.  The Bill is designed to get  around present  already  been  turned  over  previ­ plant  themselves  on  top  of  the  Union  hall  hiring  requirements  by  "redefining  the  duties  ously.  It  looks  as  if  the  Mari­ heap  in  the  C.I.O.  In  order  to  do  time  Commission  is  stepping  up  this,  they  must  have  a  suitable  of  ship's masters".  its fink  program  in  line  stooge.  Consequently  they  have  After  a  storm  of  protests  from  the  seamen's  unions,  the  with  the training  speed­up  of  national  de­ selected  "No  Coffee  Time"  Joe,  The  following  is  a  list  of  books  following  letter  was  received  by  the  SJ.U.  from  Congress­ fense  measures.  than  whom  there  is  no  stooge  which  have  been  left  at  the  Bos­ ton  Branch,  where  the  claimants  man  S.  0. Bland,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Merchant  more  suitable.  What's  the  Purpose?  Marine  and  Fisheries,  to  which  the  Bill  had  been  referred:  Can  it  be  that  all  this  is  part  ... To Be  Kicked Upstairs?  may  obtain  them:  NAME  NUMBER  of  a  plan  to  replace  militant  At the same time, they hope by Letter  from Representative Bland  5126  union  men  with finks on  the ships  kicking Joe upstairs, so to speak, Clinton  Leavitt  Mr.  Harry  Lundeberg,  August  23,  1940,  Fred B.  Targee  5538  as soon  as  war  breaks  out?  Can  to get fuller sway in the NMU Seafarers'  International  Union  of  North  America,  John  E. Mahoney  5563  It  be  that  the  Maritime  Commis­ where the stoogey bosun has Dear  Mr.  Lundeberg:  S.  Parrish  2250  Receipt  is  acknowledged  of  your  letter  of  Auguit  20  regarding  sion  intends  to  see,  in  tke  inter­ been somewhat of a nuisance to Owen  Green  2700  H.  R.  10316,  introduced  by  Mr.  Bradley  of  Michigan.  iNo  action  has  ests  of  the shipowners,  that mili­ the comrades' raiding parties on Maud  Vale  2461  been  had  and  none  is  contemplated  on  this  proposed  legislation.  tant  union  men  are  placed  among  the union treasury. Thus they Lucy  Harmon  5463  the first  draftees?  hope to kill two birds with one Should  hearings  be  scheduled,  however,  you  will  be  notified.  5625  Joseph  Glatkl  In any case,  the only  Hoffman's  stone, as it were. Yours  very  sincerely,  3278  O.  Lytle  Island  "graduates"  that  we  have  A  part  of  the  grooming  proce­ (signed)  S.  O. BLAND,  Chairman.  547  Merrit,  Only  Temporary  <>  ————  heard  of  seem  to  be  assiduously  dure  was  the  so­called  Peace  Elmer  M.  Rouleau  6492  The  bill  has,  therefore,  been ^  Only  alertness  and  vigilance  on  at.  work  washing  dishes  or  ped­ Rally  in  Chicago,  at  the  end  of  Thelma  Lindsey  5661  ditched  for  the  time  being.  But  the  part  of  the  organized  seamen  dling  papers.  What  good  fhey  last  month.  This  move  went  sour  George  E.  Talbot  4768  are  as  seamen  they  themselves  can  prevent  the  reintroduction  of  on  the  boys,  however,  when  36  only  for  the  time  being.  We  can  New  York  C.I.O.  officials  publicly  expect  beyond  a  doubt  that  the  the fink  hall  legislation  and  its  don't  seem  to  know.  repudiated  ambitious  Joe  after  he  However, a  little thing like that  First Rate  — Pinks  shipowners  interests  will  revive  attendant  sea  slavery.  But they are not  meant  to work  sent  them  a  telegram  indorsing  can't  stop  Joe.  Stooging  Is  in  hia  On Guard  their agitation in Congress against  union  hiring  halls  at"  the  very  On  guard  —  no  quarter  to  the  as  seamen,  really.  On  the  other  the  Chicago  circus in  his capacity  blood.  The  commies  know  tbia  first  opportunity  that  presents  it­ shipowners'  flunkies  in­Washing.  hand,  their  training  makes  them  as  president  of  the  New  York  only  too  well  by  now  and  they  aim  to  take full  advantage,  C.T.O.  council.  ton  and  their  phoney  legislation!  first  rate finks,  self,  (Continued on Page 2) 'Ml m MaritimeCommission  Bradley Bill  Not  to  Be  Acted  On,  Blaiid  Says  . - '.-JII " fit f  .  I  Unclaimed Books  Held by  r>"  Boston Branch  ,'L if'.  il§]K 'c'­ >Iv  ­ ",3  i I  �t  I  W­­  •   •  ­'  OUT OF Tm mAfLBAG ^eafarers^ International Union  of  North  America  A little Love  Let^r to  "No  Coffee  Time"  JoLe  'Affiliated  with ike  American Federation of. Labor.  f  I  li'­­•   i r ft  r«  AT  • '  .,  HARRY  LUNDEBERG,  Acting Preirideat  110  Ifo'rbet Stibdt^ltoom  402,  San Francisco,  Calif.  r  i'f  ­ Tuesday, September 10,19^  THE  SEAFARERS'  LOG  PuttllBlied by  the  !•   .  • .  Rrote^tS;  S.S.  Seatraln  New  Jersey,  society.  '  August  29,  1940.  Say,  Joe,  why  don't  you  stop  Editor,  Seafarers'  Log  kidding us?  "We  don't  believe  your  anyhow.  'You­say  you­are  agaii}si|;  Dear  Sir  and  Brotlier:  Jusf  arrived'  in  Texas  City.  war".  We  old  timers  know  darn  \Veiit  ashore  fol  ­a  while  and  well  thtit'  Inside  of  tweh'e  months  S.S.  Seatraln  Texas,  picked'^iip  a copy  of  the  Pile­it  on  yon  will  pfeach  /or  it!  Why  don't  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  the  way  back.  It  was  dated  you  stop  kidding  yourself?  You're  August  29th,  1940.  only a  poor  imitation  of  a  Charlie i  August 23.  First' thing I'flaw  was:  Seafarers'  Log,  "Fight  Mdve  t6  Rill  Hiring  McCarthey.  '  When  Moscow  says  FOR  wai­,  Dear  Sirs  &  Brothers:  HallB/'!^­!  4  '•   ­ *  '  '  Gulf  DistHct  •   • •     you  wag  your  tongue:  FOR  HEADQUARTERS  Th  majority  of  seamen  haAr®  New  Orleans  ,  .J;  :  SCO  Chartres  Street  On  down  through  the  article  WAR.  When  Kremlin  Joe  says  become  familiar  with  the  failure  Joe  speaks  of  how  the  good fight­ AGAINST  wari  yoli  flip­flap:  of  some  of  the  Marine  Hospitals  ­  "  BRANCHES  ing  liiiion  man  will  not  be  abie  to  AGAINST  WAR.  When  are  y&u  to  fuiflU  their  mission  during  the­ savannah  i it it ktAt  >.213  East  Bay  Street  JackBonviUe  138  Bay Street  Ship  through  the'unlon  hall  If  a  going  to  flip­flap  agalh,  Joe?  '  past  few  years.  Tampa  206  South  Franklin  Street  certain  bill  is  pa.ssed  in  Congreae.  Mobile  ...;;.;;..55 So. Conception Street  Now,  that  Is  very  true,  Joseph,  So  you  think  you're  going  to  Texas  City  ;..il05 ­  4th  Street  N.  Congress.  Joe?  That's  the  life  of  as  we  all  know.  Seamen  have  found  it  Increas­ .  *  >ii  »  Riley for  you,  eh  Joe?  Well;  why  ingly difficult to enter  these  insti­ Great  Lakes  District.  HEADQUARTERS But,  Joe,  why  didn't  you  think  don't  you  stop  dreaming  and  look  tutions  which  were  bi^ilt­speclfi­ Detroit  B  I  .1033  Third  Street  of  that  fast  sunimer,  when  the  around?  There's  this  Seatraln  caily  for the  purpose  of  maintain­ '  ADD^SS  ALL CORRESPONDENCE CONCSkNlNd THIS  S.l.u:,  l.W.W.  and  Rank  arid  Fife  New  Jerse^y,  for  instarice,  that  ing  thie  health,  and  efficiency  of  PUBLICATION  TO:  the  per^onnpl  of  the  American  of  the 'NMU  Were'  picketing  the  I'm  on.  «•   «  e  Merchant  Marine.  Shipping  commissioner's  fink  hall  "THE  SEAFARRRS'  LOG"  As  you  know,  this  ship  is  an  at  45  Broad  Street  in  N.V.C.7  P. O. Box  522,  Chiirch  St. Ahhex,  New  York,  N. Y.  S.I.U.  ship.  Yes,  Joe,  a  "phoney"  Every  seamen  remembers  that.  *  *  «  The  cause  of  this  deplorable  S.I.U.  ship.  But  .  .  .  Quartermas­ You  alec  knoAA%  Joe,  that  at  that  ter  gets  $92.50  on  her, 'A­B.  $90  stafe  of  affairs  is  well  knoAvn  to  time  the  Flaming  'Vouth  of  14th  and  O.S.  $72.  And  comrade,  lend  seamen  who  have  had  occasion  to  Street  were'  sailing  through  45  an ear  to this:  We  have  NO mess­ require  prompt  and  thorough  '  {Continued  from  Page 1)  Broadw'ay  with  Papa  Browder's  room  here.  We  have  a'  DINING  medical  treatment.  neck  race  with  anotlier  company  nnion  outfit,  873  to  821  blessing.  Furthermore,  did  you  do  ROOM  WITH  SWIVEL  CHAIRS!  making  necessary  u  run­off  election!  On the Socony­Vacuum  anything  to  stop  those  brats'from  Say,  no  joking,  Joe,  these  During  recent  years the  Marine  scamps  are  going  to  town.  tankers the  company  nnion  got  496  votes  to  the  NMU's  423.  ghing  to  Hoffman's  Island?  Like  S.I.U.  We  can't  give  you  any  votes,  Joe,  Hospitals  HAVE  BEEN  OVER­ thd  diCkeria  you  did!  Fruits of Policy Show Joe,  you  are  always  late.  This  but  there  may  be  a  berth.  No  LOADED  WITH  C.C.C.  BOYS,  P.W.A.  WORKERS,  CIVIL  SER­ In the P and 0 case, the S.I.U. came  out on top practically  time  you  are  a  year  and  a  half  meek­eyed  thrill,  but  a  man's  job  VICE  EMPLOYEES,  AND  and  a  man's  living  conditions.  without  a  contest.  In  the  tanker  cases,  in  which  the  S.I.U.  late.  ­Now,  I  am  sure  If  you  Anyway,  we  S.LU.  boys  will  do  OTHERS  TO  THE  EXCLUSION  would  only  take  time  out  for  oof­ left  the  field  to  the  NMU,  that  outfit  showed  itself  to  he  so  fee,  you  will  be  able  to  think  OUR  VOTING  IN  OOR,,UNION  OF  THE  AMERICAN  SEAMEN.  discredited  that  hundreds  upon  hundreds  of  men  preferred  more  and  act  faster,  and  some  HALL."  Thomas  J.  Bogard,  No.  50039.  an out­and­out  company  nnion  to it!  day  maybe  be  of  some  good  to  The  most  recent  example  of  at­ "'  In both  eases,  the re.sults  constituted  the fruits of  policy.  tention  given  Seamen  AT  THEIR  more  than  value  received  for  his  While  the  NMU  Avas  attempting  to  scab  on  the  SIU,  di­ "OWN"  HOSPITALS  occurred  diies.  Compare  wages,  overtime,  rectly  on  the  P  and  0  boats  and  indirectly  with  the  .$2.50  .last  week  in  Texas  City,  when  I  working  conditions  and,  yes,  accompanied  Brother  Charles  sell­out  proposal  on  the  coastAvise  increases,  the  SIU  just  (luarteis,  to  what  the  NMU.have!  Hansen  to  the  Marine  Hospital  in  plugged  along  patiently  and  by  getting  $7.50  and  $10  in­ We  are  an  infant  union  under  Galveston.  Brother  Hansen  was  the  wing  and  guidance  of  the  in  a  very  serious  condition,  with  creases  as  AA­ell  as  10c  increases  in  overtime,'  proved  its  New  Oileans,  .S.U.P..  Let  us,' everyone  of  us,  two  broken  ribs  (one  penetrating  superiority in  action.  build  as the  S.U.P.  did,  and  bring  his  right  lung),  a  broken  leg,  Sept.  5,  1940.  It is any wonder  that  the P and  0 seamen eltose  the SIU?  up  this  infant  Into  one  of  the  shoulder  blade,  and  arin'.  Editor,  Seafarers  Log,  strongest unions  in  the  world.  IT  f Scabby Actions of NM,U Nof Forgoffen Dear  Sir  and  Brother;  YET THE  OFFICIALS OF THE  Fresh in the memory  of  every seamah Ts  the dirtie.st  piece  A  few  words  to  the  brother  CAN  BE  DONE!  *  *  w  HOSPITAL  ALLOWED  BRO.  members  of  the  S.I.U.  of  N.A.:  of  scabhery ever  pulled by  a so­called  union—the handling of  HANSEN  TO  LIE  IN  AGONY  It  is soon  time  to start  nomina­ "hot oil"  by  NMU  ships  during  the  tanker  strike "run"  by  All  types  of  organizations  have  tions  for  officials  for  the  coming  FOR  OVER  AN  HOUR  WITH­ minority groups  which  usually  are  the  NJliIU  il^self!  The  S.I.U.,  like  good  union  men  should,  re­ a  liability  Instead  of  an'  asset.  year.  We.want  to  choose  wisely  OUT  EVEN  GIVING  HIM  AN  fused  td,  order  .ships  under  agreement  Avith  it  to  touch  These  are  usually  cantankerous,  and  sanely.  Choose  men  that  will  X­RAY.  * * m that  "hot  oil."  It  took  the  NMU  officialdom  to  break  its  unreasonable  and  suspicious  of  fight  to  better  your  conditions  and  to  build  the  S.I.U.  own  tanker  strike!  .  everyone—unless  they  are  pam­ In  closing  I  want  to  thank  Thie  happened  after  all  con­ cerned  rushed  this  man  to  the  Is  it  any  wonder  that  tanker  men  prefer  CA­en  phoney  pered  and  favored.  They  com­ Bro.  Lundeberg for  the  good  work  hospital  within  thirty  minutes  plain that  they are  being discrimi­ company unions  to  the,NMU?  he  has done,  for  the  battle he  has  after  the  accident."  t  nated  against  and  neglected  when  fought  .for  the  S.I.U.  Also,  we  they are  not.  Home to Roost! should  compliment  him  for  the  »  m  V  policies  are  eoniing  home  to  roo.st.  By scabbing  on  great fight  that  he  has  put  up  It  is  my  opinion  that  we,  the  We  have  that  same  ilk  in  the  itself,  by  .scabbing  on  the  S.I.U.,  by  .supporting  the fink  hall  Seafarers'  against  Compensation  Bill  HJl.  S.I.U.  of  N.A.,  as a  body,  take  ac­ Int.  Union.  The.se  and  the  fink  training  program  the  Commie  crcAV  in  control'  cranks  and  trouble  makers  have  6881,  wheri  lie  and  Morris  Wbis­ tion  to  see  that  th4  American  of  the  NMU  only  succeeds  in  playing  the  game  of  the  ship­ among  them  a  certain  number  berger  did  a fine,  militant  job  of  seamen  are  given  prompt  care  by  it.  the  Marine  Hospitals.  DON'T  owners.  It  trains  the  men  it  tries  to  organize  in  company­ who  have  come  from  the  ranks  *  iK  •   THE  AMERICAN  PUBLIC  of  the  NMU.  Don't  misconstrue  mindedness.  It  succeeds  only  in  discrediting  itself.  That's  And  may  the  S.I.U.  keep  on  a  THINK  THAT  THE  MARINE  me.  Some  of  the  NMU  men  Avho  steady  course  just"  as  the  S.U.P.  HOSPITALS  ARE  KEPT  UP  the lesson  to be  draAvn  from  the tanker  elections!  have'turned in  their  books for  one  FOR  THE  MEN  THAT  LIVE  A  In  a  different  way,  S.I.U.  policies  are  likewise  bearing  of  ours  are  damn  good  members.  has  for  so  many  years.  Fraternally  yours,  MARINE  LIFE?  But  we  have  to  contend  with  fruit.  SloAVly,  but surely.  Holding .strictly  to the union  prin­ E.  R.  Wallace,  G­237  some  rats  who  have  worn  out  the  Charles  H.  Martin,  A.  2093.  ciple  that  an  injury  to  one  is  an  injury  to  all;  supporting  seat  of  their  pants  trying  to  ship  striking  seamen  even  Avhen  they  are  under  the  bedraggled  out  Of' NMU  hull's  and  couldn't.  banner  of  the  NMU;  pmshing  forward  with  its  AVagc­raising  They  are  the  one.s  who  apply  fo  Seafarers' Loff  campaign  for  the  10­10; fighting  the fink  hall  and' the fink  one  of  our  halls  for  a.  Permit  training program  —  the S.I.U.  is fofging ahead  in  the strug­ Card.  We  take  them  at  their  gle  to  uphold  the  interests  of  the  rank  and file  seamen  word,  in  what  they say  about  not  being  able  to  ship  and  being  fed  3.00  against  the  operators.  Tliat's  the  lesson  to  be  drawn  from  up  with  the  NMU.  They  are  is­ • S.S. FLWYN  C.  HALE  ...  Buras  Cab  Co  1.00  this results iii  the P arid  O  organizing drive.  sued  Permit" Cards.  Atlantic  District  HEADQUARTERS  New York  (Phone:  BOwllng Green  9­3437)  2 Stone Street  BRANCHES  Boston  SS­O  Atlantic  Avenue  PFOTldenee  .......................^.• '.^...485  :S(A'Main  Street  Philadelphia  .6  North  «th  Street  Baltimore  14  North  Gay  Street  Norfolk  60  Commercial'Place  Baa  Joan, Puerto  Rico  Covadonga  Street  ^a;o policies, Two Results  '  i  NMU  Rats  IM'  li­ If  Honor  Roll  • Tr­ S.S.  KOPREST  2.00  *  »  w  Results .Reflect Seamen's Judgment E.  Johnsori  ...  ;,"  .50  The  NMU  scabs, sabotages  and  knhckres  under.  It  reaps  Then the  snbeiievable  happens:  S.S. SEATEAIN NE,W  JERSEY  5.35  they shtp out  in  a few  days!­They  only defeats for  the seamen.  are  only  aboarct'a'few  days  and  S.S. CITY  OF ALMA  5.67  The  S.LU. fights  every  labor­hating  move  of  the  ship­ the  disrupting  startfr ahd  all  the  T. Parker  50  owmers, fights  for  cdristant  bettiemfenU in ivager lind  odndi­ erapi  of  hovd  good the  NMU  Is and  Jean  Lind.sey  ,50  they  try­'to '  turn  ybu  over  Into  tiohs.  It produces  AOTION  ­  *  •   '  Hieholson  l.'oo  that  phoney  outfit;  '  '  Two  policies  —  invo  results.  "  ' Brothers,  it  1&'  up  to  every  one  Canadians on  board  S.S.  City  of  Alma  ....  467  ' The  judgment  of  the  men  who  sail  the  shits  is  makinC  of  to  be  on ­our  guard.  When  ......  4.50  itsiflf  fiil't.  That's  what  Both  thef  tanker  elecfiotis  and  the  you  run  acrosS'­0116  bf. 'these  S.S.  CARRABULLA  . ..;..V  A;  Hiion'V. ^  : r;.:'  ;  1.00  P  and  Q  direemdht  jfhdve,  7w 7/4'  Thumbs  birds,  ydu  Itnow­ What  action  to  tal».'  Anjd  take np  expuses. ­  ^  The  S.LU.  gives  eve/y; mem^  ...  m  WL.'*'­M—rj "• >  i. ­r.,  'K'  .. I  .s ......r.­i  • J­ •  .  r  �B  91  iuss^  Tuesday, September  10, 1940  THE  SEAFARERS'  LOG  at' 8 Doing —  BALTIMORE  News and Vjiews  Shipping prospects ­­  More on .the  , Ships Sold - Radio ^Commies TEXAS £ITY August  24, 1940  Editor,  Seafarers'  Log  Dear  Sir  and'Brbther:  ' "I'he  Milllnockfett  got  away  at  iastl  Had  tb  serid  a  permit flre­ tdau  aboard  the  ship  to  sail  her,  as'  none  "of  the  book  members  Vere interested.' The Suwled  came  in  ind  took  an  biler,  an  A.B.  and  an  D.S. on  Monda;y_  Then  we  just  'sat  arouiitj tlH  the 'seati'aln  Tekaa  came  in  on  Thursday.  In  reading  the  Piolet  I see  that  "they  have  donations  for  every­ thing  from  signs,  chairs  to  build­ ings.  Some  fun,  Oh  kid?  .  JACKSONVILLE August. 27,  1940.  Editor,  Seafarers'  Log,  Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  Well,  we  had  an  extraordinary  week  as  we  shipped  11  members  to  One  ship.  ­• 'i  Shipping  Prospects  tionship  with  foreign  iritere'sts;"  According  to  the  same  dispatch:  "The  Daily  Worker  had  denied  being  a  foreign  agent  but  ad­ mitted  a  relationship  with  sev­ eral  organizations  abroad,  includ­ ing  Runag—the  Rundschau  Delta  "Verlag  Ag—a  propaganda  agency  In  Moscow."  Shipping,  particularly  on  the  ships  of  the  Intercoastal  Lines,  promises  to  be  heavy  for  the  rest  The  latest  Inducement  they  of  tbe  month  and  will  un­ have  is  a  beaut.  For  your  81U  doubtedly  Increase  shipping  turn  book  aiid  a  pledge  card  you  can  over  heavily.  Bull  Line's  BA­ become  a  full  member  In  the  READO  and  MONROE  are  still  NMU, no  assessments  or  nothing.  It  seems  that' some  mates,  and  in  the  process  of  being  recondl­ So  far,  the  turnover  down  here  skippers, don't  like a member  who  Is  conspicuous  by  its  absence.  becomes  too  militant  on  a  ship.  tioned  at  Newport  News  and  we  Ships  Sold  Next thing  they'll  be  P/XVING  to  This  happened  on  one  of  the  have  no  Information  on  when  The  Maritime  Commission  has  get  some  SlU  members  to  Join  famous  Bull  Line ships,  the Clare.  they  will  be  ready  for  service.  approved  the sale of  the SYLVAN  Delta  Line's  DELARGENTINO  Is  the  NMU.  m  m  m  The  crew  couldn't  put  up  with  still  at  her fitting  up  berth  with  ARROW  and  ROYAL  ARROW  to  Till  next  week.  a  member  who  was  supposed  to  little  prospect  of  her  being  ready  Panamanian  interests.  Th'e  Com­ Fraternally,  That night  the ball  game  of  the  W.  A.  Armstrong  be' a  dieck  delegate,  but  Instead  for  at'  least  another  couple  of  mission  has also  received  applica­ season  took  place.'Score:  8  to  8.  of  working for  the  interest of  the  months.  Robin  Line  has  one  tions  for  sale  of  the  EXCHES­ 'As baseball  It was  terrible, but  as  deck  dept.  was  working  for  the  ship  off  the  ways  and  another  TER,  EXERMONT,  EXCELLO.  'a  three­ring clreiis  It  Was  unbeat­ MOBILE and  EXILONA,  of  the  Export  company.  I  had  repeatedly  warh­ ­able.  ' •  ' Sept. .4,  1940.  ed  'bim  to  keep  a  report  of  aViy  ready  to  be  launched.  Line  to  Panama  and  the A'TLAN­ »  •   •   mm* Editor,  Seafarers'  Log,  TIC  of  the  American  South­Afri­ non­utilpn  members  aboard  the  Tke  City  Merchants'  team,  Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  Private  company  bidding  for  can  Line  to  the  same  country.  ship, but  he  never  paid  any  atten­ which  was  the  opposition,  didn't  The  S,S­  KofresI  came  in  last  tion  to  what  I said:  ship  charters  has slumped  consld  have  much  chahce  to  prove  their  week with  approximately 24  hours  Radio  Commies  erably  and  the  Maritime  Commis­ "Well,  you  know  one  can  stand  sion  received  no  bids  for 'the  The  C.T.U.  radio  operator  who  ballplaylng,  but  they sure  proved  of  disputed  overtime  in  the  En­ to  all  their  spprt'smanahlp.  They  gine  department  and  a  few  hours  just  so  much.  The  crew  put  EGREMONT,  JADDEN,  JACOB  relieved  ART A  operator  l^k R.  entered  right  into  the  spirit  of  in  the  Deck  department.  After  charges  against  this  brother,  but  RUPERT.  PACIFIC  REDWOOD,  Brown  on  the  WEST  IRA,., pre­ the  thing  and  even  went  the  taking  It  all  up.with the  comp.iny  failed  to  sign  them.  I  hope,  here­ BAKERSFIELD, and WEST  CHE­ sented  his  patrolman  with  an  %ig­ Texas  gang  one  better.  it  was  settled  to  the  satisfaction  after,  when  anyone  put's  charges  TAC  Which  had  been  limited  to  ple stock  of  Communist  literaturte  against  any member  of  the  union,  »  «  «  which  Comrade  Zack  left  bdhini  of  the  men  involved,  he  signs  them,  because  we  have  sale  or  charter  for  the  Inter­ Among  the  publications  found  in  At one  time 1  counted four  balls  *  *  *  coastal  trade.  Successful  opera­ grown  out  of  that  stage,  where  a  In play  In the  Infield.  If and  when  The  S.S.  Panama  City  came  in  member  is  railroaded  like  in  the  tion  of  the  British  Convoy  sys­ the  radio  shack  when  the  C.T.U.  took  her  over  was  a  year's file  qf  a  man  got  on  base,  he  had  from  with  an  hour  disputed  overtime  New  Moscow  Union,  and  hope  we  tem  Is  being  credited  or  blamed  the "PEOPLE'S  WORLD," '"Com­ one  to  three  pilots,  showing  him  involving  a  wiper.  On  Saturday  —depending on  your  point of  view  will  not  drop  to  that  level.  the  way  around  the  bases.  afternoon  lie  was  knocked  off  at  —for  the  slump  In  the  ship­sale  rade" Brown  was at  one  time Sec­ retary of  the Maritime  Federation  •  »  •   12  o'clock  to  eat  dinner  and  at  I  would  like to  know  where  the  and  charter  business.  of  the  Pacific.  Another  ARTA  On  Friday,  Brother  Charles  12:15  he  was  turned  to  again  to  full book  membe.rs are  these days.  ,^ore  on  the "AW."  man—A.  E.  Harding—well  known  Hansen,  No,  3102,  while  taking  help  fake  oil.  That  entitled  him  Every  time  there  is  a  Job, Instead  An  Associated  Press  Dispatch  of  a  member  of  the  union  taking  In  Seattle and  Galveston  as a Sta­ to  an  hour  overtime  because  he  laundry aboard  the ship, fell from  of  April  2nd,  said:  "The  Daily  linist, has  been  recently elected  as  a  net  sling,  bounced  from  the  aft  was  not  given  an  unbroken  meal  it, one  has  to  get  out  and  pick  up  Worker  had  denied  being  a  for­ Secretary  of  the  Maritime  Fed­ spring  wire  to  the  dock  stringer,  hour,  b"t  the first  assistant  could  a non­union  member, and  give him  a  permit­card.  Well,  this  can't  al­ eign  agent  but  admitted  a  rela­ eration.  not  see  that.  He  claimed  that  the  then  into  the  brink;  Brothers  ways  last.  Mayo,  Brock  and  McKee  dove  In,  man  was  making  overtime  any­ how  so  was  not  entitled  fo  an  Got  a  call  at  2  o'clock  to  ship  pulled  him  up  from  the  bottom  and  held  him  till  a  line  was  extra  hour  but  the  cojnpany  paid  a  messman  on  the  S.S.  Suweid  and  it  was  5  o'clock  before 1  was  passed  down  to  pull  him  ashore.  It.  •  «  «  able  to  get  one,  and  then  I  had  Credit  Is  due  these  Brothers  for  The  S.S.  Pan  Orleans,  which  their  prompt' action.  At  least  they  was  formerly  the  S.S.  Pawnee  to  ship  a  man  on  permit.  I  will  gave  Brother  Hansen  a  chance  to  and  which  will  ply  between  New  not  say  much  more,  for  at  this  pull  through.  The  doctors  tell  me  Orleans  and  Tampa,  should  be  time,  wb  have  12  members  regis­ that  he  seems  to  be  much  better  ready  to  take  a  crevv  in  about  tered  on  the  three  shipping  lists.  Many  seamen  now  sailing  on  ships  under  SlU  agreement  are  Steady  as  she  goes,  th^s  morning,  considering  that  he  three  weeks  or  a  month's  time,  Permit  Men.  These  men  are  potential  members  of  the  Seafarers'  F. Lauritano  has  a  broken  shoulder,  arm,  leg,  She  Is  another  addition  to  the  International  Union  and  should  be  treated  as  such  by  the  members  and  a  couple  of  ribs  that  pierced  Waterman  fleet.  of  our  union.  That  means  they  should  be  educated.  •   »  #  ill  his lung, wltfi  a  bad  knock On  the  They  should  be  taught  the'$>­ SAVANNAH head.  He stands  a good  chance  of  Shipping  for  the  past  few  meaning  of  the SIU.  They  should  file;  all committees  handling busi­ making  the  grade.  weeks  in  this  branch  has  been  be  helped  to  understand  that  In  September  4,  1940.  union  there  Is  strength,  that  the  ness  for  the  union  are  elected  by'  *  •  •   extremely  good  in  all  three  de  the  bodies  of  union  members  for  It's  tough  to  have  to  take  les­ partments.  There  is  an  acute  Editor,  Seafarers  Log,  SIU  Is  not  just  an  organization  whom  and  to  whom  they  are  re­,  to  belong to  In order  to ship,  that  sponsible.  sons from something  like this,  but  shortage  of  reciprocating  oilers  Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  Brothers,  this  should  once  again  and  A.B.'s.  Last  week  we  shipped  For  the  last  two  weeks  ship­ the SIU  Is their  organization,  that  Do  Your  Part  convince  ail  hands  to  take  no  forty  men  and  several  permit  ping  has  been  very  good  in  Sa­ they  have  a  stake  In  Its  welfare  men.  At  the  present  time  there  If  the  SIU  is  to  continue on  its  chances.  vannah  due  to  several  outside  and  in  its  progress.  are  approximaiely  niuely  men  way  forward  as  the  organized  ex­ ships  calling  in  here.  At  this  mo­ SIU  Principles  registered  at  the  hall  here.  ment  we  are  looking  for  two  The SIU  is  built  up around  well  pression of  the  seamen, as  a  pow­ Seems  some  member  of  the  * * ABs  .for  the  S.S.  ARLYN,  Bull  tested  principles,  laws  that  have  erful  organization,  protecting and  M. C.  &  S. fell  dbvvn  here  In town  defending and fighting  for  the  in­ An  S.I.U.  float  was  entered  in  Line  ship.  and  the  NMU  local  agent  Is  been  evolved  for  the  benefit  of  terests  of  the  men  who  sail  the  the  Labor  Day  Parade  by  our  or  W  *  >|!  bound  over  to  the  Grand  Jury  the  seamen.  ships,  every  single  member  must  The  NMU  seamen  are  starting  a  ganj^ation.  Unforjunately  we  did  Evidently  somebody  slipped  up  First  among  SIU  principles  Is:  take  an  active  part  in  building  it.  not  win  the  first  prize  but  we  did  boycott  on  the  local  business  on  this  ship  in  regards  to  mat­ An  Injury  to  One  is  an  Injury  to  That  means;  attending  meet­ to  force  the  law  to  lay  off  them  receive  honorable  mention.  The  tresses.  All.  local  press  proclaimed  this  Labor  ings,  serving  on  committees,  par­ At  the  same  time  they  are  en  *  *  *  The  protection  of  each  and  ev­ ticipating  In  organization  drives,  dorsing  the  present  sheriff  for  re­ Day  Parade  the  largest  parade  of  ery  seaman  against  dlscrimlna­ and  above  all,  T­AKING  NEW  election.  Yep;  your  guess  Is  as  any  description  ever  held  In  This is  the first  time  in  the  last  tiou  and  exploitation  by  the  ship­ Mobile.  It  also  estimated  the  good  as  mine.  three  years  that  donkey  break­ owners  is  the  job  of  all  the  sea­ MEMBERS  IN  HAND  AND  IN­ number  of  Labor  Unionists  in  the  FUSING  THEM  WITH  THE  Fraternally,  fasts have  appeared again  as  mat­ men  united  into  one  union.  The  Parade  as  being  close  to  the  ten  SPIRIT  OF  THE  SIU!  W.  A.  Armstrong.  tresses  in  the  sailors'  forecastle.  POWER  of  the  shipowner,  de­ thousand  mark  but  I think  that  Is  That  means:  Be  tolerant  to  This  shoujd  serve  as  a  warning  rived  from  his  great  wealth,  can  August  31,  1940.  a  very  conservative  estimate.  to  all  sailors that  whenever  these  be  prevented  from  bringing  harm  Permit  Men  and  help  them  L­rn  That's  all  for  this  week.  Editor,  Seufufcrs  Log,  so­called  mattresses  are  sent  and  oppression  to  the  individual  the  ropes  aboard  ship!  Fraternally  yours,  That  means:  Help  the  Permit  Dear  Sir  and  Bro.:  down  to  the  ships  to  get  in  touch  only  ,by  the  POWER  of  the  sea­ Robert  A.  Matthews, No.  154  Very  busy  week  this  time.  immediately  with  the  Delegate  or  men,  derived  from  organization!  Men  to  become  proficient  in  their  jobs—the  union  builds  seamen,  Shipped  14  men  for  tbe  week,  Port  Agent,  because  if  vve  don't  Another  SIU principle  Is  Union  have  12  men  on  the  list  in  all  3  stop  this  business,  they  will  send  Derddcracy.  A  Union  of  the  Sea­ the training  ships of  the Maritime  depts.  Done  a  lot  of  running  burlap  bags  the  next  time  for  men,  by  the  Seamen  and  for  the  Commission  only  build  finks!  That  means:  MAKE  THE  PER­ around,  but  all  hands  seem  satis­ mattresses.  Seamen!  MIT  MEN  UNION  CONSCIOUS!  fied.  So  that  Is  that.  '  «  *  »  Qfintnej: and J\Iattern Uni.on Democracy  That  means:  no  single  person,  Besides  tbe  regular  Savannah  Visited  the  hospital  and  found  Knitting Mills NOTICE  no  little  group  or  clique  can  do  Line  ships  we  had  the  S.S.  CA­ Bro.  Hansen  still  In  a  coma.  Doc­ Has  locked  out  Its  employes  tors  give  him  a  good  chance  to  and"  been  declared  unfair  by  MGR.  S.S.  SB.LMA  CITY,,  MEM­ the  job  of  running  the  pnlon  for  BUaH B»QWN,  JR.  PHIS  CITY  in  port  here  this  you,  "Vpy  mu.st  take  an  active  make  it  now.  ,  the  IntCrnationar  Ladles  Gar­ week,  each  calling  for  a  couple  hand  Ip  rurinlng  the  union  your­ .Will  you  get  in  touch  ment  Workers  Untdn  (A.F.L).  self,  for'it  belongs  to  you  and  of  replacements.  It . seems  that  witji  Joseph  Grand,e.  No. 1  I  got  a . beef  to  register  In  ;the  'Arnong'tke  articles on  the  "un­ paper and  if 8 this : How  come  we  'ifair" list  manufactured  by  thia  eveiT  time  jobs  are  plentiful,  you  and  you!'  a 40,(Sweetpea)  of  the,S.S.  hevefr  hear  from' somb  of  the  At­ flfhi  are ' bathlhg"  sbftd"  under  some  of  the  old  timers  try  Henry  The  SIU  constitution,  provides  City  of  Alma.  He  has  lantic  borts?  HttVe­  we  got  to  the" tFdde rtamfei'  of  Golden­ Ford's  movement  of  "Back id  the  for  such  procedure  In  great  de­ tail.  All  (rffices  are  elective;  any  some  important  paper.s  of  start  the dpnattohe. racket­to get  GAte,  H l­Bdy,' Bd­SUH  arid  Wl­ Pavin''' and  so  are  not  a  ofHosr  can  i^cpilpd :|ro,pa.  Ills  ^ours.  J "  Fraternally,'  •  a  typewriter  ,for  soin<^' .9?  ­kUffc  :  nails?­ Attention!  All SlU Men!  Educate the Permit Men!  UNFAIR  TO  LAROR  .'i I :i­;i  :r_  • r:i  �THE  SEAFARERS'  LOG  Tuesday, September 10, 1940  PHONEY  They All Want Curran  All Is Not Milk & Honey  Compensation Bill  — Out Of Their Sight!  In the QLO.  H.R. 6881 Shelved  It  looks  like  the  "peepul"  of  stooges,  headed  by  "No  Coffee  the 15th  Congressional  District  of  Time."  New  York—as  we  reported  in  a  In  short,  Curran  has  his  hands  All  is  not  milk  and  honey  in  the  land  of  the  CIO.  Two  recent  issue  of  the  Log—are  not  full.  As  they  say  in  the  ads­ major  clashes  between  John  L.  Lewis  and  Sidney  Hillman,  the  enly  ones  «boutlAg  f«r  "No  such  popularity  must  be  de­ main  cheeses  of  the' outfit,  have  occurred  within  the  past  Coffee  Time"­Joe.  served I  After  being  submitted  to  a  month.  Curran's popularity  seems  to  be  Is  It  any  wonder  that  another  barrage of  criticism from  rep­ one  of  those  notorious  funds  has  on  the  rise—but  "in  reverse."  Wham at Lewis  been  established  in  the  NMU—a  resentatives  of  all  seamen's  First,  the  papers  report:  One  came  when Hillman,  in  his  capaeitly  as  Labor  co­or­ "Send  Curran  to Congress" fund?  "28  Unions  Assail  Curran  Plea  dinator  of  the  National  Defense  Advisory  Commission,  gave  unions, the  phoney  Compensa­ If  the above  information serves as  for  Youth  Congress."  assurances  to  the  A.  F.  of  L.  Building  and  Construction  tion Bill H.B. 6881, which was  These  are  unions  afilliated  with  any  kind  of  a  gauge,  it  would  Trades  Department  that  it  will  be  recognized  as  the  labor  intended to  put seamen  under  the  CIO,  the  papers  tell  us.  One  seem  that  many  in  the  NMU  are  willing  to  even  give  a  dollar  or  representative  on  all  construction  work  under  the  govern­ the  notorious  Longshoremen  would  think  that  at  least  within  two  to  send  "No  Coffee  Time"—  the  CIO,  whose  New  York  central  ment  program.  and  Harbor  Workers  Law,  body  only  recently  "elected"  him  out of  their sight. To Congress . . .  anywhere . . . juet  as long  as it's  This knocked John L.'s  pet dream of  raiding the bona fide  seems  to have  landed  in  the  president  of  that  organization,  out  of  their  sightl  unions in the building  industry  (with  his Construction  Work­ Curran would  have some standing.  ers "Organizing" Committee)  into a  cocked  hat.  More  than  waste  basket.  But  apparently,  he  is  not  even  A  resoluilon,  offered  by  Sena­ wanted  there.  that,  coming  as  it  did  from  Mr.  Hillman,  who  is  also  Vice­ 'Times'  Weeps  Here's  why:  As  usual,  he  has  President  of  the CIO,  this blow  was in  the nature of  a direct  tor  Overton, Chairman  of  the sub  committee  which  recently  held  been  stooging  for  Bloody  Joe  Sta­ slap  in  the  face—a  challenge  within  his  own  house,  so  to  hearings  on  this  bill,  has  been  Over  Seamen's  lin  whose  henchmen  in  the  speak.  submitted  to  the  Senate  Commit­ American  Youth  Congress  called  Next,  Mr. Lewis tried to  retaliate by  accusing Hiliman  of  tee  on  Commerce  which  calls  for  an  "Emergency  Peace  Mobiliza­ 'Romantic' Pasf  'study"  by  the  Department  of  tion"  at  Chicago  for  August  31.  discriminating  against  the  United  Illectrical  and  Radio  |Workers  Union,  another  CIO  aifiliate,  in  naming  a  represen­ Commerce,  the  Department  of  Not  content  with lending  bis own  On  the  editorial  page  of  the  Labor,  the  Maritime  Commission,  tative for  the  electrical  industry  on  his  Labor  Policy  Advi­ the  United  States Employee'  Com­ name to cover  hp the "maneuvers"  New  York  Times  there  is  a  col­ sory Committee.  Mr. Hillman  had named  an  A. F. of  L. man  pensation  Commission  and  the  of  the  Commies  in  this  phoney  umn  called  "Topics of  the Times."  "Youth"  cufflt,  he  tried  to  utilize  The  job  of  this  columnist  seems  to that  post.  He flatly  rejected  the  accusation  and stood  his  Maritime  Labor  Board  to  jointly  his CIO  post to  prevail  upon other  to  be  to  take  some  of  the  frown  determine  whether  workmen's  union  officials  to  join  him  in  giv­ ground.  compensation  "by act  of  Congress,  ing  a  coat  of  whitewash  to  the  out  of  a  page  otherwise filled  Only Preliminaries  should  be  made  applicable  to sea  dark  doings  of.  the  murderous  with  sour­puss  diatribes  by  the  Rumor  has  it  that  these  clashes  are  merely  in  the  nature  men."  These five  different  gov­ anti­labor  crew  directed  by  Mos­ editor's  staff.  The  "Times  To­ picker"  rarely  rises  above  a  sur­ of  preliminaries.  It  is  said  that  the  CIO  President  and  his  ernment  agencies  are  then  to  re­ cow.  ley  sneer,  at  that.  However,  it  port  to  the  Senate  on  or  about  opponent  at  the  head  of  the  Labor  Section  of  the  National  That  was  too  much  for  the  of­ goes  very  well  with  the  rest  or  February 15,  1941.  ficers  of  the  other  CIO  unions,  the  paper,  which  prides  itself  on  Defense  Advisory  Commission  are  choosing  sides  for  the  coming  CIO  convention.  An  advance skirmish  took  place  at  Since  this  resolution  is  sub­ who  have stood  for  a lot  of  Com­ the symmetry  of  its  make­up.  the  United  Automobile  Workers  (CIO)  convention  in  St.  mitted  by  the  Chairman  of  the  mie  hoodwinking.  Thirty­five  of  One  day,  recently,  our  hoity­ sub­committee,  it  is  virtually  as­ them,  representing  twenty­eight  toity  "Topicker"  saw fit  to  crack  Louis  at  the  end  of  July.  Factions  in  other  C.I.O.  unions  sured  of  passage.  That  means  unions,  led  by  Murray  J.  Kudish,  a  sneer  at  the  men  who  sail  the  are being  "lined up" for the  struggle.  that  for  nearly  a  year  this  con­ of  the  United  Retail  and  Whole­ ships. Probably,  out of  sheer  bore­ templated  anti­labor  measure  Is  sale Employes  Union,  protested  by  dom,  The  occasion  was  the  Commies  With John  L.—Curran  Of  Conrge!  to  be off  the  boards. The shelving  ofQcial  telegram  a  request  by  "No  launching  of  the  new  cargo  ves­ The  issues  are: Support  for  the  administration  of  Presi­ of  H.R.  6881  is  a  victory  for  the  Coffee  Time" to  give financial  aid  sel  Sea  Witch.  After  some  very  dent  Roosevelt—of  which  Mr.  Hillman  is  an  ardent  propo­ seamen,  whose  representatives  to  the  "Peace  Mobilization  Meet­ lauditory  remarks  about  the  sKlp  have been  battling against  it from  nent ; and  unity with  the American  Federation  of  Labor—of  its  inception.  But  It  is  only  a  ing"  in  Chicago  as  "tantamount  itself,  he  lets go  of  the  following  to  a  request  that  we  give  suste­ bit  of  tripe:  .which  Mr. Lewis is  an ardent opponent.  temporary  victory.  We  must  re­ nance  to  a  program  which  would  "Lord  love  tis!  What  are  In spite­ of  their  perpetual '' unity" cries,  the  Commies in  main  on  our  toes  to  see  that  It  benefit  the  totalitarian  nations  these  accommodations  for  the  the  CIO  are  ".supporting" Lewis,  not  because  they  hate  the  does  not  come  up  in  the  samd  and  which  is  in  our  opinion  dia­ crew?  Ice  water  fountains  In  CIO  boss  less,  but  because  the  current  needs  of. Moscow's  vicious  form  again.  metrically opposed  to  the  best  in­ the  crew's  alleyway?  A  dainty  terests  of  democracy  and  labor  messroom  for  petty  officers?  A  Foreign  Policy  require  them  to  hate  Roosevelt  more.  Of  throughout  the  world/'  refined  stateroom  with  cross­ course,  Joe  Curran  follows  the "party  line"  as  usual.  The  question  remains:  How,  ventilation  for  the  carpenter  then,  did  Curran  get  "elected"  to  and  the  bosun?  Fresh  water  Nobody Asks the Bank and File  the  presidency  of  the CIO  central I  showers?  Hot  and  cold  running  •   ,  As for the poor  rank and file  in the CIO—with  most  of  its  body?  Apparently,  he  was  put  water for the hard­shelled  A.B.7  Abated  organizations  set  up  as  "committees"  completely  over  by  the  Commies,  while  the  Ho,  for the  life  of  a  sailor!"  ;'dominated  by  straw  bosses  appointed  by  either  Hillman  or  Then  he  winds  up:  others  were  not  looking. . . ,  Lewis—they  have  mighty  littie  say  in  the  matter.  )[t's  half  *  «  *  "At  four  bells  every  night  • a dozen  of  one  and  six  of  another,  insofar  as  they  are  con­ Next,  the  British  Seamen's  (the  Captain)  will  tuck  In  His  Grace  the  Bosun  and  His  Lord­ cerned. ..  Union  protests statements by  Cur­ ran  to  the  effect  that  "foreign"  ship,  the  Carpenter.  On  the  next  voyage  the  American  Pio­ (British)  owners haven't  been  do­ "We  MUST  Send  Curran  to  ing  right  by  the  eailora  of  Scan,  neer  Line  expects  to  provide  o p li t Congress"  —  Headline  of  Edi­ dinavlan,  Dutch.  Belgian,  and  the  crew  with  a  hostess. There,  torial  in  Pile­it  of  August  30.  other  ships  which  no  longer  can  will  be  tiddly­winks  and  jack­ SAh Looks  like  the  boys are  desper­ go  to  their  home  ports.  It  is  straws  in  the crew's social  hall­r  ate.  Moscow  demands  it.  The  pointed  out  by  them  that  Curran  after  supper."  '­f  The  following  Eesolution  was  adopted  at  a  regular  NMU  politicos  need; it.  The  rank  does  not  do  much  in  the  way  of  This  lad  apparently  fears  that  New  York  Headquarters  Meeting  on  Monday,  August  and  file figures  if  will  be  only  too  attacking  the  Nazi  treatmeBj;  of  seamen  will  go  soft  with  a  cool  12,1940:  damn  well  rid  of  him  on  the  seamen from  these countries.  It is  drink  in  tropic  temperature  and  waterfront,  implied that Joe Stalin's deal with  with  fresh  water  to  wash  off  the  , [WHEREAS:  Since  the  installation  of  the  new  Permit  «  •  *  Adolf  Hitler—which  has never  re­ grime.  He,  himself, is among "the  Card system, and since  the issuance of  the hew  permit  great  unwashed,"  we  suppose.  "Let's  tackle  the  Clyde­Mlllory  ceived  a  word  of  criticism  froip  cards, it has been discovered  that several former  mem­ •  •  •   Curran  or any  other  leader  of  the  Line  next,"  was  the  sentiment  bers  of  the  Seafarers'  International  Union  have  ac­ NMU—^mlght  have  something  to  Oh,  for  the  good  old  romantic  expressed  by  S.I.U.  men  In  Flor­ quired permit ?ards, despite the fact that  these permit  do  with  the  apparently  solicitous  days,  weeps  he,  when  a  seaman  ida  ports  when  they  got  word  of  care with which "No Coffee Time"  was  just  another  beast  of  burden  cards  are  to  be  issued  ONLY  to  non­members,  and  the  P and  O  agreement.  It's that  speaks up for these sailors.  and  narry  a  union  around  to  old  Southern  fighting  spirit.  .WJdEREAS:  These  former  members  have  wilfully  con­ It  is  undoubtedly  true  that  the  make  a  squawk  (and  all  the,  shipowners  try  to  take advantage  shipowners  weep  with  him)!  cealed  their  former  membership  in  the Seafarers'  In­ •  V  «  ternational  Union  in  order  to  avoid  payment  of  ar­ "NMU  Holds  Esso,  Socony  to  of  the sad  plight of  the now  home­ less Dutch, Scandinavian  and  Bel.  Well,  we'll  cheerfully  leave,  rears in dues and  assessments, and  have accepted  per­ Draw"  —  Headline  in  Pile­it  for  glan seamen.  But  Curran  as their  such  romance  to  the  likes  of  th«^  Sept.  6.  mit  cards with  the intent  to defraud  the Union  of  the  self­apoplnted  protector  Is  simply  sturdy  Topicker.  We'll  tak^  arrears  due  on  their  original  membership  books,  and  To  finish  that  headline  In  the  laughable.  The  only  "seamen"  unions—and  ice  water  fountains,  same  sports  style,  we  offer  the  that Curran  ever  protects are  the  and  hot  and  cold  running  water.  [WHEREAS:  The  issuance  of  permit  6ards  to  former  following  news  which  the  Curran  little  Stallnltes  whose  shipping  And—electric fans to clear  the air  book members nnllifies  the purpose for  which  the per­ rag  did  NOT  carry:  "Suffers  experience  is  restricted  solely  to  when  a  copy  of  the  Times  is  mit  card  system  was installed,  therefore  be  it  Technical  Knockout  on  Tide­ fishing  In  troubled  waters. . . .  around.  water;  Flattened  to a  Pancake  by  RESOLVED:  That  any  Permit  Card  Man  found  to  be  S.I.U.  on  the  P  and  O.."  Finally, Sidney Hlllman's  Amal­ Looks  like  the  announcement  a  former  meniber  of  the  Seafarers'  International  gamated  Clothing  Workers  Union  of  '^No  Coffee  Time"  Joe's  candi­ —mainstay  of  the CIO  which  re­ dacy  for  Congress  has  unleashed'  Union  of  North  America  shall  stand  automatically  The  Pilot  calls  the tanker  vote  fused  to  join  the  "Industrial  a  whole  series  of  adverse  votes  suspended without benefit of  trial, and shall be denied  a  "remarkable  organizational  Uj^ion  Council" In  New  York City  for  the  NMU  on  the  tankers.  Or,  further  membership  in  the  S.LU.  of  N.A.,  and  be  it  achievement."  A  few  more  such  which elected  Curran  as president  maybe  it's  the  other  way  around.  further  remarkable  achievements and  the  —has announced  that at the forth­ ' Maybe,  with  all  that's  happen­ National  Maritime  Union  vvlll  coming  convention  of  the  State  Ing  in  these  NLRB  elections,  Joe  RESOLVED:  That  this  resolution  appear  in  four  con­ have  nothing  left  but  its  Initials:  CIO  organization  it will  conduct a  had  BETTER  try" politics  and  secutive  issues  of  the  SEAFARERS'  LOO.  II  (0)  M  <ore)  U  (nion).  fight  to  "purge"  the  Commie  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CCC BOYS TRAINED AS FINKS BY MARITIME COMMISSION BRADLEY BILL NOT TO BE ACTED ON, BLAND SAYS UNCLAIMED BOOKS HELD BY BOSTON BRANCH A LITTLE LOVE LETTER TO NO COFFEE TIME JOE PROTESTS BAD CROWDING AT MARINE HOSPITAL WARNS AGAINST NMU RATS ATTENTION! ALL SIU MEN! EDUCATE THE PERMIT MEN UNFAIR TO LABOR: GANTNER AND MATTERN KNITTING MILLS ALL IS NOT MILK & HONEY IN THE CIO COMPENSATION BILL HR 6881 SHELVED TEMPORARILY THEY ALL WANT CURRAN--OUT OF THEIR SIGHT! 'TIMES' WEEPS OVER SEAMEN'S ROMANTIC PAST Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/10/1940 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. II, No. 13 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1940 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/f0d77b49099ed2c49e9bab99cb3eff79.PDF 1257b9982ac561f2378113ea9550cf35 PDF Text Text "I. JOQ l:j'.,- OPPICIAL ORGAN OP THE ATLANTIC AND GULP DISTRICT, SEAPARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OP NORTH AMERICA VOL. IV. 280 NEW YORK, N. Y., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1942 No. 31 Atlantic - Gulf District Is Streamlined For '43 ir The entire Atlantic and Gulf District administrative apparatus will be trimmed and made more flexible to meet war conditions, according to a election resolution re­ cently passed up and down the coast. i The resolution, which eliminates several offices which appeared on the 1942 ballot, provides for a more efficient set up in that patrolmen may be added or reduced from Dutch Seafarers Win Vital Demand On Uabor Day, at Kaisers' No. 1 yard In Richmond, California, the S. S. Andrew Furuseth slid down the ways. She is shown about to hit the water after having been dedicated in a ceremony led by the Sailors' Union of the Pacific. Walter McArthur, charter mem­ ber of the SUP, an old friend of Furuseth and former editor of the Seamen's Journal, made the dedication speech. A large delegation of SUP men were present to witness the launching. SOMEONE IS BLOWING CURRAN'S PANT LEG By OL0EN BANKS Brothers, I just had the pleasure of looking over an article in Life Magazine, dated August 24, 1942. I assume from the tail end of the article that it was supposed to give to the public an idea of what the merchant seamen was contributing to the war effort. But who ever was respon­ P': sible for the article in pictures, was surely blowing smoke up Joe Curran Pants Legs. The pictures said, in a little different words, that Joe Curran practically created the N.M.U. to save the seamen from oblivion. It goes on to say the N.M.U. is fighting a war; that since Ger­ many invaded Russia naturally. It states in the article that Joe Curran's answer lo Senator Copeland was the same as his answer to Congressman Dies—that he was not Communist. To the best of my knowledge nobody on the wa­ terfront ever accused Joe Curran of being a Communist; everybody is well aware of the fact that he i^ only a Commie Stooge. The thing that caught my eye was, that the article only went back to Jan. 1936 when Joe Cur­ ran was Boatswain " on the Cal­ ifornia in San Pedro, and led the crew out on a sitdown strike. It was very obvious that whoever was responsible for publication did not want Joe Curran prior to this date devulged in any way. Now just for the records and the benefit of all concerned; Joe Curran signed articles on the steamship Santa Clara, Boatswain Aug. 18, 1934 and made . three f ips. At this time the Interna­ tional Seamen Union had a very intensive organizing campaign on both Coasts and it was impossible lasso Joe Curran in the Union for the measly sum of $3.00 which was the initiation fee at time. On Dec. 29, 1934 Joe Curran signed articles on the steamship Virginia as Boatswain and the same thing happened on this ship. Organizers could not get anybody organized on this ship due to the fact that Boatswain Joe Curran would not join the Union. Around or about Feb. 193 5 Joe Curran was working ashore in .the Grace Line shore-gang for 50 cents an hour, and the painter's scale of wages was $1.00 per hour. Now I just (^Continued on Page 4) New York—ITF-—Satisfaction over the quick settlement of the recent Dutch seamen's conflict in American ports was expressed by Dutch union officials, represent­ atives of the Netherlands Govern­ ment in exile and the shipowners. time to time as shipping is centralized due to the war emergency. Few patrolmen will be elected on the regular ballot, most of them being elected from the floor as need for their services arise in the various ports. The positions of Gulf District Representative and Atlantic Dis­ trict Representative are eliminated entirely. This step was taken because of the fact that the SIU Walshington R-epresentative has taken over most of the duties formerly filled by the District Representatives. It is felt that not only will the financial condition of the Union improve with the elimination of the unneeded offices, but the general efficiency of the Union will improve under the Resolutions provisions for flexible hiring of patrolmen. The full text of the resolution, and the list of elected offices for 1943, follows: Negotiations which had been A RESOLUTION conducted for some time in Lon­ don, were entirely successful and WHEREAS: Since the United States has entered the war the Atlantic resulted in the establishment of a and Gulf District of the .SIU have found it necessary to close Dutch merchant marine post-war Two Branches of the Union due to the transfer of ship oper­ reserve fund as propo-sed by the ations from these ports to other ports, and unions, and abolishment of "spread over" working hours. Wage de­ WHEREAS: Numerous duly elected officials have found it necessary mands and other points will be to take an indefinite leave of absence in order that their particu­ considered at an early, conference. lar Branchs might continue to operate without a top-heavy pay roll, and Lack of proper information on the progress of the negotiations in WHEREAS: This condition does not have a tendency to change very London led to the decision of the much during the next twelve months, which might cause the Dutch seafarers in New York and laying-off of additional Officials in one Port, and putting on other ports not to take the ships additional Officials in other Ports where shipping might be cen­ out to sea. Union leaders, however, tralized and pointed out that the men's move was not to be construed as a WHEREAS: According to our Constitution any duly elected Official strike since it in no way affected on 'the annual ballot can demand that his wages be paid for the the movement, leading and service entire year whether the Port warrants the man's services or not, of ships within the harbors. and \ Spokesmen of the Dutch officers organization and the Dutch Cen­ WHEREAS: The Constitution provides for the putting on of addition­ al Patrolmen from time to time in any Port where the Mem­ tral Transport Workers' Union, an bership deems it necessary, and affiliate of the I.T.F., lauded • the Netherlands Government's readi­ WHEREAS: Members who are elected off the floor to fill these temness and cooperation in settling the (Continued on Page 2) controversy. ><1 SAILING SHIP PLAN Canada Cuts Maritime Wages In Half The following story firit appeared in THE FEDERATIONIST, a Vancouver la­ bor paper, and was sent to the LOG by the SIU ageiit in that port. The B. C. Sea­ men's Union, referred to in the story, is actually a branch of the SIU. It affiliated with the SIU at the International Convention held in San Francisco last April. —EDITOR On more than one occasion the present administration at Ottawa has been convicted, in the eyes of workers, of anti­ union, anti-labor maneouvring. But this week The Federationist uncovered the acme in exploita­ tion of Canadian workers, a de­ velopment in deep sea shipping circles which will rank with England's pressgangs of the Napoleonic Wars. "lens of thousands of Can­ ada's shipyard workers will learn with surprise and indigna­ tion the wages offered to Cana­ dian seamen by the government, for navigating the ships they have built through the enemyinfested waters of the world. Of course, the Liberal Gov­ ernment at Ottawa is not di­ rectly concerned in this set-up, as these new 10,000 ton freight­ ers are turned over to the Park Steamships Limited by the Wartime Merchant Shipping Limited and Park Steamships turn them over to private lines to run, but the different maritime unions strike through this cam­ ouflage and hold Ottawa respon­ sible for wages and working conditions on these new boats, many of which were built in Vancouver. JusiL how do our Canadian seafarers fall into the toils of this Simon Legree? Those seeking employment aboard these ships must first sign an application for admission to a Canadian Manning Pool, which is run by the Direc{Continued on Page 4) TO BE ABANDONED WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.— Inter-American Navigation Cor­ poration, Government-owned cor­ poration established over a month ago to purchase and operate wood­ en sailing ships in the Caribbean trade, may build small coastal Diesel powered vessels instead of sailing schooners for most of its operations, it was learned here to­ day. MONEY DUE All Ordinaries who signed off the S. S. Alcoa Patriot Aug. 24, have differences in A.B. wages coming:. Collect at 17 Battery Place, New York City. •I' J'I �Page Two THE SEAFARERS' LOG Thursday, September 10, 1942 LABOR LEADERS MEET WITH WPB CHAIRMAN PsMtoMA ^ fht SEAFARESS' INTERNAHONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlcmtic and Gulf District AftiUattd vAth ih« AmtHoan Feaeration »/ i:<al>or HARRY LUNDEBERQ. IntamoUpncd Pmildeint 110 Market Street, Room 402, San Francisco, CkiliL ii ADDBBSB ALL OORREBPONDENCS OON€ERNINa THIB PVBLIOATION TO: "THE SEAFARERS' LOG P. O. 25, Station P, New York, N. Y. Phone: BOwling Green 9-8346 H/L Wsumfimm. ERNEST AVERETT ELMER BARBER ALLEN BARROW CARL BENNETTE PHILIPPO CALAFATO WILLIAM CALDWELL WILLIAM CANNON Fireman Electrician Waiter Bos'n Wiper Fireman Oiler_ In an effort to bring some order out of chaos, organized labor has been demanding that It be given a voice In war production planning through the War Production Board. Donald Nelson, WPB head, resisted labor's demands up until last week when he agreed to appoint an AFL man and a CIO man as assistant administrators. The meeting pictured above worked out the details, (left to right) William L. Ratt of WPB, AFL President William Green, WPB head Donald Nelson and CIO President Philip Murray. (Standing) George Masterson of the AFL, Clinton S. Golden of the CIO, Joseph MoDonagh and Frank Fenton of the AFL, and Wendell Lund of the WPB labor production division. ^ ^ ™'c«LM:::::::::::::::S'Atlantic-Gulf District Is Streamlined For '43 J^EONARD CHADWICK NELSON FREE LAURENCE GALLAGHER KASPER GALLWITZER JAMES R. HARRIS WHITLEY HARRISON ERNEST HAUGEN CHESTER HIATT JAMES a KEARNS PEDRO LAURIANO HORACE LEE CLARENCE LOWERY ARTHUR LYON IVIITCHELL MARQUES ALFRED E. MAYER ROBERT E. MILLS THEODORE MORGAN VICTOR J. PATROLA Messman Oiler A. B. Fireman Fireman Electrician Cook Cook Oiler Messman * .. Messman Messman Fireman Oiler A. B. Wiper Pantryman 0. S. SOMEONE IS BLOWING UP CURRAN'S PANT LEG {Continued from Page 1) the rest of the democracies, that's don't know what Curran or any­ body else would call that, but in my books that is plain scabbing on the painters. when Stalin and Hitler were playing Lincoln on Labor ALL that serves labor serves the nation. All that harms labor Is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you ho loves Amer­ ica yet hates labor, he Is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America yet fears labor, he Is a fool. There Is no America with­ out labor. (Springfield, III., Oct. 1, 1954) SIU Constitutional Provisions For Nominations ARTICLE XIII Nomination and Election of Officers, Atlantic and Gulf District Section 1. The regular' officers the shall be elected annually and shall Eastern Steamship Co. had an hold office for one year, or until re­ agreement v.dth S. I. U. of N. A. lieved by their regiilar successors Some time in May 1935, Joe and they were sending the ships in office.' Curran joined the Eastern & Gulf across to bring back refugees, Section 2. Nomination of regu­ Sailors Association at New York lar officers shall be made at all when the S. 1. U. of N. A. was and never paid any more dues branches in the regular meeting until some time in Sept. 1935. He striking the ships for higher bonus held during the last two meetings immediately got himself in bad and the N.M.U. sailed the same in ^ptember. Any member who standing in the Union; which is ships. can qualify may nominate himself bad Unionism in anybody's Union. Ah-ha, but after Hitler invaded for office by submitring, in writ­ Now get me straight, I am npt Stalin, Joe Curran and cohorts ing, accompanied by the necessary digging out of the closet skele­ proof of qualifications listed in tons, but gaze at the title of the immediately about face and de­ sub-sections (a), (b), (c), and ^ticle, "N.M.U. is a Union fight­ clared themselves all out for the (d), his intentions to run for of­ ing a War," and then look back War against the Axis. fice, naming the particular office. about eighteen months when tliis Such notification to be in Secre­ The article went on to say that same outfit was blasting everybody the N.M.U. job to see that the tary-Treasurer's office not -before that was not opposed to the Lease ships were fully manned before September 1st, and not later than Lend Bill, and you remember all leaving port. I guess that's right October 15 th of the year. the buttons that they were flash­ Tlie names and roll-numbirs of because one of the N.M.U. ships ing all over the country, "The nominees, if obtainable at the time has been tied up here over two Yanks Are Not Coming". shall be recorded in the minutes. weeks without a crew and up to That's when Germany was in­ this time she is still waiting for a The Secretary-Treasurer shall prevading Poland and Norway and all crew. {Continued on Page 4) hide. and seek, that's when {Continued from Page 1) porary positions can be layed-oflf in the same manner whenever the Membership deems it advisable to discontinue his services, and WHEREAS: With the centralizing of shipping moving from one Port to another on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast it will be necessary for the membership to carry out this form of procedure during the next twelve months, and WHEREAS: The duties of the Atlantic and Gulf District Representa­ tives arc supposed to be confined to negotiations and clarafications of Agreements between the Sliipowners and the Union, which has been frozen for the duration of the War, and WHEREAS: We feel that the Agents in the Branches should be plenty capable of handling their duties which includes the settlement of disputes that arise aboard the vessels from time to time in their particular Ports, and that this Organization should be able to function properly for the next twelve months without the ser­ vices of the two District Representatives, and WHEREAS: The majority of disputes arising today which can not be settled satisfactory by the Agents usually are referred to our Washington Representative due to the fact that they deal with . War Bonuses or matters pertaining to the WSA, and WHEREAS: The financial status of our Organization for the past few months has been decreasing steadily due to the fact that we have too many duly eleceted Officials on the pay roll at some Branches where they are not needed, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED. That we go on record to place the following Officials on the annual election ballot for the year of 1943: NORFOLK—One Agent SECRETARY-TREASURE BOSTON—One Agent SAVANNAH—One Agent . PROVIDENCE—One Agent TAMPA—One Agent NEW YORK— MOBILE—One Agent One Agent Two Joint Patrolmen One Deck Patrolman NEW ORLEANS—One Agent One Engine Patrolman Two Joint Patrolmen - One Stewards Patrolman GALVESTON—One Agent , PHILADELPHIA—One Agent BALTIMORE—One Agent SAN JUAN—One Agent AND BE IT FUTHER RESOLVED: That in the event an additional Patrolman is needed in any of the Branches that he be elected off the floor as a temporary Patrolman in that particular Port at a regular weekly business meeting, and BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED: That in any of the Ports where niore^ than one Official has been elected, the duly elected Agent of that Branch shall have the power to assign one of the Patrolmen to the duties of Dispatcher, Janitor, or combination Dispatcher and "Janitor, during the period that business does not warrant both the Agent and Patrolman being on the water-front. Signed by: JOHN HAWK M. D. BIGGS ' HARRY J. COLLINS �-\ Thursday, September 10, 1942 Arountf the Ports i •l. . THE SEAFARERS' LOG WHAT'S DODJG NEW ORLEANS V Pa^ Three SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA ATUmnC and QDV SISTBICr Secrvtaxy-Treasurer's Office loom 218 —> 2 Steno Stroot Now York City A O. Bex 29. ttotleo B Phonw BOwling Oroen •but the Editor won't print your^Bos'n forgot to knock him off at stuff. Well, Brothers, I've written ten minutes to five is no excuse for DJHEGTTORY OF BRANOIES plenty and its been published, so i him to do a thing like this. Fur­ This is to be (I hope) the swan BRANCH ADDRESS PHONE you will write I'm sure that it wi ther, if you care to get technical ^Ong from this corner for some HEW YOBS a Stone St BOwling Green 9-8346 be too. about this the Bos'n will be put on Diepateher-e Offlco BOwling Green 9-8480 time. Now that I am leaving I can I've liked working for the outfit the spot for not knocking the man i. Agent BOwling Green 9-3437 ^et in a couple of licks that all fine, met some of the best guys in -^9 AUantle Ave. Liberty 4P57 off. the pie cards have been wanting tlie world, some of the phoniest PROVIDENCE _.46S South Main SL Manning 3572 Yes, this and a lot more phoney BALTIMOBE ——14 North Gay St , Coivcw 4539 to but couldn't because after all had some good beefs, had some bac beefs are not doing the Union any PHILADELPHIA —0 North 6th St Lombcerd 7651 the ones that we are talking ones, made some good decisions anc NORFOLK 25 Commerdal PI. Norfolk 4-1033 NEW ORLEANS .309 Chartres St Canal 3336 about are the ones that pay the some damn bad ones. In other good at this time, but here is the SAVANNAH 218 East Bay St Savannah 3-1728 freight. That is the attitude that words, thanks to all hands, and il" higlilight of them all. A man is St —Tcanpa MM-1323 MOBR^ Conception St....D«rter 1449 .gome of the members seem to take, we t^ke care of Adolph in short or signed on a ship as Oiler. He PUERYO RICO 45 Ponce de Leon Puerto de Tloira ^t seems to be that some of the der, then we can clear our decks works a week and as we are short GALVESTON 2014 Market Street Galveatoo 2-8043 of deck engineers he is allowed to boys think, "well by gosh I'm and take care of Jolin Shipowner. be promoted on the ship. Friday gtill paying my dues and this is Don't forget John is filling his noon he comes into the Hall and .the case I'm deserving something war chest for after the present registers and re-ships on the same for it." The result is, more pen- beef, let's hope we aren't draggin; ship as a deck engineer. He then ney-antc chisling then the law bottom with our hook when he allows. Members who a few short starts action. The only way to be turns too and works Friday after­ noon and Saturday. He quits Sat­ years ago had no book, or who were' sure of this is to carry the strike urday and the captain pays him taken in after seeing what could assessment as an annual thing. off, but the man is not satisfied ,be accomphshed by the union, are Steady as she goes. with his money. He states that he the ones that raise nine-tenths of The seamen are getting recognition these days. New insignias —"ARMY has been gyped because the cap­ the present squawks. Your old have been issued by the U. S. A. yhich identifies the seam.3n and allows P.S. Signed on today for points tain did not pay him a day's pay timer who built the outfit and South and East, so any of your on Friday for being an oiler and a him to enter USO and other recreation centers. Then the offer of comes in with a beef has a beef, boys who are interested will meet day's pay on Friday for being a Kermit ROOSEVELT, of his home in Oyster Bay, for the convalesence not an out and out case of trying you at torpedo junction. deck engineer. In other words he of torpedoed seamen, and the home of the Ambrose Clark estate in to make something fqr the patrol­ —"ARMY wanted to be given two days' pay Cooperstown, (where John Kazay spent a few weeks) for the same men to do. for two different ratings on the purpose, is making seamen glad that the American public has not for­ If you think I'm out of line on same day—nice work if you can gotten them. the above, walk into your nearest NEW YORK get it. hall and spend the day watching We were amused with the stories Ray Trumbauer and Henry Maas I guess that I could go on and the proceedings around the hall. Well, here we ^o doing business on but I believe if I put into print had to tell us about the Azalea City, Captain Albert Nielsen and Bexmy I'll bet that the pic-card, no mat­ at the same old place as usual, some of the things that has been (Punchy) Narinsky. Both of them thanked the crew of the previous ter where he is, spends more time hear that nominations for the com­ brought into the office you would trip (of which we were a member) for straightening-out the old man. on things that a few short years ing elections will soon be in order, laugh your head off so I better He was very much more considerate of the crew, so say Ray and Harry, ago would have been never men­ and I do hope that the membership quit while the quitting is good. So tioned and don't mean a damn, will not have a popularity contest Paul Jones informs us that Richard Randolph (Wliitey) Wliite let's get together and cut out these than he does on needed beefs. Try I hope that they will nominate anc ahoney beefs, for as we stated ear­ has been brought back from San Juan and is recuperating from his in­ and sit down and write a piece for elect officials that can cut the mus­ lier, that this is not too good for jury aboard a torpedoed vessel./We regret to hear that L. D. Headingthe Log, or write a letter to some tard and not sit around and pass the Union. ton was lost recently. We remember him when he was second Cook One and before you can do any the buck to others, for if ever in aboard the Azalea City, and how we used to harmonize in the evening. —H. J. COLLINS more than get the heading on the the history of our Union we need­ George Willis was recently lost when an anionia tank exploded and he letter, there will be a half dozen ed competent officials, now is that was suffocated by the fumes. -guys stick their heads in and want time. So, let's get together and do MOBILE something. Some of them are O.K., some serious thinking on this mat­ Things are quiet around Headquarters these days. Harry Collins the most are not, but the point I ter. want is this: If the Mate turned a Well, brothers it happened yes­ is on vacation, probably in Philadelphia telling the boys how he hand­ Another thing that is confront­ man to, then came around and in­ ing the Union at this time is those terday. We shipped a full crew for led those gazoneys in New York. Ray Sweeney is enjoying his vacation terrupted as much as a pie-card so-called members that have been a Waterman ship, and we had to in Mobile, eating grits and gravy. Floyd Miller was away for a week, gets, it then there would be jobs working ashore for the past year give back shipping cards. There looking for his gal in Kalamazoo. Goldie is probably in Oshkosh. Red on the board till she was filled up. or eighteen months. They come were more new faces in the hall at Brady took a ship to Baltimore. Walter Walsh finally got his OK from . All hands seem to think that the into the hall with a hard luck story one time than yours truly has seen the Navy and will be able to ship so things are quiet~afound here. pie-cards are there for their special that would soften the hardess of in many a day. The Draft Boards arc reclassify­ benefits. You hear the old war cry, hearts and they are given a trip to ing all the shipyard workers and straighten out their book. Then as T pay your wages" times innum­ RESOLUTION TO APPEAR ON erable. Just to keep the records soon as the trip is over, instead of there sure is a lively line around 1943 BALLOT straight every Official from the paying up, they beat it ashore de­ the Hall now. The questions are Whereas: At the present time the seamen of America are making Secretary-Treasuter to the Janitors liberately to avoid paying their ail the same. I want to get straigh­ ten out with the Union; I am fig­ more money than ever before in the history of the seamen; dues. I believe a more drastic in­ ' also help to pay those self same Whereas: When the present war is over the seamen will again be uring on going back to sea. wages. So how about it, the next terest in this kind of a man by the engaged in a figbt for existence with the shipowner who at time you walk into your hall and members of the crews are in order. The environment at the ship­ the present time is filling hie war chest in preparation for See the local staff sitting around The least that we can expect from yards is not the same it seems. the coming struggle, and reading the paper, dish out your a bum like this is, if heNs going to Things around this part of the Whereas: The history of the seamen's labor movement proves l^efs. But if you walk in and find go for a boatride we should collect country are very slow for the pres­ conclusively that after such an upheaval as at present is going the fnan trying to talk over the the fare (?) (catch on). ent. The convoy system has slow­ on in the world, they are always throttled and browbeaten— Another thing that we should ed down things considerably, but phone, write a letter, talking to as for instance 1921 and the Lake Carriers set up, and someone, atj least be courtesous remedy is the chisler that takes out as long as it takes the ships through Whereas: Th# 1934 and 36 and 37 strikes proved the need of enough to wait for the man, don't a shipping card on Friday morn­ safe, that's O.K. with me. ample funds when engaged in a major strike, therefore ing and does not report to the ship BE IT RESOLVED: That the Constitution shall be amended by interrupt. Of course, there are Brother Ray Sweeney was in adding a section to Article No. 26, this section to be known as some of us that know not the rudi­ until Saturday noon at 12:30 and town for Monday night's meeting Section No. 8. A strike fund shall be maintained, the strike ments of politeness, but the most then turns too and works , from and he sure is enjoying his vaca­ fund to be kept seperate and apart from any or all other funds of us are as well versed as the run Monday at eight o'clock till 12 tion. Well, I guess he is entitled to in the Union. An annual assessment of $3 shall be levied for of people so let's give the guy that noon and then quits and wants the pull his hair down after more than this fund. And further, Union to collect (4) days' pay for takes the headache a break. 'BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED; That if the members accept this year at Pie-carding. If anybody One more thing before turning him. He sure as hell could not col­ thinks that a PIE-CARD is not en­ resolution, it be published from time to time, as space permits. this organ back to it's well deserv­ lect this himself, so why ride the titled to go places once in a while, In the Seafarers' Log before the time of the election. This is ed rest. I've filled a lot of space Union and ask us to stooge for it. will soon be time for the annual to acquaint all members with the intent of the Resolution. And further, that the resolution shall be placed on the annual in the Log in the last few years, him. Then there is another type of elections of officers so now is the election ballot. expect and hope to ffill plenty more, Super-militant that is turned too time for all good men to come to (signed) Alfred Stewart No. 764 iylways have and always will claim to do a job at four-fifteen and in­ the front, and get your name on Adalbert Gawronski No. 21265 that the guys that are so busy stead of quitting at five o'clock he the ballot and try some of this William Hamilton No. 3400 raising hell around the halls should works till six-thirty and then he PIE. So until later I will be seeing Harry J. Collins No. 496 expects to collect overtime for this. . take time out and send your stuff you and keep them sailing. Arffiar Thompson No. 2888 After all, the fact that he was turn­ 'to the Log. Hear every once in a —OLDEN BANKS while about the guys that write in ed too, and also the fact cfaat the Out of the Focs^l by A- E ^ 1 • ••A J mi �. s>. •/. Page Four m tr- • I. |.,-r, Ev. |^i? = BALTIMORE, Aug. 27—Fed­ eral Judge W. Calvin Chestnut ruled today that immigration of­ ficials may not return a deserting seaman to the site of his government-in-exile but must return him to his native country or allow him to remain in the United States. In an opinion handed down fol­ lowing a habeas corpus hearing, Judge Chestnut ruled in the case of a Greek seaman, Stamatis Nikolaou Moraitis, that existing Federal statutes did not substantiate the government's argument that the man could be returned to London present site of the Greek Governmenf-in-exile. The Judge added, however, that Immigration officials, in his opin­ ion, had the right of holding the seaman without bail for "a reason­ able time and in this case, a year would not seem too long." 150 Ship Launchings Labor Day Feature The Navy Department shared in the celebration of Labor Day by arranging to have yards through­ out the nation launch or lay keels of more than 150 naval vessels of all types — destroyers, submarine chasers, motor torpedo boats, and other^. Organized labor was in­ vited to participate in programs at the yards in 75 cities. M k INFORMATION ON INSURANCE PAYMENTS After you have designated your beneficiary, inform that person. In the event that you are one of the unfortunate seaman who does not return from sea, it is not necessary for your beneficiary to retain a lawyer to collect the $5,000 in­ surance benefit. i i'!<* Tell your beneficiary to contact your union hall for full informa­ tion. This money could be collect­ ed without a lawyer and at no cost to the beneficiary. Some attorneys are charging as high as $1,000 to collect the insurance. Canada Cuts Maritime Wages In Half {Continued from Page 1) tor of Merchant Seamen, De­ partment of Transport, Ottawa. In signing this form besides giv­ ing all his "vital statistics," the applicant "undertakes to com­ ply with all conditions as out­ lined in this application form." Among the' "Conditions of Entry to Manning Pool'l are Clause (c): From date of ad­ mission to a Canadian Manning Pool, the officers or seamen concerned will receive board, lodging and pay whilst in the Pool, but on the definite under­ standing that the officer or sea­ man concerned thereby under­ takes to go to sea in his own capacity, on any ship to which he may be assigned by the Re­ gional Director of the Pool. Very Low Wages clause (d) reads: Canadian officers and seamen while in^ a Canadian Manning Pool will be paid at the basic rates of pay applicable to the rank or rating last held, AND FOR THIS PURPOSE THE BRITISH NATIONAL MARI­ TIME BOARD MINIMUM RATES WILL BE APPLIED. (See comparative tables below.) Clause (f) reads: Advances on wages,only will be paid to officers and seamen while in the Pool. Such advan­ ces will not exceed $15.25 per week in the case of officers and will not exceed $8.50 per week for other ratings, provided that the basic rate of wages permits. . Apparently there must be wage scales below $8.50 per week for those adventurous, pa­ triotic workers wfx> run the blockades. Clause (d) is the one that has aroused maritime union of­ ficials to a fever pitch and a glance at the following compar­ ative tables, will disclose the reason for the high terpperatures: 1. 2. Chief Officer $150 $275 Second Officer .... 130 225 , Third Officer 105 190 Under column 1 are the monthly rates of pay, with no cost-of-living bonus, offered to the officers by the private com­ WORK CLOTHING PRICE FIXING RULES INJURE LABOR, BENEFIT PROFITEERS Pursuant to his policy of giving profiteers everything theyi ask. Price Administrator Leon Henderson took a wallop at the purses of farmers and workers. Hereafter they will have to buy two or three suits of overalls or other work clothing where one suit sufficed heretofore. Here's how: ; Retailers complained they were being gouged by manufac­ turers and asked for a higher price ceiling in order, they said, to continue handling work clothing. Henderson met this demand by directing manufacturers to , reduce prices to distributors, but opened the door for even greater profits by permitting the manufacturers to cut the quality of their product. •}^-: •• 1^: Overalls and other work clothing are to be made of Idwergrade materials, pockets and buttons are to be eliminated, and triple-stitching of seams is to be replaced by single stitching. Thus, the manufacturer retains his "margin," which Hender­ son admitted is too high, and the retailer is relieved of a "squeeze." The only unhappy persons are workers and farmers, who will wear overalls that will lose the tough durability necessary to _ -V ';' Thursday, September 10, 1942 THE SEAFARERS' LOG JUDGE BARS MOVE TO DEPORT SEAMAN I M""T" i- ,<••-vrH. stand up under the strain of hard work. panies operating these ships on lease from the government. In coloumn 2 are the wage sched­ ules sought by the Canadian Merchant Service Guild, which is affiliated with the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. The Guild also asks for war bonus, when the vessels operate in a war zone (which now includes everywhere) as well as a costof-living bonus as set up by the Federal Government. The op^ erators offer a war bonus but no cost-of-living . bonus. Similar disparities prevail for the engine room officers. Attention should also be drawn to the fact that seamen and officers may be signed off at any port in Canada. Thus a Vancouver sailor might be sign­ ed off (and generally is) in Hal­ ifax and then has to pay his own way home. ^ The comparative monthly pay rates for the ratings are: 1. 2. Boatswain $65.50 $130.00 Able Seaman .. 56.20 105.00 Ord'ny Seaman 41.70 85.00 Oilers ^... 60.65 95.00 In column 1 are the rate.s of­ fered to the men who sign up with the Manning Pool and the cost-of-living bonus is includ­ ed. In column 2 are the rates paid to sailors, members of the B.C. Seamen's Union, who sign­ ed a closed shop agreement re­ cently on a ship out of Van­ couver, and received also $15.80 cost-of-living bonus. In submitting its pay sched­ ules to R. B. Teakle, manager of Park Steamships Limited, the Canadian Merchant Service Guild stated: "In making these recommen­ dations this Guild has been careful to take into considera­ tion comparative scales now be­ ing paid on American register­ ed ships of identical size and tonnage and to be used in a similar trade to our Canadian vessels. In all cases the rates quoted by us are substantially lower than that being paid on American ships." British Scale Low Maritime union officials are at a total loss to understand why PERSONALS DONALD A. BRADLEY There has been a death in your family. Write home at once. F. A. LEONARD Next time you are in New York, see the Secretary - Treasurer in room 213. It is important. HAROLD JOHN GARTY Contact the F.B.I, in New Or­ leans in - regard to your draft status. GEORGE L. BROWNELL Yjour mother is worried because you have failed to write her. Drop a line and let her know where you are. DO NOT SHIP Henry L. Mailhunt ....... ..P 7551 Charles Hansford ......... ..P4238 . .P6792 William Robert Lyman George R. Bainer ......... ..P2938 Arthur D. Cambria ....... ..P8016 Provisions For Nominations Ottawa favors the British rates over even reduced American scales, especially when British rates in the past have been no­ toriously low amongst the "white" nations. "Are we men or are we limeys?" Canadian sailors want to know. The government's method of handling this situation is view­ ed, in Vancouver labor circles, as an attempt to break down the living standards of Cana­ dian seamen. ** When seamen's wages were discussed this week by the-Van­ couver Trades and Labor Cotmcil, Vice-President George Gerrard charged that the Govern­ ment and private shipping in­ terests are using the present em­ ergency to capitalize on labor's patriotism. These wage scales were described as "absolutely scandalous." Local union officials were quite outspoken in their con­ demnation of the manning pool system and its application form. W. Burgess of the United Fish­ ermen declared, "There can be no total war effort as long as such conditions exist. Signing the Manning Pool application form, union officials declare, effectively debars of­ ficers and seamen from organiz­ ing and bargaining collectively for better wages and working conditions; while the Pool it­ self, has been set up to displace a function performed by trade unions, that is, supplying quali­ fied workers to jobs. The Canadian Merchant Ser­ vice Guild states, "In so far as the West Coast is concerned this organization is prepared to su-pply Masters and Officers, who have the necessary qualifi­ cations and are Canadian citi­ zens, providing the scales for such positions are adequate." The B.C. Seamen's Union (AFL) is in the same position regarding the supplying of rat­ ings. Meanwhile, Ottawa and its dollar-a-ycar men remaining blissfully unaware of Order in Council P.C. 2685, the' govern­ ment's pious expression in favor of collective bargaining and union recognition. .. {Continued from Page 2) pare a list of names of nominees for each office and forward copies thereof to each Branch. Such listJ shall be conspicuously posted in each office or hall. All full mem­ bers shall be eligible for any regu­ lar office, provided: , (a) That he is a citizen of ths United States of America. , (b) That he be a full iiiciiiber of the Seafarers' International Union of North America, in con­ tinuous good standing for a period of six (6) months immediately prior to the date of nomination. (c) Any candidate for Agent or joint patrolman must have three years of sea service in any one or three departments. Any candidate, for departmental patrolman must have three years sea service in their respective departments. Sea service as specified in tliis article shall mean on merchant vessels. , (d) He has not misconducted himself previously while employed as an officer of the Union. V Section i. A committee con­ sisting of six full book members iq good standing, two from each de­ partment, shall be elected, whose duty it shall be to prepare the bal­ lot. , ASSESSMENT! Remember there is a $2 Organizational Assess­ ment which goes to the International. The payment is. volun­ tary! How good-a Union man are you? Have you paid your $2 obligation? All nominees who desire to be­ come candidates shall have the nec­ essary qualifications and acceptance in the office of the SecretaryTreasurer or the Committee on Candidates prior to the 15 th day of October of each year. Nominees who shall fail to comply herewith shall be regarded as having declin­ ed the nomination. Ballots shall (a) bear the name of the Union, the month and year of election and in­ structions to votes; (b) bear the names., of eligible and duly quali­ fied candidates for each office ar­ ranged alphabetically with voting' squares to the right of names; (c) have one blank line for each office in which member may write the name of any member whose name does not appear upon the ballot who must be qualified under the provisions of Section 2 of this Ar­ ticle; and (a) be perforated at the upper edge and perforated stubs numbered consecutively, beginning with No. 1. The Secretary^Treas­ urer shall cause to be printed, and shall forward to each Branch and retain for use at Headquarters, a' sufficient number of ballots, and shall kap a record of the numbers of the first and last ballots so for­ warded and retained. None but of­ ficial ballots shall be. used in any general election. 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Title A name given to the resource September 10, 1942 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Description An account of the resource Headlines: ATLANTIC-GULF DISTRICT IS STREAMLINED FOR 1943 DUTCH SEAFARERS WIN VITAL DEMAND SOMEONE IS BLOWING UP CURRAN'S PANT LEG CANADA CUTS MARITIME WAGES IN HALF SAILING SHIP PLAN TO BE ABANDONED LINCOLN ON LABOR SIU CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS FOR NOMINATIONS JUDGE BARS MOVE TO DEPORT SEAMAN 150 SHIP LAUNCHINGS LABOR DAY FEATURE INFORMATION ON INSURANCE PAYMENTS WORK CLOTHING PRICE FIXING RULES INJURE LABOR, BENEFIT PROFITEERS Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. IV, No. 31 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/10/1942 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1942 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/9e219d8f1928e12dfe8adc01c35307f2.PDF 7d95eb06a7563f80a62f1796ff46e98a PDF Text Text OFFICIAL ORGAN OP THE ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT, SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA VOL. V. 267 NEW YORK. N. Y., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1943 No. 24 WAAMLooks War Prisoners Used By Shipowner Like Film To Upset Wages And Conditions Flam OWI White No Souvenirs Are Allowed Says Fuss Budget Wyckoff Washes WSA t• By A. B. The trip is over, the boys all What appears to be another paid off and are hunting for an­ racket at the expense of the mer­ other ship with good CQoks and chant seamen, blossomed out in a square captain, so here goes for War Shipping Administration New York last week. This latest a try at the highlights of last trip. Washington. D. C. collection of free loaders is en­ That fink herders- delight, the The most important event of titled "Women's Auxiliary of the War Shipping Administration, is September 6, 1943 the trip, and the most dangerous American Merchant Marine, Inc." in the process of being perfumed Mr. John Hawk, Secretary-Treasurer as far as our union is concerned, and its avowed purpose is to col­ and "sold" to the American peo­ Seafarers International Union of North America* was the skipper's use of war lect old clothes for the seamen ple. The Office of War Informa­ Room 213, 2 Stone Street prisoners to break down our con­ and to comfort their wives while tion has taken on the task of por­ New York, N. Y. ditions. But to start at the be­ they are at sea. The old charity traying one of the most ineffici­ Dear Mr. Hawk: ginning. ent, bureaucratic and anti-labor racket, in other words. The Enforcement Division of the U. S. Bureau of Customs has Sometime last April, one of the arms of the government as a mo­ This time, however, something called to my attention what appears to be an unintentional infrac­ South Atlantic's palatial "Liberty new has been added—fancy uni- del of enlightenment and effici­ tion of Articles 78 and 90 issued by the U. S. War Department re­ Belles" came steaming into the forips. Last week the New York ency. port of New York in search of a garding the possession of captured Axis equipment. Times ran a picture of Mrs. Ada The OWI released this week 12 crew. As usual, the dispatcher It appears that on many merchant vessels returning from Mae Roll, founder and president single typed pages of publicity rounded up a full crew and the of the WAAMs. She was decked entitled "Merchant Shipping of theaters of war members of the crew have obtained by purchase or good ship crossed the bar headed out in the official WAAM's mil­ the United States in War Time." barter from inhabitants in those localities, arms, munitions, discard­ for a point in North Africa. itary uniform, and a face that It purportedly contains the en­ ed helmets, etc., as souvenirs. Going over the weather was would hardly bring cheer to a tire "magnificent record" of the Under the Articles of War mentioned above, all discarded or perfect; enemy opposition was shipwrecked sailor. She had that WSA and the Maritime Commis­ captured Axis material is the property of the United State and un­ light and so was the food. These fierce, preditory look of a profes­ sion in meeting the war crisis in authorized possession thereof is a violation of said Articles and such maritime cooks are sure honeys. merchant shipping. sional do-gooder. material will be confiscated by the Customs and other authorized So far I have eaten Hungarian Of the 12 pages of superlatives, Of course, an organization can't United States law enforcement agencies wherever found. Goulash, Norwegian Goulash, Po­ be denounced merely because its it is significant that only one lish • Goulash and at least five I am forwarding this information to you in order that you may quarter of one page-is devoted to founder wears a high pressure other varieties. Last trip though hat and a man-eating expression. the WSA's handling of labor re­ advise the members of your union of the facts herein, for their when the cook finished com­ There are sounder reasons for our lations. And yet it is this very guidance. pounding a stew, and being stuck Very truly yours, suspicions concerning this set-up. point that provides the key *to for a name, it came on the menu HUBERT WYCKOFF, To^ljegin with, the seamen don't the whole record of bimgling. It as VICTORY GOULASH. It was Assistant Deputy Administrator need charity, don't want charity, is the WSA bureaucrats' hatred lousy, but did not result in any for Maritime Labor Relations and will refuse it if offered to of organized labor, it is their deaths. The biggest beef on the them. Anyone who starts such a determination to impose a gov­ way over, was the food. move is likely to be figuring on ernment fink hall on all coasts, We finally made port, discharg­ In Memoriam In Memoriam lining their own pockets. Fur­ that has led the bureau into the ed our cargo and pointed our fair BROTHER BROTHER most devious maneuvers and the thermore this outfit has all' the ship's bow for home. Then they Edward J. Perritt earmarks of a phoney. It has most unbusiness like and ineffi­ Joseph R. Gillis cient practices. (Fireman. Oiler. Watertender) slapped a few hundred war pris­ (Able Seaman) never come near the union to dis­ oners aboard and said "GO". The WSA record of building cuss the problems of the seamen, When the Master saw them com­ Born. October 14. 1902. Died Born August 8. 1900. Died in it has not even contacted the and sailing ships could have been ing aboard a big smile lit up his in an accident in New York Or an. North Africa. United Seamen's Service. No increased many fold had not the face, as he thought "My troubles City on August 30. 1943. July 17. 1943. {Continued on.-Page 3) {Continued on Page 3) are over. Think of the work that I can get done this trip, without paying overtime, and what a rec­ ord I will have with the com­ pany." In a weekly magazine of na­ When we finally sailed through tional circulation, Secretary of the nets on the home stretch the the Interior Harold L. Ickes this prisoners were turned-to, paint­ week gave the inside story of ing the ship down. Those mon­ the long three-cornered contest keys were all over the ship with between the United Mine Work­ a pot of paint and a brush in ers, coal operators and govern­ nothing flat^ (just think of that ment agencies over wage in­ overtime). Every night the Bocreases for coal diggers. s'un had to hunt the ship down "Crisis on Coal," Ickles' article to make sure that he had knock­ was called, and in it he made be­ ed them all off. They only used hind-the-scenes disclosures. an average of ten a day and they The document largely sustains were given the liberty of the ship claims made by labor leaders — without a guard. many of them bitter critics of John L. Lewis—that the contro­ The cooks sent out an SOS arid versy could have been adjusted, shortly after, the cry was heard if the War Labor Board had not and a couple of them showed up in {Continued on Page 4) barred a settlement, except on its own terms. Before the article- went to New Orleans Mailing press, it passed through the Address hands of the Office of War In­ formation and the WLB. Both All mail for union brothers agencies demanded drastic in New Orleans should be ad­ changes to tone the piece dressed in the following man­ down and soft-pedal criticism of ner: the board, but Ickes declared the John Doe * proposed revisions came too late General Delivery Death came to these miners before a living wage. 19 members of the United Miiie Workers are to be included. Seamen's Postal Unit Ickes said flatly that, contrary shown being carried out of the Sayreton. Alabama mine of the Republic Steel Company. Custom House Station The union has charged that Republic Steel flagrantly ignored many safety laws .in the operation to the WLB's stand, the Miners New Orleans 16. La. of **»'« mine—and is directly rei^nslble for the explosion which snuffed out these lives. {Continued on Psge 4) WLB DOUBLE CROSSED MINERS—ICKES I'X.' ,, , t •, Vil �THE Pag® Two S EA FARERS LOG Friday. Sepiembor 10, 1943 ^ " "rl; SEAFAREKS LOG Oi\ Published by the ^ASHii\GTorv.: SEAFARERS' INTERNAlldNAt WlOlS OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District • BV MATT4IEW Affiliated with the American Pederation of Labor HARRY LUNDEBERG - 110 Market Strwt, JOHN HAWK - - - - - - - "President Fraaclsco, Calif. - - - - Secy-Treas. P. O. 'Box 25, Statidh P., New York City MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - Washington Rep. 424 5 th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. • • • Directory of Branches BRANCH PHONE ADDRESS NEW YORK (4) 2 Stone St BOwling Green 9-3437 BOSTON (10).. 330 Atlantic Ave Liberty 4057 BALTIMORE (2) 14 North Gay St Calvert 4539 PHILADELPHIA 6 North 6th St Lombard 7651 NORFOLK • 25 Commercial PI Norfolk 4-1083 NEW ORLEANS (15) ..309 Chartres St Canal 3936 SAVANNAH 218 East Bay St Savannah 3-1728 TAMPA 423 East Piatt St Tampa MM-1323 MOBILE .......55 So. Conception St Dial 2-1392 PUERTO RICO 45 Ponce de Leon Puerto de Tierra GALVESTON 219 20th Street Galveston 2-8043 FT LAUDERDALE 2021 S. Federal Highway. .. Ft. Lauderdale 1601 PUBLICATION OFFICE; ROOM 213, 2 STONE STREET New York City BOwling Green 9-8346 Twelve Million Jobless Seen After This War Is Ended WASHINGTON, D. C.—Under the best, of circumstances, the post-war unemployment problem is certain to be "critical." If ade­ quate steps to deal with it are not taken in advance, it may be "de­ vastating." So declares the post-war divis"on of the Bureau of Labor Stat­ istics, which warned that at least 12,000,000 persons may be unem­ ployed six months after the war ends. At least 7,OOO,OO0 will be separated from payrolls immedi­ ately after the war ends, it said. "The problem," the report add­ ed, "must be tackled now, lest the nation be led to the brink of another and even more terrible war." A six-point program to cushion the shock was advocated. It calls for rapid reconversion of indus­ try to peacetime production, a public works program, financial assistancie to demobilized soldiers and war workers, and the volun­ tary withdrawal from labor iharkets Of wOmen, school-age y<)uths and over-age employes. Prediction was made that 1,500,000 workers will be turned adrift by the aircraft industry alone, and that the reduction in shipbuilding may be equally se­ vere. The automobile ^industry, the report said, is expected to drop Xroin a wartime peak of 300,000 to 2bO,bb6 and wiU never climb back higher than 600,000. The bureau said welders, rivet­ ers, turret lathe operators, ma­ chinists, tool and die makers and other skilled workers will feel the impact most "arid will have to trarisfer to other kinds «5f work. The outlook of the unskilled tvorkers was pictured as being even more desperate and the board said they haye a hard pe­ riod of readjiistirierit ahead. "Ramprint Uriempioynidrit," th^ country was told, will cause all! iorts of social terisibhs hh'd fric-' tions that may produce social dis­ orders of the gravest nature. The bureau asserted that the nation leans on a slender reed when it places complete reliance on the unemployment insurance system to tide workers over the period of readjustment. It could not possibly stand the shock, the report insisted, and that conten­ tion was upheld by Ewan Clague, director of the bureau of em­ ployment of the Social Security Board, in a radio broadcast. "bur present system," Clague said, "just won't be able to pay all the benefits to which persons are entitled if there is as much unemployment at the end of the war as is expected." He pointed out that the reserv­ es are in 49 separate state funds, while Unerriployrhent will be largely concentrated in a few centers. Ue also recalled that inillions of workers have rio claim whatever ori these furids, because they are riot covered by the So­ cial Security system. Other weak liriks cited by Clague are thaf payments are too small arid for too limited periods. A married mari with a family, he emphasized, receives no more thari a single man. Honoir Roll S.S. WALTER RANGER ....$18.00 C. KRANNICH B.OO O. BELL "S.OO S. S. TEXMAR 4.00 S. S. ALCOA SCOUT 4.00 S. S. F. A. WALKER 3.00 D. CAHOON 2.bb T. CARR 1,50 J. W. STEt>HENS 1.00 J. LAROCQUE i.bb J. ROGERS 1.0b JAMES K. KANE LOO TOTAL .t.$47.50 Here is the continuation of the story ()f the fight led by Andrew Furuseth and the A:FL for sea­ men's rights. 1^22 It had been the gefteral opinion that the idea of a ship subsidy would never again be broached in Congress. But the belief was based on the ccinterition that there riever would be such a Congress as is now in session. Further, never before have the same tactics been applied. Thir­ teen years ago when the last ef­ fort was made to foist such a scheme Updn the country, a great majority of the newspapers were opposed to it. Those who favor a ship subsidy now have seen to it that no stich condition shall in­ terfere with the present bill. They had the biggest advertisirig agency in the U. S. placed at the head of the shipping board. Through this agency the chair­ man of the shipping board has free entry into every newspaper, in the country. It has proved a most remarkable combination and the ship subsidy bill is now for sale to the American public. Its glories are set forth in the most brilliant language. The chairman of the shipping board, who was selected to make the sale, is conducting a wide spread campaign to secure the legisla-: tion. No sooner had the bill been introduced than the seamen dis­ covered the menace to thehi in its provisions. it would repeal that section of the seamen's act which guaran­ teed the right of seamen to leave a ship in a safe harbor. It also provides for a merchant marine reserve, which the seamen de­ nounced as a strike breaking agency. As a bait for the seamen to be­ come members of this naval re­ serve, they are to be given a re­ tainer of a month's wages. So many protests about these two clauses were' made that the chair­ man promised to eliminate them. He contended, however, that if this were ddne the seamen should suppdrt the bill. This they have refused to do. Two conferences were held be­ tween the representatives of the AFL and the chairman of the shipping board, during which the later submitted the same plan to secure the (iodperation of labor in support of the bill. The chairman also used ariother ar­ gument to secure the support of labor. This Was that as soon as the ship subsidy biU should have been passed, thousarids of men riow idle in the ship yards would be given employment. At' the sarrie time he said that the ships owned by the shipping board were "junk" and ought to be sunk in the sea. There are a number of other dangerous pro­ visions in the bill which effect the taxpayers in the U. S. It is prdposed to sell to private ship- THE NIGHTMARE CREW^ A long trip it was from Ihdia's slrand A payoff,,^ some wine, and iHe sun With hot kasts from some NMU Pilots Which by the "head" were hung! Till 1 ddzed in my iitter weariness Sleepy with fever arid l^ooze, Ovdrpb^'ered by fumes from the Pilot I slumbered in fitful snooze. Till wild drOairis fibpded tny anxious mind Ahd I fancied myself on a ship. Shanghaied through Currans "Job Trust" Hall With ah NMu Ye Gods! when I crossed tHfe gari^fv^ay What strririgO sight triet my gazO, The phbriiesi Crew that Ship fever krifew ^tobd fhere iri riiy Sigiit arrayed. FOr thfe Rbsiih's triaffe was Curfan Still Veiling—"A ^eCbhd Frbnt!'.' McKehzie was fhfere fes fen oiler With Stein the irieSSphrik rhnt! Myfers .was fhfe Able Sfefeirifeti With "Finky" Sniifh fes thfe Dare mfen §0 to sfea ^ith Such a trierifegfe? "Twas one for thfe Hfefbfes' Rbok. Thfeir sfe'^agbirig ^efer tv'fes a tirbwdfer Speech Arid a Sriiii^e ;frbih, ShySte'r Riil; They had Marltitnfe Laws with iridfexfed ilSws dh theSe I gazfed ^ iiii! The jiicturfe of Currah hurig fever the buriks, Aribthfer, in irifessrbbihs Whiife a greasy dfeck bf phbhy hiferkfed cards Were there tor tHfe gferiiblers tfeb. I wfekerifed in frigiii fetid swferfe by the Gbds Wb iribfe wbtild 1 siyiggie thfe wirie, '''^ivfeS bUt a drfeahi. Bill;!{ it wferfe friife *1^ jiiffe ^ish't ^I'th fe ihih dime! %'br I ihiiik 'ibb ktiicih Hi thiis Rfettferfed frfehife To face the sea with such crew— The Comniunist cash register "searneri" Who's checkoff the NMU. —^ap-Ati'-Lift. PiiWAQfLffi owners, ships that cost $200 id $250 per ton to build, for anyn thing that can be obtainfed. "These ships may be Sold for $20 per ton or less. The purchasers can borrow, from the shipping board twothirds of the purchase price, and sufficient money to amortize them at 2% interest. All to be payable within fifteen years. During this period the purchasers can oper­ ate the vessels. They will depre­ ciate as much as 75%. At the end of fifteen years the purchasers can tie them up at some dock and say to the shippirig board, "You keep thdm for what we owe you." This bill is being widely mis­ represented as a measure inteiuied for the necessary mairitenanco and upbuilding of the American" merchant marine. The facts are that its enactment into law will bring about conditions under which all managers and operafors of ships must regard politiiis as the prime factor in their buslriess, and efficient management as a secondary consideration of comparatively little importance. The AFL*-hereby condemns the said ship subsidy bill as inimical to the public interest, and partic­ ularly destructive to the nation's hopes and aspirations for sea power. 1923 The greatest blow to the priv­ ileged few was the defeat of the ship subsidy bill. The arguments in favor of the ship subsidy bill were all such flagrant misrepreseritations that the number of opponents continued to grow Un­ til the members of the Senate were convinced that they would mean political suicide if theiy vcited for such a measure. Ah outstanding fact in regard-to the opposition to the bill was that labor was the only bfgartizatioh that openly fought against its passage. It can be said without fear of contraction that had it riot been for the AFL and its affili­ ated organizations this pernicious legisiation would have been driv­ en thrbrigh Cdrigreb tinder the wiiip arid spur of paffy regular­ ity fend the fefer bf loSs of patron- rige.. ~ The AFL wishes to fcali atten­ tion to the UridiSpUted historical fact thfet sea power, the ability to stKicesSfully compfete Or fijght at "sea, dcpcrids upbri the tj^e, criferacter and ability Of the riatibri's sefemen. Ships, guhs, tbpls, etc;, fere fell important, but the essential requirement fbr-success is loyal arid (Competent sefemen. History teaches Us that ilatibns refusing to recognize this truth have slbivly but inevitably Ibst power arid coritrol of the sea. America's policy for success upon trie sea lias been clearly defined "in the seameri's act Of 1915. Sym­ pathetic enforcement of the law will bririg greater results than trie trarisfer of billions Of dollars frdm the U, S. TreasUrj' to the private feccbUnts of the Shipown­ ers. Ship subsidies are like crutches —• they lessen iriitlative and create a spirit of dependence. A mari Or an mdustry deperident Upon criitcries ultim.ately be­ comes a slave to trie habit, i.e., the cflitciies. �>• to. il43 THk ^EXFARERS LOG Pago Tfaroii ^ JjlOJfL JM, NEW YORK On my desk at present are three requests from ship's crews tp have the Steward removed, jThe Pickens of the South Atlan­ tic Line has an NMU man who got aboard without clearing thru our Halh This man will be taken off. The Stewed of the Dunbar is strictly k.G. He will be taken 'dflE. The crew of the'Alcoa Point­ er is in the meeting tonight arid ' we will hear about him later in the meeting. Just about every other ship that comes into this port has a large number of beefs against the Steward and they usually want him suspended for 90 years. Food is controlled. The stew­ ard cannot order what he wants like he did in peace time. Ships are stored upon the basis of so many ounces of each item of food per man and the Steward is required to see that every one has eriough to eat and that the food lasts for the entire voyage. If he is a good guy and gives ihe crew everything they ask for, he runs short of several items be­ fore the trip is over and the crew Says that he doesn't know his Business rind thrit "he hkd no rfght to take a steward's job. If he tries to spread the food out even­ ly frir the whole trip, he is called a belly-robber. In either case, an angry crew demarids that actiori be taken against him. Given a Liberty ship which was built to carry a crew of about 40 men, he finds himself with a green galley crew and first trip messmen and is expected to take care of 300 prisoners, 118 armed guard, 26 gun crew, an indefinite number of passengers and the regular crew of about 40 men. By the time the trip is over, he is a perfect, subject for a psycho­ pathic ward, and the crew wants to fire him out of his union. O.K. boys. Go ahead and give them all 99 years but don't forget that everytime you do, you are. get­ ting. rid of an experienced man and a union brother and replac­ ing him with either an NMU or a RMO main arid see how you like them. Think it "oyer, fellows, be­ fore you raise Hell with your next steward and remember that one-third of our membership are steward's Department men. JOE VOLPIAN, Patrolman Out of the Focil by 3C.. We viSited the Food Trade Vocatidrial School at 208 W. 13th St., due to the insistence of Tdnf Schiavone and Shakey Moore, who were sore that more SIU men didn't take advantage of the oppor­ tunity. We met Mr. Citriano who is in charge of the school. He inform­ ed us that the school was the property of New York, and was sub­ sidized by the USMC fdr the purpose of having better cooks,and bakers about American ships. All seamen who have made one trip to sea are eligible to enter the school and take the four week course cooking, butchering, baking and steward work. The governinerit pays the trainees $6 per diem. The facilities in the school are first rate and the men teachers there kriow their business. If the trainee is arixious to learri Ke can be taught the most modern and easiest methods in handling his first or second cooks' job. Even some of the old timers would be surprised if they entered the school, and would find but that there was somethifig iriore they cdiild lerirri. . Some of the Brothers may have heard that it was an NMU project. Nothing Of the sort. The NMU offered the USMC a room in their building, arid with their usuril ballyhoo iriade it Ibdk as tHe i)r6ject belonged to them. At first the boys had to go to the NMU Ho collect their pay, but the cdmplaint of Brother Gomez quickly tihariged thrit, and they are libW being paid off at the school. The school has a ^eat rilariy of the NMU sweater girls there, but that shouldn't stop an SIU man from triking the courSe, if he really wants to learn. The schdol is riot interested iri your uriion riffiliatioris, riil it wants to do is make you a better cook arid baker. I'his school is riot being riin by the RMO, and you're riot a Sheepshead Bay ritiff by attending it. There rife no Uniforms to Werir while there except a white ripron. When you've finished the course you rire riot obliged to Sail for the WSA, Afiriy Transport Service or any other fink outfit. If you are interested iri attending the school, you can get further iriformation at 39 Broadway, ROom No. 300. See Lieut. Welsh. KEEP CLEAR WtTH YOUR DRAFT BOARD By obsrirving thfe fttllriwiiig siriiple iristructioiis you will continue to receive defeftuent frorii iriilitary seiwice. Fail tb dbSrihre these fiiles kiid yoU may wind up in the army. WjttEH klGOTi'jG dN: Give the clerk or skipper all the ihfbrmatitfn n^eessriry to fill out RMO Card No. 47 (Green Carfi), WKriEN sm OFT: See that Ckfd No. 48-A Is j^rbjhp^rly filled out by skipper or clerk. Shli> but beftite yoiir Ullbtttia time riu^bfe has e^ifed. If you have hot yet flllefi ottt the Grfien Cai^a, eohiact ydur draft board let kfiow that |ybU are saiiirig. Washes WSA pJdL&A,— PROiPIlTEERS AND THE CX)ST OF LIVING ^ Organized labor has repeatedly ing the "gravy train," which cdri-s charged that profiteers are almost trasts with their position in 1932, {Continued from Page 1) solely responsible for high liv­ when about 20 per cent actually yard stick (does-it-help-smash-la­ ing costs, and has insisted that, lost money. i bor) been applied at every turn. if it wished to do so, the admin­ From the outset, it may be It is no -vVonder that the OWI only devotes one quarter of a istration could redeem its pledge noted, wholesalers have been the page to the question of labor re­ to roll .back prices simply by petted darlings of the O.P.A. Un­ lations. They would be hard squeezing out extortionate profits. der the boisterous and blunder­ pressed to -write more than that These claims have been sup­ ing Leon Henderson, they were without openly falsifying the rec­ ported up to the hilt by the Of­ permitted to write their owni ord. As it was they came close to fice of Price Administration, but, ticket, mainly because their o-wii for reasons that are left to the representatives had been in­ doing exactly that. imagination, the sensational facts trenched in key positions in the "The War Shipping Adminis­ have not been disclosed to the agency. tration has issued Statements of public. When Henderson established Policy with all maritime labor Expert of the O.P.A. have de­ price ceilings, back in 1942, the organizations," says the public­ termined that wholesale food prices of wholesalers were 20 pel* ity release. "These in effect re­ dealers increased their profits be­ cent out of line with those of re­ tain the union hiring halls arid tween 1939 and 1942 as high as tailers. This meant, of course, the procedures of collective bar­ 500 per cent. This startling in­ that it was the retailer -who was gaining." formation is contained in Volume to be squeezed when he had tq The implication here is that 6 of the O.P.A. series of "War the WSA voluntarily accented Profits Studies," which are not replenish his stocks. the "Statement of Policy" "and public documents, but are intend­ Instead of rolling back whole­ has since observed it in all good ed only for use of the agency's sale prices, the O.P.A. permitted retailers to hoist their ceilings, faith. The seamen know that this officials. is a lie—whether or not the OWI The facts and figures in this and that is the explanation of an is aware of it. The "Statement of study are not 'only a blistering increase of almost 50 per cent iri Policy" was -wrung from the indictment of war profiteers, but the' prices of food paid by con­ WSA by determined unions. are equally an indictment of of­ sumers. Since having grudgingly signed ficials who have permitted them The O.P.A.'s confidential report this Stalemerit, the WSA has at­ to get "away with murder." shows conclusively that had the tempted to circumvent it or, Here, boiled down for quick O.P.A. forced wholesalers to when they felt strong enough, to reading, is what the O.P.A. has make a 20 per cent price reduc­ Operily sabotage it. discovered but has kept secret: tion, their profits would still have All the OWI propaganda ma­ Three out of every 10 food been larger than anybody should chinery can not alter these facts. wholesalers reported profits for be perimitted to take in -war or: In an explanitory letter accom­ 1942 more than 300 per cent high­ peace time. panying the publicity released, er than in 1939, and for half of Another point that may be the OWI remarks that the "re­ these concerns profits rose 500 worth mentioning is that, while port" is designed to meet the per cent or more. the O.P.A. remained silent about needs of "editors, writers, com­ Seven out of every 10 food the extortion of food wholesalers. mentators, broadcasters, program middlemen more than doubled It passed out to the press garbled planners, photographers, and their profits, and four of these figures purporting to show that others concerried with presenting seven had at least a 200 per cent workers were the real profiteers. the news." We have no doubt rise. —LABOKi but that 90% of the editors, Evenmore startling is the commentators, etc., will present O.P.A. disclosure that in many the "news" just as received from instances higher profits were har­ the OWI. The orily place in vested ori a declining volume of which the real facts have an op­ business. In almost every case, portunity to be heard now days is profits increased much more rap­ Crew of last trip of S. S. Orein the only free press left in the idly than sales, making it as liiar have $125 attack bonus com­ ing. Collect Calmar Line, Nevr country—^the labor press. plain as a pikestaff that whole­ York City. salers took advantage of the em­ ergency and the complaisance of Crew of last trip of S. S. Benj. O.P.A. to jack up prices. Bourn can collect 12 hours over­ "Wholesale food grocers," the time from Mississippi Line's Nevr confidential report says, "realized York office. twice as much on every dollar of sales in 1942 as in 1939. Sales Crew of last trip of S. S. Johri were up 43 per cent, but profits P. Poe have extra day area bonus rose over 200 per cent. The larger coming. Collect at nearest Bull companies showed the greater in­ Line Office. • creases in sales, but the smaller Crew of S.S. Able Stearns can {Continued from Page 1) concerns reported the greater in­ collect port bonus for Sydney. sponsors of the movement have See Captain Respess, Bull Line. been made public, nor have the crease in profits." That paragraph tells the real New York City. requirements for memberships. story of what has happened to No specific program is enunci­ wages and the cost of living. J. Panfoja has money cOr ated. All we know is that officeSj With fbbd taking about half of from the Bull Line for the I have been opened .at 152 West the worker's -weekly wages, these voyage of the Eleanor. 42nd Street, and that radio time figures lay the most serious in­ The following crew members has been contracted for. No dictment of war profiteering at of the S.S. Ironclad have bonus doubt the next WAAM move will the door of food middlemen, who money coming from the Water­ be to lower the boom on the beat down the farmers at one end man Line: L. Hall, A. DeFelice. suckers. and rob consumers at the other. E. Bright, J. Lafaso, J. Narbvak. All union men should warn; Declaring that in the past four G. Small, J. Naylor, J. McKenna. their wives and girl friends (and years the wholesale grocery busi­ and E. Talbot. any "live ones") to keep a Weath­ ness has been transformed from er eye out for this V/AAM Aim INGEBRITSEN: You have 61 a "marginal to a profitable in­ fiam. hours overtime coming from the dustry," the report declares that wholesale grocers are earning an Robin Line. average of 25 to 50 per cent on MCLAUGHLIN: You have 6 invested capital. hours bveftiriie coming from thri Today all wholesalers are rid­ Rbbiri Line. MONEY DUE WAAMLooks Like Flam Ernest Linne Palmer Sam L. Barclift Marshal J. Gieleek S. JosepHsbri Keep In i'diich With Your Local Draft Board, ATLANTIC AND GULF SHIPPING FOR WEEK OF AUG. 23 TO 28 INCLUSIVE DECK ENGINE STEWARD TOTAL SHIPPED 336 291 255 882 REGISTERED 233 208 139 580 �Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. September 10. 1943 War Prisoners Used By Shipowner New Sub Menace Hinted By Knos are willing to place their lives in jeopardy, in addition to torpe­ WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 —The does, bombs and mines? airplane won this summer's Al­ Boys, if the next ship you join lied battle against' submarines, they say it is for a one-way pas­ and as a result German U-boats sage, it is nothing serious, it just apparently are being equipped means that you will take the ship WASHINGTON-— The Mari Edgar E. Clark, who served as with xiiofe anti-alrcfafl weapons to North Africa and walk home time Commission has announced president of the Order of Railway preliminary to a new challenge to collect transportation—if you that 13 Liberty ships scheduled Conductors of America and was for control of the Atlantic seaarrive within ten days of the pay­ for launching in the near future later appointed to the Interstate lanes. A barber shop was duly open­ off at the original port of en will be named for former labor Commerce Commission by Presi­ This appraisal of the enemy's ed with great pomp and cere­ gagement. The prisoners wil leaders. Labor Day ceremonies dent Theodore Roosevelt. intentions was given today by mony just outside of the chill work their way back. in various shipyards featured Further illustrious names in la­ boxes and convenient enough to All these beefs were taken up teunchings and the laying of bor history to be assigned are: Secretary of the Navy Knox and the meat chopping block that it with the Naval Intelligence in keels of some of the vessels. John I. Nolan, international vice- was supplemented by figures re­ was nearly always covered with Norfolk. So far, we have heard The roster includes such not­ president of Iron Moulder's Union leased by the naval high com­ hair. But what's a little hair in of no action being taken though ables as Heywood Broun, mem­ and former Congressman - from mand. the grub, after all meat is ration­ ber of the CIO and first head of California; Ben T. Osborne, exe­ The great part played by the ed. (Price—^two packs of Luck- Thing it over well, boys. It is the American Newspaper Guild; cutive secretary of Oregon Fed­ airplane in the anti-submarine ies; Proprietor — one prisoner of your Union and these are your Joshua A. Leach, founder and eration of Labor; Michael Casey, campaign's success was disclosed conditions, that are being sold war). first president of the Brother­ president of Interhatiohal Team­ in the naval report summarizing down the river. hood of Locomotive Firemen and sters, Chauffeurs and Warehouse­ operations during May, June and The. Engineers were not to be Enginemen; Robert Fechncr, who men; Albert J. Berres, of the July. During this period the Al­ outdone in building up their rep­ served for years as a representa­ Metal Trades of AFL; George lies sank 90 U-boats and pretty utation. Their cry for help was tive of the American Federation Uhler, president of Marino En­ well scotched, at least for the answered and several prisoners of Labor and was first director of gineers Beneficial Association, time being, the threats to theii; were detailed to the engine room. the Civilian Conservation Corps; CIO; Arthur M. Huddell, presi­ trans-Atlantic supply routes. One of the wipers was promoted to Engine Room. Bos'un (Same Members of the crew of S. S. and William B. Wilson, Secretary dent of International Union of The Navy said American forces Pay) and put in full charge. Malt W. Hanson should contact of Labor in President Woodrow Operating Engineers. alone sank at least 29 enemy sub­ Labor leaders for whom Lib­ Needless to say, no military Richard M. Cantor. 51 Chambers Wilson's cabinet. marines in those three months. Other names of distinction on erty ships were named in cere­ guard was put in the Engine St.. New York City. Of these, 26 were destroyed by / the list are: Jerome K. Jones, monies held Labor Day, 1942, Room while these men were JOHN WAZALIS airplanes had AFL leader in Atlanta, Georgia; were: Samuel Gomner-s, Andrew' working. However, the wiper Your book is at headquarters Patrick Henry Morrissey, one Furuselh, Peter J. McGiiire, <">= Was instructed to keep a sharp office. Your clothes are at the time grand master of the Broth­ James Duncan, John Mitchell of the three bagged by naval sur-. tvatch on their behavior in case face forces. New York Customs. Pier 61. erhood of Railroad Trainmen; and John W. Brown. ithey reverted to Fascism, and to Knox told a press conference take appropriate action if a move JOHN E. DaROCHA AFL Denounces that there is reason to believe Ickes Reveals was made to take over the ship: Get in touch with your draft that the Germans are calling in Labor Conscription War Labor Board (The brave wiper). board in Savannah. their U-boats to put anti-aircraft • I wonder if the soldiers who JOHN SOLOMON WIGFIELD Double Cross of U.M.W. Moves By Brass Hats guns on them and he was empha­ captured these prisoners did so Your union book and Coast "Brass hats" in Buffalo were tic that the battle of the Atlantic with the idea of undermining {Continued from Page 1) has not been ended. Guard Pass are at headquarters deserved wage increases and, in accused this week by Frank FenAmerican labor standards? office in New York. I'act, they would have been jus­ ton, A. F. of L. organization di­ "It's as sure as sunrise that ; I wonder if when a Company tified in abrogating their two- rector, of putting over a scheme they will be back in there again," guaiantees us safe working con­ year contract after Pearl Harbor of labor control that is an enter­ he, said. "There is no reason to Keep In Touch With ditions, they are sincere? and demanding pay boosts then ing wedge for a plan to conscript believe that we have disposed of I wonder if American seamen Your Local Draft Board. workers for private bosses. the submarine menace." and there. They would have been granted, The plan was authorized, he Knox replied affirmatively too, he said, because then there said, by Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, when asked if small aircraft car­ were no wage freezing regula­ New York state director of the riers have not largely met the tions. But the union conscient- War Manpower Commission, in need for air "protection in Middle oiisly stuck to the terms of the violation of policies laid down by Atlantic areas beyond the effec­ contract and did not press for the labor - management policy tive patrol range of land-based wage rate amendn^ents until ex­ committee of the national com­ aircraft. Central Registering and Dispatching Office mission. piration of the pact. \ OPERATORS Open in SUP Headquarters at San Francisco Mrs. itosenberg is known to be "SHADOWED-BOXED" close to the White House and has Bakke Made Co-chairman During the long negotiations For SIU Members and T, C*8 in the President's ear, but has been Of War Shipping Panel that started in March, the oper­ the center of frequent heated Deck, Engine and Steward Departments ators ..only .."shadow-boxed" ..as controversies. The National War Labor Board ' far as bargaining i^ concerned, She has held jobs with various has announced the appointment Increased shipping on West Coast by SIU members Ickes asserted. Federal agencies, and one of the of E. Wight Bakke, professor of has made it necessary to open a separate and complete "Certain gentlemen were firm bitterest outbursts against her economics at Yale University, as business office to be devoted solely to registering and carin the intention there would be occurred when it was found' she co-chairfnan of the WLB 'Wat; ^g for the needs of SIU members in all departments. no settlement with the Miners," held a lucrative 'position with Shipping Panel. he said. "They said 'no' to all Macy's in New York while draw­ Professor Bakke has acted as All SIU members in San Francisco are required to im­ suggestions, finally throwing the ing government salaries. As a public member of many WLB mediately register in SIU office at 59 Clay St. SIU members dispute into the lap of the War result of the attacks, she gave up panels, and has also served as a in SUP Branches on the West Coast are to register in the Labor Board, toward which an the private job. respective SUP Office and I'eceive an SIU shipping card. board referee in several cases influential group had been work­ Fenton, who is a member of the during the past year. SIU shipping cards will have preference on SIU ships and ing from the outset." will be recognized by all SUP Dispatchers. SIU Deck mem­ national committee, inslructed At a critical stage in the con­ A. F. of L. unions in Buffalo to bers will have second preference when SUP rneniber's are In Memoriam troversy, just before midnight. disregard the scheme and declar­ available. May 31, Ickes said he called in ed he would demand that the BROTHER Lewis and Charles O'Neill, commission order Mrs. Rosenberg For Further Information: William Cantrell spokesmen for the Northern op­ to abandon or alter it. (O. S.) Call your union offices and tanker organizers at the erators, and proposed a tempor­ addresses listed below. You will always finds somebody at Born Sept. 25. 1911. Died in TIED TO JOBS ary contract. these numbers excepting at night. Gran, North Africa, This would have provided ap­ Under the Buffalo program, July 17. 1943. proximately a dollar-a-day in­ which is the most sweeping in SEATTLE, WASH.—86 Seneca St.—Phone Elliott 6752. crease to the workers, a.s part —^E. Coeistei or Johnson. the country, a curb is placed on regulations are put Into effect, payment on the union's claim for the free movement of aU male but in Buffalo labor's opposition PORTLAND. OREGON—111 West Burnside St.—Phone "portal-to-portal" pay,' covering workers in the area. No such was overridden, he declared. Lo­ Beacon 4336—John Massey or C. Atkins. travel time spent underground. worker can take a job, nor can a cal labor chiefs have branded the The full amount would, mean­ RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA—257 Fifth St.—Phone Rich­ boss employ him, unless approv­ present setup a "labor servitude while, be determined by an im­ ed by a committee of arniy and mond 4021—Louie Glebe or Banks. plan." partial commission. VANCOUVER, B. C.—340 B. Cambie St.—Phonp Pacific navy agents. THE ENTERING WEDGE DISPUTE NEAR SETTLEMENT 7824—Hugh Murphy. "If compulsion is clamped dowrt Both sides indicated the com­ "These military men have been WILMINGTON, California ^ 440 Avalon Blvd. —Phone promise would be acceptable, telling workers they have to quit on labor in Buffalo, attempts will 4449. Ickes decliu'ed, adding: "I believ­ jobs they hold and take new be made to extend it elsewhere,'/ ed the dispute might be settled ones, in specified plants, regard­ Fention said. "So far, at least, we NEW YORK Cmr — 105 Broad St. — Phone BOwling less of the wages paid," Fenton have no 'draft labor' law iii thil within 24 hours." Green 9-^530—^Morris Weisberger. said. country, and we won't tolerate However, the WLB threw a SAN FRANCISCO-59 Clay St.—Phone Exbrook 8229— In other communities, labor- efforts to put into effect the esr "monkey wrench." It ordered Phil Conley. the Miners and operators to • stop management committees must be sence of such a law by round-; consulted before any manpower about methods." , , negotiations. {Continued from Page 1) the galley and were busy prepar• ing a mess of the Italian national dish for the crew. They came to stay, and stay they did for the whole trip. 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Title A name given to the resource September 10, 1943 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. V, No. 24 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Description An account of the resource Headlines: WAAM LOOKS LIKE FLIM FLAM WAR PRISONERS USED BY SHIPOWNERS TO UPSET WAGES AND CONDITIONS OWI WHITE WASHES WSA NO SOUVENIRS ARE ALLOWED SAYS FUSS BUDGET WYCKOFF WLB DOUBLE CROSSED MINERS--ICKES TWELVE MILLION JOBLESS SEEN AFTER THIS WAR IS ENDED THE NIGHTMARE CREW PROFITEERS AND THE COST OF LIVING 13 LABOR LEADERS HONORED AT LIBERTY SHIP LAUNCHING NEW SUB MENACE HINTED BY KNOX AFL DENOUNCES LABOR CONSCRIPTION MOVES BY BRASS HATS BAKKE MADE CO-CHAIRMAN OF WAR SHIPPING PANEL SIU AND TANKER MEMBERS ON WEST COAST Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/10/1943 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1943 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/ba3b13105858a61a08aa1ea9302683c8.PDF 27175dba798d93fd447f336369b16887 PDF Text Text Seamen Draft Status Up To Local Boards Although no rules or regula­ tions have yet been established "to* carry out the draft defer­ ment procedure, men now sail­ ing U.S. ships are expected to receive "most careful considera­ tion as individuals by local boards," according to an an­ nouncement made recently by national headquarters of the Se­ lective Service System. Apparently no blanket defer­ ments will be made. Instead, the announcement explained, each case will be considered on • a purely personal basis. - Section 6(h) of the Selective Service Act of 1948 authorizes the Pre.sident, "under such rules and regulations as he may pre­ scribe," to grant deferment to persons whose occupation is es­ sential to the national health, safety or interest. General Fund Increase Goes To AUG Vote Voting on the Referendum calling for a $10 assessment to the Union's General Fund Official Organ, Atlantic & Gulf DixMd, Seafarers International Union of NA build began this week in aU Atlantic and Gulf District Branches. With NEW YORK, N. Y« FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1948 No. 37 the polls open but a few day^— VOL. X since September 8—^brisk voting was reported in all Halls. Indi­ cations are that strong majority of the membership will vote in favor of the resolution. This is BY PAUL HALL based on the enthusiasm shown Secretary-Treasurer, Atlantic and Gulf District by the membership in voting An alert membership is the most valuable production by Seafarers in other ports on overwhelmingly for the original asset a labor union can possess—or hope to other operators' vessel, we pounded out a resolution at the recent mem­ possess. In this respect, the Atlantic and contract that has become the pattern for bership meetings, and expres­ sions of approval in the Halls. Gulf District of the Seafarers International maritime. The contracts stand far above Union boasts assets far beyond that shown those of other unions in wages, working ^ The Referendum calling for a General Fund assessment was by the dollars and cents on the credit side conditions and security features, authorized by membership Vote of its ledger. The operators obviously don't wish to in the majority of the Branches The material strength of our organization fight with a solidly united union. They up and down the coast on August speaks for itself. We merely have to glance don't like to scrap with a strong and re- 25. The vote came in approval at the figures in our latest financial report sponsible organization. I i short, they don't of a resolution submitted by 37 and we will see that our measurable assets like to battle with the Seafarers. And this SIU members in tjie Port of New NO RULING YET are rapidly approaching the one-and-a-half- is not to imply that we think we are in- Orleans calling for the General vincible. We're just taking stock of our Fimd boost. "The rules and regulations to million dollar mark. Although no means have yet been deassets in the same way our opponents do Balloting which began on implement this provision of the veloped for measuring the value of a memwhen a clash is coming, Act have not yet been issued," September 8 will continue for Certainly we have every right to appraise one month, with the poUs closing the Sl^ective Service office said. bership constantly on its toes, we have been The announcement indicated easily able to gauge its worth simply by our assets with a certEun amount of self- on October 8. satisfaction. We know that because we are that all merchant seamen will surveying the successes of the Union. ONE QUESTION In attaining virtually every one of our sound and internally strong we have been receive careful consideration, but The Referendum BaRot requires that particular attention will be selected objectives in the past few years, spared much of the grief and confusion given to men with technical our membership's alertness to a situation that now engulfs many another seamen's only Yes or No to the question: training and experience. "Are you in favor of a $10.00 and its unanimous and decisive action have organization and its members. assessment to build the General Out on the West Coast a situation has Application of the regulations been the fundamental factors in the Sea­ Fund?" to be issued will be determined farers' upsurge as the nation's leading developed that leaves the shipowners and The original resolution sub­ solely by each local board, which waterfront Union. The formula for our waterfront employers standing with all their has the authority to grant defer­ victories has been simple. Once the mem­ labor-hating viciousness clearly exposed. mitted in the Port of New Or­ ments individually to registrants bership has sensed a problem and decided The strike of the CIO longshoremen has be­ leans and adopted by all ports whose employment is regarded on a course of action it has hit hard. come the signal for a general attack against except Boston and Norfolk is as follows: as necessary to the maintenance We ride hard. No -fanfare, no hystericsall other maritime unions in that area. of the national health, safety or "WHEREAS: The A&G Dis­ such as used for instance by the commies While the shipowners, ranted patriotically interest. whenever they make a move—shroud our about not wishing to do business with the trict of the Seafarers Interna­ The draft law does not pro­ movements. We generally know what we longshoremen, they withdrew from negota- tional Union of North America vide for the recognition of a sea­ are after, we set oyr sights accordingly and tions with the MFOWW and MEBA just as has set the pdce with a new man's wartime service, because contract and raise in wages, the merchant marine "was a drive. A point in this fact is what hap- the contract discussions were nearing com- making the seaman's wage the civilian service," Selective Serv­ pened in New Orleans several weeks ago, pletion. In other words, they have pulled highest ever obtained or im­ when we were negotiating for a new con­ a lockout on these unions. TheV did the agined, and ice declared. tract with the Mississippi Shipping Com­ same thing with the MCS. Our own affi­ pany. Our SrU membership knew what liate, the Sailors Union of the Pacific, has "WHEREAS: Through job ac­ was at stake. Always conscious of the im­ been affected as a result of the shipowner's tion and solidarity of the SIU membership and officials, we portance of their every move as applies to decision to go the hard way. wei-e able to make the shipown­ Because of several last the entire Union, they displayed the The strike and the resultant lockout pose ers come in line and sign this minute suggestions which straight-forwardness that has so often a mighty serious question for all in mari­ contract, and will be incorporated in the characterized other SIU successes. Like time. While we are honoring our contracts proposed Stewards Depart­ "WHEREAS: The life blood of snapping your fingers, we had the results and sailing our ships we must be on guard ment Working Rules, this any organization is its solidarity for any eventuality. We must, most of all, we wanted. issue do^ not carry these and finances, and this definitely The first company was in line for the watch very closely to see what kind of a recommendations as orig­ helped us with our negotiations wage Increases and other features of the move the government will make. Already with the shipowners, and inally intended. there are threats that the armed forces two-year contract. They will appear, however, "WHEREAS; All our funds With the shipowners solid front cracked, may be moved in. in a forthcoming issue, for are definitely established for cer­ We must stand ready to lend a hand in the sailing became easier and after a few membership consideration. tain purposes, such as Buildings, more instances of action at the point of (Continued on Page 2) Strike, etc., and our General Fund is our working fund, and Report To The Membership Coming Soon Dock Strike Ties Up West Coast Shipping • A long struggle was predicted by both sides as the West Coast CIO longshoremen's strike for the hiring hall and wage in­ creases goes into its second week. The strike, which began Sept. 2, left shipping in all ma­ jor coast ports at a standstill. Some 12,000 striking members of the International Longshore­ men's and Warehousemen's Un­ ion, headed by Harry Bridges, are picketing in ports from the Canadian border to Mexico, while approximately 16,000 sea­ men have thus far been made idle. More than 120 ships have been tied up as a result of the beef. The strike developed mainly from the dispute over provisions covering hiring hall operations and wages and began as soon as the 80-day injunction, im­ posed by the government under the Taft-Hartley law as a "cool­ on it legally. Bridges replied that ing off" period, was dissolved. his union wouldn't accept "a Also involved in the strike hiring hall with strings at­ are the CIO Marine Engineers tached to it." SEES LONG STRIKE Beneficial Association and the Bridges has predicted a strike Independent Marine Firemen, Oilers and Watertenders who of four to six months. He also have charged they have been made a statement that has been locked out. The shipowners sud­ interpreted as revealing the denly withdrew all offers made communist party line of com­ to these unions just as contract plete disregard for the welfare negotiations were nearing com­ of the union members involved. He painted a pictiu-e of disaster pletion. for the workers. The CIO Marine, Cooks and "When this strike is over," Stewards, led by Hugh Bryson, and the CIO radio operators Bridges added, "we will be out have taken strike action. All un­ of business or they (the ship­ ions stated previously that none owners) will be out of business." would sign a contract until the The shipowners and waterfront others were satisfied with theirs. employers association contend It was reported that the em­ that their stand is now one of ployers had agreed to let the "meeting head-on the issue of hiring hall remain as it was in communism" in the Pacific mai-ithe old contracts vmtil a "court time unions that have been of competent jurisdiction" ruled spearheaded by Bridges. "No more negotiations will be held and no contracts will be signed with any such unions," they said, "until their officers have disavowed communism." REFUSE TO SIGN Officials of the CIO longshore­ men's union and those of the Marine Cooks and Stewards and the radio operators have refused to sign the non-communist affi­ davits required under the TaftHartley law. However, officers of the MEBA and the MFOWW have signed such affidavits, which shows the shipowners to be inconsistent on that score and possibly indicates that they are using the issue as a total fight on the maritime unions. Several SlU-contracted ships have been tied up in West Coast ports- as a result of the strike. "WHEREAS: We will defin­ itely have a struggle in future negotiations, and now that we enjoy these high wages we should do our utmost to build our funds so we will be better respected by the shipowners, and in a better position to fight them, so therefore be it "RESOLVED: That we go on record assessing ourselves $10.00, to be a General Fund assessment, and be it further "RESOLVED: That copies of this Resolution be sent to all ports to be acted on at the next regular meeting August 25th, 1948, and they in turn wire the Secretary-Treasurer of their ac­ tion, and be it finally "RESOLVED: That if this Res­ olution is carried that the Secre­ tary-Treasurer be instructed to put in motion the necessary machinery to conduct a refer­ endum ballot." �Page Two T H E SEAFARERS LOG Friday. September 10, 1948 SEAFARERS LOG Published Weekly by the SEAFARERS lOSFTERNATMUJ^AL UNJON OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf Histrict Affiliated with the American Federation of X.al>or At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. HAnover 2-2784 Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. 267 Report To The Membership (Continued from Page 1) ainy manner necessary to our Brothers of the SUP, our West Coast affiliate, just as much as we would if they were pushing a beef. We must remember that it is just as tough to be locked out as it is to be hitting the bricks, maybe tougher. As this West Coast situation develops, it is impera­ tive that our watchword in the Atlantic and Gulf Dis­ trict be "preparation." Our sound position of today is the fruit of previous preparation. But being on constant guard is the price of all seamen's security. There is no assurance that we are to remain exempt from the effects of the West Coast beef. There is assurance, however, that our membership once more is alert to a really bad and dangerous situation. Sensing the really dangerous situation, our membership is prepared for anything. The ten-dollar General Fund assessment, for instance, which the membership has placed on the referendum ballot is one indication of this. An­ other is the continued tightening of our organizational setup. Too often, as we go about our daily work, we lose sight of the significance of all these things in the overall picture. Were our membership not so alert, were they not W. T. ROSS so united on most all issues affecting us, were we not C. B. VIKEN strong financially, we, instead of the West Coast unions, P. DAVASON might now be fighting to preserve our secmity, rather P. M. KHEAUBER than enjoying the fruits of the recent two-^ear contract E. C. SHAFFER victory, with its higher wages and improved conditions. M. EL MOUR X. t While we move forward, other organizations are even MOBILE HOSPITAL now split by internal battles as they are engaged in W. J. WOOKY dangerous struggles with the seamen's enemy — the A. C. McALPIN shipowners. F. L. BARTLETT At times, unbelievable as it may sound, some of J. H. ASHURST R. ARMSTRONG these same unions have even accused our union of being EUGENE SMITH These are Ihe Union Brothers currently in the marine hospitals, intolerant of those who seek to come into our member­ H. R. LOWMAN ship meetings with problems that do not concern our as reported by the Port Agents. These Brothers find time hanging C. E. GLOVER heavily on their hands. Do what you can to cheer them up by organization or our membership's welfare. In the sea­ writing to them. C. EMMANUEL men's unions, where the security of the membership ft t i C. J. MITCHELL hangs in constant danger of being cut down by ship­ BALTIMORE MARINE HOSP. BOSTON MARINE HOSPITAL F. BECKER B. HARRIS owners, waiting for the opportunity to smash all mari­ E. E. GROSS GEORGE W. MEANEY C. SIMMONS EDWARD DUDEK time organizations, there is no room for anything but GETTIS LIGHTFOOT F. PASQUALI JOHN J. GEAGAN the direct shipboard and economic welfare of all hands. R. KEHRLY B. HUNT VIC MILAZZO The Union is either for the membership in these CARL L. WALKER as they have in others, qs a proving ground for party EDWIN DAKIN JOHNSTON things—all the way—or it is not. In some sections this welfare of the membership policy. As a result, the organizations are now split and RUSSEL S. NEARY ft ft ft doesn't appear to be the purpose. While their organiza­ weakened, and thus are at a disadvantage in conducting a struggle against the shipowner on any issue directly inSTATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL tions are in death-grips with the shipowners, "Sister" ^•olving not only their welfare — but their very lives A. EWING Bryson, of the MCS, and Bridges, the chief fink of the A. VANELZUELA as well. commie party in maritime, still have time to display more M. CASTRO We Seafarers know that as seamen we have few and more of an interest in the phony "Wallace for J. McNEELY President" movement than in the memberships of,their friends outside of the labor movement. Our individual A. JENSBY .respective unions. Let us hope that the membership of strength only exists in the might of our collective unity. D. DeDUISEN those unions realize this and put the boots to these two When we fight, we fight to win. Again and again we T. ZEMRZUSKI W. II. NUNN commie prostitutes while they are in the process of Seafarers have demonstrated we arc keenly sensitive to J. BOUYEA this grim reality. That is why we chalk up victories that settling their current beef. W. HUNT ultimately become the gain of all seamen. That is why R. L. JOHNSTON Such a sorry state of affairs would not be tolerated we arc able to chart a court that is calculated to bring K. C. CROWE by the alert SIU membership. Tolerance is a relative better livine C. OPPENHEIMER » broad That is why we are already preparing, as a result of W. H. PERRY f *11 I . • r crate any moves which recently concluded special agents conference, for an T. MANDICK . ; wiD weaken its internal structure and thus set it up for ^Hve to bring in more lobs at a time when C. NANGLE C. W. HALLA a knockdown by its enemies. other organizations are afraid to look ahead. And that is P. G. DAUGHERTY The MCS and the ILWU are perfect examples of why, too, we are striving to make more friends in the ft ft strategy, which now finds che membership labor movement and bring our union closer to the other SAN PEDRO HOSPITAL oT,the two organizations facing the shipowners on one sound, honest labor groups. L. TICKLE side and the party interest on the other. The commies Our membership's alertness is a valuable asset. And T. C. KELLY ha*e continually used the membership of these two unions,- ir brings valuable results. M. BYERS Afeii Jihw In The Marine Hospitak , • '* �Friday, September 10, 1948 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Three Taft-Hartley Act Still Menace To Label' By KEITH ALSOP Root Of Coast Beef Because the roof didn't' fall in on every labor union in the country the day in August 1947 the Taft- Hart­ ley Act went into effect, a lot of people have been lulled into thinking that maybe it isn't such a vicious, finky law after all. What these people don't realize is that the em­ ployers are using this law every day to weaken and smash unions. The maritime unions including the SIU have had Just as much trouble with the law as anybody else—and will have a lot more. For this reason. Seafarers should know how this law works and what they have to do to fight it. The plain truth is that it took the Taft-Hartley Act a year to get going in full force. It wasn't until this summer, for instance, that the maritime Hiring Hall became a matter of contention under the law. Mean­ while, however, the Act works in a thousand ways to slow up the unions in a hundred different fields. Only determination on the part of officials and rankand-file alike will keep any union, the SIU included, from knuckling xmder as long as the law is in effect. The Editor of the SEAFARERS LOG has invited While there are many, factors beside the Taftthe Port Agents to submit a series of articles of general and vital interest to the membership. These Hartley Act involved in the current West Coast strike articles do not take the pl£u;e of the Agents' weekly called by the CIO longshoremen, the Hiring Hall is a surveys on the state of shipping in theilr ports and central issue along with the Taft-Hartley Act's require­ other matters, but constitute additional commentaries. ment that union officials sign the non-communist The Editor felt that, because of their position, the pledge. (While no SIU official ever has had a single Agents would be able to comment wisely on a variety qualm about signing the pledge, and while aU have of subjects. The fifth article in the series appears on signed, this requirement certainly is an unwarranted this page. It was submitted by Keith Alsop, Port Agent invasion of our personal rights as citizens.) Where the Taft-Hartley Act does not strike directly in Galveston. Members are urged to submit their own it creates confusion, a fact which commie stooges like views on this and other articles in the series. Keith Alsop is a veteran seaman with fifteen years Harry Bridges and Hugh Bryson have been quick to of sea service behind him. His long experience on seize upon to assert their positions. The current strike the waterfront has given him a thorough understand­ on the West Coast is the perfect example. The CIO ing of the ^problems faced by maritime labor, and dock workers need the Hiring Hall for the same he is thoroughly familiar with the devious tricks by reason Seafarers must have it—as a solid protection to which the operators are always seeking to smash the their wages and conditions. To get it they have had maritime unions. to strike. In a vicious counter-move, the West Coast Alsop sailed through the war and has been Port waterfront employers have locked out the seamen's Agent in Charleston as well as Galveston. In addition, unions by breaking off negotiations with the MEBA, he has been a Patrolmen in New York, New Orleans MCS and MFOWW. The SUP is locked out along with and Norfolk. the rest. Taking their cue from the men who wrote During the 1946 General Strike, Alsop was Chairman the Taft-Hartley Act, the employers are acting like the Everything "Illegal" of the General Strike Committee for the Port of highbinders they always are when they get the chance. The fact that much of the working of the law is' Norfolk.. In the summer of 1947, he was Chairman of There is no doubt but what the anti-labor boys are what they call "insidious" has hidden the truth from the Isthmian Strike Committee for the Port of in the saddle. The pattern set by the Taft-Hartley Act many trade union members. But any Seafarer who Gal'veston. will grow tougher and tougher as the months go by, doesn't know that the Taft-Hartley Act is a powerful and the maritime unions will always be a favorite tool in the hands of the shipowners had better wake target. up to a few facts about the waterfront situation today. Defines Finky Pattern About the only thing you can't blame on the Act is Bosses Back Raiding There was nothing, for instance, to prevent Cities Service from turning over the ships specifically named Another point that is being missed by many is that and appearing with a brand new fleet. And even if the Taft-Hartley Act can serve the bosses indirectly by a contract were obtained covering the seven ships throwing organized labor itself into a state of chaos. specifically named how could the Union protect its The complicated rules for complying with the Act jobs and conditions if its agreement covered only half leave openings by which one union, can raid another the company? with the boss shouting encouragement from the side­ Of course, the SIU has petitioned the NLRB for an line. election on all remaining Cities Service vessels and Whatever differences there may be in the policies, will win the election when it is held. But since it practices and achievements of two unions in the same may then be necessary to have a imion-shop elec­ field, both eventually will be the losers if one raids tion, which the company can demand under the the other. The boss cheers when it happens, because, Taft-Hartley Act, on the entire Cities Service fleet, he knows that he stands a good chance of smashing the inevitable conclusion is put off that much the both. Open rivalry in organizing is one thing. The the state of shipping, and that you can attribute to longer. union that is stronger and has more to offer new. the same politicians who voted to shackle labor. In other words, the Taft-Hartley Act defines a members can be sure of victory. But raiding is an­ Take what the SIU has been up against. No sooner finky pattern of action for employers which results in did <the Union Negotiating Committee sit down with endless delays designed to discourage unions. Only if other matter because it destroys the common front the operators late this spring than the Taft-Hartley a union is strong and determined can it overcome which labor must havte on basic questions. We have to expect the Taft-Hartley front to become Act was flung in their faces. "You can't have a Union the obstacles the law puts in its path. stronger. No union can afford to expect anything else Hiring Hall, it's illegal," the operators said, all the Take the Calmar case for another example of how -while admitting that they themselves benefitted from the Taft-Hartley Act emerges every day as an all the way events are shaping up. The SIU in particular the Hiring Hall. They maintained that the Hiring around weapon by which the entrenched interests can must look for and be prepared for the worst if it is to maintain its position in the forefront of maritime Hall constituted a "closed shop" which the Taft- try to smash labor. labor. We didn't win the highes't wages and finest Hartley specifically bans. First off, Calmar accused the SIU of an "unfair labor conditions in maritime history by sitting still, and we This issue immediately stalled negotiations. The practice" when a crew respected a Longshoremen's will stay on top only if we keep moving. Hiring Hall is the core of maritime unionism. Without picket line in Albany in May. Nothing came of this, There is no time like today to get ready for to­ it, the unions would be relatively powerless in the but in Jime the Calmar people proceeded to sue the struggle to improve the wages and conditions of SIU in a Federal court for $12,500 in damages, claim­ morrow. Or, to put it another way, you secure your seamen. The SIU negotiators had no choice but to ing that the Union had held up a ship in Boston and ship for sea while you are still safe in port because insist that the Hiring Hall issue be settled before aUeging that they had suffered to that extent as a the sea may be rough. That is the reasoning behind the 10-dollar assess­ there was any talk of other matters. The result was result. The important fact about this suit is that it that it was July 1 before a Hiring Hall formula was could not have been brought at aU if the Taft-Hartley found which the Union could accept. Weeks -were Act had not been passed. The Act specifically auth­ wasted during which wages and conditions could orizes such suits against unions. Before the summer have been negotiated. It was well into August before of 1947 such suits were baiTed. the Union, by resolute job action, settled the wage issue. NMU Hit Worse Cities Service Stalls So far as the SIU's negotiations are concerned, the worst that can be said is that they were stalled. What the Taft-Hartley Act has done to the Cities Service situation is another matter. The SIU will, in the end, score a victory over Cities Service, as that outfit well knows. But meanwhile the company has grabbed every chance offered by the Taft-Hartley Act to ham­ string and discourage the Union. In this, the National Labor Relations Board imder the influence of the Act has played into the hands of the company. Last winter, as every Seafarer knows, the SIU won a smashing five-to-one victory in a certification elec­ tion conducted by the NLRB on seven Cities Service ships. At the time the SIU petitioned for the election the company hac eight ships. The eighth was not voted because it failed to touch an American port during the voting period. Meanwhile, the company acquired eight additional ships before the NLRB acted on the election. At this point the NLRB reversed its own precedent. In a similar situation concerning the Isthmian fleet, the NLRB certified the SIU as the bargaining agent for all ships of the company regardless of whether they had actually been voted. In the Cities Service case, the NLRB decided that the Union was the bar­ gaining agent for only the seven ships voted. This put the Union in a very bad position and gave the com­ pany a powerful weapon. The SIU is not the only maritime union to be attacked under the Act. The NMU's Hiring Hall on the Great Lakes has been declared illegal by the NLRB and is now going into the Federal courts for a decision. Again, the Hiring Hall is being denounced by the anti-union forces as a "closed shop" banned by the scabby Taft-Hartley Act. And the NMU has had even worse trouble. For 80 days this siunmer, the NMU was imder a federal injimction against striking for wages and con­ ditions. The injunction was brought imder the TaftHartley Act. When the injunction was up, the NMU was no better off than it had been before—until a determined SIU blazed a trial. For 80 days the CIO longshoremen on the West Coast were under a federal injunction against striking. The injunction was brought under the Taft-Hartley Act. When the injunction was up, the dock workers were no better off tiian they had been before. They struck anyway, but 80 days were lost to the TaftHartley forces. Meanwhile, on the East Coast, as soon as the Inter­ national Longshoremen's Association, AFL, threatened direct action to get their wage demands, a federal injimction was thrown at them. They are under that injunction ^now. The injunction was brought imder the Taft-Hartley Act. Government by injunction was jettisoned 20 years ago. The Taft-Hartley Act brought it back—^to smash labor unions. •i . • ment for the General Fund now being voted upon in all ports by referendum ballot. That is why every forward-looking Seafarer should vote "YES." If the SIU is to sail through the troubled waters ahead, it must insure its internal health now when it is strong. Our day-to-day health depends on the General Fund. It is the General Fund that runs every activity of the SIU except those specific items covered by the special funds such as the Strike Fund. The General Fund protects your contracts. It pays all expenses and salaries connected with policing the agreements, keeping the records, publishing the LOG and other literature, maintaining the Halls (except for new buildings and equipment), building supplies, clerical supplies, public utilities and various miscel­ laneous items that keep the Union going. No item is hidden, everything is in the open. Without the General Fund the Union could not operate. Above all, it is the General Fund which must finance the running fight against the Taft-Hartley boys. That fight is part of the Union's day-to-day routine. The ship operators, seizing the Taft-Hartley Act as a club, have steppd up the pace of the battle. We must do the same if we are to keep ahead of them. �Page Four r Jl E & E ul F A IUEi R S L O G top Dummies Join IFMU 99-Year Club Fxiday>>Sepiember 10, IMS WHAT In a belated effort to eliminate disruptive communist influences .an NMU membership meeting in QUESTION: What is the toughest job you have to perform in fulfilling ..New York" consigned three duties of your rating? ' former top union officials to the 9&-year club, confirming the find­ CASWELL WARREN. MM: JULIO BERNARD, Bosun: ings of a trial committee. . :-The ousted members are Fer­ I'd say the whole job is pretty Satisfying all the men seems dinand C. Smith, ex-national tough. A Messman has to please to me to be about the toughest .secretary, Howard McKenzie, exeverybody by serving them aU part of being a Bosun. I get my vice-president, and Paul Palazzi, to their satisfaction—and at one orders from the Chief Mate, mid ex-New York port agent. They time. It probably wouldn't be it is my job to see that they are are expected to appeal the de­ so bad, if you could handle the carried out — whether I like cision to the NMU's national men's requests in groups of three ' them or not. Some men don't council or national convention or four at a time. Often one understand this, or don't want next month. guy will holler and then the to accept their responsibilities. Smith, a native of Jamaica was whole gang will chime in, and When this happens the Bosun already facing deportation by the it's a race to keep everybody generally has to do their work Government as an alien comfig: satisfied. You really have to because, no matter how you •munist. McKenzie, a "Riverkeep stepping, if you want the look at it, the work has to be boat Swifty" type, has long been boys to be happy. But I think done. We are all part of a good a well-known commie stooge. with the right approach, and Union that sees to it we are the Palazzi, a communist maritime telling them "Take it easy, best paid seamen in the indu9« theoretician, has frequently op­ boys!" once in awhile, they all try working under top condi­ erated as a waterfront character pili: understand. I'm getting along at tions. All we need is cooperation it okay. assassin. on board ship. the shipboard GANAWAY TOO JACK DIETRICH, FWT: While Smith, McKenzie and S. T. BUTLER. MM: I find that on short trips the Palazzi were on trial in New Toughest job in the engineYork, Clyde S. Ganaway, former men are easy to get along with room for me comes when I'm on port agent in Mobile, faced a cuid my job is fairly easy. But, a tanker that is maneuvering trial committee in that port on long trips, it's a little differ­ in and out of port and con­ which recommended that he be ent story. After about two stantly changing speeds. Maybe placed in the NMU's 99-year months out, a man gets home­ you get 50 bells in a period of club. The membership approved sick, crabby or just irritated, 20 minutes. You've really got and he generally takes it out. the decision. to keep hopping to cut down The charges against Smith, on the food or the service—al­ pressure, keep on eye on the McKenzie and Palazzi were filed though they haven't changed a pumps, work the valves and personally by NMU president Joe bit. It's a Messman's job to kid watch the bypass. Sometimes, during this maneuvering opera­ Curran, who played "footsie" them along, and not lose his tion, you might also have to with the qommies himself until temper so that every one's spir­ its are good. If you give the change or clean about 20 burn­ his famous break in 1946. ers. But the hardest of all for Curran charged his three for­ boys cheerful service along with good food you'll find their mor­ me is the handling of the va^es mer colleagues with participat­ ale stays high. I rarely have any to keep the proper amount of ing in leftist activities calculated trouble, because I understand water in the boilers. I always to disrupt the NMU, and with the nature of my job and the feet belter when maneuvering misusing NMU ftmds. Their de­ men. is over and we're on our way. fense was that they were being tried for pushing the candidacy of Henry Wallace for President of the United States'—-who is be­ ALBERT SEGRIFF, FOW: K. KRISTENSEN, AB: ing sponsored, pushed and pub­ The toughest thing an FQW is licized by the communist party. I think that one of the tough­ up against is maneuvering into est -things connected with my In Mobile, Ganaway was a harbor with the orders com­ -job comes up when you run charged with placing his per­ ing thick and fast. How bad it into a tricky steam winch, just sonal aims and ambitions and is depends who's on the budge as you'-re. about to top and low­ those of the communist party giving orders, but it's pretty er gear. Generiilly this condi­ above the welfare of the NMU tough anyway. You may ,^et tion isn't discovered until the membership and with neglect of "Stop," "Cut Steam" and "Full winch Is to be used. Conditionshis duties as Mobile agent. Speed Ahead" in rapid succes­ like this can A dasgerotuE« To sion, and you have to do some avoid such occurrences, I be­ fast jumping. You can do a lot lieve the winches should bO: of things wrong and you have checked as soon as a ship euto know your business. You have rives in port. On the Colabee, to widch your water, and be a few years ago, we had a gas NEW YORK—Negotiations for careful you don't Rood the place head on a winch blow up and, a new contract were scheduled with oil or do- something 'worse. as a result, a boom was dropped. to be resumed late this week You earn your pay. Of course, Ludcily, no one was hurt. I between the International Long­ everything in the- engine room is think this condition is a big shoremen's Association, AFL, and tougher on a tropical run. headache to JBosuns and ABs. the New York Shipping Asso­ ciation for the first time since an 80-day federal injunction was thrown on the ILA on August CHARLES CARROLL, OS: THEODORE WILLIAMS, OS: 24. Personally, I don't think any I've been sailing three years The injunction, one more in part of my job is tough. I've and a half and I guess an OS the series slapped on maritime been getting along very well doesn't find one thing much unions under the Taft-Hartley as an OS. I do my job to the | Act, was called for by the gov­ tougher than another. The tough ernment on top of a 10-day tem­ best of my ability, but every­ lime is when something goes porary restraining order which body seems to cooperate, which wrong. Warst I sainember is was imposed wheii the ILA makes everything pretty simple. once when I went up the main­ threatened direct action. What helps, too, is the fact that' mast of a Liberty in a Bosun's The negotiations affect nearly most SIU ships are clean. As far chair to fix the range light. The 50,000 longshoremen from Port­ as sanitary duties go, it could shackle at the top holding the land, Maine, to 'Hampton Roads, be daxned tough on a guy in chair broke and I started to Virginia, the greatest concentra­ my rating when he comes fall. I was lucky enough to grab tion being in New York. aboard a ship and finds that the mast and.I slid, but it was The principal issue in the dis­ the gang that just paid off did a rough slide. I hate to think so in a hurry and left a mess pute is wage§. what might have happened if behind. I've seen this only once Since the ILA has the "shapeI'd missed. That' was a close up" system of employment, the though. Most SIU men aie care­ caU, althoi^gh maybe I've had ful about leaving the ship clean. tougher jobs. .hiring-hall is not an issue. ' Talks To Resume In ILA Pay Dispute • • S'- • " -'r.'' / rv It," • �T-W'Kt- S^ B A P Friday; Septembnr-lO/ldff" ft B R Paga Fiva'1 L &4^ Mobile Shipping Gains Slightly^ SIU Fishermen Win New Waters By CAL TANNER Philadelphia Seafarers Go For Assessment, Conference Plans By LLOYD (Blackie) GARDNER NY Office Moves The New York State Em­ ployment Insurance office for maritime personnel in New York City has moved to new quarters at 165 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn. All sea­ men's business, whether claims or weekly visits, is now handled by the new Brooklyn office. Better accommodations for handling seamen are re­ ported at the new office, which can be reached by any subway at the Borough Hall Station. The old Unemployment In­ surance office was at 277 Canal Street, Manhattan. PHILADELPHIA — Shipping strong and expanding SIU in the picked up considerably this tough days ahead. week, with two payoffs, the SS After all, the sound condition John H. Marion — a Liberty of the Building and Strike tanker, one of the recent addi­ Funds, which has made the Com­ tions to the SIU, and a good panies respect the Union and its ship with a clean payoff—and ability to go through with what­ the SS George Gershwin, an Al­ ever it starts, had no small share coa Liberty loadjng grain here in gaining the recent raise and for Germany. This also paid off the new two year contracts. clean, and took an entire new An extra $10.00 right now can crew since this was a transporta­ be expected to do the same thing tion payoff. for the organizational drives and Incidentally, this new ruling the expanding program of the which requires men to get off Union. the ship when they get trans­ portation money, has been re­ ceived by the membership here as a damn good thing. The consensus of opinion is It sounded like a bum beef to By JOE ALGINA that it is undercutting the spirit the Union since there had been of the agreement, for a man to NEW YORK—Business in this an argument with Bull on the take the money which the Union port is good, and shipping is has forced the companies to pay still pretty fair for I'ated men in same score a few weeks back. so that men can get back to the the Deck and Engine Depart­ So the SIU and the MM&P got port where they signed on, and ments. Stewards are having a together and looked into the question. then to remain with the ship. harder time getting out, how­ They found that the company But to do this at the present ever. had bought a lot of pretty un­ time, when many Brothers are 0.ne guy who gets a job for savory food while the Beatrice hard-up for a job, is hardly an the asking is the AB who has a was lying in New York during action becoming a Union green ticket. The new Coast the ILA strike in Puerto Rico. Guard rule says that two-thirds This was at a time when the Brother! There were a number of ships of the ABs on any ship niust company had tried to fire the in transit which were contacted have the green tickets, and there Steward. The Steward was not by the Patrolman: The SS Robin are plenty of ABs with blue even aboard when the food was Qoodfellow, the Robin Doncaster, tickets who are eligible for the bought, since the SIU man was the SS Cape Race of South At­ green one. then in the process of getting his If you are an AB and have job back. To make a long story lantic; and the John B. Water­ three years seatime, get yourself short, the Steward and the Cook man. Several coastwise vessels also the green ticket if you haven't are both still on the ship. We also paid off two tankers touched here. All of these ships already. You'll be doing your­ belonging to US Waterways. were visited, and all left with self and the Union a favor. We had some pretty fair pay­ They came in to be fireproofed the beefs cleaned up and every­ offs in this port during the past in accordance with Coast Guard body happy. week. Among the good ones orders. Just how long before THEY LIKE IT were the Steel Age, Isthmian; they will come out again we Stephen Leacock, South Atlantic; don't know. The reports of the Emergency Canton Victory, Watei-nian; Al­ We signed on some ships too, Agent's Conference that were gonquin Victory, Saint Lawrence carried in the last LOG were Navigation; Seatrain New Jersey all with a minimum of trouble. In fact, we had a routine week. well receivetl here. B.Y^ryone is and the Carolyri, Bull Line. BIG WIND enthusiastic about the new pro­ BULL STUFF gram and this Port is back of it Labor Day was a typically 100 percent. We had another Bull Line ves­ windy holiday. All the politi­ The $10.00 assessment for the sel, the Beatrice—whose payoff cians mounted their rostrums to General Fund, which is coming would have been okay, if it proclaim that they were labor's up on the Referendum ballot, hadn't been for a dispute over friends and benefactors. They will mean a lot toward seeing the Steward. The ship's officers this program through. We feel claimed that the chow was bad sure that it will pass with flying and that either the Steward or colors, for the membership is the Chief Cook would have to aware of the importance of a leave. MOBILE — Shipping here was fair, but no better than that dur­ ing the past week. At least it was better than it was the week be­ fore—which is something. We had five payoffs, two signons and three ships in transit. There were jobs for 91 bookmen and 30 permits. Ships signing on were Water­ man's Governor Kilby and Al­ coa's Ranger, plus two ships with continuous articles, the Alcoa Corsair and the Morning Light. The payoffs were on the Pe­ gasus, Ranger, and Corsair, all Alcoa, and the Governor Kilby, Morning Light and Lafayette, all Waterman. There were no serious • beefs on these ships, what there were being settled without any diffi­ culty. In fact, the only beef of any proportions during the weeks was inside the Union. On the Morning Light, the crew lost a few hours of over­ time because five members of Shipping For Rated Men Fair In New York From The Sixth Deck By EDDIE BENDER Your book number is the surest way of identifying yourself in the Union so, if you have not memorized it yet, you had better do so. It will come in handy sometime, for one can never tell when or how his book might be lost or when he might have a beef to settle. If you ever have to write to Headquarters, lor a duplicate book, a beef, or what-have-you, it is best t.o mention this number. If you hold a permit, mention this number. It will facilitate the handling of your case, and you will get a quicker response to your communication. When it comes to requesting a duplicate bo.ok or permit, always enclose the required $1.00 fee. Payment mu^t be in postal money order or a postal note. Make it payable to the Seafarers International Union, 51 Beaver Street, New York City 4, N. Y. Be sure to place the notation, "Attention Sixth Floor," so that It will go directly to the Records Department at Headquarters, and insure the prompt handling of your case. \ — shouted it loud, long and often^— as they always do. And, as usuaT, all the yelling amounted to a fiat nothing. The politicians never give labor anything. Labor gets what it fights for, and no more. We'll keep on fighting for the seamen and let somebody else play footsie with the politicians. That's the way the SIU always has done things and always will. Meanwhile the employers com­ plain that strikes are "ruining" them and that labor must be held in check. The sometimes confused public listens, little knowing that management has strike techniques of its own which are anything but pretty. If there is a big strike, it gets in the headlines across the coun­ try. Everything is in the open. Business does it in different ways. Big companies get together on little private agreements on prices—and you and 1 shell out money. Or, instead of private agreements, they make war on each other. They undercut each other's prices, force the weak outfits to the wall, or keep some­ body from getting into business at all. the Deck Department were late" for sailing on several occasions. The men who caused the troubleare being brought up on charges for their performing. Shipping looks as if it were going to be pretty slow for a at least the next week and per­ haps longer. Neither Waterman nor Alcoa reports much stirring. With practically no ships in port, the Marine Allied Work­ ers' Towboat and Riggers Divi­ sion is finding thing a bit rough. Five tugs were laid up and the; riggers, who had been working on the ships as they came in, are just about knocked off. SOME IMPROVEMENT However, this situation is looking a little bit better. Water­ man sent twO' tugs outside and called back two small tugs from idle status for harbor work. When the tugs that went outside bring in the LSTs they are tow­ ing, there will be some work for the riggers. The SIU Fishermen have suc­ ceeded in persuading the State Conservation Department to move the legal line so that they can shrimp further in than they have been. Before the new line was set up, the shrimpers were not able to go past Arlington Pier in Mobile. However, they claimed that the shrimps inside the line were bigger and more plentiful The Unions and the state offi­ cials got together and agreed to make a test run of the water in­ BERNSTEIN BUCKED Take the case of Arnold Bern­ stein. He's trying to buy two big passenger ships from the Government and operate them in the North Atlantic trade under side the line. ^ After ,j;he test, the the American flag. The mer­ state discovered it would be okay chant marine is notoriously de­ to open up some extra water to ficient in passenger tonnage and the fishermen, which will be you would think that everybody done right away. ^ would hail his effort, especially There is nothing new on since he wants to carry passen­ the unemployment compensation gers at low rates and give lots battle down here. There is an of people a chance to travel. appeals court hearing scheduled And doubtless many people for September 8, and we will would like to see him get the represent all members involved. ships. But the i-est of the ship­ We expect a final and binding ping industry is fighting him docisiori from tlio Stots Sii'^rom© tooth and nail. The United Court in the very near future. States Lines, the Black Diamond QUIET PICTURE Line and the Waterman Steam­ ship Corporation came hurrying The labor picture in Mobile is up to the Maritime Commission [ quite serene this week, there be­ to "prove" how terrible it would | ing no beefs hanging fire. The be for the industry and the na­ other night. Brother Morris Al­ tion if Bernstein should get those port of the Teamsters was vessels. It's the knife in the elected president of the Central Trades and Labor Council to fill back. If a Union were to try some­ out the term of Brother C. H. thing like that up would go a Applewhite who resigned a while hue and cry that labor's power back. Brother Alport, who is Busi­ must be chocked. But what the shipping companies do gets ness Agent for the Teamsters, is a member of Mobile's powerful buried in the news. The voting has started on the Maritime Trades Council. Con­ assessment for the General Fund. gratulations to Brother Alport! Now is the time to build that There always are a few oldFund to a point where nobody timers around this port. Right now you can find the following: ran hurt us. The Taft-Hartley boys are go­ A. M. Wiggins, J. Walters, J. P. ing to keep hammering at us Dixon, H. Thompson, W. Rey­ and we have to keep in con­ nolds. J. R. Mayes, H. Augustus, stant readiness for them, for the W. Marshall, A. F. Wright, J. P. ship operators are part of them. Crawford, D. Saxon, L. Stone, A vote for the assessment is a Curley Price, C. Aubert, E. T. vote for a Union strong enough Hardeman, E. D. Scott, Lefty to buck anything that comes McNorton, E. De Angelo and Paul Chattey. along. ^ �Page Six THE SEAFA.RERS LOG Shipping Slows, And New Hail Only Cheer In Port Tampa TMdap, September 10. 1948 DOCK HUCKSTER IN EGYPT A little closer to home, and of more interest to the membership, is the report on the progress of the Hall. Our building is just about complete. It's a real swell lay-out. If business were only as good as our Hall we would have the best shipping of any ^ f4\3 port. About ftie onlj'- thin|(s our menv bers are finding to boast about are the contracts and building. Next week we are slated to At least we can crow about these. receive the usual three Water­ FRIENDLY TENANTS man ships and one Alcoa, but all jobs are as good as gone all One side of the building is U, ready. These berths will be just about ready for tenants. The snapped up by the bookmen Office Workers and the Cigar waiting on the beach, so a per- Box Makers Union are waiting, and the Longshoremen also want mitman is wise-if he steers clear space. of this port. This arrangement will make things nice for all hands. The BROKEN HEARTED Cigar Workers have long been An incident which should our friends. They assisted us prove of interest to the member- during the General Strike and, if ship, though I don't know what things ever come to swords it proves, took place here last points with them, we will be able to reciprocate. • week. A member of the com-, The rainy season is about over, miuiist party chose this port for and while most of the country is his swan song. In a real dram­ sweating it out, we are having atic manner he gave his all to mild weather. In fact, nights the cause. are actually cool h§re. The Moses Cleveland, a LuckSeveral oldtimers are hanging mback ship, came into Tampa around waiting for the long one. to go into di-ydock. A Wiper Some of them are Harry Sim­ aboard, an avowed conununist, mons, Markos Franggos, Buddy received word that the commies Baker, Morse Ellsworth, Joe had been swept out of office in Wreadand, Bobby Sheppard, to the NMU. A sketch by Seafarer Norman Mciffie name but a few. The news acted on him like a shot. He ranted and raved over the deck of the ship, swearing that the world had gone to ruin now that all the commies were to picket captains, crews and however, since the men on our By AL BERNSTEIN and ou* in the street. -everybody else involved. They ships here are first-rate Sea­ FRENCHY MICHELET farers, A&G style. were also instructed to report SWAN DIVE SAN FRANCISCO — Shipping by telephone every 30 minutes. 'ROUND-THE-CLOCK He proceeded to work himself on the West Coast was brought The crews of A&G ships were into a frenzy and, finally, he to a complete halt the other day instructed to listen to no or­ During the week, we have grabbed his money, waved at his when the CIO Longshoremen, the ders, suggestions or requests held a meeting every day to MCS and the MFOWW hit the from anyone except accredited discuss what we have to do in bricks. representatives from the A&G's the face of the strike and its With the strike now well into San Francisco Hall. relation to our ships. In addi­ its first week, things are pro­ This policy paid dividends al­ tion we've had to keep the San ceeding quietly — so quietly, in most immediately. A sound truck Francisco Hall open 24 hours a fact, that, except for the picket- operated by one of the striking day to cope with the situation. lines in front of them, the var- unions cruised the waterfront Incidentally, the first man to -ious terminals and docks look urging all crews to pile off their no different from the way they ships. The A&G delegates check­ volunteer for night duty was ever looked before. But shipping ed with this office and were Brother H. Beckman, who check­ ed calls all through the first is at a standstill. told to keep the men aboard to night we were open. Since then There has been no trouble of maintain the contracts. we have had more than enough any sort in this port. In fact, volunteers and we intend to CALLING CARDS the only place there has been stay on a 24-hour basis until any trouble at all is Wilming­ After due deliberation, we the strike is over. shipmates, and with a yell of "to ton, where there was a fiare-up printed cards identifying our I The boys have been enthusi­ hell with it all" took a dive over between the SUP and the CIO men and requesting picket cap­ astic about helping out. Several longshoremen on an issue that the side. tains to let them through. The who had taken to the hills after had nothing to do with the cards read as follows: The police fished his body out coastwise strike. recent payoffs to get in a little "Picket Captain: Please pass vacation time have called in four hours later. His dough was SHIP LINE-UP Brother of SS long-distance to find out what missing. at Pier The following A&G-contracted they could do. At the inquest later, the crew ships were in San Francisco who is going aboard this ves­ told the commissioner that the when the strike broke: Monroe sel to maintain our contractual ' Incidentally, after one of our man had preached the "doctrine" 'Victory and Steel Inventor, Isth­ obligations and for safety of bull sessions on the strike,-there was a Brother telling us what aU during the trip, and that the mian; Yorkmar, Calmar; and the ship. §:• 'a swell time he had in Reno. defeat of the commies in the I Waterman's Maiden Victory. "Under no circumstances . His accoimt didn't sound much NMU elections had proved too I Due up the coast are the will this Brother remain much for him. He was a mem­ Lyons, Smith & Johnson; Isth­ aboard the above-mentioned like the Reno we knew, so we questioned him rather closely. ber of the MFOWW. mian's Clyde Seavey and Cal- vessel in the event of strike­ "Sure I was in Reno," he said, mar's Marymar. breaking tactics on the part On the local labor front: "and I can prove it by these Scheduled to arrive at Broadof 'the operator." The Teamsters here are having i wood on the Columbia River is The cards bear the letter­ pictures. I was right there in a run-in with the Yellow Cab Waterman's Purdue Victory, head of the San Francisco "Hall Reno de Janeko." Company, the first unionized That is the complete picture of and are signed by an A&G company in the area. The cab Pf' A&G shipping on the Coast at official. company's manager is doing all present. Although the picket captains if' he can to break the union, but The morning the strike began, have honored the cards on every fc. from all indications he is going we called a special meeting at occasion so far, we have urged If you have a beef or a to run into a snag. I' problem wheii you're on fhe A&G Headquarters here. We our members not to walk K There are a couple of SlU elected W. McKay, C. Quinnt, through the lines unnecessarily. West Coast. f;onlact the new men pushing hacks for this com­ Joe Gordon and "Shorty" Foos A&G Hall, 85 Third Street. "Pass through only after the pany. Our men were also in­ as a rank-and-file committee to picket captain clears you, and The telephone number is strumental in organizing the Red serve as strike observers at the then eo about your business," DOuglas 2-5475. Drop in be­ Top Cab Company, a notorious docks where A&G ships might we f!dl each man. We don't tween ships, and get ac­ quainted. link outfit, which now has a be affected. want any incidents. Not that we contract with the Teamsters. They were instructed to talk have much to worry about, TAMPA—This port is wallow­ ing in the worst streak of bad shipping to hit here since the war. For the past two weeks all activities has been at a stand­ still. Tomorrow we get our first break when the John Laurence Of Waterman will head in. Thursday we are scheduled to receive the Smiley. Bridges' Strike Haits West Coast Shipping On The Coast 4 Port Baltimore Reports Week's Shipping Rise By WILLIAM (Curly) RENTZ BALTIMORE — Shipping has picked up in the past two weeks. Most of the men have been tak­ ing the jobs and we have even had to send out to other ports for men. • ^ We had payoffs on the Ore Line's Steelore, and Oremar; Isthmian's Cape Elizabeth, Steel Navigator, and St. Augustine Victory; the Governor Graves, Waterman; the Robin Goodfellow; and the Henry Rice, Alcoa. We are hoping for some good payoffs in the week to come. Four ships signed on: Steelore, Oremar, Governor Graves, and St. Augustine Victory. We should have sortie more sign-ons next week with a few Isthmians that are at present in the repair yard, and several Alcoas. There have been some Alcoas and W&termans here in transit that just pull in, load, and leave without calling for replacements. Most of them crew up in the Gulf. There have been a few minor beefs, but most of them have been straightened out right on the ship. KNOWING THE SCORE The crews are doing a good job in that respect for, by know­ ing the agreement and living up to it, most of the half-phony beefs are eliminated. The good beefs were straightened out right on the ship with all mem­ bers present. On a .Waterman and a Robin ship there was not even one beef; while on the Henry Rice everything was okay, except for one man who started to get off and then changed his mind after a replacement had been dis­ patched. When you start to get off, be sure that you do; for when you change your mind the last min­ ute you ball everything up. It is not right, and it causes trouble for the Dispatcher and for the men that are shipped. FIGHT DOES IT Some other Unions cry that the SIU always gets'the best of everything. They forget that the SIU has fought for everything that it has gotten, and has never sold out as some of the others have done. We are watching the tie-ups on the West Coast and wondering how it will effect us. The MFOW and MCS are go­ ing out on strike here. They already have a few pickets out on their ships. We are standing by to see what is what. There are some gashounds around, but they don't hang around the Hall, for they know that we are watching them and will lower the boom if they in­ terfere with Union business. One Cities Service tanker came in and we hit her right away. Everything was okay. She is in the shipyard for repairs and will be around for a while. Both Cuba Distillery tankers were in the shipyard, too, and one is still there. We hit them every day to be sure that everything is all right and stays that way. The boys in the hospital are doing all right. That raise and the new contracts made them all feel a lot better. They are all anxious to start sailing again, and we sure wish them the best of luck. �tBM SEAFARERS 10 G ^Sbcfi SirykMiim: W;. lAi SEAFARERS AND FRIENDS IN MOBILE In photo aboTe, SIU members axe seen in Mobile liall sfaorily after special meeting in wKioh they discussed situation at State DocdES during sscnitt jlS'L Carmen's beef. Below are members of a committee of AFL Tii^ple Wbrlters Union which holds its meet­ ings in SIU Mobile Hall. The Tipple Werkers is aneSier .of- the labor organizations with which the SIU enjoys a close-woridng relationship. ai Page Sevet/ I Mesoil Struck By Freighter; Runs Aground In Argentine Bearing temporai-y patches, the Federal Motorship Corporation's SS Mosoil is bound for the States after an ill-fated South American trip during which she collided with a Belgian freighter and ran aground twice, according to word just received from Seafarer C. J. Hill, Deck Delegate. The Mosoil spent about a month in Buenos Aires, under­ going temporary repairs on her starboard side, and left the Ar­ gentine port on Sept. 2. She is one of the vessels acquired by the SIU in its drive on unor­ ganized tanker companies be­ gun early this year. Calamity first struck the Mo­ soil on July 12, as she left Buenos Aires and was proceed­ ing up the river to Rosario. "Our steering gear broke down in the channel," Hill says, "as W were apprbaching the Belgian steamer, Henry Jasper. The dan­ ger signal was given on the ship's whistle and the Jasper dropped her hook, but she NEW YORK SS LONGVIEW VICTORY N. T. Curran, $1.00; A. P. Permljo, $2.00; J. Ekland, $5.00; M. R. Salvador. $1.00; S. C. Hudgena, $3.00; A. Mar­ tinez. $1.00; J. Cubano. $1.00; H. J. White. $5.00; R. L. Aiu. $3.00; F. Cas­ tro. $3.00; E. O. Sucre. $2.00; J. Fer­ nandez. $3.00; A. Wiessner. $3.00; J. P. Macahilas, $2.00; S. Paacual. $1.00; A. C. Dejesus, $2.00; L. R. Hynes; $2.00; J. Rharriman. $2.00; F. Tokarchuq. $1.00; Grpgan. $1.00; E. Pacheco. $4.00; V. Cellini. $2.00; C. Ford. $2,00. SS STEEL EXECUTIVE W. C. Harrington. $5.00; R. Doupe. $2.00; A. R. Swiszczowski, $1;00; A. C. Belt. $2.00; R. Finstrom. $5.00; A. J. Jensen. $2.00; L. Gocko. $3.00; R. Anzaione. $2.00; J. A. Smith, $2.00; A. Saunders. $2.00; J. B. Crowley, $2.00; F. W. John, $2.00; A. Adomaites. $5.00; A. M. Cheverez. $3.00; B. A. Graivberg. $2.00; F. Rasmussen. $3.00; B. B. Amezquita. $2.00; C. Reiff. $2.00; B. L. Robbins. $2.00; R. 1. Pelayo. $2.00; S. Potunia. $2.0'0; J. B. Pereira. $5.00; O. A. Payne. $2.00; L. Rinaldl. $1.00; J. W. Smith. $2.00; B. A. Mode. $5.00. SS STEEL FABRICATOR V. Suska. $3.00; A. Sparrow. $2.00; J. D. Howiaon. $2.00; V.. Sedes. $5.00; A1 Thomas. $5.00; P. J. Welsh. $2.00; W. R. Serpe. $2.00; S. Gordon. $2.00; P. Reyes. $3.00; C. Flores. $2.00; D. Blonstein. $1.00; T. R. Tobiaasen. $3.00; C. Rodriguez. $3.00; C. P. Rose. $3.00; H. Aquio. $2.00; V. Arevalo. $5.00; M. F. Villacarte. $3.00; E. Ojeca. $1.00; R. P. Negron. $1:00; M. Martin. $2.00; P. D. Velez. $2.00; M. Magdael. $6.00. SS SEATRAIN HAVANA F. H. Pitts. $5.00; J. J. Word. Jr.. $1.00. SS J. B. WATERMAN W. V. Newhiff. $1.00; C. A. Nickerson. $1.00; 11. C. Hill. $1.00; D. S. Gardner. $1.00; H. Kohv. $2.00; P. R. Davis. $2.00; B. Bugesson. $1.00; S. Pateras. $1.00; E. Belkner. $1.00; E. Steele. $2.00; F. Wonsor. $2.00; A. T. Thibodeau. $1.00; J. Boldiszar. $1.00; A. . Oyhus. $1.00. A. Plutes. $1.00; S. Piuainski, $1.00; J. Anderson. $2.00; C. H. Burner. Jr., $1.00; P. Riohter. $1.00; J. Sanlouzans. $2.00; P. Pron. $1.00; N. Tripp. $2.00; C. H. Reiss. $1.00; C. Andrew. $1.00; J. Vilos. $1.00; J. J. Monahan. $2.00; R. H. Bridge. $1.00; j. Jimenz, $5.00; B. C. Simpson. $1.00; E. Jusino. $1.00; J. F. Pacheco. $2 00. SS ALGONQUIN VICTORY W. G. Appleby. $2.00; B. D. Fried­ man. $1.00; E. Blevins, ..$1.00; K. L. Hogan. $2.00; A. S. Blomkvist, $2.00; J. Bumgardner. $5.00; J. S. Asavicius. $2.00; F. Redman. $3.00; K. E. Morie. $2.00; J. R. Rodriguez. $20.00; L. A.. Cramboli. $1.00; J. Czerwinaki. $3.00; J. Viga, $1.00; L. A. Ware. $1.00; W. Murrell. $3.00; E. E. Roloff. $1.00; N. j; Wright; $2:00; W. J. Doyle. $1.00; E. v. Smith. $1.00; D. Ortiz. $2.00; M. X. Pinto, $1.00. Gadsdeu Mate Makes Own Werking Ruies By LOU GOFFIN and RAY GONZALES clarifications were found neces­ sary the Union and the com­ pany would make such decisions. On the Gadsden, a heavy lift ship carrying locomotives, the Mate has a little more authority over the sailors than on the usual run of cargo ships. On paying off the MV Gadsden recently, we discovered a Chief Mate who takes it upon himself to clarify our contract. Very of­ ficiously, this guy decided to make up a set of rules, which OVERSTEPS LIMITS the sailors would have to abide Regardless of his authority, he by. has no right to make his own After we glanced at these working rules. Oddly enough, rules, we informed the Mate most of his working rules were pulled from the contract and that the SIU had a signed con- then altered to suit his personal suit themselves. Remind them that the only contracts the crews are required to work un­ der are the ones negotiated by the Union with the steamship ooerator. X % couldn't stop in time to kedp from hitting us. "She hit us forward of the bridge on the starboard side." No one was hurt as holes were torn in several of the MosoiTs tanks and the starboard side 6f the bridge and shelter deck were torn off, according to the DeckDelegate. The Jasper hit the Mosoil again on the after deck house, then bounced off. Hill said that none of the crew knew what had happened until it was all over, as no general alarm was sounded. "A tug took us to anchorage," the Deck Delegate's account con­ tinues, "and the Engineers re­ paired the steering engine that night. We got underway for Rosario about six the next morn­ ing. RUNS AGROUND "That afternoon we ran aground. We were aground three days and nights. On the third night a small tanker came and took part of our cargo off, and the next 'morning we jesumed our trip to Rosario." Leaving Rosario July 29 for anchorage outside of Buenos Aires, the Mosoil again ran aground in the river. The ship remained in that position for 12 hours, awaiting the next high water to get free. When she returned to Buenos Aires on Aug. 2, divers went down to inspect the damage and discovered "a rip about 40 feet long and eight feet wide, from the No. 1 to No. 4 tanks on the starboard side." Temporary repairs were then begun. CREWED IN SAVANNAH Prior to the succession of set­ backs in the Argentine, the Mo­ soil had left Savannah March 13 for Curacao. From there she carried oil to Swansea, England, returning to Curacao for another cargo destined for Santos, Brazil. Discharging in Santos, the Mo­ soil again went back to Curacao, took on oil cargoes and headed for Buenos Aires, Rosario, and her unlucky experiences. Built in 1920, the Mosoil for­ merly sailed under the Cities Service banner as the Kansas. Before she was acquired by the Federal Motorship outfit she was in the boneyard for two years. ^ views. This encounter with the Gad­ sden's Chief Mate is good reason for reminding all hands that we liave complete contracts with our companies. AH working rules, living conditions and wages are set forth in these agreements and private agree­ ments are out—and how! If crews require clarifications on any point, they can get them at any Union Hall. As long as we do our work in accordance with the provisions of the con­ tract with the company and that tracts, everything will run along we expected, not only the un­ smoothly. licensed personnel to live up to Keep a weather eye open for it, but the officers as well. these mates and engineers who He was also told that, if any!try to interpret the contracts to Starboard side of the tanker Mosoil's boal deck as it looked r after being struck by Belgian freighter. ? �Pag» Eighi THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. Septembar 10. 1948 SHIPS' MINUTES AMD MEWS r^l yf SI i;i -i J1f I tI Seafarer Sam Vandal's Fifty-Year Career Studded With Colorful Jobs KEEPING HER STEADY The first morning Seafarer Samuel Louis Vandal was at sea he heaved a bucket of slops to windward—and learned his first lesson in seamanship the hard way more than 50 years ago. Of course, he was not the first fledgling seaman to make this mis­ take—^nor the last. But per-'* haps there was more excuse to which he was to return sev­ duty was to keep order on the eral times in the future, but sparsely settled South African for Sam Vandal than for he did not remain long on this veldt. Vandal at various times most since he was only 12 visit. was stationed at Capetown, Pre­ Still anxious to see the world, toria and Johannesburg. But, al­ years old. He had awakenec that morning as a stowaway he went to Canada where he though the Boer War was still joined the Colonial Moimted fresh in local memories, he re­ on a square-rigged grain Territorials of the British Army. ports that his South African ship out of Perth, on the That was before Canada became tour was relatively uneventful. south coast of Australia, a dominion and won control Vandal left the Moxmted Co­ bound for Europe, and had over an army of its own. As a lonials in 1909 and returned to been put to work. It was member of the British Army, the bakery in Paterson where Vandal was subject to service he remained until the First the beginning of a long and anywhere in the Empire—or be­ World War broke out in August colorful career as seaman, yond if so ordered. 1914. After the German Kaiser circus performer, shoreside Vandal did two three-year started things going. Vandal was hitches, spending most of the recalled by the British and once baker and soldier. That trip was Vandal's first first hitch in South Africa and again he "took the King's shill­ This unposed shot of Quartermaster Charles Scherhaus experience with the sea, and it India, and during the second ing," as he terms it. was taken aboard the Seatrain Havana recently. Brother P. was to be a long time before seeing garrison duty in Ireland He served in the Royal Horse Reese, who took photo, writes that "Scherhaus, Deck Delegate he went back to it as a seaman. and on Britain's Salisbury Plain. Artillery until he was invalided But he recalls the name of that In Africa he learned to talk out in 1917 with'gas in his eyes on the vessel, didn't know what had happened until I re­ leased the shutter." He adds that the QM was just one of old square-rigger. She was the Afrikaans, the language similar and throat and shrapnel in his to Dutch spoken by the Boers. leg. He fought at Antwerp un­ a very good crew on board. The Colonial Mounteds were der Kitchener, and was in the roving Military Police whose bitter 10-day British retreat from that port which always is a focal point in any war in west­ ern Europe. In 1920, Vandal returned to Paterson where he worked until 1929 when he left the bakery to Some fancy side-stepping took was slightly rough but no become a concessionaire at coun­ the Eastern Steamship cruise trouble was encountered. try clubs throughout New Jer­ ship Evangeline out of the path DeMeo said the Evangeline Brother Oskar Frederic Ofest­ sey. He remained in this line of a hurricane's projected course ley, SUP 1507, met with a fatal for 10 years, serving as Chief last week but she had to put in carries "a darned good crew of accident on the SS Maiden Vic­ Steward at a number of clubs. at Norfolk instead of calling at Seafarers. He added that "prob­ ably the reason we never have tory, August 27, when the ship The *hief drawback was that Nassau, as scheduled. any trouble is that Frenchy Ruf was about 27 miles off shore near the money didn't pile up very The New York-West Indies is aboard."San Diego, enroute to Los An­ fast. Eventually he resumed the cruise ship altered her course Jerry has been a member of geles, according to a communi­ baker's trade. Aug. 28 after getting storm the SIU for three years. His cation to the LOG from Casimir During the late war, he re­ warnings en route from Bermuda Honorowski, Deck Delegate. turned to the sea as a baker to Nassau. She would have had brother Alex, also sails on SIUcontracted ships. The latter writes that Ofestley after trying to enlist in the to cross the hurricane's path to accidentally slipped while work- armed forces. He has been sail­ ng aloft on number three king ing steadily ever since except make the Bahaman port. post, and fell to the deck. He for a recent stay in the hospi­ SETS NEW COURSE SAMUEL VANDAL never regained conscioimess, al­ tal. He was hurt aboard Alcoa's The Evangeline left Bermuda The Evangeline's sister ship, Princess Alice, and she was though he was immediately car­ Wild Ranger in May of this year anrw;"s"drydocked in Trinidad Thursday That afternoon the the Yarmouth, also had its mo­ ried to the ship's hospital, and master-owned which was a com­ hurricane's movement began and ment last week. Entering Boston the Chief Mate and the Captain for a spell before returning to: mon practice at the time. She by Friday it was apparent the Harbor on September 4 the Yar­ did all that was possible^ for him. the States. He's ready to go was a proud ship for her day, storm might cross the Bermuda- mouth collided with a whale— again now. ALL EFFORTS FAIL but a seaman's life was rough Nassau line. At 4 F. M., the the whale coming off second The Captain radioed for a when Vandal first left his Aus­ NOTHING EXCITING shipi's loudspeakers announced best in the engagement. No plane and got a prompt re­ tralian home. Of his wartime sailing Van­ that a new course was being set damage was suffered by the sponse. The sea-plane arrived dal has little to say. "Nothing HIGH-POLE MAN for Hampton Roads because of Eastern Steamship Company ves­ before the Deck Gang had J;he Shortly after arriving in Eng­ exciting" happened he claims. the storm danger. sel, but it was necessary for the land, Vandal, who was an agile No. 1 lifeboat ready. He was "No bombs, no mines, nothing." Buses met the vessel when she big passenger ship to back up lad, joined a traveling circus. transferred to the plane, which But when pressed he admits pulled into the Army base pierto free the mammel impaled on He worked as a "high pole" per­ took off for a shore base. But that he was^ imder fire in Ant­ its bow. side the morning of Aug. 29 and former with a troupe called Brother Ofestley passed on be­ werp, an experience that vividly the passengers were taken to "Daredevil De Caruso and Com­ fore the plane could land. recalled his service with the pany." He stuck with the De Ofestley was born in 1886 in British Army in the other war. Virginia Beach to spend the day Thanks Cape Race Men that otherwise would have been Carusos fbr six years, traveling Norway, and so far as is known A staunch Seafarer, Vandal is enjoyed at Nassau. he had no kin in this country or For 'Brotherliness' the length and breadth of the proud of the SIU's achievements. abroad. According to Delegate British Isles, Europe and the He points to his own participa­ HEADS FOR GOTHAM Seafarer Aardi Huffart really United States. Finally, one day Honorowski, he was quiet and tion in the 1946 General Strike found out the meaning of the in Cardiff, Wales, somebody left efficient, and was well liked. He which was the biggest beef he Next morning the Evangeline words "Brotherhood of the Sea" a loose board at the top of the took his place in the crew and ever was in. But he insists that headed for New York so she from the crew of the SS Cape high pole and Vandal, 18 years was a good shipmate. the most important victory the could aiTive on schedule. Race, South Atlantic, last month. old by then, fell 118 feet. That Brother Honorowski states in SlU ever won was the Isthmian Seafarer Jerry DeMeo, OS, Huffart missed his ship in was the end of the circus phase his letter, "we aU know and Strike which he missed because who served as ship's telephone Belfast and was left high and realize that some of these days of his career. "I became," as operator told .the LOG the trip he was at sea. dry. However, he was picked up the earth and the sea will give he puts it, "unfit for the high He maintains that the victory by the Cape Race and he says up their dead and we shall stand pole." over Isthmian gave the SIU tre­ his SIU Brothers really took His one broken leg, two before a Just Judge, and we mendous prestige on every wa­ care of him. broken arms - and four broken shall rest at ease in His hands. terfront in the world. The .sea­ They bought him gear from The slop chest is your cor­ ribs kept him in drydock for a We know Fred will get a square men of other nations knew all the slopchest, and after the ship year. When he came out of the deal and. from what we saw of about Isthmian, he says, and ner store while you are at paid off in Baltimore the other hospital he recalled his trip to him we are glad for his ex­ when the Seafarers made Isth­ sea. You can't take your day they advanced him the fare America with the troupe and ample among us, and we miss mian say "uncle" the eyes of to his home in New York. faiight a ship as a passenger. him." maritime labor in every marl-, trade someplace else if the slop chest doesn't have what "Those guys did everything in He ended up in Paterson, New A memorial service and a min­ time nation looked with respect the world for me, and I'll never you need. Jersey, where he worked as a ute of silence was the crew's at the most militant union of forget them," Huffart says. them all. baker. It was a city and a job tribute to him. Brother Ofestley Dies Aboard Maiden Victory Quick Tum-In To Norfolk Saves Evangeline From Gale Whale Whaled iW AHENTION! �Friday. Saplember 10. 1948 TEE SEAFARERS LOG Page Nine Digested Minutes Of SlU Ship Meetings in Singapore and Hong Kong LAKE GEORGE. Aug. 11— Chairman Edward Hayston; Re­ which would be turned over to Patrolman. Engine Delegate re­ cording Secretary Sidney M. Lipschitz. Brother Wilson elected ported that it is alleged the Chief Engineer had tampered Ship's Delegate. Department with the finished-with-engines delegates reported no beefs. Un• J I ML -J record, and a motion carried to der New Business motion carried have this investigated upon to fine anyone allowing Arabs ship's return. Deck Delegate re­ in the foc'sles five dollars, this ported disputed overtime. Under money to go to the hospital fund. New Business, a motion was Under Good and Welfare, the made by Brother Gransberg to Ship's Delegate was asked to have the rate of exchange al­ consult Chief Engineer on having lowed by the Master in giving the fresh water tanks cleaned. It draws in Hong Kong investi­ was decided to write to the gated, as it was below the pub­ Secretary-Treasurer to ask that the FWT who failed to report the Samjoy Laundry of Mobile. lished official rate for the day. aboard ship after being shipped Motions carried regarding clean­ Brother Mitchell reported that WO YSARS OF PEACE LfE/^HEA-D OF THE from the Hall be investigated, liness of laundry room, and the Captain had failed to recog­ AEG DISTRICT/ BECAUSE. OF Th'fc A/EW and to point out that the non­ messroom. One minute of sil­ nize a Ship's Delegate, as he stated that the Agreement only COAJTRAGT SIGA/ED BY OUR OPERATORS union replacement sent aboard ence for Brothers lost at sea. called for department delegates. has proved to be okay, and •—-TWO YEARS VVHICH WE CAN/ DEvOlE TO XXX RAPHAEL SEMMES. July 11 Brother Mitchell's resignation PUIL-DINS AND '^RBNGTHEAJIMG OUR would be recommended to the Patrolman when the ship got —Chairman Maurice Norriss; Re­ was refused by the crew. Mo­ ADD/Ne TO-THET JOBS UNDER, SlU COA/TRACTS . back. One minute of silence for cording Secretcuy James Terra- tion carried for the Deck Dele­ cino. No beefs reported by Dele­ gate to make up a separate over­ departed Brothers. VCTE TO BUILD THE gates. The meeting went into time sheet of Mate's work on C5E/S1ERALFUND — so WE CAN • Good and Welfare where the deck. DO THE THIM0S WE SHOULD — Deck Delgate suggested that the AMD DO! Mate be asked to inspect the sailors' foc'sles to see that they need sougeeing. There was dis­ cussion between the Night Cook and Baker, and the Chief Cook regarding the proper division of X X ^ MORNING LIGHT. July 5— their work. The chair suggested Chairman Leroy Nicholas: Re­ that books be returned to li­ XXX By HANK cording Secretary Ralph Whitley. brary, extra linen be returned to ' NATHANIEL B. PALMER, July 7 — Chairman "Dutchie" The Engine Delegate reported linen locker. Brother Terracino Brother "Dutchy" Moore, the Florida brother full of jokes minor overtime disputes, and suggested that new bed spreads Moore: Recording Secretary and tricks, just came in from a trip to Germany. After talking Worth Pittman. Under Old Busi­ be obtained. Vote of thanks to asked that the Electrician's book with "Larceny" Pete Larsen, "Whiskey" Sam Luttrell (fresh out ness, "Dutchie" Moore reported Stewards Department for good be checked for Isthmian strike nowadays) and Bob High, who probably believes that all the that the crew had wanted an food. One minute of silence for clearance. Motion carried under world loves a joker, Dutchy spliced us the news about the only investigation made to find out New Business to have catwalks Brothers lost at sea. New York restaurant, to his knowledge, which dishes out real why there was a large number put on all deck cargoes for the Florida-styled cooking, especially chicken and yellow rice. It's of first-trippers placed on this safety of ships' crews. Motions a Spanish place somewhere around 46th Street and Eighth ship. He said that it had been to have delegates inspect quar­ Avenue... If the wives and mothers of our Brothers won't get turned over to the officials. New ters before payoffs, and for no offended, we'll try passing on a joke we heard. One guy asked Business: Motion carried that the one to pay off till beefs are another guy if he knew the definition of a lie detector. The other Stewards Department use only settled. Minute of silence for guy replied, "Sure, I know. I was-married to one for two years." their own showers and toilets. departed Brothers. Motion carried that the crew re­ XXX XXX fuse to sign on until the scup­ MORNING LIGHT. June 24— Before leaving for Turkey on the Gadsden, Steward pers in the vegetable box are re­ Chairman Leroy Nicholas; Re­ Thomas "Pops" Foster "pieced off* a few of his last cigars to paired. Under Good and Wel­ cording Secretary Ralph Whitley. a Brother. We wonder if "Pops" will try smoking those fare, it was suggested that the Deck Delegate reported no beefs genuine Turkish cigars. We remember an oldtimer-baker Patrolman talk to the Captain and that aU books were in order whose only reason to go ashore in every foreign port was to about allowing wind chutes in except one which would be buy cigars. Fortunately, we never did. smell the cigars he the portholes. Under Education, taken up in Mobile. Motion car­ bought ashore in India. Anyway, we wonder if regular cigarthe Steward talked on the com­ ried under New Business to smoking Seafarers try smoking the cigars of all nations? XXX make up a ship's repair list. Sev­ Furthermore, what are your experiences with good foreign LAHAINA VICTORY. May 2— parison of ship life and working eral motions carried relating to Chairman Bill O'Connor: Record­ conditions before the Union cigars? Which foreign nations make the best cigars? ... Brother cleanliness of ship, laundry, tak­ ing Secretary Fitzgerald. Dele­ gains were obtained with what John Jellette, the Steward, sailed into town and sure looked ing care of ship's property, and gates reports made and accepted. they are today. Brother William happy with his mustache. He's aboard the SS Coral Sea. keeping screen doors closed. Un­ Motion by Brother Presto to Crazen explained the nature of XXX der Good and Welfare it was de­ check constitution to see if a the organizational work being Brothers, now that we have a big wage increase and twocided that the laundry machine Chief Cook can hold department carried on with the company, years job security agreements, vote yes for the newly-proposed be fixed or else be taken off the delegate's job. Motion accepted and the necessity of each man General Fund assessment. Let's keep the SIU on a true course. doing his job right, so that ship. Members were asked to by acclamation to name Harry J. The future of a stronger and bigger SIU is in your hands now. eventually the other ships of the retiurn magazines to messhall Pollins Ship's Delegate. Under It's your union—your, jobs, contracts and responsibilities. The when finished with them. One Good and Welfare there was dis­ company wiU be properly run. minute of silence for Brothers cussion on piping water from The meeting stood in silence for lost at sea. the cooler to aft of the midship one minute for Brothers lost at house for longshoremen's con­ sea. XXX OBERLIN VICTORY. July 5— venience. One minute of silence Chairman Snow; Recording Sec for departed Brothers. retary B. J. Schmitz. Old repair XXX list was read by the chairman SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY. and accepted. A new repair list July 12—Chairman P. Chermosiwas turned in by the delegates. no; Recording Secretary John XXX WILLIAM BLOUNT, July 18 Overtime was reported okay by Pennell. Brother Stickney was the delegates with a few minor elected Ship's Delegate. Motions —Chairman W. Chandler; Re­ exceptions that would be under New Business to have the cording Secretary W. Gardner. true course you steer today will affect your seafaring life in the straightened out at payoff. One night lunch sliced before putting Stewards Delegate reported that future... Although he was rather disappointed about not getting minute of silence for Brothers in ice box, and to have the the scuppers and galley stove any mail, one Brother was still happy otherwise. He was singing dumb- waiter's speaker repaired. had to be repaired upon ai-rival. —"Makes no difference now what type of ship they hand me. I lost at sea. In Good and Welfare it was sug­ The Engine Delegate reported don't woriy, because it makes no difference now." XXX gested that a wider selection of that the painting of the Black We have now discovered ihat Steward Fidel Lukban, the fresh fruits be ordered, and that Gang foc'sles had been hanging oldtimer. is a stamp collector from way back—retroactive to the beverages being served be over two trips and must be done. 1910. While he's proud and happy of his stamp collection, rotated. The Ship's Delegate Motion made to instruct the which is safe in a bank, he's waiting for the day he can be asked the Steward to notify him Patrolman to have the next crew get it painted before signing on admitted into the 500 Club which requires stamp collections to immediately if bad eggs were XXX be worth over $15,000. His prize stamp is a black stamp of OBERLIN VICTORY, at sea- sent down again in the stores. and not take the word of the South Africa. It only cost him $48. Brother Lukban now has Chairman Dixon; Recording Sec­ One minute of silence for Broth­ First Assistant in the matter. Motion made to have the ship about three thousand dollars worth of steunps to collect to be retary B. J. Schmitz. Brother ers lost at sea. fumigated. Under Good and Wel­ eligible for that 500 Club. Stick to it. Brother, and you'll have Snow elected Ship's Delegate. XXX this stamp business licked yet... Brother "Happy" Harry STEEL EXECUTIVE. May 8— fare the Radio Operator was Motion by Chief Electrician Harper, the oldtimer, sailed this week to South Africa... Bowdre. seconded by Snow that Chairman Stanley Potowa; Re­ given a vote of thanks for his Shipping has picked up fine. For some time it's been going a letter be sent to P6rt Agent at cording Secretary A. Adomaites. cooperation, and the Stewards Department was hailed for its at a snail's pace. Now it's up to the speed of a war-time Mobile pointing out that several Minutes of previous meeting read good work. One minute of sil­ convoy. About eight knots with the wind. Brothers, keep and accepted. Stewards Dele­ men had lost laimdry and others ence for Brothers lost at sea. those ships clean and happy. Protect the contracts. gate reported disputed overtime had had their gear damaged by "So CUT and RUN i^\ �Electrician Blows Fuse; tWould Change Ship Quarters SS STEEL SEAFARER SEAFAI^RS But there are still some ships afloat where this change has not Most freight ships built during yet been put into practice—pri­ By ROCKY BENSON the war required an addition to marily on the Victory ships. he ship's family in the person How is your IQ, Seafarers? )f the Chief Electrician. Because We Electricians are constantly See if you can answer these 10 of the acute shortage at that reminded throughout the trip, by Questions. Score Yourself: siX; time of qualified and experienced sarcastic innundoes, to stay in —fair; eight—very good; and 10 narine electricians, the United our place. The high priests be­ —tops. One point is allowed for states Maritime Commission of­ come nauseated in a contamin­ each question. ated atmosphere. fered as an inducement to fol­ r.Which was the first SIU ship low the sea, a warrant officer's We are told: Don's use' offi­ to go into passenger service after' rating and officer's environment cer's showers or heads on this the war? aboard ship to those who would deck. The Crew facilities are next deck below! Don't bring take the job. 1. George Washington yomcots out on the officers' 2. Del Norte When the . brass halo and deck. Go down on the hatch 3. Florida glowing epaulets were soldered with the crew! Don't drink out 4. Yarmouth on, he was baptised, and orof the saloon fountain, the crew's jdained- by USMC officialdom as 2. If a ship is lost at sea, how a 90 day wonder, and then fountain is below. Don't talk toomuch money do you get for your loudly. The officers want to con­ taken into the flock as "one of gear? centrate. Keep yotrr door closed. us." 1. $100 An injury to one is an injury He was installed with the idea 2. $200 that as a gentleman he must not to aU! 3. $300 fraternize with the common, un­ On the same officers' deck, in 4. $400 couth and vulgar crew, and that one overcrowded room, are three The hot Manila sun didn't keep, crewmen of the Steel 3. Which one of these three isi he rated special privileges by Junior Engineers, thus five Seafozer frosn loeleing/ Iximlr epic and span, as this photo, not considered a penalty cargo? ; virtue of his apparent culture unlicensed men poison the at­ takam shaeOir after vessel docked at Pier 7, shows. In the and superior IQ. He was then mosphere allocated for official i; Bonemeal sprayed with DDT by an engine concentration. The Junior En- groi^ aie O. C. BaUezr* Uno Viiponu Gordon Malby, Johnny 2. Sulphur Cadet before he shipped out ofjgineers' room is so small (it is Trust, Whitey Hawks, George Gooden and Eddie Ely. 3. Greave Cakes the USMC recruiting and hiring strictly a one-bunk room) they 4. Butane Gas have no space to put their bag­ hall. 4. Who stands the donkey watch gage. After measuring all the MOB.iraOBERS on a steamship? crew focs'les it was found to be 1. Oiler On board ship he was assigned the smallest by 133 cubic feet— 2. Deck Engineer a- cabin on the officer's deck and a room nine feet by nine feet by 3. Fireman the privilege of eating in the seven feet. ditions deplorable. They live To the Editor: 4. Wiper pfficer's saloon with the use of principally on rice and fish, wear SOLUTION officers' facilitira such as toilets, One of the noticable things no shoes or clothes except a pair 5. How many members in good showers and recreation quarters. Here is a very practical solu­ throughout the Far East is the of shorts or a loin cloth. Most standing are needed for a Su­ His feeling of importance was tion for getting these ' five men primitive methods they use in of them have no desire or in­ preme Quorum? indescribable. This kingdom was below without changing the lay­ doing things. At Saigon, for in­ terest in improving their con­ 1. 25 stance, two men were unload­ ditions. On several occasions, and his .because he had no peers out of the ship: 2. 50 ^mong unlicensed personnel. The hospital is on the crew ing a small boatload of crushed in different places,- particularly 3. 100 stone. One man had a pole bal­ 4. 150 'iThe question of where to place deck, directly beneath the pres­ anced on his shoulders with in Saigon and Batavia, I had this misfit in the postwar pic­ ent Electrician's room. Change wicker baskets on each end of conversations with dock fore­ 6. Where is alcohol cai-ried at all ture was a common topic with these two rooms around and the the pole holding not more than times on a ship? problem is solved. Then, you officers and crew. will note, the Black Gang foc'sles a shovelful in each basket. The 1. Captain's cabin, ' Today the United States Lines have three bunks, but are oc­ other man remained in the boat, 2. Binnacle requires. the Electrician to be cupied by only two men. Dis­ loading the baskets by pushing 3. Under the Electrician's bunk fin IVIEBA Engineer. Somehow tribute the three Junior Engin­ the stones into them with a 4. Bosun's foc'sle fhe NMU lost out! eers so that each foc'sle has a .stick, while the other man car­ 7. What is the signal for abandon complete watch. The ex-hospi- ried them to the wharf. EVOLUTION ship? tal room becomes a watch- The man with the pole would But evolution of events caused focs'le, leaving the Electricians drop the empty baskets from 1. Six short blasts and one the SIU rank-and-file to hold a to occupy their designated foc'sle the pole and pick up the loaded long firm grip on their men—in spite on the crew's deck, as layed out ones and carry them to the 2. Six long blasts and one stone pile on the wharf and of some "officer conscious" Elec­ in the shipbuilders' blueprint. short dump them. By the time he re­ tricians. With the withdrawal of 3. Five short blasts and one Tnis will accomplish a moral turned to the boat, the man in the Navy gunners, the SIU El­ victory on all Victorys. long the boat had the other baskets men and others who told me 4. Seven short blasts and one ectricians were gradually moved A Chief Eleclrician loaded. down from the officers deck. long they often tried to improve their This went on continuously un­ conditions by raising their wages, til the boat was unloaded. How paying overtime, etc., but could 8. How many fathoms in a shot long it took, I don't know. It not get them to work more of anchor chain? must have taken the entire day than one day as long as they 1. 10 fathoms or longer. What a waste of hu­ could get along without more 2. 15 fathoms man energy! One bucket crane working. If they are paid more 3. 20 fathoms The membership of the Seafarers International Union has which we*use for this purpose than sufficient for one day's 4. 25 fathoms consistently reaffirmed its position that gear-grabbers can't be in the States, would have them bare subsistence, they will not good Union men. Any individual who stoops to pilfering gear unloaded in a few minutes, for return to work next day, and 9. When a ballot for Union offi­ cers takes place each year, for such as coffee percolators, linens, etc.. which are placed aboard there was not more than three they cannot get the work done. how many days is the ballot box bucket-fulls in the boatload. SlU-contracted ships for the convenience of all hands, is, above Upon inquiry, I learned that They are paid at the end of open? alL guilty of a malicious disregard of his shipmates' welfare. 1. 30 days the employers do not want ma­ each day. Most of them are il­ chinery because they can hire- literate and even in the coun­ 2. 40 days Crew Conveniences on most SIU ships today are not there coolie labor cheaper than the tries where free educational 3. 60 days by accident. They are there because of the Union's successfullycost of operating machines. And opportunities are extended 4. 90 days .fought struggles to bring greater benefits and comforts and to the coolies do not want it either by the government, they will provide decent conditions for the membership while out at sea. because they would have nothing; not take advantage of them. 10. From what port do the most Their condition is hopeless — it SIU passenger ships sail? to do. These hard-won conveniences are for the benefit of ALL doesn't matter much whether 1. New York SAME EVERYWHERE HANDS. They ARE NOT to be appropriated by any individual they are ruled by the Dutch, 2. New Orleans Throughout the entire Far the French, the English or by 3. Mobile for his own personal use. Violators of the membership's wel­ East, in all countries we visited, a native government, they are 4. Baltimore fare will be dealt with in accordance with the firm stand taken we found the majority of the doomed to exploitation in any repezdedly by .Seafarers in aU ports. population overwhelmingly event, and will be no better off. (Answers will be found on Emesl Bossert page 13.) Chinese coolies, and their con­ to the Editor: Finds Lafeor-Saving Devices Unwanted In Far East Pbrts I Gear-Grabbers Hurt Union I �Friday. Saptember 10. 1948 THE SEAFARERS LOG COLABEE*S SOFTBALLERS AND TRAINING TABLE CHIEF Bosun Needs Elbow Room In Yaka's Wee Quarters To the Editor: When the Colabee. American-Haweiian, hils Baie Cameau, near Quebec, in Canada for its regular load of newsprint for New York and Chicago newspapers, the SIU crew dons uni­ forms and trots out to meet the local softball team. Juan Colpe, ColaJbee messman. who submitted these pics to the LOG, admitted with a. smile that the local boys usually triumphed. Here's the Colabee's line-up. Front X row, left to right—Castelo, 'non-player; Mur­ phy, outfield; A. Ortiz, 2nd base; H. Bonewald. shortstop; "Brooklyn," outfield; 2nd Mate, pitcher; "Blackie," short shortstop; J. Synnott, catcher. Back row—Mahoney, non-player; R. Augsbach, 3rd base; Dixon, non-player; R. Kline, 1st base. Leaning over are: Bill, nonplayer; Johnny, outfield, and Ortiz, non-player. Finds Shipping Tough, But Java Good In Savannah Page Eleren problem. The hospital could be moved up to the cadet's room (which is only being used to hang up the officer's clothes at present), and the Bosun could move into the old hospital. The Deck Engineer could move into I read an article in the May 21 LOG titled "Need Olive Oil To Get In Bunks." It interested me very much, for we have the same trouble on Waterman's modern C-2, the SS Yaka. In his article. Brother Elie stated that they needed olive oil to get in and out of their bunks. We need the same thing to get in and out of our quar­ ters as well as bunks. As it stands now, one day man bunks in the Bosun's quarters here. When the day man comes in the foc'sle and I am shaving I jump to the side and hope that the door doesn't hit me, so that I cut my throat—and he does the same if he is the one using the wash basin. The door is lo­ cated just, to the side of the wash basin, and when opened the Bosun's old quarters and lei or closed, you receive a good the day man go back to his whack, if you are standing there. quarters. Doing this, we won't need ONE AT A TIME ohve oil to get in and out of If the door is closed and you our quarters—and we don't mean are washing, you have to move Popeye's girl friend, either! in order for the other fellow to W. A. Perry, Bosun pass. If you want to get in your V. Walainen, day man locker, the other fellow has to quit washing or shaving, and close the door in order for you to get into the locker. Yes, I know it's a hell of a lot of moving and opening and closing of doors, but that's the way it has to be in this foc'sle when one is trying to get wash­ ed or shaved. As to getting on To the Editor: our gear in the mornings, we I am doing a little checking on " have a space of four by four something that might mean some and a half feet in which to get dough for me. My last trip was around. One of us has threatened a long one and the agreement ,f to turn in overtime for getting changed while I was out. But up earlier, in order to put on from what I understand, crewclothes, and get out ahead of members are entitled to two his partner. There just isn't weeks vacation per year. room enough for both of us to Does that have to be unbroken dress at the same time. As it is, one of us goes up the service? Or are you allowed one deck, still pulling on clothes so week after the first six months? that the other fellow can finish I have been on the beach for in the room. three months now, and have had some great times, I can tell you! FULL HOUSE So right now an extra week's We both agree that one of us pay would come in handy. has got to move if we don't "The trip was eight and a half get larger quarters. But that is months long from July 24, 1947 not up to us. We will turn it to April 13, 1948 on the Blue over to the Brothers who handle Island Victory. I shipped as such matters ashore. We hope Bosun. If I have money coming that when new contracts are I would appreciate it if you drawn up they will remember us. would let me know. There are many situations on William Young ships in which this problem Sainte Ignace, Michigan comes up! Brothers, we think this situation should be looked (Ed. Note: According to th® into, so that the men who sail contract, no vacation pay is the ships will have sufficient made for less than one year space to live in. of continuous employment on Here is one solution for the a vessel.) Seafarer Seeks Straight Info On Vacation Pay To the Editor: I take pleasure in giving a note about Savannah, Georgia, the home of the South Atlantic ships. First, the shipping is on the bum here, with about one ship a week, and hundreds of Seafarers in all Departments are on the beach. Stewards, Cooks and Messmen are here in numbers enough for 10 ships, and so are Deck and Engine Department men. Permitmen are the largest list at the Hall. One ship is in port, the SS Southwind, and she took four men—nothing in the Stew­ ards Department. The Southwind lays off for two weeks and then she will sail for Africa for the Robin Line. What will the men do — no ships and no money? I have been here for two months on top of the shipping list, and am The Kingfish (center) and his aides, Frank Antonetti, still on top. But when will I Night Cook and Baker aiid N. £. Davis, 3rd Cook, are the Ship out? chow dispensers responsible for the fine physical condition of Some seamen are busy paint­ th;f> baseball stalwarts. According to Ship's Delegate V. D. ing the new Hall, which is just Mahan, Kingfish really knows how to cook. Mahan reports across from our old Hall. It will that the Kingfish is always in the messroom at mealtime to be ready soon, but many boys see that all eat and enjoy the food. He also recommends do not like the location on the that Seafarers wanting a good feeder, and are not fussy about ground floor. We will miss the the age of the ship, should throw in for the Colabee. sight from the old Hall's back window where we could watch the ships pass (if any), and look over the river-front. COFFEE LIKED ests, and the six-day week na­ Coffee time at the Hall is ap­ To the Editor: tional interest. preciated by the boys standing I see on the front page of the by all day. The coffee was do­ New York Times for August 25, This despite the fact that un­ nated to the Hall from the SS an article about the comrats' con­ der the "decadent" semi-capital­ Felix Grundy when she paid tribution to the condition of ist administration preceeding the off June 16. Sugar, 'milk and workers in their satellite state, communists' armed coup and cake are bought from the Hall's . Czechosolovakia. It seems that subsequent purge of democratic Czechoslovakia de­ donation money. I the communist party in control elements, Savannah needs a good Hall is going to see to it that they get veloped one of the most efficient such as Tampa has, so an out­ their full right to work. It is and productive industrial ma­ side Seafarer can find a place spelled w-o-r-k. chines- in Europe, and at the to sleep at reasonable prices. It same time had one of the highest is tough for members who live • According to the article, the standards of personal liberty for in Florida and come to Savan^ "Communist-run General Con­ its citizens and workers. nah to attend meetings, and find federation of Labor is engaged SOUNDS WARNING that they cannot find a place to in a propaganda campaign j against the five^day week and for Those misled laboring groups fetay. ' the six-day week." in this country who give support We hope shipping starts up, to the cornmunist-led Progiesor we will have to hitch-hike It is pointed out in the article sive Party in America may well f to New York or some other port that the "Confederation of take a tip from this! to ship. Labor" holds that the five-day Uncle Otto Preussler week represents personal inter­ If a communist program were Commie Line Baits Suckers Only, He Says ever established in this land of plenty, labor organizations would loose their "selfish" character, of working and fighting for better conditions for their membership, and would be permitted only to suppress ^uch "radical" elements in their own midst who dared to suggest that the conditions of the laboring man can come ahead of the dictated pai'ty line of the total employer—the com­ munist state. If it ife tough to fight for better conditions in an industry where a capitalist combine has mono­ polistic control, how much more desperate is the working man who is faced „by a totalitarian political monopoly which be­ comes the employer of all? Ralph Larrie Prove Identity To all members who have checks held for them at branch mail rooms: Port Agents will not give out any mail containing checks, unless the addressee shows sufficient evidence of his identity, such as Union book, seaman's papers, discharges, etc. An instance has been re­ ported of an envelope con­ taining a check being picked up by a phony who later forged a signature and cashed it. To prevent a recurrence, a check will be given only to the person to whom it is addressed, and then only after full identification is made. �t H E S E AW A R ER3 LOG Pa^ Twtthre TiAAtrrr Sapl«ad>er 20, 1948 m Attack On Seamen's Wages, Ability 'The Voice Of The Sea' By SALTY DICK stances, by what criterion should Are you a numerologist? they be subjected to militarized know a good Joe who has book wording is different. As long as control? Military control of ci­ nuimber 69 and signs articles there's a Stewards Department vilians is simply fascism, which number 69. . . . Everyone is talk­ on board a ship they will be the the Tribune professes to oppose ing about taxes. If you buy an scape-goats. But I knew of a Steward who was a smart guy. vehemently. item and have it sent to your He always said, "When a baby Once we start it with seamen, ship you'll pay no taxes. You crys give him milk". So he where shall it stop? The mari­ are exempted providing the mer­ used this formula on the boys. time laws of the United States chandise is sent to the ship. Try Then the crew started crying he provide severe penalties for in­ it. ... A passenger, owner of a would go in the galley, make a subordination and mutiny chain of theatres in New Orleans, batch of do-nuts and some fresh through civil courts. But the was asked by a certain party for coffee and shout, "Come and get days when merchant seamen had a free pass. . . . Tom Kotalik has it!" This always did the trick. no rights at all which had to be fallen in love and he looks very What waiter went to Kentucky respected by officers are past, bad. Perhaps he can't eat. . . . to operate a moonshine still, but partly because of the enactment What Quartermaster (from had to come back to New Or­ DANGEROUS JOB of the LaFollette Seamen's Act Georgia) has lost his heart in leans on account of certain men In considering these "fan­ of 1915, which was fathered by BA? Everytime the ship leaves interfering with his business? I tastic" wages, it should be noted Andrew Furuseth, and partly be­ she is there to wave good-bye. have a feeling those fellows were that National Safety Council fig­ cause of the organization of He knows how to pick them, 1 Fed's. To the Editor, Chicago Tribune; ures rate shipping as one of the unions to ensure protection of must admit! Did you ever crois the equa­ more dangeous occupations; that seamen's rights. ^ tor in an air-conditioned ship? Recently I came in contact Your editorial entitled "Mer­ seamen are often away from Nothing like it! Most of the Maritime unions have the with James Fitzpatrick of the chant Marine Discipline" in the home for six months at a time, time I sleep under a sheet; "Voice of the Globe." The August 31 issue shows either a living in cramped quarters; that same function as any other un­ spread and blanket cause my only difference between him profound ignorance of facts or a they must endure great extremes ion, for the merchant marine is, room is chilly. And some and me is that he's got the deliberately malicious distortion of heat and cold, and often wait after all, still a private business, kickl money. . . . Did you ever go to of truth. on the beach for long periods and not a branch of the navy, as the doghouse (Seaman's One of the more startling false­ while waiting for a ship, without the Tribune seems to assume. Church Institute) in New hoods is the statement that war­ benefit of unemployment com­ NO COMMIES HERE York? I've been there on sev­ time merchant seamen "were pensation. eral occasions and I believe Throughout the editorial, fin­ taking fewer chances than com­ The wages they get for all this the seamen laugh more at bat soldiers and sailors." Of are indeed the best maritime ally, is expressed the fear that Mickey Mouse than anyone course, as the Tribune knows, wages in the world, and why American seamen "in the event elso. Drunk or sober they not all service men saw combat,' shouldn't they be? This is also of war, would be poor loyalty were aU there to see and hear but all salt water merchant sea­ the richest country in the world, risks." Where are aU these com­ To the Editor: Mickey. men entered the danger zones, and if the shipowners are always mies the Tribune fears? The Ralph Mclnturff is heading for and figures show they suffered a milking the government for sub­ rank and f^e of the National I don't know much about writthe hospital. He's having stern ting things like this, but if you higher percentage of fatal casu­ sidies to guarantee their profits Maritime Union in its latest elec­ alties than any branch of the why shouldn't the seamen get tion ran every Comrat out of trouble. Earl Vanney was seen feel that it is fitting, you may armed services. comparable to those of other office. Further, the Seafarer's walking down the street in a print it in the LOG. 1 enjoy tailor-made play suit. He looked reading the LOG and the poetry Out of 8,300,000 men inducted American workers? Or does the International Union, AFL, 'which like a million. . . . The other day the seamen write. Let's have you conveniently fail to mention, mto""the Aimy," 223^215 (2.7%): Tribune want to go back to cona ship was found with $25,000 more of it! has never had a trace of com­ were killed. The Navy inducted ^itions prevailing in the depre^r worth of stones aboard. And rat influence in it. Bonafide sea­ I'm proud to be the wife of a sion days? 4,204,662 and lost 30,702 (.7%) some of the boys wonder why seaman. Thank you, and sorry men have no use for Moscow The Tribune is inconsistent in The Marine Corps lost 15,460 the customs search the ship. if I am wrong in writing this; men out of 599,693 (2.6%). Out demanding more Coast Guard agents. Who was the guy who went to and naval control bver seamen. but 1 don't like to read or hear of . 210,000 merchant seamen, Before the Tribune editorial Seamen, despite their„,war serv­ see a senorita in Santos and was anyone who thinks seamen are however, 6,592, or 3.1% were writers launch their next labor told to go back to mummy? He different from other men in this ice, get no veteran benefits be­ killed. In addition to deaths, 23,baiting tirade against seamen, 1 Too world. 000 seamen had ships shot out cause they were and are civilians. suggest they bone up on the was short of something. After reading in the LOG- of from under them, and thousands For the same reason, they are hot facts first, and give them honest young, sez she. . . . It's been a long time sjnce 1 heard the word, August 27th where a wife asked at present exempted .f^om the lat­ more, were .strafed and bombed consideration. for a different type of poetry, est draft. Since they are consid­ "Belly-robber." They're still from the air. Virgil J. Vogel kicking about the chow, but the and for the LOG to have pity on ered civilians in the above inThe editorial further alleges us married women in love— that "The wage scale, always the (this woman was upset over highest in the world, is now 300 Brother Leggo's poem, "The per cent over pre-war days and Sailor And His Love," in the 50 per cent higher than the in­ To the Editor: In fact as soon as the Master the two men who were to have July 30 LOG), 1 would like to flated war bonus wage." 1 have came back aboard, "Stand by been left behind. It turned out say that 1 never worry about before me the latest wage scales Every trip has its humorous fore and aft" was given. It was that the sole purpose of going burning kisses of Latin American of the Seafarer's International incidents, a lot of which you 7 P.M., which actually was back was to get them. The girls. My kisses bum just as Union, AFL, which the NMU never hear about. This one is our sailing time. We let go and Provost Marshall had said to much as theirs! So my husband has about succeeded in match- too good to keep until we get were about 200 feet away from wait for them but the Old Man saves his kisses for me. home. We have been married seven the dock when the MPs .came hadn't. We are on the SS Maiden years and have a son and running down the dock, ordering Hospitalized in PR, the "men what had Creek, Waterman, of \yhich none the ship to return to the dock u We asked J rm. J1 J iu daughter, and am expecting anBrothers Yearn For Mail ^theT' ihrn'^Morgan'^'HYte^^ is and the Old Man to report to the happened. They disclosed that , . i other little one in October. Yes; when they found out the ship i ., mu Z Master. r u J 1 iW-e are still in love! The reason? Provost Marshall again at once. was ,leaving, To the Editor: or had left, they T I-, J. , ^ • Trust! I trust my husband and mt. ^ ^ Now all of you have heard of Everybody on the ship could The following SlU Brothers ^ Hiles, a very stem man hear what the MPs wanted, nor said they would take a train don't listen when people talk to Yokohama. But thgr Provost about seamen. Yes, we all know are at present in ^ the ^me ^^en it comes to the law or a Hospital at San Juan, Puerto log—and I do not mean the did we think at the time that Marshall replied, "No. I'll have that a lot of people don't feel your Captain come back for you. that a seaman is a person. Rico: Angel Silvestre, Ramon SEAFARERS LOG. There is the Old Man didn't. But, a few moments later, we I don't like his attitude anyway." Oliveras, Ramon Seijo, Estiban only one law and that is his. At MY MAN Cruz and George Litchfield. least he always supposed so un­ heard a siren blowing and spot­ Captain Hiles didn't say any­ ted an Army laimch overhaul­ thing, but I sure would have Well, I know • for a fact that We would enjoy hearing from til he sailed into Kobe, Japan, ing us. The MPs came alongside my seaman husband is a better liked to read his mind. any of our friends in the SlU. for a few hours stay. and issued the same orders as perspn than anyone I know. I Send us a post card once in A sailor will sell almost any­ before. The Old Man said he Frank Van Dusen have met some of 'his friends; - awhile just to let us know that thing, even his shoes, if neces- would see the Provost Marshall and liked them very much. each other is still around. ila to make a little spending in Yokohama. "Nothing doing," This wife also asks what Brother Salvador Colls and sary, which one man did in Man- the MPs said. "You turn around Brother Legge looked like— Rafael and Tony have been in money. That was not so bad, but and put back to the dock at "cross eyed and bald?" No one twice a week to visit us with a couple" of the crew on the once." can say what a person looks Members who forward cigarettes and our very much Maiden Creek sold a little sac­ like by what he writes. Iheir membership books to GREAT MOMENT needed SEAFARERS LOG. charine in Kobe — and were Well, T know this must be the New York Hall for retireThere's notliing that can be said caught by the MPs. A great moment had arrived. menl are urged to mark the boring, but I would like to say about the Hiring Hall -victory. Could Morgan Hiles defy the this to all seamen's wives that 200-FOOT TRIP envelope with the notation ' There are no words that can United States Army? Sometimes "Attention: 6th floor/' in or- feel as this Washington wife express our feelings in this mat­ Word was sent to the ship Army orders are screwy, but does: Don't get grey hair over dbr to insure quicker hand­ ter. for the Old Man to visit the they are orders nonetheless. ling of the matter. Latin American kisses! Give your hubbie your own -• Our flag will be there always, Provost Marshall to see about Everybody was as quiet as .a Marking of the envelope in burning love and all of your testimony to the strength of the these men. When the Skipper mouse, all eyes on the stern. trust, and he will be glad to wait SIU regardless of the odds plac­ returned he said that the MPs Yep, there she went around. We ibe manner advised above will save time and will result for you and .come home for his were goipg to keep the men were going back! ed before us. over night and send them fo We tied up to a buoy and the in prompt return of the book love. George Litchfield to the sender. Yokohama, our next port of call, Captain went ashore. Half an Mrs. E. V. G. San Juan, P.R. to catch the ship. hour later back he came with A seaman's wife (The following letter was writ­ ten by Seafarer Virgil Vogel to the Chicago Tribune in answer to an editorial attacking the dis­ cipline of union crews. The edi­ torial said seamen are paid out­ rageous wages "in a field where the wage scale has always been the highest in the world," and urged a cracking down. The Tribune owner, Robert R. McCormick, has never been a lover of Labor and prior to the late war was accused of being sym­ pathetic ' to Nazi Germany. Brother Vogel states he is in­ debted to Verle McNeil's article in the August 27 LOG for some of his factual information.) ing, according to news reports. Base pay of an Ordinary Seanian under the latest contracts is $189.97 a month. Does that soimd like great wealth in these times of high prices, higher shoreside wages, and higher pro­ fits? An Able Bodied Seaman, who must pass a rigid examina­ tion and have 3 years sea serv­ ice, gets $222.51 a. month. Un­ licensed men in the engine de­ partment start at $210.68, and in the steward department at $189.97. - Note To Jealous Wives: Trust Your Seagoing Men Morgan Hiles Defies Army, Loses Battle RETIRIN6 ROOKS V'i;;: r.'-J;-':•'•i-lviifliftfa �THE SE A F A RE R S L O G Friday, .SaptembM 10,1848 Agrees With Agent's Views On Policy; Likes Frankness proval of all before the course can be set. I want to know There is one thing I always what is going on and I want admire in a man and in an or­ my saj;:, before I'm committed to ganization and that is frankness. a program. Some guys sit back Straight from the shoulder stuff and listen with but half an ear when these important matters with no hedging around is the are being discussed. Not me! I way I want it put to me. Read­ want to know what is up and ing Bull Sheppard's article offer my suggestions or critic­ (Membership And Union Policy, isms. After that, I'll go with the LOG August 27) I felt that here majority, whether or not I'm in was a person who said what he favor of it. felt and didn't leave anything to ' We'd never have a strong chance. Union today if it was any other I especially liked the^way he way and we'll grow no stronger covered his subject. When he if that does not continue to be spoke of Union policy and what our method. If we decide on a has happened in the past when program of action and then gal­ "dissidents" didn't like what the lop off in all directions, no pi'omajority had decided upon, he gram has been adopted. We've pulled no punches. It pointed only succeeded in cutting our­ up fact that winning a beef selves up into small pieces. ""All sometimes means more than hit­ the better to eat you, my dear," ting the bricks and holding on says the Shipowher. tight until the operators give in. Give a guy a few inches of It Showed that the Union some­ paper and look what happens: he times has to defend itself from starts to preach a sermon. I've within. had my say and that is to ex­ It was good to see aired what press my agreement with Bull had happened in the Isthmian Sheppard. He built a strong campaign and the 1946 General case in his article for complete Strike. The guys who thought solidarity within the ranks of the their interests came before those Union. My letter can add littie of the Union as a whole were to the advice given by Brother taken care of in a manner which Sheppard. It is our duty to see has my wholehearted approval. that we remain strong intern­ It is easy to see now who was ally. right and who was wrong. Robert L. Nashe Like Brother' Sheppard, I be­ lieve that an issue has to be hammered out at the member­ ship meetings and have, the ap- Dutch Stroll To the Editor: Grew Of SS Raphael Semmes Calls For No Amendments To SIU Registration Rules To the Editor: In a regular shipboard meet­ ing on August 1, the crew of the Raphael Semmes went on record as opposed to changing the shipping rules in the port of New York to require men to register and ship in one rat­ ing. This was carried in the form of a motion with the amendment to write a letter to this effect, signed by the entire crew, and deliver it to the Secretary Treas- Seafarer Jerry Palxxter (right) takes a walk near Quick Dis­ patch pier in Rotterdam, accon^anied by an imidentiiied Norwegian seamen, whom P«dmer and Carl Sivertsen, AB, met while the Afotmdria was discharging cargo. Palmer writes that their Norwegian friend "was from a place in Norway near Carl's home town and he told us many things about conditions and wages on Norwegian ships, another reason why Carl luid I are gl^d we're in the good old SIU." Page Thirleea Says Chips' Duties Still Not Clear To the Editor: urer so he can read it to the membership at the next head­ quarters meeting. The backbone of the SIU is rotary shipping. That has always been accepted as the fair and democratic way of hiring. The man who has been the longest time on the beach is most likely to have the least money and to need the job more than the fellow who has been ashore for only a short period. What are we going to do? Hang this man up in a slowmoving rating, put him on the bum, while guys with a few days ashore take the lower and more plentiful ratings? This will cause plenty of our long-timeashore men to go hungry and be very unhappy about the way things are being run, while men who have not had to spend their money ,sh^ out again. Let's be fair to everybody, and keep smooth sailing in the SIU. Signed by the entire crew of the SS Raphael Semmes Thanks for publishing my let­ ter, "Chips is Forgotten Man; Urges Duties Be Clarified," in the August 22 issue. So far as the provisions on the agree­ (Ed. Note: Rank and tile ment for the soundings, we had committees in all ports were that on the old agreement, but elected some time ago to make the Branch here in New Orleans recommendations for a standmade some kind of a deal with the Delta Line where on the eurd set of registration rules C-2 tjT)e of ship the Carpenter that would be the same in Ml has to go down in the engine ports. The recommendations of room and shaft-alley to take these committees were for­ number three and four bilge warded to Headquarters soundings without the payment where another over-all regis­ of overtime except on Saturday tration committee was elected afternoon and Sundays at sea, to sift through these reports and Saturday and Sundays in from the ports cind make a To the Editor: drive those on the job out with port or on legal holidays. recommendation to the mem­ an atom bomb. 1 was one of the lucky fellows bership for. action up and Send in the minutes of The SIU shore gang has re­ The job requires men with who got pay for the soundings down the coast. your ship's meeting to the ceived no end of praise from the deck experience in handling These recommendations will below when last year's agree­ New York Hall. Only in that shore Captain of the Waterman gear, shifting ships, chipping rust go before the membership ment was new. Since then they way can the membership act shortly. The entire shipping with an air-hammer, painting, Steamship Company for the have quit paying it and the Pa­ on your recommendations, picture was considered by the splicing rope and wire, cleaning trolmen say that we have to and then the minutes can be work it has done under the con­ holds, etc. It should be under­ keep on doing it as part of our committee, including the points printed in the LOG for the tract between the company and stood, however, that there is no work. So 1 believe it will be the raised in your letter, and they benefit of all other SIU the Union which started three sea contract with this job. It is same thing now, for 1 fail to. will recommend procedures crews. months ago. In the beginning it strictly a.shore job hired through see in the new agreement where which they feel axe fair to Hold those shipboard meet­ the Union. was hard to get the men to stick the Carpenter has to get OT all. The entire membership ings regularly, and send There are nine men in the for going in the engine room to will then have an opportunity at this work, but now that we, those minutes in as soon as have tools, gear, and air-ham­ regxilar gang and at times 1 am take soundings. So far as 1 to voice their opinions before possible. That's the SIU way! voting.) mers to work with, you couldn't obliged to contact the Hall for know, no other Carpenter on the additional men for hold work— Delta Line C-2 type ships have which no doubt puts a few dol­ been getting pay for this whe­ lars "in the boys' pockets when ther they put in for overtime shipping is a little rough. The or not. money is good with overtime. 1 I can tell you plenty more believe that there are other ship­ about the way the Carpenter is To the Editor: ping companies with SIU con­ mistreated nn the ships, and in tracts watching the progress of some cases even by the crew. 1 want to thank the officials the Waterman gang and that The youngsters on the ships and all the members of the SIU they, too, will find out eventu­ think that the Carpenter does for their kindness to me when ally that it pays to hire skilled what he pleases. Some fellows my husband died. 1 would like, SIU men who are competent in go so far as to order Chips to you to put a piece in the LOG doing any work called for in make shelves for their bunks. saying how much 1 appreciate When you tell them that the all the SIU members did in help­ the Union agreement. By AUSSIE SHRIMPTON proper way to get it done is to ing me put my husband away HELPS OUT see the Delegate of their de­ so nicely. ^ 1. J would like to say also, that As soon as any big job comes partment and he in turn will the SIU is a wonderful organiza­ talk to the Mate about having They loved each other with fierce love brief. up 1 contact the Union Hall for tion, and the members are all He was a seaman, she was a thief; more men and only hope that it the Carpenter do it, they raise swell fellows. 1 am proud to As they told of "their lives for many hours after. is a long job so that it will help heU and tell you what kind of say that my husband was an SIU They'd lie on her bed and roar with laughter. the men who are on the beach a Union man they think you Brother. are. and provide them with enough 2. Again, 1 thank you for your Another thing, on ships where money to tide them over until kindness. they want you to furnish your The day was spent with reckless sest. they can get a ship. Mr. Wm. E. "Red" Collins own tools, and pay you tool At night with passion he lay at her breast; Some of the ships that come money, the Mate expects you to Then his leave ended and shortly after. in are in bad shape such as the bring with you two thousand She mocked and forgot with a strumpet's laughter. Azalea City, which came in re­ dollars worth of tools from the cently looking like a gavbage finest to the heaviest. 3. can, so thick was her coat of 1. George Washington Tell me what Carpenter is go­ He sent word saying, "O come with me. rust; but the shore gang worked ing to carry such an amount 2. $300 I need and love you most bitterly on her day and night to get her of tools for a $255.04 per month 3. Butane Gas Here and now—and always hereafter" back in shape and out on sched­ job? This is out of proportion. 4. Fireman But she shook her head with laughter. ule; and believe me the OT was 1 know several ship's Carpen­ 5. 150 members \ good! 6. Binnacle ters that have quit sailing in 4. 7. Seven short blasts and one So you see, this is the right that rating; because as an AB At six in the morning the lines were cast. job for the right men who in­ you can beat the Carpenter's long At seven, she heard the farewell blast. tend to stay ashore awhile. 8. 15 fathoms pay, and you don't have to At eight she'd forgotten and gaily quaffed .9. 60 days know as much or work as hard. Carl R. Lawson, Cheap red wine, and sung with laughter. 10. New Orleans. J. S. Arzamendi Bosun Send Those Minutes Scraping And Painting Jobs Liked By All, Says Bosun BROTHER COLLINS' WIDOW THANKS SIU MEMBERSHIP Waterfront Interlude Quiz Answers •V • �THE SEAFARER SLOG Page Fourteen ('!»>• Friday. September 10, 1948 Maiden Creek Takes Time Off In Manila Two of the SlU.-contracted vessels making the Far' East run arrived in the Port of Manila, P. I, almost withiri minutes of each oth&i:„ Sunday morning, August 8. One was the very appropriately named SS Steel Seafarer, an Isthmian vessel; the other was Waterman's SS Maideri Creek. n As is his custom, Ludovico Agulto, "the Manil^ Watch," was on hand to greet the Seafarers crews with' the latest copies of their, Union publication, the SEA­ FARERS LOG. After discharging his duties of distribution, Agulto took advantage of the sunlight conditions and roamed the decks of the Maiden Creek taking shots of the SIU, crewmen, some of whom appear on this page. | One of the issues of the LOG distributed carried the story of the SIU'^ Hiring Hall victory, which was en­ thusiastically received by all hands, Agulto reported. • He added that although a few beefs exist aboard the Maiden Creek, the lads are doing their jobs in first-rate Union style. They're waiting patiently until the ship arrives in New York, where they will let SIU Patrolmen take over and settle the matters in dispute. Properly-fed crewmembers axe as important to smooth shipboard operation as well-oiled engines. That's the view of the Maiden Creek galleymen pictured here from left to right: B. Santos, C. C. Kenny, E. B. Youngblood, C. J. McDonough, Frank Perry and William Nachtingall. Agulto found these Brothers agreeable subjects for his picture taking. Among the group are Carmine Tufaro, John Popa, Nick Tatar, Henry Adarnowicas, Frank Van Dusen and Saloski. Names of the other Seafarers were not given. - Frank Van Dusen, Ship's Delegate, appears happy with LOG headlines felling of Hir­ ing Hall Victory. Soft ball enlhusieists (left to right) Joseph Miluhas. Anthony Beck and the Deck Engineer, line up with their gear for a pre-game photo. Each of the lads look capable of belting the old apple way out yonder. I liS' y Seafarers Nick Tatar and John Popa compete in card game aft on the Maiden Creek. Information accompanying photo said "they were doing their best to forget Captain Hiles. skipper of the vessel, and.his 'good' deeds." Looks like they succeeded, too. Black Gang men (left to right) Dollas Ben. E. Trainer and G. Hudanich came up out of the engine room so their department could be represented in Maiden Creek photos. All pix were taken by Agulto as the Waterman ship lay alongside Manila's Pier 13. �Friday. September 10, 1948 THE SEAFARERS LOG Rage Fifteea Seafarer Suall Is Awarded Oxford Labor Scholar^ip PERSONALS MIKE VOCOLAS (VOUKOULOS) Get in touch "with your wife care of Gelb and Gelb, 148 St. Georges St.,..Capetown, Union of So. Africa. 4. 4.- ft ETTORE SCIALPI Get in touch immediately with SlU HALLS SIU, A&G District Richard O. Kruger, 2447 19th Avenue, San Francisco 16, Cali fornia, in regard to your accident aboard the Alcoa Cavalier. ft ft ft GEORGE A. CARROLL BERA SMYLEY Communicate with Mr. Mur­ phy, care of Barnes and Cook, 39 Cortlandt St., New York City Phone COrtlandt 7-0040, ext. 58 HARRY BUDNISS Get in touch with Alvin Miller of Battle, Levy, Fowler and Neaman, 30 Broad St, New York City. Important. ft ft ft JOSEPH LEO GLEASON Get in touch with Miss A. Guenrekian, 124 Read Ave., Crestwood, New York. BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. William Rentz, Affent Calvert 4539 BOSTON 276 State St. E. B. Tilley, Agent Bowdoin 4455 GALVESTON 308%—^23rd St. Keith Alsop, Agent Phone 2-8448 MOBILE I South Lawrence St. Cat Tanner, Agent Phone 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 523 Bienville St. E. Sheppard, Agent Magnolia 6112-6113 NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. Joe Algina, Agent HAnover 2-2784 NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. Ben Rees, Agent Phone 4-1083 PHILADELPHIA. . .614.16 No. 13th St. SS SANTORE Lloyd Gardner, Agent Poplar 5-1217 SAN FRANCISCO 85 Third St. Will brothers who were on this Steve Cardullo, Agent Douglas 2-5475 ship and know the' whereabouts SAN JUAN, P.R 252 Ponce de Leon of gear left aboard by Norman Sat Colls, Agent San Juan 2-5996 SAVANNAH 220 East Bay St. West, please forward it to him Charles Starling, Agent Phone 3-1728 collect at Jonesport, Maine. All TAMPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. his clothes and belongings, in­ R. H. Hall. Agent Phone M-1323 cluding Union book and dis­ HEADQUARTERS. . 51 Beaver St., N.Y.C, charges are in the suitcases he is HAnover 2-2784 seeking. SECRETARY-TREASURER Paul Hall ft ft ft DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZATION SS NEWHALL HILLS Lindsey Williams Former crcwmembers at the ASSIST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS time of its salvaging by the M. Robert Matthews J1 P. Shtiler V. Pigeon Point on Sept. 14, Joseph Volpian Send 'Em In Don't hold your peciures and stories of shipboard acti­ vities. Mail them to the Sea­ farers Log, 51 Beaver St., New York 4, N. Y. If you haven't the time or don't feel in the mood, just forward de­ tails. We'll do the rest. Pic­ tures will be returned if you wish. Seafarer Irwin Suall, one of five rank and filers selected from the ranks of AFL and CIO unions throughout the country to study under a labor scholarship at Oxford University, leaves this week for England. Termed the Ruskin scholarship to Oxford, it is sponsored by the British Trades Union Congress 'i ' and offers American union mem­ bers the opportunity to study economics and social problems from a labor viewpoint. Brother Suall was chosen by a board of selection composed of AFL and CIO educational direc­ tors and is the first seaman ever selected for the school. The scholarship is for one year and covers tuition, room and IRWIN SUALL board, brother Suall says he will concentrate on a study of ships, the last one being thei the maritime labor movements Marina, Bull Lines. in the major maritime nations. Brother Suall sails as OS and The original notice of the Rus­ will return to sea upon thei com­ kin Scholarships was carried in pletion of his studies. the SEAFARERS LOG. Brother The other four students hail Suall then applied listing his from shoreside unions. The Union record. Duidng the 1946 Unions sending members are the General Strike he was a member Transport Workers, CIO, Chicago of the pubhcity committee in the local; Railroad Switchmen, AFL, port of New York and served as Wisconsin; Auto Workers, De­ a volunteer organizer during the troit local; and the Chemical Isthmian campaign. He has been Workers, Atomic Energy Local, delegate aboard many of his Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Topside Tyrant Mates until they almost went' than you can,' and does less mad. Finally they would go out work than his shipmates. Oh, the Skipper was a mighty and do sailors' work so they Maybe you have experienced man, a mighty man was he. For could have a little peace on the going ashore with a couple of he was god almighty and su­ trip. fellows and getting back to the preme king of the sea. He certainly required the ultra ship late, only to find that you In fact, this guy was a char­ in comfort, too. He only had six were logged wiiile one of these acter. Who? Why the Skipper of fans in his room. For the com­ guys got off clean. That's .right!. the Aram J. Pothier. He just mon people—the crew, that is couldn't bear to see the Mates one fan was enough in the Per­ He's a "blue-eye!" idle one moment, whether they sian Gulf. Of course, they also •When a guy adopts a "so were on watch or watch below. had the ocean breezes to ease what?" attitude when he is as­ To keep them occupied and out the 120-degree heat. signed to work with you, and of "mischief," this Skipper would yet gets all the breaks, you can This potentate of the Pothier order them to splice wire antl know there is a "blue-eye" in djdn^ confine his needling He"car"be"ident"* hawsers. favoritisms that The Mate received a succession the deck officers. What happened of orders to top booms, and to them also happened to the are granted him from topside. lireak out or stow lines with Engineers, who thus became Usually he claims the port the watch on deck (in violation guilty of doing Deck Engineer's Union officials are in his corner, work. of the agreement). All this and When overtime was submitted right or wrong; he knows it all coffee, too. What this character for this wofkV as per agreement, 1946, off Nantucket, contact Abe needed was a number one boy the Chief made a written state­ Rappaport at the offices of Ben or a valet, for he couldn't eat ment that he had done the work B. Sterling, 42 Broadway, Room with the common people. On because "the replacement of the several occasions he ordered 1711. some of his meals brought to new parts 'oh this vital piece of machinery require a degree of his room. skill ordinarily not to be en­ ROYALTY trusted to 'other than one of the But the payoff came when he'licensed engineers." I'm quoting used to walk past tlie coffee from his statement, The Boston Branch hos­ urn, stop, look back at it and pital delegate will visit Sea­ The topper came later when then order the first AB or OS he had the Deck Engineer do farers confined in the Boston to pour him a cup of java and a few more' complicated jobs— Marine Hospital every Thurs­ who by this time, I guess, had day between 2 P. M. and 4 acquired that degree of skill whenever there is a discussion; P.M. oi'dinarily entrusted to licensed and he makes a practice of Members entering the hos­ creating a helluva lot of beefs Engineers.' . . pital are urged to notify the to foul up the other fellow. Branch Hall by post card, Yes, you guessed it. It's an making sure they give their He's got an inferiorit.v com­ Isthmian .scow, names and the numbers of plex that delights in someone Jimmy Purcell the wards they occupy. else's failure or trouble, for it ft..ft ft releases him of a fear of ap­ The Union has left a sup­ pearing inferior ^— which he ply of mimeographed, ad­ knows himself to be. dressed post cards at the Do you know what a "bluehospital's social service desk, Keep a watchful eye on this eye" is? The oldtimers know; guy. He's a "blue-eye." He's a where they are available at no cost to SIU members. bring it tOy him topside. I im­ and for the benefit of the young­ danger to his shipmates and to So that the delegate does agine he must have served his er-men I'd like to explain that Union conditions wherever he not pass you up. do not fail apprenticeship: on a Chinese a "Blue-eye" is a free-loader— may be. That's him! A real to notify the Union that junk, where het-had the use of one. of those characters who "blue-eyed boy!" plays up to the bosses, figures you're in the hospital. coolie labor. Freddie Stewart This guy would taunt the out ways to get . off with more NOTICE! SUP HONOLULU PORTLAND ., RICHMOND, Calif SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE WILMINGTON 16 Merchant St. Phone 5-8777 Ill W. Burnside St. Beacon 4336 257 5th St. Phone 2599 59 Clajr St. Douglas 2-8363 86 Seneca St. Main 0290 440 Avalon Blvd. Terminal 4-3131 6t. Lakes District BUFFALO CHICAGO, 111 CLEVELAND DETROIT DULUTH TOLEDO 10 Exchange St. Cleveland 7391 3261 East 92nd St. Phone: Essex 2410 2602 Carro!!. St. Main 0147 1038 Third St. Cadillac 6857 531 W. Michigan St. Melrose 4110 615 Summit St. GarHeld 2112 Canadian District MONTREAL....... 1227 Philips Square VICTORIA, B.C 602 Boughton St. Empire 4531 VANCOUVER ...565 Hamilton St. Paciftc 7824 Boston Hospital Blue-eye Guy �Page Sixteen THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, September 10, 1948 I;.REFERENDUM BALLOT I fi>r ^ri^ecfion^ Seafarers International Union Of North America Atlantic and Gulf District REFERENDUM BALLOT Voting Period From Sept. 8 To Oct. 8, 1948 "INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS: Vote either YES or NO on the following reso-. fution by marking a cross (X) in the appropriate box. Do not use a lead pencil in marking the ballot. Ballots marked with lead pencil will not be counted. Mark your ballot with pen and ink or indelible pencil. DO NOT PUT ANY. OTHER MARKINGS ON THIS BALLOT. FOREWORD At the regular business meetings held up and down the coast on August 25, the following resolution, submitted by 37 members in the Port of New Orleans, was approvecl an(L is ,thQ&sfQlig ^bmilitd to ttektodkib^shiK as^l^r^institution. OLUTION f ir i WHEREAS: The A&G District of the Seafarers International Union of North America has set the pace with a. new contract and raise in wages, making the seaman's wage the highest ever obtained or imagined, and WHEREAS: Through job action and solidarity of the SIU membership and officials, we were able to. make the shipowners come in line and sign this contract, and WHEREAS: The life blood of any organization is its solidarity and finances, and this definitely helped us with our negotiations with the shipowners, and WHEREAS: All our funds are definitely established for certain purposes, such as Buildings, Strike, etc.. and our General Fund is our working fund, and WHEREAS: We will definitely have a struggle in future negotiations, and now that we enjoy these high wages we should do our utmost to-build our funds so we will be better respected by the shipowners, < and in a better position to fight them, so therefore be it RESOLVED: That we go on record assessing ourselves $10.00, to be a General Fund assessment, and be it further RESOLVED: That copies of this Resolution' be sent to all ports to be acted on at the next regulu meeting August 25th. 1948, and they in turn wire the Secretary-Treasurer of their action, and be it finally RESOLVED: That if this Resolution is carried that the Secretary-Treasurer be instructed to put in motion the necessary machinery to conduct a referendum ballot. ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF A $10.00 ASSESSMENT TO BUILD THE GENERAL FUND? YES NO • VOTE ? /--Wst—^ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1939-1949 Description An account of the resource Volumes I-XI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 10, 1948 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. X, No. 37 Description An account of the resource HEADLINES SEAMEN DRAFT STATUS UP TO LOCAL BOARDS GENERAL FUND INCREASES GOES TO A&G VOTE DOCK STRIKE TIES UP WEST COAST SHIPPING TAFT-HARTLEY ACT STILL TO LABOR TOP COMMIES JOIN NMU 99-YEAR CLUB TALKS TO RESUME IM ILA PAY DISPUTE MOBILE SHIPPING GAINS SLIGHTLY;SIU FISHERMAN WIN NEW WATERS PHILADELPHIA SEAFARERS GO FOR ASSESSMENT,CONFERENCE PLANS SHIPPING FOR RATED MEN FAIR IN NEW YORK SHIPPPING SLOWS,AND NEW HALL IS ONLY CHEER IN PORT TAMPA PORT BALTIMORE REPORTS WEEK'S SHIPPING RISE BRIDGES' STRIKE HALTS WEST COAST SHIPPING MOSOIL STRUCK BY FREIGHTER RUNS AGROUND IN ARGENTINE GADSDEN MATE MAKES OWN WORKING RULES SEAFARER SAM VANDAL'S FIFTY-YEAR CAREER STUDDED WITH COLORFUL JOBS QUICK TURN-IN TO NORFOLK SAVES EVANGELINE FROM GALE BROTHER OFESTLEY DIES ABOARD MALDEN VICTORY ANSWERS CHICAGO TRIBUNE EDITORIAL ARRACK ON SEAMEN'S WAGES,ABILITY MAIDEN CREEEK TAKES TIME OFF IN MANILA SEAFARER SUALL IS AWARED OXFORD LABOR SCHOLARSHIP Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/10/1948 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1948 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/11f0b701d9d8428814e0991f70d1b3f3.pdf 6dd093d2ed3853374dde85bebffe75d3 PDF Text Text Vol. XXI  No. 19  SEAFARERS^LOG  Soptomber  II,  1959  •  OFFICIAL  ORGAN  OF  THE  SEAFARERS  INTERNATIONAL  UNION  • ATLANTIC    AND  GULF  DISTRICT  •  AFL­CIO  •   ­• > 1  I'.S'.  •  3,.­..  v..  Drei^sed  in  SIU  T­shirts  and  wearing  the  familiar  "Lunde­ berg Stetsons,"  part  of  a  con­ tingent  of  over  300  Seafarers  is  shown  marching  up  New  York's  Fifth  Avenue  in  a  massive  Labor  Day  parade  of  115,000  union  men  and  wom­ en.  SIU  participated  jointly  with  NMU  and  other  mari­ time  unions  in  parade.  Cen­ ter  photo  shows  marine  un­ ions' float;  in  photo  below,  SIUNA  President  Paul  Hall  (right)  leads  Seafarer­pa­ raders. It was first  Labor  Day  parade  in  New  York  in  many  years.  (For  additional  details  and other  photos, see page 3.)  irv  I  'ff'  : ­ • • • 'fl  ®i8  .'­I.,  ­­r'i­;'  . .  .  A'­';­.  ­•  ­%  �Page  Two  SEAFARERS  LOG  SlU Lakes Co.  Starting Regular  Run To Europe  Sept. 11. 195#  Floating Picketiine  DETROIT—Direct  trans­Atlanlic shipping service from  the  Great  Lakes  to  Europe  is  being started  next  month  by  T, J.  McCarthy, an SIU  Great Lake".  District­contracted  company.  The  service  is  being  kicked"*'  off  on  October  1,  with  the  The  Alcoa  Puritan  will  pick  up  SlU­manned  A'coa  Puritan  cargo  at  Detroit,  Chicago  and  chartered  to  carry  Lakes  cargo  to  Kenosha,  Wisconsin,  and  deliver  England  and  the  European  con­ to  the  United  Kingdom.  France,  Germany  and  the  Low  Countries.  tinent.  Meanwhile,  McCarthy  indicated  The  announcement  of  the  Mc­ Carthy  action  is  the  first  such  that  his  company  wUl  either  be  in  step by  any  Lakes operator  as  well  the  market  for  additional  tonnage  as  being  the first  regular  service  to service  the European  run or will  to  be  undertaken  by  a  Great  build  a fleet  of  new  cargo  ships  Lakes  District  company.  However,  for  the operation.  several SlU­manned  deep sea  com­ McCarthy  is  the  only  Great  panies,  including  Alcoa,  Waterman  Lakes company  to have  applied for  and  Victory  Carriers,  as  well  as  a  subsidy  on  this  particular  run.  tramp  operators,  have  made  voy­ One  of  the  delaying  factors  in  ap­ ages  out  of  the  Lakes  to  Europe.  proval  of  the subsidy  has  been  the  Waterman, in  fact,  has  already  ap­ fight  by  rival  Great  Lakes  opera­ Engineer  Robert Luby pickets  the SS  Malietoa at the  Buffalo con­ plied  for  a  Lakes­to­Europe  op­ tors  on  McCarthy's  continuing  its  crete  elevator  in  organizing  drive  by  MESA  Local  101  against  erating subsidy.  carferry  and  bulk  cargo  domestic  The  McCarthy  announcement  trade  operations  on  the  Lakes.  the  Jupiter  Steamship  Company.  pointed  out  that  the  company  has  had  a  subsidy  application  pending  for more  than  three  years, and  has  received  step­by­step  approval  for  such  operations  in  the  face  of  strong  opposition  from  a  number  of  deep­sea  operators.  With final  action  still  awaited  from  the  Fed­ eral  Maritime  Board,  McCarthy  decided  to  go  ahead  with  the  in­ WASHINGTON—^A  new  set  of  restricticns  has  been  clamped  on  the  American  labor  auguration  of  the  service.  New Labor Bill Short On Reform, Hits Unions Only Mates Will  Ballot  Soon  On Officials  Members  of  the  Masters,  Mates  and  Pilots  will  soon  have  an  op­ portunity  to  vote  in' an  election  of  officers  which  will  restore  the  local's  autonomy  and  formally  end  the  existing  trusteeship.  Terms  governing  the  nomination  of  offi­ cers  have  been  agreed  upon,  with  the  membership  to  elect  a  presi­ dent,  two  vice­presidents,  a  busi­ ness  manager  and  three  trustees.  The rules  governing nominations  to  Local 88  office  provide  that  any  member  can  nominate  himself  before  September  30,  1959,  in  writing,  with  a  second  in  writing  by  another  member.  A  radiogram  v/ill  be  deemed  sufficient  in  lieu  of  a  letter.  On September  30  a special  mem­ bership  meeting  will  be  convened  for  the purpose  of  further  nomina­ tions  and  acceptances,  with  the  nominating  period  closing  after  that  date.  SCHEDULE  OF  SIU  MEETIRGS  SIU  membership  meet­ ings  are  held  regularly  every  two  weeks  on  Wed­ nesday  nights  at  7  PM in  all  SIU  ports.  All  Sea­ farers  are  expected  to  attend;  those  who  wish  to  be  excused  should  request  permission  by  telegram  (be  sure  to  include  regis­ tration  number).  The  next  SIU  meetings  will  be:  September  16  September 30  October  14  movement  by  Congress  under  the  guise  of  controlling corruption in labor­management re­ lations.  In the face of fierce opposition from every segment of  the labor movement, Congress  has passed  a  modified  version "*•   of  the  Landrum­Griffin  bill  Board  to  decertify  the  striking  un­ over  to  the  even  harsher  state  la­ ion.  Since  only  the  strikebreakers  bor  regulations.  which  had  the  enthusiastic  could  vote,  the  decertification  fol­ On  the  issue  of  corruption,  Blood Bank  Assists Two  in Outports  Two  more  members  of  Seaiarers  families  in  the  outports  have  re­ ceived  assists  from  the  SIU  Blood  Bank in recent days via  the Union's  nationwide  system  for  providing  blood  donations  when  needed. The  mother  of  a  Seafarer  ID  Tampa  received  eight  pints  of  blood  prior  to surgery,  while  in  Mobile,  a  Sea­ farer'a  wife  was  given  a  four­pint  blood  transfusion.  Arrangements for the blood  gifts  to the  mother  of  Seafarer  Ed  Cos­ tine  and  to  the  wife  of  Seafarer  C. E.  Long  were  made  through  the  SIU  teletype  network  link'ng  all  ports.  Blood  for  the  two  women  was  obtained  from  local  blood  banks in the  two cities and  charged  to the Union's account.  The Union Blood  Bank at  present  operates  through  the  SIU  Welfare  Plan  clinic  in  Brooklyn  and  the  Brooklyn  Donor  Center.  Seafarers  passing  through  the .port  of  New  York  who  wish  to  donate  to  the  Union  bank  can  do  so  by  making  appointments  with  E.  B.  McAuley.  the  headquarters  welfare  i­epre­ sentative.  The  blood  donated  in  New  York  is  available  local'y  and  in  all the  outports  through  the  ex­ change  set­up  with  local  blood  banks  in  various  areas  of  the  country.  As  a  result  of  the success  of  the  Blood  Bank  in  assisting  many  Sea­ farers  and  members  of  tlieir  fam­ ilies,  donations  to  the  Un'on  sup­ ply  have  been  on  the  increase.  All  Seafarers who  can  do  ro are  urged  to  donate  at  the  clin'c  so  that  an  ample reserve can  be kept  on  hand  to  meet  all  Seafarers'  needs.  support of  the National  Association  lowed almost  as a  matter of  course.  which  was  supposed  to  be  the  ob­ ol  Manufacturers  and  the  US  Aside  from  this  one  item,  the  jective  of  the  bUl,  the  AFL­CIO  Chamber  of  Commerce.  bill  imposes  a  number  of  severe  reported  that  the  bill  failed  to  Actually  many  of  the  features  restrictions  on  organizing.  Organi­ meet labor's goal  of  fair, anti­rack­ of  the  bill have  no connection  with  zational  picketing is,  in  effect, lim­ eteering  legislation.  In  particular,  the  corruption  issue  but  represent  ited  to  30  days,  by  which  time  a  the  Federation  noted  that  the sec­ instead,  a  tightening  of  Taft­ union  must file  a  petition  for  an  tions dealing  with employer  spend­ Hartley  restrictions  election.  Similarly,  the  bill  re­ ing  to  influence  workers  and  the  The  only  comfort  to  be  gleaned  stricts  the  rights  of  unions  to  ad­ activities  of  lawyers  working  for  from  the  bill  is its  modification  of  vertise,  through  picketlines,  that  management  were  feeble  and  the  Taft­Hartley  provision  which  an  employer  is  non­union  or  pays  toothless.  The  only  expenditures  allowed  strikebreakers  to  vote  in  low  wages.  Such  picketing  is  per­ employers have  to report are those  a  collective  bargaining  election  mitted  only  if  it  does  not  halt  the  through  "labor  relations"  consul­ while barring strikers from the bal­ pick­up or  delivery of  goods.  tants,  but  many  of  these  activities  lot.  The  new  provision  allows  the  Unions are also barred  from pick­ are  handled  by  attorneys  who  are  strikers  to  vote  as  well  as  the  eting consumer  outlets, such  as re­ relatively  Immune  under  the  new  strikebreakers.  tail  stores  or  department  stores,  law.  NEW  ORLEANS—Spearheaded  Under  the  old  Taft­Hartley  reg­ which  handle  the  products  of  non­ Other  provisions  of  the  bill  call  ulation,  there  were  numerous  in­ union  employers.  Another  provi­ by  136  "A" men  shipping  out,  the  for  detailed financial  reports  by  stances  of  employers hiring  strike­ sion  damaging  to  unions  allows  shipping  picture  at  this  port  hat  breakers  in  the  course  of  an  eco­ the Natonal  Labor  Relations Board  unions,  reports  of  officers'  sala­ ries  and  loans  to  officers  and  been  very  good,  and  should  con­ nomic  strike,  and  then  petitioning  to  surrender  jurisdiction  over  members,  require  secret  ballot  tinue  for  the  next  ­ two  weeks  the  National  Labor  Relations  many  labor  cases  and  turn  them  elections  at  regular  intervals,  es­ with  nine ships  thus  far  scheduled  tablished  time  limits  on  trustee­ for pay offs.  ships,  and  bar  individuals  convic­ The last  two  weeks  brought  nine  ted  of  a  felony from  holding union  payoffs,  five  sign  ons,  and  24  in­ office.  Originally,  the  biU  Introduced  transits. The  ships paying  off  were  the  Alcoa  Pioneer  (Alcoa);  Del  In  the  Senate  by  Senator  John  • Norte, Del  Alba,  Del  Sol,  Del  Rio,  Kennedy  (Dem.­Mass.)  had  con­ Del  Valle  (Mississippi);  Alice  centrated  on  the  corruption  issue  Brown  (Bloomfield)  and  Madaket  and  had  emphasized  the  need  to  and  Antinous (Waterman).  regulate  employer  activites  as  Ships  signing  on  were  Alcoa  well. However, as it finally emerged,  Pioneer  (Alcoa);  Del  Norte,  Del  the  bill  bore little  resemblance  to  Viento  (Mississippi);  Klargaret  the original  Keniiedy measure.  Brown  (Bloomfield);  Madaket  (Waterman).  The  following  were  the  ships  in  transit:  Alcoa  Clipper,  Alcoa  Ran­ Sept. 11,1954,  Vol. XXI, No. 19  ger/  Alcoa  Corsair,  Alcoa  Reamer,  Alcoa  Planter,  Alcoa  Pioneer  (Alcoa); Seatrain Georgia,  Seatrain  New  Jersey,  Seatrain  Louisiana,  Seatrain  Texas  (Seatrain);  Del  Pain.  HAIX.  1Sccrftary­Tr«awr«r  B«ANO.  Editor.  BaaMAin  Su.  Norte,  Del  Viento  (Mississippi);  Art  Editor.  Hniuii  Aanraa, UanM  SrivAex.  AL  HASKJN.  JOHN  JBium,  DON­ Kathryn,  BeBtrice  (Bull);  Margaret  Brown  (Bloomfield);  Steel  Vendor  ALO  I  BAMMI.  Stag  Wrltet  '  Cult  Area  acprcMHtatto*.  (Isthmian);  Wild  Ranger,  Monarch  PUMIMM  l^iwMKiy  at  mo  hMdquartora  of  the Seas (Waterman); Ocean  De­^  of  tho  tfofarorf  Intoniolional Union,  borah  (Ocean  Transportation);  Although  he  never  expected  it,  retired  Seafarer  W.  Newhoff  lontlc A Oulf OMrlcf,  ^APL­CIO,  Pl.­Cmj«7Sfovrtb  Raphael  Semmes,  Gateway  City  was  surprised  recently  to see  his  hair growing bqck  in,  Newhoff,  foot Offlco in Broofclyn.  NY. undor  (Pan­Atlantic); Pacificus (Colonial); '  getting  his locks  trimmed at  the barbershop  in the New  York  SIU  of tho  Act  of  Auf. 24.  Ifll.  Longview  " Victory  (Victory  (Car­ hall,  thinks  It  is  the  result  of  a  series  of  50 cortisone  shoh he  re­ IM  riers)  and  Atlantis  (Petrol  Ship­ ceived lasLyeac.,  Jf so,. the line forms on  the right.  ping).  ^  ­ N'Orieans  Ship Jobs  Cram Board  Man With A Hair­Ralsing Tale  S£AFARERS  LOG  •  'i  �Sept. 11, 1959  SEAFARERS Pace TbrM  LOG MTD  Plans  Attack  On  I  M'tlme  Ills  Strengthened  by  the  addition  of  eight  more  inter­ national  unions  in  the  past  two  years,  the  AFL­CIO  Maritime  Department  will  open  its  biennial  conven­ tion in San  Francisco, Sep­^"  continuing  and  expanding  tember  15,  better equipped  grams  organizing  activities  on  the  Lakes,  than  ever  to  tackle  prob­ for  supporting  the fight  of  Ameri­ Ranks  of  marching  SlU  men  pass  New  York  Public  Library  at  Fifth  Avenue  and  42nd  Street,  the  "crossroads  of  tha  world."  115,000 In  NY Labor  Day Parade  .1  lems  confronting  the  nation's  can  seagoing  unions  on  the  run­ away flags,  and  for  legislation  to  maritime  workers.  American merchant  Among items on  the agenda  strengthen the  marine  particularly  in  the  tanker  of  the 200,000­member organization  are reports  on  the  progress  of  the  MTD's  campaign  in  the  Great  Lakes  area,  the  growth  of  its  port  council  organizations,  now  totaling  22  in all  in  virtually  every  port  of  consequence  on  all  coasts  and  on  the  Lakes,  and  developments  in  Washington which  vitally affect the  well­being of  all maritime workers.  All  told,  MTD  now  numbers  20  international  unions  in  its  ranks  as  compared  to  the  12  it  had  two  years  ago.  The  organization's  growth  is reflected  In the  fact that  the  total  membership  of  these  un­ ions  is  many  times  the  200,000  workers who are  directly employed  in  the  maritime  Industry.  This  growth,  plus  the  organiza­ tion  of  port  councils  all  over  the  nation, promises  more effective  ac­ tion by all  unions involved  on mar­ itime  matters.  The  convention  will  plan  pro­ segment of  the industry  and in  the  domestic  trades,  where  shipping  has  been  under  severe  pressure  from  the  railroad  industry,  aided  by  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com­ mission.  AFL  ­  CIO  President  George  Meany  is  one  of  the  scheduled  speakers  at  the  convention,  which  will  be  held  at  the  St.  Francis  Hotel in  San Francisco  on  the Sep­ tember 15  and  16.  Approximately  300  Seafarers  In  white  caps  and  SIU  T­shirts  inarched  up  New  York's  Fifth  Avenue  on  Monday,  September  8  as  part  of  a  massive  Labor  Day  parade  organized  by  the  New  York  City  Central  Labor  Council.  The  SIU  contingent  marched  with  Na­ tional  Maritime  Union  men  and  members of  other  maritime  unions  as  a  segment  of  some  115,000  marchers  who  paraded  past the  re­ Nafional Maritime Union President Joseph  Curran (with hot) leads  viewing  stand  for  eight  hours.  The  heart of  the maritime union  group of  NMU men  who  participated.  presentation  was  a float  represent­ DETROIT  —  Strong  union  ing  the  activities  of  air American  protests  that  forced  a  prompt  sea  unions affiliated  with  the AFL­ CIO,  preceeded  by  a  brass  band  public  hearing  on  an  "arbi­ complete  with  drum majorettes.  trary"  ruling  by  the  Interstate  Members of  the Esse Tanker  Men's Union  have  voted  by a 3­1 margin  to affiliate  their  Commerce  Commission  resulted  in  SIUNA  President  Paul  Hall  and  NMU President Joseph Curran  par­ organization with the Seafarers International  Union of  North America.  A new district  char­ only  a  two­week  delay  on  the start  ticipated  in  the  parade.  Among  ter, establishing ETMU  as an  autonomous  union  within  the SIUNA,  is  being  issued.  The  of  the  first  containership  eervice  those who  marched  the entire  two­ ETMU will retain full control+  on  the Great  Lakes.  mile  route  in  a  hot  sun  were  re­ over finances,  officers,  jobs  petition  the  National  Labor  Rela­ through  thinly  ­  veiled  fronts  Originally  set  to  begin  August  tired Seafarers  Ed  Hansen, 86,  and  and  other  E'TMU  affairs  as  tions  Board  for  a  representation  reached  its  peak  13  months  ago  23,  the  new  service  had  been  Morris  Schapiro,  71.  election  so  that  ETMU  can  estab­ when Esso  men fired  the "advisory  blocked  without  a  public  hearing  do  all  districts  In  the  SIUNA.  400,000 Spectators  Approval  of  the  affiliation  pro­ lish  once  again  its  right  to  repre­ counselor"  who  dictated  their  af­ when  the  ICC  suspended  a  pro­ The  police  safety  division  esti­ posal  represents  a  major  stride  in  sent  the  men  in  the  Esso fleet.  fair  ashore.  The  "advisor,"  John  posed  rate  schedule  filed  by  thw  mated  that  400,poo  spectators  the  year­long  campaign  by  Esso  A  preliminary  hearing  has been  J. Collins, who operates a string  of  Detroit Atlantic Corp. covering two  watched  the  parade  from  26th  to  tankermen  to  reorganize  their  un­ called  by the  Labor Board for  Sep­ organizations  in  Esso  and  else­ converted container ships  to be  put  63rd  Street.  The  parade  was  re­ ion  and  achieve  the  best  possible  tember  11,  today,  in  New  York.  where,  represents  not  only  unli­ on  the  Duluth­Detroit­Cleveland  viewed  by  New  York  Governor  representation  in  dealing with  the  These  developments are  but  one  censed  personnel  but  also licensed  run. Detroit Atlantic is a subsidiary  Nelson  Rockefeller  and  Mayor  giant  Standard  Oil  Company  of  aspect of  a  tangled  labor  relations  officers,  pursers  and  radio officers  of  Browning  Lines,  which  is under  to  the  SIU  Great  Lakes  Robert Wagner.  New  Jersey.  The. vote  count,  as  situation  not  only  in  Esso  but  in  in  separate  associations—all  deal­ contract  District.  several  other  major  US  oil  com­ certified  by  the  Honest  Ballot  As­ ing  with  the  same  employer.  Among  the  colorful  contingents  The new  operation got  underway  in  the  line  of  March  was  a  group  sociation,  was  449  to  165  in  a  se­ panies.  ETMU  approval of  SIUNA  Many  Seafarers  will  remember  this  week  when  the  ICC  reversed  affiliation  follows  less  than  a  Collins as  the  man  who,  ten  years  of  actors  and  actresses  from  22  cret  baUot  mail  referendum.  It  itself  and  approved  the  schedule  stage  shows,  appropriately  dressed  was the largest  total vote ever  cast  month  after  a  vote  by  3,300  Esso  ago in Cities Service, set up a  com­ following a  hearing  in  Washington.  up  for  their  roles.  The  parade  in­ by  Esso  tankermen.  Balloting  be­ refinery  workers  in  Baytown,  Tex­ pany  union  to fight  the  Cities  The SIU and other maritime unions  as, to  join the AFL­CIO Oil, Chem­ gan July  27  and tended August 30.  Service  tankermen's  efforts  to  get  cluded  200  bands,  57 floats,  two  had  sharply protested  the rate sus­ baby  elephants, fire  trucks,  stage  Even  as  the  voting  got  under­ ical  and  Atomic  Workers  Inter­ union  representation.  This  effort  pension  and  actively  participated  national  Union,  and  a  vote  by  a  disintegrated  when  the  NLRB  at the  hearing which  prompted  the  way, Standard  Oil  unleased  a  new  coaches  and  other  vehicles.,  The New  York Labor Day  parade  campaign  to  frustrate  the  Esso  smaller  group  to  become  part  of  branded  the  operation  "company  ICC  reversal.  marked  revival  of  an  old  custom  membership's  action  by  reviving  the  AFL­CIO  Bricklayers  Union.  dominated."  The  Cities  Service  Union  representatives  pointed  Breach  Esso 'Iron  Curtain'  tankermen  then  went  union  by  a  out  tliat  the  90­day  suspension  or­ which  fell  Into  disuse  years  ago.  an  "Independent  association"  pre­ The success of  the parade indicates  viously  rejected  by  the  men.  The  Both  these  votes  mark  the first  lopsided  vote.  dered  by  the  ICC  without  a  hear­ It will  become a  permanent fixture  company  ­ sponsored  action  has  time  the  independent  oil  company  The  calibre  of  the  Collins  oper­ ing,  at  the  urging  of  railroad  and  on future  Labor  Days.  made  it  necessary  for  ETMU  to  unions  have  been  able  to  break  ation  can  more  readily  be  appre­ trucking interests, "will  only serve  through  the  barriers  erected  by  ciated in light of  the fact that none  to  hurt"  American  shipping  and  Standard  Oil  to  keep  them  from  of  his  "associations"  ever  holds  a  force  additional  seamen  out  of  affiliating  with  AFL­CIO  unions.  membership  meeting.  Nor  do  any  work.  Due  to  seasonal  conditions  The  ETMU  vote,  involving  unli­ of  them  have  full  time  officers  on  the  Lakes,  including  the  fall  censed  tanker  personnel,  is  one  ashore  other  than  Collins,  or  do  and  winter  freeze­up,  a  three­ more  sign  of  the  breach  in  the  their  members ever  vote  by  secret  month  delay  would  have  effec­ company's iron  curtain, torpedoing  ballot  to  employ  Collins  or  con­ tively stalled  the new service  until  the  company  myth  that  workers'  tinue  him  as  their  groups'  chief  at least 196u, they contended.  best  interests  can  be  served  by  officer.  In  addition  to  the  two  ships  put  binding  themselves  to  employer­ Based  on  the  Inferior  contracts  on  the  container  run  immediately,  promoted  "Independent  associa­ and  cut­rate  grievance  settlements  Detroit  Atlantic  had  anticipated  tions."  approved  for  them  by  Collins," it  adding  two  more  converted  ships  The widening  gap  between earn­ had  become  apparent  to  Esso  men  next year and extending the servic#  ings  and  conditions  in  unionized  that they could  not seek  protection  to  Buffalo  and  Toronto.  The  two  plants  and fleets  as  compared  to  from  a  man  who  also  represents  Browning  ships  starting  the  serv=  the  "independents"  plus  the  in­ management  and  acts on  behalf  of  ice, the Norman Foy and the Wayno  ability  of  the  "independents"  to  the  licensed  officers.  When  the  Hancock, carry 35 aluminum trailer  deal  effectively  on  their  own  is  Collins­run  "association"  failed  to  bodies  weighing 20 tons each which  bringing  about  this  major  change.  seek  a  reonenlng  of  the  conti­act  are  loaded  by  shoreside  cranes.  Drum  majorettes  paco  in  front  of  band  from  St.  Rocco's  Youth  The  resentment  of  tankermen  in  May.  1958.  allowing  the  old  The  truck  bodies  are  carried  as  Center  in  Brooklyn.  St. Patrick's  cathedral  is  in  background.  against  company  domination  (Continued  on  page  15)  _  _ (Continued  on  j>age  15^  SIU Protest  Wins ICC  Rule Switch  Esse Men Get SIUNA  Charter  "Jl  '=''1  • iS  �5^  fle»t.ll,  im  SEAVAREnS  LOG  SEAFARERS  ROTARY SHIPPING  ROARD  August  20  Through  September  2,  1959  Ship  Atfivity  Remaining  as  unpredictable  as  ever,  shipping  for  SIU  paying  off  or  signing  on  during  the  period,  while  Boston  and  Norfolk,  ports  decreased  slightly  from  the  past  two­week  period  as  a  reported  only one  vessel  paying  off  with no  ships signing  on.  Pay  SIRR  • •   result of  a parallel drop in the number of  vessels hitting these  As  has  been  expected  a  number  of ports  were  top­heavy  with  class  A  and  B  men  in  all  departments  at  the  start  of  the  new  period.  This  Ofh  Oa*  Trans. TOTAL  ports.  is the result of  the decline  In  shipping and  of  the end  of  the summer  as  Even  with  the  decline  in  the  general  shipping  figures,  the  overall  lotton  1  —  3  4  total  still  remained  well  over  the  1,000  mark,  with  some  ports,  notably  a  number  of  Seafarers  who  had  been  vacationing  over  the  past  two  Now  York  ... 21  S  18  44  New  York,  Jacksonville,  Mobile,  Wilmington,  and  Seattle,  showing  months,  have  registered  for  jobs.  Three  ports,  Philadelphia,  New  Or­ 2  12  17  sizable  gains.  There  was  a  total  of  1,184  men  shipped  from  the  14  SIU  leans  and  San  Francisco,  have  more  than  enuogh  men  registered  to  Phllodalphio..  3  handle  any  berths  that  may  come  up.  ioltlmere  ...  f  3  9  21  ports  over  the  past  period,  a  decline  of  122  from  the  prior  period's  1  —  4  8  26­month  record  high  of  1,306.  However  even  with  the  decline,  the  Seniority­wise  the  general  breakdown  of  jobs  changed  slightly  over  Norfolk  11  11  past  period's  total  is  somewhat  above  the  average  shipping  totals  re­ the  past  period  as  class  C  men  took  16  percent  of  the  total  number  of  Jaektonrlllo..  jobs  shipped.  This  was  an  increase  of  three  percent.  Class  A  men  also  Tompo  ported  over  the  past  two  years.  —  S  I  On  the  other  side  of  the  shipping  picture,  the  ports  of  Boston,  increased  to  61  percent  of  the  total,  with  the  corresponding  loss  felt  Mobilo  8  1  9  U  Philadelphia,  Baltimore,  Norfolk,  Tampa,  New  Orleans,  Houston  and  in  the  number  of  class  B  men  shipped.  This figure  dropped  to  23  per­ NewOrleoni..  9  5  24  38  San  Francisco,  all  declined.  The  greatest  drops  were  in  the  ports  of  cent  Loko Charles..  1  1  10  12  Philadelphia  and  San  Francisco,  both  reporting  less than  one  half  their  The  following  is  the  forecast,  port  by  port:  Houston  ....  3  2  14  19  previous  period's  totals.  Boston; Slow  . . . New York:  Good for  class A  men  . . .  Philadelphia:  Wilmington  ..  1  1  B  7  There  was  a  total  of  219  vessels  calling  into  SIU  ports  during  the  Hit  a  slump, should  increase  . .  . Baltimore: Slow  , .  . Norfolk:  Promises  Son Froneileo.  117  9  past  two­week  period.  Of  this  total  there  were  59  vessels  paying  off,  to  improve  .  .  .  Jacksonville:  Steady  .  .  .  Tampa:  Slow  .  .  .  Mobile:  3  3  5  11  24  signing  on  and  136  in  transit.  This  is  a  drop  of  16  ships  from  the  Good  .  .  .  New  Orleans:  Good  .  .  .  Lake  Charles:  Fair  .  .  .  Houston:  Seattle  last  period,  most  of  it  in  the  number  of  vessels signing  on  and  in  tran­ Good,  will  hold  up  .  . .  Wilmington:  Fait  .  . .  San  Francisco:  Slow . ..  sit.  There  were  two  ports,  Jacksonville  and  Tampa,  with  no  vessels  Seattle:  Steady.  Totals  89  24  138  219  DiCK  DEPAkTMENT  Registered  CLASS  A  Port  Bostoi  ,.  New  York  ...  Philadelphia..  Baltimore  Norl­olk  Jacksonville..,  Tampa  Mobile  New Orleans..  Lake  Charles.  Houston  Wilmington...  San  Francisco.  Seatflo­ TOTAfS  GROUP  123 ALL  7  1  1  9  18  44  13  75  1  10  2  13  15  29  8  52  1  3  4  8  6  3  9  6  1  1  8  14  10  1  25  21  37  13  71  3  8  2  13  17  29  8  54  1  11  2  14  7  5  19  7  9  15  3  27  Shipped  CLASS  A  Registered  CLASS  B  Shipped  CLASS  B  Shipped  CLASS  C  GROUP  123 ALL  1  1  2  12  22  35  1  —  2  4  7  11  2  2  4  —  1  1  1  2  2  3  —  2  8  10  —  2  12  7  1  —  5  3  4  2  115  219  6.3  I  397! 12  50  59  GROUP  GROUP  123 ALL  123 ALL  2  1  1  4  16  39  12  67  —  9  17  26  3  7  3  13  _  7  17  26'  3  2  6  11  3  —  5  1  1  —  2  5  6  11  —  1  16  10  28  1  4  5  19  15  27  10  52  3  8  12  3|  3  2  1  6  1  1  2  21  14  20  43  8  8  19  1|  5  4  2  2  10  4  10;  4  3  1  8  15  4  9  7  15  1  5  _8  24  121196  161  49  306 10  31  52"  93  TOTAL  SHiPPED  Registered  On  The  Beach  CLASS  A  CLASS  B  GROUP  GROUP  ,  123 ALL  ABC ALL  4  4  3  5  4  12  67  26  12  105  —  2  2  13  —  2  15  1  1  4  6  26  11  6  43  5  2  —  7  1  11  —  1  12  2  2  1  —  5  1  34  1  28  —  6  6  52  12  6  70  6  2  8  6  4  11  43  19  11  73  1  1  3  10  4  3  1?  1  2  3  15  4  3  22  3  3  6  24  a  6  38  6  18  27  GROUP  GROUP  12  3  ALL  123 ALL  6  12  3  21  2  2  4  88  165  46  289  31  41  74  5  18  10  33  1  47  84  16  147  14  19  34  7  13  4  24  4  3  8  6  7  1  14  3  1  1  2  13  1  16  2  2  34  36  13  83  "3  11  IB  56  74  16  146  12  3  8  3  16  3  22  2  3  18  31  62  10  4  15  8  12  24  3  3  22  24  51  3  4  8  9  12  8  2  11  21  51306  93  51  450 314  514 125  953  12  82  99  193  ENGINE  DEPARTMENT  Port  Boston  New  York  Philadelphia  Baltimore  Norfolk  Jacksonville  Tampa  Mobile  New Orleans  Lake  Charles  Houston  Wilmington  San  Francisco  Seattle  TD7AIS  Registered  CLASS  A  GROUP  1  2  3  ALL  2  —  3  1  60  14  41  5  1  12  1  14  1  26  7  34  —  6  1  7  1  —  —  1  —  4  —  4  14  9  2  25  19  47  4  70  3  4  1  8  7  35  4  46  2  4  —  6  8  8  1  17  1  17  2  20  65  215  35  315  Registered  Shipped  Shipped  CLASS  B  CLASS  A  CLASS  B  GROUP  GROUP  GROUP  1  2  3  ALL  1  2  3  ALL  1  2  3  ALL  —  1  1  1  6  8  —  —  —  3  4  2  20  10  32 1  10  56  6  72  1  6  10  17  —  1  2  3 (  1  2  3  3  —  3  3  —  15  13  28  3  14  2  19  ­  _  13  8  21  —  4  1  5  —  3  1  1  1  4  2  —  2  —  2  —  2  —  2  —­ —  1  1  —  1  —  1  —  —  4  4  3  10  3  16  4  4  —  11  6  17  10  33  7  50  7  6  13  —  —  1  3  3  1  1  7  —  7  9  16  4  22  2  11  3  28  14  —  —  1  6  —  1  2  5  8  2  7  4  4  6  4  1  14  —  5  4  5  9  6  1  _'l  8  3  —  13  —  6  2  8  i  2  7  71  61  139  35  163  30  228  4  53  45  102  Shipped  TOTAL  Registered  On  The  Beach  CLASS  C  SHIPPED  CLASS  A  CLASS  B  GROUP  GROUP  GROUP  GROUP  1  2  3  ALL  A  B  C  ALL  1  2  3  ALL  1  2  3  ALL  —  4  13  ­ 4  1  12  __  3  3  6  1  2  3  72  17  3  92  53  145  27  225  7  35  32  74  —  4  3  4  10  1  2  3  4  3  1  6  7  —  8  6  14  19  21  14  54  13  78  14  105  19  12  31  —  4  2  _  6  2  14  16  8  1  9  ,  2  2  4  2  2  4  1  5  1  4  5  —.  1  12  1  1  11  1  1  2  4  1  1  21  9  49  4  62  1  8  1  16  9  3  6  9  50  13  9  72  30  84  7  121  1  13  11  25  2  2  2  7  9  4  10  ___  14  1  1  2  1  3  28  14  3  45  8  31  3  8  1  42  1  19  2  1  7  3  3  8  18  3  11  1  15  1  1  2  1  1  5  5  2  5  ­  9  2  16  16  26  2'  44  16  —  8  4  8  12  33  1  16  1  12  13  3  2  18  5  1  27  27  55 228  102  55  385 142  492  61  695  11  98  8?  19i  •  •  ­ ­  •   •  STEWARD  DEPARTMENT  Yr. \ Port  boston  Ne­w  York  Philadelphia..  Baltimore....  Norfolk  Jacksonville..  Tampa  Mobile  New Orleans..  Lake  Charles.  Houston  Wilmington...  San  Francisco.  Seattle  fOTALS  Registered  Registered  Shipped  Shipped  Shipped  CLASS  A  CLASS  B  CLASS  A  CLASS  B  CLASS  C  GROUP  GROUP  1  2  3  ALL  1  2  3  ALL  3  2  3  8,  ­ —  2  2 !  26  8  39  73'  —  —  19  19 '  3  3  8  14  —  4  4  21  6  17  44  —  1  10  11  2  —  —  2  —  —  4  4  3  —  —  3  —  —..  .  1  —  2  3  —  —  2  2  5  11  4  20  —  —  8  8  8  10  30  48  —  —'  12  12  —  2  —  2  —  —  1  1  15  7  14  36  2  —  6  8  5  —  1  6  —  —  4  4  7  2  13  22  —  —  4  4  7  1  5  13 i  1  —­ 2  3  105  46  143  2941  3  1  78  82  ^TOTAL  SHIPPED  Regittered On  the  Beach  CLASS  A  CLASS  B  GRGUP  GROUP  GROUP  GROUP  GROUP  GROUP  1  2  3  ALL  1  2  3  ALL  1  2  3  ALL  A  2  3  B  C  ALL  1  1  1  2  2  4  1  2  1  1  3  8  14  7  34  55  1  23  24  1  26  27  55  24  27  IO6 101  35  40  .  2  1  2  5  4  4  S  4  4  13  9  9  .....  3  4  4  12  20  2  1  4  7  3  20  7  3  SO  47  15  31  —  —  3  —  1  4  —  —­ 2  2  4  2  3  2  9  4  1  —.  —  1  1  ......  2  3  2  1  3  1  4  7  ....  • e­ 3  AA ' 2  —.  1  3  —  i  2  8  3  5  2  2  4  8  4  4  1  4  1  13  21  12  21  1  8  ——  16  16  34  12  16  6  5  23  34  —  _  12  12  62  39  11  73  —  —.  3  ...  3  1  3  4  1  1  1  4  2  12  5  8  7  25  —  7  1  —  13  7  14  4  8  14  25  46  14  4  1  2  6  7  1  7  1  2  7  3  4  5  3  7  17  8  3  —.  8  8  22  1  1  3  1  1  2  3  4  18,  24  11  1  4  11  8  2  5  15  1  1  2  4  1  ­  —  8  4  9  1  5  9  15  28i 1  ^  61  28  194  193  1®  4  68  78  4  2  72  78 193  78  78  349 295  107  234  •  •  ALL  14  176  26  93  9  10  15  54  123  7  26  17  54  12  636  1  1  4  1  1  .  .  ­ 1  1  9  2  3  ALL  ­  ­  .  5  4  53  2  47  5  5  30  25  SB  2  9  IB  ­ 1  1  1  23  24  24  H  • —  5  B  3  4  3  4  1  B  B  1.  —  1  37  157  20I  SUMMARY  Registered  CLASS  A  DECK  ENGINE  STEWARD  GRAND TOTALS  Registered  CLASS  B  Shipped  CLASS  A  GROUP  GROUP  GROUP  123 ALL  123 ALL  1  2  3  ALL  ifS  219  63 I  397  12  50  59  I  121  96  lef  49  3M  65  215  35 |"^315  7  *71  _61J  139  "35  163 "'36"  228  105  46 143 I  294  3  1  78  1*82  61  28  i04  193  285  480 241 11006  22  122  198  1  342,192  352  183  1'727  Shipped  CLASS  C  CLASS  B  GROUP  )  25 ALL  10  31  52  93  S3  45  202  6  4  68"  78  20"  88  165  273  't  *• ­ TOTAL  SHIPPED  Reglshited  On  Tht  Beath  CLASS  A  CLASS  B  GROUP  CLASS  GROUP  GROUP  1  2  3  ALL  ABC ALL  12  3  ALL  123 ALL  6  18  27  I  51,306  93  51 I  450,314  514 125  953  12  82  99  I  193  1  27 • 27 I    55 228  102  55 1385142  492  61  895  11  98  87  I  198  4  2,  72  I  78 193  78  78 I" 349 295  107 234  636  9  37  157  I  m  47  126  1  184,727  278  i8t  lil84i761  lUS  420  12284  32  217  348 | 992  n ­.1.5  r  ­r­  •  �Upt. Ih ltS9  QUESTION:  As  a  saaman,  where  in  the  world  would  you  like  to  visit without having to worry  about getting back  to your  ship on  time?  Pace  PiT«  SEAFARERS  LOG  Congress Votes Two More  Years Of Surplus Cargoes  WASHINGTON—^With  the  wind­up  of  this  session  of  Congress  only  a  few  hours  Oliver  V,  Ortiz,  AB:  Tliat's  a  Eusebio  Padilla, OS:  Since I live  away, Congress  has formally  agreed  on  a  compromise  two­year  extension  of  the  farm  sur­ • imple one  —  San  Juan,  Puerto  in  Brooklyn,  it  still  is  my  favorite  Rieo.  My  family  port  for  over­ plus disposal  program which  would  give some  permanence to  the legislation.  Up until  now,  la  down  there,  night  stays.  I  year  to  year  extensions  have­*  and  the docks  have  a  wife  and  been adopted, each time in the  stopping  US  shipping.  Since  the  by  the  industry.  These  involved  are  close  to  my  seven  kids,  and  closing  days  of  the  session.  movement  of  US­financed  surplus  amendments  governing  ship  oper­ there  is  no  place  The  action  on  the  surplus  bill  cargoes and  foreign  aid  shipments  ating subsidies as  well as  construc­ home.  The  island  is  lovely,  and  like  home.  That's  and  the  likelihood  that  the  Con­ are  both  governed  by  the  "50­50"  tion  aid.  In  view  of  the  various  people  are  very  why  I  keep  sail­ gress  will  agree  before  adjourn­ principle, they represent  thousands  studies  already  underway  involv­ ing  Alcoa  and  ment on  a figure somewhere  in the  of  jobs for  US seamen.  friendly and  hap­ ing reappraisal of  US shipping  pol­ Bull  Line  runs.  neighborhood  of  $3V4  billion  as  py.  I  live  in  No  Subsidy  Measures  icy  in  its  entirety,  enactment  of  Short  trips  mean  this  year's  foreign  aid  appropria­ Mayaguez  and  as  Congress is  not expected  to take  these other  measures has  been  put  more  time  ~with  tion  assures  no  interruption  in  any  further  action  this  session  on  off  at  least  until  next  year.  soon  as  my  ship  pulls  into  port  I can't  wait  until 1  my family.  these  two  basic  programs  back­ various  subsidy  measures  sought  Further  attempts  by  various  see my family.  t  4'  it  agencies  to  whittle  away  at  the  E.  Buster  Collins,  Cook  and  i.  ^  t,  permanent  "50­50"  law,  which  is  Jessie R. Joy,  DM: New  Zealand  baker:  That's  easy  —  Kingston,  supposed  to assure  movement  of  at  I'm very  interested in  native races,  Jamaica.  They  least 50  percent  of  all US­financed  have  some  pretty  like  the  Amer­ shipments  on  American­flag  ships,  scenery,  the  pep­ ican  Indian,  for  are  still  going  on.  The  latest  ef­ ple  are  very  example.  In  New  fort,  which  the  Senate  and  House  friendly,  and  Zealand  they  maritime  committees  are  seeking  there's  that  good  have  the  Maoris  to  block  is  a  General  Accounting  rum.  I  like  that  tribe,  a  fine  Office  ruling  that  would  assure  a  cooked  flying  NEW  YORK—In  a  major  OT  beef  between  crewmembers  "50­50"  split  in  alloting  these  car­ bunch of  Polynes­ fish; it  tastes real  of  the SS  Barbara  Fritchie and  the shipping  company,  Lib­ goes  only  if  the  same  types  of  ians.  I  also  like  sweet.  Most  of  erty  Navigation,  the  Barbara  Fritchie's  gang  collected  700  ships  were  used  by  both  the  US  the  climate—^the  all,  I  like  King­ healthiest  in  the  hours'  pay  for  restruction  tor­ and foreign  shipper.  ston  because  of  the  prettiest  little  the ship  while in  the ports  of  (American  Banner)  and  Helen  world—and  they  On  this  basis,  when  foreign­ have  pleasing  landscapes.  Bpy,  I  gal  yoq  ever  saw  waiting  for  me  Singapore  and  Aden.  Since  (Olympic  Transportation).  flag  tankers  were  used  to  carry  there.  tell  you,  I  like  that  country.  Yop  the  captain  was  unable  to  produce  Ships  in  tranlst  were  the  Sand  grain  to  a  particular  country,  US  i. t, don't  see sick  people there.  Tony Plsano,  pantryman: Fof me  a  required  letter  of  restriction  Captain  (Const.  Agg.);  Portmar,  shipping  would  be  assured  half  of  there  is  no  place  like  Leghorn,  from  the  local  government,  the  Alamar  and  Kenmar  (Calmar);  this tonnage only  if  US­flag tankers  William  M. Drew, fireman: Well,  Italy.  My  mother  company  was  compelled  to pay  the  Carolyn,  Emilia  (Bull);  Bienville,  were  available  and  used.  This  in­ as far as I'm concerned  there is no  and  father  were  crewmembers  as  stated  in  the  SIU  Azalea  City,  Raphael  Semmes,  terpretation  would  allow  foreign  Beauregard,  Fairland  (Pan­Atlan­ nations and  shippers to  manipulate  place  like  Hono­ born  there.  It's  a  contract.  lulu.  I've  been  beautiful  c o u n­ Headquarters  again  focuses  at­ tic); Steel  Voyager, Steel Surveyor,  the  vast  amount  of  foreign  and  there  for  quite  try,  with  Pom­ tention  to  the  fact  that  "A"  and  Steel  Worker  (Isthmian);  Wild  runaway­flag  tonnage  available  so  awhile,  s t a y­ peii,  Venice,  and  I'B" seniority  books  are letting  too  Ranger,  Mada(ket,  Topa  Topa  and  as  to  cut  the  American  share  of  this  traffic.  ing at the Tripler  plenty  of  gor­ many  jobs  hang  on  the  board.  All  Wacosta  (Waterman).  Hospital,  and  I  geous  women.  hands  are  warned  that  such  prac­ really  haVe  been  And  the  people  tice  results  in  shipping  newcom­ around  the  is­ are  the  friend­ ers,  which  consequently  will  make  land.  I've  many  liest in  the world.  shipping  rough  in  next  several  friends out  there,  I'd  like  to  go  back,  but  right  now  years for  "A" and  "B" men.  and  hope  to  be  I'm  waiting for  a  coastwise  trip to  Shipping Good  getting back  in  the near  future.  the  Gulf  and  back.  Shipping  for  the  past  two­week  period  has  increased  with  303  men  shipping  out.  It  should  remain  WASHINGTON—Manila  rope  is  on  its  way  out,  to  be  re­ about  the  same  for  the  next  two­ placed  by  nylon, reports  the Navy's  Bureau of  Ships and  the  Military  Sea  Transportation  Service.  After  two  years  of  ex­ week  period.  tensive sea  trials, MSTS  t^ts­*­ During the last  period ships  that  paid  off  were  the  Seatrain  NJ,  have  shown  nylon  mooring  shock  loads  are  encountered.  Ny­ Seatrain  Texas,  Seatrain  Georgia,  lines  to  be  far  lighter,  more  lon  also  has  a  much  longer  life  Seatrain  NY  (Seatrain);  Robin  flexible, less  bulky,  and  easier  to  than  manila  line.  WASHINGTON—^An. effort by the Federal Maritime Board  Sherwood  (Robin);  Alcoa  Pennant,  handle and  stow, than  manila.  to discourage foreign nations' attempts to discriminate against  Alcoa  Patriot  (Alcoa);  Ames  Vic­ In  addition,  MSTS  said,  nylon  Pending  a  review  of  current  lab  tests,  MSTS  contemplates  the  US­flag shipping has drawn warm  endorsement from  all seg­ tory  (Victory  Carriers);  Gateway  lines  are  easy  to  splice,  unaffect­ gradual  replacement  of  existing  ments of  the US  maritime in  City  (Pan­Atlantic); Edith, Frances,  ed  by  mold,  do  not  absord  water,  manila  lines  with  lighter  nylon  dustry and maritime unions.  who  directly  benefit from  the  Elizabeth (Bull);  CS Norfolk (Cities  have  a  relatively*  high  melting  lines  of  equivalent  breaking  As  expected,  the  only  op­ foreign  discrimination  by virtually  Service);  Steel  Recorder,  Steel  point  and  are  free  from  insect  strength.  A  61^­inch  nylon  can  re­ position  has  come  from  groups  monopolizing the trade from  which  Executive  (Isthmian);  Barbara  problems.  Nylon  stretches  safely  place 10­inch  manila  line.  American  ships  are  being  ex­ Fritchie  (Liberty  Navigation);  At­ as  much  as 40  percent, yet  returns  Savings  a.s  a  result  of  such  re­ cluded.  Major  case  in  point  so  far  lantis  (Petrol  Shipping);  Ocean  to  its  original  length,  a  distinct  placements is  expected  to  run  into  is  the  Board's  proposal  to  impose  Eva  (Ocean  Clippers);  Atlantic  advantage  where  impact  and  the  hundreds  of  thousands  —  not  additional  fees  on  US  exports  to  to  mention  the  saving  on  aching  Ecuador  carried  on  vessels  under  backs.  Nylon  lines  cost  approxi­ SIU Ships in Detroit  that  country's  flag.  mately  three  times  more  than  This  would  counter  the  higher  manila,  but  with  proper  care  will  charges  placed  on  these  cargoes  give  four  or five  times  the  serv­ ice.  when  they are moved  on  US ships.  HOUSTON —Shipping has  been  List Foreign  Practices  good  for  the  last  two  weeks,  and  Meanwhile, seeking to counter all  Pick Up 'Shot'  looks  more  promising for  the  next  the complaining going on in  foreign  two  weeks,  reports  Port  Agent  maritime nations about "50­50" and  Card At Payoff  Robert  Matthews.  The last  period  United  States  "discrimination"  in  Seafarers who  have  taken  the  offered good  shipping for class "B"  favor  of  United  States  ships,  the  series  of  Inoculations  required  men  with  45  registered,  and  40  Maritime  Administration  has  com­ for  certain  foreign  voyages  are  shipping  out.  "A" men  found  jobs  piled  an  extensive  list  of  foreign  reminded  to  be sure  to  pick  up  plentiful,  with  98 "A"  men  ta^ng  discriminatory  acts  against  US  their inoculation  cards from  the  to the  sea.  shipping.  captain or  the purser  when  they  Ships  paying  off  during  the last  The  discriminatory  practices  in­ pay  off  at  the  end  of  a  voyage.  two  weeks  were  the  Merpiaid  clul^e extra  charges imposed on  US  The card should  be  picked  up  (Metro­Petro);  Atlas  (Tankers  &  and other foreign ships; compelling  by the Seafarer and  held  so that  Tramps); and  Pacific Wave  (Pegor).  US ihips to accept payment in  non­ it  can  be  presented  when  sign­ Ships signing on were  Pacific Wave  convartible  currencies  (this  was  ing  on  for another voyage where  (Pegor);  and  Steel  Vendor  (Isth­ done  in  India,  thus  giving  British  the  "shots"  are  required.  The  mian).  The  following  ships  were  and  European­flag  ships  an  edge);  inoculation  card  is  your  only  Intransit:  Seatrain  New  Jersey  excluding US ships through a series  proof  of  having  taken  the  re­ (Seatrain);  Del  Alba,  Del  Rio  of  special licenses and other special  quired  shots.  (Mississippi);  Hilton,  Mae  (Bull);  conditions;  classifying  cuiiimerclal  Those  men  who forget  to  pick  Bienville,  Beauregard  (Pan­Atlan­ cargo  as  "government"  cargo  and  up  their  inoculation  card  when  tic);  Antinous,  Yaka  (Waterman);  r€servir.g it  to ships of  the country  they  pay off  may find  that  they  Ocean  Debprab  (Ocean  Trans.);  involved; routing commercial cargo  are  required  to  take  all  the  Margaret  Brown  (Bloomfield);  Pro­ on  ships of  its own  nation and  giv­ "shots"  again  when  they  want  While longshoremen tpad heavy anti­aircraft  apparatus into  hold  ducer  (Marine  Carriers);  Ocean  ing  horthlng  priorities  to  national  to sign on  for another such  voy­ Dinny  (Ocean  Clippers);, and  Alcoa  ships against  US and  other foreign  of  SlU­manned  Antinous,  SIU Great  Lakes cruise  ship  Aquorama  age.  Planter  (Alco;i).  ships.  passes  in  the  background.  •   '2  >•   •   '2  Collect 700 Hours Pay  In Ship Restriction Beef  4  Nylon Lines  Seen  Edging Manila Out  Drive Hits Foreign  Curbs On US  Ships  Houston Is  Ship Haven  A  �Pare Six  SEAFARERS  LOG  Sept. 11. 1959  Birthday  Party­Goer  Corruption? Machinists  Cite Business Practices  WASHINGTON  —  With  Congress  having  acted  on  a  pur­ ported  "anti­corruption"  bill  in  the  labor  arena,  the  Execu­ tive  Council  of  the  International  Association  ot  Machinists  has  called  for  appropriate  ac­­ tion  on  business  corruption.  gressional  investigation,  among  The  Council  cited  several  them  the  following:  areas as  meriting  widespread  Con­ • Kickbacks,    payoffs  and  bribes  amounting  to  an  estimated  $5  bil­ lion  a  year,  according  to  Life  magazine.  .  Some 500 delegates to the Teach­ ers  Conference  in .  Minneapolis  went  on  record  calling  for  the  adoption  of  a  salary  schedule  enabling  teachers  to  advance  in  eight  annual  steps  fi­om  a  $6,000  yearly  minimum  to  a  $13,000  max­ imum.  The delegates,  representing  50,000  AFL­CIO classroom  instruc­ tors,  reaffirmed  the  union's  stand  on  discipline  and  juvenile  delin­ quency  and  demanded  a  maximum  class  size  of  25  in  order  to  handle  these problems.  House  Kills  • The use    of  prostitutes and call  Ban On Free  girls  as  an  adjunct  to  selling  and  "public  relations"  by  some  of  the  Ship Travel  country's  largest  corporations.  WASHINGTON—A  bill perenial­ • The  4"  4"    practice of  failing to  turn  Living  costs  climbed  to  an  all­ ly  introduced  by  Senator  Williams  over  to  the  Treasury  some  $250  (Rep.­Del.)  prohibiting free  or  cut­ million  in  withholding  ­taxes  de­ time  record  high  for  the  fourth  consecutive  month  in  mid­July, ac­ rate  passage  to  Europe  on  Ameri­ ducted  from  employees'  wages.  can ships for  Congressmen or  their  cording  to  the  Labor  Department.  dependents  has  been  killed  once  ­  • The  An  increase of  three­tenths of  one­   charity  racketeers  who  percent  brought  the  Consumer  again.  Although  passed  by  the  milk  the  public  for  an  estimated  Senate  this  year,  the  measure  was  $750  million  annually.  Price Index  to 124.9  percent of  the  dumped  by  the  House  of  Repre­ 1947­'49  average.  As  of  result  of  • Corrupt    practices in  the  med­ this  increase,  over  one  million  sentatives.  union  workers  will  recover  part  of  While  Congressional  free  rides  ical  profession,  including  ghost  this  loss  through  two­cent  hourly  were  being  preserved  at  the  Capi­ surgery,  fee­splitting  and  bill­ wage  raises  under  their  cost­of­ tol,  the  Treasury  Department  was  padding.  Screen  actor  Donald  Crisp  does  the  birthday  cake  honors  as'SS  living  escalator clauses.  While  this  reprimanding  the commandant  and    tax  evasion  by  Atlantic  chief  steward  Ernie  Fox  looks  on  during  recent  voyage  cost­of­living index  climbed  to new  assistant  commandant  of  the  • Wide­scale  Coast  Guard  for  permitting civilan  managers  and  directors  of  large  of  SiU­manned  passenger  ship.  heights,  a  seasonal  drop  in  hours  relatives to fly to Europe on a  mili­ corporations  in  the  form  of  stock  worked  cut  the  average  spendable  options at the expense  of  the  pub­ tary plane.  earnings  of  factory  workers  by  The  reprimand  followed  a  28­ lic  and  other  stock­holders.  about  85  cents  a  week.  day trip by  the assistant  command­ • Denial of  4"  4"  4"    constitutional rights  ant,  Rear  Admiral  James  A.  to  workers  both  in  the  political  Over  $108  million  in  supplemen­ Hirshfleld, on  which  he was  accom­ and  the  economic  arena  in  many  tary  unemployinent  benefits  has  panied  by  his  wife  and  Ave  other  states,  particularly  in  the  South.  One of  the most amjbitioiis attempts to organize agricultural  been  paid  to  totally  or  partially  friends  and  relatives^  Another  Substantiating  some  aspects  of  workers is underway  in California.  The AFL­CiO, interested  unemployed  members  of  the  Coast Guard  officer  also took  along  these  charges,  the  US  Labor  De­ in the highly mechanized farms in California, recently formed  United  Auto  Workers Union  in  the  his  wife  and  daughter.  three  years  it  has  been  in  effect  The  purpose  of  the  trip  by  a  partment  reported  that in  the past  an  Agricultural  Workers  Or­­^  Negotiated  in  1955,  the  benefit  five  years  alone  it  has  recovered  group of  four  Coast  Guard  officers  ganizing  Committee  with  the  of  the  migratory  habits  of  many  went into effect the following year,  Including  Admiral  Hirshfleld  was  $45  million  from  employers  who  aim of  enrolling 150,000 of  the  farm  workers.  protecting  workers  against  the  the  inspection  of  Coast  Guard  violated  the  wage  and  hour  laws.  state's farm  workers.  Nevertheless,  Norman  Smith, di­ hardships of  layoffs and short  work  units  in  European  countries.  The  The  total  is  $11  million  higher  With  headquarters  in  Stockton,  rector  of  AWOC,  is  confident  of  weeks. . Greatly  revised  and  en­ reprimand  noted  that  the  inspec­ than  the  previous  five  years.  the  AWOC  has  a  full­time  paid  success,  despite  past  failures.  larged  last  year,  SUB  was  ex­ tion  purposes  were  "proper  and  In  that five  year  period, 507,000  staff  of  a  dozen, including  nine or­ "There are  two to  2V^  millon farm  panded  to provide, along  with state  normal"  but  that  "there  was  an  workers  were  deprived  of  the  ganizers.  It  has  opened  branch  of­ workers  in  the  country," he  notes.  unemployment  compensation,  pay­ Improper  and  unwarranted  inclu­ minimum  benefits  they  were  fices in  two other  California  cities.  "This  could  be  the  largest  union  ments  adding  up  to  65  percent  of  sion  of  civilian  passengers  on  the  entitled  to  under  various  Federal  Attempts to  organize farm  work­ in organized labor."  a  workers'  take­home  pay.  It  was  flight."  wage  and  hour  statues and  121 in­ ers  are  not  new.  Their  tradition­ But  the AWOC  in  California has  also broadened  to protect  the UAW  Admiral Hirshfleld, in  partial de­ dividuals  and  companies  were  ally  low  pay  has  made  them  re­,  a  hard  road  ahead.  In  addition  to  worker on  a short  workweek so  his  fense  of  the  trip,  said  that  the  barred  from  future  work  on  Gov­ peated  targets  of  organized  drives  the  many  problems  relating  to or­ payments would  also  be 65  percent  civilians  had  paid  the  cost  of  all  ernment  contracts  because  of  by  various  unions. Little  has come  ganizing,  there  is  strong  opposi­ of  his  regular  take­home  pay  for  food  and  lodging,.  violations of  these acts.  I of  these  efforts,  largely  because  tion  by  the  farm  associations.  40  hours:  Unions Move To Organize  California Farm Workers  Break ^Em In Right!  Old  hands  aboard  ship  may  have  most  of  the  answers  on  safe  shipboard  proce­ dure,  but  that  isn't  true  of  the  newcomers  entering  the industry.  in  many  cases,  these  men  start  from  scratch  and  it's  up  to  the  wiser,  more  ex­ perienced  hands  to  show  them  what  has  to  be done.  I'f''­'  l^'. ' •  I­ •  In  the  process,  every  oldtimer  should  make  a  point  of  showing  newcomers  how  to  do  their  {ob  the  safe  way.  Teach  them  the  techniques  of  the  trade,  so  that  they  will  work  with  the  least  risk  to  themselves  and  their  shipmates.  •  • I"  ­i.  I.­::  /Tv­ r.  s'fSf  ::.r.  ­I  An SlU Ship Is A Safe Ship  ­r­  'M:.  l­v  �Pare Sevea  SEAFARERS  LOG  Sepi. II, I95»  YOUR  DOUM'S  WORTH  ILA Issue Up To AFL­CIO Meet  Seafarer's Gnide To  Better Buying  lii  By Sidney Margolius Planned Buying Means Savings  What  kind  of  winter  can  you  expect?  For  the first  time  In  three  years  you  can  look  forward  to  stable  living  costs  until  at  least  next  spring.  The  third  round  of  Inflation  since  the  end  of  World  War  II—  a  long  stubborn  one—has finally  been  quenched  for  the  time  being  by  heavy  crops  and  cheaper  food.  The  farmers  have  bailed  us  out  even  though  the  drop  in  raw  food  prices  is  not  being  passed  on  fully  to consumers  by  processors and  retailers. ' (Wholesale fqod^ prices have  gone  down  nine  percent since  last  year; ifetail,' only  three so far.)  In  particular,  the  largest  production  of  pork  In .sixteen  years  is  arriving  on  the  market.  If  you  plan  your  buying,  and  especially  your  meals,  on  the  basis  of  current  trends,  you'll  have  a  chance  to  keep  down  your food  bills and  catch  up  on  other family  needs.  This  fall,  alert  families  will  use  more  pork,  be  careful  about  beef  which  has  not  come  down  as  much,  switch  to  small  and  medium­size  eggs  which .are  better  value  than  big  ones  this time  Of  year.  Broilers  aren't  quite  the  life­saving  bargain  they  were  last  year,  but  fowl  is  relatively  cheap  this  fall  and  turkeys  remain  a  good  value.  The  September  canned­goods  sales  are  an  opportunity  to  stock  up  OR  staples  as  the  groceiyr  stores clear  out last  year's pack to  get ready  for this  year's.  Some big  crops of  fresh fruits and  vegetables, especial­ San  Francisco's  famed  civic  auditorium  will  bo  site  of  third  biennial  convention  of  the  AFL­CIO  ly  pears and  peaches, also  offer  a  chance to  keep down  food  bills.  An­ opening hero  on  September  17.  Convention  is  expected  to  act  on  several  important  maritime  mat­ other  break this year  is  that  you'll find  It  cheaper  to heat  your  house.  ters  including  admission  of  merged  longshore  onion  to  the  Federation.  ­  Fuel  oil  prices  have  come  down,  although  the  oil  companies  now  The new  upsurge of  anti­labor legislation and  sentiment  against  unions  will  be a  major  These seat covers  are talking  about reducing  produc­ subject to  be considered  at the coming AFL­CIO  convention  on  September  17.  The  conven­ vill last the life  tion to  prevent  prices from falling.  tion  will meet  in San  Francisco with  about 900  delegates  expected  to  attend  the  sessions  It's  even  getting a  shade  cheap­ of  the car.'  er  to  operate  your  car.  Prices  of  which  will  run  through  Sep­^"  both  gasoline  and  tires  have  been  tember  25. The  passage  of  the  gust  6  between  the  Steel workers  tlie  nationwide  steel  strike  of  the  trimmed.  In  home  equipment,  modified  G r i f f i n­Landrum  aiid  the  SIU  to  support  each  steel  union.  the  big  bargain  this  fall  is  house­ bill  with  new  restrictions on  labor  ether's  organizational  attempts  Also scheduled for San Francisco  hold  appliances.  Prices  of  auto­ has  raised  numerous  issues  as  to  among  Great  Lakes  seamen.  Final  is  the  annual  convention  of  the  matic  washers  and  driers  have  how  unions  can  preserve  their  solution  of  the  jurisdictional  prob­ International  Labor  Press  Associa­ been  getting  a  little cheaper  each  memberships'  gains  and  continue  lem  has  been  delayed  because  of  tion  on  September  14  to  16.  year  since  1957.  Now,  one  of  the  organizing  activities.  Several  major  maritime  items  biggest  makers  (Norge)  has  an­ ^7  ncunced price cuts of  4­10  per cent  will  be  dealt  with  at  the  conven­ on  1960  models.  It  also  will  cost  tion  and  at  meetings preceeding it.  you  a  little  less  to  make  home  re­ The  AFL­CIO  Maritime  Trades  pairs  this  fall.  The  new  tight­ Department  will  hold  its  meeting  money  situation  limiting  the avail­ at the St. Francis Hotel on  Septem­ ability  of  mortgages is forcing a cut  ber 15  and 16.  (See page  3.)  in  home  building.  In  turn,  prices  At  the  AFL­CIO  convention  it­ PHILADELPHIA—The  Federal  Communications  Commis­ of  asphalt  roofing,  lumber  and  self,  delegates  will  act  on  the  ap­ sion has reversed  a  previous order  barring the use  of  ship­to­ plywood  have  dropped  from  last  plication  of the  International Long­ ship  bridge  phones  and  has  granted  permission  for  their  use  year's  lofty  levels,  and  some  shoremen's  Association  for  affilia­ vessels  navigating  the|  plumbing and  heating equipment  also  has been  reduced.  tion  with  the  national  labor  move­ on  had  been  suspended  following  a  Delaware  River.  This  is  not  to  say  that  all  prices  are  coming  dovm.  You'll  pay  a  ment.  The  AFL­CIO  Executive  little more for  children's school  clothing  this  fall;  also  women's  coats,  Council  had  previously  approved  The permission was granted  Coast  Guard  hearing  at  which  he  and  substantially  more  for  shoes,  as  previously  reported  here.  If  such  affiliation  on  a  two­year  to  the  Joint  Executive  Committe  was accused  of  operating his vessel  you  time  your  buying,  you'll find  reductions  on  clothing  starting  with  probationary  basis.  The  affiliation  for  the Improvement and­ Develop­ at an  immoderate speed  under con­ October  sales.  Furniture  and  rug  prices  also  are  a  little  higher  this  would  be  contingent  in  part  upon  ment of  the Philadelphia Port Area,  ditions of  restricted  visibility  prior  year,  with  the  next  cut­price sales  scheduled  for  January.  agreement  between  the  ILA  and  a  group  representing  some  19  or­ to  the crash  with  the Jalanta.  the  International  Brotherhood  of  ganizations  along  the  waterfront.  Here are  tips  on  several  fall  buying  opportunities:  Longshoremen  to  merge  their  or­ Backed  by  the  companies  operat­ SEAT  COVERS:  Most  people  buy  car  seat  covers  in  spring  and  ganizations.  Meetings  have  been  ing  vessels  in  the  port,  the  com­ • ummer.  But  you  get  best  values  in  the  fall  and  winter  when  the  going on  for  the  past two weeks  to  mittee  formulated  the  bridge­to­ seat  cover  shops  are  very  slow  and  seeking  business.  But  beware  bridge phone plan to  help cut down  work  out  the  details  of  the  pro­ of  high­pressure  promoters  in  this  field.  They  advertise  clear  plastic  the  danger  of  ship  collisions  on  covers,  for  example,  for  $18.95.  These  are  really  as  thin  as 8­gauge  jected  merger,  and  the  ILA  mem­ the  river.  bership  will  vote  Monday  in  a  and  can  rip  easily.  The  best  gauge  is 16.  For  this  quality  the  ad­ vertised­brand  promoters  charge  $35,  compared  to  about  $32  for  the  referendum  to  determine  whether  While  granting  permission  for  same quality for  true  custom­made  covers at  independent custom  trim  they  approve  the  affiliation  the  radiotelephone  use,  the  Com­ mission ruled that they  can be  used  SAN  FRANCISCO  —  Tug  and  chops.  If  you  want  clear  plastic  covers  for  a  new  car,  specify  the  proposal.  Questions  of  Jurisdiction  on  the  only  until  April  1, 1961,  at  which  bavge  companies  here  have finally  16­gauge  and  compare  prices on  this  basis.  But  the  clear  plastics  are  losing  a  little  of  their  popularity  among  Great  Lakes  between  the  SIU  time  an  application  for  their  made  an  offer  to  the SlU­affiliated  new  car  owners.  For  old  cars,  the  choice  is  generally  among  these  Great  Lakes  District,  the  Steel­ renewal will have  to be  filed.  The  Inland  Boatmen's  Union  after  a  workers Union  and  other  maritime  committee  has  expressed  dissatis­ strike  of  nearly  four  months.  The  three  types:  unions  may  also  come  up  for  dis­ faction  over  this  limit  contending  IBU  has  effectively  tied  up  t<ig  Type  Approx.Cost  Estimated Life  cussion  at  San  Francisco.  An  in­ that  it  will  take  time  to  dc'.elop  operations  here  since  May  15  and  Fiber  $16  1­2  years  terim  agreement  was  reached  Au­ the system.  It will  take six  months  in  Los  Angeles  since  June 1.  ,  Saran  $25  2­3  years  alone, they  said,  to buy  and  install  Puff  Saran  $35  3 years  or  more  The  strike  erupted  v/hen  the  the  necessary  equipment.  Hence,  for  a  car  yop  expect  to  keep  only  a  short  time,  the fiber  operators refused  to negotiate  on a  The  use  of  bridge­to­brid";e  covers  are  suitable  enough.  Otherwise,  the  plain  Saran  (a  woven  new  contract,  with  necessa^  phones  has  been  urged  off  and  on  plastic) is  the best  choice, offering the  thost  potential wear  at a  medium  since  the fatal  1956  crasii  between  changes  in  manning, .jvertime  and  price.  the  Andria  Doria  and  the  Stock­ other  conditions.  Although  th«  TIRES,  EQUIPMENT:  Tires,  batteries,  spark  plugs,  mufflers  and  holm  off  Nantucket  which  clairiied  union  considers the  latest offer far  other  auto  accessories  are  special­priced  by  many  retailers  and  serv­ some  50  lives.  During  the  past  from  satisfactory  because  it  still  ice  shops  in  pre­wlnter  sales.  As  this  department  previously  has  year  a  number  of  collisions  took  bypasses  the  basic  differences,  the  recommended, for  a  car  you  expect  to keep at least  a  year,  nylon tires  SEATTLE — Shipping  has  been  place  which  might  have  been  fact  that  the  operators  are  willing  are  preferable  because  of  their greater  sidewall strength  and  tendency  Very  good  during  the last  shipping  avoided  had  the  ships'  navigators  to  sit  down  again  is  a  welcome  to run cooler than rayon tires, with  less likelihood to blow out.  Present  period,  reports  Port  Agent  Ted  been  able  to  contact  each  other  sign.  price  difference  between  rayon, and  nylon  tireS is  about $3­$4.  Babkowski.  The  last  two  weeks  directly.  Among  these  collisions  In  the  absence  of  tugs  during  FOOD:  Pork  Is  the  leading  meat  value  this fall,  and  pork  shoulder  saw  more  "B"  men  shipping  than  were  that  between  the  passenger  tiie strike,  most  of  the ships  in  the  and  smoked  ham  are  particularly  good  values.  .  A  recent  report  on  registered  (19  registered,  20  ship­ ship  Constitution  and  the  Norwe­ area have  had  to speed  up or  delay  cooking oils  by the  US Agriculture Department  points out  that cotton­ ping  out),  and  a  total  of  52  "A"  gian  tanker  Jalanta,  and  between  their  arrivals  and  departures  in  seed  oil  products  are  a  good  choice  for  deep  frying.  Corn  oil  and  men  shipping.  Babkowski  expects  the  SlU­manned  Yalchem  and  order  to ride  with  the tides.  There  peanut  oil are also good  but  have a  somewhat  lower smoke  point. Soy­ the  next  period  will  also  be  very  Grace  Line'st  passenger  ship  the  have  also  been  some  diversions  to  bean  oil  has a  high  smoke  point  but may  develop a  "beany" odor  with  good. '  Santa  Rosa,  which  caused  the  other  ports.  repeated  use.  Paying  Oft  and signing on  at the  death  of  three  Seafarers  and  an  Since  the  resumption  of  talks,  the  union  reports  progress  toward  .  Consimiera Speak Up, Keep  Grade Labels on Lamb  port  during  the  last  two  weeks  engineer  on  the  Valchem.  •  f  Consumers  won  a  victory  over,  industry  Interests  who  wanted  the  were Valiant  Power (Power);  Wang  In  a  related  development.  Cap­,  a  settlement  on  some  items.  In  US  Agriculture­Department  to  stop  grading  laihb  and  mutton.  Meat  Knight (Marine Bulk); and  Rebecca  tain James La  Belle, for>ner master  audition  to manning  rules, the IBU  of  the Constitution,  lost  his appeal  Is  seeking  adjustment  in  current  I  stamped  with  the Federal  grade  labels showS  you  exactly  what  quality  (Interebntinental).  •  •  f  you're getting.. For. pxample, If  you'buy Iheat stamped ''USDA Choice,"  V  The  Kyska  (Waterman);  Mary­ to  the  commandant  of  the  Coast  wages  and  overtime  scales,  plus  vyoti  are always  s^re of  getting this qtia^ty and, not a lower  grade, and  mar, Tisxmar,, Losmar, and  Seamar  Guard  on  the  one­veat  suspeiision  pension,  health  and  welfare  con­ cf  his  license.  CapUain "La  Belle  tributions  by  the  boat  owners.  here.  also, have  a^basis for  compari^  prices.^  .i,  .  ­ ­(jDaJmar)^V'ere,  Ship Radiofelephone  Authorized In Phila,  Struck  WC  Tugs  Make  Pact  Offer  J  J  I  4\  ­­'a I  4 I  i  I  • oil  • • 31  Seattle Still  On Upside  • m  �'7*  '  '­^^<7.7.11^­:.­1'^  "?• •7   Elclit  SEAFARERS  LOG  Sept. 11, 195ft  i­  • ;  .  V  v.­  i'­  • .:­^  ^.­i.  ­:  'V­  • *  •   ­. ­• ^^,  SS PA€IFI€1JS  Just like  a  cruise liner,  Pacificus  offered  quoit  game  bri  deck  on  sunny days.  ­  "I • ' •  V­  :  :  • •>;• •:••x:•     ,/  •   *<;• • • •  • • ­•   '  T.S  .  FWT Lial, in switch from changing burn­ ers,,  gets  some  pointers  on  plain  and  fancy  ropework from  Mason, AB.  f '."•   I./  '^:!:"^ni<M^tifie^^^^  leans  over  rail  to  ^^  €ye oh  whale which  insisted  on  ac­ .  companying  the  vessel  through  the  South  China  • jSea. ..  ­'• I  Bosun  Joe  Pendleton  lashes  down  lifeboat  cover.  Carroll  Quinnt, DM,  jM StTe^.,. .......  •  •  JK.  m  r  /'i  Proud fishermen are Mason, AB,  (left)  and Car­/  roll  Quinnt,  DM.  Fish  wasn't  identified.:  All)  Pacificus photos  by Seafarer Don  Ruddy.  ' ;  �iept 11.  IMf  SEAFARERS  LOG  Fare NIM  ,"fc  .a  i .*  .i  i • i  Third  mate  and  radio  operator  oh  the SS  Helen  pose  for  Big  John Wunderlich's camera in this sequence of  shots taken of  the  tanker  crew.  "Junior,"  the  wiper,  gets  low­ down  on  Communism  in  book  by  former  top  Yugoslav  Red.  Chief  steward  (above)  has  something delegtablfr on  tap^  judging  from  pleased  look  as  he  types  menus.  Third  cook,  (top  right)  does  the  honors  in  galley.  At  right,  ship's' mascot  Minnie  looks  like she has everything a cat  could ask  for.  Seafarer  John  Wunder­ lich steps out from behind  camera  for  portrait.  ;­Ji  I  .1 I  • I  At  left,  Whitey  La  Point,  12­4  OS,  slushes  down deck  railings, while at the helm, above,  is 12­4  AB,  christened "Liberatchie"  by  crew.  It must be the wavy hair because there was no  piano  on board.  V I  ­s\  •  >11  • d\  ­ft I  '^1  : 'A I  '"ll  • ^1  m  Pose  he  uses  for  cigarette  ad  has  become  second  nature  to  Johnson.  On  receiving  end  is  Mr.  Guroo,  owner  and  manager  of  the  Star  Laundry  in  Visak  and  a  faith­ ful LOG reader. .  Whitey  Johnson  caught  this  quartet.  Standing  (I'to r) Eddie Goddard, OS; Murphy, AB; Jimmy,  oiler; kneeling  "Yokohoma Dutch," AB;  In  Gurun,  India,  Chicb,  OS,  and  "Slim,"  AB,  nearly  adopted  this elephant,  biit  thought  the  better  of  it fee­ cause he would make a  tight fit in their foc'sie.  •  tm  �Pac*  Tea  SEAFARERS  LOG  avt*. 11. i»st  Co's Limiting Hospital Benefits With hospital, surgical  and medical expenses going up faster than  any other  item in the  cost­of­living  index,  insurance  companies  selling  health  plans  have  come  up  with  a  device  which  is rapidly  spreading.  That  is the "major  medical  disaster" system,  whereby  the  pat­ ient  has  to  pay  the  first  $300"^  to  $500  of  medical  bills,  after  Blue  Cross  and  Blue  Shield  cov­ ical"  is  that  small  medical  ex­ (Th#  brother  described  below  ore  receMng  $150  monthly  SIV  die­ which  the  insurance  covers  erage.  In contrast  to "major medi­ penses  up  to  $300  eat  up  most  o:  abilitvpension  benefits.)  medical  expenses  for  as  much  as  cal"  plans.  Blue  Cross  and  Blue  the  benefits  paid  out,  whereas real  George  J.  Vesagas  ... 63 ... a  veteran  of  more  than  47  years  of  57,500  to  $15,000.  Shield  pay  from  the  first  dollar  of  protection  is  needed  for  costs  of  sea  duty  who  shipped  out  on  all  kinds  of  runs—"going  anywhere,  The  "major  medical"  set­up  is  hospital  costs,  but  have  a  much  serious,  long­term  illness  and  In­ Europe,  the  Far  East,  or  around  the  world"  ... A  member  of  the  jury  which  is not  fully­covered  by  being  pushed  by  many  employers  lower  top  ceiling  on  expenses.  steward  department,  Vesagas  served  aboard  the  Dunsyer,  Manchuria,  because  of  the  increasing  cost  of  The  theory  behind  "major  med­ present  plana.  Graylock,  West­Kedron  and  A.  B.  Alexander,. to  name  a  few  ships  InltiaUy  Costiy  familiar  to  oldtimers  .  .  .  Vesagas  developed  another  talent  besides  The  only  trouble  with  the  sys­ tem  is  that  few  workers  can  af­ ford  the  $300  to  $500  initial  ex­ penses  before  the  plan  starts  to  give  them  coverage.  For  practica  purposes,  a  large  percentage  of  hospitalization  costs  are  under  $300  so  the  effect  of  a  "major  BALTIMORE—A  "patrolman's  dream" hit  the  port  during  medical"  system  is  to  evade  pay­ the  last  shipping  period,  reports  Port  Agent  Earl  Sheppard.  ment  of  many  hospithl  bills  com  The "dream ship" was SS Pacificus, with a crew that had only  fronting  workers,  (jgnsequentiyr  the  AFL­CIO  and  member  unions  praise  for  Captain  Carl  Inge­"*  man,  Chief  Mate  Frank  Roys,  the  hall  and  whipped  out  a  38­ are  resisting  institutions of  "major  the  entire  steward  depart­ caliber  revolver  when  asked  for  medicaT'  plans  without  some  kind  ment,  and  all  the  officers.  his  credentials.  He  fired  two  shots  of  coverage , for  the first  $300  to  and kept  the  group on  tenterhooks  $500  medical  bills.  The  ship  came  in  without  Seafarers  will  recall  that  when  single  hour  of  disputed  overtime,  until Seafarer  John Arabasz finally  the  SIU  family  hospital­surgical  persuaded him to put his gun down  and no  beefs of  any kind, and  when  the  company's  representative  was  after  a  tense  half  hour.  Minutes  benefits  were , first  instituted,  they  presented  with  the  repair  list  he  later  the  gun­toter  was  taken  into  contained  a  "$50  deducUble"  fea­ cooperatively  agreed  to replace  the  custody.  He  was  later  given  a  san­ ture  under  which  Seafarers  were  crew  refrigerator,  washing  ma­ ity  hearing  which  resulted  in  his  to  pay  the firsf  $50  of  hospital  chine, and  install  new fans  in  crew  being  recommitted.  Fortunately  costs  with  the  Welfare  Plan  pick­ quarters.  As  an  added  note,  the  the only damage done  was a  couple  ing  up  the  costs from  there.  How­ ever,  it  was  found  that  this  fea­ of  holes  put  into  the  bulkhead.  ship  sailed  on  schedule  too!  Still  handling  the  food,  Yosagai  cuts  chicktn  whilo  family  looks  ture  was  undesirable  and  it  was  The  Shipping  Picture  en in  anticipation.  Theiast  monthly  Baltimore  Port  abolished.  The  Plan  now  pays  Council  meeting  here  was  upset  Shipping­wise,  nine  ships  paid  from  the first  dollar,  subject  of  cooking  while at  sea, namely the  art of  description  , .. Hawaii inspired  when  a  man  recently  released  off  during  the  last  period.  They  course,'  to  the  ceilings  established  the  following  from  him:  .  .  the  spell  of  the  tropical  night  takea  from  a  mental  institution  got  into  were  the  Emilia,  Evelyn,  Jean  for  the  various  benefits.  (Bull);  Pacificus  (Colonial);  Com­ possession  of  the  people.  Once  I  heard  the  strain  of  Hawaiian  music  pass  (Pacific  Navigator);  Penmar,  Another  variation  of  the "major  and  the  giggle  of  happy  laughter,  sounding  the  night  and  air  . .  . the  Kenmar,  Alamar  (Calmar);  and  medical"  theme,  calls  for  the  pa­ sunshine,  the  moon  beam,  the  lapping  wave  .  .  .  the  fragrant flower,  Oremar  (Marven).  tient  to  pay  a  percentage  of  the  the  giggling  mirth,  and  strumming  of  a  guitar  makes  the  atmosphere  Ships  that  signed  on  were  the  hospital  bill.  This  too  involves  different  from  the  States"  .  .  .  Retired,  Vesagas  would  like  to  write  Longview  Victory  (Victory  Car­ shifting  the  burden  from  the  in­ to  his  former  shipmates,  but  unfortunately  he  doesn't  have  their  ad­ riers);  Bents  Fort  (Cities  Service);  surance  company  to  the  patient,  dresses  .  . .  now  resides  at  60  Caselli  Ave.,  San  Francisco,  Calif.  and  Oremar  (Marven)  while  In­ with  the  theory  being that  such an  LAKE  CHARLES—Shipping  for  the  past  two  weeks  was  fair.  The  transits  were  the  Steel  Surveyor,  arrangement  would  prevent  "blll­ ne.\t  two  weeks  promises  to  be  Steel  Voyager,  and Steel  Executive  padding."  None  of  these  devices  attacks  better  with  several  ships  due  in  (Isthmian);  Robin  Sherwood  (Rob­ inl;  Ames  Victory  (Victory  Car­ the  basic  problems  of  rapidly­in­ this  port  in  transit.  During  the  last  shipping  period  riers);  Alcoa  Polaris,  Alcoa  Run­ creasing  hospital,  surgical  and  the  Chiwawa  (Cities  Service)  paid  ner  (Alcoa);  CS  Baltimore  (Cities  medical  costs  which  are  rising  at  a  rate  far  faster  than  the  other  off,  and  the  Del  Alba  (Mississippi)  Service).  As has  been  the case  for several  items  in  the  cost  of  living  index.  signed on. The following ships were  Developments  in  Japan,  long  considered  the  cheapest  con­ in  transit:  CS  Norfolk,  Bradford  weeks  now,  activity here  has  been  In  fact,  they  reflect  the  failure  of  Island,  CS  Baltimore,  Council  slowed  considerably  by  the  na­ the  medical  profession  and related  struction  cost  shipbuilding  country,  have  spurred  efforts  to  Grove,  Royal  Oak,  CS  Miami,  Win­ tional  steel  strike,  which  has  led  industries  such  as  drug  manufac­ revise  the  1936  Merchant  Marine  Act  to  provide  for  greater  ter  Hill,  CS  Norfolk,  Chiwawa,  CS  to  the  Idling  of  many  of  the  ore­ turers  to  exercise  restraint  in  construction  differential  sub­"*^  Baltimore  (Cities  Service.)  carriers  which  serve this  port.  charging  for  medical  care.  sidles  for  US­built  vessels.  Taylor and  the Presidents Garfield,  The  Japanese  merchant  Arthur  and  the  Buchanan  was ­set  fleet,  under  an  extensive  govern­ by the  Board,  using Japanese  costs  ment­financcd  construction  pro­ as a  base, at ^45,000, or 50 percent  gram, has expanded by some  1,600,­ of  the lowest  US bid  of  $1,710,000.  Gaville,  Peter  000  gross  tons  in  past  two  Lord,  Alfred J.  years  alone,  and  now  ranks  fifth  Videnovic,  Velidor  among  the  world's  shipping  na­ tions.  The  Japanese  subsidy  pro­ Brack.  James  F.  gram,­  afoiig  with  aid  given  by  Roisea,  Charles  major  European  maritime  nations  Reyes,  Angel  L.  to  their  ship  operators,  has  Chappell,  Donald  widened  the  actual  difference  in  LIndherg,  Charles  ship costs  over the  50  percent ceil­ Creer,  TheodiH­e T.  ing  allowed  under  US  law.  Arcuri,  Vincent  Charging  tltat  the  expansion  of  O'Krogley,  Alfred  the  US­merchant  marine  has  been  DeCnlty,  John  J.  greatly  hampered  by  an  inade­ Blanco,  Peter  quate  subsidy  program,  US  ship­ Elaniaga,  Antonio  J.  builders  have  sought  to  revise  the  D'Angelo, VitO  1B36  act  to lift  the  present 50  per­ Parsons,  Hflmer  cent  subsidy  ceiling  on  American  Ahrams,  Aimer  A.  constructed  vessels.  Latendress,  Norman  ' The  SIU  blood  bank  in  New  Toffe  his  been  set  up  to  supply  Sea­ Under  the  1936  act  the  Federal  Sfsto,  Eugene  J.  farers  or  members  of  their  farniltes  with  blood  anywhere  in  the  Maritime  Board  is  authorized  to  Matheoefc, Robert L.  United  States.  Seafarers  passing  through  the  Port  of  New  York  can  grant  construction­differential  sub­ Dehatttte,  Emesl. C.  donate  to the  blood  bank  at  the  New Yotk  clinic  of  the  Union.  Listed  sidies  tip  to  50  percent.  However,  Vager, Herbert  H.  in this  space  are  a  few  of  the  Seafarefs  nnd  others  who  have  donated  With  increased  US  costs,  and  using  RnndMad,  Bonald A.  to  the  blood  bank  in  the  past.  The  names  of  other  donors  will  ap­ japan's  subsidized  construction  Chlorra,  John  pear  in  future  issues  of  the  SEAFARERS  LOG.  program  .as  its  differential  base,  PHttdeais.  Joa^li  the  SO  ^reent  limitation  means  Pages,  Federice G.  McCartney, George  Morales,  Angnsfln  W.  that  US  aid.  does  not  nteet  the  Messina,  Salvatore  Graff,  Gerald F.  Muoio,  JMin  actual  difference  in  cost  between  Iversen, Kaare  L. E.  All,  Faxel  Martinez, Theodore B.  Japanese  and  American  yards.  Collins,  Herbert  Mm.  Bosen,  Abe  WysOckl,  Charles  One  of  the  latest  US­flag  com­ Petrille,  Antheny  Palenear,  Leonard  J.  Shala,  Fired  panies to  receive  a  50­percent sub­ WeMdell,  Riithxrd  J.  .  Schaeffer, William  C.  Oliver,  RonSldi  B.  Sidy  grant  is  the  SIU  Pacific  Dis­ O^Brien, Charies  Rook,  Joseph  G.  Taylor,  Chailes E.,  .  tinct  cimtracted  American  Presi­ Bernstein, Sidney  Widff,  William  Pollen,  Richard  .  dent  Lines for  the improvement  of  Reiske,  Hans  McMahon,  William E.  Ferudl; Charles  1  four Mariner  Wpe  vessels. The  last  Adkins,  Frank  '  Mattox,  Jack  JC.­ '.Levy,  Medirl*  J.\  Of  the  four  ships,  the  president  Zappalorti;  Henry  T;  '  ^  .Becker,  Edward  S.  Dyd^lfa,. yictoS  ^loivj^ailed from .the Todd  Ship­ '  VanLody,  Felix  •  ':l)dniluk,  Alexander  Clsen, Cdd is.  yards .4n  San JPranciscq  last .­week.;  • 'I  Ratscb,  Hans'  .  y  '  Bakin,  Carl  • } .  The^cpjns^uction sjuhsjidy  fpi; tiip  Pacificus Crew Stars In  Top­Rated Bait Payoff  Tanker  Port  On Upgrade  Japanese Subsidies Spur US Ship Aid SIU BLOODBANKHONORROLL  pHom m-reoa ^ mwifjGe> r'  mci£s I  '  U:  J  ..  i.\  •;     '•  • ' •  • •   VI  �• ^sai  Mtvi. 11. 1959  Page  Elerca  SEAFARERS  LOG  'Out From Under  Him'  HHs Runaway Contracts;  Snpports US Union Drive  A  drive  by  American  maritime  unions  to  organize  Amer­ ican­owned runaway shipping has been welcomed by the head  of  a  Greek  seamen's  welfare  organiaztion  as  a  major  step  toward  improving  seamen's  conditions.  He  said  the  cam­ way ships when  they expire  in 1959  paign  gives "new  hope to sea­ because  these agreements  were not  farers  everywhere  in  the  world."  Kosmas  Fournarakis,  a  former  official  of  the  Greek  Pan­Hellenic  Marine  Federation,  endorsed  the  American  union  drive  in  a  letter  to  General  Secretary  Omer  Becu  of  the  International  Transport­ workers  Federation. The  US drive,  spearheaded  by the SIU  and  NMU,  has full  ITF endorsement.  Fournarakis  said  that  conditions  of  Greek seamen  on  runaway ships  were  ct an  "indecently" low  level.  "The  plight  of  the  Greek  sea­ man  deserves  earnest  and  im­ mediate  consideration  . . . These  workers  are  subjected  to  the  kind  of  treatment  that  was  eliminated  on  American­flag  ships  a  genera­ tion  ago  and  which  most  civilized  European  nations  have  long  since  abolished."  He  charged  that recent  contracts  which  had  been  obtained  by  Greek runaway ship operators were  a  "sell­out"  of  the  Greek  seamen  and  devised  to forestall  a  drive  by  the  American  unions  to  organize  substandard  competition.  At  the  last  ITF  Fair  Practices  Committee  meeting  in  Geneva  on  July  15  and  16,  it  was  announced  that  the  ITF  had  called  upon  the  Greek seamen's union­ not to renew  contracts  covering  some  160  runa­ • ­jfiCfriiMyi'  ICC Gives  There is  mounting discomfort  today in  the ranks of  the fat  Rails Rate  cats of  the oil  industry who, up until recently, merely  had to  sit  back  and  watch  the  profits  roll  in.  For  years,  the  best  gimmick  they  had  was  the  runaway­flag shipping  operation.  Cut Weapon  Mobile Sees  Stepped­Up  Job Totals  This  gave  them  virtual  immunity from  American  taxes,  de­ WASHINGTON —The  railroad­ cent  labor standards and other  essential regulations  that US­ Interstate  Commerce  Commission  alliance  is  still  functioning  flag operators  had to contend  with.  smoothly,  judging  from  a  recent  Starting  in  1958,  however,  various  developments  began  ICC ruling  in a  ca.se covering  paint  stripping  away  the  protective  covering  which  cloaked  such  cargo.  The  ICC  decision  permits  substandard  operations.  For  one,  the  SIU  won  a  decision  the  railroads  to  reduce  freight  before  the  National  Labor  Relations  Board  paving  the  way  rates  drastically  on  this  single  item  in  order  to  win  paint­hauling  MOBILE  —  After  a  relatively  for  American  sea  unions  to  organize  the  large  American­ business  away  from  truckers.  As  a  • low two  weeks,  Seafarers  in  this  owned  segment  of  the runaway  fleet.  Next  came  the  unity  result  of  the  precedent,  the  rail­ port  are  looking  forward  to  among  American  maritime  unions  and  the  foreign  unions  roads  are  now  free  to  make  selec­ stepped­up shipping  led  by  the  re­ via  the  International  Transportworkers  Federation,  which  tive  rate cuts  in  other areas  where  turn  of  another  Liberian­flag  ves­ produced  last  December's  successful  boycott  demonstration  they  want  to  win  business  away  sel  to  US  registry.  The  Pacific  that focused  world  attention  on  the nature of  runaway ship­ from  competing  truck,  barge  and  Thunder  has  come  back  from  run­ ping for  the first time.  ship  services.  away  operation  to  be  run  by  the  The  new  ruling  was  based  on  The  joint  union  action  at the same  time  prodded  Congress  language  of  last  year's  transporta­ SlU­contracted  World  Tramping  Company  and  will  take  a  full  SIU  to take some  cognizancie of  a situation  that had up until  then  tion  act  which  declared  in  part  been  carefully  sjvept  under  the  rug.  Legislation  was  intro­ "rates of  a carrier shall not be  held  crew  in  this  port.  duced hitting at the unfairness of  the 27 percent oil  depletion  up  to  a  particular  leve.'.  to  protect  Port  Agent  Cal  Tanner  noted  that aside  from  the  returning  run­ allowance  and  the  specialized  tax  treatment  for  the  oil  in­ the  traffic  of  any  other  mode  of  away  the  next  couple  of  weeks  dustry.  Indeed, how can an industry ask for special tax treat­ transportation."  It  was  this  lan­ have  some  13  SlU­contracted  ment  when  it  refuses  to fly  the American  flag on  the  major  guage  which  the maritime  industry  ships  due  to  hit  this  port.  By  con­ portion  of  its shipping  as a  device to  escape  American  taxes  had  unsuccessfully  sought  to  re­ move from  the bill.  trast,  the  past  two­week  period  and  jeopardize  American  conditions?  The maritime industry viewpoint,  was  slow  with  very  few  offshore  which  was  supported  by  the  SIU  Admittedly,  the  situation  is  complex.  The  fat  cats  have  ships  paying  off.  and  other  maritime  unions, is  that  The  six  that  paid  off  were  the  also  arranged it so  that  American­flag tanker  operations  are  this  section  gives  the  railroads  a  Ocean  Deborah  (Ocean  Trans.);  in  trouble.  Their obvious  "solution" would  be  to find  a way  weapon  to  cut  rates  selectively  on  Alcoa  Corsair,  Alcoa  Boamer,  and  to put all their  shipping under foreign  and runaway flags but  various  items  to  win  cargo  away  Alcoa  Cavalier  (Alcoa),  and  Mon­ no one, least  of  all the American maritime unions, would  buy  from  ships  and  eventually  put  arch  of  the  Seas  and  Claiborne  a deal like that.  The fact is that now  the shoe is on the  other  ship  operators  out  of  business.  (Waterman).  Only  one  ship  signed  foot.  Up  until  last  year,  the  principle  had  been  to  keep  railroad  rates  on,  the  Alcoa  Boamer  (Alcoa).  Instead  of  calling all  the shots, "big oil" is  now  somewhat  somewhat  higher  than  ship  rates  The following ships were in  tran­ sit: Steel  Voyager  (Isthmian);  Wild  in  the  position  of  having  to defend  its  misdeeds  of  the past.  because , of  the  slower  and  more  Banger,  Antinoiis  (Waterman);  Here at home,  efforts are underway to restore the balance by  irregular  service  offered  by  ships,  Kathryn, Beatrice  (Bull);  Del  Valle  reviving  the  American­flag  section  of  the  tanker  industry  although  in  practice,  the  railroads  (Mississippi);  Longview  Victory  through  legislation  and  by  organizing  the  American­owned  had  won  ICC approval for selective  (Victory  Carriers),  and  Alcoa  Pio­ runaway tanker  fleets.  Although  a slow .process, this is pay­ rate­cutting  in  many  instances,  often  cari­ying  cargo  at  a  loss  to  neer  and  Alcoa  Banger  (Alcoa).  ing off.  take  the  business  away  from  com­ Prospects for  the  next  couple  of  Liberia  is  losing  ground  as  the  primary  runaway  ship  peting  ship  operations.  weeks  include  the  following  ships  haven, and  Greek owners are actually  registering their  ships  The  reaction  from  the  railroads  due  to  hit  port:  Antinous,  Yaka,  in Greece these days.  With the union. Congressional and pub­ to  the  new  ICC  ruling  was  uni­ Monarch  of  the  Seas,  Claiborne,  form'y  enthusiastic,  with  the  rail­ Hastings  (Waterman);  Alcoa  Clip­ lic focus on  the whole  runaway issue, more  positive progress  roads declaring  they will  follow  up  per,  Alcoa  Boamer,  Alcda  Corsair,  is  in  view  at  long last  on  this  long­standing  problem.  The  the  ruling  by  filing  for  new  rates  Alcoa  Banger  (Alcoa);  Elizabeth,  SIU, with the full support of  its membership, intends to  push  on  other  items  to  take  business  Prances  (Bull);  Ames  Victory  (Vic­ just  as  hard  as  it  can  to  bring those  ships  under union  away  from  ti'ucks  and  water­car­ tory);  and  Del. Bio  (Mississippi).  contracts.  riers.  up  to snuff.  Subsequently,  SIUNA  President  Paul  Hall  and  NMU  President  Joseph  Curran  met  with  Greek  shipowners  in  London  and  vetoed  proposal  by them  to place some 800  ships  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Greek  Seamen's  Unioii,  even  though  many  of  these  ships  oper­ ate  in  American  foreign  commerce  under  long­term  charter  or  other  arrangements  with  American  in­ dustrial  giants.  The SIU, NMU  and other  US sea  unions  are  currently  engaged  in  plans  to  undertake  a  full­scale  drive on  the  runaways in  line with  ITF  policy.  An  appeal  filed  by  the  Sailors  Union  of  the  Pacific  on  behalf  of  19  SUP  members  denied  state  un­ employment  benefits  has  been  re­ solved  satisfactorily  after  18  months.  The  decision  upholds  the  right of  a seaman  to quit  a  tempor­ ary  standby  job  after  ten  days  in  order  to  maintain  his  shipping  rights  under  the  contract  and  qualify  for  r.  permanent  job.  The  19  sailors  had  been  penalized  on  their  unemployment  benefits  early  last  year  for  quitting  the  standby  jobs.  The  ruling  makes  them  elig­ ible  to  for  full  back  benefits.  4­  i»  Manned  by  an  SIU  Pacific  Dis­ trict  crew,  the  Matson  liner  Lur­ line  has  now  completed  her  300th  postwar  round­trip  in  the  Pacific  Coast­Hawaii  passenger  seiwice.  She  has  carried  more  than  380,000  passengers  and  steamed  some  1.4  million  miles  so  far  during  the  postwar  period.  The  Lurline's  din­ ing  room  staff,  manned  by  mem­ bers  of  the  Marine  Cooks  &  Ste­ wards  Union,  has  served  9.9  mil­ lion  meals.  These  used  an  esti­ mated  9  million  eggs,  12  million  pounds  of  meat,  480  million  gal­ lons  of  milk,  2  million  pounds  of  fish,  1.2  million  pounds  each  of  butter and  sugar plus  various other  items.  3^  4  4"  4>  4*  4>  A distinguished  group of  visitors  sailed  through  the  Welland  Canal  on  the  SS  B.  O.  Petman  i­ecently,  the SIU  Canadian  District  reports.  The  Petman,  manned  by  SIU  sail­ ors  in  Canada,  played  host  to  the  skipper  of  the  royal  yacht  Britan­ nia  and  other  British,  Canadian  and  US  naval  officers  prior  to  the  trip  through  the  waterway  by  Queen  Elizabeth  on  her  recent  visit  to  Canada  and  the  US.  Ad­ miral  Dawney,  skipper  of  the  Britannia,  reported  that  the  trip  on  the Petman  proved  a  great help  when  the  Britannia  later  went  through  the  canal  with  the  Queen  and  her  party  aboard.  Slightly  better  than  a  25  per­,  cent  wage  increase  was  gained  for  licensed  engineers  employed  by  the  St.  Charles  Transportation  Company  in  recent  negotiations  by  the  licensed  division  of  the  SIU  Canadian  District.  The  new  Lakes  pact  was  based  on  contract  sug­ gestions  made  by  the  engineers.  The  union  negotiating  committee  was  successful  in  getting  all  the  items  requested  embodied  in  the  agreement.  �Twdhr*  SEAPARERS  IPG  Vatalie  Crew  Dedicates Ode  A  serious  Illness  which  left  Seafarer  Francisco  Infante  incoherent  To  Engineer  and  on  the  critical  list  for  some  time  was  overcome  by  the combined  SEAFARERS  M IRrDOCK  efforts  of  the  doctors  and  members  of  the  social  service  staff  of  the  A  long­winded  reply  to  a  simple  Baltimore  USPHS  hospital, and  resulted  in  the Seafarer's  being  put  in  question  was  the  inspiration  for  a  contact  with  his  family,  after  a  20­year  separation.  poem  being tacked  on the board on  When  brought  into  the  hospital,  Infante  was  critically ill  and  inco­ the SS  Natalie recently  bV  some of  herent, and  the  hospital sought  to  notify  some  member  of  his family.  Because  of  his  condition.  Infante,  the  crew.  The  poem,  dedicated  to  who had  not heard from  his family  chief  engineer  of  the  vessel  was  for  nearly  20  years,  was  unable  to  the  result  of  his  answer  to  the  help  them.  However  through  the  question  "who  gets  the  requisition  efforts  of  Miss  Wlngfield  of  the  for  a fan?"  hospital staff,  one of  his daughters  was  located  in  Manila.  A  letter  In  his  answer,  they  said,  the  from  his  daughter  produced  a  re­ chief  went  into the  general history  markable  change  in  the  ailing  of  "fans, motors, electricians, ships,  Seafarer's  condition  and  he  was  companies,  states  and  countries."  soon  on  the  road  to  recovery.  Rodriquez  Infante  In  addition  to  learning  that  He  then  wound  up his  dissertation  three  daughters  were  now  married. Seafarer  Infante  was  surprised  to  with  the  "theory  of  relativity,  the  electronic  theory,  how  much  it  find he  is  a  grandfather  "many  times  over."  A  leg  ulcer  suffered  aboard  the SS  Valiant  Force  hospitalized  Sea­ takes  to  live  these  days  even  if  you  live cheaply,  and sundry  other  farer  Herman  Wbismant  in  Balti­ items of  great enlightenment." The  more.  Although  showing  progress,  only  thing left  uncovered  was, who  Whisnant  is  not  sure  bow  long  he  would  get the requisition for a fan.  will  be  laid  up.  Verse About 'Stuff  Down  in  New  Orleans  Anthony  "Tony"  Rodriguez,  who  was  re­ The  poem,  which  runs  some  16  leased  recently  from  the  hospital,  verses,  is  entitled  "Stuff." It  is all  had  to  report  back  after  coming  about  the  well­known  ship  and  down  with  a  high  fever  caused  by  shoreside  hobby  of  "tossing  the  a  leg  ailment.  Tony  is  doing  fine,  malarky."  In  describing  this  past­ welfare representatives  report, and  Blanton  time,  the  poem  said:  Nunez  "raising  cane  to  get  out."  Also in  the New  Orleans  USPHS and  hoping to get  out  soon  is  Sea­ "It is the salesman's finest tool. He smears it well and often. farer  Valentine  Nunez,  formerly  on  the  Alcoa  Cavalier.  With glittering eye and rendering Marvin  "Chips" Blanton,  formerly  on  the  Frances,  is  reported  feel­ ing  pretty  good  after a  knee operation  and  expected  to  be  on  his feet  sigh. The  hardest  heart  he'U soften . . .  again  soon.  Seafarers  off  the  ships,  or  on  the  beach  waiting  to  ship,  should  "In slinky bar and swanky club. take the  time out  to visit  the brothers  in the hospitals or to  drop them  It's wielded with a flourish, a line.  The following is  the latest  available list  of  hospital  patients.  (The ones who serve it up so well. Joseph  DeBurger  Jose  Rodriguez  USPHS  HOSPITAL  Upon it often nourish)." Spero  Demoleas  Nicolas  Sabin  NEW  ORLEANS,  LA.  Charles  Klnnke  Manuel  Sanchez  Robert  G.  Barrett  Edward  Knapp  Using  the  old  blarney,  as  it  is  Charles  W.  Lane  Rex  S.  Sinden  Marvin  J.  Blanton  Leo  H.  Lang  also  called,  often  requires  the  pa­ Albert  G.  Lee  Paul  Switch  Ludwik  Borowik  George  McCurley  Robert  F.  Nielsen  Miguel  Tirade  James  Carter  Wm.  Marjcnhoff  tience  of  a  doctor,  and  must  be  MUton  S.  Trotman  Felix  Quinonez  James  M.  Cheshire  Frank  Martin  Christian  J.  Voss  Edwin  C.  Reynolds  applied  with  skill,  the  poet  cau­ Eugene  CroweU  Jerry  Miller  Enoch  Gaylor  .  William  £.  Nelson  Sidney  Anderson  George  F.  Smith  tioned,  according  to  the  situation.  Chow  . G.  Song  Eustachy  Bulik  Trifon  Gialuris  Valentine  Nunez  Louis  Ccvette  Michael  Sovich  James  C.  Giisson  F.  Ouweneel  "Some  spread  it  on,  a  little.  H.  Christensen  Winford  Powell  George  Hatchett  Some dunk it to the core. USPHS  HOSPITAL  Kenneth  Sanlord  Emile  Herek  BALTIMORE.  MD.  Raymond  Hodges  Harold  Spicer  It's mixture's oft diluted. Jolm  F.  Atkinson  Abner  Ralford  USPHS  HOSPITAL  Some belt it raw, boy, raw! Ben  L.  Bone  Charles  E.  Rogers  NORFOLK,  VA.  Herman  Carney  Ray  Schrum  Claude  L.  Bibb  Robert  L.  Rhea  "Some pat it rather gently. Gorman  Glaze  Jose  Soares  Thomas  H.  Bubar  William  S.  Rudd  • Tohn H.  Hester  Dolphus  Walker  Apply it as an art. John  L.  Griffin  Bernie  G.  Watson  William  H.  Little  George  Watson  USPHS  HOSPITAL  By others as a topping maul. Dipnisio  Medina  Joseph  A.  Wehe  SAVANNAH,  GA.  Charles  A.  Moss  Harold  Werns  It's used to get a start, B.  W.  Centchovich  Raymond  Beddick  Angelo  Polatos  Herman  Whisnant  USPHS  HOSPITAL  David  Prpffltt  Walter  Yahl  "A wedge, a knife, a poultice, MANHATTAN  BEACH,  NY  USPHS  HOSPITAL  In every form it's seen. Leo  Mannaugh  Joseph  J.  Bass  GALVESTON,  TEXAS  Primltivo  Muse  Matthew  Bruno  Feyrl  W.  Ammons  George  Johnson  It's shoveled on or sprinkled. Jeremiah  O'Byrne  G.  Caraballo  Clarence  Ayers  Francis  Regan  Depending on the mean." George  Phifer  Leo  V.  Carreon  Virgil  L.  Coash  C.  O.  Saunders  Winston  E.  Renny  Wade  Chandler  James  W.  Cobb  Edw.  C.  Yeamans  Regarding shipboard  blarney art­ Manuel  B.  SUva  Joseph  D.  Cox  Valerian  J.  Etta  Charles  gubovich  Aimer  S.  Vickers  John  J.  DriscoU  USPHS  HOSPITAL  ists,  he  noted:  Luther  E,  Wing  Otis  L.  Gibbs  BOSTON,  MASS.  Bart  E.  Guranick  Pon  P.  Wing  Harry  S.  Murray  Edward  C.  Sieger  "The chief keeps large supply on Francis  Wonsor  Taib  Hassan  Harold  V.  RUey  M.  Van  Ryswyck  hand. Wm.  D.  Kenny  Royc«  Yarborough  Chas.  Robinson  Thomas  R.  Lehay  USPHS  HOSPITAL  To use as he sees fit. USPHS  HOSPITAL  FT.  WORTH.  TEXAS  He pours it on both hot ond cold, SEATTLE,  WASHINGTON  L.  Anderson  Albert  Ogletree  John  Brady  E.  A.  Ainsworth  R.  B.  Appleby  Max  Olsoh  (He really murders it). USPHS  HOSPITAL  B.  F.  Deibler  John  C.  Palmer  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CALIF.  .Tames  Lauer  Leo  Watts  "With mate it is his stock in trade. Mack  J.  Acosta  Donald  O'Brien  Woodrow  Meyers  Joseph  P.  Wise  Without it he would, like old. solEdward  R.  Cavillo  Joseph  I.  Perreira  SAILOR  SNUG  HARBOR  E.  H.  Huizenga  Joseph  Neubauer  STATEN  ISLAND,  NY  diers—fade, A.  J.  Scheving  James  Johnson  Victor  B.  Cooper  Thomas  Isaksen  It is the steward's magic wand. John  J.  Kennedy  Howard  J.  Watts  MT.  WILSON  STATE  HOSPITAL  A.  H.  Mander  Spread thick, with lard, upon MT.  WILSON,  MD.  USPHS  HOSPITAL  George  Davis  demand!" STATEN  ISLAND.  NY  VA  HOSPITAL  James  Alston  Edgar  W.  Luke  HOUSTON  31.  TEXAS  And  so,  as  a  final  word  of  ad­ Pedro  L.  Agtuca  Philip  C.  McBride  Harry  McClernOn  Jasper  C.  Anderson  Desmond  McMahon  vice  to  a  young  man  first  facing  TRIBORO  HOSPITAL  David  C.  Archia  Richard  Moncrief  JAMAICA  32,  LI.  NY  the world,  the  poem  conehidea:  Ralph  Duffell  Carlos  Morales  James  RusseU  Friedof  O.  FondUa  Jose  R.  More  US  HOSPITAL  SOLDIERS  HOME  "So list to me, my young son, Thomas  J.  Gray  John  F.  Murphy  WASHINGTON  25,  DC  Roman  V.  Harper  Rodrigo  1.  Pelayo  (As Polonius to Laertes), Wm.  H.  Thomson  Stanley  F.  Hayes  John  M.  Power  VA  HOSPITAL  If thou would'st get thy battle won. Patrick  T.  Kelly  Angel  L.  Reyes  CENTER  HOT  SPRINGS,  SD  Luciano  Labrador  Jose  Reyes  Use 'malark^^but for oertes." Clifford  C.  Womack  S»pi 11, 1M»  Year At Sea Is  Wants A Check  Enough, He Says  On  Aid Cargoes  To the Editor:  I  certainly  think  that  a  man  should  get  off  a  ship  after  a  year.  I  have  been  a  member  of  the  SIU  since  '38  and  never  had  any  trouble  shipping.  I  manage  six  to  eight  months  a  year,  and  then  go  home.  We  should  have  some  clause  that  says  if  a  man  does  not  take a vacation, then  he does not  letters  To  The  Editor  All letters to the editor for publication in the SEAFARr ERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld .upon request. get  any  vacation  money.  With  this  we  would  soon  see  all  of  the  homesteaders  hitting  the  beach.  I  don't  see  why  a  man  can expect vacation money when  he  doesn't  take  a  vacation.  I  think  this  should  be  put  to  a  vote  of  the  membership.  Homer  I.  Niobels  in Holland  He  Offers Weieome  To the  Editor:  I have  been  a  member  of  the  SIU  since  1946,  and  have  hit  nearly  every  port  of  the  world.  One  thing  really  appreciated  was  a  wel­ come,  friend­ ly  hand  when  I  was  in  a  foreign  coun­ try.  For  this,  and  other  rea­ sons,  I  would  like  to  let  the  rest  of  Fase  the  member­ ship know of  Just a  place, where  any Seafarer  can  he sure  to ex­ pect  special,  friendly  service.  I  know,  for  I own  the  place  and.  when  I am at  sea, my  wife  runs  it.  This  place  is  called  the  Port  O'Call, and is located  in  Rotter­ dam.  Although  we  specialize  in  drinks,  rest  assured  that  any­ thing we can  do to help a fellow  Seafarer,  will  be  done.  If  any  member  finds  himself  in  this  port,  and  wants  a  place  to  sit  and  drink,  or  to  find  some  friends,  or  needs  a  hand,  just  coiiie  on  down.  The  place  is lo­ cated  at  Boezemsomgel  82.  The  telephone  number  is 136903.  In  addition  to  this,  we  will  have a supply of the latest SEA­ FARERS  LQQs,  there  for  the  men  to  catch  up  on  the  latest  happenings in  the SIU.  I  hope  to  see  some  of  you  there  soon.  To  the  Editor:  You  read  in  the  papers  about  the superb  work  being  done  by  the foreign  aid  bill,  how  it  off­ sets  the  work  of  the  Commu­ nists  and  what  not.  Maybe  it  does,  but  I  would  like  to  know­ if  the  Government  has  men  checking  every  cargo  it  sends  over  there.  About  three  years  ago  I  was  on  a  ship,  out  of  Portland,  Oregon,  headed  for  Madras,  India. As  we  docked  in  Madras,  the  Backers,  most  of  whom  were  women,  began  to  sack  the  wheat  into 150  pound  bags,  As  fast  as  they  were  loaded,  they  were  carried  off  the  ship  to  the  warehouse.  After  a  while  I  nollced  how­ ever  that  only  three  out  of  every  four  sacks  went  to  the  warehouse. The fourth one  went  to  a  foreign  ship  that  was  moored  down from  us. Someone  must  have  been  getting  a  pay­ off.  We. in  the  maritime  industry,  as  well  as  any  other  American  citizen,  should  be  Informed  of  this  way  our  aid  to  the  people  of  India  is  received. In  addition  to  this,  60  percent  of  these  cargoes  are  supposed  to  go  in  American  bottoms, yet  this does  not  happen.  It  is  getting  more  difficult  than  you  can  imagine  getting  a  Job  in  this  industry.  If  the  Government  took  as  much  care  of  its own  maritime  industry  as  it  did  of  everybody  else's  this  country  would  not  be  in  the  predicament  it  now  finds itself, of  having to depend  on  foreign  nations  for  fast  ships.  This  country  seems  to  forget  that  during  the  war,  man  for  man,  the  merchant  marine  lost  more  men  than  any  other  serv­ ice.  As  a  member  of  the  Ma­ rine Cooks and  Stewards Union,  I'd  like  to  keep  reminding  the  public  of  this.  Philip  Spechler  Now In Englandg  LOO Brings News  To  the Editor:  As I am now staying in  Liver­ peol,  and  not  many  SIU  ships  come  here,  I'll  miss  the  close  contacte  and  companionship  of  my  SIU  brethers.  I have  been  in  the  SIU  since  1942,  and  my  book  number  is  G­473.  Since  that  time  I have  made a  lot  ef  wonderful friends  and  have  been  with  a  lot  of  SIU  brothers,  past  and  present,  and  I figure  the only  way I can  help keep  in  close  contact  with  them is through  the LOG.  For  this  reason,  I  was  worn  dering  if  you  could  send  me  the  LOG  at  the  enclosed  ad'­ dress,  A  wonderful  paper  like  the  SEAFARERS  LOG  is  something that every  brother in  the  SIU  treasures.  A.  Fase  Ernest  Geraoo  �Mtli. 11, 1989 MORNINO  LIOHT  (WiUrman),  Aug.  11—Chairman,  L.  Kytar;  Saaratary,  J.  Munnarlynn.  Minor  beefs  settled.  One  man  missed  ship  In  Okinawa  and  re*  joined  In  Kobe,  Japan.  One  man  missed  ship  in  Yokohoma,  Japan.  Two  hour  disputed  in  engine  department,  one  man  hospitalized  In  Honolulu.  Discussion  on  draws.  Itinerary  to  bo  posted  prior  to  sailing.  AFOUNORIA  (Waterman),  July  12—  Chairman,  A.  Ftontek;  Secretary,  W.  link.  One  dayman  aborl.  No  beefs.  New  delegate  elected.  Discussion  on  food  items  short  at  sailing  time.  Stew­ ard  requests  getting  stores  at  Great  Lakes  ports.  ALCOA  POLARIS  (AlCoa),  Aug.  22  —Chairman,  D.  Raymond;  Secretary,  W.  Messenger  Repairs  taken  care  of.  $3.00  from  Seaman's  Friend  Society  SEAFARERS Vote  of  thanks  to  steward  depart­ ment.  BALTORE (Ore),  Aug. as—Chairman,  S.  Holden;  Sacfatary,  G.  MacDeneugh,  No  beefs.  New  delegate  elected.  Re­ turn  cups  to  pantry,  One  man  Injured  In  Puerto  Ordez.  DEL  SANTOS  (MIsslMlppI),  Aug.  2  —Chairman,  A.  Hanseni  tacratsry,  T.  lallnski  No  beefs.  See  chief  engineer  Shout  pulling  Ice  on  weekends.  None  on  hand  for  cold  drinks.  MAIDEN  CREEK  (Waterman),  Aug.  16—Chairman,  t.  ZIgsrewtkl;  Secre­ tary,  J.  Baliday.  Repairs  completed.  Drinking  fountain  furnished  and  in­ stalled.  Money  draws  this  trip  to  be  US  currency.  No  beefs.  Ship's  fund,  $28.45.  Koreans  to  stay  out  of  pantry.  CHOCTAW  (Waterman),  April  18—  Chairman,  J  Doherty;  Secretary,  H.  Bergine.  One  man  logged.  Some  OT  disputed.  Keep  unauthorized  persons  eut  of  crew  area.  Need  outside  tap  tor  fresh  water  on  deck.  July  9—Cheirman,  P.  F6xi  Secretary,  J.  Elliot.  Repair  list  requested  by  Cap­ tain.  No  beefs.  Request  new  porthole  screens.  Suggest  towels  be  dry  before  putting  In  linen  locker.  Washing  ma­ chine  repairs  on  hand.  July  11—Chairman,  P  Fex;  Secre­ tary,  M.  IwatskA.  No  major  beefs.  Passes  to  be  returned  in  Formosa  or  men  are  subject  to  fine.  for donation  for  books.  Vote  of  thanks  for  job  well  done.  Ship's  fund. $17.00.  Few  Iiours  OT  disputed.  6ne  man  ill  at  St.  Thomas.  One  man  leaving  ship  in  Phiia.  Request  excess  linen  be  turned  in  for  inventory.  Complaint  from  pantryman  re  condition  of  pan­ try  in  morning.  Request  ventilation  in  heads.  PSNN  TRADER  tPtnn),  Aug  I—  Chairman,  E.  Mansfieid;  Secretary,  W.  Strickiin.  One  man  missed  ship.  New  delegate  elected.  Keep  sougee  water  out  of  vegetable  sink.  NATALIE  (Maritime  Overseas),  Aug.  16—Chairman,  R.  HampshirO;  Secre­ tary,  G.  Baka.  Shortage  of  food.  OT  disputed  in  all  departments.  WINTER  HILL  (Cities Service),  Aug.  21—Chairman,  F  Wtierrity;  Secretary,  M.  Shiutman.  No  beefs.  Three  men  missed  ship.  Some  OT  disputed  on  deck.  New  delegate  elected.  STEEL  RECORDER  (isthmlsn),  Aug.  19—Chairman,  C.  ScoffiCId;  Secratary,  E.  Parr.  One  man  logged  and  four  fined. Complaint  on dirty  water. Ship's  fund,  $7.06.  No  beets.  Some  OT  dis­ puted.  Four  days'  subsistence  in  Cal­ cutta  to  he  taken  up  with  patrolman.  Discussion  on  medical  care  Ih  foreign  ports.  STEEL  EXECUTIVE  (iithmlan),  June  28—Chairman,  V.  Ganco;  Secre­ tary,  A.  Brodie.  Some  OT  disputed.  No  beefs.' New  delegate  and  librarian  elected.  Discussion  on  shipping.  Aug.  2—Chairman,  W.  Nash;  Secre­ tary,  J.  Quinenez.  Delegate  In  Bela­ wan  Dell  hospital  for  observation.  Ship's  fund  $29.25.  Some  disputed  OT  on  deck.  New  delegate  elected  for  balance  of  voyage.  Request  paint­ ing  of  steward  rooms  and  fumigation  of  all  rooma.  Seaway Run—An Experience!  You've crossed  the Equator  a couple of  tiines  you  say, and  was  on  the Persian  Gulf  run  during  the  hottest  months  of  the  summer?  Well, that's  something to  write home  about  too,  says Seafarer  Francisco Caspar, ship's delegate  on the  Afoundria. But  you just haven't  lived,  he  claims,  until  you've t  made the journey with the in­ ternational  set  and  travelled  the  St.  Lawrence  Seaway.  "It's  quite  an  experience," he  adds.  "First  start  off  with  the  river.  Seaway  and  Lakes  pilots,"  Gasper  said.  Their  trouble  Is  they  just  don't  understand  the  old  "salty"  deep­sea  Sailor.  "They  don't  say  right  rudder  or  left  rudder.  They  haven't  reached  that  far  yet—they  are still  using port  and  starboard."  Because  of  this,  the  quarter­ master  has  two  pilots,  who  talk  it  up  in  French  no  less.  The  ship­ to­shore  radio  is  also  going  full  blast  with all  kind.s  of  nationalities  and  accents  trying  to  reach  the  guard  gate,  asking  for a  pilot  boat,  or  just  plain  beefing  it  up  with  each  other.  Suddenly  out  of  this  linguistic  chaos comes  an  order "some  port."  "Probably  the  quartermaster  had been  pondering why  the Yanks  are  losing  the  pennant  and,  with  all  the  noise  and  what  not,  he  doesn't  know  if  the  order  means  left  rudder  or  wheel,  or  maybe  it's  just  someone  toasting  a  pal  with  a  glass of  wine."  Some  tips  for  the  Seaway  sea­ men,  Gasper  said,  are  that  ABs,  especially  those  on  the  light  side,  should  carry  acrobat's  endorse­ WANG  ARCHER  (North  Atlantic  Marine),  Aug.  22—Chairman,  K.  Wln­ sley; Secretary,  R.  Read.  Action  to be  taken  on  men  logged.  Beef  on  food.  Delegate  resigned  because  appoint­ ment  was  temporary.  Complaint  on  soap  snatcher.  OCEAN  JOYCE  (Marltlma  Overseas),  Aug.  18—Chairman,  G.  Burlesen;  Sec­ retary,  L.  Meyers.  Seattle  agent  no­ tided  of  men  who  had  money  taken  from  wages.  Will  be  returned  by  company.  New  washing  machine  not  available.  Fumigation  deal  at  an  Im­ passe.  Captain  using  steward  depart­ DEL  .VIENTO  (Delta),  Aug.  • —  ment  men  to  hand  spray  for  roaches  Chairman,  J.  Pracell;  secretary,  L.  to  no  avail.  Some  repairs  taken  care  Galuska.  Messhall  and  laundry  room  of.  OT  beef  not  aetUed  saUsfactorily.  for  tardiness  given  to  be  painted.  One  m.in  missed  ship.  One  man  dred  money.  Some  OT  dis­ Turn off  washing  mkchine  after  using.  transportation  puted  by  steward.  New  treasurer  Discussion  on  arrival  pool  and  ship's  Ship's fund  $17.68.  Complaint  fund.  Vote  of  thanks  to  stewards  for  elected.  on  food  being  cold.  OT  In  for  black  job  well  done.  gang  to  he  seUled.  STEEL  DESIGNER  (Isthmian),  Aug.  ORION  CLIPPER  (Colonial),  Aug.  9  16—Chairman,  W.  Christian; Secretary,  —Chairman,  K.  Winters;  Secretary,  J.  Sanders  No  beefs.  Ship's  fund,  R.  Barker.  Move  Urge  fan  from  rec  $13.85.  Beef  re  oilers  and  fireman  room  to  crew  pantry.  mattresses  quarters.  Request  each  watch  have  a  In Wilmington.  Vote of  No  thanks to crew  room.  Mail  in  repairs  before  sailing  for  cooperation  in  mesthaU  Unen  from  last  port.  Vote  of  thanks  to  old  change.  Vote  of  thanks  to add  steward  delegate  for  job  well  done.  for  job  well  done.  ALCOA  CORSAIR  (Alcoa),  Aug.  21  ROBIN  HOOD  (Robin  Line),  Aug.  1  —Chairman,  D.  Marine,  Secretary,  J.  —Chairman,  W.  Reck;  Sserstary, .E.  Roberts.  Air  conditioner  repaired.  Trakimavlch.  Beef  about  cigarettes  Water  pumped  overboard  and  more  in  Dar  es  Salaam,  East  Africa.  No  brought  aboard.  Ship's  fund,  $358.60.  beefs.  Request  new  coffee  perculator.  Everything  runhing  aihooth.  Motion  Suggest  improvement  In  cooking,  to  see  boarding  patrolman  about  menus,  and  night  lunch.  Baker's  larger  bed  spreads.  products  not  up  to  par.  Aug.  14—Chairman,  N.  Bathia;  Sse­ EDITH  (Bull),  July  l>­u­Chairman,  rstary,  A.  Page.  Man  who missed  ship  e.  Hatgimisios;  Secretary,  J.  Henault.  in  Laurenco  Marques  rejoined.  One  NO  beefs.  Chief  engineer  to  be  seen  man  missed  ship  in  East  London.  Dis­ re  washihg  machine.  Recreation  room  cussion  on  performers.  and  laundry  to  be  Cleaned.  August  23—Chairman  S.  Boko;  Sec­ CHICKASAW  (Waterman),  Aug.  23  retary,  W.  Berth.  Few  hours  OT  dis­ —Chairman,  J.  McLaren;  Secratary,  disputed.  Discussion  on  food  program.  H.  Kennedy.  No  beefs.  New  treasur­ Everything  running  smooth.  No  beefs.  er  elected.  Repack  old  books  and  send  to  library.  Have  new  ones  re­ SEATRAIN  NEW  YORK  (Seatrain),  placed.  Check  on  water  being  too  Chairman,  B.  High;  Secretary,  V. Cor­ hot  for  showers.  Vote  of  thanks  to  H«.  No  beefs.  Everything  running  baker  for  job  well  dUne  smooth.  (Bull),  Aug.  30—Chairman,  SEATRAIN  GEORGIA  (Seatrain),  W. EVELYN  Porter;  Secretary,  R.  Hannlgan.  Aug.  17—Chairman,  S.  Garcia;  Secre­ see  patrolman  on  delayed  sailing  end  tary,  W.  Coutant.  Some  OT  disputed  question  of  time  and  a  half  OT.  No  in  deck  department.  See  patrolman  beefs.  New  delegate  elected.  Request  about  meal  hour  changes.  One  man  new  washing  machine  be  taken  care  paying off.  New  delegate elected.  Vote  of.  Fen  to  be  Installed  in  laundry  of  thanks  to  iteWard  department  for  rotim.  Contact  port  steward  re  re­ job  well  done.  pairing  springs  en  bunks,  also  new  mattresses.  Repair  list  to  be made  up.  ALICE  BROWN  (Bloomfield),  Aug.  16^Chalrman>  W.  WMkint)  secretary,  ANDREW  JACKSON  (Waterman),  R.  McNeil.  Some  OT  disputed.  No  beefs.  Request  clothes  be  checked  be­ Aug.  29—Chairman,  V.  Porter;  sec­ fore  putting  in  washing  machine.  Re'  retary,  R.  Hannibal.  No  beefs.  Re­ fraln  from  putting  mop  bucket  in  pairs  taken  care  of.  Ship's  fund  sinks.  Men  in  need  of  new  mattreSseS  Si6.33.  Two  hours  OT  disputed  In  or  pillows  to  turn  name  In  before  deck  department.  General  discussion  requisitions  for  next  trip.  Vote  of  on  Unen  and  pears  spoiling  too  fast.  thanks  to  stewards  for  meals  and  REBECCA  (Mirlttme  Oyertaai), Aug.  menus.  30—Chairman,  L.  Lewis;  Secretary,  V.  RACIFIC  TIDE  (World  Carriers),  Fitzgerald.  One  man  missed  ship  in  Aug  IS­rCHatrmtn, 9.  Jaegers; secre­ Yokohama  and  rejoined  in  Kobe.  tary,  B.  Hay.  New  delegate  elected.  Ship's  fund  $30.02.  Request  Iron  and  Repairs  to  he  done  on  deck.  Turn  in  magazines  in  Seattle.  No  beets.  OT  repiiif  lisl.  Vents  la  engine  mom  to  disputed  In  engine  and  steward  da,  partments.  Vote  of  thanks  to  dele­ be  greased.  gate  for  job  well  done.  Discussion  on  ALCOA  RldNEER  (Aleba),  Aug.  16—  agitatbr  in  washing  machine  end  Chairman,  J,  Dial;  Secretary,  E.  Cen­ screen  doors  In  passe yewHy,  dnlzado.  Gear  of  missing  man  to  be  sent  to  Wall.  Delayed  sailing  disputed.  JDSEPINA  (Liberty  Nev.),  Aug.  2S—  Everything  running  smoothly.  Icebox  Cheirihen,  D,  Mafvlne;  kecretery,  J.  to be  replaced.  Member  thanked  crew  LIston.  N  New  delegste  elected.  No  for  iloirers  sent  to  departed  mother.  beefs.  Pat* TMrteea  LOG SEATRAIN  TEXAS  (Seatrain),  Aug.  22—Chairman,  P.  Patrick;  Secretary,  S.  Karlak.  One  man  hospitalized  in  Savannah.  No  beefs.  Ship's  fund,  $26.37.  Some  OT  disputed.  Request,  cots  be  removed  from  deck  when  noi  Ih  use.  Hard at  work  on  a  vise in  the  repair  shop  on  the  Afoundria  are  Seafarers  Ed  Synan  (left)  and  Howard  Oberg.  The  two  wipers  were  on  the  job  while their  ship  was in  Detroit.  Advises  Care  On 'Mail­Box'  In  Bombay  Seafarers  going  ashore  in  the  port  of  Bombay  will  be  well  ad­ vised  to  watch  carefully  where  they  deposit  their  letters  for  mail­ ing,  Seafarer  William  Calefato  warns.  Having  lost  a  number  of  letters  which  he  put  in  the  "mail  box" on a  counter  in The  Seaman's  Club  in  that  port,  Calefato  finally  took  the matter  up  with the  Indian  Government.  After investigating his  complaint,  Calefato  said,  the  Indian  Postmas­ ter  General's  office  wired  him  that  the  box  kept  on  that  counter  for  mailing  was a  private  one,  and  is  emptied  by  the  club  people  only.  The Post  Office did  not have  any  jurisdiction  over  this  box,  it  said.  Many  Seafarers,  Calefato  said,  who  purchase  their  mailing stamps  at  this  counter,  are  aware  that  the  natives may try to  swipe the  letters  to  get  the  stamps  or  any  other  valuable  things  in  them,  and  fur  this  reason  they  should  take  time out  and  use the  regular postal  facilities.  The  post  office  in  Bombay  is  easily  reached  by  cab,  and  matly  wary seamen  go there  to mail  their  letters  and  packages,  he  said.  Seafarer  Frank  Gaspor  (left)  relates  some  of  fiis  Seaway  experi­ ences  on  the  Afoundria  to  SlU  Representative  Paul  Drozak  (2nd  from  left),  and  shipmates  Torn  Dai ly,  oiler,  and  Arne  Boekman,  wiper,  'he  vessel  called  at  Detroit  to  load  cargo  for  shipment  overseas.  ments  for  going  over  the  side  in  the  rig  they use  to tie  up  the  ship.  The  fat  boys  are  all  right  for  around  the  winches.  As  for  the  black  gang,  he  noted,  their  theme  will  be  "The  Bells  Are  Ringing."  But  the  words  will  be changed slightly  to "For Me  and  My  Boilers."  One  hundred  hells  per watch  is a  fairly low  average.  Its  quite  a  sight  when  one  first  sees  that  big  round  glass  control  tower  at  the  first  lock.  It  is  an  eighty­foot­wide  lock,  running  some  700  to  800  feet  long  with  a  raise  or  drop  of  50 feet,  depending  on  which  way  you  are  heading.  "One  looks  at  his  469­foot­long,  67­foot­wide  empty  old  scow  mov­ ing  at  dead  speed  ahead,  with  the  wind  blowing and  ships passing  by,  and  wonders  how  the  heck  the  captain  and  the  pilots  are  going to  get  in  that  hole  without  banging  the  guts  out  of  the  old  scow.  "Well,  with  screaming  here  and  cursing  there  and  bumping like  an  old  ferry,  they  get  the  ship  in.  More  screams  and  sweat  as  the  winch  drivers  havj a  full  job  of  it  trying  to  stop  the  ship  without  busting the  mooring wire.  "This  is  only  one  lock,  brothers,  and  there  are  15  going  in  and  15  coming  out,  not  to  mention  a  long  stretch  of  fog  in  and  out  of  the  Gulf  and  river," and  an  almost un­ countable  number  of  bridges  up  and  down  the  route.  As  for  the  ports,  the  best  are  Montreal  and  Detroit,  Gasper  said.  Detroit  is  the  place  for  the  beer  drinkers,  with  the  price  just  right.  The  Afoundria  is  now  bound  for  France  and  Belgium,  and  all  the  "saltys"  will  be  old  "saltys"  again.  "Salty"  is  the  term  used  by  Lakes  seamen  for  the  deep­sea  ships  and  seamen.  Gasper  said.  Union Has  Cable Address  Seafarers  overseas  who  want  to  get  in  touch  with  headquar­ ters  in  a  hurry  can  do  so  by  cabling  the  Union  at  its  cable  ­^''ress,  SEAFARERS  NEW  YORK,  Use of  this address  will assure  peedy  transmission  on  all  mes­ sages  and  faster  rsrvice  for  the  men  involved.  ­4  Beginner's  Luck  Starling  off  wfiat  promises  to  be  a successful  deep­sea  fishing  ca­ reer,  Seafarer  Martin L,ynch  (left) shows  off  his  record­setting  172­ pound  Warsaw  Grouper.  Sllipmate  Arthur  (Knobby) Graff  poses  with  his  catch,  a  42­poond  Grouper.  This  was  Lynch'$  first  at­ tempt  at deep­sea  fishing  The  two  Seafarers made  their  catches  in  the  Atlantic,  two  miles  off  Fort  Lauderdale,  Flo.  (Lynch's  fisli  has been  entered in  the Bahia  Mara Fishing  Tournament for  deep­ sea  records.)  • • Sfl  >  �SS Waldo—All  At Sea  sni HAll  DiREcmr  SlU, A&G District  BALTIMORE  1216  E.  Baltimore  St.  Earl Sheppard, Agent  EAstern 7.4900  BOSTON  276  State  St.  G. Dakin, Acting Agent  Richmond 2­0140  HOUSTON  4202  Canal  St.  R. Matthews, Agent  CApital 3­4089; 3­4080  LAKE  CHARLES. La  1419  Ryan  St.  Leroy Clarke, Agent  HEmlock 6­5744  MIAMI  744  W.  Flagler  St.  Louis Neira. Agent  FRankUn 7­3564  MOBILE  1 South  Lawrence  St.  Cal Tanner, Agent  HEmlock 2­1754  NEW  ORLEANS  523  BienvUle  St.  Lindsey Williams. Agent  Tulane 8626  NEW  YORK  675 4th  Ave.,  Brooklyn  HYaclnth 9­6600  NORFOLK  418  Colley  Ave.  J. Bullock, Agent  MAdison 7­1083  PHILADELPHIA  337  Market  St.  S. CarduUo, Agent  Market 7­1635  SAN  FRANCISCO  450  Harrison  St.  Marty Breithoff, Agent  Douglas 2­5475  SANTURCE,  PR.. 1313  Fernandez  Juncos,  Stop 20  Keith Terpe, Hq. Rep.  Phone 2­5996  SAVANNAH  2  Abercom  St.  JACKSONVILLE..920  Main  St.. Room  200  ELgln 3­0987  SEATTLE  2505  1st  Ave.  Ted  Babkowskl,  Agent  Main  3­4334  TAMPA  1809­1811  N.  Franklin  St.  B. Gonzalez. Acting Agent  Phone 2­1323  WILMINGTON,  Calif  505  Marine  Ave.  Reed Humphries, Agent  Terminal 4­2528  HEADQUARTERS  ...675 4th  Ave.,  Bklyn.  SECRETARY­TREASURER  Paul Hall  ASST. SECRETARY­TREASURERS  J. Alglna, Deck  W. Hall, Joint  C. Simmons, Eng.  J. Volpian, Joint  E. Mooney, Std.  "Ship's Log:" SS Waldo  . .  . At Sea  . . . Seafarer  Ben Graham,  ship's  reporter  . .  . A.nother  voyage  over ... a  good  one  all around  . .  . Fine  crew  aboard  .  .  .  not  a  single  foul­up  among  them  . . .  Just  one  big  happy  seagoing  family  ...  "Crew  had  a  lot  of  ftin  both  ashore  and  aboard  ship  . .  . Stopover  at Greece  for  bunkers gave  the  athletes  in  the  crew a  chance  to  show  SUP  off  their swimming  ability ... A  number  of  them swam  for shore  . . .  HONOLULU....51 South  Nimitz  Highway  Brought  back  a  couple  of  bottles of  wine  . .  . Terrible  stuff  ...  PHone  502­777  NEW  ORLEANS  523  Bienville  St.  "Few  of  the  boys  started  a  diet  first  thing  out  .. .  Sorry  ... it  Jackson  5­7428  NEW  YORK  675 4th  Ave., Brooklyn  didn't  work  .  .  .  they  gained  plenty  ...  HYaclnth  9­6605  211  SW  Clay  St.  "Vessel picked up passenger during last voyage . . . some 1,300 miles PORTLAND  CApitol  3­4336  due east of Norfolk . . . The passenger ... a carrier pigeon . . . had SAN  FRANCISCO  450  Harrison  St.  Douglas  2­8363  band number NUR 57LF&'431 on leg . . .Was so well feted by crew that SEATTLE  2505  1st  Ave.  he decided to stick around for a few days . . . fust hitch-hiking, I Main  2­0290  WILMINGTON....".  505  Marine  Ave.  guess . . . Terminal 5­6617  "Have couple of cartoons recording trip . . . depicting events which MC&S  occurred during voyage . . . Smooth sailing to all." HONOLULU... .51 South  Nimitz  Highway  PHone  5­1714  NEW  ORLEANS  523  Bienville  St.  RAmond  7­428  NEW  YORK  875  4th  Ave.,  Brooklyn  HYacinth  9­6600  PORTLAND  211  SW  Clay  St.  CApitol  7­3222  SAN  FRANCISCO  350  Fremont  St.  EXbrook  7­5600  SEATTLE  2505  —  lat  Ave.  MAin  3­0088  WILMINGTON  505  Marine  Ave.  TErminal 44538  Great  Lakes  District  ALPENA  1215  N.  Second  Ave.  ELmwood  4­3616  BUFFALO,  NY  ....914  Main  St.  GRant  2728  CLEVELAND  1420  W.  25  St.  MAln  1­0147  DULUTH  621  W.  Superior  St.  Phone: Randolph  2­4110  FRANKFORT,  Mich  PO  Box  287  ELgin  7­2441  MILWAUKEE  633  S.  Second  Ave.  BRoadway  2­3039  RIVER  ROUGE.. 10225  W.  Jefferson,  Ave.  Mich.  Vinewood  3­4741  SOUTH  CHICAGO  9383  Ewing  Ave.  ­SAginaw  1­0733  TOLEDO  120  Summit  St.  CHerry  8­2431  Canadian District  I­ FORT  WILLIAM  Ontario  HALIFAX  N.S  Editor,  _  SEAFARERS LOG.  5  675  Fourth  Ave.,  Brooklyn  32. NY  I would  like  to  receive  the  SEAFARERS  LOG—  please  put  my  name  on your  mailing list.  (Print Information) NAME  STREET  ADDRESS ......  CITY  .......  ZONE  STATE  TO AVOID  DUPLICATION; If you ar«  an old subserlbei  and hava  a  changa  of  addrass,  plaata  giva  your  formar  address  balow:  ADDRESS  I  CITY  Sept. 11.1959  SEAFARERS  LOG  Ihff* Fsnrteea  ZONE  STATE  408  Simpson  St.  Phone;  3­3221  12814  Hollls  St.  Phone  3­8911  MONTREAL  634  St.  James  St.  West  Victor  2­8161  QUEBEC  44  Sault­au­Matelot  Quebec  LAfontaine  3­1560  THOROLD,  Ontario  52  St.  David  St,  CAnal  7­5212  TORONTO,  Ontario  272  King  St.  E.  EMpire  45719  ST. JOHN,  NB  ....177 Prince  William  St.  OX  2­5431  VANCOUVER,  BC...  298  Main  St.  MFOW  BALTIMORE..... 1216  East  Baltimore  St.  EAstern  7­3383  HONOLLrLU....56  North  Nimitz  Highway  PHone  5­6077  NEW  ORLEANS...  523  BienvUle  St.  MAgnolia  0404  NEW  YORK  ....130  Greenwich  St  COrtland  7­7094  PORTLAND  522  NW  Everett  St.  CApitol  3­7297­8  SAN  FRANCISCO  240  Second  St.  DOuglas  2­4592  SAN  PEDRO...  ....296  West  7th  St.  TErminal  3­4485  SEATTLIS.....;.  2333  Western  Ave.  HAln  8:6326  Egyptian Guides?  Ur^es SIU Run  Bakers' School  Nix, He Says  To  the  Editor:  I have Just  read Brother Gra­ ham's  article  to  the  SEAFAR­ ERS LOG on  the guides in  Alex­ andria,  Egypt,  and  I  wish  I  could  only  draw  or  write  a  let­ ter  to  explain  the  names  they  should  tag  on  these  people.  I  Just  got  back  from  a  trip  on  the  Valiant  Explorer,  and  I  would  use  something  stronger  than  the  term  thieves for  them.  That's  a  decent  occupation  to  letters To  The  Editor  All letters to the editor for publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. these  bloodsuckers.  Believe  me  I  would  rather  face  a  rat­ tlesnake  than  one  of  them.  You  would  really  have  to  see  to  believe  It.  About  10  years  ago  I hit  that  port  while  sailing  on  an  Isth­ mian  ship,  the  Steel  Architect,  when  the  port  was  under  the  British.  But  what  a  difference,  for  at  that  time  none  of  these  vultures  were  allowed  aboard  the  ship.  Ask  any  of  the  sea­ men  returning  from  that  port  today.  Why  they  would  steal  the  eye  from  a  needle  and  cut  your  throat  at  the  same  time,  all the  time telling  you they are  your  friends.  I had asked one  of  these crea­ tures  how  come  they  were  friends  of  seamen,  and  he  re­ plied  that  he  was  not  like  the  others,  he  was  honest.  Some  friend.  Our  messman  had  just  returned  with  this  self­ap­ pointed  ^uide  and  he  was  out  some  $300  In  less  than  6  hours.  Believe  me,  I  get  down­right  sick  everytime  I hear  the  name  Alexandria.  John  DeAbreu  To  the  Editor:  '  I  have  been  in  favor  of  the  new food program from  the very  first. However,  I would  also like  to  see  all  the  baking  on  board  SlU­contracted  vessels  done  with  the  same  high  quality,  and  it  can  easily  be  done  in  our  spare  time.  The  way  to  accom­ plish  this  would  be  for  every­ one  in  the  steward  department  to  take  correspondence  training  courses  in  baking.  In  order  to  do  this,  I  would  like  to  see  the  Union  get  these  courses  in  a  mass  lot,  and  this  way  the  tuition  would  be reduced  for  each  student.  Everyone  would  benefit  from  the  course.  This  way the bakers  Turner  would  have  the  necessary  knowledge,  and  the  crews  the  improved  quality.  As  I  have  worked  from  the  National  Baking  Schools  train­ ing  course,  I  know  that  SIU  bakers  could  also  benefiit  from  this  training.  The  course  would  also  take  up  a  lot of  spare  time  at  sea.  The school  issues each student  a  training  card  at  the  start  of  the  training  and,  when  a  mem­ ber finishes the course,  they Are  awarded  the  NBS  diploma.  I  would like  to see the  baker's Job  on  each  ship  go  to  the  baker  with  this  yellow  card  that  the  school  issues,  and  when  he fin­ ishes  the  course  and  gets  his  diploma,  the  Union  could stamp  "certified  baker"  on  his  book  This  way  we  would  know  the  baker  can  bake,  and  all  SIU  bakers  would  be  masters,  all  performing  high  quality  work.  I  have  written  headquarters  to  look  Into  this  baking  train­ ing to add  to our  new  food  pro­ gram.  It  would  be best  for them  to handle  this to Insure  the suc­ cess of  our food  program.  Grover  C.  Turner  4"  4"  Praises Blood  Ex­Seafarer Dies  Bank Program  Of Heart Attack  To  the  Editor:  To the Editor:  I  wish  to  advise  you  of  the  death  of  Herman  F.  Webber,  a  member  of  your Union for  over 10 years. I  would  appreci­ ate  your  put­ ting  a  notice  in  the  SEA­ FARERS  LOG  so  that  his  many  friends  would  be  Webber  aware  of  his  death.  Mr,  Weber  Joined  the  SIU  in  1945, and  belonged to the  Union  except for  military  service  until  September,  1958,  when  he  re­ tired  his book.  He last  sailed  on  the  Rose  Knot,  a  missile  track­ ing  ship,  and  was  hurt  aboard  the vessel while docked in Trini­ dad  In  March,  1958.  While  In  the  hospital  he  suffered  a  seri­ ous  heart  attack.  He  returned  home  and,  on  March  1,  had  another heart attack.  He seemed  to  be  recovering  when  he  sud­ denly  passed  away  on  May  27,  1959, at  Crlle  Veterans Hospital  in  Cleveland.  He was buried  In  the soldier's  section  of  West  Park  Cemetery  in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  He  Is  sur­ vived  by  his  wife  Betty,  hia  parents and a brother and sister.  Mrs. Herman Webber  Your  recent  article  on  the  SIU  Blood  Bank  was very  good,  and  added  to  what  information  I received  about the  program at  the  medical  center  when  I  do­ nated  a  pint  of  blood.  The  campaign  will  let  SIU  men have  a reserve  of  blood  so  that  when  one  of  our  brothers  or a  member of  his family  Is  In  the  hospital,  it  won't  be  neces­ sary  to try  and rush  around the  hall  looking  for  volunteers  to  donate immediately, as has hap­ pened  all  too  often  in  the  past.  Lawrence  H.  Chapman  4"  41  4  Wants LOG For  Shipping News  To  the  Editor:  I  am  interested  In  the  US  merchant  marine  and  its  sur­ vival.  I've  heard  exeremely  Important  aspects  of  this "fight  for  survival"  from  a  couple  of  well­informed American  seamen  and  am  beginning  to  realize  there  Is  more  to  this  situation  than  the  popular  press tells the  average  reader.  '  r am  looking  forward  to  re­ ceiving  the  SEAFARERS  LOO  and  also  to  becoming  much  more  Informed  on  ho  working  man's  side  of  the  maritime  In­ dustry.  O. Steffau  ­ .lij­ �Sept.  11,  1959  Page  Fifteca  SEAFARERS  LOG  Russians Avidly Interested  In US Workers'  Benefits  May Debut  WASHINGTON—The  average Russian  shows  an  eager  in­ terest  in  American  workers' conditions according  to  a  report  to  the  US  Labor  Department  from  the  American  exhibition  in  Moscow.  US  representatives  at  the  to  Negroes  or  the  foreign­born.  the  Russians  usually  exhibition  report  they  are  Fortunately,  got  annoyed  with  the  hecklers',  Esso Union Men Approve  Full Antonomy In SlUNA  (Continued  from  page  3)  bership  for  a  settlement  on  the  agreement  to  renew  automatically,  company's  terms.  the  situation  reached  the  boiling  Unable  to  deal  on  its  own  with  point.  Esso,  the  ETMU  Executive  Coun­ With  the  dismissal  of  Collins  in  cil  had  earlier  explored  a  possible  August,  1958,  the  Esso  group's  affiliation  with  a  national  union,  continually  besieged  with  ques­ Board  of  Governors  (consisting  of  and  in  the  process, approached  the  tions  about  the  American  worker,  and  invariably  told  them  to  keep  working  seamen  out  of  the fleet)  SlUNA.  As  a  result, an  agreement  such  as  bis  right  to  organize  and  quiet  and  allow  the  American  proceeded  to  revamp  the  organi­ was  reached  on  July  20  providing  strike,  wages, hours  of  work, living  guides  to talk.  zation.  As  a  result  the  Esso  men  that  ETMU  would  join  the  SlUNA  Some  50,000  to  70,000  Russians  conditions,  Workmen's  Compons­i­ voted  4­1  last  February  for  a  new  family  but  would  continue  to  func­ s,*;w  the exhibition each  day for  the  tion.  Social  Security,  extent  of  un­ democratic  constitution  that  pro­ tion  as  a  fully­autonomous  unit  as  FIX  weeks  it  wai  on.  It  is believed  employment, and  insurance  against  vided  lor  regular  secret  ballots  on  do  the  other  district  unions  in  the  that thousands more would  have at­ Aithough  {ust  a  day old  v.'hen  periods  of  joblesseness.  full­time  seamen­offieials  to  repre­ SlUNA.  .  tended  if  tickets  were  available.  this  photograph  was  token,  sent  the  tankermen's  interests  However,  Esse  had  already  The  overwhelming  majority  of  The tickets  were distributed  by the  ashore.  This change,  which  antici­ broken  out the  old,  rejected  "asso­ Daniel  Eugene  Cabral,  lirsS  the  Russian  people  appear  to  be­ Soviet  Government  for  the  price  pated  the  latest  requirements  of  ciation"  in  a  new  dress  as  the  lieve what  they  hear and  what they  of  one ruble, 25  cents at the official  born  of  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  Federal  labor  law,  was  voted  over  "Esso  Seamen's  Association"  with  see  at  the  exhibition.  They  listen  exchange  rate,  but  it  has  been  re­ Gene  Cabral,  looks  about  the  company's  outspoken  opposi­ Collins  as  its  hand­picked  head.  A  very  attentively  to  the  American  ported  that  some  Russians  paid  ready  to  speak  his  mind.  tion.  "vote  no"  campaign  was  launched  representatives,  so  attentively  that  as  much  as  50  rubles  through  un­ Daniel  made  his  debut  on  Thus,  the  company  found  itself  against  the  affiliation  move  'in  it  is "physically  impossible  to  tear  offlicial  channels.  May  1.  confronted  by  an  organization  run  which  the  company  actively  par­ away"  from  the  many  who flood  by  the  rank  and file,  which  de­ ticipated)  and  Collins  a'so  called  them  with  questions,  reports  an  manded  genuine  improvements  in  for  acceptance  of  the  inferior  con­ American  representative  at  tlie  ex­ wages  and  conditions.  In  the  face"  tract  offer.  hibition.  of  rising  discontent,  both  at  sea  Using  the  new  "a­ssociation's"  Among  the  crowds attending  the  and  in  the  refineries,  Esso  stalled  existence  as  an  excuse,  the  com­ exhibition  there there  were  always  a  new  contract.  Its first  offer  in  pany  b­oke  off  further  pact  talks  a  handful  of  "professional  heck­ writing  came  the  day  before  the  with  ETMU  on  August  6  until  the  lers"  who  invariably  show  up  as  All  of  the  following  SIU  families  have  received  a  $200  nia<,crni*y  old  agreement  expired  and  the  "representation  issue"  could  be  soon  as  a  sizable  group  of  people  bene lit  plus  a  $25  bond  from  the  Union  in  the  baby's  name :  company  then  went  over  the  head  settled.  The  Labor  Board  hearing  gather around  an  American.  These  of  the  union to  pressure  the  mem­ today  is  the  next  step.  James  Irving  Walker,  horn  Au­ Cmdy  Warden,  born  August  10,  "professional  agitators"  are  un­ informed  about  the US  way  gl  life,  gust  14,  1959,  to Seafarer  and  Mrs.  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  Robert  James  L.  Walker,  Princess  Anne,  Warden,  S.  Portland,  Me.  and  often  make  gross  errors.  4  4  4  For  example,  one  heckler  in­ Va.  4  4  4  sisted  that  the  Social  Security  Sherley  Lambeth,  born  August  Robert  Lambeth,  born  July  22,  13,  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  program  in  the  US does  not  apply  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  John  Thomss  Lambeth,  Mobile,  A'a.  Lambeth,  Mobile,  Ala.  4  4  4  Amelia  Gonzales,  born  June  6,  4  4  4  Ray  Joseph  Ca^sanova,  born  Au­ 1S59,  to Seafarer  and  Mr.s.  Gilbert  gust  8,  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  R. Gonzales,  Galveston, Tex.  Ray  H.  Cassanova,  New  Orleans,  4  4  4  La.  Camille  Lightfoot,  born  Au.nu.st  4  4  4  6,  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  Roan  Nestar  Landron,  born  July  9,  Lightfoot,  Jr.,  Brooklyn,  NY.  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  Jesus  4  4  4  The  deaths  of  the  following  Seafarers  have  been  reported  to  the  Phil  Cajio  Landron,  Brooklyn,  NY.  Mary  Denise  Pound,  born  T­l; rch  Seafarers Welfare  Plan:  Contact  Bill  Dzelak, SS  Choctaw,  1,  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  Vic­ 4  4  4  c/o  Waterman  Steamship  Com­ Eugene  Roszko,  54:  A  heart  at­ steward  and  joined  the  Union  in  tor  Pound,  Bremerton,  Wash.  Maria  Maldonado,  born  July  22,  pany,  310  Sanson  Street,  San  tack  was  the  cause  of  death  for  1942.  He  leaves  no  known  sur­ 4  4  4  1959,  to Seafarer  and  Mrs.  Manuel  Francisco.  Brother  Roszko  vivors.  He  was  buried  in  Wood­ Sharon  Jaynae  Reeves,  born  Au­ Maldonado,  Galveston,  Tex.  on  May  5,  1959,  lawn,  N.Y.  4  4.  i  gust 22,  1959,  to Seafarer  and  Mrs.  aboard  the  SS  Franeis  C.  Dowd'  James  Reeves,  Jr.,  Mobile,  Ala.  4  4  4  Susanne.  Roszko  Ignatius  J.  Torre  4  4  4,  leaves  no  known  Union  attorneys  are  holding  Charles  Kirby,  51:  Heart  failure  Kleovoulos  Simos,  born  August  survivors.  He  vouchers  for  money  due  the  above  felled  Brother  Kirby  on  Nov.  27,  29,  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  was  a  member  of  1953.  He  was  men  from  the  SS  Arickaree  and  Simeon Simos, Brooklyn,  NY.  the  steward  de­ buried  at  Myrtle  SS  Stony  Point.  Please  contact  4  4  4  partment  and  Hill  Cemetery,  Miller  &  Seeger,  26  Court  Street  Ruth  W.  Smith,  born  August  6,  joined  the  Union  Tampa  Florida.  Brooklyn  1.  NY.  1959,  to Seafarer  and  Mrs.  Thomas  in 1951.  His  place  Kirby  held  vari­ ^  X.  WASHNGTON  —  The  Federal  W.  Smith,  Woodford,  Va.  of  burial  is  not  known.  ous ratings  in  the  Paul  Hoggins  Power  Commission  reaffirmed,  in  4  4  4  Steward  Depart­ Please  contact  H.  F.  Holmes  at  a  recent  decision,  that  tax  savings  Robert  William  Truenskl.  lorn  4  4  4  ment  after  he  7020  North  Clark  Ave.,  Tampa,  enjoyed  by  private  utilities  under  July  6,  1959,  to  Seafarer  and  Mrs.  Lionel  B.  Miller,  35:  On  July  8,  joined  the  Un­ Florida.  tax  law  gimmicks  need  not  be  Charles W.  Truenski, Paterson,  NJ.  1959,  Brother  Miller  passed  away  ion  in  1943.  He  passed on  to consumers in the  form  4"  ^  4"  due  to heart  fail­ leaves  no  known  of  lower  rates.  In  a  tax  rate  case  Charles  Lynsky  ure.  Miller,  a  survivors.  We  regret  to  inform  you  that  involving  the  £1  Paso Natural  Gas  member  of  the  4  4  4  your uncle  George  died  August 24.  Co.,  the  FPC's  ruling  allowed  the  deck  department,  He  was  buried  September  2,  1959  company,  which  is  paying  lower­ died at sea aboard  James  Akers,  64:  Brother  Akers  at  San  Diego  National  Cemetery  than­normal  taxes  to.  the  Govern­ the  SS  Del  Mar.  died  at  sea  of  unknown  causes  on  ment  by  virtue  of  depreciating  the  with  military  honors.  He is  survived by  March  15,  1959,  cost  of  new  facilities  at  a  faster  his  wife,  Maria  aboard  the  SS  than  normal  rate,  can  list  what  DeSilva  Miller,  Seafair.  He  had  Isaac  B.  Duncan  of  New  Orleans.  (Continued  from  page  3)  been  a  member  It  Is  extremely  urgent  that  you  would  be  its regular taxes as a  cost  of  the  SIU  since  contact your  wife c/o  J.  Delk, 3737  of  doing  business  when  seeking  a  deck  cargo  and  iron  ore  is  hauled  Place  of  burial  cpnventipnally  in  the  holds  below.  was not  given.  1939,  and  sailed  El  Segundo  Blvd.,  Hawthorne,  rate  increase.  Consumer  groups have  protested  The  operation  parallels the  orig­ in  various  engine  Calif.  4  4  4  that utilities should only be allowed  inal  Pan­Atlantic  containership  department  rat­ i  4  4  Frederick De  Lorenzo, 26:  While  ings.  His place of  idea,  which  utilized  converted  T­2  to  list  actual  taxes  paid  in  their  The  following  men  have  income  tankers  to  carry  truck  trailers  on  at  sea,  aboard  the  SS  Del  Sud,  burial  is  not  tax refund checks  waiting for  them  rate  base.  The  tax  saving  gained  deck  and  oil  below.  The  trailers  in  Brother  De  Lor­ known.  Brother  under  rapid  write­off  provisions  at  room  201,  Sailors  Union  of  the  this  operation  were  also  loaded  by  enzo  died of  first  Akers  leaves  no  known  survivors.  of  the law  should  be shared  by  the  Pacific  building,  450  Harrison  shoreside  gear  until  Pan­Atlantic  and  second  de­ consumers,  they  argue. .Some state  Street,  San  Francisco  5,  Calif.:  bypassed  this  problem  by  convert­ gree  burns,  suf­ 4  4  4  Arthur L.  Craig  Jr.,  John J.  Doyle,  commissions  are  in  accord  with  ing a number  of C­2 freightships to  fered  in  an  en­ this view and have  ordered utilities  Jakob  Hansen,  58:  Brother  Han­ Boleslav  J.  Dzelak,  Willie  Edwards  handle  226  boxes  on  deck  and  in  gine  room  acci­ sen  passed  away  due  to  heart  fail­ Jr„ .  Robert  W.  Ferrandiz,  Steve  to  pass  on  tax  cuts  to  consumers.  the  holds  via  shipboard  gentry  dent.  De  Lor­ ure  on  March  3.  KrkQvieb,  AHI  Nasroen, Wong Ming  Nevertheless,  the  FPC  and  the  cranes.  enzo,  a  member  bulk  of  stAe  commissions  main­ 1959,  aboard  the  Sing,  Sing  K.  Tsai.  Ding  Hal  Woo.  of  the engine  de­ tain  the  philosophy,  in  the  words  P­A has since contracted for  four  SS  Wacosta.  lie  ships constructed especially for this  p a r t m e n t, was  4  4­4  of  the  FPC  in  the  El  Paso  Gas  was  buried  at  the  service  and  to  handle  some  350  buried  at  Green­ Jin  Helgath  decision,  "the  intent  of  Congress  boxes  each  trip.  The  "lift­on"  idea  National  Ceme­ wood  Cemeterj',  NC.  Ho  leaves  please  write  to  Jean  Freeman,  was  not  to  benefit  consumors.  but  tery,  Baltimore,  pioneered  by  this  SlU­contracted  no  known  survivors.  Route  3, Box  137,  Marshall,  Texas,  to  encourage  construction.'  Md.  A  member  operator  bas  since  spread  to  all  or call  WEbster 8­2384.  Intportant.  4  4  4  of  the  deck  de­ Under  the  1954  tax  law,  utilities  coasts.  A  West  Coast  service  be­ partment,  Hansen  Harry  L.  Franklin.  51:  Brother  can  lower  their  tax  bills  to  Uncle  tween  California  and  Haw.­; i  is  4  4  4  joined  the  SIU  Miquel  P.  Tirade  ^am  by  depreciating  the  cost  of  already  underway  and  further  e  ­ Franklin  died  of  coronary  disease  in  1955.  He  has  Your  tvatch  is  in  the  vault  at  new  facilities  at  a  faster­than­nor­ panslQR  at  such  operation.s  is  op  July  27,  1959.  FraQk.ia  s.^­Ilcd  in the  steward department as chief  no  kuowu  survivors.  .ma) jrgtPv  r  >..««», ....  planned.  SIU  BABY  ARRIVALS  i| I  FINAL  Personals  And  Notices  DISPATCH  Utilities Tax  Benefits Not  For Pub/fc  a.  a.  Union Wins  Reversal Of  ICC Ruling  •  • I  • • ^1 IJ  �l^::v  4  SEAFiUlERS  S«ptomb«r  11,  ­  t»59  •  OFFICIAL  ORGAN  OF  THE  SEAFARERS  INTERNATIONAL  UNION  • ATLANTIC    AND  GULF  DISTRICT  • AFL­CIO    •   4­1 SlU Vote  Dumps Shell  Oil's 'Union'  SlU's Home In Puerto Pico  SAN  JUAN  —  A  union­busting  attempt  by  the  Shell  Oil  Company  here  fell flat  as  100  production,  maintenance  and  distribution  employees  of  the  company  voted  for  thfe  SIU  Puerto Rico  Division  by  near­"*"  not  inflexible  and  that  it  was  will­ ly  four  to  one  in  a  National  ing to  negotiate until  a satisfactory  Labor  Relations  Board  elec­ solution  was  reached.  tion  on  September  8.  The  The  Union's contract  terms,  pre­ Shell  workers  routed  an  "as­ sented last  June, include  proposals  sociation"  of  Shell  employees  for  a  union  shop,  a  welfare  plan,  by  a  vote  of  75  to  21.  There  were  a  ten  percent wage  increase during  four challenged  ballots, all of  them  the first  year  of  a  three­year  pact,  challenged  by  the  company.  The  and  cost­of­living  increases  during  "association"  had  all  the  earmarks  the second  and third  years.  of  company  sponsorship.  Shell,  which  has  traditionally  Following the  overwhelming SIU  opposed  the  union  shop,  offered  a  SIU  members  in  Puerto  Rico  victory. Shell  has finally  agreed  to  watered­down  "maintenance  of  relax  in  comfortable,  com­ negotiate  for  a  new  contract,  and  membership"  clause  and  rejected  modious  main  lounge  of  Un­ talks  are  now  proceeding  towards  the  welfare  plan  proposal.  Money­ ion's hall located at  1313 Fer­ a  settlement.  A  previous  contract  v.ise,  it  offered  a  10  cent­an­hour  between  the  company  and  the SIU  increase  spread  over  three  years.  nandez  Juncos  in  Santurce.  Puerto  Rico  Division  was  up  for  The  Union  flatly  rejected  this  as  Structure  in  corner  is  elabo­ renegotiation.  rate  bird  cage.  "ridiculous."  Strike  Successful  The  SIU  membership  in  Shell  struck on  August 16  after  the com­ pany  locked  them  out  and  refused  to  bargain.  The  strike  was  100  percent  effective  despite  attempts  by  Shell  to  recruit  strikebreakers.  Earlier attempts  by the  Puerto  WASHINGTON—A  measure  permanently  banning  with­ Rico Department  of  Labor  to medi­ ate  the  strike  collapsed  because  holding  of  all  state  and  local  taxes  from  seamen's  wages  is  of  the  company's  unwillingness  to  now  awaiting  President  Eisenhower's signature.  The; legisla­ alter  its  contract  stand,  to  con­ tion  would  not  exempt  sea­^  tinue  to  bargain  in  good  faith,  or  discuss  the  issues.  The  SIU  had  men  from state  or  local  taxa­ men  to  taxation  from  a  variety  of  sources  each  year,  even  though  maintained  that  its  demands  were  tion  but  would  end  the prob­ they  are  non­residents.  In  addi­ lem  of  multiple  taxation  and  vast  tion,  Massachusetts  has  a  new  law  bookkeeping  problems  each  year.  subjecting  seamen  to  state  taxa­ Federal  law  already  prohibits  tion for  the period  of  time spent in  any  withholding  from  seamen's  Massachusetts  waters.  This  would  apply  to  residents  and  non­resi­ wages  other  than  allotments  and  dents  alike.  Due  to  the  nature  of  the  indus­ SAN  FRANCISCO  —  Shipping  Federal income and Social Security  taxes.  The  new  bill  was  made  has  been  fair  and  there  are  no  necessary  primarily  by  a  new  state  try, with  seamen sometimes  chang­ signs  of  it  picking  up  during  the  income  tax  withholding  set­up  au­ ing  jobs  several times  and  possibly  working  for  companies  in  four  or  coming  period.  .  thorized  by  the  New  York  State  Only  one  ship  paid  off  during  legislature  this  year.  Citing  Fed­ five  states  during  the  course  of  a  the  last  two  weeks,  the  Kyska  eral  law,  ship  operators  based  in  year,  the  various  state  and  local  (Waterman).  There  was  only  one  New  York  had  refused  to  withhold  laws  could  take  a  big  bite  out  of  ship  signing  on,  the  Valiant  Force  taxes from  New  York  resident sea­ wages  each  year.  Even  though  much  of  this  might  eventually  be  (Force),  while  seven  ships  were  in  men.  transit,  Texmar,  Losmar  (Calmar);  The problem  was complicated  by  returned  through  refunds,  a  big  Alcoa  Pegasus (Alcoa);  Coe  Victory  the fact  that almost  half  the  states  bookkeeping headache  both for  the  (Victory  Carriers);  Steel  Advo­ and  some  counties  and  municipali­ seamen  and  the  steamship  com­ panies  would  have  been  involved.  cate,  Steel  Architect  (Isthmian)  ties  also  had  withholding  laws  on  The bill passed  by the House and  and  Kyska  (Waterman).  the  books  which could  subject sea­ Senate  would  eliminate  this  diffi­ culty altogether. Although the orig­ inal  Senate  version  called  for  a  two­year  limit  on  the  withholding  ban,  the  final  version  knocks  out  this  limitation  and  broadens  the  ban  to  cover  seamen  on  inland  The first  reporting forms  and  printed copies  of  New York's  waters as well.  Under  an  arrangement  report­ Labor  and  Management  Improper  Practices  Law  have  al­ edly  agreed  to  by  the  steamship  ready  been  sent  out  to  over  75,000  business  firms  and  labor  companies, a duplicate copy of  each  man's  W­2  Federal  withholding  unions. The 1959  law provides"*"  form  will  be forwarded  to  the  ap­ for  disclosure  of  finances  by  the  1,200  employer  trade  organ­ propriate state for each  man at the  izations.  labor  and  management  Thus  far,  the  State  Labor  De­ end  of  the  year.  The  states  will  groups.  partment  has  been  able  to  locate  then  have a  record of  the earnings  The  70,000  business  firms in  the  only  85  labor  relations  consultants  of  resident  seamen  as  a  basis  for  collecting  the  required  taxes.  State employing  ten  or  more  regu­ 10 jvhom  report  forms  were  sent.  Attorneys  engaged  in  the  practice  lar  employees  will  receive  report­ of  law  are  not  included  in  the  ing  forms,  and  excerpts  from  the  definition  of  labor  relations  con­ law.  Some 5,500 local, national and  sultants.  international  unions  will  receive  The  first  report  forms  must  be  four­page  report  forms,  with  a  returned  to  the  Division  of  Labor"  printed copy of  the law. A different  and  Management  Practices  by  reporting form  will  be  received  by  December  L  States Barred  From  Seamen Pay  Crab  'Frisco  Has  Fair Outlook  Labor 'Consultants' Shy  On NY  $  Reporting Law  14;  i'  Iter  raw  Exterior  of  three  story  hall (above)  shows  grillworic,  open  alcoves  typical  of  Spanish  architecture.  Louvers,  potted  palms  add  to  appearance.  Below, SIU  patrolman  transacts Union  business  with  three SIU men.  SlU's Puerto Rico Division is one of  fastest­growing  sections  of  the  Unions  � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1950-1959 Description An account of the resource Volumes XII-XXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11, 1959 Description An account of the resource Headlines: LABOR DAY 1959 SIU LAKES CO. STARTING REGULAR RUN TO EUROPE NEW LABOR BILL SHORT ON REFORM, HITS UNIONS ONLY MTD PLANS ATTACK ON M’TIME ILLS 115,000 IN NY LABOR DAY PARADE CONGRESS VOTES TWO MORE YEARS OF SURPLUS CARGOES CORRUPTION? MACHINISTS CITE BUSINESS PRACTICES ILA ISSUE UP TO AFL-CIO MEET SHIP RADIOTELEPHONE AUTHORIZED IN PHILA. CO’S LIMITING HOSPITAL BENEFITS PACIFICUS CREW STARS IN TOP-RATED BALT. PAYOFF JAPANESE SUBSIDIES SPUR US SHIP AID HITS RUNAWAY CONTRACTS; SUPPORTS US UNION DRIVE MOBILE SEES STEPPED-UP JOB TOTALS 4-1 SIU VOTE DUMPS SHELL OIL’S ‘UNION’ Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/11/1959 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXI, No. 19   1959 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/4dec9cdd3b5c68da7f4be2a0cf80ef71.PDF 08baf1fe988c662d256beef0a1c5b898 PDF Text Text Official Organ of the Seafarers International Union of North America VOL. IX. NEW YORK. N. Y., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 12. 1947 Living Costs Go Up As Food Prices Rise WASHINGTON, D. C. — The American Federation of Labor launched a vigorous campaign against the rising cost of living as reports from all over the na­ tion indicated that prices are soaring to new high levels. one-half the corn crop will be in danger, Krey said. He forcast a drop in meat pro­ duction this year, "at a time when th^re is more'need and de­ mand for meat than ever before. Meanwhile the' Agriculture De­ partment tbld the world that farmers this year have averaged about 42 cents a dozen for,eggs, the highest price in history and about 7 cents above last year's ^rice. AFL President William Green directed a letter to the local AFL affiliates in all cities and towns in which the Senate-House Com­ mittee on the Economic Report is preparing to hold hearings on the prices of consumer goods, Although egg production is urging the local groups to flood the committee with evidence of higher than a year ago, prices exorbitant prices now gouging are expected to remain high be­ cause of the shortage of red the consumer. meat, the department said. Opinion of experts revealed GREATEST PROBLEM that the cost of living is due to go up rather than down, as the Mr. Green, in his letter to all profit-hungry interests boosted local AFL groups, urged them to prices to maintain or increase present to the congressional com­ their record take. mittee the facts of the present In produce markets, dealers price situation "in their true confidently predict retail prices light." He said: of $1 a pound of butter and .$1 "The continually rising prices a dozen for eggs. of the necessities of life is the single most important problem NEW HIGHS confronting America today. In Chicago, prices of corn and "Government figures, which oats hit new highs for the second can only partially measure the consecutive day, while wheat ad­ rise in the cost of living, show vanced several cents a bushel to that the prices of products pur­ a- new peak for this time of year, chased by an average family hit at the height of the harvest. a new high during the month of The Bureau of Labor Statis­ June, when they were 56 percent tics reported an increase in the higher than in January, 1941. wholesale price index for 900 "Food and clothing, which re­ commodities' for the ninth straight quire the bulk of the average week. The index now stands at worker's wage, rose in price 95 a level 20.1 percent above a year and 84 percent, respectively. Pre­ ago. liminary figures for July and The jump in corn price was August are even higher. blamed upon more bad weather "The first session of the 80th reported from the corn belt. On Congress closed its eyes to this top of this came the warning continually rising cost of living. from John F. Krey, chairman of Its only action was to authorize the American Meat Institute, the present investigation of the that the corn crop may be dam­ high cost of living. aged further by frosts. "Labor should take advantage If frost comes at the average of the opportunity to present the time this year, from one-third to facts in their true light." Send Fix Every candidate for office in the A&G election sched­ uled to begin on November 1st. must submit with his qualifications a passport pic­ ture of himself and a short biography of no more than 100 words, dealing only with the candidate's Union record and activities. These pictures and biogra­ phical notes will be carried in the SEAFARERS LOG in order to familiarize the mem­ bership with all candidates. Send your qualifications, picture, and short biography to: Secretary-Treasurer. Sea­ farers International Union. 51 Beaver St.. New York 4. N. Y. m&P Asks Pact Changes V New contract negotiations be­ tween the National Organization of Masters, MStes, and Pilots, got underway last week when the MM&P presented the Ameiican Merchant Marine Institute with demands which incjude wage increases for Masters and Mates, an extra $12.50 monthly for Captains required by the company to wear uniforms, and continuation of the practice of carrying Pursers where such personnel have been carried since 1942. Certain points in the old mast­ er agreement have been deleted or modified. All of the changes are being pi-oposed only after careful study by the Negotiating Committee, and were, in the main,, suggested by working Deck Officers. MM&P members, sailing as officers on coal-carrying ships, recently won a 5 percent wage increase, plus improved over­ time pay for work performed on holidays at sea. This new agreement «»xpires September 30, 1948. MC Aids Other Rations: Waterman WASHINGTON—Charges that the" Maritime Commission helps competition of foreign companies by insisting on subsidizing American flag vessels was voic­ ed this week by the general council for the Waterman Steam­ ship Company when he stated, "We can hold our own against our foreign competitors, but it's much more difficult to hold our own against them and the Mari­ time Commission." Further, the statement charged, that the commision, during the ten years of its ejfistence, "has not made one single recommen­ dation to Congress designed to encourage the o p e r a t i o n •' of steamships in the foreign trade without an operating subsidy." This policy, the company con­ cluded, has placed handicaps in the way of ship operators who were seeking to develop an American merchant marine with­ out Government aid. Waterman, which is a nonsubsidized company, leveled its blistering charges against the MC because of the commission's proposal to subsidize ships oper­ ating routes now being ade­ quately served by privately-own­ ed, non-subsidized A m e ri can shipping lines. The company is already invol­ ved in one beef with the Gov­ ernment, with a suit pending charging the commission with "evasio"n and circumvention" of the 1946 Ship Sales Act in chart­ ering Government-owned ships to the Black Diamond Company for operations against Watermanowned vessels in the New YorkAntwerp-Rotterdam service. No. 37 37 Union Posts Are To Be Filled in SlU Election Nominations for 1948 officials for the Atlantic and Gulf District were officially opened at the regu­ lar membership meetings on Wednesday, Septem­ ber 10, with the adoption of a resolution in all Ports calling for an election by regular referendum bal­ lot in accordance with Constitution. (The resolu­ tion appears on page 3.) Appearing on the ballot will be 37 posts to be filled. Twelve Port Agents, 21 Patrolmen, one Secretary-Treasurer, and three Assistant Secretary - Treasurers are to be selected. The creation of two additional Assistant Secretary - Treasurer posts was voted as part of the resolution calling for the election. These new officials will carry out certain duties which have been previously assigned to ap­ pointed officers. These duties include contract negotiations, organization, port committee, special representative, and special services and-welfare. Qualifications for these posi­ tions are the same as for the job of Port Agent. (Qualifications for elective office in the Seafarers Inter­ national Union. Atlantic and Gulf District, appear on page 3.) MEMBERSHIP APPROVAL As in previous years, the res­ olution empowers the SecretaryTreasurer to open additional of­ fices, if necessary, and to staff them, subject to the approval of the membership. In the last election, 38 posts were contested for, but tighten­ ing up of the Union apparatus, in line with the recommendations of the Agents' Conference, lop­ ped off a few jobs. At the same time, however, service to the membership has been maintained at a high level. ,In addition to» the customary requirements for office, each Ship Isthmian On September 22 the Un­ ion's Negotiating Committee will commence meetings with Isthmian regarding working and general rules. There's bound to be trouble since Isthmian likes to set its own rules. So. back up the Negotiating Committee by sailing Isthmian, and the Committee will be in better position to press its demands. is directed by the resolution to furnish a passport picture of himself, taken as recently as possible, plus a state­ ment of not more than 100 words, giving a brief resume of the candidate's Union record and history. These pictures and statements will be carried in the LOG after nominations have been closed, and will serve to familiarize the membership with the men running for office. Various members of the Unioin stressed the need for outstanding candidates being nominated for office for the year 1948. "In the next year," they said, "this Union, like many others, faces many attacks. It will take a solid, militant membership, with sincere leaders, to hold on to the gains we have made so far." Storm Halts Seafarers In Mobile Area A tropical storm, which lashed at the Gulf Coast early this week, caused difficulties to mem­ bers of the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union in two quarters. The SlU-manned 'Waterman vessel SS Raphael Semmes was one of two freighters which ran aground in Mobile Bay at the height of the storm's fury. She was refloated, however, after several hours of work in which three tugs participated. At Bayou La Batre, on the Alabama Gulf Coast, the 600boat fishing fleet, which operates from that point, was kept idle as high winds and heavy rains in the area rendered the waters extremely dangerous. The 1,400 fishermen who man Bayou La Batre's fishing boats are all members of the Mobile Bay Seafood Union, which affil­ iated with the SIU last July. Damages resulting from the storm in the Mobile area were slight. �THE Page Tw:o SEAFARERS LOG Friday, September 12, 1947 SEAFARERS LOG PublisJjed Weekly by the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. HAnover 2-2784 International Officers HARRY LUNDEBERG President 105 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. PAUL HALL First Vice-President 51 Beaver St., New York 4, N. Y. MORRIS WEISBERGER Vice-President 105 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. CAL TANNER - - Vice-President 1 South Lawrence St., Mobile, Ala. EDWARD COESTER Vice-President 86 Seneca St., Seattle, Wash. JOHN HAWK Secy.-Treasurer 105 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. District Officials J. p. SHULER - - - Sccy.-Treas. Atlantic & Gulf District P. O. Box 25, Bowling Green Station, New York, N. Y. HARRY LUNDEBERG - Sec.-Treas. Sailors Union of the Pacific 59 Clay Street, San Francisco, Calif. FRED FARNEN - - - - Secy.-Treas. Great Lakes District 1038 Third Street, Detroit, Michigan HUGH MURPHY Secy.-Treas. Canadian District 144 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, B. C. Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. GEORGE K. NOVICK, Editor 267 Stay On The Job Additions to the list of companies under contract with the Seafarers International Union arc being made with ever-increasing frequency. Thanks to the wellplanned strategy and efficiency of the organizational de­ partment and the cooperation of a union-conscious mem­ bership, this is a decidedly healthy sign. When entering the hospital notify the delegates by post­ card, giving your name and the number of your ward. It is evidence of the fact that the SIU is sound and that it is amply endowed with a vigorous membership which enables it to thrive and grow. But along with<the many fruits which come to the membership as the organization expands its contractual relationships, there is an increasing responsibility that must be accepted and shared by each individual Seafarer. The Union is being called upon to supply more and moie manpower to operate the ships under contract. The job is a complicated and difficult one. Furthermore, it is essential that the Union fulfill its contractual obligations if it is to maintain the record gains it has won consistently N. in negotiations with the operators. There is only one sound, sure way this end can be served. And that is for every man to^take the jobs off the board as they appear and then to stay on the job once he, is dispatched to the ship. If a man keeps rejecting assigiiments, the number of jobs waiting to be filled grows by leaps and bounds while, at the same ^time, the man­ power is being needlessly piled up on the beach. It is in a situation such as this that it becomes neces­ sary to take in men from the outside to fill the gaps—a last resort which is always wholly undesirable because of the ultimate effect on the job problem when shipping declines. It leads to an overloading of the membership and conse­ quently winds up in fewer and fewer jobs for all hands. It is highly important, therefore, that every member bear in mind that the position of his Union and his own job security is jeopardized when he unreasonably shuns a job assignment. Take the jobs as they come up and stay on them! You'll be helping to insure your own future security by acting in a responsible Union manner. Staten Island Hospital These are Ihe Union Brolhers currently in the marine hospitals, as reported by the Port Agents. These Brothers find time hanging heavily on their hands. Do what you can to cheer them up by writ­ ing to them. You can contact your Hos­ pital delegate at the Staten Island Hospital at the follow­ ing tiems: Tuesday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (on 5th and 6th floors) Thursday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (on 3rd and 4th floors.) Saturday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (on 1st and 2nd floors.) NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL ' C. C. MOSS JOSEPH DENNIS D. TULL L. GROVER J. SILLAK C. MACON 4 4 4 BOB WRIGHT BALTIMORE MARINE HOSP. JOHN MAGUIRE R. H. COOTE CHARLES BURNEY G. A. MASON J. J. O'NEAL B. J. WILLIAMS E. L. WANDRIE J. FURDILLA E. M. LOOPER J. JUUHIWA D. G. PARKER C. ALEXANDRIS LEROY CLARKE J. W. TAYLOR J. ZANADIL F. R. O'BRINE D. P. KORALIA L. PAINTER WILLIAM MOORE J. D. OTTO L. COOPER MAX FINGERHUT REUBEN VANCE W. VAUGHAN 4 t t W. T. ROSS NEPONSET HOSPITAL M. J. LUCAS L. CLARK 'E. FREMSTAD J. S. CAMPBELL 4 4 4 E. FERRER STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL J. R. HANCHEY J. A. DYKES C. LARSEN F. CHRISTNER L. L. LEWIS W. SATTERFIELD J. R. LEWIS P. GELPI R. A. BLAKE F. ZOLLER L. TORRES T. COMPTON C. SCHUL-rZ W. R. HALL J. HAMILTON A. SWENSON H. BELCHER J. J. RATH J. T. EDWARDS M. EVANDSICH ' L. BALLESTERO PAT BAKER (SUP) J. M. MARTINEZ J. HOUSTON E. P. O'BRIEN J. S. MOLINI T. J. KURKI F. J. SCHUTZ J. P. MCNEELY E. DRIGGERS I. WHITNEY 4 4 4 GALVESTON MARINE HOSP, W. BENDLE G. E. LEE A. BELANGER A. V. O'DANJELS R. S. SINGLETARY 4 4 4 BRIGHTON HOSPITAL R. LORD J. BARRON E. DELLAMANO H. SCHWARTZ E. LESSOR E. JOHNSTON J. TEN EYCK D. BOYCK R. GREENWOOD E. OVERTURE (SUP) 4 4 4 BUFFALO MARINE HOSP. SIDNEY CUNNINGHAM Men Now In The Marine Hospitals I •'. Ail; i J �'>'I7577^ft7/*''^'^7r^'T7r2r!*f•^'' ^-- •' Friday, September 12. 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Three Resolution On SIU Election Officially launching "the 1947 General Election for officials in the Sea­ farers International Union of North America, Atlantic and Gulf District," a resolution .specifying The Headquarter.s and various Port positions to be filled by referendum ballot was adopted by the membership at the Sept. 10 regular meetings in all ports. The resolution, which by custom is introduced annually to determine the elective posts that will appear on the ballot in addition to those provided for by the Union Constitution follows: By PAUL HALL WHEREAS: It is customary for the Union to determine annually by resolution what elective offices should be placed on the ballot at each annual election over and above those provided for in the constitution, and WHEREAS: It has been necessary over the past year to close what were formerly SIU ports, notably in the Texas area, and WHEREAS: Since the first of this year Headquarters has taken a more active part in the affairs of the Union than previously y.'hich necessitates a larger elective staff in the Headquarters offices, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That the following ports shall be filled by regular referendum Ballot in the 1947 General Election for Officials in the Seafarers' In­ ternational Union of North America, Atlantic and Gulf District. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That if, during the year, it becomes necessary to open additional offices the staffing of such offices be left to the discretion of the Secretary-Treasurer, subject to the approval of the membership and be it finally Always on the lookout for some justification for their stiff front, the operators are constantly making the cry that they want to do business with "reliable" people. As far as that goes everybody wants to do business with re­ liable people. But the hitch is in the operators' definition of "re­ liability." In their book, a "reliable" union is one that will do the company's bidding and loaves its membership holding an empty bag. That was the kind of "reliability" practiced by the National Maritime Unon during the war, when it bleated its well-known "reading, writing and no striking" slogan, arid worked in close cooperation with the Coast Guard, WSA, RMO and countless other government agencies. It was the kind of j-eliability which had the operators licking their chops but which had the NMU member­ ship licking the wounds inflicted on them_ as the result of their union's policy. "Reliable," too, are company unions with their employer-dic­ HEADQUARTERS tated "yellow dog" conlraqts. In fact, any union whose policies BALTIMORE MOBILE are controlled or influenced by the employer and whose membership 1 Secretary-Treasurer Agent 1 Agent has no representation, and thus has no union at all, is "reliable" in 3 Assistant Secretary-Treas. Deck Patrolman 1 Deck Patrolman BOSTON the operators' lopsided ledger. Engine Patrolman I Engine Patrolman 1 Agent Steward Patiolman 1 Steward Patrolman The "Unreliable" SIU 1 Joint Patrolman NEW ORLEANS NORFOLK NEW YORK Agent Thus it comes easy to understand why the shipowners consider 1 Agent Deck Patrolman the Seafarers International Union as one of the "unreliable" unions 1 Agent 1 Joint Patrolman 2 Deck Patrolmen Engine Patrolman —unreliable because of its use of economic action, because of its SAVANNAH 2 Engine Patrolmen ' Steward Patrolman ability to catch them with their pants down, and to strike hard and 1 Agent 2 Steward Patrolmen GALVESTON win quickly when it means advancing the status of its membership. JACKSONVILLE 1 Joint Patrolman Agent It is true that this reputation has made expansion doubly tough 1 Agent PHILADELPHIA Joint Patrolmen for the Seafarers but at the same time it has produced definite as­ TAMPA 1 Agent SAN JUAN sets for the organization. It has enabled us to effect quicker vic­ 1 Agent Agent 1 Patrolman tories, with better results. And, above all, has made the day-to-day settling of beefs an easy matter compared to the rigmarole, red tape, RESOLVED: That in addition to the regular Constitutional Requirements, each can­ "port committees," and endless confabs in which other maritime didate for office shall furnish with his acceptance for office a regulation pass­ unons find themselves constantly entangled. port picture of recent taking as well as a statement of not more than 100 words, A clear example of the effectiveness of the Seafarers policy in giving a brief summary of his Union record and activities, such picture and state­ this respect is pointed up in the several bargaining elections re­ ment to be run in the Seafarers Log just prior to commencement of voting. This cently won by the SIU. In negotiating the contracts we were told that our reputation was one of "unreliability" (from the shipowners is to be done in accordance with previous membership action to familiarize the point of view) when it came to settling beefs. membership with the names, faces and records of all candidates for office. "We understand you people tie up ships to settle beefs," the PAUL HALL- -190 J. ALGINA—1320 operators told our committee. * J. P. SHULER- -101 The answer they received was brief, but straight from the ROBT. A. MATTHEWS—U4 shoulder: Two Sides To Every Beef "Hell, yes, we tie up ships to settle beefs—but only after all other means have failed. The Seafarers observes its contracts but by the same token it expects the operators to do likewise." In the light of this philosophy on the part of the shipowners, it might just as well be stated here and now that the Seafarers, and all other unions too, must step up vigilance. Shipowners will have to be watched closer than ever before. Right now they are building up, and stowing away for a war chest to break out when shipping starts to decline. They will attempt to get away with anything and everything they can in their search for a weak spot in the Union's protective armor. The current internal struggle in the NMU has caused some of its contracted operatoi's, who up to now were satisfied with that organization's "reliability," to become pretty unhappy and leery over the possibility of getting sandwiched in between the warring fac­ tions. They have stated, in effect, that "it's too bad the SIU is not "reliable" or we might be able to do business with them." The Definitions Are A Bit Different To them, and to any shipowner, who think we would fall in line with any of their inner office proposals, we say: "Hell no. We're not reliable, nor will we ever be reliable in the sense you people^mean it." Our function as a trade union of merchant seamen, who are fighting to maintain and increase the standards now enjoyed after years of struggle, is to protect our membership. Every tactic employed every policy formulated is dedicated to that end. Results have proven that the Seafarers policy of settling beefs at the point of production is correct. It has resulted in a smaller SIU but a solid outfit with a reputation for accomplishment second to none. We settled our beefs the hard way when other unions were pogey bait for the shipowners and handshakers with the Washington bureaucrats. This reputation for hard-hitting effectiveness has placed the Seafai-ers in a most favorable position for an all-out drive in mari­ time. It appears that the question of a union's "reliability" is some­ thing to be determined by its gains for the membership rather than from the angle of how much it will jump at a nod from the ship­ owners. Port Houston To Expand Facilities By KEITH ALSOP GALVESTON — It looks like the Port of Houston will really be in the big-time soon. The voters there have approved an additional bond issue and cleared the way for a $9,000,000 expan­ sion program. Within a few years, the port will have seven new modern deep-water wharves, and a new export bulk handling plant which will be able to keep traf­ fic moving. The bulk plant will be able to unload at least 40 railroad cars per hour. Qualifications For Office Qualifications for office in the Seafarers International Union, as provided for by the Constitution and By-laws, are as follows: (a) Thai he be? a citizen of the United States. (b) That he be a full member of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic and Gulf District, in continu­ ous good standing for a period of two (2) years immediately prior to date of nomination. (c) Any candidate for Agent or joint patrolman must have three years of sea service in any one of three departments. Any candidate for departmental patrolman must have three years sea service, as specified in this article, shall mean on merchant ves­ sels in unlicensed capacity. (d) That he has not misconducted himself previously while employed as an officer of the Union. (e) That he be an active and full book member and show four months discharges for the current year in an unlicensed rating, prior to date of nomination, this provision shall not ap­ ply to officials and other office holders working for the Union during current year for period of four months or longer. Any member who can qualify may nominate himself for office by submitting, in writing, his intention to run for office, naming the particular office and submitting the necessary proof of qualification as listed above. The notice of intention addressed to the Secretary-Treasurer must be in his office not later than Oct. 15, 1947, when nomina­ tions will be closed. What is the best news for us, however, is that the building program will bring to 80 the number of ship berths in the" port. No longer will ships have to anchor twenty-five miles away to await a dock in Houston. Widening and strengthening of the channel, installation of radar and other communication facil­ ities, and other improvements will also make it possible for the ships to operate safely over the channel at night, in bad weather, and during times of poor visibil­ ity. Shipping remains good in this port, as always, and we have the same shortage of rated men. Here's the same old invitation— any man who wants to ship out soon can make a scow hei'e with­ out any trouble. Payoffs and sign-ons go on as usual, and any beefs are set­ tled before the men leave the ship. That way prevents a piling up of grievances and gives the men the type of representation they want and are entitled to. As far as organizing is con­ cerned, Johnny Ward is con­ tacting Cities Service tankers, and he says that the men really want SIU representation. After the success of the Isthmian cam­ paign, anything is possible, and Cities Service may be SIU be­ fore very long. �THE Page Fotit LCA Forced To Grant Wages To Match SlU By RUSSELL SMITH SEAFARERS Friday, Sepiember 12, 1947 LOG i Who pays for this slick LSU DETROIT—In a move of des­ peration to forestall organiza­ propaganda? By J. P. SHULER, Secretary-Treasurer Certainly, the dues from 22 tional gains of the SIU Great rules that are below the standard. As fast as suitable buildings Lakes District, LCA operators Cleveland-Cliffs ships don't pay Membership The Negotiating Committee for can be found at reasonable prices boosted wages to a par with SIU for this high-powered literature! There are many men now the Union will meet with the they will be purchased in other contracts as of September 1. In Why, the SIU has dozens of let­ sailing on permits who have had American Eastern Steamship ports. It should not be too long one or two of the classifications, ters on file from the Clevelandthem for over a period of eigh­ Company tomorrow to continue before the Seafarers InternaCliffs ships. the LCA rates tops those of the These letters openly state that teen (18) months. At the present negotiations for general and toinal Union of North America SIU bj' one or two cents. the senders want no part of the time there are not enough Book­ working rules. has its own building in every After the SIU Great Lakes Dis­ phony LSU, and that only a men to man our contracted ships. The agreement with the Cal- key port. trict cracked the forty-hour week Isthmian Steamship Company mar Steamship Company has not on the sandboats. Midland, small of the men on Cliffs ships actually belong to this so-called has just signed up with the been completed as yet. We Haas-Vikko-Langham Browning, McCarthy and others, union! closed shop agreement, which should be able to put them be­ the big-hearted LCA operators The membership went on rec­ In spite of their apparent pov­ means about 3,500 more jobs fore the membership for rati­ came through with their last ord at the last regular meeting erty, who pays the salary of the than we had before we secured fication at the next i-egular minute increases. to make a contribution to this LSU shoreside lawyer-represen­ the shipping on Isthmian ships. meeting. This year, as in former years, fund, and empowered the Audit­ tative, Meyer Cook? There have been several other the SIU has spearheaded the fight ing Committee to determine the Building's small companies that signed up WHY NOT for gains on the Great Lakes. amount to be donated. The Aud­ The membership went on rec­ iting Committee recommended Then, in a psychological move to Lakes seamen are saying, "Why which are being crewed from offset SIU increases, the open wait for the LCA to grant in­ the Union Hall. Therefore, it is ord at the last regular meeting that the Seafarers International shop owners of the LCA get big- creases after the SIU has fought recommended that books he to buy a HaU in the port of Union donate $2,500 to the fund hearted and come across with for these gains? Why not join opened for new members begin­ Mobile. A check amounting to and that it be taken from the these raises. What's their mo­ the SIU, and under the banner ning September 25th, and that $37,000 is being sent to the Port Strike and Organization Funds. of the Seafarers win our own the quota be governed by the of Mobile which will complete A ^heck of $2,500 has been con­ tive? That's easy to see. The SIU contracts bringing us the best Headquarters office, subject to the transaction and, by the next tributed by the Union. has already made sweeping or­ wages and conditions on the the approval of the membership. regular meeting, we will own Individual members wishing ganizational gains in the past Lakes. We're not freeloaders! Permitmen making application a building in that port. to make contributions should There has been quite a bit of send same directly to: year on the Lakes. First came We want to be a part of the pace- for probationary membership: favorable comment on the buy­ setting Great Lakes Seafarers!" the seven Midland ships last Fall. (1) Must be of a rating above Haas-Vikko-Langham ing of this Hall, inasmuch as the Despite the fact that LCA in­ Then, the two Huron ships this that of Ordinary Seamen, Post Office Box 31 Union has been pushed around Spring, and the four Wyandotte creases have only been in effect Wiper or Messman. Baltimore, Md. , since September 1, many repox'ts ships this Summer. (2) Must have held a tripcard from barn to barn in that port No contributions should be giv­ At the present time, the SIU are reaching SIU offices about or permit for at least eigh­ for a long time. This will make the fifth building that we own en to any Union official for this has seven pending petitions for Lakes seamen being ordered to teen (18) months or more. now. fund. elections before the NLRB. Taft- do all kinds 'of unnecessary work (3) Must have at least one (1) Hartley red tape has delayed on Saturdays and Sundays. year's seatime on permit. They are told, "You are al­ elections on the Hanna fleet (1.3 (4) Must have a clearance from ships). Kinsman (5 ships), ready receiving premium pay for the general strike. week ends. Now, j'uu'll have to Schneider (2 ships), Wilson (12 do any kind of job you're told to All applications to be acted on ships), Shenango (3 ships), Tomdo even if it is Saturday or Sun­ by a committee in Headquarters linson (11 ships), and Nicholson day." office. (Ecorse—1 ship). Yes, the kind and spendthrift STRONG FOR SIU The fur started flying thick Young was chairman, and in reElections shipowners granted these in­ Despite these delays, men on creases. nd fast around the New York turn for his whitewash, the com­ Now they want to The voting for the officers for Headquarters of the National these ships as well as on other squeeze it out of the unorganized munists backed him to replace the year 1948 will begin Novem­ Lakes fleets not as yet petitioned Lakes seamen, drop by drop. Maritime Union when five anti- Stack. ber 1st and end December 31st. communists were appointed to are overwhelmingly for the SIU. There's only one protection. SMART PLAY Any man wishing to norriinate the Trial Committee which will In fact, many of them have taken That is to join the SIU Great This time Curran played his himself for office can do so by advantage of the SIU's open Lakes District today; vote SIU hear charges aginst R. J. Sulli­ cards much better. Only four submitting the proper qualifica­ books in the Great Lakes District when your ship votes; and win van, New Orleans Port Agent, members of the National Office tions to the Committee on Cred­ and have joined up. and Harry Alexander, Port Pa­ an SIU contract with job security, were present when the new Trial entials at Headquarters office. This strong SIU sentiment on seniority protection, union rep­ trolman. Committee was brought up, and the Lakes is one of the things resentation, and the best damn The committee issuing the The charges against these ofthat have the open shop ship-i wages and conditions on the SEAFARERS LOG will carry a ficals were brought by Secre­ even though red-tinged ViceHoward McKenzie owners so worried. list of the required qualifications tary Ferdinand C. Smith, and President Lakes! voted against Curran, Treasurer One important fact to remem­ Don't be taken in by those for application for office until Vice-President Chester Young, Hedley Stone and Vice-President ber is that the LCA does not hourly rate figures. It's the October 15, 1947. All credentials after an investigation by Young Lawrenson carried their slate to want a strong union like the SIU monthly take-home pay that must be in by October 15th, 1947. which has been termed by the victory. on the Great Lakes to protect counts. SIU contracts with SIU A resolution will be presented at anti-commies in the union "a It is expected that the commies the rights of the Lakes seamen conditions mean that you get tonight's meeting which, if car­ frame-up for Sullivan and Alex­ will attempt to overthrow the and fight continuously for the paid time-and-one-half in addi­ ried, will determine the offices ander." new committee. Failing that, the many needed improvements. ^ tion to your regular pay for any that go on the ballot. Both Sullivan and Alexander dispute will most certainly hit That costs money—big money— job classified as a penalty job. As per the constitution, nom­ have allied themselves with the deck'"at the NMU Convention and these profit-hungry shipown­ Open shop LCA ships don't inations will be opened at each ers grasp at any straw in an at­ know what penalty pay for pen­ Branch meeting tonight, and NMU President Curran in his beginning in New York on Sep­ attempts to rid the NMU of com­ tember 22. tempt to offset the many SIU alty work means! also at the regular branch meet­ munist domination. The members of the Trial Com­ gains. Sign an SIU pledge card now. ings on September 24th and a •When Curran successfully mittee appointed so far are Rob­ These indivduals have tried When your ship votes, be sure to resolution will be presented at every trick in the book, and even register your vote for an SIU tonight's meeting in each branch. ousted former Vice-President Joe ert Crawford, Charles Monroe, Stack, the commies were able to Neal Hanley, David Drummond, invented a few new ones. Desper­ contract and SIU conditions. appoint three of the five Trial and Wallace Walker, all antiate open shop operators will stop That's the only way to throw N'egotiations Committee members. Chester communists. at nothing to prevent the Lakes off the chains of LCA slavery! The Negotiating Committee seamen from choosing the SIU for the Union will meet with the as their union. Isthmian Steamship Company on Take a look at the record, just September 22nd to begin negot­ recently. Poison pen letters have iating on the general and work­ been circulated. Filthy, lying The complete fight to get The membership of Ihe Seafarers Internalional Union has ing rules. and "anonymous" propaganda Isthmian signed to an SIU consistently reaffirmed its position that gear-grabbers can't be has been sent through the mails, The Isthmian working rules contract is not yet over. We good Union men. Any individual who stoops to pilfering gear and showered around the Lakes are still in existence and will won the major part of the in large quantities. Who is pay­ remain so until such time as the such as coffbe percolators, linens,, etc., which are placed aboard battle when we got them to ing for this nazi-type propaganda? negotiations have been complet­ SIU-contracted ships for the convenience of all hands, is, above agree to the Union Hiring A certain moribund and dying ed. There is no doubt that the all, guilty of a malicious disregard of his shipmates* welfare. Hall and Rotary Shipping, outfit known as the Lake Sailors Negotiating Committee will run but the working rulds still Crew conveniences on most SIU ships today are not there Union unaffiliated (LSU) sud­ into quite a bit of trouble, in­ have to be negotiated. by accident. They are there because of the Union's successfullydenly becomes rich enough to asmuch as the Isthmian Steam­ fought struggles to bring greater benefits and comforts and to So, when Isthmian jobs mail slick propaganda to every ship Company has always dic­ provide decent conditions for the membership while'out at sea. appear on the board, be sure unorganized ship on the Lakes. tated its policy to employees to accept them. These hard-won conveniences are for the benefit of ALL Even though the envelopes aboard their ships. The more Seafarers on the HANDS. They ARE NOT to be appropriated by any individual bore the LSU name, they were However, the Union has been ships, the better the work­ for his own personal use. Violators of the membership's wel­ distributed to the crewmembers, able to beat the Isthmian Steam­ ing rules will be. Do your fare will be dealt with in accordance with the firm stand taken unlike SIU material which is ship Company on all issues up part. repeatedly by Seafarers in all ports. often destroyed before the sea­ to now, and has no intention of men can read it! settling for general or working Curran Pulls Sleeper Play In Battle For Power In NMU Ship Isthmian Gear-Grabbers Hurt Union �Friday. September 12. 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Five. Marymar Was Hungry Ship—^Not Now ^ALMAR Steamship Company, the only company contracted to the SIU which has not extended its agreement, ran headlong into Union solidarity last week aboard the SS Marymar. The ship loaded lumber on the West Coast and came east to discharge cargo in the Port of New •York. Not more than a few days out, the problems started. Between the overbearing actions of the First Mate, and the undersufficiency of food, there was plenty to gripe about. The First had a very warm feeling for the com­ pany—so warm in fact that he leaned over back­ ward to prevent overtime being claimed. The Car­ penter, making soundings on Sunday, was only credited with one half hour OT in the morning, and the same amount of time in the PM. This is only one example. But it was the food situation that really carried a full head of steam. At no time during the entire trip were food stores on a par with those carried on other SlU-contracted ships. It was not until the Marymar made New York that the men had a square meal, and they had to go ashore to get a real feed. THE CUPBOARD WAS BARE On the day the ship docked, all that remained in the ice-box was a forlorn ox-tail and a roll of bo­ logna, and those two items had been the only occu­ pants of the ice-box for quite a few days. Under the leadership of the three Delegates, Dusty Rhoades, Deck, Steve Stevens, Stewards, and iThomas Waller, Engine, the crew registered a pro­ test with the company. A delegation also came up to the New York Hall to speak their piece to the Port Officials. Soon after that, the crew got action. Early Sat­ urday, September 6, the day after the ship docked, a LOG reporter went down to the ship with SIU Pa­ trolman Jerry Lichtman and MM&P Patrolman Louis Fischman. By that time the larder had been .well stocked, and the company had promised to see to it that the same thing didn't occur again. As for the Mate, a talk with his Patrolman and the SIU representative showed him the error of his ways, and there is no doubt that he will live up to the letter of the SIU contract from now on in. Altogether a fine victory for the SIU, and the militant crew of the Marymar. Here's a picture of the ice-box the day after the company was warned to get supplies on board ship. Members of the crew said they were sorry the photographer hadn't gotten there a day sooner so that he could have taken a. picture of the lone ox-tail that had the entire box to itself. These men changed the Marymar from a hun ;ry ship into a good feeding ship. During Ihe course of a two months trip, the company, Caltnar, sent very little solid eating to the vessel, and the crew subsisted on the sort of vittles that were the sailors lot 25 years ego. But when the Marymar hit New York, these men went into ac ion, and a full pantry v/es supplied. Left to right. Jack Greenhaw; Steve Stevens. Stewards Delega'e; Dusty Rhoades, Deck Delegate; Pete Zagraniczny, and Thomas Carbines. Engine Delegate Thomas Waller was not present for the picture. The Stewards Department knew what to do with food—when they had any to cook. But Calmar kept the ship hungry and the Steward became tired looking at the same ox-tail hanging up in the ice-box. Left to right, B. L. Hamm, Steward; W. Vickers, First Cook; and C. H. Stevenson, Sec­ ond Cook. There was plenty on the menu the day the LOG photographer came down to the Marymar to take pictures, but previously the crew had to live on very little. It shows that crew action, back- ' ed up by a militant Union, can gain decent .conditions even from a hard-hearted company liko I Calmar. �TEE SEAFARERS Page Six LOG Friday, September 12, 1947 Taft-Hartley Act Will Harai Capital, As Well As Trade Unions By EDDIE HIGDON PHILADELPHIA — I see by to $1.00 per-pound, eggs to $1.00 the newspapers that a well- a dozen, and that meat would known Florida legislator has • rise even higher than it is now. come out flatly for the repeal of, During the war these prices prethe Taft-Hartley Law. This is' vailed but wages and overtime really something because the ^ amounted to a sizeable sum each legislator in question comes from week. a state that has on its statute [ Now, however, wages are book many laws unfriendly to about half what they were for Silence this week from the the average worker, so if foods the labor movement. Branch Agents of the follow­ The Senator goes on to state are going to be priced at war­ ing ports: that the T-H Act is vicious and time levels and wages are cut is intended to destroy organized: in half, where does labor come CLEVELAND labor, and that if this feat is off in this deal. DULUTH accomplished our entire internal I wonder whether the news­ structure may crumble. JACKSONVILLE papers will see this injustice and In the opinion of this writer play it up, or will they further MOBILE we must have labor if the cap­ spank labor for going on strike MONTREAL italist system is to exist. So, if in order to, in a small way, keep NORFOLK the T-H Law is intended to des­ pace with the rising cost-of-liv­ SAN JUAN troy labor, which it is, then cap­ ing? ital will also suffer. SAVANNAH After the last war labor unions Speaking of the Taft-Hartley were slowly ground down. The TOLEDO Act, we had a man in our midst capitalist-made depression came who betrayed one of the prin­ along and caught labor at too The deadline for port re­ ports, monies due, etc., is ciples of organized labor by low an ebb to fight for its rights. working behind a picketline. the Monday preceeding pub-, Wake up labor, this must not This character was fined $200 lication. While every effort happen again. Before the Taftfor his offense and then he was will be made to use in the Hartley Act beats us once again allowed to ship out as a Bosun. current issue material re­ into submission, let us rear up Right away he started brownceived after that date, space on our hind legs and together nosing with the Mate, and when commitments generally do with all other labor unions fight the crew warned him, he re­ not permit us to do so. for the repeal of the vicious fused to take the hint. Finally "slave labor" law. the crew voted him off the ship, and then the donkey flatly re­ fused to obey the mandate of his shipmates and stated that the Taft-Hartley law protected By HERBERT JANSEN three times that number were him. milling around on the outside CHICAGO — With shipping This whole incident goes to trying to get in for the Labor show that the law is detrimental, fair during the past week, we Day celebration. and encourages anti-union char­ shipped 11 Firemen, 2 CoalpassAnti-labor groups throughout acters to take advantage of con­ ers, 2 Oilers, 2 Wheelsmen, 7 ditions and wages won by labor ABs, 7 Ordinaries, 3 Second the country were shown that the men and Women who belong to without accepting any respon­ Cooks and 2 Porters. sibility. j SS City of Grand Rapids end- the AFL are up in arms over I heard a radio commentator her season Labor Day, and the anti-labor acts of Congress state that butter would go up. virill go into the shipyard for and the boss-paid Washington some needed repairs. After a bureaucrats who are trying to some ten days or so in the yard, cram labor's freedom down our she will head for her winter throats. berth at Benton Harbor. AFL President William Green The Grand Rapids had a good made a militant speech which season this year, carrying many was so well received by the thousands of excursionists from crowded assembly that their en­ By ALEX McLEAN the Chicago area to the sunny thusiastic roars must have made BUFFALO — Now that an­ bathing beaches on the shores the anti-labor stooges cringe in other passenger season on the of Lake Michigan. This has been a their holes. Great Lakes has drawn to a favorite jaunt of many ChicagoPresident Green wafned these close, the waterfront puts on its ans for years. individuals that they would be Another ship paying her last blazing fall colors and the grain elevators start in real earnest seasonal visit to the Windy City to store away the many millions was the D & C cruise ship. City of Cleveland III. of bushels of grain. Shipping should take a turn' She left here on her way to for the better, especially for j Detroit, where the C III berths rated men, with the arrival of for the-winter months along with the grain fleet. The freighter the other D & C passenger ships. Georgian Bay's SS North formerly known as the Sonoma has been renamed the Fred L. American is scheduled to keep Hewitt and is now opei'ated by | on the go until Sept. 22, and the T. Browning Steamship Com- she will then be used as a hotel until the 26th. After that, the pany. Organizing in this port has North heads for Holland, Michibeen well accepted by the major- ! gan, where she lays up with the ity of unorganized men. Hardly South American and the Alabetter off to go to some desert a day passes, Sunday included, bama. Incidentally, the SS Alabama island and forget that they had that some Lakes seaman does not call at the Hall, for LOGS has not been in operation for ever tried to push the American several years, but rumor has it workei's around. and literatui-e. Our organizing campaign went that .she will be remodelled this He also emphasized that the along very smoothly this seaso.!;, Winter and put on an all-round AFL today is better prepared and we have made fine progress. Lakes cruise next year. than ever before to back up During the week, outside of their warnings to any politicians Next season should be even the regulars, we had the Midland who think they can crack whips better. Brother Sidney Cunningham, ship, SS John W. Davin. She, over union men and women, Oiler aboard the motor ship I loaded grain for Buffalo. and try to make us take what­ Richard J. Barnes, fell in the I ever they dish out to us. LABOR DAY 'hold on August 29 and is now WILL WAKE UP in a serious condition in the Chicago's Labor Day witnessed Buffalo Marine Hospital. one of the largest and most im­ These phony politicians, who Any of his former shipmates pressive crowds ever gathgfed promised labor that they would knowing the addresses of his in one spot. It was held in protect the rights of all people, relatives please communicate Soldiers Field, with the stands will wake up when they see the with the Marine Hospital or the filled to capacity, and they hold might of labor aroused to a Buffalo Agent. almost 125,000. Approxiri^ately fever pitch over their infamous Shipping Picks Up In Baltimore, NO NEWS?? Prospects Look Good For Future By WILLIAM RENTZ BALTIMORE — After being on the slow bell for a few weeks, shipping finally took a turn for the better. We paid off a num­ ber of ships last week, and also signed on quite a few. From here on, both shipping and business should be okay, and that means plenty of jobs on the board. We had some beefs on the ships which paid off, but they were all settled right on board, and to the satisfaction of the men involved. Some of the gripes that come up arc just chicken, but some are really legitimate, and we go to town on the complaints, squar­ ing them away before they get out of hand. The main topic of conversa­ tion down here is the Taft- Season Closing For Great Lakes Passenger Ships Lakes Seamen Go For Seafarers t acts. An aroused AFL, some eight million strong at the polls, should wake these phonies up. On the organizational front, the response to the SIU on the Lakes is remaining strong. Des­ pite all attempts of the shipown­ ers with their poison pen prop­ aganda and lies. Lakes seamen are holding out for SIU contracts which bring SIU representation; job security, wages and condi­ tions. Even the delays of Taft-Hart­ ley red tape is not slowing up the momentum of the Lakes swing to the SIU. Seamen on seven Lakes fleets — Hanna, Wilson, Schneider, Shenango, Kinsman, Tomlinson and Nichol­ son (Ecorse-SS Mataafa) are waiting patiently for NLRB elections. Hartley Law. I guess it's the safne way in the other ports, too. The men just can't seem to realize that a Congress which is supposed to represent the people could pass such a bill against the working man. Some of the men refer to it as the Taft-Heartless Act, and that's as good a description as I've ever heard. We sure hope that the law will be repealed, because as long as it is in ef­ fect, all labor is in danger. STRIKE NEWS The Bethlehem steel workers and the shipyard workers are still out on strike, and we are respecting their picketlines. No one has any idea as to when these strikes will be settled, but we hope that the men win soon. With Isthmian in the bag, the membership is wondering what company is next on the list. Any organizing campaign that the Union starts on now will have the fullest cooperation, be­ cause the guys who stood back and watched during the Isth­ mian drive are no longer offi­ cials. The gashounds, who up until recently were giving us such a bad time, have now quieted down and seldom are heard from. I want to close with another warning to the men who refuse to accept assignments to ships, preferring to let them sail shorthanded. The companies won't stand for that, and it makes it tough on the Negotiating com­ mittee when new contracts come up. Cooperate by accepting jobs, even if the ship is not a de luxe scow. Once aboard, a militant guy can do a great deal towards cleaning up a rustbucket. Port Of Spain Representation Signed by all the members of the crew, the Alcoa Cavalier has gone on record to instruct the Secretary-Treasurer to assign a Union representative to the Port of Spain so as to take care of Union business in that port. Many ships contracted to the Seafarers International Union hit Port of Spain, and while no payoffs or sign-ons take place there, still and all there is a need for Union representation. Members of the Cavalier crew visited six ships which were tied up in the port, as well as the men who were in the hos­ pital. The overwhelming majority went on record for a Union representative, and in all 583 members favored the resolution which was introduced and passed by the Cavalier crew. The text jof the resolution is as follows: WHEREAS: The crew of the Alcoa Cavalier, through the medium of the Ship's Delegate, and through personal con­ tact has visited a large number of ships on the bauxite shuttle, and in addition has contacted hosptals, etc., ashore, and further, WHEREAS: This resolution represents the unanimous opinion of 583 SIU crew members on ships as follows: the Alcoa -Planter, the Diamond Hitch, the Snake Head, the Hunter, the Charles McDonugh, and the Hawser Eye, in the Port of Spain, Trinidad, on August 25; 1947, and further, WHEREAS: This resolution has been urged through motions, etc., ever since the SIU has had Alcoa under contract, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED: That the Secretary-Treasurer of the SIU stand instructed to immediately assign a qualified Union business representative there. L.OiV., �THE Friday. Seplember 12.- 1947 SEAFARERS LOG Page Sevea LIFE ON TEE GREAT LAKES New York's Problem Child Making MA.(N1 ATRAit No Headway Against Seafarers |k<N(tRV6vS IN Tfie By JOE ALGINA NEW YORK — This time of have all heard about the victory year is sometimes referred to as over the company and they show the "dog days." It is the time of their appreciation when the Pa­ year when on the rivers and trolman comes aboard by almost streams in the back country a throwing their arms around him. greenish scum coats the water Some of the Patrolmen feel and makes it impossible to swim like they are greeting long lost or fish. relatives by the demonstration There is no greenish scum on of affection given. the water around here but these Most of the Isthmian ships paid are the "dog days" just the same. off in good shape and so far One of the indications comes haven't given the Patrolmen the from our problem child, the Port headaches they expected. Steward for the Alcoa Steam­ Here is something I'd like to ship Company. He is up to his bring to the attention of Permitold tricks once more and, of men: After you- have been em­ course, it involves the Alcoa Ca­ ployed aboard a ship for 60 days valier. you are required by the Union He is at his old dodge of try­ rules to pay up your permit in ing to run his white-haired boys full. Some Permitmen are under the onto the Cavalier by sending impression that they have six them to the SIU for berths. He month in which to clear up this does this even though he knows ; matter, but such is not the case. men are available here for all To insure keeping in good jobs needed. standing and to get yourself a NEEDS WATCHING book in the Union, it is the smart­ est thing to pay up the permit as We have to watch this bird soon as you can. closely as he tries to ignore the /rg- 'I; Port Of Boston Gets Calls For Replacements By JOHN MOGAN BOSTON —Shipping and busi­ ness continued good for the past week in this area. In the tanker field we . had two payoffs, the SS Coalinga Hills and the SS Tonto, where virtually all hands piled off; and the SS Fort Frederica in transit, which called for about ten replacements. Also paying off during the week was the SS Madaket, and since nearly everybody in the Engine and Deck Departments got fired, this scow, on which there is generally no turnover in jobs, will take on about 20 men before sailing. The SS Edward Janeway sign­ ed^ on this week and sailed for Hamburg with a load of grain. Among the Isthmians to hit town this week were the SS Carleton Victory, the SS James Trask, and the SS Cape San Diego, which is still around here, and, at this writing looks at though it will b^ a few days yet before she gets away. ' It was one of those bad weeks for the Patrolmen. The gang on the Madaket came in with all kinds of beefs about the Skipper, who also had some serious beefs regarding his Deck Department. It was without doubt one of the messiest affairs ever to hit here. Nevertheless, everything was settled satisfactorily, though the lawyers for Waterman are continuing their investigation on behalf of the company. Then came the Tonto, which paid off in Portland, with a bun­ dle of disputed overtime in the Stewards and Engine Depart­ ments. And going back over in­ dividual overtime sheets for a period of better than four months is a time-consuming job. But all of it was squared away to everybody's satisfaction. SUMMER OVER Business and shipping for next week do not appear too promis­ ing at this time; but then one can never predict with any ac­ curacy what will develop within forty-eight hours. The summer boats folded for the season on Sunday, September 7, and a good many hands will be available for off-shore jobs. The Yarmouth also will be fin­ ishing her Nova Scotia run very shortly, so that in all likelihood we will be able to start vaca­ tions for the officials come the middle of the month. Brother Earl Overturf, SUP 2340, will be a patient at the Brighton Marine Hospital for a couple of months and would like to hear from his friends and shipmates. ' Earl was the victim of a most unusual accideht recently. It seems that, on paying off the Coalinga Hills, several of the boys from the West Coast de­ cided to drive back as passen­ gers with Brother Overturf, who brought a car for the purpose. Gear and passengers were loaded into the car and the long trip was underway. About, five blocks and three minutes later. Brother Overturf stuck his left arm out the window to signal a left turn and a truck coming from the opposite direction whacked the out thrust arm. Earl winds up in the hospital breaking it in a couple of places with his arm in an impressive looking cast — and his newlybought car in storage. When yoii write, fellows, try to resist the corny gag about "how long is Overturf's arm." The men in Boston are not forgetful of the Brothers in the Hospital. This was proven once again this week when the SS Madaket paid off and the Engine Department collected $20.00, the Deck Gang $18.00, and the Stew­ ards gave $9.85. Brother J. J. Miller made an individual do­ nation of $2.00 when he came into the HaU. Union agreement and shipping LAID OFF CREWS rules. That is, he will ignore Another word of advice, this them if they don't suit him, but if they happen to coincide with time to crews being laid off what he wants, then he follows while the ship is being repaired the provisions laid down. One of his sturfts ^is to go WHAT ANN 1 BiP aboard the ship and promote men foRTHlS A-B.'S even though the men are not JOB ? capable of the new jobs and do not have the ratings. This, of course, is a violation of the shipping rules and it usually means an argument with the Pa­ trolman covering the ship. He gets straightened out time after time, but he still tries to pull a fast one every once in awhile. Most of the men on the Cava­ lier are wise to this character or out of service for any reason: and view his actions with sus­ When you are laid off a ship picion. He is sure bucking for and you wish to rejoin the ship favor from the company, but so when it resumes service, make far he has nothing to report in sure you register for that ship his dealings with the SIU. and have the name of the ship In the Port of New York as a put on your shipping card. whole, shipping and business is This way you are guaranteed veiy good. The boom is continu­ a return ticket to your berth. ing in fine style with an abun­ I feel like Fm giving out with dance of jobs available. a lecture, but there is one more At the moment the port is especially short of rated men in I item which I think warrants a the Deck and Engine Depart­ word of comment. On ships car­ rying passengers, occasionally a ments. ship will come in and the crew This week we had quiie a few will shout for the scalp of the good payoffs. The Robin LockSteward. sley and Sherwood were in this His crime, it seems, was to week and paid off in fine style. serve the passengers something Patrolmen Goffin and Drawdy fancy once or twice during the handled the payoffs and reported voyage, and the crew didn't get everything shipshape aboard in on it. This is not a legitimate these ships. beef, as these people are passen­ Other good ships in port were the Yaka, Waterman; Hurley, gers and are entitled to a few South Atlantic, and Evangeline, frills once in awhile. It helps the Stewards Depart­ Eastern. The Hurley had several Permitmen aboard who freeload- ment get a few extra tips from ed thinking they were wise guys, the passengers and in the long but they came to their senses run really works no hardship on when they were told that free- the crew. loading and enjoying Union con­ As long as the crew eats the ditions without helping the Un­ same as topside, and there is no ion was not the way unions work. two pot system among the li­ censed or unlicensed personnel, NOT UNION TIMBER this sort of beef holds as much Their tripcards were taken water as a sieve. from them as they showed them­ selves as not being the caliber of men deserving books in the SIU. The Evangeline, after paying Check the slop chest be> off, went into the shipyard fore your boat sails. Make where she will remain for four sure that the slop chest con­ weeks, after which she'll resume tains an adequate supply of cruise operations to the south. all the things you are liable Isthmian ships, too, hit port to need. If it doesn't, call the this week and it is becoming the Union Hall immediately. same story on them all. They Check It - But Good �• -7^ THE SEAFARERS Page Eight Brothers See Urgent Need For Better New Orleans Hall LOG TELLING THEIR STORY Describing the present facil­ New Orleans now, they added, ities of the New Orleans Hall as the turnout for meetings gen­ "entirely inadequate to handle erally amounts to about 300 the rapidly increasing flow of men, a number far beyond the business," Gulf area Seafarers capacity of the present accomo­ Johnny Ferdensky and Paul dations. Fernandez this week stressed an OVERCROWDED urgent need for swift action in "The meetings are hot and procuring new and more suit­ overcrowded," Ferdensky said, able quarters to permit the "and it's geting hard to get all Union to keep pace with its the guys out for the meetings physical growth in that port. under those conditions." The two men visited the LOG The two Seafarers were en­ office on Tuesday, when their thusiastic over a building which Johnny Ferdensky and Paul Fernandez in the LOG office. vessel, the SS Seatrain Texas, is available right in the heart of docked in New York. The pur­ the district where several Amer­ pose of their visit, they explain­ ican Federation of Labor unions ed, was to make known the have their headquarters. views' of practically every Sea­ By SONNY SIMMONS Located at Bienville and Charfarer in the Gulf, where the TAMPA — We're still offer­ this week. With a full crew of needs of the New Orleans Hall tres Streets, around the corner from the present Union Hall, ing jobs of all descriptions to Bookmembers, the Coral Sea for enlarged facilities are widely the available quarters are air- rated men in this port, with an should make a good trip. recognized. conditioned throughout and are especially heavy demand for ASSEMBLED FINE CREW SPEAK FOR ALL very spacious, according to the Black Gang men. "It's safe to say we speak for Gulf Brothers. The shortage' of Black Gang Chances are that there will almost every man in the Gulf men is due to the need for sev­ be no performing or gas-hound­ Ferdensky added that if the area," said Ferdensky, who is Hall is purchased. New Orleans eral men for the SS Florida. ing during the trip, as the crew better known to many of his could boast of having "practic­ Any man sailing ,in the Black appears to me to be one of the shipmates as Johnny Thomas. ally every convenience possessed Gang can have a job on the finest assembled in this Port in "Although opinion in the Gulf by the New York Branch Hall." Florida for the asking, as these a long time. is just about unanimous in favor jobs are going begging in this The agents for the Coral Sea BRIGHT FUTURE of quick action in getting better port. Steamship Company are also Holding that New Orleans will quarters," the two Seafarers Most of the men on the Florida agents for ships of other com­ pointed out, and the membership soon emerge as one of the most ride her for a few trips and pile panies contracted to the various in every port has concurred in important ports in the nation off. With cold weather soon to unions. the resolution calling for pur­ and consequently in the SIU, come, we shouldn't have our By displaying a fine crew on chase of a new Hall for New Ferdensky said that several ships present difficulty in keeping a this trip we will show them that Orleans, we want to feel that are now being built that will full crew aboard. sailing the ships and bringing every member is fully familiar sail from the Crescent City. She makes a fine winter home them, back in fine style is an "And with Isthmian in the when the icy winds are swirl­ with the situation down there." important thing to us as a Union. Some men may not realize that fold, business and shipping in ing around the northern ports. it is almost impossible for the New Orleans is going to be The Coral Sea Steamship Com­ Most of the men who were on New Orleans Branch to carry on pretty active," Ferdensky said, the beach last week have grab­ pany intends to operate ten its normal functions, Ferdensky adding that with a highly active bed ships so we have a different ships in the near future, so we port the Union must be equipped bunch of Seafarers on the beach should be in a position soon to and Fernandez agreed. It is impossible for aU mem­ with physical facilities that can now. send quite a few crews out to bers to get into-the building to adequately handle the port's The crew of the Coral Sea is their ships. business and service the mem­ still waiting around and they attend meetings. * One of the additions is due As things are shaping up in! bership. expect to shove off some time in this week. She will undergo Ail Kinds Of Jobs, Reports Tampa Honor Roll Of Isthmian Strike E. Landry 10.00 G. Ruttloss 10.00 D. Wood 10.00 W. O. Blue 10.00 S. Shewckyk -10.00 I. Romero 10.00 A. J. Kummerer 10.00 F. Mains 10.00 J. Band 10.00 H. Van Hecke 10.00 Ames Victory $32.00 Horace See 26.52 Peter Helms 18.00 Yarmouth (Deck) 27.00 Yarrnouth (St.) 85.00 Nantasket (Deck) 7.00 Pilgrim Belle 22.00 Cape San Diego 18.00 Yarmouth (Eng.) 18.00 . . W. W. Whitford 2.00 E. Janewam (Dk.) 15.00 G. W. Rowe $20.00 L. Anderson 5.00 J. Whitcomb 5.00 C. Henkel 5.00 R. Garber 10.00 A. Schafer 10.00 R. Decanpo 5.00 R. Williams 5.00 G. Groves 5.00 A. Kristoffersen 5.00 M. Szcupakuwiez 5.00 F. Cormack 5.00 A. Simkanin 5.00 A. De Rock 5.00 J. Bissaro 10.00 M. Jimenz 5.00 C. Rasmissen 10.00 W. Thomason 5.00 W. Thomas 5.00 J, Reed 5.00 W. Olsen _ 5.00 SS John P. Harris 152 SS Marine Jumper 103 M. Gladis 5.00 J. Albright 5.00 Peterson 5.00 E. H. Narovich 10.00 C. B. Bornhurst 10.00 T. R. Williams 10.00 R. E. Schwind 10.00 T. Birk 10.00 C. H. Alexander 5.00 Le Roy Frazier 5.00 M. J. Whittall 10.00 Wm. Snow 10.00 Chas. Carter 10.00 J. T. Skuba 5.00 A. Bruno 5.00 F. Onaka 10.00 F. Wilkelm 5.00 R. Calburn 5.00 M. Omoto 5.00 G. MacGregar 5.00 J. Jordan 10.00 R. Eisengraeber 2.00 R. Evans 2.00 D. Varijo 10.00 F. Allen 10.00 C. Sanderson 10.00 Geiger 10.00 C. Lancaster 10.00 N. Chastain 15.00 J. Nyman 5.00 A. Lindsay 20.00 A. Hansen 5,00 J. Frampton 10.00 R. Jones 8.00 R. Olquin 5.00 L. Maire . 5.00 L. Sallinen 5.00 T. Longum 5.00 J. Muncy 5.00 P. Karlsson 2.00 T. Donovon 2.00 A. Berg 5.00 L. Henderson 5.00 L. Overold 5.00 ANDREW JACKSON A. Antoniou 20.00 R. E. Reid 20.00 W. M. McNiel 20.00 F. B. Larsson 20.00 D. Zwicker 20.00 K. Nixon 20.00 T. J. Welsh 20.00 R. T. Dineen 20.00 C. R. Jackson 20.00 J. J. Palmer 30.00 G. Street 20.00 J. C. Irving 25.00 W. G. Hendricks 20.00 T. Bell 20.00 H. Palma 20.00 T. Filipaw 20.00 F. H. Post 30.00 R. B. Brown, Jr. 20.00 P. DiAnna 20.00 J. L. Faircloth 20.00 C. O. Williams 20.00 P. J. Porter 20.00 L. J. Keyes 20.00 V. Nunico 20.00 H. W. Peters 20.00 A. Cavdra 20.00 P. D. Peralta 20.00 M. Dwyer 20.00 SS FT. STANWIX G. Gjermundsen 5.00 K. W. Kelly 5.00 D. Martenson 5.00 C. E. Carniel 5.00 R. B. Stratton 2.00 J. Kovich 5.00 W. Bowling 2.00 D. Vazquez 5.00 Friday, Seplember 12. 1947 Shipping Holds Good Pace In Marcus Hook By BLACKIE CARDULLO MARCUS HOOK — Shipping has been very good here, and it appears that we will continue to be busy for quite some time to come. We like it that way, with the more business the merrier. There were several tanker payoffs lately, with one in par­ ticular de.serving mention. That was the Great Meadows, Pacific Tankers, with a fine crew and a damn good Skipper on board. But it only takes one bad apple to spoil that v\'hole barrel. The Chief Engineer was a guy strictly from hunger, and he had the whole crew demoralized. He was enough to make a man give up the sea. Wo straightened him out in a hurry, and it will be a long time before he gives an SlU-SUP crew a hard time. Oiganizing goes on down here all the time, and we are always giving out with talk, literature, and LOGS. All three approaches are appreciated by the men who really need representation by the Seafarers. DOUBLE TALK Dan Flintjer, a real oldtimer, has a complaint, and a good one. He ordered a telephone, and everything moved along fine. He got a telephone book with his name in it, he got his first month's bill, so now you ask what his beef is. Well, he never has x-eceived the phone! Over 20 unions in Delaware County are participating in the elections which are coming up. This is the first time such action repairs here and then be turned has been taken, and we are real­ over for operations. ly out to give a bad time to the characters who backed Taft and PHONY REELECTED Hartley. Organized Labor took a shell­ Those guys who forced through acking at the polls this week in the Taft-Hartley Law have a Tampa. Present Mayor Hixon, sweet I'acket. They now tour .the. a 14 caret phony, was reelected. country, explaining the new law This isn't good news for labor as at $1000 a speech. Without being Hixon and his anti-labor band paid one thousand iron men I can will be in the driver's seat for explain the act in two wordsanother four years. It Stinks! C. R. Hullum 5.00 SS FRANCES E. V. Erazo 5.00 E. F. Martinez 5.00 P. Jimenez 5.00 J. Ayala 5.00 F. Hernandez 2.00 A. L. Rios 5.00 R. Kienost 5.00 D. Butts 5.00 By MAURICE DOLE P. Soto . 5.00 M. Rodriguiz 5.00 ASHTABULA—Now that even Now, on the first of September, A. Santiago 5.00 , the open shop LCA operators the LCA comes out with the J. Colon 5.00 I have accepted the forty hour very same thing that they laugh­ L. Labrador. 5.00 week principle on the Lakes, ed at the SIU about. Even the M. Lloret 5.00 let's pause for a moment and phony LSU on the ClevelandI. Gonzales 5.00 look back a year to what has Cliffs ships will have to agree C. Royfuse 5.00 actually happened on the Great to the forty hour week — but it R. Marrientos 3.00 Lakes during this period. took the militant actions and E. Santiago 5.00 Just a little over a year ago, fighting of the SIU to win all L. L. Rivera 5.00 this. S. Carbone 5.00 we had the 56-hour work-week at straight time. Now we have Any time the LCA gives the J. Nazario 5.00 time-and-one-half for all over unorganized Lakes seamen sail­ J. Prats 5.00 ing their ships something for J. M. Vega 5.00 eight hours in one day and over nothing, it means that once forty hours in one week. How F. F. Boyxon 5.00 did this come about? again the SIU has forced them J. Delgado 5.00 As usual, the SIU led the par­ into meeting SIU gains. A. Ortiz . 5.00 It takes the fighting SIU to A. Ferrara 5.00 ade and the others, including the LCA, followed suit. Back in make the Lake Carriers come D. Darrigo 5.00 E. Lugo 5.00 May, they laughed when the SIU across every time, even if they F. Camacho 3.00 first gained the forty-hour week are two months late! Here's a parting word. Thjg B. Dliyeias 5.00 on what some individuals refer­ F. S. Bose 5.00 red to as a "few lousy sand- backbone of our Union is the R. Basahe 5.00 boats." However, that was the shipboard meeting. Holding these V. Tanley 2.00 straw that broke the camels meetings makes it easiel" to iron back. out our beefs, educate the new SS GIBSON In quick succession. Midland young seamen, and keep the C. A. Nickenson 5.00 G. C. Maddox 5.00 agreed to the forty hour week SIU the same strong militant J. J. Badeck 5.00 retroactive to July 1. So did union that it has. always been. C. Primak 5.00 Browning, McCarthy and other For a strong SIU, hold those meetings! J. A. Nichols 5.00 SIU operators. SIU Leads Parade On The Lakes �Friday, Seplember 12, 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Nin* ConneautCrew Awaits Seafarers Contract ..iiiJyll: ytg These lads say that, like the rest of the crew, they are im­ patient for the company to sign a Seafarers contract. The SIU recently won this fleet in a bargaining election, and contract negotiations are already under way. Left to right, an unidenti­ fied crewmember; Curly Rottaris, who played a big role in or­ ganizing the company; Harry Oliver; and Howard Kramer. The Red Indian displayed on the smokest ck of the SS Conneaut is a familiar sight whereever the Wyandotte ships go. This company w .s one the first to be organized by the SIU dur­ ing the organizing campaign of this season, and In the bargaining election conducted by the Na­ tional Labor Relations Board, the Seafarers gain d an overwhelming majority of the votes. Right now the Union and the company are engaged in c nlract negotiations, and all members of the crew are eagerly awaiting the outcome of the sessions. J, i J. A fs^vorite rendezvous for many of the men who sail on Wyandotte ships is the Royal Ba.r, located in Wyandotte. Pic­ tured here are some seamen off the Conneaut quaffing a few glasses of you-know-what to quench their thirst. Even drink­ ing beer is more fun when a man has the protection of a Union contract, and that's what these men want. They welcom­ ed the SIU with open arms when the organizng drive start­ ed, they voted SIU in the bar­ gaining election, and now they are looking forward to the day when they will be covered by a Seafarers agreement—the best in the business. X X % -•."B J J �Page Ten THE SEAFARERS Friday, September 12, 194V LOG SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS Taft-Hartley Act Blasted By Mills Men Though it has been on the statute books for over two months, the Taft-Hartley Act is far from being forgotten by SIU members. Aboard the ships it is still a very important part of the shipboard meetings and is the cause of much discussion. Aboard the Enos Mills, Bull Line, the Taft-Hartley Act was roundly denounced at a ship­ board meeting on August 10th. Under Education, Crewmember Robert Larsen spoke on the Act and led the discussion which fol­ lowed. In his discussion, Larsen ex­ plained the threat the Law poses to the closed shop and what the effect of the law will be when all of its provisions take effect. The position of the SIU-SUP toward the T-H Act was read from the SEAFARERS LOG with discus­ sion and comment coming from most of the members present. COMBINED OPERATION BERTHS THE ARTHUR M. HULBERT At the left a puffing tug eases the Hulbert along its way in the Port of Baltimore when she docked there recently. Along the rail in the rear Sea­ farers watch the tug's efforts with interest. At the right, safely berthed and sporting a new coat of paint the Hulbert rests await­ ing to take on cargo. Cavalier Crew Lends Hand To Seamen On Bauxite Run RESOLUTION DRAWN Following the discussion a mo­ tion was. carried that an emer­ gency meeting be held two days later to draw up a resolution to be sent to the headquarters of Crewmember D. M. Carpenter clearing the cargo gear while the SIU. The resolution would his shipmates top the booms. Brother Eldon "Bill" Ray, who pertain to SIU-SUP joint action submitted the photos to the LOG, said that the ship is now on the Taft-Hartley Act. heading for Venezuela with general cargo and passengers. Brothers Kreutz, A. Larson, R. Larsen and Suall were elected to draw up the resolution. At the special meeting held later, the following resolution on the Taft-Hartley Act was passed unanimously by the crew of the Enos A. Mills: FRANK E. SPENCER. Aug. 2 conducted himself in a very sat­ WHEREAS the presence of the — Chairman E. Hodge; Secretary isfactory and commendable man­ Taft-Hartley Law on the J. Valencia. Delegates reported ner was recommended for Union Statute books is an ever pres­ on the number of book men in membership. Crew registered ent menace to the very exis­ their departments. New Busi­ protest over short supplies claim­ tence of the American labor ness: Motion carried that all ing that for iDast seven months movement, and showers and heads be repaired. Steward has allowed ship to sail WHEREAS the Seafarers Inter­ Motion carried to have ship short of stores. Good and Wel­ national Union, AFL, in par­ fumigated. Word of thanks given fare: Agreement that all quar­ ticular is threatened with the to all Departmental Delegates ters will be left in clean condit­ loss of the Union Hiring Hall for their cooperation. Good and ion at the payoff. List of neces­ and rotary shipping because Welfare: Motion carried that sary repairs made and approved of the provision of the law holiday meal for Friday be serv­ by crew. which prohibits the closed ed on Thursday. Suggestion that ^ » shop, and JOHN B. WATERMAN. July messhall be cleaned and painted. WHEREAS the AFL has spent 21 — Chairman A. LaVoie; Secenormous sums of money in an relary C. R. Lockwood. Deck attempt to influence the law­ and Stewards Delegates reported makers, to no avail whatever, no beefs. Engine Delegate and brought up beef about delayed sailing time and Wipers cleaning WHEREAS the time has arrived fuel oil off deck. New Business: where the entire rank and file X a, t Too much help hired in Shanghai and leadership ofsAmerican la­ bor are sufficiently aroused as SOLOMON JUNEAU, July 20 by Stewards Department. Good to be willing to take definite — Chairman B. W. Hansen; Sec­ and Welfare: Lockwood suggest­ action against this finky law retary Richard Davis. Delegates ed that cooks try to tenderize THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED reported on book members in steaks before cooking. that we, the crew of the Enos their departments. Good and A. Mills, propose to the mem­ Welfare: Steward asked about bership of the SIU to take up lack of juices and variety in the question of the feasibility menu. He replied that it was of a general strike of all or­ necessary to use the fruits on ganized labor, and to this end hand to prevent spoilage. Del­ X X % egates to post list of men from JEAN, July 27 — Chairmain be it each department to clean rec­ L. Torres; Secretary C. Tobias. FURTHER RESOLVED that in reation room. One minute of Delegates reported no beefs. New the event the membership acts silence for brothers lost at sea. Business: Louis Saxitos recom­ favorably on this resolution mended for book with five mem­ XXX our SIU leadership should bers signing his recommendation. WILLIAM COX, June 23 — communicate with all interna­ Education: C. Tobias read the Chairman A. C. Reed; Secretary tional unions on this matter and instruct the SIU delegates L. A. Baldwin. New Business: by-laws and SIU constitution to the coming AFL convention Crewmember Bernard Kelly with emphasis on section dealing to take up the matter there. |taken aboard in Dublin having (Continued <m Page 11) MINUTES OF SIU SHIP MEETINGS DIGESTED FOR EASIER READING The crew of the Alcoa Cava­ lier, self-appointed emissaries of Seafarers good will, have em­ barked on a campaign of contact­ ing all ships, unorganized, for­ eign and SIU contracted, which they meet in their travels through southern waters — so states the front page story of the ship's nev.spaper, "Cavalog." The purpose of the Cavalier men in meeting with the men aboard these ships is to give the men a hand in whatever prob­ lems they may have. As the Alcoa cruise ship spends much of its time in the vicinity of Trinidad, the bulk of their efforts are expended in that port. Pai-ticular attention is paid to those ships working the bauxite shuttle run. The ever increasing number of SIU ships in this vicinity has brought about membership ap­ proval for sending a representa­ tive of the SIU to that port to contact the ships plying the bauxite trade. In the meantime, the Cavalier men are doing what they can to aid other Seafarers in the region. As reported in "Cavalog," on August 31, ships contacted by the crew were the Alcoa Planter, Diamond Hitch, Snake Head, Alcoa Hunter, Charles McDonough. Hawser Eye and AlcoaClipper. dedicated to the shipowners. It runs thus: We all know that we do our job And lest that you should doubt us. Take a tip — grab a ship. And try to sail without us. Between bits of gossip and rib prodding, the Editor of the "Cav­ alog," whose name was not men­ tioned, gave out with a warning to the crew to heed when in St. Thomas, V. I. He cautioned the brothers to count their change when drinking at the "Paper Doll," as several beefs have been registered by crewmembers com­ plaining of being short changed. While in St. Thomas, members of the Deck Department took time off to check on the beef, but nothing concrete could be determined. The final page of the ship's paper devoted an article of ,congratulations to the SIU upon the successful conclusion of the Isth­ mian Strike. The "Cavalog" stat­ ed editorially, "perhaps no single thing yet achieved by any union is more significant than this accompli^liment, and certainly nothing more clearly shows the strength of our Union." The men of the Cavalier make up and distribute the "Cavalog" twice during their run to the south. Once on the downward trip and again while heading homeward. MEET WITH BROTHERS Contact was made with five SIU brothers who were in the Trinidad Hospital. Also two re­ cently discharged members were aided in getting a ship. The Cavalier men also met and talk­ ed to an undetermined number of brothers on the beach in­ cluding several men from the Canadian District of the SIU. In their travels ashore and to the other ships, copies of the SEAFARERS LOG were handed out. The Cavalog reported that "this activity was received with enthusiasm." Other pages of the "Cavalog" reported on "Deck Department Tid-Bits," a page to "Black Gang Notes," while still another was devoted to "Steward Department Sittings." On one page a short poem was printed which, no doubt, was v Note For Writers Carl Cowl, Seafarer who has sold a number of stories for SIU men with writing ability, is still looking for good novels. He feels sure that among the Seafarers are some who can turn out a book the public will go for. Brother Cowl is taking a short trip but will resume his literary marketing when he returns. Meanwhile, he asks that Brothers with book-length material submit their manu­ scripts to him care of the Seafarers Log, 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, -N. Y. Enclose self-addressed, stamp­ ed envelope to insure safe return. �' - Tfrr'-'' il'- THE SEAFARERS Friday, September 12. 1947 LOG Page Eleven Digested Minutes Of SlU Ship Meetings ^3^ (Cont'nuicd from Page 10) with drunk and disorderly con­ duct aboard ship. Engine Patrol­ man to check dangerous places in Engine Room when ship hits States. s. JEFFERSON CITY VICTORY. June 22 — Chairman Ralph DePaola: Secretary James Hoyle. Delegates reported on books and permits in their departments. Repair list made up and approv­ ed. Good and Welfare; Motion carried that a report be sub­ mitted to Patrolman on Chief Cook for his poor conduct 'and unreliability as a Union brother. Motion carried for delegates to inform Purser to post a notice when he is going to put out a draw and have the slopchest open. ROBERT STUART. July 27— Chairman H. E. Perinson; Secre­ tary Walter G. Doyle. Delegates reported on the number of book men in the departments. Good and Welfare: List of repairs made up and approved by those at­ tending the meeting. One min­ ute of silence for brothers lost at sea. check their departments as to the number of book and tripcard men. Motion carried that new mat l,ies.ses be secured in Savannali on deck be fineci, $5.00. XXX KATHRYN. July 20 — Chair­ man Francisco Morciqlio; Secre­ tary Pedro Villanueva. Delegates reported no beefs in their de­ partments. Education: Reading of the preamble to constitution for benefit of new members and tripcarders. Good and Welfare: Each man is to clean the laun­ dry after using it. Repair list made up and approved by crew. Words of praise noted for ex­ cellent Chief Mate aboard the ship. XXX ROBIN GOODFELLOW. July 2 — Chairman Parrot; Secretary H. L. Durbin. Old Business and Delegates reports waived. Motion carried to have delegates see Captain about Electrician's room and if no satisfaction is gained that the ship's officers be in­ vited to an open meeting to thrash out the matter.. Motion by Wallace that the delegates see Chief Engineer about heat during cold spells. NOONDAY, June 15 — Chair­ man H. Workman; Secretary H. Morris. All Departmental Dele­ gates reported everything under control. New Business: Agree­ ment to check and make sure that the slopchest is well sup­ plied with small sized gear. Good and Welfare: Crew asked to conserve water. Cups and dishes to be placed in sink after snacks and to help keep messroom clean. XXX PHILIP SCHUYLER, July 27— Chairman "Star Wells; Secre­ tary J. Craven. Deck and Engine reported no beefs. Engine De­ partment reported shortage of one fireman and one oiler. Men to be procured in Savannah. Motion carried that Delegates YAKA, July 29 — Chairman Smith; Secretary Orlando. Del­ egates reported all running smooth in their departments. New Business: Motion carried that Wiper and OS draw linen for crew. Good and Welfare: Over a dozen needed repairs suggested and put on repair list. One minute of silence for bro­ thers lost at sea. iS S CloTlCES FOR MONEY PUE, RETRO- wAoss, ETC., /VRE PRINTED ON THE BULLETIN BOARD PAGE OPTHE LOG AS SOON AS THEY ARE RE­ CEIVED. KEEP YOUREVES OPEN FOR THe GREEN STUFF YOU HAVE COMING. CUT and SUN By HANK XXX X X % MONARCH OF THE SEAS. July 26 — Chairman F. A. Widegren; Secretary H. M. Troxclair. Delegates reports accepted as read. New Business: Motion car­ ried that Patrolman in New Or­ leans be contacted in reference to gaining new porthole fans for each focsle. Motion by Larson that Delegates contact Patrol­ man in N.O. to have Company install awnings on after poop deck of all ships hitting Puerto Rican run. Education: Several brothers spoke on unionism and what it stands for. not shorts in the messhall. Har­ rison pointed out that each De­ partmental Delegate should make out a repair list for his respective department. Ill GEORGE BIBB, Aug. 4—Chair­ man M. T. Nolan; Secretary L. Laverick. Delegates reported on the number of men in their de­ partments. New Business: Ships Delegate elected. Delegate to see Captain concerning a draw in England. Education: All educa­ tional material was passed out from ship's delegate in ordei' that all might read such material provided in the delegate's kit. Good and Welfare: Passageways to be kept cleaner by not throw­ ing butts out of the foc'sles on the deck. One minute of silence for brothers lost at sea. ,111KEMP P. BATTLE, Aug. 3 — Chairman G. A. Allen; Secre­ tary B. M. Maiulewing. Deck and Engine Departments okay. Stew­ ard Delegate reported 540 extra meals in the store books but the Stewards Department has col­ lected for only 170 extra meals. Man aboard ship to be removed until he clears himself with the Union in the first port hit. ^ COLABEE, Aug. 15 — Chair­ man William A. Volias; Secre­ tary Francis Fuchs. Delegates had nothing to report. New Busi­ ness: Delegates to check store for next crew coming aboard with particular attention to fresh vegetables. Motion carried that galley stove be repaired before signing articles. Agreement to recommeijd Anthony Tierno for a pro-book inasmuch as he sail­ ed Isthmian for four months as an organizer. XXX PHILIP SCHUYLER, Aug. 3 — Chairman M. C. Wells; Sec­ retary J. W. Craven. Delegates reported on the number of book and permitmen in their depart­ ments. New Business: James Babson, elected as ship's dele­ gate. Motion carried that Engine Delegate hold his position and the- ship's delegate aid him when­ ever possible. Education: Brief talk on Union phamplets aboard and the need for new members to read up on them and learn how their union is run. One minute of silence for brothers lost at sea. XXX ROBIN GREY, Aug. 7 — Chairman Robert Pittman; Sec­ retary Jack E. Gervais. Old busi­ ness Minutes of special meeting read. New Business: Deck de­ partment reported things pretty well fouled up. Engine and Stewards Departments reported all running smoothly. Good and Welfare: Driffle suggested that crewmembers wear pants and As it often happens this Cut and Dried column tries to print a few important up-to-date nautical facts mixed with the arrival and departure of Seafaring brothers in New York and elsewhere. We'd rather be 95 per cent serious than to force ourselves to soak XXX this column with some desperate humor. For example, here is someSEATRAIN NEW YORK, Aug. Dispatcher with his assignment card stating he didn't want the 3. — Chairman Carl Cowl; Sec­ thing serious: Two weeks ago a young Seafarer came back to the retary Charles Goldstein. No job because he thought the ship was a tanker and found her to be reports from delegates. James a C-2. This foggy-minded attitude and action wastes a lot of the Stickney elected ship's Delegate Dispatcher's time and work and seriously cheats some Seafarer by acclaimation. Motion carried who wants the job and doesn't care what color the ship is painted, that any man taking and using or how much she needs a paint job, or what port she's heading for crews gear such as towels, bed­ with bags of sawdust. spreads in the Engine Room be XXX brought up on charges. Good Another example: Lots of Seafarer's presume that it's only and Welfare: Men should come natural that they get a lot of overtime every trip—or else the into messhall properly dressed. trip is going to be bad. There's no sense in beefing against the XXX Mates, the Company or the work and other things if it just FLORIDA, Aug. 17—Chairman happens there isn't much overtime in your department. A good John R. Roberts; Secretary Mel trip is one where the ship is always clean, the men do their Stratten. Delegates had nothing work in the right way and all the guys are good shipmates and new to report. New Business: union men rather than overtime-hungry guys with a variety Motion carried to have double of ships on their shoulders—and that feeling in the mind to do_ plug placed in the crew mess so less work than the other guy or to get drunk and then scream toaster and fan can be used at they can't work the next day because they're sick. i.he same time. Motion carried 4. X X to have the three departments Brothel' Jimmy Millican came in about a week and a half ago have departmental meetings to with a mustache on his face—after making a trip to Europe. Good suggest any changes that would health to the other half, Jimmy—and best of luck . . . Bosun Sal benefit us. Education: Oldtimers Volpi just gave us the flash news that he grabbed the 88 J. Dun­ asked to help the new men as can with the following oldtimers: Brother John Bananas (that New much as possible. Orleans man) and Brother Willie Wolfe. The ship is steering for northern France—and Bosun Volpi says that they'll be bringing home bottles—of perfume, naturally . . . Brother Paul Warren, the oldtimer, gave us a little item about Brother Moon Koons down in New Orleans. Brother Koons is holding down the SIU door dow;a there—and doing a good job, too. 4. 4* 4* Here's a flash news item from a reliable source: Brother XXX Aussie Shrimpton, the Steward (and if we remember correct­ NEW ECHOTA, July 26 — ly, a fine poet of salty lines), became engaged to a passenger. Chairman Donald Malenfant; Sec­ Miss Rose Schilling of New York City—after nine home-sweetretary Erman Green. Delegates' home voyages on his ship. The Captain announced the engage­ reports accepted. New Business: ment on August 28. The wedding is to commence early in Oc­ Complaint of crew putting dirty tober. Agreement calls for Jack to keep sailing . . . Congratula­ linen in the passageway. Com­ tions, Brother Shrimpton, and a long happy voyage of matri­ plaint about presence of ship's mony. dog in the messhall and the feed­ 444ing of the dog by the crew. All Here are some Seafarers who may still be in New York: E. complaints settled. Captain gave Hansen; C. Ford; B. Kosow; H. Lorents; John Schupstick; R. Col­ a talk on safety stressing closing let; T. Hasson; Charlie Bush; R. Teets; G. Green: M. Stanley; C. of doors and protection of light Henry; R. Bonich; T. McHenan; J. Maisonet; D. O'Toole; L. Becker; sockets. B. Zelencio; C. Newman; J. Kirby; J. Rogers; F. England: J. Glass; XXX J. Hawkins; F. Murray; J. Grangaard and J. Henchey . . . News ALCOA PAGASIS, July 21— Item: Three important maritime bills will face Congress in January: Chairman T. C. Dial; Secretary (1)—H. R. 476 which is the constantly pigeon-holed Merchant Sea­ Charles T. Gilmore. Rules for men's War Service Act. (2)— S 1552 which is a bill introduced byconduct *in messhall set down. Senator Wallace White (Republican from Maine) to give merchant Those members using the laun­ seamen the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act—essentially dry will' clean it after using it, the 40-hour week (3)—H. R. 3972 is a bill introduced by Repre­ failure to do so will be $1 fine. sentative Francis Walter (Democrat from Pennsylvania) to remove Edward H. Burns chosen Stew­ the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation from the Coast ards Department Delegate. Guard and return it to the Department of Commerce. �THE SEAFARERS Page Twelve LOG Friday, September 12. 1947 lii THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS rliiF SIU Crew Shows Ability, Steel King Officers Relax To the Editor: The loyalists—the oldtime Isth­ mian skippers, mates and en­ gineers^—were knocked off their fannies. They were surprised to find that an SIU crew was not a bunch of rabble rousers bent on raising forty-nine kinds of hell and generally making life miser­ able for all hands. On Aug. 30, the SS Steel King poked her nose out of New York for a trip to the Far East via the Canal. Prior to the ship's de­ parture, the writer dropped in at MacPherson's Bar, the hangout of the loyalists, and was amused to hear some of the impressions of an SlU-contracted crew. PECULIAR NOTIONS Now that the SIU had Isth­ mian sewed up, the impressions were: 1) that nothing would be better than to see the scuppers run with the blood of skippers, mates and engineers; 2) that monkey wrenches and marlin spikes would go flying through the night in well-aimed direc­ tions. The least that was ex­ pected was a continuous round of disruptive tactics and beefs. The first day the SS Steel King ^ was out at sea passed and no throats were cut, no wrenches or spikes flew through the air, and there wasn't a single beef. Just the opposite of what was expected happened. The men turned to, showing a brand of seamanship and work­ manship never seen among an Isthmian unorganized crew. The men did their work and did it weU. This continued each day until our arrival at the Canal, and now even the toughest die-hard loyalists admits that an SIU crew tops for seamenship and work­ manship. Under the old Isthmian setup, their unorganized performers in­ cluded finks so phony even the NMU wouldn't touch them—per­ formers so lousy even their mothers disowned them, and mountaineers who had to be told what the pointed end of the ship was called. KING, QUEEN AND "BABY*' alists to all Seafarers who know their business and do it. A1 Lavoie, Deck Maint. J. L. O'Rourke, Jr. Eng. Luke Collins, Bosun SS Steel King I am your Union, bold and strong, Wifh my slrengfh, I right your wrong; I am your sword of mighty steel Before whose might tyrants must yield. BLACK AJND WHITLI CAB OUTFIT GETS BROTHER'S KAYO To the Editor: I would like to inform all SIU or SUP men not to cater to the Black and White Cab Company of Renton, Washington. Recently while in that town while aboard the Solana, two other crewmembers and myself took one of their cabs into town. The cabbie drove us to a gam­ bling club about five miles be­ yond town when we had asked him to take us just to town for a few cool ones. When we got out at the gam­ bling spot there was nothing to see but gambling tables. The cabbie waited to see if we liked it, and without going all the way into the spot, I said "No" to the whole idea and so he drove us to Seattle, 18 miles away. When I asked him to drive us back to Renton and leave us off where we could get a bus he said there were no busses in that sec­ tion. He had it all figured out. I showed disapproval and he re­ marked: "I work for the Cab Company and not the bus com­ pany, anyv/ay, I thought youse guys were seamen." My advice is, if you want a cab call Yellow Cab at 370. They are 100 percent Union and their fares are about or.c-i:alf. Robsri A. Lowry SS Solana On iheir way io South America, the crew of the Murray M. Blum, Mississippi, called King Neptune aboard as they crossed the Equator. He wasn't alone, however, as the picture above shows him in the company of his queen and "baby." The seaweed encrusted King is Johnny Ferdensky, his cigarette smoking queeq is Blewitt Perkins and their offspring is Warren Bonano. B&'C Men Relate Sad State Of Lakes Unorganized Ship The following letter was recieved by the Detroit SIU Hall a short time ago from the crewmembers of the SS Adam E. Cornelius, an unorganized ship belonging to the Boland & Cor­ nelius fleet on the Great Lakes and should be self explanatory. Dear Brother: The crewmembers of this ship (Adam E. Cornelius) receive clean linen only once or twice a month, and the Porters on here refuse to deliver the linen to the crew. Our Steward and 2rxd Cook are very inexperienced. When­ ever we load in Toledo we get very poor food. Sometimes, we just get a bowl of soup and a couple of vitamin pills ior a complete meal! As a rule, we receive pork for ten meals a week. We don't know what fruit or ' vegetable juices look like on this scow, and the men going on the 2-6 watch get a very light lunch. Names are given when orders for meals are taken, resulting in the officers getting far superior food when we do have a half way decent meal. No action can be secured on any complaints to the Steward responsible for the cooking as he receives special" consideration in the way of fancy meals gnd tid­ bits. You may any way you present, we anonymous - use this letter in see fit, but for the prefer to remain at least, in print. I am- thy weapon, you are my might. Together as one we shall defend our right; So lift your voices and shout your cries, Sound your wrath to the very skies. Are we not men, bold and free. Or must be bow before the tyrants of the sea? No! We shall struggle in death's own embrace. Ere we go down to defeat and disgrace. t 4 i A Sailor's Life By JAMES C. MITCHELL A sailor leads a funny life. He isn't married, but he has a wife; He doesn't drink but he always is drunk. He's at his best when he's in his bunk. His money goes for drink and lip; For soon he'll make another trip. He's just a great big awful soak. Until the minute he is broke. And when he's broke he still has fun, A waiting for_ a new live one: He soon goes broke and has to ship. So then he makes another trip. PICTURE CHANGES The Mate now takes it easy. He doesn't have to be on deck to see that the work is done and done right. The First Assistant has relaxed for the first time in a long while. And the Steward has broken out, the pinochle deck. The old man was a little con­ cerned at fir.st. Now he'.s all smiles. God is in His Heaven. He's got sailors working for him. The skipper. Captain J. P. Cole­ man, by the way, is a right guy, with plenty of savvy and a good head. Our bets are on him to be known as a swell skipper. He'll operate ships as efficiently as any skipper afloat. It's only the first leg on a long trip. But we're betting the rest of the voyage will prove the ship a good ship and the trip a good one. The erstwhile "loyalists" will have become just plain loy­ , Seafarers-Artist Norman Maffie catches the TTT club in session at the Pennsylvania Bar in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The boys pictured here were in session during July and are insulating themselves against the Island's heat by quaffing a few cool ones. The rice and beans simmering at right is the standard diet for beachcombers. As far as can be determined, the TTT Club means: 'Typical Tropical Tramps." �THE Friday, September 12. 1947 SEAFARERS LOG PENANG PLAYS HOST TO JACKSON CREWMEN Page Thirteen Shortage Of Men On Ships Called Peril To Contracts To the Editor: I'm writing this as an open letter to the membership. It con­ cerns an abuse that we must cor­ rect in the near future or else we're due for some calling down when our contracts come up for renewal. On the last half dozen ships I've sailed, we've been shorthanded. Why? Is it due to the war being over? More lucrative jobs ashore? Erroneous and mis­ leading or true reports about bucko Skipper? Or the thousand While the Waterman vessel, Andrew Jackson, stopped off in Panang, Malayan Straits dur­ and one reasons a seaman might ing a voyage described in the Sept. 5 issue of the LOG, the boys took in the sights. On the left have for not shipping out. Any­ Ted Filipow, AB and "Red" Dineen, AH, relax for the cameraman while "Tiger" Thompson, AB, way brothers, let's face the facts. lights one up. The inescapable fact is that ships are sailing shorthanded At right, the boys stop at a local bistro for refueling. Left to right; Pete D'Anna, AB; Hans from every port in which we Peters, Bedroom Steward; Ted Filipow and "Tig3r" Thompson. The boys seem to be enjoying the have an office. Recently, I shipstuff set before them on the table. |ped on the Seatrain New York. Seafarer Suggests Joining In Tribute With SUP To Honor '34 Strike Heroes We were short one man on deck and four men below. It did work a hardship down beloV because two of the men short were Firemen and the En­ gine Utility had to fire. Between him and the other Fireman they had to stand 6 to 6. HARMS 4 WATCH This must be stopped. On the one hand our Union is plumping for a 4 watch system and we can't furnish men for a three' watch system. How do you ex­ pect us to present the 4 watch system demand to the operators? This particular ship I'm on is on a 14 day turnaround and half the crew is off on either end for a day to a day and a half. She's a good feeder, good quarters, as crew quarters run on ships today, and never an hour of legitimate overtime disputed, yet we never seem to be able to get a full crew of this vessel. If this were an isolated case it would be different but it seems move using the seamen and help looks of the Taft-Hartley Act To the Editor: we will need strong union bro­ our dear comrades with the to be the rule now rather than I wish to express for myself thers from now on. How about grain situation." the exception. and the other SIU brothers on it. Brothers? As Gene Markey, Agent of Let's be realistic. We have a board the MV Gadsden the the Montreal Hall, said: "The clause in all of our contracts RUINOUS PROGRAM deepest respect and admiration seamen of the CSU are getting stating that if we can't furnish for the SUP Brothers who met The blow to labor inflicted by wise to their commie leaders the men the company can pro­ their deaths in the '34 strike in the Taft-Hartley Act is as bad and to all of their pals. The cure them where they please. San Francisco. as if Stalin had all his commies SIU files show that more men Well, we don't expect the com­ I think the tribute paid them controlling the unions. How can are getting out of their commie pany to do the foregoing be­ yearly by their brothers is the two such lowly people get into controlled union and signing up cause all they're interested in is highest honor any man could positions of leadership where in our Hall." to sail their ships with a full receive. I think it would be a they can pursue a program so The commies of the CSU have crew if they can, or with a half further tribute if all the SIU ruinous to our nation of work­ pulled some stupid things but crew if they must. Brothei-s paid homage to them ing people? It makes one ask; each year. WORKS HARDSHIP "Is there no justice?" The need for refreshments There are many young broth­ All that is left to us is the seems to hit the boys often. The companies don't give a J|it( ^TH€W0RPC0ME| Here Ted Filipow and "Tiger" ers with us now who have never strength of our great unions and darn. They're making plenty of Thompson stop at one of Pen- heard of those great men and leaders to champion the cause cabbage as long as the ships sail, ang's many fruit juice stands the struggle and hell they went of the working man against such but some of our brothers are through for all seamen. people and the obstacles they for their vitamins. working a hardship on the others What do the Brothers think of create. who are doing the sailing and Another thing worth com­ the idea of taking up an annual living up to our contracts provi­ collection from each member of menting on at the moment is sion to furnish the men. the SIU to buy flowers each the commie situation in Canada. Brothers, it hasn't been so long July 5th and erect a monument No doubt the commies of the Seafarer Earle Goosley, re­ ago that you had to have a 70 to CSU were in a turmoil after the in their name? cently off the Jonathan a 90 day old card to make a half 1 know the SUP Brothers hold expose of the great radio pro­ Grout, is now a patient in St. way decent job on American July 5th as their one sacred day. gram they had planned. Some Marks Hospital in Brooklyn. merchant vessels and it also Although these men were mem­ of the SIU ships were in Canada His wife writes that he is at the time waiting for the hasn't been so long ago that ship­ this strike they had planned is bers of the SUP, the strike in very desirious of hearing chance to hear the commies. the topper of them all — no which they gave their lives has ping was going out of fink halk from some of his old ship­ It was typical of the tommies, benefit for the seamen at all. helped to advance all seamen so and crimp joints. mates or having them drop much that 1 think they would no talk until everyone suppres­ The SIU brothers have done in to see him while he is ill. We now have the best condi­ much to stamp out the commies grant us brothers in the SIU sed, so there was no talk. He expects to undergo an The seamen of Canada are on our own waterfronts. the privilge of adding our heart­ tions and contracts in the indus­ operation shortly, so he will getting wise and know that the felt thanks and respect on that' We know that with the suc­ try. Let's keep them by filling be laid up for some time. His SIU is in Canada to stay and cess we have had in Canada so day. address is: Ward 4, St. Marks This would show all brothers guard their rights. far, it won't be long until the and Prospect Place, Brook­ what it means to be a good SUP job is completed. Then it will MONEY FOR STRIKE lyn, N. Y. and SIU Brother, and from the be known that the SIU has done They also realize what a finky another wondei-ful job for all bunch of commie leaders they seamen and working class people have in the CSU, for it is known by kicking the commies around that $5,000 was sent by the head and out. commies to push the seamen's If thei-e were only some way strike in Canada. to show everyone what devnurThe strike itself was not for ers of workers' rights the comthe poor seamen, a^ the commies mis are. We can't say, go and ASKS CLARIFICATION ON MONEY DUE soy: "To hell with the seamen. look at Russia itself, as only a We can make one big political few seamen get the opportunity, QUESTION: but there is one way left to get This is in regards lo Ihe 6 percent reiroacfive pay. All com­ an idea of commie controlled the jobs on vessels of all of our panies should put out a phamphlet with the names of the ships labor: reading and following the contracted companies and satisfy and the men who worked on them with their pay statement. activities of the commies' at­ ourselves that we can sail our Send in the minutes of This will prevent the union members from interrupting the tempt at using the CSU in own ships. your ship's meeting to the Dispatcher to find out what ship they were on because these Canada as a political tool. New York Hall. Only in that men do not get any discharges or statement of wages while the This will also tend to show the Well, it looks like this will be way can the membership act ship is in port. government finks and company our last trip to Canada this on your recommendations, » Serafin Lopez year, so for all the follows on shipping crimps now and in the and then the minutes can be Michael Piskin this ship 1 want to thank the future that we can take care of printed in the LOG for the Brothers in the Montreal Hall ANSWER: benefit of all other SIU and supply the demands for our for the wonderful coopei-ation cre\i^s This question was referred to the New York Port Agent and his and help we received all sum­ present contracts and as many as Hold those shipboard meet* answer was that the companies are in the process of doing this at mer. We hope we will all be we have to come. ings regularly, and send the moment. They are compiling lists of the ships and their crews back again next spring. A. Rappaport those minutes in as soon as and the money due them. These lists will be sent to the SIU and Eugene Wood possible. That's the SIU wayl Ship's Delegate published in the SEAFARERS LOG. Keep your eye on the Bulletin Stewards Dept. Delegate Seatrain New York Board page of the LOG for the money due you. Laid-Up Brother THE BEEF BOX Send Those Minutes �THE SEAFARERS Page Fourfeen Action-Packed Struggles Marked SIU's Rapid Growth To the Editor: Did you ever think of the long road the Union has travelled during the past few years. Just look Ijack to the time we first started out to try and get a new Union Hall in the Port of New York. And do you remember that old one? I can recall the announcement that the SIU was setting out to make the Union a larger oi'ganization. Remember that one? The organizers went around prac­ tically shanghaiing you into all sorts of broken down freighters and fouled up tankers. IT PAID OFF But it all paid off, though. •Prorif of it was shown recently at a meeting I attended where it was announced and shown that the Si afaiers today is over twice the size it was a few years ago. And ihat just dealt with our stren-gih as an organization stand- ;vt.y-How IVE GROWAJ LOG Friday, September 12, 1947 A STRIKE GREW IN BROOKLYN to do is keep her steady as she goes. Keeping on her course means that all hands have to be in there pitching. And any guy who lets the lines slacken hasn't any rightful place in our Union. We've got to be on our toes every minute. Especially now, with the NMU staggering in the dark be­ cause of the commies' internal attacks on that organization, the SIU should be awake to all opportunites that arise. And while we're at it, let's finish up the Great Lakes drive, the tanker drive and all the other jobs we laid out for ourselves. Then we may be able to arrive finally at the one big union idea —the SIU of N. A. Let's keep moving along the road we've al­ ready rolled along so sucessfully. Jimmy (Fats) Wilson Ex-NMUer Hails SIU Conditions Photos of strike activty taken by Seafarers during the recent Isthmian tie-up continue to come to the LOG. These were submitted by Johnny Thompson and were taken et the Erie Basin, Brooklyn. That's Thompson in front row right in pic at left. Photo above shows Thomp­ son again, with Richard Tyler at his right. Both were off the Steel Artisan. Rest of men were unidentified. To the Editor: 1 just came in after a five month trip as Chief Electrician, and in the ports we visited I was very happy to see so many jobs up on the boards. 1 am writing this letter be­ cause I want to thank every man who made it possible for me to obtain membership in the SIU. This is my first SIU ship and I am very happy to report that ing alone. It did not take into everything went as smooth as account the additional power glass. that came from the formation of Upon arriving in Baltimoi'e, I the powerful AFL Maritime noticed for the first time in my Trades Department, which meant life a ship having its beefs set­ the winning of our 1946 strike. tled before the payoff. We also Yes, we've come a long way hit three other ports, then we in a short time and we've seen paid off. I made a nice hunk of a lot of action. There were the cabbage in overtime and I know many and important struggles we if I were still in the NMU, I Isthmian crewmember Alfred had in opposition to the com­ wouldn't have got it; in fact, I Tompol looks over picket line. munist party, with its attempts would have been lucky to be an Seconds later he was pounding at scabbery in Philly, Tampa and Assistant Electrician. Back in the NMU, we always the bricks with his shipmates. elsewhere, besides its scabbing attempts on the longshoremen in had so many beefs that we never New York. All this added up to got them .settled. Their practice a helluva lot of action—and vic­ of giving you a .30-day shipping card messes things up, for if you tories. have a beef pending, you usuajly PLENTY AHEAD have to drop it to get a ship be­ fore your card expires. Some secrets are to be Now with the Taft-Hartley I'm plenty satisfied where I kept, but if you had an in­ Law coming up and the announc­ am now—in the SIU. teresting trip, or if you met ing of the Union's heavy organiz­ Ed Lawrence a character who sent you, ing program, it loolvs like ive're let us in on it. That goes for still a bunch of busy people—and your views on the union, cur­ .will be for sometime. But if any The LOG Rolls rent events, or any sugges­ outfit is equal to doing the job, To Rollerdam tions you may have. All beefs it's the SIU. We're headed in the of general interest will be an­ right direction and all we have To the Editor: swered. The other day I was ship-visit­ Seafarers who think in ing on some American ships. One He's Waiting terms of moon and June and of the crew .showed me your vine and wine can give vent newspaper, the SEAFARERS to their rhyme and rhythm LOG. He told me that if I wrote in Log-A-Rhythms. If you to your address, you would be have a camera we will give glad to send me the paper free of prominence to your lens ef­ charge for the reading table of forts. the Seamen's Home. I should be very grateful, in­ The items sent to us will deed, if you would .send me the be displayed before an ap­ LOG, as many American .seamen preciative audience of 60,visit our home. I am sure the 000 readers from coast to men will appreciate it very much coast who read these pages to come across such a fine news­ every week. paper in the Seamen's Home. Put down the highlights of Father P. Koevoels your experience including the Dir. Port Chaplain place, time and names and Aposlleship of the Sea send them to the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG, 51 Beaver St., Rotterdam, The Netherlands On the beach in New York N. Y. We will return all (Ed. Note: The LOG will be "waiting for a good one." is snapshots, poems and stories, sent to the address given and Joe Tassin, a New Orleans boy. if so desired. you should receive your first Now is the right time, tool Joe says hello to all his friends copy in a few weeks. Thanks and former shipmates. for the words of praise.) Okay, BrothersLet Us In On It A.A. 'The Voice Of The Sea' By SALTY DICK George "Ranger" Ernst just started sailing and "his ambition is to save a few dollars and own a ranch some day. A short while ago I asked several men their plans for the future. One fellow from Brooklyn said he always wanted to own a pool room. I wonder if his dream ship came true. One, whom I'd rather not name, says all he wants is to be a lover in Bra­ zil. Perhaps he is the smartest. My suggestion: I think all union books should have the ad­ dresses of all the Halls in the back part of the book. Always remember one thing: This is our Union. You have as much to .say or do as anyone else. If you have any ideas for im­ provements you owe it to your­ self and brother members to bripjg it forward. I wonder if Brother Paul Hall and J. P. Shuler ever "slip in" at the Tampa Fair? Who is the heaviest man in the Union? I've seen some that would be tough to beat. the Del Mar. How are you. Bob? Chief Cook Lawrence of Georgia was certainly against Roosevelt. I often wondered if he was a Georgia Republican ... A couple of guys were standing at a corner so I ask­ ed them what they were do­ ing. They replied: "Just watch­ ing the Fords go by," meaning they were watching the local belles . . . Paul Parsons should run for Congress. I'm sure he would make the grade. Angelo D'Amico has been in Argentina so long (due to an ill­ ness) that he is planning to vote there in the next election ... I promised not to reveal his name but there's a seaman who, after every trip, takes a Mississippi cruise on the SS President. Some fun, eh . Peter Loloes, "The Greek," went to Greece a short time ago. The natives spoke to him but it was all Greek to him ... It won't be long before the SIU banner will fly the seven seas in full bloom. Our Union is growing so fast that I think she's jet propelled. Who remembers 2 Stone Street in New York? What a differ­ ence between the past and the future. DEL ALBA PASSES LOG TO SIU SHIPS IN BUENOS AIRES To the Editor: I remember one Steward who was so heavy that every time he was in the crow's nest we had a port list . , . One Pa­ trolman who has always been a gentleman is Howard Guinier. There are others, too, of course. * Is the LOG sent regularly to May Sullivan's Bar in B.A.? Remember all seamen are hun­ gry for it. Is it possible to send a couple every week to British Hospital, Pridrel and Casareos, Buenos Aires? (Ed. Note: Will do.) Bob Creel was operated up­ on in S.A. and sent home on We, the Crew of the SS Del Alba wish to thank you for send­ ing copies of the SEAFARERS LOG that we requested while in Buenos Aires as promptly as you did. " We made them up into a folder and passed them on to the other SIU ships that were in Buenos Aires at that time and they ap­ preciated them as much as we did. These are the ships, SS Del Santos, SS Cuba 'Victory, SS Stephen A. Douglas, SS Hilton, and the SS Del Aii'es. C. W. Gait Ship's Delegate SS Del Alba .. �THE Friday. September 12, 1947 SEAFARERS Page Fifteen LOG BULUSTEN -w- ;1 /--• L Retroactive Pay Unclaimed Wages -iHCCCXS Moran Towing Co. Bx\TTERY PLACE, Retroactive p5y covering the 5 percent increase for the fol­ lowing ships is now ready at the offices of the Overlakes Freight Corporation, 19 Rector Street, New York, N.Y. The money can be collected in person or by writing and giv­ ing proper identification. NEW YORK 2.78 Robert A. Burdick 42.74 Buford C. Jones Monle E. Blue $ 24.72 Harold C. Cisewski ^ -.s • 80.12 GROVER C. HUTCHERSON Joseph C. Johnson 3.20 George L. Sumner 33.55 (Voyage No. 11) * les, $1.00; R. B. Brady. $3.00; C. W. Kearney N. Foster 3.77 Joseph Curtis NEW YORK 29.43 Crafford. $2.00; J. Short. $1.00; Evan Richard V. Grant 10.25 John M. Kelly, Jr ROBERT R, MCBURNEY 25.62 INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS Midgette, $4.00; D. Cillikin. $1.00; Fred N. Cook 11.14 Wr H. Pylate, Jr (Voyage No. 12) 4.74 C. Arnold. $1.00: G. H. Ruf. $1.00; B. Poolfe, $1.00. Robert L. Lester 47.53 Donald Chestnut 12.24 C. E. Fisher. $1.00; R. A. Robinson. JOHN FISKE SS WARRIOR Edwin S. Harriman 4.74 Quinton Royals 8.50 $2.00; E. M. Misa. $2.00; R. B. Hughes. I. C. Cavcy. $2.00; G. Consalvo, (Voyage No. 19) Herbert W. Johnson 68.34 Walter W. Christian 7.13 $1.00; K. A. Stenberg. $2.00; R. S. $1.00; F. Borst. $1.00; R. J. Mason. Barney L. Brannon 7.62 Leland W. Davis 2.10 Salcedo, $1.00; U. Hildebrandt. $1.00; $2.00; F. Peraita. $2.00; A. W. Keane, OVERLAKES FREIGHT CORP, Keo Lung Loon. $1.00; R. H. 1 lanssen, $2.00; J. Gonzales. $2.00; T. Tonisson, Patrick G. Dougherty .... 7.17 Luis L. Welborn 5.37 $3.00; M. F. Fair, $1.00; E. A. Sara, $3.00; J. Maisonet. $3.00; J. B. FianRoom 700 Clyde V. Riddle, Jr 51.69 John E. Kinsaul 13.95 $2.00. ncry, $6.00; L. G. Bosso, $1.00; E. 19 Rector St., New York 6, N. Y. Byrd O. Busbee 3.20 James P. Brewer J. B. Relly. $1.00; John Bruno. $2.00. Torres. $2.00; T. Hasson. $5.00; R. 24.05 The following payrolls, cover­ Charles P. Yarn 24.60 Fred O. Sumerlin V. Rodriguez. $1.00. Acabeo. $2.00; A. L. Blain. $2.00; C. T. 7.62 ing six per cent increase . re­ Ridge, $2.00; J. O. Scott, $1.00; J. J. Lowell T. McNabb 21.46 p McCaskey SS NAMPA VICT9RY 4.79 O'Connor. $5.00. troactive wages are now com­ E. Brezina, $1.00; Stanley Domijan, Henry P. Sedgeway 6.851 Sidney Rothman 3.50 $2.00; D. G. Goldblatt. $1.00; W. C. SS SEATRAIN TEXAS pleted. Thomas Bernsee 24.84 Frazer C. Clark 62.00 Smith. $1.00; Theodore Kioussis, $2.00; B. A. Center. $1.00. James W. Berry 11.72 Anthony F. Nottage 3.94 A. M. Milefski, $1.00; George Meany. SS ROBERT R. McBURNEY SS FARALLON Thomas E. Mason 11.20 Robert Lamphere (Voyage No. 9) 12.23 $6.00: C. Wayne, $1.00; L. A. HolM. C. Ladwig, $2.00; G. G. Glennon, George M. Batts 86.77 Mate Veli Ekman ... 2.67 brook. $1.00; j. Reyes. $1.00; I. V. $5.00; K. Frey, $1.00; G. S. Harris, SS ROBERT R. McBURNEY Brown,' $1.00; C. R. Swensen. $2.00; $1.00; F. Kraul, $2.00; J. O'Connor. Charles S. Whitten 11.97 Walter B. Tobiasson 3.20 A. R. Broch. (Voyage No. 10 Port) $2.00; E. N. Durocher. $1.00; R. Wyse. $5.00; M. Moore. $1.00. Franz B. Sterlitz 1.97 I Marvin Bozard 2.67 $2.00; W. E. Thomason. $2.00; C. SS GIBBONS Tl.omas F. Meagher 61.33 David C. Reese SS JOHN FISKE 2.14 Herm.-.n. $5.00; J. C. Fouts. $2.00; W. J. Rushinjky, $2.00; Joe Maestra, (Voyage No. 17) Mathcw W. Waldron 17.43 Louis B. Clyde A. II. Soulhers. $1.00; P. E. .Anchundia. .2.7 $2.00; Chas. Stokley. $1.00; F. H. Lester Mahaffey 21.63 Fulbert A. Bodden •. 14.67 $1.00. Boocks, $2.00; E. W. Swann, $5.00; SS WILLIAM PEPPER. SS JAMES MCCOSH Nicholas Magash 7.71 William C. Averitt C. H. Moss, $1.00; A. R. Freberg, 14.67 (Voyage No. 12 Port) N. Salamono, $5.00; M. A. Cirelli, Samuel Levy 7.27 Glen C. Hatton 5.07 $5.00; J. R. (VJprris, $5.00; Salvatore $2.00; A. P. Nazui, $5.00; J. LancanSS THOMAS W. HYDE ster. $5.00; C. O. Saunders, $1.00; Andreas Ingehretsen 29.94 Melvin J. Keefer 9.34 M. Resguitos, $J.OO. J. L. Mills, $1.00; M. W. Drury, $2.00; (Voyage No. IB Port) Fulbert A. Bodden 5.95 Joseph C. Johnson 10.40 G. Jackson, $2.00; C. J. McGrath, SS CAPE JOHN William C. Averitt 27.75 Doek C. Willimson 3.60 SS WILLIAM PACA $5.00; H. L. Parrott, $2.00. J. C. Howard, $3.00. Melvin J. Keefer SS WACOSTA (Voyage No. 14 Port) 6-23 De Saussure Greenhill .... 1.60 SS T. LONEVENTURE F. F. Letie. $1.00; E. Dunphy, $1.00; I Richard Grant 2.80 J. D. Delgado, $1.00; J. E. Rucker, SS J. WILLARD GIBBS H. Mathieu, $1.00; J. Lane. $1.00; Dempsey Neese 20.91 $3.00; E: P. Moran. $2.00; E. M. R. Palmer. $1.00; R. White. $2.00; (Voyage No. 18) Hickman. $2.00. Murdock H. Thomas 8.68 O. Klippberg. $1.00; M. Mitchell, $2.00; This completes all six per cent SS HASTINGS A. J. Dyko, $1.00; A. H. Walker. $2.00; Orval D. Davis 4.56 ASHTABULA 1027 West Fifth St. E. Flores, $2.00; j. T. Bennett. $2.00; retroactive wages for this com­ 6.68 R. .A. Rhodes. $1.00; W. Borreson. R. A. Fisher. $2.00; A. L. Romero. Phone 552$ Julius D. Simms . pany. Seamen may obtain their $2.00. BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. Charles W. McRae 23.22 $1.00; W. Brown, $10.00; C. Jurewicz, money either by calling at the Calvert 4539 Leo J. Harrell PHILADELPHIA 38.05 $2.00; A. Ferreira, $1.00; L. W. Ritch, company office, properly identi­ BOSTON 276 State St. $2.00; j. W. McCarthy, $3.00; S. MaurINDIVIDUAL DONATIONS William P. Dunn 3.48 Boudoin 4455 oniichalis. $3.00; R. M. Guild. $1.00; Phillips. $2.00; Cooper. $2.00; Eu- fied, or by applying through the 26.95 W. A. Jordan, $5.00. BUFFALO 10 Exchange St. Paul Warren banks, $2.00; Sims, $2.00; Bradford, mails. 15.28 Cleveland 7391 James H. Patterson $2.00; Robinson, $2.00; Renis, $2.00; SS CAVALIER r.iV ANACAPA SlU HALLS CHICAGO 24 W. Superior Ave. MV BAYOU ST. Superior 5175 CLEVELAND ...1014 E. St. Clair Ave. Soloma K. Kapher Main 0147 James W. Brodale DETROIT 1038 Third St. Cadillac 6857 Charles L. Bragwell DULUTH 531 W. Michigan St. Arthur L. Disler Melrose 4110 Fred J. Reppine GALVESTON SOS'/j—23rd St. Stanley R. Cook Phone 2-8448 HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. Robert T. Killian Phone 58777 Clarence W. Wieland JACKSONVILLE .920 Main St. I Lawience D. Stoll Phone 5-5919 Waller L. Pritchard MARCUS HOOK JOHN 66.01 65.94 67.94 56.73 37.26 70.09 66.89 76.74 68.26 23.81 64.20 56.73 41.83 69.70 65.37 26.38 IK W. 8th St. Ernest W. Donoho Chester 5-3110 Berry M. Olmstead MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Phone 2-1754 Wayne A. Armstrong MONTREAL 1440 Bleury St. Robert G. Olmstead NEW ORLEANS 339 Charlres St. Joseph W. Wichter Magnolia 6112-6113 NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. Nicholas Boyko HAnover 2-2784 MV BURNT ISLAND NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. Phone 4-1083 Alex Mitchell 8.87 PHILADELPHIA 9 South 7th St. Charles Snyder 12.60 ' LOrabard 3-7651 Kassin Samat 8.40 PORTLAND Ill W. Burnside St. 2.80 Beacon 4336 Eugene Weingarten RICHMOND, Calif 257 5th St. Andrew Farrell 12.60 Phone 2599 SAN FRANCISCO 105 Market St. Douglas 25475 SAN JUAN, P. R. ..252 Ponce de Leon San Juan 2-5996 SAVANNAH 220 East Bay St. SS W. H. PAGE Phone 8-1728 The following men are due SEATTLE 86 Seneca St. $24.45 each for transportation. Main 0290 The money can be collected at TAMPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. Phone M-1323 the office of the Arnold Bern­ TOLEDO 615 Summit St. stein SS Corp., 17 Battei-y Place, Garfield 2112 New York. WILMINGTON 440 Avalon Blvd. John W. Parker, Robbie R. Terminal 4-3131 VICTORIA, B.C 602 Boughton St. Poole, Robert J. Flagler, Robert Garden 8331 Bennet, Frank E. Abramson, H. VANCOUVER 144 W. Hastings St. Money Due Paciac 7824 E. Rumph, Arthur Fricks, F. E. Harbeson, Woodrow W. Lawton. F, R. Quinitero, $4.00; W. V. Fitz- Ray, $2.00; Hovington. $2.00; cher, $1.00. patrick, $2.00; C. Moonan, $2.00. SS PUENTE HILLS W. J. Reagan, $2.00; L. J. $1.00. PERSONALS BOSTON Harris, ^ SS CORNELIA F. W. Brown. $1.00; I. VanDcrHoeven $2.00; G. Z. J. Majewski, $1.00; R McQueen, $5.00; F. Douglas, $1.00 L. W. Haughton, $1.00; C. L. Gunsett $1.00; A. Godino $1.00; F. B. Stumpf, $1.00; A. G. Rodriguez. $1.00; A. F. Aversa, $1.00; F. P. Sande, $1.00 E. Badual, $1.00. SS FT. STANWIX T. H. Mack, $2.00. SS A. JACKSON J. J. Palmer and Crew, $100 SS WATERMAN E. Santos, $1.00. SS DOROTHY C. E. Hemby. $3.00; S. nel, $3.00. Proven- M. McCon- SS S. PARKER J. F. Suusarez, $2.00; N. Cullough, $3.00; H. Lilliridge, $1.00; E. Bocchino, $3.00; Mick Wahol, $1.00; R. M. Brangmanp, $1.00; P. M. Jeffers, $1.00. SS UKBIS Lowson Evans, $5.00; A. Weir, $1.00; R. Gross, $1.00; J. L. DeV'alo. $3.00; L. J. Cahmano. $1.00; R. Caamon, $1.00; J. G. Mahady, $3.00; B. C. Blake, $4.00; L. R. Fadden, $2.00; H. Kiser, $1.00; L. R. Seay. $1.00; R. Vellenga, $3.00. SS BEAUREGARD H. Maxhenke, $5.00; A. P. Lazzaro. $1.00; H. F. Bergesser, $1.00; J. F. Kozar. $1.00; E. H. Emery, $1.00; C. Kounavis, $2.00; T. J. Martin. $5.00. SS W. H. PAGE B. Snow, $2.00; R. J. Fagler, $4.00; W. Lawton, $4.00; R. Bennett, $2.00; W. Jarvis, $2.00; R. Rumph. $2.00; F. Harbeson. $2.00; C. Howell Jr., $1.00; F. Abrahamson, $2.00; N. Streg- INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS T. Henricks. $1.00; E. Suris, J. Sanlouzans. $2.00; S. Gondzar. A. Messana. $1.00; J. J. Miller. Steward and Engine Depts. (SS TO) $15.00. $1.00; $2.00; $2.00; TON- ROBERT (BOB) DAVIS Please contact Frank Schutz at the Marine Hospital. Staten Island, N.Y. Notice To All S1U Members The SEAFARERS LOG as the official publication of the Sea­ farers International Union is available to all members who 'WMAJ to have it sent to their home free of charge for the enjoyment ol their families and themselves when ashore. If you desire to have the LOG sent to you each week address cards are on hand at every SIU branch for this purpose. However, for those who are at sea or at a distance from a SIU hall, the LOG reproduces below the form used to request the LOG, which you can fiU out, detach anci send to: SEAFARERS LOG, 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. PLEASE PRINT INFORMATION To the Editor:' I would like the SEAFARERS LOG mailed to the iddress below: Name Street Address City State., Signed Book No. �Page SixSees THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, September 12, 1947 •fANKfR44EA/ NO APPLE POLISHING... NO BOOT-LICKING... 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Title A name given to the resource September 12, 1947 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. IX, No. 37 Description An account of the resource Headlines: LIVING COSTS GO UP AS FOOD PRICES RISE 37 UNION POSTS ARE FILLED IN SIU ELECTION MC AIDS OTHER NATIONS:WATERMAN RESOULTION ON THE SIU ELECTION PORT HOUSTON TO EXPAND FACILITIES LCA FORCED TO GRANT WAGES TO MATCH SIU CURRAN PULLS SLEEPER PLAY IN BATTLE FOR POWER IN NMU MARYMAR WAS HUMGRY SHIP-NOT NOW TAFT-HARLEY ACT WILL HARM CAPITAL, AS WELL AS TRADE UNIONS SHIPPING PICKS UP IN BALTIMORE,PROSPECTS LOOK GOOD FOR FUTURE GREAT LAKES PASSENGER SHIPS NEW YORK'S PROBLEM CHILDS MAAKING NO HEADWAY AGAINST SEAFARERS PORT OF BOSTON GETS CALLS FOR REPLACEMENTS BROTHES SEE URGENT NEED FOR BETTER NEW ORLEANS HALL SHIPPING HOLDS TO GOOD PACE IN MARCUS HOOK ALL KINDS OF JOBS,REPORTS TAMPA CONNEAUT CREW AWAITS SEAFARERS CONTRACTS TAFT-HARTLEY ACT BLASTED BY MILLS MEN CAVALIER CREW LENDS HAND TO SEAMEN ON BAUXITE RUN DIGESTED MINUTES OF SIU SHIP MEETINGS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/12/1947 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1947 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/5d282f74252d184cf8b6c8e3a99b4c2e.PDF 3a7f933ab55f9fbf90a544ca725d2260 PDF Text Text SEAFARBRS^LOG I'ii m • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THiHAFARmS INTERNATIONAL UN ION • ATLANTIC AND SULF DISTRICT •AFL-CIO • •11 SIU VACATION PAY •. •-i-il M '• • • .Story On Pago I * . l'- • • • y • Seafarers Hit Batista Scalibing :l Story On Page 2 m ;-5 .PK-'' s-.':\ •f AN EDlTORIALt AMMI: Maritime Menace Traditionally, the maritime industry is no stranger to trou­ ble. But aside from the normal quota of headaches maritime faces in terms of violent fluctuation in shipping, competition from runaways and the like, the industry has been hurting for some time because of the long history of bumbling and ineptne^ on the part of the American Merchant Marine Institute. There are a number of major areas in which the AMMI has (Continuedhn page 2) . Canada SIU Protests Strikebreaking Canadian SIU's protest against sale of struck Canadian National ships to Cuban government concern spread to New York and Baltimore this week. Demonstrator (above) in front of Cuban-flag isahia de Nipe participated in protest in New York while other Canadian District lines hit the Ciudad de Habana (former Canadian Challenger) in Baltimore. Highlight of protest took place yesterday as 100 demon(',6trators^picketed Cuban consulate and UN building in NY. (S'tory on Page 2.) �(<•:-r' TfTm stAMAknun tod BtvUmher 12, liM AN EDITORIAL: Hit Batista Scabbing V--: h-\ <u i""' |v; ijr" • ?'' Bm:'' ' ; • - r • -.he;:..'-;" (Continued from page 1) failed the industry, the most unfortunate being that in .the face of past failure, it is persisting on its destructive course. What's Twrong ivith AMMI? Here are a few df the ills it ' The sale of strikebound Canadian National steamships to an agency of the Cuhan govern­ has perpetrated on the industry: ment has resulted in the spread of tho dispute to US ports. The SIU Canadian District has struck hack with protest demonstrations in front of Cuhan-flag vessels in US ports and a mass • Cutthroat infl|ghting to get subsidy preferdhce. protest of 100 seamen in front-f For years the AM3MI has been a pawn in the hSnds of a few of the Cuban consulate in-New fat cats, among them US Lines. Its label and officers have York and the United Nations Jbeen used by this company and others like it to secure the building. lion's Bhare of Government assistance and to rig matters to their Carrying signs labeling advantage even if such arrangements were harmful to the rest of the Cuba's President Fulgencio Industry. A flagrant example was the AMMI's successful lobbying for Batista as a "fink" and an "Inter­ a 65 peraent eonstmctlon subsidy for a new US Lines passenger ship national strikebreaker" tha Can­ while the rest of the industry gets along with 40 to 45 percent aid or adian demonstraton denounced the Cuban government's action in no assistance at all. Companies not favored with subsidy aid have taking the struck Canadian Chal­ to flght alone every step of the way against the fat cats to get such lenger out of Halifax. The ship, assistance from the Government. renamed the Ciudad de Habana, Is now In Baltimore's Maryland • Mensber companies have no voice ui policy-making. ilrydock. It is a notorious fact in the industry that the dues-paying members The orderly demonstration by of AMMI have no meeting forum, no ballot box and no outlet to voice the Canadian District included their dissents from AMMI policy. Policy decision are imposed on a four former crewmembers of Ca-y take-lt-or-leave-it basis by the AMMI leadership, which, in turn, gets nadian National ships who were its instructions from the tight clique of fat cats beaded by US Lines. flown in for the occasion. They The*latter company employs the AMMI as one of its branch lobbies were Mike Houlihan, AB, ex-Ca­ for exerting pressure on legislative and administrative decisions lA nadian Constructor: Lewis EngelWashington. man, FOW, ex-Canadian Conquer­ Tbere is no liasion between companies and no comnidn or; Bill Zinuck, oiler, and Rich­ policy. ' ard Johnstone, donkeyman, ex-Ca­ nadian Cruiser. It follows from the above that with the AMMI the private preserve of US Lines, with no exchange of,views, there is a complete lack of Pistol-Toting Guards coordination on major issues, with companies left to pull every which Passerby gefs leoftel from demonstraior ouilining reasons for pro­ Canadian Seafarers reported that way on their own. The result is a mad scramble for preference. test in front of the Cuban-flag vessel, Bahia de Nipe. Cuban seamen who were flown to • Tbe AMMI leadersbip supports runaway shipping. Halifax to man the ship at first carried signs denouncing .Batista's uted by the demonstrators. Many rebelled at being cast in the role scabbing The. action of the AMMI president in • devoting his energies to »the of strikebreakers. They threw SIU -men.on the striking Canadian recalled the time that white-capped defense of runaway shipping is a total betrayal , of the interests of SeMarers had' participatedin the tools over the side and announced American-flag operators whom the AMMI s}ipposedly represents. Here they would not sail the ship. As Other Cuban-flag Ships are being Wall Street strike. There was con­ again, the objectives of US Lines and that company's desire to attract siderable interest in the dummy a result, the Canadians said, pistol- tied up as they come into Ameri­ effigy flgure representing the en­ the support of major oil companies, have been pushed into the fore­ < toting guards from the Cuban can, ports. front to the detriment of other American-flag companies. The AMMI'a The demonstrations in front of slavement of seamen resulting action in this area reflects the total lack of independence on the part armed forces compelled the Cuban from Batista's strikebreaking. seamen to go to work under the the Cuban consulate on Madison of the nominal leadersbip of the institute. Avenue and the United Nations Newspaper and television cam­ gun. eramen were out in force, and mo­ were highlighted by a mock fu­ • It resorts to foolhardy and archaic tactics on labor issues. When the vessel got to Baltimore neral with a coffln carried by the tion pictures of the demonstration The AMMI's ill-advised venture into company unionism, designed It was met by a protest line. At pickets bearing the sign "Batista! appeared on many T'V stations last to upset long-established and stable patterns of collective bargaining, last word, a large number of the You Killed Canadian Seamen's night. Cuban seamen had quit the ship. Jobs." A staffed efflgy of a work­ The beef with Canadian National was an opeu hiVltatioii to anarchy and chaos in the shipping Industry. One steamship company—US Lines—unilaterally imposed a prepos­ Here in New York, longshore­ ing seaman in chains guarded by got under way on July 4, 195f, terous and dangerous pattern of company unionism on the rest of tha men and teamsters refused to cress mode Cuban tommy-gun toters when the Canadian District struck industry. ,: If there was amy competence in the AMMI leadership, if it the protest line established in front bore the legend-"This is the Sea­ the eight-ship fleet in a straight­ was mot rubber stamp of 4US Lines that it happens to be, but was away contract dispute. The crews repreaOnibitive of the Cuban-flag ship Bahia de man Batista wants." of the feeiings of the industry, that leadership would Nipe of the Vacuba Line. Demon­ Passersby on Madison Avenue had received total postwar wage hove, told US Lines thai ^e 'institute eonid net go along with Its strators handed out leaflets to pas- and in front of the UH indicated Increases of only 17V& cents an strikfe^breaking plans. Not having done so, and having brought the sersby explaining the beef and keen interest in the leaflet distrib(Continued on page 11) Industry to»the brink, the leaders of AMMI can scarcely expect US maritime unions to regard them as "good-faith" trustworthy opposite numbers at the bargaining table, &d the AMMi persisted in ibis adventure, it would have crippled many smaller companies and,involved the industry in a long, costly , Healthy shipping cpnditions for holders of class A seniority in the SIU, plus the shrink­ struggle which it could not \i^. Perhaps it would not be surprising age of the class A group from deaths, retirements and withdrawals from the industry have re­ to find that AMMI leaders would welcome-such a development as sulted in a decision by the Seafarers Appeals Board to modify class A seniority reqifirements. favoring the narrow circle of ship operators whom they actually repre­ sent. . The Appeals Board acted im-' der authority given it by a where It would not have been afolr -~..by all seamen with ratings '<above Tbe AMMI leadersbip bas been partisan witb respect to seaman, wiper, or messman, unions. ( recent change in the SIU con­ to meet the. needs of SlU-con- / 'orfitnary who have shipped -regularly, up to tract with the operators. tracted companies. As has been December 31, 1954, with one or At the recent American Legion convention, the AMMI president of the companies listed* in Ap­ The amendment to the seniority reported in the SEAFARERS LOG more pendix A, since before January 1, made a snide remark to the effect that "some of our union leaders" hiring rules opens up the class A in recent months, increasing num­ 1952, subject, however, to. Rule O. are "unable or unwilling" to understand the need of subsidy assistance On and after September 1, 1958, group to Seafarers who started bers of class B and class. C men Class A seniority rating sluil) also for US ships. His reference to the SIU (for this Union was obviously sailing with the SIU in years after have been taking SIU jobs because be possessed by all seamen who the target) 'was a defeasive reaction to justify AMMI's policy on re­ have shipped regularly Mth one or 1951. of the small numbers of class A . more of the companies listed in Ap­ stricting subsidies to a handful of favorities. If he in at all familiar with pendix A, either The new rules makes the follow­ men on the beach in many ports. maritime, the AMMI president knows that the SIU and affiliated uniona (1) up to December 31. 1955. In addition to the changes in ing men eligible for class A: since before January 1. 1953 or in the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department understand the need (S> up to December 31, lB5d. the class A category, the Appeals for subsidies very well; in fact, have been on record for giving subsldiep since before January 1, 1954 sub• Seafarers Who started with Board amended the rules for class however. to^Rule 9. to the entire industry on a broader and more eqnitabie basis. ithe. SIU before January; 1, 1953, B men. Until now, any man having A lect. Class B seniority rating diall be The partisanship of the AMMI leaders and advisors bas also been (in other words, some Um*! in iggg 90 days in two successive calendar assessed by all seamen vriw have ship­ or earlier) and who have shipped years could advance from class C ped regularly up to qecembtr 31. 1954, shown., in their efforts to torture and twist the shape of long-^standing with one or more of the companies listed collective bargaining units to the advantage, of their favorites. with SIU companies in 1953, 1954 to class B. Appendix A, since beforo January 1, requirement con­ in and 1955 for at least 90 days a year. tinues, but in addition a Seafarer 1955, and who do not have a Class A seniority rating, subject, however, to • Tbe AMMI leadership gnd AMMI pdvisors are strangera Rule 9. On and after Septcmbw 1, o tbe marituue industry. • Seafarers who started with the can also obtain class B status by 1958, Class C personnel WHO possess a SIU before January 1, 1954, (in satisfactorily completing a course certiflcate of satisfactory completion of Much of the present sorry situation in AMMI can be traced to the the Andrew Furuseth TTahiinr School other words, liome time in 1953 or at the Andrew Furuseth Training course and who, after obtaining' such a practice of handing over direction of the institute to political ap­ earlier) and who have shipped School and then serving 60 days on certificate of satisfactory completion, pointees and public relations gimmick men out of Washington, rather have completed 60 days of sea service with SIU companies in 1954, 1955 an SlU-contracted ship. with any of the Canwanles set forth in than seasoned shipping men. Having no base in the industry, the solo ACTION #33 4; and 1956 for at least 90 days a Appendix A, shaU bp ontiUed to a Class interest of these imported strategists is to perpetuate themselves by Tha laaOuran APPMII Baard acting B seniority rating.- ^ year. t (b) Rule 9, paragraph A is amended to doing the bidding of the big lines. Hence their reliance on stunts and and pursuant to. the collective The original requirement called under, bargaining agreement between the Vn- read as.foUows: schemes instead of a constructive program, designed to aid all ship­ "Uniess otherwise specifically «nMd vwioua emidoyera. h«reby takes for "A" men to have started in im Uaed thereto by those Rules, all owners. the foUowtng actions: 1950. Two years ago, this was W) The flrst two paragraphs of Rule those who posMss a Class B senior­ Under snob conditions, responsible sections of the industry and of ity rating sliaU be entiaed to a changed to 1951 and It is now 1 B. are amended to .feed as foUows: Buuritims Isbsr sahsqt stasd by while these disiutesraie ihe Class A senioritv ratiag eight <S) advanced again. "A Class A senltTfity rstteg, the years after they commenced to Nilp American merchant marine. There must bii a responsible management bl|^> diaU be possessed by aU Mgidarly with the companiea set "OMdously,'with the passage^ of ttaUecuMd PwiuuiMl wlio have group dedicated exclusively to the needs of American-flag shipping, fortn in AppendU 'A,' provided they years, retention of the origlqal ep to December maintain their Class B seniority rat­ In which all shipping companies have a voice in deciding policy. Tho SI. 1084. witb one or more of the ing without break." 1950 string ^te would have re­ Mmpuilee listed In Appendix A. (c) Rule 3 J Is deleted from' the Ship- AMMI obviously has demonstrated Its incapacity for this type of lead­ sulted in a j^izibkege of the class atace twfm Jannary J. ISSt. On and gw Abies and Rule 3 K la rededgnated ership.' The maritime union, whose members are dependent on tho aftw <>etober 1. ISBS, « Claw A A seniority to the point aentertty taUng Aatt be DatMb'^mbef 'e-l ThdUdtryj cahnpt phi^lt this incapacity to go unchallenged. • * 511/ Seniority Rules Amended il:; AMMI: Maritime Menace �SEAFARBRS , lOG Wtvtt<mhmv It, 19SS Par* Thre* Boost Vacation Pay To $360 A $360 annual Tacatlon pay rate, involvingr a $100 increase over the old scale, has been established for Seafarers effective as of September 1. The new scale will be paid on all seatime worked by a Seafarer after that date. The $360 benefit level-^' time and still collect on a propor­ benefit no matter how many ships was made possible by the tionate basis. The only limitation they sailed. It started making 30 cents per man per day in the Plan is that discharges payments at a $140 annual rate should not be more than one year in 1952. There have been several increase in vacation contri­ old. in annual benefits since butions that the Union The SIU Plan was the first in the increases then, to $176 in 1954, $244 in 1955, won from SlU-contracted industry to provide for vacation $260 in 1956 and now to $360, the operators. The contribution playments by the operators into largest increase since the Plan increase was part of the set­ a common kitty so that men could was established. tlement on major money items that was reached iast month. Subsequently, Union and em­ ployer trustees of the Seafarers Vacation Plan voted to set the new benefit level at $369. One Month's Pay For practical purposes, the $360 annual benefit is equivalent to one SAVANNAH—^The focal point for still another xmsuccess.month's base wages for crcwmembers employed in the ratings of ful raid by the National Maritime Union, the former SS Na­ ' Six man rank ond file credentials committee checks SIU nominees' AB, quartermaster; watertender, tional Freedom', resumed sailing imder the SIU banner last papers. They are (I to r) G. Principe, P. Morinelli, O. W. oiler, fireman-watertender and week as the SS Valiant Free--^"" Emanuel, S. L McCormick, W. C. Brown and chairman P. Patrick firemen. In effect then, the new bareboated her out To another vacation scale means a cash bene­ dom. company. Manned by Seafarers until fit equivalent of one month's va­ Under'a bareboat agreement, the cation for one year's work, one- the end of 1954 when she went charterer furnishes the crew. As a half month's vacation for six Liberian, the ex-National Freedom result, under the existing SIU con­ was targeted for an NMU raid last months aboard ship and one-quar­ ter month's vacation for every May when her owners got Federal tract with Martis Steamship, which Maritime Board permission to also operates the John B. Kulukunthree months time. Under the SIU Vacation Plan, bring her back under the US flag. dis, the ship crewed out of the SIU Seafarers have the option of col­ The NMU tactics kept the ship hall here. Seafarers went to Charleston to take the ship out, NEW YORK—A six-man rank-and-file credentials commit­ lecting vacation money as soon as bottled up In a Charleston ship­ and she is now enroute to India they have accumulated 90 days' yard, where she was being sur­ tee, consisting of two men from the deck, engine and steward discharges. Or, if they wish, they veyed and refitted, until her own- with a load of grain and a new departments, was elected by the membership In headquarters can accumulate more days of sea-' era. National Shipping and Trading, name. The developments surrounding at the last regular' meeting,| the return of the National Freedom Bill Hall, assistant secretaryto US registry and the bui>. aquent treasurer reported. NMU raiding attempt parallel the This committee is now reviewing case of the ex-Rion, which occurred aU of the applications of members at about the same tiiuc. n that who have nominated themselves as situation, NMU also tried to move candidates in the coming Union in when the SlU-contracted own­ elections and wiU certify those ers, Actium Steamship, sold her to who have fulfilled all of the con­ a newly-formed shipping firm. stitutional requirements heeded to Mack Klosty, Inc. hold office in the SIU. The one SIU Filed Charges month nominating period, whieh An arrangement between Klosty opened August 12th, closes as of and the NMU resulted in the re­ midnight tonight, September 12th. placement of the existing SIU crew . A subsequent edition of the SEA­ with a predominantly-NMU crew, FARERS LOG will carry a special despite the wishes of SIU crewsupplement containing photo­ members to remain aboard. The graphs and statements of each of result was that the SIU filed the certified- candidates discrimination charges against Shipping for this port. Hall said, Klosty, while SIU pickets pro­ while slightly under the prior tested the manning of the ship. period's High of 285, was still con­ Idled in a Hoboken shipyard as sidered good. These totals, he the SS Maurice George at the time, noted, do not reflect the true the former Rion was sold a short shipping picture for class A men time later to World Carriers, an in this port since out of the total SlU-contracted operator, which of 270 jobs shipped during the bareboated her out to another SIU period, more than 60 of them were company. The ship was renamed filled by class 0 cards. the Pacific Carrier and soon after Taking this into consideration, Group of SS Atlantic crewmembers relax in steward department messhall on ship's last stopover in was crewed by Seafarers and sailed he said, it would appear that many New York. Seafarer Marion Payne (center) catches up on National Labor Relations Board decision for Europe. Class A and B men are either in favor of SIU. At left are-Seafarers Allen Friend and S. Bernstein. The wind-up in both cases was on vacation now or are waiting for that the NMU merely exposed its a particular run or ship. Representatives of the SIU and American Banner Lines reached agreement last week eagerness to snatch SIU jobs, since There were 26 vessels paying off on an interim contract setting forth company recognition of SIU bargaining rights and basic both ships have now returned in this port during the past period. working conditions for unlicensed personnel on the tourist liner SS Atlantic. imder the SIU banner. They were the Alcoa Polaris, Alcoa The accord came a day be­ Puritan, Alcoa Pennant-(Alcoa); Frances, Suzanne (Bull); Steel Ap­ fore the Atlantic arrived back gional dir^ector stated: "It does not maiden sailing in June, the NMU prentice, Steel Recorder (Isth- in New York from her fifth appear that further proceedings pulled most of its men off the ship. Sept. 12, 1958 Vol. XX, No. 19 main); Bienville, Fairland, Gate­ voyage to Europe. Working on are warranted inasmuch as there It thus exposed its objective as way, Beauregard (Pan-Atlantic); a quick turnaround schedule, the is insufficient evidence to substan­ harassment of the new operation, Seatrain Georgia, Seatrain New SIU crew got the Banner Line tiate the charge. I am, therefore, rather than a beef over porkchops York, Seatrain Louisiana, Seatrain vessel out again the next day, refusing to issue complaint in this and jobs for its membership. The same harassment tactic, as Savannah (Seatrain); Robin Hood, Saturday, September 6, with the matter." PAUL HALU Secretary-Treasurer reported in the LOG two months . Few NMU Applicants newly-established conditions al­ Robin Trent, Robin Gray (Robin); HDIBERT BEtANO. Editor. BERNABO SEA­ ago in the case of the ex-SS Rion, Characteristically, the NMU had Atlantis (Petrol Shipping); Ames ready in effect. MAN, Art BdUof. HERMAN APIHUH. 1BWIN also accomplished nothing follow­ SPIVACK, Ah MASKIN, JOHN BRAZIL, HER­ filed its charges of SlU-coippany Meanwhile, apparently still un­ Victory (Victory Carriers); Jean MAN MAKLER, Staff Writers. Bnx MOODT, jLaFitte, Iberville (Waterman) and able to concoct any proof to sub­ collusion last May even before ing an abortive NMU raiding at­ Gulf Area Representative. stantiate its flimsy Taft-Hartley Banner Line started hiring a crew. tempt involving the former SIUthe Orion Comet (Colonial), ; Pages 12, 14 i Signing on during the last two charges against the SIU and the Moreover, despite^he large num­ maidied National Freedom. (See Letters adjoining story.) Editorials Page ll ber of Jobs up for competition, the company, the National Maritime weeks were the Alcoa Polaris,. Appeal Pending Dollars Worth Page 7 Alcoa Puritan, Alcoa Pennant Union called on the general coun­ NMU Indicated the Insincerity-of Pending the final outcome of the Labor Roundup ...... i... Page 6 (Alcoa); Steel Apprentice (Isth­ sel of the National Labor Rela­ its charges over the hiring in mian); Charles Dunaif (Colonial); tions Board in Washington for Mobile when it failed to muster NMU appeal to the labor board's SIU Shipping ........... Page 4 biweekly er the needquartere Robin Hood, Robin Gray (Robin), more time to file a petition of re­ anywhere near the number of . men general counsel,^ the Atlantic, urst Publithed the Seafareri International Union, At­ tourist-class liner under the Ameri­ of the Fairland and the Beauregard view. It now has until October 13 to match the open berths. lantic « Gulf District, AFL-CIO, «75 Fourth Brooklyn II NY. Tel. HYaelnth As a result, a large majority of can flag, is now luider . the SIU Avenue. ' Among the in-transit vessels to file its appeal of the decision 9-etoa. second class postage paid were the Val Chem (Heron); Steel by the NLRB's New York regional the 500 qualified Seafarers who banner. Negotiations for a formal at the Post Office in Brooklyn, NY, under ttio Act of Auf. M. itia. SIU contract covering all aspects Worker (Isthmian), Michael (Car- director throwing out the charges were on hand secured, jobs. The 12B of the passenger ship operation are SiU margin was further widened for lack of any evidence. rasl and the CS Baltimore (Cities continuing. theAUantiC'i Service). . In a niUjjgiO^ Aosust 2l, V»>:r9r when, on the,eye -kii /^\I •i r'A I Raid Fails, Ship Crewed By SIU HQ Credentials Group Checking On Candidates Agree On Interim Banner Pact 'il SEAFARERS LOG - -(iis •' '^<v| �ffTvU |3^'' II' pI)"'' li,: I SEAtARERS Labor Day Means $ To Mobile Men IOC ScVtemWr lJE. l9St SEAFARERS ROTARY SHIPPINO OOARD From August 20 Through September 2, 1958 (Editor's note; Under the new reporting system for SIU shlp- Baltimore, Houston and San Francisco maintained the status quo. This MOBILE—Labor Day had a doutilt meaning for the membership In plng. the summaries below give the complete pictiire in each de­ maintained the good shipping, for the first two and the relative quiet thin port, Cal Tanner, port agent partment by seniority class, Job group and port, tneludlng Uie num­ for the Golden Gate area. Among the ports that declined, MobUe was noted. For while it represented a ber of men remaining on the beach. Seafarers comlnr Into pert to the only one with a substantial drop. day dedicated to the working man. register can pick their spots by checking the "registered on the The totals by seniority classes varied only slightly. Class A men ac­ It also meant the start of the beach" totals alongside the shipping totals fw their department.) counted for 63 percent of all jobs dispatched this thne, compared to monetary terms of the new SIU SIU shipping this period fell oif a bit more from the year­ 64 percent in the previous period. Class B was the same, at 26 percent, contract. The Alcoa-Corsair was and Class C men picked up the 'slight difference. the first vessel in this port to sign long high set a month ago, with most of the decline evident on under the agreement and ail in the steward department. The total number of jobs shipped Overall, the port totals of men on the beach remained the best In­ hands were well satisfied with their was 1,020, while registration rose slightly to 1,138. As a result, the dicator of the shipping picture and its potential for men already reg­ figures for men registered on the beach at the end of the period also istered or just coming Into port Boston, Philadelphia, Savannah, Tam­ new wage scales. pa, Lake CHiarles, Wilmington and Seattle reported 100 or less men on showed a small increase. The Alabama State docks, the beach In all departments—^Philadelphia was high with 88. All of The actual numerical differences since the previous report were 36 opened two years ago, are finally these except Boston and Philadelphia had less than 50 top seniority operating in the black. Unfortu­ more men registered and 63 less shipped, leaving 89 more men regis­ (class A) men on the hand in all departments. Seattle was high with 43, tered on the beach. The variation in these totals is accounted for pri­ nately, the increased revenue comes marily by routine re-registrations, retirements, deaths and hospital Ibe following is the forecast port by port: Boston: Fair . . . New' foreign shipping interests. from Yeili: Always'good . . . Fhlladelifiiia: Fair . . . BalUmore: Good . . . Tanner reported. The dock grain cases. elevator was largely responsible However, three ports were able to show improved shipping and three Norfolk: Slow ... Savannah: Slow .. . Tampa: Fair ... Mobile: Should for the increase with more than 15 others stayed the same as before. Philadelphia, New Orleans and Seat­ be better . . . New Orleans: Good . . . Lake (jharles: Fair . . . Houstont foreign grain Ships being serviced tle reported a rise which, in the case of Philadelphia, was considerable. 'Good ... Wilmington: Fair .. . San Francisco: Quiet... Seattle: Fair. there during the last six weeks. However it is hoped that more VS-fiag ships will take advantage of these new modern facilities and boost shipping for the port. Ammo Dump fmproved Registered Registered Shipped Shipped Shipped TOTAL Regldend On The Beach On the brighter side, the Govern­ CLASS A CLASS C CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B SHIPPED CLASS A . CLASS M ment has started face-lifting opera­ GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP tions on the old Theodore ammu­ Port 3 1 3 1 3 13 1 2 8 1 2 3 ABC _AU _1^2 2 2 3 12 2 nition depot for the stock-piling Boston 1 7 1 1 2 2 9 18" 4 1 — 2 4 a of Government bauxite. Several New York 14 34 22 2 — 6 73 19 9 8 10 51 12 2 8 9 98 102 164 62 3 22 26 hundred acres are going to be Philadelphia .... 4 11 3 2 9 2 3 1 9 17 6 — 1 35 2 1 42 12 17 4 6 1 — 12 3 2 36 9 9 15 29 9 7 7 paved with shell and gravel in or­ Baltimore 1 — 53 39 111 20 7 24 43 — 6 4 — 2 3 2 7 — 2 — 4 8 6 4 1 11 17 9 der to allow the dump trucks to Norfolk — 2 2 — 5 8 3 3; 4 1 _ 1 1 — 2 — 1 1 .bring the bauxite from Mobile to Savannah — — _ 3 3, — — 2 — 1 1 10 4 Theodore. The SIU hall here is Tampa _ 3 6 11 4 7 3 3 15 26 "37 12 5 — 1 2 2 5 4 waiting for word from contracted MobUe — — 4 New Orleans ... 8 17 6 3 6 35 46 41 6 16 19 9 5 11 1 10 11 4 companies as to the number of Lake Charles ... 2 _ 4 3 3 2 3 6 3 — 4 2 3 6 16 3 5 vessels they will use to bring the Houston 9 6 10 7 18 6 a 43 27 21 '6 — 8 32 31 12 a 12 12 8 1 million and a half tons of bauxite Wilmington .... 2 6 1 — 3 3 . 2 3 1 1 — 1 2 11 4 9 1 1 6 1 2 1 — Into the port. This could supply San Francisco .. 1 17 2 — 6 1 12: 12 4 ,5 1 1 3 2 2 24 — . 1 7 6 a large number of jobs for the men Seattle 2l[ 11 3 7 1! — 6 3 3 10 13 • 6 1- 3 4 1 4 4 on the beach here. Alcoa, as a major operator in this trade, expected to put a number of ships on the run. The membership attending the Registered Registered Shipped Shipped Shipped TOTAL Registered On The Beach last regular meeting in this port CLASS A CLASS B CLASS C . CLASS A CLASS B SHIPPED CLASS A CLASS B voted down a proposal to limit the GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP time a man may ship on any one Port 3 1 1 2 3 1 3 1 3 1 C AU 1 2 2 2 2 2 A B 3 1 2 2 8 vessel. It was pointed out during Boston __ 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 11 1 5 2 the discussion that this one of the New York 39 7 1 18 21 7 10 38 10 8 5 i 7 98 57 175 20 9 25 1 5 58 83 32 24 privileges of having an J5IU book, Philadelphia ... 1 5 — 3 2 33 1 7 _ 1 15 2 2 24 5 4 1 4 18 1 2 1 and that shipping for the area had Baltimore ...... 9 32 8 1 8 12 5 23 7 2 7 1 2 1 35 15 4 54 16 87 11 1 23 27 been such that it would not be Norfolk ........ 1 — .... 3 S . 2 7 1 1 3 .1 8 3 6 6 — 5 22 1 11 8 — — — necessary to limit a man's time on Savannah ...... 1 .1 . 2 4 1 5 1 3 1 9 1 — ' —« Tampa 2 1 1 pne ship. 4 — 1 4 9 __ 2 — 1 — • 2 ~2 "f ; — 4 6 15 2 — 7 2 2 2' 4 5 — 1 14 20 52 4 4 2 1 9 Shipping for the port had Mobile 22 7 2 7 4 1 32 11 45 18 3 1 11 1 42 5 4 6 8 slowed somewhat over the last New Orleans.... 3 26 —5 — _ 2 7 8 9 2 4 2 1 1 1 9 3 5 period. Tanner reported, with only Lake Charles.... 2 ' — . — 27 14 — .... 3 • 18 6 — 7 3 5 20 2 10 4 41 6 21 2 1 5 7 a few men getting off their vessels Houston « — Wilmington .... 2 8 — 1 3 2 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 9 2 13 1 1 2 2 when they called into-the area. San Francisco... 4 3 2 — 18 -Y —. 3 4 7 6 26 1 .- 8 2 6 4 There were nine vessels paying Seattle — 7 — 1 6 2 1 — 2 2 1 7 3 3 1 8 1 4 13 1 12 — 2 9 B off during the period, three sign­ ing on and two in-transits. The outlook for the coming period is not too good as there are only 11 vessels'scheduled to call at the Shipped Shipped TOTAL Registered Registered Shipped Registered On The Beach jwrt. DECK DEPARTMENT ItC-,. 14-" I?' Ife: p. It- 'i -.i_ ENGINE DEPARTMENT .W?- |3 • Ir I is'l W/' If"-' W: |V:';,, m STEWARD DEPARTMENT Port Boston ......... New York PhUadelphia ... Baltimore ...... Norfolk Savannah ...... Tampa Mobile New Orleans.... Lake Charles.... Hoirston ....... Wilmington .... San Francisco... Seattle 'W' ife:' TOTALS DECK ENGINE STEWARD 4'; IK; •- lie SJi GRAND TOTAL CLASS B CLASS A GROUP GROUP 3 1 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 _ 5 2 19 8 26 1 1 11 3 3 8 4 9 6 18 2 10 3 2 1 1 11 8 1 2 1 __ 1 4 4 1 7 3 10 6 10 4 25 8 1 3 1 2 1 1 8 4 7 4 3 9 1 2 2 2 2 5 7 1 1 3 1 2 . 7 i "i Registered Registered CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP 12 3 1 2 2 67 185 58 8 42 ^ 63 176 32 6 69 51 75 41 114 12 14 75 195 402 204 26 125 186 801 • CLASS A GROUP 3 1 2 1 13 1 8 2 15 2 16 ._ 2 — ' — 3 _ 1 4 5 1 3 26 7 _ __ . 4 3 7 8 __ 1 — 2 1 4 3 1 — n Shipped CIASS A CLASS B GROUP 3 2 1 6 1 — 2 1 "2 .i..' 't —__ I _ — 1 CLASS C GROUP 2 8 1 _ — 1 31 11 11 S — — 1 — 8 11 ... _ 2 •3 — ' — ' M _ 3 11 7 2 .... —• a— 11 -r— 2 —mm 3 7 — 1 •— Shipped^ CLASS C Shipped CLASS B GROUP GBOUP 8 12 8 12 17 54 72 161 49 9 31 142 38 a 62 34 56 19 80 9 159 322 167 26 14 151 SHIPPED CLASS A B C 1 1 14 7 53 25 9 1 29 15 3 2 8 — — 4 8 — 8 10 36 11 7 2 __ 4 18 11 — 2 — 1 7 .. 8 __ 8 4 1 TOTAL SHIPPED CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP AU 1 3 1 2 2 8 2 11 4 2 ^ 1 6 74 10& 46 133 9 » 28 35 10 1 — 4 47 52 13 28 6 83 5 8 6 1 8 1 12 — 4 1 2 1 7 8 9 2 T 2 13 85 12 81 — 18 _ 54 28 8 49 •v. 1 18 6 8 1 .— 8 29 10 7 8 4 4 3 5 •8 2 8 — 1 To 17 1 12 13 6 1 5 "i i - "T GROUP 2 8 81 11 35 21 56 643 261 111 11020 738 1121 463 62 — 8 6 .... 1 t Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B CLASS GBOUP A B C All 12 3 17 282 80 20 I 382 296 515 127 15 211 104 25 I 340 135 506 46 24 155 77 66 1 298 307 100 290 1 2 1 2322 1 GROUP _2 a 27 91 124 16 115 98 19 17 141 228 862 648 �September 1«, ISSt SEAFARERS tOC "From 1926 to 19431 really had a tough time sailing on non­ union and poor union ships." retired Seafarer Vladslavis Kelpess recalls. The first date was the year he started sailing on a Latvian sailing ship, 1943,"^ which he was the bosun when the year he joined the SIU, on she docked in NY. During the seventeen years Almost immediately, he was K( between,, Kelpess shuttled all over |ht world on every kind of vessel under foreign flag. In 1938, with Europe on the brink of war and the Baltic Sea heavUy mined, he was flown to Holland by the Lat­ vian Shipping Company to man one their ships. From then on he Shipped out of England, holding down all of the engine ratings on Greek, Swedish, Norwegian and Canadian ships. In February of 1943, Kelpess 11Kelpess Ually made it to the US, leaving the Swedish ship BME Boosts Benefits For Engineers The Brotherhood of Marine Engineers has obtained sweeping Improvements in the BME welfare plan which will provide expanded coverage for engineers, their wives and children and their dependent parents. The new schedule increases hos­ pital benefits for engineers and dependents from $100 to $150; raises benefits for doctors' visits to the same level; increases death benefits to $3,500 from the old $3,000 figure and makes dependent parents of unmarried engineers eligible for family coverage. The $150 hospital coverage goes for actual hospital expenses each time an engineer, his wife or de^ pendent child is an in-patient in a hospital. Surgical expenses and visits to the hospital are also covered by the BME plan on the same levels as before. •The doctors' visits benefit in­ volves office calls by engineers or family members or calls at the engineer's home at a maximum of $5 per visit, and up to $20 for specialist calls. Eye care and chiro­ practic treatment are also covered. Eligibility under the BME plan is one day's work in the past 90 days and 90 days in the. previous calendar year. Page Hrp See US Tramps Hard-Hit Under Forced Lay-Up Plan A worW-wide trampship operators' plan to keep Liberty ships idle until the end of the current shipping slump could have important repercussions on SlU-contracted companies. The plan calls for the tramps to set up a pool aid pay owners to keep their tonnage idle until charter rates go up to a more 4^ of "transfer-backs" of Liberty carriers for the foreigners' shars lucrative level. In effect, the plan would be tonnage because of cargoes avail­ of US Government cargo. Practically all US-flag tramp of major benefit to the operators able under the "50-50". law. The assigned by the War Shipping Ad­ of new bulk tonnage under run­ US tramp fleet had shrunk to such operations consist of World War ministration to an SUP-manned away ships at the expense of a low point that it was easier for II Liberty and Victory ships, so vessel heading for Omaha Beach to American-flag shipping which, in a tramp to get American-flag that American-flag shipping would assist in the Normandy invasion. the tramp category, consists main­ "50-50" cargo than compete with be the most severely affected by In May of that year, Kelpess be­ ly of Libertys and Victorys. the many hundreds of foreign bulk such a proposal. came an SIU member while con­ The result would be to put many tinuing to sail as AB, bosun and US-flag ships out of business and carpenter. to give runaway ships a profitable His experiences on foreign ships market in the form of higher rates made him acutely aware of the for-carriage of "50-50" bulk cargo importance of a strong union in such as farm surplus. maritime, and consequently, Kel­ The proposal is being circulated pess was active in the SIU as an Manuel Kulukimdis, who is organizer as well as in other phases by president of the Greek Shipown­ of Union activity. WASHINGTON—^Under a law recently signed by President It was smooth sailing for him ers New York Committee and who Eisenhower, Seafarers who were drafted into the armed forcea has an interest in a number of SIUuntil early in 1956. He was aboard the MontebeUo Hills on the Per­ contracted tramp vessels. It would or those who joined up under the abbreviated six-months tour sian Gulf-Far East run, when he consist of two parts: An annual of duty and who have been-^ was stricken by a heart attack payment to Liberty ship owners in discharged, will be eligible for plo3rment agencies and hot tha which has kept him from return­ the vicinity of $22,500 a year if unemployment compensation Veterans Administration, and tha ing to seafaring life. He retired in they keep their ships in lay-up, and while waiting to ship out. The stricter state rules of eligibility August, 1956 and since then, has a bonus of around $95,000 to Liber­ new benefit will go Into effett the apply to other unemployed work­ ers, will apply to veterans. This been receiving the $150 monthly ty operators' who sell the vessels last week of October. means that a veteran must accept disability-pension from the SIU for scrapping. While patterned after the "52About 500 Libertys and similar 20 Club" used after World War II a suitable job if one is available, Welfare Plan. Kelpess lives Just a subway stop World "War II ships would be and Korea, under which discharged including those listed with the away from New, York SIU head­ affected by the proposals, but only servicemen could receive $20 a state agency. However, Seafarers are remind­ a small percentage of these are week for 52 weeks, the new law quarters at 217 - 42nd St. He is especially happy with visits still under the American flag. The will extend jobless unemployment ed that many states, including New from Ike Isaak, who was steward US tramp fleet has been decimated compensation for the first time to York, have ruled that a shoresida on the MontebeUo Hills when he by transfers to runaway flags "peacetime" servicemen. However, job of the same nature or title' as that one aboard ship is not con­ was stricken, since it was he who since 1954. the benefit will vary in amount and sidered a suitable job for a seaman However, in recent months, duration as set by individual state Kelpess credits with saving his waiting to ship out in that rating. I there have been a growing number laws. life. The amount of compensation Until now, former servicemen, paid to a veteran wili be determin­ except for those who served in ed by his military pay before dis­ Eligibility requirements for the $35 weekly SIU disability-pen­ the last World War or in Korea, charge and his various service al­ sion consiiit of the following; had to establish a civilian job rec­ lowances. , In New York, there­ Seafarers physically unable to work, no matter what their age, ord before being eligible for un­ fore, it is possible for a discharged who have 12 years of seatime plus the Plan's standard eligibility employment compensation. That veteran to be eligible for benefits requirement, can apply for and receive the benefit. The seatime is no longer necessary. has to be with SlU-contracted companies. equal to the state's maximum un­ Seafarers who are of age 65 or over, and also meet the 12-year The new act differs from the employment payment of $45 a week seatime requirement plus the Plan's standard eligibility pro­ World War II law in that it will! for $39 weeks, provided he was in vision, can also obtain coverage under this benefit be administered by state unem- a high pay bracket in the service. Jobless $ For Peacetime Vets Starts in October Health Center 'Open House' "Family day" every Thurs­ day at the SIU medical center in Brooklyn has long shown its usefulness to Seafarers and their families who use the modem SIU Welfare Plan facility. At far left, technician checks eyes of John McHale, Jr., 3. Meanwhile, Seafarer Sou Shek brings his family in for check-up. Seated with doc­ tor is Harrming. 10, while dad, Mrs. Shek, James,' 5, and May Ling, look on. Below, techni­ cian takes blood sample from Harrming. At far left, doctor takes blood pressure reading on Mrs. Rose Salaziar. OufporfCaUs Help In 5F SAN FRANCISCO — Shipping for this port has been on the slow Bide as there were no vessels pay­ ing off or signing on during the period. However 28 men were shipped as replacements on the seven in-transit vessels which - were in port for servicing, and a . number of others were sent to outports which were low on rated inen.. The in-transit vessels were the Madaket, Choctaw, Falrport (Wa'terman)); the Calmar, Yorkmar /<Calmar; Steel Architect (Isthmi­ an) and the Alcoa Partner (Alcoa). - 'I': �fe'r p(/' m Sr'-- • SEAFARERS Pace fix Hogan's 3rd Generation LOG Use Only One Mali Address September U, 195t. Interim Report By NLRB Examiner Issued On ACS Seafarers with beefs regard­ ing slow payment of monies doe from various operators in back wages and disputed overtime should first check whether ^ey An intermediate report has been issued by National Labor have a proper mailing address Relations Board trial examiner Thomas Wilson in the Ameri­ on file with the company. SIU headquarters officials point out can Coal Shipping case, on the basis of charges filed against • ^ that reports received from sev­ the company by the SIU. .Briefly, the trial examiner been operated by the company. eral operators show checks have The NLRB examiner dismissed been mailed to one address held that the contract ACS had while a beef on the same score signed with the National Maritime 324 individual claims Of dlscrimina-: Is sent from another, thus cre­ Union was vklld on one ship—the tion against the company. He in­ ating much difficulty In keeping SS Coal Miner—and that it was a dicated that the intervention of "technical- violation" with respect District 50 of the United Mine accounts straight. to all the other ships that had Workers was responsible for the whole situation that had developed in ACS. In addition, the examiner was highly critical of the action of-the company in signing an agreement with District 50 for licensed offlcers. He declared that the decision A walkout by 9,000 members of work" law, while verbally agree­ to deal with District 50 "amounted the Steelworkers Union at Tlmken ing to accept the pattern set up almost to an act of genius in fo­ Roller Bearing Co. In Ohio., over for the Industry, was actually try­ menting labor strife ... If it had pension rights has entered its ing to break the union by forcing not been for the agreement with sixth week. The union set up a walkout in a period of recession. District 50, this whole mtxed-up picket lines In protest of the com­ Under the Industry pattern, work­ mess would probably have been pany's refusal to grant vested pen­ ers who are furloughed and not straightened out amicably be­ sion rights to employees of at recalled after reaching the-mini­ tween the parties." least 15 years of service who have mum seniority level are entitled to The NMU had supported District Larry F. Hogon, former SIU wiper and now a Novy man, proudly been laid off and not recalled In reduced pension benefits tipon re­ 50's contract covering the licensed shows off Lawrence, Jr., grandson of Seafarer Lowrence P. Hogan, two years. The union charged tirement. officers on ACS ships as a legit­ a veteran of the American Coal beef. Mrs. Hogan, child's grand­ that Timken, one of the state's 4^ » » imate agreement despite protests leading supporters of a "right-tomother, lends helping hand. Representatives of the Motor- by AFL-CIO mates and engineers men's Benevolent Association and unions and by AFL-CIO headquar­ the Transport Workers Union have ters. District 50, an affiliate of tho reached an agreement making the UMW, is also a p^rt-owner of tha Motormen a division of the TWU. company. Under the agreement the MBA, The NLRB examiner's decision Is A guide to assist in interpretation of New York State's new law barring job disCriminawhich claims to represent 2,600 of not final. It must now go to tha 'tion because of age has just been issued by the State Commission Against Discrimination New York City's 8,100 subway Board in Washington. At the sama Similar bans are already in effect against job bias due to race, color or nationality motormen, wiU become a division time, prior to the Board's consid­ Veteran Seafarers are advised^ of the 'TWU's Local 100 and wiU eration of Examiner Wilson's re­ to note the rulings as ihey is past the maximum entrance age the Job. The fact that he may accept the cuirent contract be­ port, each party has 20 days in: may apply to themselves, and specifie'd in the plan. The com­ only qualify for reduced benefits tween the TWU and the NY City which to file exceptions in the form to notify the SIU of any problems mission says In such cases, where o];,none at all upon reaching the Transit Authority. 'The pact calls of briefs, imless additional time is an applicant meets the other plan's compulsory retirement age for the reorganization of the local granted for this purpose by tba that arise. Effective July 1, 1958, the law qualifications, he has a right to cannot be the basis for barring him. to allow the MBA a greater voice Board. on motormen's problems. It will As far as American Coal Is con­ puts the burden of pfoof on the also provide simlliar division sta­ cerned, the decision is academic employer that the rejection of a tus for other groups of transit as of the moment. The only dry ' Job applicant was not based pri­ workers which are regarded as cargo ship the'company owns, tha marily on age, unless it can be qualified on the basis of their Coal Miner, has. been laid up for shown that age is a bona fide fac­ skills, training or classification. more than seven weeks in Staten tor in job performance. The The agreement, reached under the Island. It had previously been In rules also cover discrimination supervision of AFL-CIO President the grain trade; Another American because of age by employment George Meany, was designed to Coal ship, the recently-purchased agencies, labor organizations or avoid any possibility of a repeti­ tanker Conoco Lake Charles, was in the Issuing of a license which tion-of last December's strike by last reported in the oil trade. may effect a person''s jbb chances. A report on the meaning of tha the MBA which tied up the city's The ban refers primaflly to job subway service. ^. examiner's finding will appear In bias against "over-age" persons, the next Issue of the LOG. Mean­ as in cases where an applicant 4^ » 4^ must be under 35, or between 25 while, SIU attorneys are prepar­ In a. drive to prevent fires In ing appropriate papers for presen­ and 35, or where a job order only small shops and factories which tation to the Board before final specifies the a "young man" or have taken a number of lives in decision is rendered. "young woman" is wanted. These the past, New York Local 1 of the qualifications are considered un­ Pocketbook and Novelty Workers lawful unless age Is a bona fide union has elected 1,000 fire ward­ factor in the performance qf the ens from Its membership to carry job, or in selecting applicants for out an extensive fire prevention an apprentice training program or program. The program is aimed in complying with other statutes, at eliminating fire hazards and at such as laws regulating the. em­ training union members to deal ployment of minors and women. with emergency fire situations. Exams Lawful The action arose out of the disasPre-employment physical examlBrotherhood of Marine Engi­ terous March 19 fire In lower nations to determine if an indi­ HE tima to gat your an­ Manhattan factory which claimed neers president, Ray McKay, la set vidual meets certain .minimum to be reelected without opposition nual check-up at the SIU 25 lives. physical standards are lawful, pro­ in balloting for union office which Health Center is right after 4^ » vided these standards are reason­ starts October 1. A rank and file you come ashore. That ably necessary for the performance The Plumbers and Pipefitters credentials committee aliso re­ way, In case the axamlnaof the joh and are uniformly ap­ Union has reached an agreement ported to the BME headquarters tion shows you need treat­ plied to all applicants for the Job. setting the pattern for wage In­ meeting on September 9 that nlna ment, all your health needs An employer's policy of term­ creases for plumbers In the con­ other candidates in addition to inating the employment of every tan be taken care of be­ struction Industry and providing McKay have qualified for seven' worker reaching the age of 60 is for a, revised hiring procedure. open spots. fore you ship out again. • also subject to challenge unless The new minimum wage scales will Acting Treasurer Leon Berlage Don't wait until just before the boss can substantiate his cover some 150,000 workers em­ is also unpposed In his first bid you ship. Do it now/ . claim that a worker over 60 canhot ployed by 26 of the nation's larg­ for election as treasurer, as are perform the work involved or the est construction firms. Journey­ Business Manager Gordon Spen­ work is very highly specialized. men plumbers and pipefitters will cer, running for the post of "VJceFOT practical purposes then, a received Increases from $2.75 to President-business manager In man's physical condition, not his $2.90 an hour and foremen from Philadelphia. age, is the crucial issue in deter­ $3 to $3.15. These rates will not Paul H. Isham and incumbent mining the employment of older apply to the New York area or John W.. Regan are contesting for men. In this respect, th6 laws any other local contract providing the office of vice-president-busi­ against discrimination conform for scales In excess of these min- ness manager In San Francisco, iVith the SlU policy of assuring Imums. In New York a Joumey- and five candidates are competing emplojment to Seafarers irrespec­ mao pluiiiber receives $4.25 an for file three spots on the ipiloa'i tive of age who are fit for duty. hour, plus 13 percept of his hourly board of trustees. The rules also apply to cases wage rate and 10 cents an hour Voting will continue" until N<H where a job applicant seeks a job for fringe benefits. He also re­ vember 31 with new officers takf qqyered by ,a retirement, plan ;With ceives, $3 a day fqr fegnjrl^, bene- Ing their posts as of January 1, a compulsory retirement age. and ; 1959 for a four year ternv • Age No Job Barrier In NY t-" i !»-. fe- BME Head Unopposed In Voting It's Time T for Y^ur Check-Up fe'^. y,-:••-• m-'ir-, - I IS?::-- �^piember 12; IftSt SeAFAKtRS Pace Serea' LOJG Hi WD Wins Trailership Vofe YOUR DOIM'S WORTH ',fi i •h Seafarer's Guide To Better Buying By Sidney Margolius Living Costs Going Down? You'll find your living costs leveling off and even dropping slightly this fall as food, especially meat, gets a little cheaper. But the com­ bination of inflation and unemployment already has done its idamage to wage-earners. In all, there's been a shrinkage of about four per cent in the aver­ age worker's buying power the past year. The most serious situatioq is in mortgage foreclosures, which have been running 19 per cent ahead of the same period in 1957, and 36 per cent ahead of 1956. In contrast, business corporations not dnly have checked their 1957 profit decline, but actually made more money in the second quarter of 1958 than in the first, the First National City Bank of New York reports. Stockholders have barely felt the recession. Dividend payments during the first half year were down less than one per cent from a ye-r ago, the Commerce Department reports. Even in the midst of record-high prices, knowing shoppers can find good buys. Here are this department's recommendations for September's outstanding values: Corduroys for children's school clothes are selling at lowest prices in recent years because the fashion pendulum has swung away from them for the moment . Even men's and women's corduroy slacks, skirts and jackets are jr^sonably priced this year. • Dacron-eotton boy'^^rtifarts for school at around the $3 mark are a big labor-saver because they resist soil, need little or no ironing, and don't w^ar out as fast as plain cotton. Preferred blend is 65 per cent Dacron, 35 cotton. . Resin-treated and polished cotton biousea for girls are available for as little as $1.50-$2 this year, and similarly resist soil and need little ironing. , . , . . Four-in-one reversible skirt, selling at around 211, is a popular and versatile style for women this year. Poultry is the standout food buy this month. Supplies of broilers and fryers are about 20 per cent more than a year ago, with prices lower. Here are tips on these and other September buying opportunities. SCHOOL CLOTHES: In comparing values in corduroys, note that some trousers are made of durable, warm twelve-ounce corduroy, others are only eight-ounce. Look for weight and good construction details as double woven knees, rather than decorative or style details, as full self-belt instead of half, which adds, a half-dollar to the price. In buying' flannels and other wool clothing for children, note that those With ten to fifteen per ceiit nylon are stronger than all-wool and better resist wear on cuffs, hems, and sleeves. Wool with Orion is even a little stronger than the wool-nylon blend. But the advan­ tage is. small compared to the much higher price of Orion-wool garments. Another useful development in children's clothes is flannel-lined denims and twills with water-repellent finish. The finish is the socalled "durable" type, which means it isnt really durable but will last through a number of washings. . . One of the most annoying and costly problems in children's and men's wear are tee shirts, updershirts,'and knit baby garments that stretch out of shape when laundered. Research by the US Agriculture Department's Institute of Home Economics finds that sometimes knit fabrics are stretched and pulled as they are manufactured. The norm­ ally round knit loops are pulled long and thin. When washed the tiny loops return to their normal round shape and the garment be­ comes shorter and wyiei'. To avoid fabrics manufactured cheaply so the loops are stretched out of shape, the researchers suggest you look for shirts with firm .even knitting, and avoid^abrics that have thin spots. You can easily see the shape of the loops with a magnifying glass, if you're deter­ mined enough to take jone shopping with you. tiut even without a glass, if you stretch a fabric a little when you shop, and hold it over a contrasting background, you'll be able to see the shape of the loops. The shape is easier to see on the wrong side of some fabrics. The more round the loops, the more likely the Imit garment will re­ tain its shape. Nearly all tee shirts can be expected to shrink, but a superior one shrinks less than five per cent, and a good one between five and ten, and they shrink evenly, the researchers found. Some of the inferior shirts shrank as much as 35 per cent in length in these tests. If you use a tumble dryer, you'^can expect additional shrinkage of knit garments, and should buy the next larger size. In buying children's jeans, note that an Ohio survey found over half the mothers reporting difficulty getting a good fit, especially in the popular, slim-hipped western style. Don't depend on age size. Gov­ ernment experts warn. Sizes of different manufacturers may vary in waist, in seam and length. Incidentally, the mothers found jeans one of the most durable garments. Girls outgrew them while boys wore them out, but in most cases did get eight months or more wear. FOOD: Pork is getting a little cheaper, but will still be rdatively expensive in early Autunm, as will beef. It's time to switch to pnedium-size eggs, how a better value per pound than large. Besides broilers, another food bargain is the biggest peach crop in eleven years. Exploit it by putting up frozen peach Jam. This uncooked Jam can be stored in a refrigerator for several months. You can get recipes for uncooked jams by writing the Office of Information, US Agriculr tiire Department, Washington 25, DC. Also look for cut prices this,|^qnth on canned and frbzen vegetables as stofbs clear Shelves'for the 1958 pack. ^ • 1 , • W I ' mtrn. ^ Victory smiles wreath faces of crew of MV New York and SlU organizers following SlU-HIWD elec­ tion win in Philadelphia. Around table (I to r) are Charlie Mosior, Norfolk SlU patrolman; Rudolph Salter, Justin Ball, ABs; Dennis Belleville, oiler; Gordon Spencer, BME Philadelphia agent; Henry Hampton, engineer; Leonard Goodwin, OS; John Hetzel, SlU patrolman; Alvin Lewis, AS; Ray Gates, SlU organizer. PHILADELPHIA—The SlU-affiliated Harbor and Inland Water­ ways Division was victorious here in a National Labor Relations Board election aboard the MV Ifew York, a converted LST in the coastwise service. The New York operates as a roll-on, roll-off ves­ sel between Camden, New Jersey, and Norfolk, Virgina; carrying up to 50 large truck vans. Owned by Van-Ship, Inc., a New York concern, the vessel is the first roll-on ship in the coastwise trade. Only one vote was cast against the HIWD in the NLRB voting. SlUf representatives are now seeking an agreement patterned after the contract with the Willis fleet, which also runs in the coast­ wise service out of this port. Bait. Gives Voting BALTIMORE—Seafarers attend­ ing the regular meeting here were again reminded to make sure they and their families register in time for the state elections this fall. In order to facilitate registration, a notice has been placed on the bulletin board in the hall giving all of the particulars on how and where to register. Shipping has been slow and registration high for the last two weeks in this port. There are now four Ore Line vessels, three Calar ships and the Steel Rover tied up in this port, and it is anybody's gpess as to when they are coming out. The ships paying off during the period were the Jean, Emilia, Dorothy, Mae (Bull); Steel Rover, Steel Chemist (Isthmian); Oceanstar (Dolphin); Santore, Cubore, Feltore (Marven); Ocean Deborah (Ocean Trans ); Royal Oak (Cities Service) and the Bethcoaster (Calmai;). Signing on were the Oceanstar, Santore, Oecan Deborah, Feltore and the Council drove (Cities Service). In transit were the Bethcoaster, Seamar (Calmar); Steel Recorder (Isthmian); Alcoa Puri­ tan, Alcoa Ruuitef, Alcoa Pennant (Alcoa); Valiant Freedom (Martis); Oremar (Marven); Edith (Bull); Robin Trent (Robin) and the Jefferson .tyictpry Carriers). ' Mates By-Pass AMMI, Sign 31 Freight Lines With the American Merchant Marine Institute thus far re­ fusing to approve a new agreement for licensed deck officers, the Masters, Mates and Pilots are signing with individual steamship operators .on the*basis of a pact reached with a over the fact that some steamship committee of Atlantic and companies were no longer willing Gulf Steamship companies. The committee, chaired by Max Harrison, who represents a num­ ber of ship operators, had reached agreement with the mates union on a'contract package that includes pension, vacation and welfare benefits, plus a number of signifi­ cant changes in contract rules. •At last report pome 31 steamship companies operating approximate­ ly 100 ships had signed the pact. Among major companies signing were Alcoa, Waterman and Mis­ sissippi. Negotiations are now in progress with other companies in­ cluding Isbrandtsen, Isthmian, Victory Carriers, Calmar and others including Collier compa­ nies. Ralph Casey, president of the AMMI, assailed the union for ne­ gotiating independently with the operators, instead of doing busi­ ness first with his institute. In maritime circles, the AMMI pitch was seen as reflecting concern to follow the AMMI blindly on labor relations, particularly since the fiasco of an ^MMI-engineered attempt to scab on the Marine En­ gineers Beneficial Association The major contract changes ob­ tained by the mates included the package of pension, vacation and welfare benefits similar to that won by the engineers and other improvements such as grievance boards in all ports to handle con­ tract grievances; 72 hours' notice before layoff and establishment of a - list of penalty cargoes for which premium pay .would be due. ' In addition, the union won the right to ship all reliefs through the union halls, and set up reliefs beginning at 4 P.M. SCHEDULE OF SlU MEETINGS Seafarers who have struggled with the complications of the long form tax return simply because they earned over $5,000 a year can breath easier now thanks to a new ruling by the Internal Revenue Service. The Service said that any taxpayer earning up to $10,000 a year can"now use the short form. For practical purposes, it means that most wage earners will be fil­ ing the short form return unless they have unusually heavy medical expenses and other deductions, or if they have more than $200 in income from diviaends, bank in­ terest or other ^sources not sub­ ject to the withholding tax. One reason for extending the use of the short form is .that it can be processed by computinjf equipment. Since anybody using the form Is not claiming any un­ usual deductions, the extensions of the limit to $10,000 will mean speediw handling of returns and of tax rebates where they are caUed lor. SlU membership meeN ings are held regularly every two weeks on Wed­ nesday nights at 7 PM in all SlU ports. All Sea­ farers are expected to attend; those who wish to be excused should request permission by telegram (be sure to include reg­ istration number). The next SlU meetings will be: September 17 October I October 15 October 29 $S,000-Pliis Earners Get Short Form J .'I VI •il ••''-if '•M :Vri" �Tag* Eight SB4FARBRS ANTINOUS (Walarman), Aut. S4— ' Chairman, B. Partar; Sacratary, J. Malonay. No losa—no major beefs. To cbange snip's library. Improve­ ment needed In cooking dept. Thanks to dept. delegates for cooperatioB*. Repair list to be made up. Ship's fund *28. Some disputed OT. Report on P&O and Tomllnson Victories re­ ceived. Reports accepted. Steam lines Is deck engineer work not bosun's. Beef on 3rd assistant hardtiming members of engine dept.—to be taken up with patrolman. Vote of thanks to steward dept. V- 'r •• ii- i ALMAR (Calmar), Aug. 34—Chair­ man, J. McPhaul; Secrelary,. C. Raw^ lings. Ship's fund *42.02.. Report ac­ cepted. IRENESTAR (Triton), Aug. 24 — Chairman, C. Jannatta; Secretary, H. W'- • b4V Borne disputed OT. Ship to be sougeed —very dirty. Bad Ice obtained In Karachi. See hq about filthy condition Ot ship. Ship needs iumigatlon. New delegate elected. Discussion oh - cap­ tain violating promise to put out only US money on draws. Meat very poor quality. All steak meat gone. Dis­ cussion about company not forward­ ing mall. InsuHlclent supply of lava soap, matches 4Ad washing powder when leaving States. No disinfectant aboard. *EA GARDEN (Peninsular), Aug. I —Chairman, G. Emlllu Secretary, J. Cobb. Retain copy -of previous ship's minutes. STEEL ARTISAN (Isthmian), July 34—Chairman, F. Ammons; Secretary, J. Denies. Discussion on old repair list. Engineer had slight sprain of ankle. Safety delegates elected. Beer Issued to crew. No OT beefs. New delegate elected. Tanks to be pumped—^washorater bad. Obtain list of working rules for steward dept. re: food serving, coffee, etc. Crewmembers to wear shirts and pants in pan­ try and messhall. All to observe safety rules. Do., not sit on outside rails. Keep gangway clean. ALCOA POLARIS (Alcoa), Aug. 10— Chairman, VV. Harris; Secy, J. Hannen. Repair list turned in. Two men logged. Few hours disputed ot. Re­ quest beef of fireman be taken up at payoff. Cheek on man being logged and fined. See about jury toilet aft. Keep washing machine clean. ft- Hufchlns. Need new washing machine and galley range. Hqlegate elected. Letter from hq rgad. Less noise in passageways: radios to be tuned low. Foc'sles to be sougeed: decks to be repaired. Repair list to be mailed. S-r,. YAKA (Waterman), Aug. 17—Chair­ man, N. Geno; Secretary, F. Johnson. Two men missed ship: two men logged.' Some disputed OT. Check on engine room water fountain. Repair list to be turned over to ship's dele­ gate. NEVA WEST (Bloemfleld),>Aus, 3— Chairman, J. Rawlins; Secretary, W. Gels. Ship being cleaned and painted. Keep doors closed In port. Screen doors to be put up In galley and messhall. Recreation room to be fixed up. Keep messhall clean. Vote of thanks to delegate. Camera purchased from fund. Pictures to be mailed to LOG. Delayed sailing disputed. New delegate elected. Resolution to assist qualified members In securing credit for purchasing a home. List of slop chest prices to be posted. Vote • of thanks to steward dept. for job well done and fine food. ^•; •'.-r- OCEAN EVA (Maritime Overseas), Aug. 3—Chairman, J. Burchlnal; Sec­ retary, T. Brlghtwell. Two men hos­ pitalized; one man failed to join ship: picked up replacements. Unable to secure cots. Motion to refer to nego­ tiating committee to Increase to at least 25 percent on ammunition bonus —at present only 10 percent. Uaveslop chest prices checked for over­ charge. Vote of thanks to steward dept. PACIFIC WAVE (World Tramping), Aug. 33—Chairman, M. Corel; Secre­ tary,. D. Catlln. One man hospitalized. ALCOA PIONEER (Alcoa), Aug. 11 —Chairman, R- Echkoff; - Sacy, E. Watt. No beefs. Thanks for coopera­ tion to all hands. Chief electrician hospitalized In Honolulu. Report ac­ cepted. Request slop chest be checked. BIENVILLE (Pan-Atlantic), Aug. Chairman, A. Thompson; Secy, J. Hall. One man missed ship and one quit. Everything going smoothly. Suggest janitor In Houston hall. Request port­ hole In electrician and crane mainten­ ance toilet. Also better heat requested. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for fine'food. *TEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), Aug. 10—Chairman, F. Shala; Secy., E. Dalanay. No beefs. Shipl fund *85.33. Suggest buzzer system be Installed In messruom so stand-by can answer promptly. ELIZABETH (Bull), Aug. 34—Chair­ man, J. C/lell; Secretary, W. Janlsch. No beefs. Some disputed OT. See that awning Is replaced aft. Discussion about new passes. Benches for poop needed. Return all cups to messhall. Beef about stickers being put on luggage. PACIFIC EXPLORER (Compass), Aug. 17—Chairman, M. Krcth; Secre­ tary, E. Taylor. Crew Ust sent to agent. Nev.? fans received. Ship exter­ minated for termites. One man hfispltallzed. Steward dept. bathroom secured. Quarters to be painted. Re­ pair list to be made. No beefs. Every­ thing running smoothly. SUZANNE (Bull), Aug. 34—Chalice man, G. Ortiz; Secretary, A. Araconcs. Report accepted. Motion to hold meet­ ing every other trip. Suggestion to revise method of books, dues, receipt stamping to avoid confusion later on. Disabled Get Big US Aid Boost WASHINGTON—As was expected, President Eisenhower has signed into law the amendments to the Social^Security Act providing for increases in Social Security benefits and increased payroll taxes to cover the added costs. < ! • The new law makes it pos-^ — sible for Seafarers over 50, re- ment and labor representatives percent of the Democrats were for 03iving the SIU disability pen­ should not be allowed to interfere it. The Administration had claimed sion of $150, to get as much as $266 with the right to organize and bar­ a month in . combination with their gain; and that the public be pro­ that the measure was unsatisfac­ US Social Security, with this figure tected against unfair practices by tory because it was not •strong due to go up for retirements in either labor or management. enough. Supporters of the amend­ The Administration had objected ments, including the AFL-CIO, future years to as high as $276. Other benefits are to be increased to the Kennedy-Ives amendments charged that the real reason for proportionately, effective February to the Taft-Hartley Act which dealt the defeat of the Kennedy-Ives bill with these areas. Republicans and was the opposition of business in­ of next year. In addition to increasing disabil­ Democrats are now accusing each terests to provisions which would ity benefits and other payments other for the defeat of the amend­ have required, large corporations the new law provides that wives ments, which had the qualified sup­ to report on sums spent on soand dependentis under 18 of dis­ port of the AFL-CIO. However, called "labor relations" operations. abled men are also entitled to Senator Ives, a Republican sponsor It was aimed at the heavy spending of the bill, stated that 75 percent by management on elaborate com­ proportional benefits. the Republicans in the House pany union and strikebreaking ma­ For practical purposes, it means of voted against the measure and 70 chinery. that Seafarers between the ages of 50 and 65 who are receiving dis­ ability benefits fAm the Govern­ ment can get up to a total of $232 for themselves and their families. Coupled with the SIU benefit, this makes a maximum monthly pay­ ment of $382 a month. At the same time, the law calls for an increase in taxes paid by SAN FRANCISCO—A study is underway of costs and ar­ workers for this purpose to 2^ percent; effective January 1. The rangements needed for setting up a proposed joint unionold tax rate was 214 percent. The shipowner pre-shipping medical center for members of the tax will now be paid on the first SIU Pacific District here. 4— —; $4,800 of earnings as compared to Representatives of the three vided by private doctors, since its $4,200- at present, making it a SlU-Pacific District unions main functions will be preventive double-barreled tax boost. and the operators have agreed to and diagnostic. Over the years. Social Security obtain an expert to study the pro­ Provisions are also being made taxes will continue ta rise to fi­ posed operation from every aspect. to Include the mates and engineers nance the growing outlay of benei- No definite commitments will be fits. They will reach a maximum made until the study is completed unions if they should decide to of 4V6 percent on a step-by-step_ and his recommendations have participate in the program. increase plan. been considered. Retired Seafarers, like other re­ The planned clinic, similar in tired workers, will also benefit conception to ones already in from an - increase in the amount operation in four SIU A&G ports, they can earn in a given month will provide a standard examina­ Seafarers mailing in checks without losing their benefit. The tion at a central location convenient new ceiling is $100 a month, as to members of all three unions. or money orders to the Union compared to $80 monthly under the The intention is to set up an initial to cover dues payments are old regulations. benter in San Francisco with oth­ urged to be sure to make all of In another area of interest to ers to be opened in other Pacific them payable to the SIU-A&G District. union members,' the President Coast ports later. The operation of the medical called for legislation to safe­ Some Seafarers have sent in guard labor-management relations program would be under the joint checks and money orders in the against abuses. He said such legis­ supervision of the participating un­ names of inciividual headquar­ lation should provide that Union ions and the operators, with con­ ters officials. This makes for a dues be used to advance the mem­ trol remaining in the hands of the problem in bookkeeping which bers' welfare; that unions be re­ trustees of both groups. The cen­ can be avoided if checks are sponsive to the will of the member­ ter is not planned to replace ma­ made out to the Union directly. ship; that deals between manage^ rine hospital care or ^at pro­ Study Of Health Center Set By West Coast SIU Make Checks To 'SIU-A&G' r n Be Careful! - feC- • • '<• ./'ft; ,.-,s ".• • .-». . . . 5;V-' --^ ScRtenbcr 12, 195S LOG the Job! Safety is never something to be token for granted, not only on the job but also when the day's work or watch is over and it's time to relax. You can't spend your life looking over your shoulder or wondering when your num­ ber is going to be up, of course, but it certainly isn't enough to be safety-conscious only at work. You can be side-lined just as easily from tripping over a p,aint bucket^on the way back to the foc'sle, or while going to relieve the watch, as on the job itself. Accidents, by their very nature, are unexpected occurrences and carelessness helps them along. 41;;,. • ' ""'•1 • ; -t''. Of fhe 3W8 Occidents-to'Seofarers ' In January-March '58' -Al- Af:. I only in were lost-time oc|;ideiitsl, 53 occurred going to " -or firam Mark, V y . —SHI Walfara Plan y- Satfty papK ;-r- : v;).'rv>v-5 J" "'''' ^''''''"''''' •i --:';i M- �iN ' .imi-.Vl Mel^mheir It. 195t •# '-«>:'.^v •• • ' I •' ' '•? ' LOG Page Slae •t 'All Beefs SettledrMiildir Amount of Disputed OT' i h; 'l •'* "2'^' *•••' >^' '. •'' • SEAFARERS ,./M "r''' . ,, mmm\ ';•• mm ' I iil ' „y SS BIENVILLE. Pictured • at Port Newark Terminal (right) Seafarers C. W. Howell, crane maintainor; Andrew Thompson, DM and M. J. Berrane, (1 to r) pose on gangway. Smiles • reflect fact that trio had just been paid off after learning details of new SIU agreement. Below (extreme right) Charles Tyler, AB, catches up on news items in SEAFAR­ ERS LOG. In photo at Tyler's left, John Monaghan, electrician, finishes off repair on fan before going topside for his pay envelope. Vessel is one of Pan-Atlantic's trailer car­ riers. She is in coastwise service between Port Newark and Houston and photos were taken at the New Jersey end. • i mmmrnimmmi ^;^--.-.v:!'::::::-:' ••^;'^•.-^r •,:, ••'<4 I / .--1 • _ 1 • • I 'M • - -ll M IS! m •I SS ROBIN GRAY. New SIU wage scales are being attentively scrutin­ ized (above) by Ralph Bullard, 3rd cook; (left) and Theodore R. Good­ man, steward. At right, Clifford Henry, chief cook, a member of Marine Cooks and Stewards Un­ ion, an SIU Pacific Dis­ trict affiliate, chats with headquarters patrolman Ted Babkowski before ship'paid off. Vessel paid off at Erie Basin terminal in Brooklyn after return­ ing from her regular Robin Line run to South and East African ports of call. Bienville chief steward H. D. Higginbotham and SIU Assistant SecretaryTreasurer Ed Mooney check canned goods, (below). Guard rails were recently installed. I •• 'I i ifii;'"'' , « Coffeetime call on Robin Gray finds Seafarer H, R. Lov/man, electrician, r^dy for favorite shipboard pastime s «s he-draws himself i cup of Java , J Hard at work on Job of replacing broken ladder rungs are Robin Gray d^k gahg members S,eafarers Mike Filosa, deck maintenance, and Joa­ quin Cortex, AB. to play with as he straightens out > { some of the ship's running gear on ^ ; the Robin Gray's deck. / --ii ?S--J I. r'.S..>V'«?:.=? �SEAFARERS Pace Ten L&4 NY Authority Buys Erie Basin The Port of New York Authority, as part of its to improve.the Brooklyn water­ front, has purchased a major portion of Beard's Erie Basin for $7.5 million. The Basin, fa­ miliar to Seafarers who sail Isthmian and Robin Line ships consists of approximately 34 acres of land and 59 acres of-^ needs 'of modem shipping. basin water at the entrance to It contains berths for 12. large future Port Authority officials declined ships. One of the three piers Is the Gowanus Canal and in­ used by Robin Lines, \(diile Isth­ to predict what changes the agency cludes three old finger docks, vrin effect to Improve the Basin.^^ warehouse pier and two break­ mian-States Marine occupies the breakwater pier. waters, Improved with transit sheds. Acquisition of the century-old shipping center would give the agency a third major holding Jr. Likes It Here port in Brooklyn's pier facilities. The other two are a stretch of water­ front between Atlantic Basin and the Brooklyn Bridge, being de­ veloped now at a cost of $85 mil­ TAMPA—Shipping for this port lion and the grain terminal in during the past two weeks failed to the Gowanus waterway adjacent pick up to any degree. There were no vessels paying off to the Erie Basin. •The stage was set for the pur­ during the period and only one, chase of the property when the the Del Aires (Mississippi) signing private corporation which owned on. In transit were the Gateway it Indicated that ,it was not in a City. Raphael Semmes (Pan-Atlan­ financial position to modernize and tic); Hurricane, Yaka (Waterman) improve pie property to meet the and the Chiwawa (Cities Service), Tampa Gripped By Doldrums I l-i- it 'That's No Woman— It's My Watch-Partner' WASHINGTON—"Frailty, thy name is woman," may have been so in Shakespeare's day, but after an examination of the latest Department of Labor statistics on the US working force, it would not seem true-*today. Women, the survey covered the period from 1900 to foimd, have been rapidly mak­ 1950, showed that while the total Francis McGorry, Jr., 21/2, b obviously pleased with IHe as he sits on Seafarer Frank McGary's lap in headquarters. ing their way into every type and class of job, including those previ­ ously considered strictly for men; for example, seafaring, where about 1,000 women are now In­ volved. The Department's figures which Your Gear.., fof ship ... for shore Whatever yoO need, In work or' dress gear, your SlU Sea Chest has it. Get top quality gear at substantial savings by buy­ ing at your Union-owned and Unionoperated Sed Chest store. Sport Coats Slacks Dress Shoes Work Shoes Socks Dungarees Frisko Jeens CPO Shirts Dress Shirts Sport Shirts Belts Khakis Ties ^Sweat Shirts T-Shirts Shorts Briefs, Swim Trunks Sweaters Sou'westers Raingear Caps, Writing Materials Toiletries Elearie Shavers Radios -.Television ^ jJewmlry • tCdmems ivggage • • • iS-'- , SEA CHEST number of male workers Climbed from 24 million to 42.5 miUion, the number of female workers earning a living more than tripled, from 5.3 million to 16.4 million. More disconcerting to the male than the increased number of female workers is the current trend in women's jobs. For ex­ ample there were 199,893 male bartenders in 1950 as compared to 88,337 in 1900. However the num­ ber of female bartenders in that same period jumped from 440 to a high of 14,295. But the trend has not been all one-sided for today, the findings revealed, therp are 2,737 male "laundresses" in the US. Such categories as merchant sea­ men, funeral directors and embalmers have been invaded by the weaker" sex. '•There are now almost l,0OO female sailors, most cf them stewardesses and wait­ resses but a surprisingly large number deck hands, and over 2,500 female funeral directors and embalmers. Some new industries, the Depart­ ment reported, such as professional pilots and navigators and radio op­ erators have added over 30,000 •jobs to the nation's total. But others such as male black­ smiths, forgemen and hammer­ men slumped from 220,111 in 1900 to 59,520 at the end of the period. The findings showed that while in 1900 unskilled laborers were about as numerous as semi'skilled operatives, and more num­ erous than skilled craftsman, these totals have been completely re­ versed. In 1950 tbeke were only 4,000,000 unskilled workers as compared with 8,500,000 skilled and 12,000,000 semi-skilled workers Union Has Cable Address Seafarers overseas who want to get in touch with headquar­ ters in a hurry can do so by cabling the Union at its cable address. SEAFARERS NEW YORK. Use of this address will assure jpeedy transihiafion oh all mes­ sages and faster sendee for the men involved. Seviember 12. I9$t 01 SOTO (WMerman), Ausvtt 14— .list to delegate. Vote of thanks -to Chaimun, a Chadtori Secretary. C. men donating for TV repairs and to Oamer. No beefa. Twe men replaced American Merchant Marine Library In MobUa. Sblp'a delasata to lee chief Association. enSlneer about mora prcuure on July S—Chairman, R. Barrett; Secre­ toileta. Have keya.made for aU rooms tary, T. Caspar. New delegate elected. aft. • Motion to Install another water cooler In recreation room. Keep laundry SSAtRAIN NV (Saatrain), August >4 room and slop sink clean. --Chairman, W. Ooffi secretary, J. Aug. 3—Chairman, A. Mother; .Sec­ Cola. Delayed aalUns good. Man re- retary, T. Caspar. Everything running .placed. Two stolen.radios qot recov­ smoothly. No beefs. Few hours OT ered. No beefa. New delecate elected. disputed. Motion made and seconded' to Install drinking water fountain In Three coffee pots needed. recreation hall. Vote of thanks to STKBL aicoaosa (isthmian), steward dept. for good food. Suggest August 17—Chairman, J. Krameri not to give any food to longshoremen Secretary, O. Wlnflald. Request fumi­ or dumping garbage by longshoremen. gation of ship for roaches. Two men mlfsed ship. One man hospitalized. OCEANSTAR (Triton), Aug. 17— Ship's fund SUX7. Disputed delayed Chairman, J Ciller; Secretary, S. saiUng. Mate ezpressM thanks for co­ Kollna. Everything running smoothly operation from deck dept. Ten hours except for repairs. Ship's fund, $17.99. Get rid of old Spanish water from No. 4 tank and use good water. Repair holes In No. 2 lifeboat. Replace life­ boat covers. Hake out repair llsL MARIA H (Herald), Aug. 21—Chair­ man, E. Lasoya; Secretary, R. Banta. Fumigate ship. Everything running smoothly. Water supply discussed. Vote of thrnks to steward dept. for Job welf done. Request bedsprings and mattresses be changed where needed. Better sanitary conditions discussed. No shopeside venders of other Arabs allowed In foreign ports. Theft precautions to be .taken. Re­ quest omelettes for supper. Litterbugs to use-trash cans or have trash. disputed- OT to bo taken with patrol­ man. Thanks to crewmembers for their cooperation. No beefs. Vote of thanks ta steward dept. Keys- to be left on ship after quitting ship. YOUNO AMBRICA (Wstarmsn), Aug t—Chairman, M. Mannlngi Secretary, N. Hatglmlslos. Dectrlcians getting hard time—to be straightened out when arriviag in US. Washing machine to be shut off when not la use. Put cups. Jams and Jars back when through. Erarythlng running smoothly. Ship's fund. SllAO. Turn In aU excess linen. Drains In deck dept. shower to be opened and cleaned. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for good meal. PAIRPORT (Waterman), Aug 17— Chairman, •. Anderson; Secretary, J. Coyla. Ship's fund. S99.6e. No beefs. Discussion on restricUon to ship and OT. Five hours diluted OT. Shortage of linen and inferior stores. KYSKA (Waterman), Aug. IS—Chair­ man, J. Parnall; Secretary, S. Alpede. Repalfs being made. One man miseed vessel on coast. New delegate elected. Vote of thanks for Job weU done last trip. One minute silence for departed brothers. Screen doors Installed and can openers to be Installed. Every­ thing running very smoothly. MARORB (Marven), Aug. IS—Chair­ man, C. Roberts; Secretary, J. Oreen. Request foc'sles be soogied.' Report accepted. Second engineer to be re­ ported to Union for cursing pantry­ man and saloon messmen and disrupt­ ing work. Suggest more fruit Juices and larger servings^ ALICB BROWN (Bloomfleld), Aug. IS—Chairman, R. Wllklns; Secretary, H Scholes. Turn in all repairs, also check portholes for leaky garicets and frozen dogs to be loosened. Request larger blankets. Some disputed OT. Suggest LOG be sent to Rotterdam office. PiUows need replacing. Suggest better brands of ice cream, and try buying cheese in Holland. ORION STAR (Oil Carriers), Aug. If —Chairman, W. Ferguson; Secretary, C. Smith. Repair lists made up. Medi­ cine chest and • slop chest to be checked upon arrival in San Pedro. Ship's fund, ST. Suggest making col­ lection for Ship's iron. Discussion on sanitary water pressure, contaminated potable water, pulling ice. cleaning of laundry room and recreation room. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for fine food. STEEL FABRICATOR' (Isthmian), Aug. If—Chairman; C. Ruf; Secretary, L Calderon. Sec'y reporter elected. Ship's fund. $42. No beefs. New dele­ gate elected. Request new mattresses and washing machine. All members asked to check repairs. Each dept. to elect their own safety delegate. .ALCOA PILGRIM (Alcoa), Aug. 34— Chairman, J. Robinson; Secretary, W. Messenger. No beefs. Ship's fund. $29; .Check milk and fre^ vegetables end cigarettes before leaving Hqwail. See patrolman about cash or' travelers checks. Ship to be fumigated for bed­ bugs and rata. Motion that fore and ajt bunks be put In 4-8 deck fuc'sle New delegate elected. Request more greens on menu. Beefs over fresh salads., Suggest onions, celery, etc.. Be left' in night lunch. Potatoes not well done. GATEWAY CITY (Fan-Atlantic), Aug. 17—Chairman, A. Cllllland; Sacretary, P. Erck. Insufficient cold drinking water. Ship's fund, $16.90. Frequent sailing short-handed. Patrol-, man to be notified. Discussion on re­ pair Hsts. arrival day payoff, contract clarification, chief electrlciana (duties re: cranes. To purchase Scotch cooler. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmian), Aug. 17—Chairman, V. Tucker; Secretary, L. Torres. All rooms to be painted. New delegate elected. Ship to be fumigated for roaches. ALCOA PURITAN (Alcoa), Aug. 1# —Chairman, L. Cardler; Secretary, J. Baasfleld, No beefs. One man missed ship. . Ship's fund $1.79. Everything running smoothly. Water system not satisfactory—to see chief enlineer. CANTICNY (Cities Service), Aug. 17—Chairman, A. Ferris; Secretary,' L. Hagmann. Washing machine to be repaired. Need fan in galley: wind^ scoop and Insect screens. All rooms to be painted. Some disputed OT. One replacement. Return cups and glasses to pantry. Members to come In messhall properly dressed. CUBORE (Marven), Aug. 24—Cltalrman, C. Webb; Secretary, W. Strick­ land. One man deserted ship after ( borrowlag money. Vote of thanks to steward fiept. OCEAN DEBORAH (Maritime Over­ seas), Aug. 24—Chairman, R. Queenr Sscretary, L. Thomas. Few beefs. Letter sent to hq explaining same. Water probably cause of dysentery. Repair list turned In to captain. Soma disputed OT. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard dept. for Job well done. Discus­ sion on washing machine—weather hose from piimp can be fixed—^if not obtain new one. REBECCA (Maritime Overseas), Aug. 14—Chairman, L. Coffey; Secretary, J. Hennlng. No penalty cargo according to captain. Discussion about steward OCEAN ULLA (Maritime Overseas), not turning to due to alcoholism. Aug. 24-T'Chalrman, W. Dood; Secre­ Generally agreed to have ship's dele­ tary, F. Johnson. OT to be paid for gate confer with captain and try to back-dated artinles. Repairs to be confine steward to hospital. Crew • made on pipe while In Trinidad.' agrees to cooperate and stand watch Everything running . smoothly. • No. if necessary. beefs. Have foc'sles sougeed and painted. Put red light on washbig STEEL ROVER (Isthmian), Jan. 11— machine to Indicate when on a'nd off.. Chairman, T. Caspar; Secretary, F, Suggestion to get automatic timer, Donovan. Letter sent to headquarters for machine. Turn off machine whenabout water. Ship's fund, $20.00. Dis­ finished. AU garbage to be dumped puted few hours OT. No beefs. Every­ aft unless it is bad weather. Steward thing running, smoothly. Investigate requests list for new mattresses and' new slop chest list. Ringer on wash­ other items and forwarded to com­ ing machine to be repaired. Vote of pany office. thanks to crew of Robin Lines for splendid work. Vote of thanks to 8EASTAR (Triton), Aug. 11—Chaliw steward dept. for good dinner and man, M. Bugawan; Secretary, E. Caudecorations on Christmas holidays. dlll. No beefs—everything OK. Re­ Painting to be done in rooms, recrea­ quest watch be fed live minutes early. tion' hall, galley crew pantry, showers Discussion on sougeeing galley after and toilet. loading and unloading. Capt. refuses' March 93—Chairman, None; Secre­ to authorize sougee OT. Request new tary, T. Caspar. Beef on chief engi­ fire hoses, need five more. Vote of neer taking water on lake at Panama thanks to steward dept. Canal. Ship's fund, $20. Few hours WANG PIONEER (inter-Ocean), Aug. OT diluted. No beefs. Vote of thanks to reefer for installing water cooler 22—Chairman, D. Sacher; Secretary, pipes on water fountain. None. No beefs. Ship's fund $17.. April 17—Chairman, F. Paget; Sec­ Suggest biscuits be served from _ retary, e, Craqsen.- See delegate ahout gaUey. Information or appllcatlon,.for absen­ DEL SUD (Mississippi), Aug. 17— tee balloL Extra water cooler needed. Discussiuii j'aeafdiug dOuBUuuS for Chairman, B. Jamet; Secretary, V. repair of TV set. Request return of CBrlant. Ship's fund' S9.87: movie shqwer head in steward dept. shower. fund $11.46; athletic fund $24.60. New., Msy 17r-Chalrmen, J. Hlgglnw Sec­ delegate and Ubrarian elected. Mem­ retary- V. Ciaceme. No beefs. One bers to'be-aboard one hour before*' • hour dlsi^ted OT. Request rooms sailing thne. Cups tp be returned to, kept clean tor new men- Give repSlr pantry. " �September 12, 1958 SEAFARERS LOG 'Won # Wash Off Pace Elerea Canadian SIU Condemns Batista's Strikebreaking (Continued from page 2) hour and wage Improvements for the men were long overdue. Rather than settle with its em­ ployees, the company, which is actually a Canadian government subsidiary, first tried to trans­ fer the ships to the Trinidad flag. That move fell through in the face of united opposition from world maritime labor. West-Indian seajnen hired in the islands to man the ship refused to do so as did British engineers flown over from England. Balked in this area, Canadian National worked up a deal with the Cuban government and with Troy Browning, a Great Lakes American-flag operator, to sell the ships. The- sale was announced last month for a price of less than $2,800,000, actually under an offer made by a Canadian-flag fiperatoi'. Several Canadian-flag operators had offered sums near the Cuban offer, but these, Including one bid of around $3 million, were ignored by the company which was de­ termined to sell the ships foreign. After the Cuban crews were flo'Am in and forced to work the Canadian Challenger, efforts wer" made to put her in a Canadian shipyard to clean her bottom. However, shipyard workers, mem­ bers of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers, refused to handle her there. It W?s then that the ship, renamed 'Ciudad de Habana, left for Bal­ timore and the other seven ships When's A T-2 Not A Tanker? Seattle Asks The fast-breaking developments in the Canadian District's strike against Canadian National ships have now expanded the dispute into an international conflict between the union and the Cuban government. By purchasing the scab ships from Canadian National with ^he connivance of an American operator, Troy Browning, by changing the names of the ships and compelling Cuban seamen-to work them under armed guard, the Cuban government is attempting to erase the past history of the vessels and to evade the Canadian District's picketline. "• Whatever the outcome, no matter how many name changes, registry changes and crew changes are undertaken, it seems pretty clear that as far as the world labor movement is con­ cerned, these ships will remain scab ships. It remains to be seen whether the Cuban government's strikebreaking oper­ ation Will succeed in the face of the position taken by free maritime labor throughout the world. SEATTLE — Shipping for this port has been very good. Port Agent Jeff Gillette reported, with rela­ tively young shipping cards hav­ ing no trouble landing berths. In . some cases was necessary to call on San Francisco and Wilmington ^ to find rated men to fill some of the openings during the period. The decision of the Red Chinese government to extend its While all of the beefs on the vessels hitting this port were territorial limits 12 miles out to sea and to include Formosan settled, one of them, an overtime waters as its territorial waters, puts SlU-manned ships in dispute on the SS Producer, was the middle of another red-hot international crisis. Theoretireferred to headquarters for fur­ calljr, according to the Red Chinese decision, SIU ships en­ tering Hong Kong, or calling at Taiwan and other Formosan ther clarification. ports, are trespassing on Red Chinese territory. The ship, a T-2 tanker, had car­ It doesn't seem likely at the moment that the Chinese Comried grain on her last trip and the mxmists will do anything to enforce that decision because pumpmen were required to main­ tain six gasoline engines around any sUcJhustep would almost automatically involve them in the clock while the vessel was dis­ direct hostilities with the United. States. But at the same charging cargo. These men put In time, this crisis, like all the others that have gone before it, for 243 hours overtime under the points up the key role played by Seafarers in maintaining the standard tanker agreement but the US position overseas, < company refused to pay it, claim­ 4) 3) ing the ship was supposed to be under freightship working rules. However the company later agreed to pay the OT and to refer the Another one of those'fascinating runaway-flag stories has matter to headquarters for clarifi­ popped up, this one involving a ship with which many Seacation for future trips. farer-s are familiar, the old SS Puerto Rico. Now called the There were two vessels, the Pro­ Arosa Star, she is Swiss-owned, under the Panamanian flag ducer (Marine Carriers) and the and carries an assorted crew of European seamen. Despite Nojtthwestern Victory (Victory Car­ this, she has been selected by the sponsors of the America riers) paying on during the past Cup yacht race to serve as an observation .vessel. period. Signing on were the Pro­ •This development follows upon the story of a few weeks ducer, Northwestern Victory and back that the runaways, with the helping hand of the Amer­ Waterman's Choctaw. In transit ican Merchant Marine Institute, had,persuaded Uncle Sam to were the Yorkmar,. Calmar, Losr mar (Calmar) and the Alcoa Part- pay their Suez Canal surcharge taxes. Runaways, it .seems, 1tter"~(Alcoa). get preference over all comers. ^ -In The Middle Again of the fleet are scheduled to follow suit. Browning, whose other opera­ tions are under contract with the SIU Great Lakes District, has been sued in Detroit by the SIU of North America on a charge • of bi-each of contract. The lawsuit cited the fact that he agreed to. employ SIU crews on all ships, which he bperates. From the beginning, the Cana­ dian beef has had worldwide labor support. The Canadian Labour Congress, AFL-CIO, International Transportworkers Federation and International Confederation of Free Trade Unions have all de­ nounced the strikfebreaking effort. Ft is doubtful, in light of this sup­ port, whether the ships will be able to operate successfully in commer­ cial service to either Canad'an jr American ports, or on the St.. . Iiawrence Seaway. America Cup Job Given To Runaway The old SS Puerto Rico, well-known to Seafarers on the Bull Line run, is finding profitable employment under the runaway flag of Panama. Originally known as tlie Borinquen, the Puerto Rico was oper­ ated for a number of years on a regular passenger run between New York, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The ship is owned by a Swiss company, under the Four T-2 tankers that were used Panamanianregistered flag, and used to car­ to kick off its trailership operations ry American passengers on cruises are being sold by the SlU-con- to the Caribbean and other parts tracted Pan-Atlantic Steamship Co. of the world. It is manned by The line is disposing of the Ideal crews recruited from waterfront X, Maxton, Coalinga Hills and dives all over Europe. Almena because they are no longer Capping its patchquilt back­ needed in the coastwise operation. ground, the ship's next assignment The four lift-on ships went into will be as an observation vessel for service in 1956 carrying fully- the forthcoming America Cup loaded truck trailers on their decks yacht race between US and British from Port Newark to Houston. yachts. They have been replaced with con­ In effect, the contest between verted C-2's that perform the spe­ Britain and America will be viewed cial service more efficiently. from the deck of a runaway ship The tankers had been laid up which operates regularly out,of US for some time following their re­ ports but Is not obligated tax-wise placement- by the converted to the United States or to abide by freighters. .US wage and manning scales. P-A Selling T-2 LIft-Ons ••Jf! Another Rnnaway Story • a aa-aaa mm i * m m m m • • • m • »'• « Shown in her days at an American-flag SlU-manned passenger ship, the SS Puiirto Rico, is now the Arosa Star of Panamanian registry. Despite her runaway flag, she will serve bs the observation ship for tne America Cup races ta be held off Newport next weekend. ; J �Tv Twelvs SEAFAIERS M NYBOC A variety of ailments have drydocked Seafarers at Atlantic, Gulf and West Coast hospitals in the past few weeks. Gen­ erally, most of the boys seem to be coming along nicely. As a sample, William Brightwell should be discharged almost any day now from the Baltimore hospital after a general check-up He was • little run down after a year in the oil shuttle with the Orion Cliper. A rupture has laid up Thomas Hickey, AB off the Transatlantic., [e's been making fair progress since he checked in. Off the Losmar Since June, Vincent J. Bizznto has been side-lined by a broken leg suf­ fered In a shoreside injury. At last report, he was showing'lots of im­ provement. One of the brothers on the Cur­ tis Bay tugs In Baltimore harbor, Henry MachUnsU has been an. Inand-out patient for the past six months due to a stomach -condi­ tion. He worked last on the tug J. P. Pulliam, and is coming along fairly well these days. Around the coast. In Galveston, two new inmates at the USPHS Salinas Hickey drydock are Jose P. Salinas and Harvey W. Field. Salinas went In for a check-up the same day he got off the Steel Surveyor and was found to have bladder stones. Surgery has apparently turned the trick. They expect he'll be fully re­ covered in about two weeks. A routine exam on Brother Field tiumed up a hemla that required treatment—and quickly got it. Clifford C. Womack and Santiago' Martinez, both at the big San Francisco marine hospital, are also coming along okay. Womack, messman on the Chickasaw, was suffering from chills and fever when he checked in, but is in good shape now. Off the Topa Topa, Martinez is being treated for ulcers. These and all brothers in the hospitals always appreciate visits and mail from their shipmates. Bemember them when you're in port or have a time to drop 'em a line. The following is the latest available list of men in the hospitals: SEAFARERS Easy Does It (i-- Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Broolciyn 32, NY i would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG — please ut my name on your mailing 1st. (Print Information) NAME i STREET ADDRESS plf'-w/' te.:mr iI J- 't ;' •• [-••ftn-,)* '. • GITY ........ZONE.... STATE : ...T. ADDRESS CITY ....ZONE.,.. STATE i-. Oldtimer Goes To Final Rest To Vxt Editor: Oldtimers who read the LOG —^regardless of their union af­ filiation—will be saddened to leam of the death on August 12 of Archie McGuigan. There are many of the younger members who also numbered Archie among their friends. He had been a seaman for the greater part of his life, having started his seagoing career as a jroung man. His last voyage g James Ward Joseph Stocker USPHS HOSPITAL George WUliams Florencio Suarei BALTIMORE, MD. George Williamson Thomas Tears Conway Beard Joseph Kowalskl Cleophas Wright Gerald Thaxton Rohert H. Belyea Stanley Kupnlckl Charles Wynn Patrick Thompson Raymond Boston Gibbs T. Livermaa William BrightweU Henry MachliasU USPHS HOSPITAL Noe R. Cardosa Jesse Maloney NORFOLK. VA. Elwood L. Cramer Paul Pusloskie Francis J. Boner William C. Dowdy Harry B. Riggin Stephen Dinkel USPHS HOSPITAL Vincent J. Rlzzuto Wiliiam DriscoU MEMPHIS. TENN. ^ Joseph RoU Oswald Ergle BUly BusseU Calvin Rome Clarence Gardner BALTIMORE CITV HOSPITAL Richard Savior Gorman T. Glaze BALTIMORE. MD. John Scott EsUe Hall Simon Eftlme Richard G. Sohl Ronald Hannigan USPHS HOSPETAL Thomas Hickey Donald Hewson FT. WORTH, TEXAS VA HOSPITAL J. R. Alsobrook Harold J. Pancost RUTLAND. MASS. L. Anderson Edourdo Piscopo Daniel Fitzpatrick H. Ledwell Jr. Paul W. Seidenberg VA HOSPITAL John C. Palmer KECOUGHTAN, VA. VA HOSPITAL Joseph Gill HOUSTON, TEXAS USPHS HOSPITAL R. J. Arsenault BOSTON, MASS. VA HOSPITAL George Atcherson Henry W. Martin lit AVE., NY. NY L. J. Campbell L. C. Melanson E. T. Cunningham Charles Dwyer Stanley F. Ostrom ST. ELIZABETH HOSPITAL USPHS HOSPITAL WASHINGTON. DC GALVESTON. TEXAS George Chaudoin Edward E. Edinger Allen Smith SAILOR SNUG HARBOR Robert McCuUoch John H. Spearman STATEN ISLAND. NY Jose P. Salinas Victor B. Cooper Thomas Isaksen USPHS HOSPITAL VA HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS. LA. BOSTON. MASS. Chalmers Xnderson Peter Hume Thomas W. Killion William Bargone Henry Janicke VA HOSPITAL Wooldridge Kihf John Bigwood BUTLER. PA. Edward Knapp .Claude Blanks James F. Markel Duska Korolla Richard Bowman USPHS HOSPITAL Leo Lang L. CarrasquiUo DETROIT. MICH Alexander Martin WiUiam Crawley Eugene Roszko Joe Mendoza Henry Foy USPHS HOSPITAL William Nelson Monroe Gaddy SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. Dominic NeweU James Glisson " Joseph Berger J. S. O'Byrne Michael Pardur Louis Harris Joseph V. Bissonet Arthur J. Scheving Jack Peralta Wayne Harris Michael J. Coffey Henry J. Schreiner Edward Lee Poe John Harrison Joseph En>bola Bernardo Tapla Henry Robinson Louie Holliday William J. Kramer Clifford C. Womack Harold P. Scott John Hrolenok Albert M. Morse Andrew Stauder James Hudson USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH. GA. Charles B. Bennett Jimmie Littleton Elmer G. Brewer B. F. Lowe Lucious DeWitt Louis T. McGowan USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH BROOKLYN. NY Lewis R. Akins Claude B. Jessup Manuel Antonana Woodrow Johnson Eladio Aris Ludwig Kristlanseu Fortunato Bacomo Thomas Lehay Joseph Bass Kenneth Lewis Melvin W. Bass Warren J. Mclntyre Matthew Bruno Herbert C. MCISMIC James F. Clarke Jena Uadsen Juan Denopra Leo Mannaugh John J. Drlscoll Albert HartinelU Friedof O. Fondfla W. P. OTlea Odis L. Gibbs C. OsinsU Joseph M. Gillard George G. PhUer Bart E. Guranick Winston E. Renny Wade B. HirreU G. E. Shumaker Taib Hassan. Henry E. Smith Clarence Hawkins Pon P. Wing Frank Hernandez Royce Yarborough Antonio Infante USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND. NY Standmore BeU R. S. Nandkeshwar Dollar Ben Anthony Pisani Frank J. Bradley Santos Pizarro Richard Broomhead Joseph Poturalski Buiiner Francis Regan TO AVOI.D DOPLICATIONJ II you Robert Robert Delgado John Roberts Zr* an old tubscribei and hava a Earl Ernest Edison Shaffer ' ehanga of address, pleato give your Charles Goldstein U. Sivertsen Ignatius P. Gomes Warren Smith former address belowi ' Harvey Gordon Henry Sojak Edward Heacox Jose Sousa Konstant N. Kain Ramon Varela Raul Lopez Joseph WohUtz Georgios Mastoras. Roland WUcox George Meltzer . Nelson Wood Marcel MitcbeU ; . USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE. WASH -'- • lb A. FreundUch September 12, 198t LOG Shibbom door lock soemt to be no problem for Charles Wysocki, carpenter on the Portmar, es he works en re­ pair. Steward Ben Rucker caught the big smile on film. Like Mother, Steward Day Is Never Done Despite the inevitable dis­ sents &om the deck and engine departments, a chief steward aboard ship invariably has more than his share of problems while serving as head of the culinary and commissary departments. However routine these items happen to be, they still are "problems" that have to be dealt with one way or another. Consider the case on the Seatrain Texas, as noted in the ship,'s minutes of August 16. "Cooks reported no salt. I searched the ship upside down . . . Finally thought of salt tablets. They would have gotten me in (to port). Chief engineer found but about my trouble and. gave me a box. Glass Shortage "Next it was glasses. I got them in Texas City. On linen, we got over one hurdle but were short the second time because a number of bath towels were sent out for cleaning. We just squeezed through by freezing rooms and searching. This was done just with crew delegates. "Six men still had no towels and we were out at sea. I washed three dozen bath towels and ironed them. Now I can wait till 'Euesday as I havb enough for replacements of everything. "Koolade ran out. I got 60 packages; no more . . . They (the company) cut me to 12 quairts of ice cream to come back with but no harm. I had to serve the last of it the second day out. It was in liquid state. Pick tip Fruit ."Ran out of grapefruit and melons. Received canteloupe and watermelon in Texas. Had two meals of canteloupe ... Fruit juice ran out coming back. "Ran out of bread. We couldn't make any; pastry Rour was all we had. I got bread at a supermarket as-soon as we landed. That lasted till 'supplies came. . . . Consoli­ dated a lot of space for new stores . . . W.e were one man short going down to Texas . . . Boxes, messrooms are: immaculate, as is the galley." ' Since there were no beefs regis­ tered. elsewhere. In • &e, minutes over food, service or, sfaprtages, apparently all ended well ansrway. letters To The Editor AH letters to the editor for publication in the SEAFAR­ ERS LOO must be signed by the writer. Names tofU be withheld upon rbqqest. was aboard the SS Thomas Hayward, a vessel owned by Water­ man Steamship. On August 16, following a solemn High Re^em Mass at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Mark, Brooklyn, Archie was laid away in his final resUng place in St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, Long Island, NY. On-behalf of the SIU mem­ bership here at the Manhattan Beach Public- Health Service hospital, I would like to thank the SIU Welfare Department for its untiring efforts in assur­ ing that a proper and dignified burial would be' given this wellliked brother. „ John DHscoll Hospital delegate 4 4. i Offers Tribute To Top Shipmate To the Editor: This letter is about Brother Charlie W. White, and I sincere­ ly hope you will print it in your next issue. White, known as "Smokey" to all his friends, hails from Baltimore .and was engine delegate on the SS Wellesley Victory. When I was injured In Suez, he came ashore with me and saw to it that everything was done to make me comfortable. He also made sure that 1 was getting all the medical care that was possible. All the time the ship was in port "Smokey" came to see me every day and brought cigarettes, candy and everything else I needed. When they packed my clothes and brought them ashore there was some question as to a camel saddle that I had bought before the accident. Since it wy-tpo big to carry because of my in­ jury, "Smokey" spoke up and promised that he would take care of it until the ship reached the States*, and then would have it crated and shipped to my home. He tried in vain to find a crate big enough to crate the 'saddle properly and wfien he couldn't, he did the one thing I'll never forget. "Smokey" and his wife put the camel saddle in tlieir car and drove aU night from Baltimore to Boston to keep a promise he had made. "Smokey" was the best dele­ gate and shipmate that I have ever been with. I sincerely hope that someday I wiR be able to ship with him again and repay some of the kindness he showed" me. A man like this' must have a million friends who, like me, are very proud to know some­ one like "Smokey". Thank you "Smokey". I know that Balti­ more' i» proud to have you shipping out of there. Carter V. S. Myers $ ^ ^ . Appreciates Aid in Bereavement To the Editor: Many thanks for the expres­ sions of sympathy aiid condo­ lence on the death of my hus­ band. I must thank all for the kind consideration given me. I must also express gratitude with all my heart for the ex­ traordinary care and servlc4 given to my husband at the marine hospital, and for the un­ surpassed attention given me and my family by the organiza­ tion of which my husband was a member, the SIU. I am also very proud and thankful that my husband was part of the SIU and that the organization shows such resppct and assistance to the families of its members. My deepest grati­ tude to you all. Mrs. Jesusa. Rivera X t ir : Praises Speedy Welfare Service To the Editor: I wish to express my gratitude for the extreme promptness with which the $4,000 SIU death 'benefit was paid to me as the beneficiary of my late brother Rdwin B. Rhoads. In addition, I'd sincerely like to thank everyone concerned for the sentiments and warm inter­ est expressed, in regarding Ed. If I do run into any snags in connection with his affairs, I shall indeed take, advantage of the Uuion's' offer to assist me. Ed will be missed around the hall in New Orleans, at least by the oldtimers. He carried his SIU union book with a great deal of pride and was a loyal Union member. He was not just ah ordinary baker but a skilled craftsman, having been educated along technical and research lines by his work in earlier years. Because of this, I am sure he brought many extra eating delights to passengers and crews alike. Please extend my family's heartfelt thanks to all for every­ thing that was done in Ed's behalf. All good wishes for the' continued success of the SIU. Elizabeth R. Romaine LOG Service is Applauded ^ To the Editor: This is to express our sincere appreciation for receiving the LOG regularly and for the pleasure we have reading it. The LOG is read both by sea­ men and by our staff and we meant to send our appreciation for it much sooner than this. It is our sincere wish that the LOG will serve well in the cause of seamen as it has done so well in the past. Yung Heui Kim Seamen's Overseas Service Pttsan, Korea $1 4> 4> Welfare Assist Is Appreciated To the Editor: Having just been discharged from the marine hospital at Staten Island'after seven weeks of confinement, I should like to express my appreciation for the help given to all of us by the SIU welfare representative, NThis assistance really means a : great deal when a guy is laidup and can't handle a lot of de­ tails himself. 4 .G..M. Waggoner J.J �SeptcnAcr 12. ISM •T»L VINDOR (Itthmlan), July 17 ChtlrniDn. e. Moonayr Sacratary. A. Nettune, ShlB'f fund, 126.00, raw hnura dlaniitMl f»T. Motion that »sceptacla IM placed at,pay-off for ae< ceptlng contribution towarda thip'a fund. Motion that ahipa on India run be auppUed with enough DDT bamba, eapecially where food ia prepared and aerved. Motion that ahip be fumigated. • Motion that forced air fan be led to laundry room to give relief from Intenae heat. Dutiea of gangway watch to be clarified by pa^olman. Keep natlvea from inside paaaagewaya and meashalls. No watchmen or other authorized extra -meala to be fed imtil crew membera have been fed. No nativea to work in messhalla or area where food ia handled. Suggeat better grade and variety of alopa bo placed aboard ship. Medicine chest should be checked before next voyage SEAFARERS 16—Chairman, 1. Rayne; Secretary, M. Httchcocfc. . Repair lists aubmitted— everything ranning acoothly. Men who were logged, ts prsssst their cases to bearding patrolman. Some disputed or. Three men logged. Report ac­ cepted. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for excellent Job. Fine coopera­ tion among crew. No beefs. WILLIAM- CARRUTH (Penn Shl|>ping), July 19—Chairman, W. Pertert Secretary, B. Butlar. Repair lists to be aubmitted. No beefs. To investigate hot water situation. Discussion on washing machine. Need strainer for washing machine. More cold drinks to be put out at meal time. Discussion on brown laundry soap. AMES VICTORY (Victory Carriers), July 12—Chairman. P. Whltlowi Sec­ retary, R. Simpson. Repair lists to be submitted soon as possible. Fine co­ operation among crew. Few hours dis­ puted OT. Motion to have space out­ side midship house for use by foreign checkers to keep them out of crew's quarters. Request Jury bathroom on ^em for use by foreign- longMioremen. Return cots after use. Ship to be exterminated for roachesL BABBARA PRITCHE (Lib. Naviga­ tion), July 12—Chairman, O. Hayner Secy, R. Charroln, New delegate elected. No beefs. Request laundry be cleaned by engine and deck de­ partment. Keep glasses out of sink. —should include larger quantity of drugs. Only depL delegates to air beef to Insure clean and expedient pay-off. MesshaUs and rooms should be sougeed. STEEL KINO (Isthmian), July 14— Chairman, H. Burgasses; Secy, P. Howe. No beefs. Few unHnished repairs to be completed soon. Ship's fund $183.43. Report accepted. Mo­ tion made and carried to request SlU to seek hard and fast ndes by US Public Health, regulating com­ pany doctors re vaccinations and shots: shots given but not recorded, men getting too many shots. Avoid washing mops in laundry room, ex­ clusively for laundry. SEATRAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), Aug. 16—Chairman, T. Montamaranot Sacrefary, H. Franklin. No beefs. Man failed to meet ship, department short a man. Steward erred on extra meals. - CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities Captain explained condition of over­ Service), Aug. 6—Chairman, P. Hamtime sheets. Reports accepted. TV moil Secy, B. Nielsen. Several small needs repairs. Shortage of food and beefs straightened out. Ship's Fund linen take care of. One man short 121.12. AU ships be air-conditioned, or at least those to tropics. Motion going to Texas. made iiiat letter be written to Union ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Robin), Aug. 1) about steward. Suggest crew go to delegates with beefs. Dissatisfied —Chairman, J. Bracht; Sacrelary, W Home. Letter read for approval. Dis­ with steward; is strongly anti-union, uncooperative. Vote of thanks to' cussion on performing aboard. steward dept. for good food. July S—Chairman, A. Paura* Sacy, DEL SOL (MIsslttlppI), Aug. S— Chairman, D. RamMy; Sacratary, O. B. Nielsen. No beefs. $20 ship's fund. Payne. Ship's fund, tlJIOO. Some dis­ New delegate elected. Request cups puted OT. Everything running smooth­ returned to pantry. Keep messhall clean. ly. Discussion on raise in pay. JtMES VICTORY (Victory Carriers). Aug. IS—Chairman, L. Mayarsf..Sacratary, P Whitlow. Repairs to be compiated. 34 hour notice to TIM given if planning to quit before payoff port. Members to work their own time off to avoid inconvenience. No beefs. Basic seatime ruling explained. Sug­ gest hot coffee in morning, also larger perculators needed. HASTINOS (Waterman), Aug. S— Chairman, W. Culpepper; Secretary, J. Walls. Hissing men replaced in New York. No beefs. Few hours disputed OT. Have gratings made for shower. Repair list to be made early. CITY OP ALMA (Waterman), July 27—Chairman, R. Corns; Secretary S. Zatterman. Ship's fund. $12. Every­ thing running smoothly. Delegate to contact chief mate about cleaning and painting quarters. Keys to lock pantry and messhall in port. No smoking or loitering in train coach being used as passage aft. STEEL APPRENTICE (IsthmUn), Aug. 10—Chairman. J. PaHersen; Secy, W. Rose, Disputed ot. Everything running smoothly. Ship's fund S8. One man left in Rotterdam: picked up one replacement. No beefs. Reports ac­ cepted. Suggest Health Department check drinking water tanks. Motion made that chief cook attend school to learn better methods of preparing meals. SEATRAIN OEOROIA (faafrain), Aug. 17—Chairman, P. Sarano; P. Flanagan. Repair list turned in con­ cerning painting foc'sles. larger fans, and longer windscoops. To be taken up with company. Phone installed near guard's shack in Texas City. Request safety meetings be held. •Ve^cation of wage increase to b« given. S30JI4 ship's fund. No beefs. Reports accepted. Request changing agreement on delayed sailing. Poor condition of mesdiall and foc'sles. Night lunch not up to par. New dele­ gate electe<L ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Robin), July 21 ORION COMET (Orlan), July 26— —Chairman, J. Bracht; Secretary, O Chairman, J. Ohannaslan; Sacratary, Vela. Ship's delegate resigned—due to . W. Buttnar. Repair list turned in. accidcnL -Swiff Laundry not to be Delegate resigned: new one to be used—do not do-good Job. Oqe mem­ elected. Ship's fund, $13.82. One man ber getting off with broken leg. Col­ missed' ahip. Price list to be posted lection' made for injured brother. for slop chest. One man in each dept. Water cooler to be repaiirecL to take care of linen change. Delegate to see captain and chief engineer re PAN OCEANIC TRANSPORTER refrigerator. Request more clocks In (Penn Shipping), Aug. S—Chairman, R. messroom and recreation room. Bunce, Jr.; Secretary, H. MacAlear. Aug. 19—Chairman, J Ohannaslan; Ship's fund. S3.25. One ntan missed Secretary, E. WaHs. Request draw sUp in Singapore. Few hours OT dis­ list and men to be replaced. Curios puted. Shortage of fresh milk and to be locked up. Repair list to be vegetables. Suggest better variety in turned In. Ship's fund. $13.82. One Menus. No variety in night lunch. man missed ship. No beefs. Bend Slop chest to be refurnlidied. Report radiogram to agent In Norfolk to meet milk in Singapore not processed under ship on arrival to square away beefs sanitary conditions. Two scuppers need and make arrangements for replace­ repairing. Repair list to be postad. ments. Request checking slop chest for excess prices. Have Icebox and PENN MARINER (Penn Trans.), July washing machine repaired or replaced. ^ B A, PORT CCAU GTS-A^jAilSf^ •1216 E.aAU)/MOilS SfiCCKUfN. eAun/wioeE' LOG Fate Thlrteea Vewlyweds Really Get A Sendoff Every wedding is the happy ending to a kind of a fairy tale. But one SIU man and his bride were really showered with good fortune in Baltimore recently. Appropriately enough, their ship was the Cities Service Baltimore. According to Mrs. Terry Maggio, wife of Seafarer Dom Maggio and matron of honor at the nuptials, the wedding of Seafarer James Logan and Carole Dooghty got un­ derway while the ship was in the shipyard, and the couple decided this was their chance to take the big step. Accordingly, the cere­ mony was held at St. Luke's, with the Maggios, shipmate. John Kozar as best man and most of the crew at the church. From there, everybody went over to the Sonthem Hotel for a couple of drinks, anticipating a modest celebration due to a lack of funds on all sides. It was here that some good Samaritans stepped in. Asked why everybody was all dressed up 'like lor a wedding," members of the SIU party said there really had just been a wed­ ding, but everybody was kind of short on cash. Thereupon the manager of the hotel, Mr. Eldridge, had champagne brought out, and another - bystander. Congressman Edward A. Garmatz, said he was buying too. It went like that all evening, as US Commissioner Car­ roll, Schenley distributor Morris Kasoff, and the owner of Balti­ more's "China Clipper" Restaurant arrived and chimed in to do their hit Before the evening was over, the.^ bridal couple and guests had been treated to dinner and a night on the town with all expenses paid and the newly-weos got the bridal suite at the Southern Hotel. Tho next day they were the honored guests at a luncheon arranged by their new-found friends. Unable up to the last moment to attend the luncheon, Maggio, Kozar and other crewmemhers found that ar­ ridge, manager of Southern Hotel, and Morris Kosoff. rangements had been made with Cities Service to get them soma time off for the occiasion. The round of parties and VIP treatment continued until the Bal­ timore sailed "the following day for Lake Charles with the bride­ A runaway outboard motorboat that threatened to decapi­ groom. tate two men after It spilled them in the water was quicldy Fairy tales? Well, sometimes they really come true. brought imder control with an assist from an SIU ship. The runaway craft was go­ ing around in circles when 'All Ashore!'—by seafarer ft.'Kenfueky' Perry spotted by the SS Dykes as it was docking In New Jersey's Raritan River two weeks ago. Nearby two men in the water were holler­ ing for help. Ordered to lower the port life­ boat, the gang began ripping off the covers until the skipper spotted a boat already in the water a couple of hundred yards ahead. Dutch Remyn and Jimmy Moore, ABs, took off for the smaller boat, broke the lock that held It and began rowing toward the men In the wa­ ter. Once the castawajis were gotten ashore, they went after their own craft, which was still wildly cir­ cling about After a couple of tries, they were able to Jam the oars into the propeller and wrap a heaving line STOund the screw while one of them climbed aboard to shut off the 30 hp motor. It developed that they had been spilled from the outboard while making a sharp turn with the throttle wide open, and had there­ after been at the mercy of the erratic boat, they figured they were lucky to be aUve, mostly thanks to the Dykes' crew. "Skim." tho ship's reporter, Captalni Tho ship h going fast, men* Anyone know how to pray?. added; "P-A wo now have two Rromani I do, eoptoin. chewod-up oari and • one beat-up Coptolni Obod. Youproy. Wt r« on# short on lif« prtsarvars. hckYlntJ^.'* They Were Lucky—Only The Boat Lost Its Head m �Tat* Foarteea SEAFARERS Anyone Got Any Ideas? ; benefits. This letter, incidental­ ly, has the approval of the ma­ jority of crewmembers aboard. To the Editor: Leyal E. Joseph Upon arrival here at Rio de Ship's reporter Janeiro on the SS Del Sud I (Ed, notes The seatime re­ received a copy of the LOG (Aug. 15, 1958) with an article quirement for the existing $150 I sent in from the SS* Monarch ' monthly SIU disability-pension benefit, aside from the basic of the Seas. There is an error in it nam­ eligibility rule for all SIU Wel­ ing me as the ship's delegate on fare Plan benefits, is 12 ycors that ship, as I was actually the on ships of companies now steward department delegate on under SIU contract, as far back there. Brother Pate, DM, was as 1934. Full details on disabili­ pur ship's delegate. I'd appre- ty-pension eligibility are in the box on page 5. Just to keep the arithmetic straight, on the assumption that the average Seafarer sails nine months a year, it would theoretically take him 16 years or more, rather than 18, to accumulate the necessary time.) j Wants to Keep I'Credits'Right 1 : ^ ' Letters To The Editor Repair job on the winches keeps this pair hard at work aboard the Alcoa Pennant, as chief electrican A. A. Abrams flef^ and 2nd electrician E. Watson team up to set things right. Pre­ sumably everything worked out okay. The photo by William R. Cameron, night cook and baker, certainly did. SlU, A&G District BALTIMORE 1218 E. Baltimore St. Earl Sheppard, Agent EAstem 7-4800 BOSTON 878 State St. James Sheehan, Agent Richmond 2-0140 HOUSTON 4202 Canal St. Robert Matthews. Agent Capital 3-4089: 3-4080 1419 Ryan St. LAKE CHARLES, La. HEmlock 8-5744 Leroy Clarke. Agent MOBILE .1 South Lawrence St. Cal Tanner. Agent HEmlock 2-1754 812 Front St. MORGAN CITY Phone 2156 Tom Gould. Agent NEW ORLEANS ..... 523 BlenviUe St. Lindsey Williams. Agent Tulane 8626 NEW YORK 875 4tb Ave.. Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6600 NORFOLK . 127-129 Bank St. J. Bullock. Acting Agent MAdlson 2-9834 PHILADELPHIA 337 Market St. S. Cardullo. Agent Market 7-1635 PUERTA de TIERRA PR 101 Pelayo Sal CoUa. Agent Phone 2-5996 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St Marty BreithoK. Agent Douglas 2-5475 SAVANNAH 2 Abercom St E. B. McAuIey. Agent Adams 3-1728 SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave Jeff GlUette. Agent Main 3^4334 TAMPA . 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. Tom Banning. Agent Phone 3-1323 WILMINGTON. CalU ... 505 Marine Ave. Reed Humphries. Agent Terminal 4-2874 HEADQUARTERS . 675 4tll Ave.. Bklyn SECRETARY-TREASURER Paul HaU ASST SECRETARY-TREASURERS J. Aleina. Deck W. Hall. Joint C. Simmons. Eng. R. Matthews. Joint E. Mooney. Std. J. Volplan. Joint SUP HONOHn.U....51 South Nlmlti Highway PHone 5<_>2-777 '"CMI^-43®^ RICHMOND. Calif SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE WILMINGTON NEW YORK 510 Hacdonald Ave. BEacon 2-0925 450Douglas Hanson St. 2-8383 2505 1st A^ Main 0290 805 Marine Ave. Terminal 4-3131 875 4th Ave.. Brooklyn HYacinth 96165 Great Lakes District ALPENA 1215 N. SMond Ave Phone: 713-J 180 .Main St. Phone: Cleveland 7391 CLEVELAND 1410 W. 29 St. MAin 1-0147 RIVER ROUGE ..10225 W. Jefferson Ave. River Rouge 18. Mich. VInewood 3-4741 DULUTH 821 W. Superior St. Phone: Randtlph 2-4110 SOUTH CHICAGO 3261 E. 92nd St. Phone: Essex 5-2410 BUFFALO. NY LOC-A-RHYTHM: Blue Lament By John J. Sodofsky Heading out to sea. Feeling a little blue, 'Cause the ship that I am on Is taking me from you. I've heard men say they'll sail no more; They're going to get a job ashore. And stay home with their kids and wife , To try and lead a normal life. Canadian District HALIFAX. N.S ..128V8 HoUls St. Phone 36911 MONTREAL 634 St James St. West PLateau 8161 FORT WILLIAM 408 Simpson St. Ontario Phone: 3-3221 PORT COLBORNB 103 Durham St. Ontario Phone: 5591 TORONTO. Ontario 372 King St. E. EMplre 46719 VICTORIA. BC......017H Cormorant St. EMplre 4531 VANCOUVER. BC .298 Main St. Pacific 3468 SYDNEY. NS 304 Charlotte St. . Phone: 6346 BAGOTVILLE. Quebee 20 Elgin St. Phone; 545 THOROLD. Ontario .52 St. Davids St. CAnal 7-3202 QUEBEC . .44 'Sault-au-Matelot Quebec ; Phone: 3-1569 But they'll find out it's mighty hard. And back they'll go for their ship­ SAINT JOHN.,....m Prince WilUam St. ping card. , NB OX 35431 WHEW! ITbsoHOT I CAN'T«|.EEP... I'v;-'- [ Is- • KlllL w September M. INtt LOC 7m All letters to the editor for publication in the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. ciate if this would be corrected so the record would be straight. Meanwhile, smooth sailing to ali. Everybody on here is very happy with our new contract gains. Eddie Erlksen (Ed. note: Apolopies to Broth­ er Pate for shutting him out.) Opens New Bar in Yokohama To the Editor: I'd appreciate a notice in the LOG that I have opened a bar in Yokohama so some of my friends and shipmates can see it. I'd appreciate anybody drop­ ping in to say hello, as SIU guys will always be welcome. I'm sure they'll find the service and prices right. If possible, have the LOG sent to the place, so the boys can see them when they come over. The address is George's Bar, No. 2-93 Yamashita-Cho, Naka-Ku, Yokohama, Jayan. George W. Harding (Ed note; LOGS are being sent as you requested.) X t, Formosa Strait is Getting Hotter To the Editor: ' Enclosed are photos taken aboard the tanker Cities Serv­ ice Miami on our way back to Sasebo, Japan, after another shuttle run to the Persian Gulf. As the rumors fiy, we have one more shuttle run and then head bapk to the States. The boys are all looking for­ ward to a couple of good days ashore, and then to getting the trip over with and heading home. We will then have been out over a year. ' The pictures were taken with Formosa in the background. As you know, there has been some shooting the past few days be­ tween the Nationalist Chinese and Red forces Involving some "of the nearby islands. Gene Langstrand, OS, should get the credit for the camera work. Alex Janes Ship's reporter Says Hawaii is No Paradiso To the Editor: I just came back to San Fran­ cisco as a first-class passenger on the Pacific Navigator after being in the Tripler Army Hos­ pital in Honolulu. Honolulu stinks in my book. If you can afford to put out about $50 per diem and live in the Royal Hawaiian or Henry Kaiser's Hawaiian Village or own yourself a villa you got it made. Then you can be like the plutocrats or multi-millionaires who use this territorial play­ ground for their backyard and charge a darn good bit off to taxes. But a few miles away and also on other islands, many of the native-born still live in shacks and huts. You take away Ameri­ can protection and money and. assuming no other country takes over, namely Russia, in less than ten years the inhabitants would be using out-rigger ca­ noes to catch their daily meal and the outstanding diet would ho fish and poi. The board of health evidently doesn't inspect the diseasebreeding massage parlors in the downtown area where for $3 per half hour one wades through wet, sloppy- floors without any foot covering to climb on a bench covered with dirty linen which is not changed for each customer. I have seen people lay on these dirty, imsanitary sheets and have pus squeezed out of their bodies, and then watched the next customer climb up on,the same sheet. This is a common practice here. What a joke it would be if this place ever became the 50th state, or even the 150th. • George B. Dunn Urge Pro-Rated Pension Set-Up To the E^tor: We, the crew of the Young America, have been following several articles in the .LOG about u new pension plan. In our estimation, on the issue of seatime, we figure that the average guy sails nine months out of the year. There­ fore, in order to secure 12 years* seatime, he must sail at least 18 years or more. In any event, we v/ouH like to approve Brother Donald D. Whittaker's writeup in the LOG of August 1, 1958 (urging a pro­ rated pension set-up—^Ed.) or at least some kind of outright pension benefit under which the average seaman could draw ^joying peaceful passage off Formosa despite shooting between Chinese forces in nearby Straits, Seafarers on the Cities Service Miami pose for photographer Gene Langstrand, OS. Pictured (standing, I to r| John Lefco, ship's delegate; W. Wallace, fireman; Joe Wilaszak, baker; A ex Janes, ship's reporter; kneeling, Gerry Cordero, utility, and Eddie Abrams, steward. �T-t'T:'': September It, 19S» SEAFARERS Pat* Flfteca LOG Lk, Charles Has 'Dry'Ambitions SlU BABY ABBIYALS All of the following SIU famillea have received a'$200 SIU maternity benefit. Robert Schwatka Jr., born July Rios, New York, NY. 80, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rob­ » ert Schwatka, Baltimore, Md. Guadalupe Romero, bom August 4> 4". 4" 27, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose Ralph Bullard, Jr., bom July 9, L. Romero, Houston. Tex. 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ralph t 4> 4" Bullard, New York, NY. Michael Anthony Sullivan, bora 4» 4" 4> July 29, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. William Knapp Jr., born August Frederick R. Sullivan, New Orleans, 8, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wil­ La. liam Knapp, Houston, Tex. » » » $ ^ 4, Abert * Alfred Webb, bora Gloria Marie Law, born July 8, August 31, 1958, to Seafarer and 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard Mrs. James L. Webb, Mobile, Ala. A. Law, Philadelphia, Pa. " » 4^ 4- 4^ Milagros Cruz, bom August 8, Steven Paul Lupo, bom July 29, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Juan 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. James Crui, New York Oily. Lupo, Rosebank, SI, rJY. t, t, Catherine Mae Evans, born Au­ 4> 4" 4> Grant Marrett Jr., bom August gust 1, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. 8, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Grant John P. -Evans, Baltimore, Md. Marzett, Mobile, Ala. ^ 4^ James Carley Gordon, bom Au­ S> i> ^ Dora Alice Bios, bom August 14, gust 18, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Juan L. Hunter U. Gordon, Norfolk, Va. LAKE CHARLES—Expansion of dry cargo freight operations here is reaching the constmction stage. The Board of Harbor Conmdssloners is already letting bids for new docks, on which work is ex­ pected to start at once. the new docks will enlarge the port's freight capacity by several hundred thousand tons, and will undoubtedly lead to greater Job possibilities for Seafarers in the area. Lake Charles is still pri­ marily a tanker port. Shipping, meanwhile, continues to be on the slow side, although some men succeeded in getting out during the period. Port Agent Leroy Clarke pointed out, how­ ever, that there was an ample supply of ratings Vessels in the area during the past two weeks included six Cities Service tankers—^Rpyal Oak, Chlwawa. Council Grove, Winter Hill, Bradford Island and CS Baltimore —plus the Petrochem (Valentine) and pel Sol (Mississippi). AU of them were in good shape. FINA L DISPATCH Arehlbald McGuigan, 71: Brother McGuigan died in the PHS Hos­ pital, Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, NY, after a lengthy illness. He is survived by a sister, Julia Ma- . gilton, of Belfast, Ireland, where he was born. Broth­ er McGuigan was interred in the St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, LI, NY. t Personals And Notices TO SHIPS IN ATtAKTiC • SOUTH AMERICAN - EUROPEAN WATERS THE FIRST DIRECT VOICE BftOADCaST TO SHIPS' CREWS ivmy SUKBAT • IHO «MT t Alexander Rever, 56: Brother Rever, of Philadelphia, died in Bal­ timore, Md. on April 20, 1958. Cause of death was cancer. After Joining the SIU in 1952, Rever Leonard A. G. Smith Please contact your wife at 201 Thomas St., West Haven, Conn. I : - .4- 4 i Joseph Rionx Will you please get in touch with Mrs. Annand Rivet at 161 Avon .St., Lowell, Mass. i . t Selden F. Manard Please contact your wife at 1722 63rd St., Brooklyn, NY. 4^ » 4> Walter C. Zajane Youh"mother, Mrs. Mary Zajane, wants-you to contact her at 147 John SL, Staten Island 2, NY. Her telephone number GI 8-6808. * Pate6 the urn. : 'J' - 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Andrew Danlluk A letter is being held for you in the LOG office. 4- "Blinky" AUen Mitchell Mobley would like you to return the glasses he left with you in NY. His address is 3613 E. Wilder Ave., Tampa 10, Fla. -7 ' :v'.; " UP-TO*THB-MINUT| UNION AND MARITIMi NEWS or SPECIAL INTEREST TO YOUI iiiiiill ' \1 it, - John Thompson Certificates of vaccination which you left aboard-the Robin Hood are being held In the LOG office. I'- S>K..!S Junior Yankee 'MmiM < BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE DEEP SEA UNIONS OP THE MARITIMI TRADIB DBPARTMINf SlU^AftO MSTRia • SUP • MFOW«MCS • ROU • MMIP • IME • SIU-CANADIAN MSTUa '"1 -•-'v MTD Round-The-World Wireless Broadcasts Cohtmue... f/'r-/- i'rnji'ii- KS X' I EVERY SUNDAY, ISIS GMT I AA^A-nAv MIX Z (2:15PJII fST5ttnday) J EVERY MO0315 GMT • » l»»ne.ndN»«ll.AiiJ» I <10:15 PM EST Sunday) | Europe ( Authrelfa WCO»l8020Ka WMM 25-15887 KC* Eosl Coeit SeiHfc Aaioilcw WCO.189884 RCD Northwest Pacific WMM 81-11837.5 Wetl Ceotl SeiHli Aniaricii I I I " bsM*:! 'm'fr.'ifp. .,iS: Jm.'. I I I I though bof and armi conceol tho MltOring on ht« shirt, Jomos "Sluggor" Mossie, Jr. h <gi Ihc Yonlmes .. . of tho Bo^oro Uttlo L 0 a g u o. Jim's "monogor" is Seafarer Idmas Moulc, Sr. on tho RoWiiTFiinfc - sailed in the deck department. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Rever of Philadelphia. 4 4 4 James A. Oliver. 51: Brother Oliver died of a heart ailment in the US Naval Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan, on August 8, 1958. Sailing in the steward depart­ ment, he Joined the SIU in 1955. Brother Oliver lived in Balti­ more, Maryland where his sister, Anna M. Wingate, surivives him. The place of burial is unknown. 4 4 4 David S. Furman, 64: Leukemia caused the death of Brother Furman on June '0, 1958, In the Sta­ ten Island PHS. He" joined the SIU in 1952, sail­ ing in the stew­ ard department. Brother Furman lived in Irvington, NJ, with his sister. Bertha F, Hickman, who survives him. He was buried in the Hollywood Ceme­ tery, Union, NJ.. 4 4 4 Charles Barton, 42: Brother Bur­ ton died on July 22, 1958, In the PHS hospital, Memphis, Tennessee. The cause of death was tubercul­ osis. Brother Burton is . survived by his sister, Mrs. Elsie Buena Murray, of Weaver, Alabama. Place of burial is unknown. 4 4 4 James Ruth, Jr., 38: Brother Ruth died May 8, 1958, aboard the Margaret Brown, on which he was a member of the deck department. Death resulted from a heart ail­ ment. Brother Ruth, who joined the SIU in 1953, was buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery, New Or­ leans, La. There are no survivors. Notify Union On LOG Mail As Seafarers know, copies of each issue of the SEAFARERS LOG are mailed every two weeks to all SIU ships as well as to numerous clubs, bars and other overseas spots where Seafwers congregate \ashore. The procedure for mailing the LOG involves calling all SIU steam­ ship companies for the itiner­ aries of their ships. On the basis of the information sup­ plied by the ship operator, three copies of the LOG, the head-' quarters report and minutes forms are then airmailed to the company agent in the next port of caU. Similarly, the seamen's clubs get various quantities of LOGs at- every mailing. The LOG is sent to any club when a Sea­ farer so requests it by notifying the LOO office that Seafarers congregate there. As always the Union would like to hear promptly from SIU ships whenever the LOG and ship's mail is not delivered so that the Union can maintain a day-to-day check on the accu­ racy of its mailing lists. �SEAFAltEIIS«I.Oe • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERN ATION AL UN ION • ATLANTIC AND GULP DISTRICT > AFL-ClO • Twelve-Mile China Coast Limit Seen Danger To Afloat In The Streets Of Detroit The failure of the 86-natibn UN Conference on the Law of the Sea to reach agreement on territorial waters and fishing rights, earlier this year, is having consequences which niight ' .'n directly affect SIU-manned+ ships. The action of the Red the stage for Red China to claim a Chinese government in unila­ 12-mile limit. However, while the terally setting lip a 12-inile off­ basis for Iceland's action was eco­ shore territorial limit, raises ques­ nomic, China's is military. After tions about ships calling at Hong declaring the offshore islands- of Kong as well as ships- going into Quemoy and Matsu and BritishFormosan "fraters" where JRed China held Hongkong within their terri­ torial limit, the Communists are is now pressing her claims. The Chinese proclamation iff a ch.arging the" US with -"violation" 12-mile limit came after Iceland of torritorial waters. Aside from the fact that the announced that she would extend US 7th fleet is In the area. SIUher territorial waters to 12 miles and served notice that British flsh- manhed Isthmian ships occasional­ Great Lakes Dislnct put on this Impressive display for Detroit audience during huge Labor Day pa­ . ing vessels violating the line would ly make calls at Hong Kong which. In the Red Chinese book, would rade in that city. Float won second prize In competition with other unions in the Detroit area. be penalized. be placing SIU ships within the Britain, one of the world's six territorial limits of the Chinese chief fish producers, countered Peoples Republic. Other SIUIceland's decision by sending a manned vessels are frequent call­ small armada of fishing vessels ers at Taiwan In the heart of the into the troubled waters,. accona- trouble area. panied by several warships, in the Propaganda Move event that there should be trouble. At the monvent, it is believed that So far, Iceland has had littie suc­ the Chinese announcement Is a cess in keeping the British from propaganda move designed to win The old Army game," hurry up and wait," took on new fishing its waters. y the support of the majority of the meaning for the crew of the SlU-manned Coe Victory. Dur­ The "fish war" appar&tly set 86-natibhs at the Conference of the SeO. which were in favdr of ah ing the recent Middle East crisis, the Coe Victory spent three extension of the three mile linsit.. weeks waiting^ to unload" Although the vessel is designed During the conference, most "vital" supplies at the Jordan­ pendent on what could be brought to minimize the possibility of radiamajor Western. maritime powers ian port of Aqaba because of in via Aqaba. Consequently, the ship hightailed tion a large majority of the crewoffered plans to extend the three- a dispute over unloading and., a it into Aqaba on August 14, and members aboard the nuclear-pow­ mile limit to six. Since this was backlog of 40,000 tons of cargo on unacceptable to nations demanding the docks. At one time about two then started waiting. It was re­ ered NS Savannah will be re­ twelve mile's or more and agree­ dozen ships were on the hook ported that she finally got out on stricted from the machinery spaces, and others will have to wear per­ ment could not be reached, the waiting to discharge their cargo. September 5. Another Victory Carriers ship, the sonnel geiger counters while going, Western powers gave formal notice AHiiing. to the growing list of that, they would recognize .only the Oil In Drums Coeur P'Alene Victory, left Brem- about their duties. "vote of thanks" members are the traditional three-mile limit as uni­ The .Coe Victory headed for erhaven hurriedly with 457 mili­ According to Richard P. Godwin, deck engineer of the Andrew versally applicable. Aqaba carrying of all things, oil tary vehicles for the trouble area, npclear project officer of the Mari­ Jackson (Water­ The current disputes open, up in drums, because of what was re­ but it . was diveii:ed at sea and time Administration, both passen­ man), Emil Nord­ the possibility that the UN may ported as a dire shortage of fuel. came to New York instead. gers and crewmembers aboard thw strom, and the try again to negotiate new Inter­ The revolution in Iraq had cut off Jeep Road Savannah will be subject to some ship's steward national regulations in this field normal fuel supplies to Jordan radiation. HOwever, it is calcu­ is linked with the rest department gang leaving, that country, totally de- 6f Aqaba as soon as possible. lated to be lower than that which Jordan by a road that's little c 0 n s i s t in g of is allowed X-ray technicians. more than a Jeep track to a rail­ Hemsley Guinier, head 54 miles away. There were Radiation Varies chief steward, not enough wharves to berth the Clarence Oliver, In his address United Na­ ships or trucks to haul cargo tv tions Conferencetointhe chief cook; Cice­ Geneva, the railroad. In addition, American zerland, Godwin reported thatSwit­ ro Douglas, 2nd the Nordstrom experts found that, the local rail­ maximum degree of radiation cook; Pablo Lo­ road had just 21 locomotives, of pez, 3rd cook;. Charles Kayanagh, which 11 were sitting on sidings would vary according to ceitaln Fred Lewis, Frank LavSosa, James turning Into rust. The Americans areas of the ship. Mitchell, messmen;/J. Richards, In passengers areas the radia­ WASHINGTON-rThe Government is finally changing a had to get 100 rail carloads of steward utility and John Fanoli, tion level will be no greater than rubbish and 26 carloads of scrap galley utility. Also making the list cart before ,the horse" situation that. has been plaguing an accumulated dosage of 0.5 rems hauled out of the railroad yards was the entire steward department consumers for years. Beginning early in 1959, food producers per year. The maximum in areas ^ and the shops before they could of the Oce^n Deborah (Maritime will have to prove that the* where the crews will be quartered get the railroad, functioning with Overseas) but especially the cooks, • chemicals, used in their prod-" of the product could be some degree of normalcy. or work will be five rems per year. Roland Loinax, chief cook, Robert. ucts; are safe before the food sale barred. In the interim, the con­ It is now moving 600 tons of Some parts of the ship, those Green, night cook and baker and sumer would be left on his own. to cargo a day with a mere 25,000 labeled "limited areas" will not be can be put on the market. 3rd cook Dallas D. Hill. Up until now, consumers have, decide whether it might be safe tons piled up on the docks and an entered without the captain's per­ Finally, a sweeping okay for the been at the mercy of the often- to use a particular product. equal amount waiting to be un­ mission. In these parts, when the entire crew of the Penn Mtwiner exaggerated claim of food pro-: Issues have frequently been loaded. plant has full reactor power, no (Penn Trans.) from meeting se­ ducers and processors who may raised, for example, over chemicals Things got so bad that oil more than three rems will be per­ cretary M. Hitchcock, who pointed have stretched the truth a little used by bakery chains in making tankers were unloading directly mitted in any 13|-week period. Five out that "cooperation among the in advertising their wares. The various types of bread, particularly into tank trucks which were put rems is the average radiation' at entire crew shows why there is no new regul9tions under the Food over the additives used for color­ on landing barges and brought to which X-ray technicians are al­ bee^ng aboard this ship." and Drug Act also affect virtuafly ing purposes and to retard spoilage. the ships. lowed to absorb. 4. 4. .. Incidentally, the charges for the all other foods oh the market. • Bimilar circumstances surround Engine Room Rules other types of foods as well. ' . Burden Of Proof Coe Victory while she was waiting Because he is doing such a Total , restriction, he said, will Chemicals used In food are to unload- her "vital'' cargo "swell job". Evert Rosenquist was The change now puts the burden be placed on the controlled ma­ reelected as deck of proof on the food industry, added for such purposes as color, amounted to $^200 a day. . chinery spaces where only mem­ delegate on , the rather than the consumer or the flavor, bleaching, thinning, thick­ bers of the engine department and Pacific Explorer. Government itself. Previously, a ening and preventing mold and officers, when wearing personnel And that's the new product could go up on the rancidity. The new rules require Shorthanclecl? dosimeters, can work. wdfd fo|: the en­ grpcer's shelves, without challenger the-manufacturer to make the tests H a crewmemher quits while Extreme precautions were iaken tire crew Ed Tay­ It then became necessary for -the and submit proof of the results a -ship is' in port, delegates lor, meeting sec-, Government to shew that a chemi­ before the product can be mar­ are asked to contact the hall for the containment of all radio­ retary, notes. cal used for flavoring, coloring or keted. Foods already on the shelves Immediately' for a replace­ activity on the Savannah in case "Everyone is do­ other purpojses was harmful alto­ will have tp. be tested in the same ment. Fast action on their part of a rupture of the reactor or its ing his job well, gether or at least in the amounts manner. will keep all jobs aboard ship primary system. All equipment used. the SIU way, H6 tests will be required in the filled at all ~times and elimi­ that may fail during operations Rosenquist Taylor reports. Aside from court action, animal case of such long-Used additives as nate the chance of the ship may be completely contained and* isolated and duplicate machinery J "No beefs,'no disputed overtime feeding tests over a period of two sugiur, salt> vpnilla, vinegar, sailing shprthanded. v/ill be used. years were then re^hired before paprika'lihd lsbih'd other spices. In all departments." Jordan Dock Snafu Check Atom Holds Xoe' B Vfeeks Ship Crew OnRadiation I| � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 12, 1958 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU VACATION PAY BOOSTED TO $360 SEAFRERS HIT BATISTA SCABBING SIU SENIORITY RULES AMENDED HQ CREDENTIALS GROUP CHECKING ON CANDIDATES RAID FAILS, SHIP CREWED BY SIU LABOR DAY MEANS $ TO MOBILE MEN SEE US TRAMPS HARD-HIT UNDER FORCED LAY-UP PLAN BME BOOSTS BENEFITS FOR ENGINEERS INTERIM REPORT BY NLRB EXAMINER ISSUED ON ACS MATES BY-PASS AMMI, SIGN 31 FREIGHT LINES DISABLED GET BIG US AID BOOST STUDY OF HEALTH CENTER SET BY WEST COAST SIU NY AUTHORITY BUYS ERIE BASIN CANADIAN SIU CONDEMNS BATISTA’S STRIKEBREAKING P-A SELLING T-2 LIFT-ONS TWELVE-MILE CHINA COAST LIMIT SEEN DANGER TO SHIPS JORDAN DOCK SNAFU HOLDS ‘COE’ 3 WEEKS NEW FOOD REGULATIONS TO SAFEGUARD PUBLIC’S HEALTH CHECK ATOM SHIP CREW ON RADIATION Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/12/1958 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XX, No. 19 1958 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/c088c35c4896bc35b290382eca75abc9.PDF 67d007e1a9e9c10f9396724be14ae4bf PDF Text Text Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Vnion of North America No. 37 NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 1946 Vol. VIII. .••ri SlU PRESSURE FORCES WSB REVERSAL Under pressure from the SIU aud SUP, joined by the pressure from all segments of the labor movement. Wage " - - - -• J iv **T_ n 1^ *1 -Mvvli-rftnr* Y«7Viir>ri Tffc QhviHo*A Stabi^affon DireTrVhTR'stXarLTnigirthe Wag7stabilization Soard ruling which served to abridge the rights of free coilective bargaining had b.n SIU-SUP Telegram To WSB W. WILLARD WIRTZ, Chairman National Wage Stabilization Board Washington, D. C. The Joint SIU-SUP Strike Committee meet­ ing in executive session at New York Wednes­ day night, unequivocally and without reserva­ tion denounce the criminal and union-busting decision of the National Wage Stabilization Board in denying the legitimate wage increases of the SIU—SUP—MFOWW. The further continuance of the greatest gen­ eral maritime strike in the history of the United States rests squarely on your shoulders and the shoulders of those individuals who voted to deny our hard-fought for wage gains. We are fighting this beef to the bitter end, and will continue the strike until victory is ours. Our fight is the fight of all labor, and the SIUSUP rest confident that the entire labor move­ ment will support us till this beef is won. Max Korenblatt, Chairman For Joint SIU-SUP Strike Committee the strike came to an end at 8 A.M. Friday, September 13. On the East Coast, a meeting held in New York's Manhattan Center voted to stay on strike and to maintain picketlines until the decision is official. Ever eager to ride on the Seafarers bandwagon, the NMU immediately 'Call 24-Hour Strike': Committee To AFL, CIO announced lhat they would walk­ out and" stay on strike until their wages had been upped to the scale achieved by the SIUSUP. All of the action of the past twenty-four hours followed close on the heels of the WSB refusal NEW YORK, Sept. 11—Two significant tele­ to reconsider its original stand grams were sent by the Joint Strike Committee of which precipitated the entire na­ the SIU-SUP to William Green, president of the tion-wide tie up of shipping. AFL, and Philip Murray, president of the CIO. The The arrogance of the WSB first, which was by far the most important action brought forth immediate denimtaken by the Joint Committee ast ciation from the Joint Strike the strike went into its seventh that a 24-hour work stoppage Committee of the SIU-SUP. A day, was to ask the two national be called by all American labor telegram stating that "the fur­ in the event the WSB does not ther continuance of the great­ labor organizations to stop work est general maritime strike in for 24 hours if the Wage Stabili­ reverse itself." In the second wire, the Com­ the history of the United States zation Board does not reverse it­ self. It made the point that the mittee urged that the two labor rests squarely on your shoulders" actions of this bureaucratic was sent to the WSB as soon as {Continued on Page 5) agency could only be construed the decision was announced. * as an attack on free collective r ' The original dictatorial action bargaining, and called on all or­ of the WSB in withholding all ganized labor to join in the fight wage increases over $17.50 per for its rights. month for ships under War Ship­ This issue of the Seafarers ping Administration jurisdiction Log has only 8 pages instead The text of this 'telegram ap­ resulted in a walkout of 62,000 of the usual 16. All deliveries pears below; Seafarers, starting on Wednes­ of newsprint have heen halt­ "Continued refusal by the day, September 4. ed during the present team­ Wage Stabilization Board to sters strike. For the same Within a short time close to approve the wage increase se­ reason some of you may have half a million waterfront work­ cured by the SIU-SUP in free not received last week's is­ ers joined the fight against the collective bargaining can only sue. We go back to 16 pages attack on free collective bargain­ be regarded as an attack upon Don't believe the news stories and they were immediately hired as soon as the teamsters win. ing and sea traffic from and to labor's fundamental rights about how the shipping com­ and sent to a tourist camp near (Continued on Page 4) everywhere. We therefore urge panies are one hundred percent Belvidere, New Jersey. on our side in this beef against SCAB CAMP the WSB. As always, the only They talked to the men who MINDING OUR OWN BUSINESS people and the only group that were already out there and fights a union beef is the Union found that most of them had involved and its membership. been recruited under false pre­ This was proven pretty con­ tenses. Except for one or two clusively in the past and it was men, one the First Mate in com­ again pointed up by the activit­ mand of the group, all said that ies of the Calmar Steamship they were not anti-union and Company during the past few that the Calmar Line had played days. a dirty trick on them when they Since the strike started, a num­ were sent to the camp to act as ber of unorganized seamen, scabs. On Tuesday, September 10, a mainly very young boys and company stiffs, have received number of SIU-SUP men visited telegrams asking them to report the camp and explained the sit­ to "Captain Colchester, 13th uation to these would-be scabs. rioor, 25 Broadway." Some did The men said that the Calmar so, and they were signed on ar­ Line had told them that the ticles and sent to various camps strike would be over by Wednes­ which had been established along day, and that they would be then the east coast/ as training centers shipped out. ^.ater, the story changed and they were then told for scabs arid finks. Members of ihe SIU:SUP. 62.000 sirong, sfarfed walking picketlines as soon as the strike Word of this came to the at­ that even if the strike was still began. This was not political, it was purely and simply a fight for the money which had been tention of the Union, and so a on, they would still be shipped few militant SlU.mbn went up to on Wednesday. won honestly and which had been stolen by a lot of phony red-tape artists. Everywhere there Some of them didn't like that see Captain Colchester. When was a complete tie-up of all shipping. Not a propeller churned the water, and incoming ships these men spoke to the scab idea, but there was little they lo rest as their crews left to join the picketlines. At the end of one solid week of picket­ herder, they were sure to let could do about it because they ing. the WSB had not yet backed down, but the Seafarers had only just started to fight. drop sonie anti-union sentiments, (Continued OH'Page'$) Paper Shortage Calmar Strikebreaking Try Fails; Fink Camp Breaks Up i �Page Two 2J WE S E AiE AR 5 If » LOG, Friday, September 13, 1946 SEAFARERS LOG Published Weekly by the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf Disti'ict A ffilia fed with the American federation of Labor At SI Beaver Street, New York, 4, N, Y. HAaover 2-2784 t X % X HARRY LUNDEBERG ------ President lOi Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. JOHN HAWK Secy-Treas. P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City !l'1 I'i'i Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. . 267 We Buckle Down With practically the entire country on our side in this all-out struggle against the dictatorial actions of the .Wage Stabilization Board, the WSB last night announced that its original decision still stands and that the money which they blandly took out of the pocket of the working seaman will not be returned by them. The sentiments of almost all inhabitants of this coun­ try, plus the backing of organized labor, did not have any effect on these wilful men in Washington. Without any attempt to sift the entire situation so as to arrive at an equitable decision, hte WSB reiterated its former satn4 and left the maritime situation tied up in a knot. It is significant that public opinion, reflected by the newspaper treatment of the action, is overwhelmingly on . . . . ,, f" our side. It is not because the people of this country are interested in five and ten dollar raises for ABs. The issue is a far broader one, and one that vitally concerns all or­ ganized labor, and indirectly the entire population of the United States. Here and now the fight is being waged between bu­ reaucratic control and democratic methods. If the WSB is allowed to win this test, they may well consider that they have won a victory over democracy, and that they Touring the Hall while the it was all I could get, but I the ports tied up indefinitely." therefore have the right to institute the sort of control guys were resting after the first wasn't going to wait for a pull- "Boy, I got a kick out of the that we just finished fighting in Europe, and which still day's picketing, one couldn't help speed which this thing came off. Straight from the shoulder—took exists in Russia. overhearing a few snatches of a vote and out we went." The mass of American people, including some of those conversation. One seaman flick­ Good Union men, all of them. who hold postions of authority in Washington, are in favor ed the ashes off his cigarette and of a living, working democracy. There are, however, a said "Yeah, a Steward from off one of the ships fixed us up with few men who like to have power over their fellow men. a case of beer and two pots of These men are dangerous. They must be weeded out, and man. Got here this morning and their agencies torn asunder before they can undermine went right out on the picket ED EMERY line." the rights and privileges which labor has fought and Here and there one heard com­ Have moved to 34 Locust died for. Street, Dorchester. Phone will ments on things in genei'al: The industry and public members of the Wage "This Union don't waste no be put in next week. Please call. —Ma. Stabilization Board are such men. They care little for the time when it's got a beef to XXX people who make up this mighty land, they care only for settle . . ." R. R. WATSON the power which is theirs, and which they can retain only coffee. Made picketing a real "This is my idea of a real solid strike, no strings attached, every­ as long as the people don't question them. Book number 23186: Ralph picnic. Darn nice df him." thing clear. You got to hand it Casale of 47 Hinckly St., SomerWe Seafarers do question them. We want to know One youngster told his huddy: ville, Mass., would like to hear by what right they set aside the established privilege of "I was down at pier 9 picketing from you. the Coast Guard office. Funny free collective bargaining between labor and employers. thing about it, I was supposed to XXX We ask them how they dare to go counter to the wishes be there today to take my AB's WILLIAM JOHN MEEHAN of the citizens of this country when they attempt to set test, but there I was outside of Please contact your mother up a super-government that will not listen to the voice of the joint carrymg a picket sign. I immediately. can't use my papers right now the man who works for a living, or of the man who em­ anyway, so it doesn't matter. It ploys him. really gave me a change to picket to the strike committee . . ." "I was in a Teamsters strike It is obvious that the WSB has gotten itself into a those guys." in, St. Louis and I thought that hole and must now wait for help from the outside. The Still another voice: "Man, am was a good one, but this is the SS J. SHERMAN seamen who are on strike will hold firm. Only complete I bushed. I was up in Bay City, best I've ever seen. We are even Michigan, fishing for the big ones reversal of the arbitrary ruling which started the strike being fed right here in the Hall C. Garcia, 6 hrs. This can be can now end it. and, that's something I've never collected at the Alcoa SS Com­ pany, Pier 45^North River, New seen done in a strike before." The public and industry members of the Board have York, N. Y. An oldtimer with two days proved that they are not worthy of the trust and respon­ growth of beard set his coffee sibility vested in them. To appease their vanity they have down saying: "If this strike lasts thrown this nation into the largest general maritime strike for a week—I don't think it will, but if it should—we should buy in history. It is time for them to go. JOHN E. PERKINS newspaper space and give it to We will win this battle. Our solidarity is unimpaired when I heard we were going out. 'the public straight just like the Your AB papers, found on the and. we have buckled down to last a long time. The next I; hot footed, it. down to Detroit shipowners do, whenever we John Edr'lstein, are being held move is up to the President, and he now has the chance and threw my gear together ... tangle with them." for you at the Smith & Johnson to right a grievous wrong. : Spent the night in a day coach, "With this set-up we can keep office, 62 Beaver Street. Coffee And Conversation Around The Hall -PERSONALS- MONEY DUE NOTICE! �•1= 1.V "Triday, Sd{it»ntb«r 13, 1946 THE SEAFARERS LOG SITTING THE BRICKS This is the sight you could have seen in practically every sea port in the United States. As these men, and others like them, left their ships in protest over the finky deal given us by the WSB, shipping came to a complete stop. xN.y. Teamsters Tie Up City Smoothly Functioning Strike Committees Assure Successful Running Of WSB Beef NEW YORK — The successful prosecution of the present ship tie-up here in New York depends directly on the various commit­ tees set up under the strike com­ mittee to coordinate the job of carrying out a total strike. This tremendous task could not have gotten rolling in the magnificent fashion that it has were it not for these committees and their tireless workers. A full report of thd various committees and what they have accomplished and run up against so far in the strike would take more space than is available at this time, Most of the chairmen of these committees have. been far too busy to submit detailed reports, so for the time being only a paragraph or so is coming out of the offices of these com­ mittees. The Legal and Medical Com­ mittee headed by H. A. Thomp­ son, with the aid of Joe Volpian, reports that it is operating with the highest of efficiency. They report that they have the services of three volunteer lawyers who POUNDING THE BRICKS All the operators have offered is a meager $3.00 flat increase •per week. Involved in the strike are Lo­ cals 807, 282 and 816 of the In­ ternational Brotherhood of Team­ sters," Warehousemen and Help­ ers, with a combined membership 'of 15,000. Also out are 15,000 'New Jersey drivers who have staged a sympathy walkout. Like ihe minute men of old who freed this country from the domination of a foreign tyrant, these men are prepared to fight for the hard won rights of free American labor. These signs tell the story, and they could be seen along the miles of •waterfront of any sea iown in the United States. Calmar Strikebreaking Attempt Fails As Fink Camp Closes Up Union, without the promise of (Conthmed from Page 1.) anything in return, to help out on • The strike is proceeding with had no money and they had em- the picketlines or anyplace else complete effectiveness with in­ signed articles when first ploj'ed. where they could be of service. dustry after industry revealing "Your beef is our beef," the As soon as they heard the Union they are feeling the impact of group declared, "and we want to this first general trucking strike side, the boys stated that they do what we can to help win," were not scabs. One of them said, in six years. Practically no linff is exempt and several large con­ "Calmar played a dirty trick on And so ends another attempt cerns already have shut down. us, but the Union set us straight. by the shipowners to force sea­ Everything from cigarettes to They could have raised heU with men to return to the days of low kitchen stoves was affected by us, but instead they treated us wages and poor conditions. It the tie-up. Teamsters union of­ like Brothers and we appreciate was defeated because of Union solidarity and vigilance, and ficials, however, said that most it." Another said, "I \hink the proves once more that only by perishable foods were being transported, arid that meat, but­ Union men are square shooters." •organization can these open shop ter, eggs and bread were not The boys were unanimous in phonies be kept from making being left to rot. requesting permission 'from the slaves •of free workers. - -'V set up a first aid unit that is In the cabbage department, or available 24 hours a day. better known as the Finance Committee, Johnny Weir reports 3,000 PICKETS everything running like a well• The Strike Picket and Regis­ oiled machine. tration Committee reports over Every cent of the Union's 3000 SIU-SUP pickets registered money is behig accounted for and no expenditures are being made that do not, have the apr proval of the strike strategy com­ mittee. Brother Weir wishes to caution men in their spending as this strike is by no means the last one, and every dollar saved today will come in handy for the next beef. BEEF—EATING KIND The swiichboard in the New York Hall stayed busy for 24 hours a day after the walkout started. Here the harassed op­ erator trys to talk, listen, and dial at the same time. Bernie Goodman, Chairman of the Publicity and Public Rela­ tions Committee, announces that through the multiplicity of talents available his committee was able to swing into action with minimum of effort. Mayor O'Dwyer's compromise proposal calling for an 181^-cent hourly, wage rise, shorter work week, and increased vacation and overtime allowances has been re­ jected by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters locals involved in the wage dispute, as inadequate. The truck operators had repudiated the settlement plan previously. OFFER $3 are on call 24 hours a day and so been donated by the Coast to far the committee has handled Coast Airlines for the duration over 200 cases. of the strike. The committee re­ The medical situation is well ports that it has been called upon in harrd with three volunteer doc­ to furni.sh men and rar.s to points tors and two nurses offering their as far away as Norfolk and Al­ services. The committee has also bany. and on duty. Commillee chair­ man Jack Greenhaw has only words of praise for the coopera­ tion of the men in undertaking this gigantic task. He said that in view of the vast waterfront to cover, and the difficulties in transportation, he is highly pleased with the small number of absentee pickets. NEW YORK, Sept. 11—Tndu.stry faced virtual shutdown as the AFL Teamster's general truck­ ing strike, now in its eleventh •day, tightened its grip on this city. With negotiations stalled, there were no signs of an early settlement, and one high union official thought a break was un­ likely "for two or three weeks." The strike began on Aug. 31 with the expiration of the con­ tract between the operators and Teamsters. The men refused to work without a new contract. The unions demand a 30 per cent wage incr-ease in addition to the lessening of hours of work and the vacation and overtime stipulations. Page Three This committee handles all publicity for New York and vi­ cinity and, on important releases covers all ports in the Atlantic and Gulf district. They put out approximately 5000 copies of every release covering all New York ports, the hospitals and even go uptown with releases and hand them to the general public. RANK AND FILE The Transportation Committee is a glowing example of coopera­ tion and response to the call for volunters. Frank Lovell, Chair­ man, released figures showing 35, automobiles, 18 motorcycles, one truck, two launches, a 40 foot yawl and an airplane at the dis­ posal of the committee. The airliner and a limosine has Cornering Michael Papadakis is a herculean task for a report on the Food and Housing Com­ mittee, however, a statement from the committee reports the feeding of 200 men daily, with one-fourth ton of beef being con­ sumed and over 200 pounds of bread going to the men. Local 202 of the Teamsters do­ nated 10 tons of foodstuffs to the men, which is being put to good use. In housing, the committee reports bunking 200 men here in Jj Hot. black and welcome. For a lift when you get tired, cof­ fee does the trick every time. Plenty of coffee is being drunk by the men of the SIU-SUP during these days we are out on strike. « the Hall, with hotels and insti­ tutions made available throghout the city for the men. Maxie Korenblatt, chairman of the Strike Strategy Committee, sums up the whole set-up with the words "If things could rtm any smoother—well, I wouldn't believe it." Reports from strike strategy committees in the out-ports are not available at the moment, but complete repoiTs on their acti­ vities will be . given at a later date. A CHEERY START Seamen, longshoremen, and teamsters cheev the action as the first picketlines are established. There was no question about their sentiments. These members of other unions let us know definitely that they were in this with us until the Seafarers would win through to final victory. �Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOG Stabilization Director Reverses WSB Ruling SiU HALLS NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. HAnover 2-2784 BOSTON 278 State St. Bowdoin 4057 (Agent) Bowdoin 4055 (Dispatcher) BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. Calvert 4539 Friday, Sepiember 13, 1946 Strike Committee Wins Lodging For French Seamen NEW YORK, Sept. 10—Seafar bringing wives and children to ers conducting the biggest beef this country. (Contin-ued from Page 1) , ber would be added to as the PHILADELPHIA^^^^^. jS^Sout^h yhjst- jn the nation's maritime history Immediately upon receipt of the United States ground to a wore on. NORFOLK 127-129 Bank Street found time yesterday to respond the wire, the SIU-SUP Strike sure halt ( Thousands of pickets were ac 4-1083 1 Committee went into action. Nec­ humanely to a mercy plea for aid r. ...68 Society St. It was'only a matter of hours 300-odd miles that CHARLESTON Phone 3-3680 from the 1800 passengers and 300 essary details incident to the re­ after the strike call went into "P ""P "oterfront of NEW ORLEANS 339 Chartres St. crew members aboard the French moval of the liner's passengers Canal 3336 effect that aU shipping in the N,®" Y"''''- ^s soon as dealt with quickly. A .220 East Bay St. Line's Athos II, which steamed were United States became paralyzed. J® ^nst lines were established SAVANNAH 3-1728 in to the dead harbor and drop launch was to leave early the The waterfront on all three coasts ,""=>• became 100 per cent effee- MOBILE 7 St. Michael St next morning (Monday) with a ^took , on .1. 1 "of n < a„ dead J ] forest,'I tive. Even the members of other , . 2-1754 ped anchor off Staten Island. the 1look Seafarers delegation headed by SAN JUAN, P. R 45 Ponce de Leon The vessel arrived on Satur unions not affiliated to the AFL San Juan 2-5996 with bare booms sticking up into , . , , ^ , ai. T J Robert A. Matthews and Henry day, at which time Seafarers In Do.,1 decided to honor the lines, anc GALVESTON 30514 22nd St. the air in the words of Paul, , . 2-8448 ternational Union made several "Blackie" Jackson. HaU, SlU Director of Organiza.f, 1809-1811 N. Franklin St strenuous attempts to have 68 Whitey Lykke was in charge curity of the ship, cleared by the TAMPA M.I323 tioh and New York Foil Agent. 920 Main St, orphaned children removed, but of a group to assist passengers unions involved, were allowed to JACKSONVILLE Phone 5-5919 Immigration authorities aboard Activity in the outports reflect­ go aboard any ship. from the Athos to the excursion PORT ARTHUR . .909 Fort Worth Ave ed the complete tie-up of the the ship refused to cooperate. steamer Americana, which would Phone: 2-8532 Wea*k statements kept coming port of New York. From every HOUSTON 1515 75th Street The Union, however, effectec carry them to Pier 88, North out of Washington. At first the Phone Wentworth 3-3800 port came the same story. New their reriioval on Sunday. Bj River, for debaikation. RICHMOND, Calif 257 5th St, Orleans reported that only the officials took no notice of the SAN FRANCISCO 59 Clay St, Monday afternoon, all passengers Also-in the launch were Willy strike in the hopes that perhaps Garfield 8225 had been brought ashore. Mississippi River moved; Tampa Dorchain, representative in the it would not tie up all shipping SEATTLE 86 Seneca St, sent word that everything that Included in the debarkation Main 0290 United States of the Internation­ as threatened. When it became floated was tied up and that any PORTLAND .^.111 W. Buritside St, were some 800 French seamen al Transport Workers Federation, apparent that the paralysis to WILMINGTON 440 Avalon Vlvd brought hete to return 20 Liberty vessel that pulled in would be Captain Honeycotte, a French . Terminal 4-3131 shipping had become even more affected in the same manner; 16 Merchant St Ships to France. The strike com­ Line official, and members of the complete than expected, the WSB HONOLULUBaltimore took credit for a well BUFFALO 10 Exchange St, mittee insisted that these men be press. made the unacceptable offer to Cleveland 7391 oiled strike apparatus and said guaranteed first class hotel ac­ On boarding the Athos, DorCHICAGO 24 W. Superior Ave. that not only was the strike com­ reconsider the matter, on the Superior 5175 commodations ashore, or no one chain, speaking in French, ad­ "basis of further information," on C; . ELAND 1014 E. St. Clair St. would be permitted to land. The plete, but accommodations had dressed, over the public address Main 0147 been arranged for all men parti­ Tuesday, September 10. To this DETROIT French Line officials agreed to 1038 Third St. system, the ship's crew and the John Hawk, SIU SecretaryCadillac 6857 that. Another stipulation exact­ cipating in the beef in that port. 800 seamen who came over as Treasurer, replied that by the DULUTH 531 W. Michigan St. From Boston came the only time the Board met the strike Melrose 4110 ed from the French Line was passengers to man the 20 Liberty VICTORIA, B. C 602 Houghton St. that these men would not be note of comedy when the Boston would be five days old. ships purchased by the French VANCOUVER 144 W. Hastings St. asked to sail their ships until the Strike Committee sent word that Government. 1 •/. w. 8th St. As the most complete shipping MARCUS HOOK the joint SIU-SUP action had Chester 5-3110 SIU-SUP strike was ended. The ITF representative ex­ strike in the nation's history tied up the mighty U. S. battle­ The French skipper, who was plained the strike issue and the CORPUS CHRISTIE ..1824 Mesquite St. the delegate for the unionized position of the SIU-SUP. He ship, the Missouri. All this came went into its sixth day, the WSB about when the Ol' MO was met in Washington and heard a ship's officers, told the SIU-SUP stressed the necessity for solid­ berthed directly between . two representative of the ship owners committee that not only would arity amongst all workers. SIU ships and the open sea. plead that the wage increases be he not ask the crew to sail the Our fight is your fight," he When the walkout became effec­ approved on the grounds that it Athos II while the American said. tive. it was impossible for any­ was negotiated in good faith by unions were on strike, but that, The response was a tremendous The Seafarers Log is your one, including the devil and the the Unions and the operators, as a good union man, he himself ring of applause. He was sur­ port captain, to move the strike and that the Government had Union paper. Every member would not sail. rounded by the French seamen, bound ships, and so the big bat- exceeded its authority in refusing The plea came in the form of members of the Syndicat des has the right to have it mailed tlewagon had to stay where she to honor them. a telegram, from the 'American Marine Francais. The delegates io his house, where he and passengers signed "Veterans of of the French union pledged their HELP OFFERED was. his family can read it at their World War II," and was received 100 percent support in the strike, Last report from Beantown The AFL affiliates connected leisure. at Union headquarters in New and all pinned SIU-SUP strike was that the mighty Missouri was in any way with the waterfront If you haven't already done York late Sunday night. stiU tied up, and would remain so also joined in the action 100 per juttons on their shirts. so. send your name and home It told of the "indescribable" until the strike was settled. cent under the direction of the Jackson then addressed the address to the Log office. 51 plight of those aboard, and ask­ passengers. Speaking in English, newly formed AFL Maritime ATHOS INCIDENT Beaver Street. New York ed the striking Union to "have he outlined the situation, pointTrades Department. The Long­ Other incidents came to a head City, and have yourself added mercy and rescue us." shoremen and the Teamsters ng up the arbitrary ruling of during the strike activity. For to the mailing list. Many of the veterans had been the Wage Stabilization Board in added to the effectiveness of the Instance, the French Line and the discharged in Europe and were denying Seafarers what they action by refusing to work or IT. S. Government took this opmove waterfront cargo. Soon justly earned through the me­ portuhity to try to have the pas­ the action spread overseas and dium of collective bargaining. sengers of the SS Athos II bring British longshoremen stated that He said that the Union had pressure to bear on the Unions u ^ , j r; . , , , I they would not unload any cargo made every effort possible to by mstigating a telegram from loaded in the United States dur­ help the passengers out of their the passengers to the Unions ask­ ing the duration of the strike. fix. The passengers applauded ing that the strike be halted so and shouted their approval. While the main pressure was that the passengers could be disPlacing full blame for the notified the ship operators and the Passengers and crew alike embarked. The whole truth of ^he strike action itself, the present national waterfront Seafarers Union that the agree­ the matter is that the SIU-SUP Physical wants of the strikers strike on the heads of the mem­ ment could not remain in effect." complained bitterly of the filthy, overcrowded, conditions on He went on to call upon all tried to have the crew and pas­ were also taken into considera­ bers of the Wage Stabilization board. Food was poor for the en­ sengers taken off the .ship when tion. In each port committees Board for their failure to approve AFL unions to lend their support tire three week.s of the voyage. she first came into New York, up to attend the feeding the wage rate won through col­ to this all important moment in No facilities of any kind were of the men on the lective bargaining, William labor history. "At this moment Ur Harbor, but the company and the beach.housing available for the many infants. It became a big job as the immigration authorities held out Green, president of the Ameri­ when labor once again is battling 1st CLASS ROOKING until all red-tape had been ne­ ships came into the harbor and can Federation of Labor pledged for it-s rights, all American work­ 1^' dropped anchor, to stay there full support to the Seafarers In­ ing men should rally to support gotiated. Indignation was at fever pitch until the beef was settled in the ternational Union and the Sail­ the Seafarers in their fight among many passengers who had On the whole, the newspapers, , . ,, „ . . , i:treated the situation honestly, Seafarers. And as ors Union of the Pacific in their against the unfair union-break­ purchased first-class tickets from realizing that we had and have Progressed, so did the fight for the rights of American ing tactics. The complete soli­ travel agencies. After paying l.i a good beef, but stories such ^he rank-and-file Labor to receive the wages gain­ darity and solid front shown by exorbitant prices they found ed through free collective bar- American labor now will show there was no first-class room for this one and one other were used committee members. In New York, and in the other gainig. conclusively to those in Wash­ them. One irate passenger said to try to sway public opinion ports, the food became increas­ ington who think they have the he paid $800 each for three firstPresident Green pointed out against our just demands. ingly better, and the activities of that there was no conflict be­ right in their hands to dictate class tickets, but that he and his NO SETTLEMENT the various sub-committees tween the shipowners and the arbitrary decisions to unions who family were forced to make the The third day of the strike saw charged with carrying on the unions, since both groups reach­ have won bj^ lawful rights bet­ trip in fourth-class accommoda­ matters take shape and come to strike to a successful conclusion ed full accord on the wage issue. ter working conditions and tions. a head. On that day the Assis­ became easier and smoother. All All aboard the ship, crew and "In view of the fact that an wages that such tactics will not tant Secretary of Labor, Philip this came about as the picketing agreement was reached in a full be tolerated. passengers, expressed gratitude Hannah, flew to the West Coast militants gained experience. LABOR'S FIGHT to the Seafarers International and open way through collective to attempt to have Harry LundeThere was no doubt about this bargaining and was signed by "The Seafarers International Union for effecting their debark­ berg call an end to the action, being the largest action ever un­ both parties, it should remairi in Union of the AFL has taken upon ation from the "hell-ship." 'This was refused by Lundeberg, dertaken by any union of sea­ effect," he said. itself the task of fighting the un­ Leigh Skinner, a veteran and after four conferences, Han­ men. And there was little doubt just decision of a government whose home is in Detroit, but AFL SUPPORT nah was forced to return to Wash­ that it was the most effective "The agreement was concluded board that is trying to set a who's staying temporarily with ington admitting defeat. strike ever undertaken by any at a time when the OPA and the vicious precedent. This prece­ his new bride at 1705 Bushing By the end of the first three union, anywhere. From every wage stabilization board had dent, if allowed to go unchal­ Avenue, the Bronx, said that all days of picketing of all piers on segment of organized labor came ceased to exist, due to the legis­ lenged, wiU mean the throttling the passengers, "especially the all coasts of the country, the assurances of support and offers lative lapse. The Shipping Board of the labor movement in Amer­ vets," were grateful to the Union. WSA reported that over 750 ships of help, financial and otherwise. approved the increases but when ica. This' is the fight of labor "We sure do appreciate what were lying at anchor in the To all these offers, the Union Congress revived the OPA and everywhere apd is not solely the SIU has done for us," he said. streams and at the piers of the sent the same reply, "Thanks, WSB, the latter board turned the concern of the Maritime "From now on yd'u can be sure various ports, and that the num- but we can win this ,pn nur own." thumbs down on the plan, 11 workers." • of me as a strong union man." GET THE LOG Green Pledges Support Of AFL Union To Striking k I 6 �"f '.u Friday, September 13, 1946 Port Round-Up Of Strike News strike reports are beginning to trickle in from the Atlantic and Gulf ports, and with very few exceptions ihe story is the same: "Strike 100 per cent effec­ tive." A quick glance around' the ports gives us the following pic­ ture of the strike scene: Reports from the north show 38 ships tied up from Portland, Maine, to Boston. 32 ships are American and six are of foreign -flags. Boston was a few hours later going out on strike than most of the east coast ports as the long­ shoremen pleaded "special cir­ cumstances," but picketing was a 100 per cent Friday morning when the official hour for pick­ eting to start came around. Sup­ port is .solidly pledged from all maritime sources throughout the New England states. PHILLY SNUG In Philly there are 90 Ameri­ can and 19 foreign ships tied up. Everything is snug in this city. Picketing in Philly has its bright spot as even on the picketline men receive their coffee. The AFL Central Labor Union has put at the disposal of the SIU a mobile canteen that has been touring the waterfront with cof­ fee, sandwiches and doughnuts. In Norfolk 102 American ships and six foreign flag ships are thoroughly tied up. Charleston, S. C., has 16 ships that are not going to sail until the whole thing is over. Savannah reports seven Amer­ ican and four foreign ships tied up, with not a thing moving. Jacksonville, Fla. is 100 per cent tied up with three ships in. Several small ports in Florida which were not being picketed were being used by fruit boats to unload. The holes are rapidly being plugged and picketlines be­ ing set up. INJUNCTION FILED On the gulf coast come reports of the only anti-union activity so far reported anywhere on the strike front. In Houston, Texas, the Union had an injunction filed against it by the Houston Wharves, refraining it from picketing. The order was based on the argument that The Sea­ farers have no dispute with the shipowners, but against the WSB and therefore the Union should be picketing the WSB and not the watpvfrontThe pickets are still walking the waterfront, but not carrying picket signs. All AFL maritime workers have said they will stay out, picketli^ies or not, until the beef is settled. In Galveston the same type of injunction has been filed against the Union. The injunction has been served upon Luther Reed, who says he is not working for the Union in any official capa­ city. So far, as a result of the injunction, 12 pickets have been arrested, but as the jail will only hold 124 men the Union feels that it can fill the jail and still have men enough to man the picketlines so the picketlines will con­ tinue, Port Arthur, Mobile and Tam­ pa report everything is "stone cold dead in the® harbor" with nothing moving, and they're re­ ceiving full cooperation from every source connected with the waterfront. THE SEAFARERS LOG TAKING A WALK Page Five 4000 Attend SlU-SUP Meeting In New York NEW YORK—Starting with a derson, of the American Mer­ mass walkout of SIU-SUP mem­ chant Marine Staff Officers As­ bers on all contracted ships at 12 sociation. noon on Thursday, Sept. 5, SIU Patrolman William Hamil­ the greatest strike in American ton made a few brief remarks, maritime history got off to a fly­ . stating "If it were in my power, I would make the WSB reim­ ing start. SIU-SUP members, as well as burse all Seafarers on strike members from other maritime today." unions, then attended a mass Telegrams of support which meeting held at Manhattan Cen­ were received from President S. ter at 3:00 p. m. Police estimates J. Hogan of the MEBA, and Fred placed the attendance at 4,000. Farnen, Secretary-Treasurer of The meeting was opened by the Great Lakes District, were Max Korenblatt, chairman of the also read by Chairman Koren­ When the strike call came, these Seafarers responded—and Joint SIU-SUP Strike Commit­ blatt. how! A lonely harbor testifies to their effectiveness. tee, who proceeded to give a brief SIU Gulf Coordinator Lindsay i-esume of the beef against the Williams gave a brief word pic­ Wage Stabilization Board which ture of the Gulf condition: "To­ resulted in the strike call. Before day at noon, sailors in the Gulf the introduction of the other hit the bricks in every port. We speakehl, the entire crowd stood have 130 ships tied up in New in silence for one minute in honor Orleans, 7.5 in Mobile, 50 in Hous­ of the dead seamen who gave ton, and smaller numbers in Sa­ being taken by the WSB could their lives during World War II. vannah, Jacksonville, Tampa, (Contimied from Page 1) Texas City, and Port Arthur." only be construed by the .SIUHAWK LEADS OFF organizations withdraw their "AFL Maritime Trades Coun­ SUP, and all organized labor as representatives from the WSB Secretary-Treasurer John Hawk cils have been set up in every a deliberate attack upon the very on the grounds that "further par­ declared during the course of his port on the Atlantic Coast," de­ principles which labor had fought ticipation by labor members on remarks that, "We're going to clared SIU Organizer Cal Tan­ and bled for over a period of such a board can only be inter­ stay out on strike until the Na­ ner, "and they'xe all supporting many years. preted as approval of a bureau tional Wage Stabilization Board us. Crews from all ships along He further warned that this okays these wage increases. which is depriving labor of its fundamental rights as guaran­ turn down would not be accep­ "We don't intend to have any the Coast (Atlantic) hit the bricks table to the unions involved, and goverr,ment board tell us we at noon, too." teed by law." East Coast SIU Coordinator The committee asked that such that strike action might be a can't^ have them," stated Hawk. Earl "Bull" Sheppard stated, action be taken if the WSB does natural consequence. The Board, "They understand now that we "We've contacted all affiliated not see fit to reverse its original with its usual high-handedness, mean business." and non-affilated Unions in this decision which stole from the did not or would not take his In commenting on the strike area and they're all supporting members of the SIU-SUP the in­ word for this, and so they found status up to date. Hawk firmly us. New York Tugboatmen won't creased wages secured through out for themselves. emphasized, "When we've got to take a line from any incoming free collective bargaining. hit the bricks, we hit them prop­ PRESSURE MOUNTS ship . . . We've always won our erly. All the action referring to the Much 'pressure was being put "We have the full support of beefs, and I'm damn sure that requests was taken only after on the WSB to reverse itself, and the AFL Maritime Trades De­ we'll win this one, too." long and solemn deliberation by all organized labor has signified partment," concluded Hawk, "in Another telegram pledging the Joint Strike Committee. that it has become not only a our strike." support of the SIU-SUP from In the course of the previous fight for "pork chops" for sea­ President Murray Winocur of Lo­ Following Hawk, SIU Vice meetings, which have been held men, but a battle against the at­ President and SUP New York cal 2, ACA, was read by Chair­ every day since the strike action tempt of a government agency Port Agent Morris Weisberger man Korenblatt. started, the question of whether to substitute government edict remarked, "The sign behind me MM&P FULL SUPPORT or not to call upon other seg­ for free collective bargaining. 'No contract! No work!' is exactly Speaking for the Masters, ments of organized labor not con­ This principle has been scored the position of the Sailors Union Mates, and Pilots of America, nected with the waterfront to Captain Harry Martin, President walkout in sympathy with the by many labor leaders as "intol­ of the Pacific. "The WSB is requesting that of that organization, asserted, "A striking seamen, was brought up erable" and they have indicated many times. Until yesterday, that they will recommend that we appear before them next short while ago, when it became however, there was never any their organizations take an active Tuesday for a rehearing," said apparent that the SIU-SUP were action, favorable or otherwise, on part in the struggle if it should Weisberger. "As far as we're going out on strike, our Union become necessary. concerned, they're talking to the pledged its full support. Instruc­ the subject. Only a WSB announcement wrong people. We presented our tions went out to all MM&P mem­ When the wage increases nego­ bers to leave the ships lie where tiated between the SIU and the that the wages as negotiated by case already." they're at." Chairman Korenblatt then pro­ the SIU and SUP are agreeable SUP and the ship operators first Captain Martin continued, went before the WSB for review, will end the strike of the AFL ceeded to read some telegrams the AFL representative,. Walter seamen. And the way things look pledging all out support of the "This beef will benefit all AFL Mason, was the only one who now, unless this reversal is forth­ SIU-SUP strike from John R. Unions . . . When the CIO Mari­ coming within a very short time, Owens, Executive Secretary of time Unions talked about going voted to grant the increases. In a decision which differed all work in the United States the AFL Maritime Trades De­ out on strike, we pledged our­ with the majority, Mr. Mason may come to a halt for at least partment; Joe Curran, President selves to support all economic of the NMU; and George F. An- picket lines. Now that the CIO pointed out the action which was 24 hours. Unions have pledged themselves to support this strike, we'll win IN MEMORY OF OUR DEAD in a walk," SIU Port Agent Paul Hall re­ marked, "The present contract won is not the maximum, but the minimum wage that wc will accept. This is only the begin­ ning in our continuous fight for decent wages. "We are fighting for our rights —A lot of seamen's blood was spilled in obtaining these rights— and, if necessary, our blood will spill again to keep these rights," proclaimed Hall. After a few concluding re­ marks from Strike Chairman Korenblatt, the meeting was ad­ journed. Three long banners placed in prominent spots around the hall expressed the general sentiments of the entire meeting quite aptly. They were "An Injury To One Is An Injury To All," "No Con­ tract! No Work!", and "For Labor's Collective Bargaining Rights! Against (Government One mimifo of silenco in Manhaltan Center in memory of our Brothers who died in the fight Regimentation." against fascism. Call 24-Hour Work Strike, Committee Asks AFL, CIO "'^l m �r ti^ ^S'E A F A 'R E'H S VO G TANKER TRAGEDY -BS- IN*-'- In WSB Beef M: :. ft- Salvage Job Was Too Risky, Master Of Rescue Ship Says Operations to salvage the 30ton aircraft which crashed into the Water off the ^tern of the SS Tulane Victory July 4 would have been impractical and dan­ gerous, Capt. J. W. Clark, the vessel's master, declared recently in a letter addressed to his crew. SeafarersVow The details of the crash and the swift rescue of the five-man plane crew in the' South Atlan­ tic was reported to the Log from Rio de Janeiro by former Deck Delegate Joseph Catalanotta and appeared in the July 26 issue. The only reference to salvage, however, was Catalanotta's sen­ tence: "My first thought, after taking the airmen aboard, was As the nation's ships by the hundreds dropped their hooks in the biggest strike in maritime history, thousands of seamen who •poured off the vessels expressed feverish indignation over the Wage Stabilization Board ruling which denied them what they had won legally in the free col­ lective bargaining process. Their comments varied greatly, but fundamentally all agreed that the WSB stood responsible for perpetrating a monstrous dirty deal against the working men who man the nation's mer­ chant fleet, and, in fact, against all labor. One Seafarer, Salvatore Barges, pretty well explain­ ed the situation, and typified the militancy and determination of the SIU membership to fight and "stay on the bricks until we win, whether it takes a week, a month or a year." BARGES' VIEWPOINT Here is how Brother Barges looks at it: "Today we seamen are striking to get a wage increase—a wage increase which we won legally through collective bargaining, which was agreed to and granted by the operators, and the War Shipping Administration. Then comes the WSB to arbitrarily rescind the increases. "After - all, the seaman is a family man. All seamen depend on sailing for a living for them­ selves and their families. Sea­ farers and their families depend­ ed on this wage increase in order to live comfortably and to make up in some measure for the spiralirig cost of living. They cannot live on the wage offered to us by the WSB. WSB UNJUST "It is unjust that we be demed what our committee has ne­ gotiated for us. The strike, •therefore, is not a strike for a wage increase, but a strike to re­ ceive what was already granted us by those concerned. "We find that we have been let down. We have found it neces­ sary to resort to the only means a working man has to protect his living and his wages—a strike. "So to you, the members of the WSB, we say: We will stay on the picket lines. We are determined to win what is rightfully ours. "We will stay on Ihe bricks until we win, whether it takes a week, a month, or a year." Top photo i^hows two Sea­ farers who were crew members aboard the ill-fated DeconhiU tanker Homestead, swept by a raging fire at the Standard Oil docks in Jacksonville, Aug. 6. The fire was touched o£f-by a bolt of lighting which ignited the 1^0,000 gallons of gasoline aboard. Two SIU crew men, Claude Duckworth and Jack Bowman, perished in the blase. The -above Tbotos, t^en by Brother Warren Stiles, reveal ^Friday, Sapteniibar 13, 1946 the charred hulk of the Home­ stead, and the gaping hole in her' side resulting from the fuel explosion. In spite of the ef­ forts of 11 city fire companies and two fire boats, the Home­ stead burned for several days before the fire-died-^but. salvaging the plane, thinking of the nice piece of change this would involve, but the Old Man had other ideas, and $150,000 was left to the deep sea. It was a good thought, anyhow." Captain Clark sets forth cate­ gorically his reasons for abandon­ ing any attempts at salvage, after he and his officers had discussed the possibilities. ". . . the risk involved was entirely too great to risk men's lives for such small gain," the Captain stated. The Captain also commended highly the crew's performance during the rescue, and said that "each man of the boat crews has been individually mentigned in my recommendation to the Sea­ men's Award Committee. Larry Graff, Deck Delegate aboard the Tulane, forwarded Captain Clark's letter to the Log. He said "the Captain called me up and asked me in a very nice manner if I would mind sending in his statement . . ." TEXT OF LETTER Captain Clark's letter follows: 12 Aug., 1946 Santos, Brazil From Capt. W. J. Clark Master, SS Tulane Victory To: Unlicensed Personnel 1. An article in your SIU publication re our plane rescue July 4, 1946 has been brought to my attention. The statement made by a crew member of this vessel that I "refused" to salvage the plane when peti­ tioned to do so by the crew is both absurd and ridiculous. Such statements, published without investigation, only widen the breach between of­ ficers and men, and such prac­ tice should be condemned. In the first place there was no request made to me re­ garding salvage on the night of July 4, 1946, and any asser­ tion to the contrary is mali­ ciously false. 2. Salvage, however, was considered by myself and of­ ficers, but 1 abandoned the idea for following reasons: * (a) Plane, when last viewed, was three-fourths full of water. (b) All instruments, etc., of value were smashed or ren­ dered valueless by salt water. (c) Plane's Captain stated, "engines were ruined by salt water, and plane presumed completely shot." (d) A moderately heavy swell was running which would have, made raising a 30-ton plane plus water inside, a precarious job at night. I had to make the decision and the "risk involved was en­ tirely too great to risk men's lives for such small gain. After all, by rules of salvage, I, as master would have gained far far more than ahy crewmember, I .suppo.se had I attempted salvage and one or mote men had been injured, the caption would have read, "Greedy Skipper needlessly risks SIU lives for salvage money." 3. Frankly, the only reason I bother to rebut such a state­ ment at all, knowing full well {Continued on Page 7) lA �SEAFARER AGREES WITH 'STEAMBOAT'CG IS NG Dear Editor: Three big lusty cheers for "Steamboat" O'Doyle and his item on the Coast Guard Ges­ tapo. He sure hit them where The Wanderer it hurts. By "WOODSIE" At the moment I am here in drydock to get my bottom scraped and as a result I have I've washed my feet in the time on my hands. When Herb Ganges. Jansen, the Chicago SIU agent My neck in the Bengal Bay, brought the Logs around to the I've walked for miles thru the hospital, I read them through Aleutian Isles and wished there were more. For less than a dollar a day. I am in complete sympathy with O'Doyle. The Coast Guard I was lost in the Indian Ocean has no damn right to persecute And typhooned down Bombay us, but damn it, they do it every On a hurricane deck which I day. grabbed on a spec I suppose I am a bit nuts on In lieu of a few days pay. the subject, however, I lost my I was sandbagged in dusty papers as a result of a CG courtCavite. martial in Panama for six months And woke upon the low highway and it cost me $225.00 to fly home And lived a week on the smell or rot in the WSA concentration of a leek camp at Coco Sola. For I had no money to pay. What for? The Chief Engineer kicked me in the guts and I I was spliced to a gal in China promised him I would make him And a Maltese in Malay, These crew members of Ihe SS Robert Ingersoll know their port from their starboard but a sorry soul for doing what he Played at pingpong with Miss when it comes to clicking to "port arms" that's something else- Anyway they are just having did. The charges? Threatening Hong Kong fun with some old rifles picked up in an old German fort in La Pallice, France. an officer. While her mother was away. From left to right, the men who prefer the sea are: Gerhard Hinrichs, Fireman; Freddie Not only was I charged with Schumacher, Deck Main!.; Richard Augsbuch, AB; Frank Wasmer, Wiper, and Red Goering, Oiler. threatening an officer, but they 'Twas at St. Kits I met a lass Brother Robert Burns, Oiler, took the picture. thz-ew the book at me. Now, if Blacked eyed as any Gypsy, as Mr. O'Doyle says they bave I pledged a glass in a friendly Pilot was prominently displayed no legal status I am going to sue pass. however. And then with love grew tipsy. them. The girls here go out to the One of the CG officers tried hospital once or twice a week I took this lass away with me. to make a deal with me in be­ to visit the seamen in the hos­ We landed in Jamaica, half of the shipowner, L. A. pital, but they "are American Red We began to disagree upon a The USS club in Shanghai isn't Tankers. He told me if I would Dear Editor: little chivaree. Cross workers who I do give plead guilty as charged, he On a recent trip to the Pacific. as bad as the one in. Manila, but And so I had to shake her. would guarantee me a suspended I stopped off at the usual ports it too. is pro-NMU. It only takes credit for their help to the sick sentence with the proviso that I and among other things I took in a short time to find that out in seamen who are pinned up there But all good girls just fail to pine sign off the ship on a mutual the USS clubs. I made some ob­ any of these places. The prices and can't get out. When Jack turns out a roamer. Of the three I like the club in They laugh and laugh, just start consent with the Captain, as he servations of the clubs in these here, are reasonable and the place explained the company didn't ports and thought I'd pass them is run just like a rest center. It Honolulu best as it is the prop­ to chaff. want to be stuck with my trans­ along to you. I don't know ex­ is in charge of an American, Miss erty of the Seamen's Church In­ They pledge the next beach­ portation bill. Naturally I told actly what seamen can get from Waltrous and she treats the boys stitute and does a real job of comber the big stiff where to go, which, them, but I'll give my slant on pretty fair. They mostly employ looking after the seamen who of course, made him very mad. them for whatever benefit it may white Russians from the west make this life their bread and Now it's home, dearie, home; side of Shanghai where the Jap­ butter. However, if you are on It's home where I long to be So mad that he saw fit to make be. anese section ^vas before the war. the beach over 30 days, they My tops'ls are hoisted, on wind a personal issue of the case. Now The club in Manila is about they are foisted There is always some kind of won't give you a room or bed I ask you is that justice? seven miles from Wall city and I must put out to the sea. Keep hitting out at them -has a swimming pool, FX, ship's entertainment going on during as they claim you should go to "Steamboat," I'm with you all canteen, pool hall and a place in the day all week long. Outside sea again. the way. Fred J. Reppome the yard where movies are shown of the movies and dances once a Well that is about all the dirt and they have tours going to week the place is really dead if that I could dig up about the COMES THROUGH Corregidor every other day or so you're looking for good time or clubs that I visited. You can sec INGERSOLL MEN a real laugh. that the NMU is really solid with WITH GOOD 'SHOTS' when the weather permits. GOMMEND THE It is close to the custom jetty these outfits. Personally 1 really Dear Editor: PREFERS HOTEL and is a good place to rest up don't care too much. The at­ STEWARDS DEPT. The price for a bunk is reason­ As I read thoroughly each is­ after a long walk or while wait­ mosphere doesn't smell right, and able, but I preferred to sleep on Dear Editor: sue of the Log, I can't help see­ ing for some one as it has a nice that isn't a crack at the NMU, but the ship or at a hotel if you lounge. The minute steaks are they are just seamen's hangouts ing your note about writing to We the crew of the SS Robert know what I mean. good and tender, but stay away when you are broke or close to the Log. As I am a pei-mit man Ingersoll wish to commend the Like most USS clubs, this one from the T-bones as they are im­ it. About the only ones who take I felt that before writing I should present Steward Department for was definitely pro-NMU. I found advantage of the clubs are the have sOilieLliiilg tu wrile abuuL their excellent feeding, coopera­ this out one day when I tried to possible to chew. In the Log of Aug. 9, I saw HONOLULU CLUB beachcombers. As long as I am tion and cleanliness throughout find two AB's for our ship. I the news item about the SIUI don't know too much about sailing I will stop in at these the present voyage. inquired at the office of the club SUP tanker Homestead. But I Speaking as Union Brothers we and asked if any SIU men were the Honolulu club, but the first spots now and then, but in the didn't see any pictures. time I visited there and register­ long run they can have them; I'll can truthfully say the Steward on the beach. I only got a cold I read the eai-lier article while ed I got into an argument with take my bunk on a ship or a hotel Department exemplifies the stare for my trouble, and had to in Port Arthur about Aug. 15. the girl at the desk. I merely room. When the day comes that spirit of true unionism in both look, elsewhere. At the time I was attempting to their work and personal relations Another point in that there is a asked for a copy of the Log and I start combing the beach maybe organize the SS Roanoke, The she acted as though I was asking they'll look good to me then, but with other crewmembers. typewriter available at the club "Red" Fisher next trip we tied up in Jackson­ We didn't have a single beef for the use of anyone, but to my for her bankroll. I noticed the not until. ville at the Texas dock. Now is during the voyage, concerning surprise, I found the NMU patrol­ the time to send something to the cooking, stores, cleanliness and man George A. Guilmet making SALVAGE JOB TOO RISKY MASTER SAYS paper, I decided. other such matters that can make it his headquarters and he had To finish my roll, I took a manner in which unlicensed {Continued from Page 6) congregation of NMU beach­ a voyage so irksome. It was couple of pictures of the new personnel performed their re­ truly one of the best feeding combers sitting around' him as that members of this crewi hav­ Hall in Port Arthur, which I am spective duties during the res­ ing witnessed and participated ships we've been on. In view of though it were the NMU hall. sending to you in the hope that cue operations. Each man of the fact that much notice is taken I To me the whole Manila club in the rescue are aware of the you can use them. the boat crews has been indi­ of the beefs, bad feeding and is a money making deal and they true events, is that the true tale Warren Stiles vidually mentioned in my other complaints of hxmgry ships, delight in trimming the Seafar­ be carried home. I have many recommendation to the Sea­ (Editor's Note: The Log thanks it is a pleasure and copifort to ers. Of course there are some an old friend in the SIU and I men's Award Committee, routed Brother Stiles for his pictures, convey a vote of thanks and nice refined people here, but they don't like to be misrepresented. via the Mississippi Shipping the first we have received of the 4. Nothing in this rebuttal is gratitude to each and every man are few in number and cannot Co., Iijc. Homestead fire. They appear oa of the Steward Department of balance the many phony char­ to be construed as detracting from the highly praiseworthy acters in the-joint. (Signed) J. W. Claik, Master page^ 6 of this issue). the Robert Ingersoll, Log'A • Rhythms USS Clubs Lacking Plenty For SIU Men, Fisher Finds BROTHER STILES �•~p :'. .•- THE SEAFARERS LO€ Page Eight ^ ifj'' Friday. September 13. 1946 SlU Strike Helped By Early Preparations t Union Delegation Visits Seamen In S.i. Hospital To Give Lewdewn I By IRWIN SUALL With the policy in mind that all Seafarers should be complete­ ly informed of all activities, delegation of 14 seamen visited their brothers in Staten Island Marine Hospital last Sunday to give them the lowdown on the strike situation. Carrying Seafarers Logs and strike bulletins, we went from bed to bed passing the word and interviewing the men for their opinion. The men were unani­ mous in their welcome and were This Brother, in the Staten glad to know that the Union even Island Marine Hospital, was with a big strike on its hands not kept in ignorance of the found time to see that the boys action. Here another Brother, in the hospital weren't neglected. sent out by the Union, tells him The men in the hospital were the whole story. with us to the end without ques­ tion. Even the men who were and when he reported to Staten flat on their backs, hardly able Island Hospital with a leg that to move, squirmed in their beds was far from healed he was told and said the hardest thing to take to come back in three days. Cus­ was that they were lying in their sing under his breath he went sacks while their brothers were away and when he returned he out pounding the bricks. was told to wait a couple of more They were loaded with ques­ days. tions of "How is running?" "Is Finally they admitted him and my friend Frank out on the gave him a sack and paid him no bricks?" "Is everything really further attention for a week. tied up tight?" Since that time the treatment Enthusiasm was paramount and attention has been totally in­ with them and that old militant adequate. look came into their eyes as we A fellow who's been through told them of the smooth running that sort of treatment, and jhas strike machine and the solid sup­ had to stand poor chow all along, port we've been getting. isn't likely to be in good morale, DUAL PURPOSE and Les looked pretty down in The delegation was serving a the mouth. But when he found dual purpose of informing them out that we were a committee of of the strike and asking them Seafarers to give him the lowabout conditions in the hospital. down on the strike, he perked up The men had something to say immediately. The strike was the thing and he was with us to the on that score, also. end. • Take Brother Les Knicker­ "We've got to stay out til we bocker for example: Les broke his leg while leaving his ship win this thing 100 per cent. I in Madagascar on the Robin Line sure as heck wish I could be East Africa run. He was given there with the boys." extremely poor treatment at a With the promise that we French army hospital in that city would take up the business of John L. Lewis has thrown the weight of his United Mine Work­ ers behind the SIU-SUP in its strike against the WSB ruling which denied wage increases gained through free collective bargaining. The miner's chief also offered financial assistance if it is needed. In a telegram which he sent to the Union's leaders, Lewis said: , "The United Mine Workers of America send greetings. We ad­ mire the spendid fighting ability oi the members of the SIU-SUP. "Of course you will win. ,, "Several days ago, I urged the American Federation of Labor to withdraw its representative from that economic boans no.st that calls itself a Wage Stabili­ zation Board. "If you need money, advise me." OT YET Commentlnii on Lewis' cash of­ fer, John Hawk, SIU Secretary- With the SIU-SUP General Maritime Strike entering its eighth day, the smoothness of op­ eration and the solidarity of the strikers clearly illustrates that the the long preparations which went into perfecting of the strike machinery and apparatus were certainly not wasted. A few months ago, when it be­ came apparent to a number of long-visioned Seafarers that there was strong possibility of a strike sometime in the future, the entire apparatus and ma­ chinery of the Union was grad­ ually geared for any eventuality. That eventuality occurred — the greatest maritime strike in the history of the United States now going on. It took almost three months to prepare the many plans, forms, details, etc. which go into the making of a successful, and smoothly operating strike. Proof of the soundness of these same plans lies in the success which our strike is maintaining in spite of many odds. poor treatment with the.. com­ mittee handling the Marine Hos­ pital situation we moved along. A brother whose name is not given, nor his union mentioned— but he was a rank and file sea­ man and he knew our strike was his strike—said, "I'm with you guys to the end, and the end has got to be complete and total vic­ tory over the WSB, and over every effort of the government to regiment us or keep our fight for better conditions under their thumb. "The freedom of a worker and his right to fight for a decent standard of living is holy, and any one who tries to interfere with it is looking for trouble and is going to get it. If I could only be with the fellows on the bricks." MORALE GOOD The spirit of the men in the After making daily tours of the hospital exemplified the manner New York and surrounding in which the Seafarers every­ waterfronts, it's easy to report where are viewing the whole sit­ that the morale of all SIU-SUP uation. strikers—on the picketline. m When sick men, flat on their special detail assignments, cook­ backs, get the itching to get out ing, sign painting, on the various there and get their licks in, there committees—is the highe.'^t pos­ can be no doubt of our ability sible. to stay out until everything we're Youngsters, oldtimers—Seafar­ fighting for has been sewn up ers all—they're pounding the solidly, and all our demands picket line for hours on end with­ granted. out a murmur. Members of the various committees to which the complicated strike apparatus owes its smooth operation, work for 16, 18 or 20 hours on end, if necessary, to perform their re­ quired tasks. They don't grumble about a little thing like sleep. No, all they know is that the SIUSUP have a beef, and it has to be won. - The Stewards, Cooks, Messmen, etc. who handle so efficiently the hungry chow hounds, don't squawk about their duties. Neither do the other men doing the many jobs which a strike re­ quires—they know they're put­ ting in their time fighting to win a just beef. ISTHMIAN MEN REPORTING Hundreds of Isthmian men have reported for picket duty and other strike assignments. All Isthmian ships in New York har­ bor have been hung up, and the crews of these ships are con­ tinuously reporting for strike as­ signments. These Isthmian sea­ men know that the SIU-SUP beef is their beef as well as that of all organized labor. As a result, these boys are going all out just like full-fledged SIU-SUP mem­ bers. It is highly gratifying to see Isthmian seamen, who are not members of the SIU-SUP (in some instances, they are SIU new­ comers), gladly volunteer their services in any capacity to win the beef against the WSB. It speaks well for the future of Isth­ mian once that company becomes onewf the SlU-contracted ship operators. Regular Army Snafu On Wilson Victory Is Patiently Untangled By The Seafarers You can always depend on the Army for miles of red-tape, bar­ rels of mistakes, and more ways to do a thing wrong than you ever thought existed. And the case of the Wilson Victory was no exception. When the Wilson pulled into dock in Brooklyn, with 56 bodies of Americans aboard, the crew left the ship in sympathy with the striking Seafarers. The picketline which had been thrown across the entrance to the pier also kept the longshoremen from coming anywhere close to the vessel, and there was a strong chance that the bodies on board Treasurer, said that it was a very would have to .stay there Until nice gesture but that the Sea­ the strike was settled. farers were financially very well And so, with usual Army shortable to carry on the strike. Ample .sightedne.sq; statements were im­ preparations had been made to mediately released that the Un­ conduct a strike for a consider­ ion was holding up the unload­ able length of time, he added. The announcement of the mine ing and that the authorities were workers' leader addiftg his organ­ making plans for Army steve­ ization's support to the rapidly dores to work the ships. INTO ACTION growing list of those openly At that time, the SIU strike backing the Seafarers strike had important implications. Labor machinery went into action. Jim­ observers pointed out that Lewis' my Sheehan, Patrolman, was im­ statements show that the pro­ mediately dispatched to the scene test strike of the SIU-SUP and went about the job of clear­ against the decision of the WSB ing the ship so that longshore­ has developed into an all-out of­ men could go on the pier to un­ fensive on labor's part to rid load the bodies. It was not difficult to make workers of the arbitrary, bureaucratic effect of WSB rulings. the necessary arrangements with Lewis, at any rate revealed the ILA Local in the vicinity, but that he is using his influence to contracting the many Army ofget the top AFL councils to walk ficers who have to approve anyout of the WSB . thing took quite a bit of time. It, was only after hours of tracEarlier, William Green, AFL president, pledged hw 100 per ing certain high ranking army cent support to the striking Sea- officers, and unraveling miles of farers. |red-tape that it was possible to John L. Lewis Offers Mine Union Help To Striking Seafarers By EARL SHEPPARD gain clearance for the men need­ ed to work the ship. Of course, now the Ai-my didn't want to ad­ mit the newspapers since the story had already gone out that the Union was refusing to allow the ship to be worked. But Shee-' han and the longshoremen main­ tained that no work would be done unless the press could come down to the ship and take pic­ tures. Finally, at four in the after­ noon the brass hats gave in, and the work commenced soon after. The Army still had another fast one concealed up their sleeves, but the Union was ready for that one top. When the bodies had been re­ moved, and the longshoremen were ready to knock off, a Ma­ jor tried to talk them into tak­ ing off some mail and other car­ go, on the grounds that "no one has to know about this." Good union men that they are, the ILA members refused to do this, and so the scabherder had to accept defeat. The attitude of the Army en­ listed personnel who were on duty guarding the pier was that they wanted the SIU-SUP mem­ bers to know that they are with the men in this fight, and the actions of the Unions in allowing the bodies to be removed struck them as a swell gesture on the part of the Unions. i;-l Here are Ihe bodies suspended in mid-air between the ship and the dock. Fifty-six bodies were unloaded this way. r! � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 13, 1946 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. VIII, No. 37 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU PRESSURE FORCES WSB REVERSAL SIU-SUP TELEGRAB TO WSB 'CALL 24-HOUR STRIKE': COMMITTEE TO AFL, CIO CALMAR STRIKEBREAKING TRY FAILS; FINK CAMP BREAKS UP WE BUCKLE DOWN COFFEE AND CONVERSATION AROUND THE HALL SMOOTHLY FUNCTIONING STRIKE COMMITTEES ASSURE SUCCESSFUL RUNNING OF WSB BEEF N.Y. TEAMSTERS TIE UP CITY STRIKE COMMITTEE WINS LODGING FOR FRENCH SEAMEN GREEN PLEDGES SUPPORT OF AFL TO STRIKING SEAFARERS UNION PORT ROUND-UP OF STRIKE NEWS 4000 ATTEND SIU-SUP MEETING IN NEW YORK SEAFARERS VOW FINISH FIGHT IN WSB BEEF SALVAGE JOB WAS TOO RISK, MASTER OF RESCUE SHIP SAYS SIU STRIKE HELPED BY EARLY PREPARATIONS UNION DELEGATION VISITS SEAMEN IN S.I. HOSPITAL TO GIVE LOWDOWN REGULAR ARMY SNAFU ON WILSON VICTORY IS PATIENTLY UNTANGLED BY THE SEAFARERS JOHN L. LEWIS OFFERS MINE UNION HELP TO STRIKING SEAFARERS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/13/1946 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1946 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/788c7569cb59c543b61dd8c53f6fd4b1.PDF adecf200a2549bc78014ec9ff50d5c2e PDF Text Text SEAFARERS r" j! LOG • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THI SIAFARIRI INTIRN ATION AL UN ION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • BUU. LOSES MOVE TO BAR PKKEIING .. Strange Bedfellows Today HrtioBol •UMNMI (M mm tf— "•—" Movtiib*' Coontrr. 2*T TIeupHoldsXo. Again Asks Ban story on Page 3 ^ut in •*•1 sm 4olog , » V'*ilinntli"TOTnuT of tho .. ^ sJiS'2s:»u:.fi5i/."-; s ,»l.,4 HU. Wrtt". »»• I M .<»».»"»• 4.x,.--"----"rr:: sine**** 7; J Allied since last fall with John L. Lewis' District 50 against AFL-CIO maritime unions in the American Coal beef, NMU president Joseph Curran two years earlier made no bones about the unsavory character of this same outfit. But it's a "recognized union" today in the Curran scheme of things. (Story on Page 2.) Crash Victims Woman on stretcher is re­ moved from rescue plane carrying survivors to Bue­ nos Aires after a collision In the Uruguay River between the US freighter Mormacsurf (above) and an Argen­ tinian river steamer. The US ship suffered bow dam­ age and 94 persons from the. sunken steamer are report­ edly missing. The Mormaosurf carries an SIU Pacifie District crew. (Story on Page 3.) �Pace Twe SEAFARERS lOG September 13, 1937 Pacific District Asks Pay, Ruie Changes In Pact Reopener SAN FRANCISCO—The SIU Pacific District has notified West Coast shipowners of its intention to reopen the contract for a wage review. The story of the notification headlined a special joint Labor Day news-"^ paper published by the three cific Maritime Association who enter this trade. affiliated unions in the Pacific The action has already brought District. The Pacific District of the SIU of NA is composed of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, the Marine Firemen's Union and the Marine Cooks and Stewards. Letters sent to the companies by the District served as official notice of the unions' desire to 'open talks con­ cerning wages, welfare, loggings and the payoff jiystem. Bulk Cargo Agreements . In separate action recognizing the overall slump in charter rates and the continuing lay-up of ves­ sels, members of the Pacific Dis­ trict unions have also voted to apply the bulk cargo agreement, where necessary, to all contracted operations as a means of maintain­ ing Jobs and keeping a number of Libertys and Victorys in service. Bulk cargo agreements are in effect with Pabific Far East Lines, Coastwise Line and Kaiser Gypaum and will be extended to cover all member companies of the Pa­ the SS Santa Venetia out of lay-up and kept the Pacificus from head­ ing into the boneyard. Extension of the bulk cargo pact was voted after nine West Coast ships had gone into lay-up and up to seven more appeared ready to follow suit. The alternative was to allow foreignrflag ships to move in and fill the gap. Portland had already been hard hit when the imion acted. The unions recommended con­ tract revisions in the wage review These days, in the thick of the American Coal fight on the side of the company against to limit loggings, to provide for AFL-CIO maritime unions, NMU President Joseph Curran has nothing but honeyed words pre-shipping medical examinations for United Mine Workers District 50. Since District 50 is part owner of American Coal and for wage increases. They also ' demanded changes in the present Curran's current pose is that it is a "recognized union" in the service to the members." As for Paul Hall should say nasty things pay-off system under which a sea­ their role in maritime, Curran about District 50. Under the head­ man may have to pay income tax maritime field. But three years ago, as the letter flatly stated, "Certainly the last ing "Hall Doubletalks" Curran de­ on more than one year's earnings in a single year. Under Internal reproduced on page one shows, place that these people should be clared, "Hall had been devoting Revenue Department rulings, Curran declared that his "recog disrupting is in the maritime most of his remarks to an attack wages are treated as earned in the nlzed union" of 1956 and 1957 was industry." on District 50, calling it a company year in which they are paid. The 'carrying out a policy of harass­ That was in 1954. Then in 1956 union... although District 50 has proposed change would arrange for ment and disruption... for the along came American Coal Ship­ had contracts for mates and engi­ purpose of carrying on their feud ping (partly owned by United Mine neers for the past ten years on (Continued on page 15) with the American Federation of Workers District 50) which signed American Export Lines..." Curran Labor and the CIO. a phony backdoor agreement with of course, conveniently overlooked CuiTan said further, "District 50 itself giving jurisdiction of ships' the fact that the New York District of the United Mine Workers can­ mates and engineers to a paper 50 local on the Export ships was not and does not intend to organ­ local of United Mine Workers Dis­ set up to block an organizing drive ize for the purpose of being of trict 50 created out of whole cloth by the Marine Engineers Benefi­ for this operation. When the legit­ cial Association and Masters Mates imate AFL-CIO maritime officers and Pilots and that it boasts it has unions hit the bricks in their beef functioned since then with no work against this transparent "sweet­ stoppages and without a single heart" contract with the paper shoreside officer—in other words, local, they discovered to their sur­ no union apparatus whatsoever to prise that Curran had embraced settle beefs or negotiate contracts. the "disrupters." Now, according What prompted Curran to de­ to Curran (NMU "Pilot" December nounce District 50 in 1954 and National "right to work" advo­ 6, 1956) the "deck and engine offi­ embrace it two years later is the cates were scolded by Secretai-y of cers on American Coal ships are same variety of unprincipled ex­ Labor James P. Mitchell at a re­ covered by a contract with a recog­ pediency that has been responsible cent New York forum. Mitchell nized union," and the legitimate for so many Curran flip-flops in cautioned against a "headlong maritime officers unions needed the past. The' same expediency rush" toward legislative remedies "more guts, brains and honest dictated his pitch about "No More for the presence of racketeers in effort" to organize the company. Logs" while he was secretly nego­ Furthermore, Curran expressed tiating an industry-wide blacklist segments of the labor movement and expressed confidence in the horror (NMU "Pilot" February 28, with the operators. For the sake abilities of the AFL-CIO to deal 1957) that SIU Secretary-Treasurer of personal advantage, Curran has married and divorced John L. with the problem. Lewis innumerable times in the Mitchell's statement at a news past 15 years. First Lewis was seminar was one of several by the greatest labor leader in the authorities in the labor field. Of days when the Communist Party unusual interest among these was line coincided with isolationist NMU President Joseph Cur­ the concern expressed by a lead­ sentiment in pre-World War II ing spokesman of the coal industry ran has boasted in the "Pilot" days, then he was an "ally of Hit­ about ,"No More Logs" while for the well-being of John L. ler" when the Party line switched negotiating with the shipowners Lewis, president of the United for a one for one logging agree­ to no strikes and all-out for the Mine Workers. war effort. ment like the SlU's and then Joseph E. Moody, a chief nego­ agreeing subsequently to an in­ In 1954, when Curran was woo­ tiator for the Southern coal pro­ dustry-wide blacklist system. A ing AFL maritime unions with ducers, told the seminar that the news story in the "Honolulu dreams of personal glory in the principal labor worry of the oper­ Advertiser" of August 20 now van, Lewis suddenly became a dis­ ators was to keep the United Mine casts additional doubt, if any rupter who had no business in Workers intact. The relationship were needed, on Curran's "No maritime. Two years later, when between coal labor and manage­ More Logs" claim. Curran was enchanted at the prosment has now become so construc­ (Continued on page 16) The story quotes two NMU tive, that the industry is actively crewmembers aboard the SS Ar­ concerned with ways to keep the thur Fribourg (Arrow SS Inc.) union strong. Moody was reported relative to a dispute they had as saying. ashore with the skipper in Sept. 13,1957 Vol. XIX No. 19 Coal producers are in business Inchon. One crewmember, Wil­ partnership with Lewis and the liam Holscher Jr. declared: United Mine Workers in the oper­ "Aboard the ship anything ation of American Coal Shipping you did you'd get logged. He PAUL HALL, Secretary-Treasurer Inc. As a result of this partnership, wrote 50 logs during the trip. HERBERT BRAND. Editor. BERNARD SEA­ Second steword Pete Bianchi (above) talks over a food question the contract for the mates and I'm disgusted with sailing under MAN, Art Editor. HERMAN ARTHUR, IRWIN SPIVACK, AL MASKIN, JOHN BRAZIL, Staff engineers on the coal ships was these conditions . . ." And ci-ewr aboard the SS President Polk with NY patrolmen G. Potts of the BILL MOODY, Gulf Area Repre­ handed to a dummy local of Dis­ member Wayne Korb, DM, Writers. sup and "Slim" Von Hess of the MFOW. The issue was ironed sentative. trict 50, United Mine Workers. added that the captain had out to everyone's satisfaction. Don Rotan (below), editor of the Published biweekly at the headquarters This action was one of the precipi­ logged him for assault when ho of the Seafarers International Union, At­ "Stewards fQews" points out some of the features of the Pacific Dis­ lantic & Gulf District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth tating factors in the American coal tried to separate the skipper Avenue, Brooklyn 3J, NY. Tel. HYaclnth trict combined Labor Day newspaper to ottentive viewers aboard dispute. The set-up has been and Holscher. 9-6600. Entered as second class matter the Waltham Victory Pictured ore (l-r) C. J. Howard, chief at the Post Otfice In Brooklyn, NY, under strongly defended by the NMU What's that again about "No He Act of Aug. 24, 1912. cook; Wilder Smith, MC&S NY patrolmen; Roton, and chief stewwhich wak.handed the contract for More Logs"? unlicensed crewmembers. • % '. J I Cur ran F lip-Flops On Dist, SO West Coast Ships Hit NY NUtchell Hits 'Wreck' Bills This Is 'No More Logs'??? SEAFARERS LOG �tileptember It, ItBT SSAFARERS Fair* Tbre* IPG "?-r ATOM SHIP PLANS Exfend Bull Strike; RIPPED AS 'FARCE' Co. Loser In First SAN FRANCISCO—A West Coast marltimp publication has called on the Government to "stop the atomic ship farce" be­ fore it's too late. In its lead editorial, the "Pacific Shipper" again belittled the ballyhoo for the $42.5 million combination passenger-cargo In junction Move Bhlp. It urged Federal shipping agencies to abandon the project and The SIU extended its strike against Bull Line to San Juan in the fourth week of put money "to good use" on behalf of the US merchant marine. A company bid for an "We say that it would be a crime of omission to let the atomio ship the walkout despite efforts by Bull to break the strike. be built without even a formal protest from those who know better. B iniunction was denied last week by State Supreme Court Justice John E. Cone there are contractual penalties to be paid off, let them be paid, and the who ruled that there wasf sooner the better," the magazine stated. The "Shipper" had questioned the value of the atomio ship project no reason why SIU's peace­ before, and disclosures at a Government-sponsored atomio ship sem­ ful picketing could not con­ inar in Washington several weeks ago apparently sharpened its criti­ tinue. cism. Nevertheless the com­ It said the seminar "developed two facets as to which we have pany is persisting in its ef­ been somewhat in the dark." As a result, the magazine noted, it ap­ forts to lift the picketlines and pears tliat the experimental ship will not represent anything especiaiiy has come back to court with novel in terms of speed plus " 'substantially' less cargo capacity than an an amended petition. In hear­ old-fashioned, smoke-puffing steamer of the same size, due to the weight ings before Justice James S. Brown, union attorneys argued of its furnaces and shieldings. "The vessel therefore appears to offer nothing, literally nothing, that the company's bid was identi­ cal, for practical purposes, with except as an engineering experiment before its time (when stationery its initial request denied last week atomic engines have not been nearly made practical). This, if you please, and urged the court to reject the in an industry notoriousiy short of Government funds with which to move. A decision Is expected within the next few days. hold its place as a world maritime power," its editorial continued. Meanwhile, round the clock, It is said the project could not be justified simply by "the stale picketing by Seafarers has halted catch-phrase that the ship could run three years without refueling. all activity at the Brooklyn termi­ This is commercially meaningless . . . And nobody has yet told us nal with four, C-2 ships, the how many millions the first bunkering will cost." Frances, Kathryn, Elizabeth and Others in maritime support the view that an atomic-powered tanker Beatrice, idled by the walkout. is more feasible than a dry cargo ship since this trade can profitably Strike action in San Juan Wednes­ support ships of great size. day tied up the Carolyn and the Two British groups have already announced plans for 65,000-ton Jean, with the remainder of the Normally-crowded trucking lanes leading to Bui! Line terminal atom tankers and plans for a 40,000-tonner were revealed last month fleet's operations due to be closed are deserted as SIU picketlines effectively tie up company opera­ by a Japanese concern. A Swedish shipbuilder has also indicated down as ships come in. Two tions in New York. Nothing has moved since Seafarers hit the Libertys, the Angelina and Dorothy interest in an atom tanker. bricks on August 19. US emphasis on a nuclear-powered freightship follows a bitter fight are already inactive. The strike began on August 19 crease. The basic OT rate on the 60-day Taft-Hartley waiting in Congress last year over an Administration plan for a "floating atomic showcase" which would have no commercial value at all. This plan after many weeks of negotiations the West Coast is $2.81 compared period expired. Union negotiators was voted down and funds for the combination ship were approved by the Union committee and the to $2.06 for most East Coast rat­ had previously been authorized by company had failed to break a ings. Retroactivity was sought to the membership to issue a strike instead. deadlock on wage changes and call in the event negotiations The US prototype is supposed to be ready by 1960. Contracts for the other monetary matters. Two July 1, 1957. The strike began two days after broke down. experimental hull design and the power plant have already been days later, the Masters, Mates and awarded. Pilots, representing deck officers, and the Marine Engineers Bene­ ficial Association also ran into total snags in their separate contract talks with the company and pick­ eted the terminal. Longshoremen, teamsters and others servicing the ships, including ship's radio of­ BUENOS AIRES—^An estimated 94 persons were reported ficers and pursers, have all re­ spected the various union picket- missing when the Mormacsurf, manned by SIU Pacific Dis­ trict crewmembers, collided with an Argentine steamer PORTLAND, Ore.—A serious threat to American merchant lines. shipping will probably be headed off by the return of regular The SIU had reopened its agree^^ on the Plata River. Among+ ment last June for the purpos^ the missing was the captain of is manned by the Pacific District US-flag service between here and Puerto Rico. of discussing wages and other unions—the Sailors Union of the Waterman will resume this-f— monetary matters under the con­ the sunken vessel, the Ciudad Pacific, the Marine Firemen, and de Buenos Aires, who locked him­ trade with the sailing of the son had been the only other US tract's standard reopening clause. SlU-manned La Salle October company servicing the route, and Talks with Bull Line bogged down self in his cabin and went down the Marine Cooks and Stewards, 26. The Madaket will enter the only with one ship. A West Coast over SIU demands for parity with with the ship. The accident occurred around service a month later. operator which had been in the the West Coast scale of overtime A Japanese line had been mak­ trade quit the route when its ships and penalty rates plus an across- midnight, August 27, as the ing a play to enter the US domestic were bought by Moore-McCormack. the-board 20 percent wage in- steamer left this port with some 230 passengers aboard bound for trades to fill the gap left by the Planned For Legislation the river port of Concepcion del irregular service offered by Ameri­ Uruguay. All of the missing per­ can-flag operators. Waterman Prior to the Waterman action, sons were passengers and crewwithdrew its ships from the WC- officials here had been seeking a SEATTLE—The prior period's members of the steamer. Puerto Rico run last winter when firm commitment from the Japa­ spurt of activity has slowed down the rates were low but has since nese in order to go before Congress Captain Kenneth Summers and received an increase. The Federal and ask for special legislation the crew of the Mormacsurf were a little in this port but from the Maritime Board will study the new enabling the foreign company to incommunicado aboard the looks of ship schedules it is ex­ SIU membership meeN held rate structure at a hearing in San service the restricted coastwise ship in Buenos Aires while an in­ pected to pick up again in the near Francisco opening September 30. ings are held regularly vestigation was held to determine future. trade. The Pacifip Cloud (Compass) Other than Waterman, IsbrandtThe Waterman service will oper­ every two weeks on Wed­ if there was any criminal negli­ ate on a monthly basis, with calls nesday nights at 7 PM In gence in the handling of the and Maiden Creek (Waterman) vessel. An Argentine federal judge both paid off and signed on during at Saa Francisco after Portland. all SIU ports. All Sea­ ordered the release of the men and the last period. The Alamar, Losmar, Canadian Move farers are expected to the vessel continued on its trip Massmar, Pennmar (Calmar) and yesterday. Captain Sommers was Afoundria (Waterman) were in Attempts by non-US operators to move in on the US domestic attend; those who wish to quoted as saying that his crew res­ transit. cued about 80 passengers. trades have been made many times be excused should request Damage to the Mormacsurf was The SIU Great Lakes cruise in the past. One was beaten down perrnlsslon by telegram ship, Aquarama, curried a total of In the House last month when it (be sure to Include reg­ not extensive, with a section of the bow stoved in. The ship is 52,745 passengers during its 1957 tabled a bill which would have The expected back in Los Angeles in summer season, company officials permitted a Canadian operator to istration number). said. The vessel, which has a haul coal to Ogdensburg, NY. next SIU meetings will be: about three weeks. The Mormacsurf had been trans­ capacity of 1,900 passengers a trip The bill originally had the sup­ September 18 ferred to West Coast operations also carried 2,678 automobiles on port of the Maritime Administra­ by Moore-McCormack last June. October 2 its Cleveland-Detroit run. Its tion. The agency changed its She was in the yards for a short season opens on June 23 and runs stand when spokesmen for Great October 16 time while repairs were being through Labor Day. The round Lakes operators pointed out that October 30 made to bring the vessel up to trip cruise between the two Great American ships would be available West Coast standards. The ship Lakes cities takes about 13 hours. this fall to carry the coal. Ship Accident Takes 94 Argentine Lives Block Foreign 'Invasion' Of Oregon-PR Trade SCHEDULE OF SIU MEETINGS Aquarama Has Busy Season Seattle Quiet, Sees Pick-up �Pare Four SEAFARERS LOG SHIPS IN ACTION September IS, 1957 99 S S DSL Noms Baseball is big news on the Del Norte, aside from the usual World Series fever right now. It's business as usual with dele­ gates (1), including Leo Watts (2nd from left), H. Crane, Joe Cot and Joe Mendoza, but members of the ship's cham­ pionship nine (2) really get the spotlight. Open deck makes good practice field (3) for bosun's mate Jack Vorel, taking turn with catcher's mitt. Baseball fcaptain "B 1 a c k i e" Connors (left) is congratulated on team's success (4) by ship's delegate Leo Watts. Photos by Morris R. King. Back in New York from trip to Liverpool, Mankato crewmen gather in messhall (5) as SIU Patrolman Paul Gonsorchik (back to camera) is­ sues dues receipts and checks beefs. Art Harrington, AB; Ken Hunter, saloon MM; R. Ewell, OS; W. F. Barth and Lester C. Long are pictured. In galley (6), patrolman discusses feeding with George Gibbons, Johnnie McCue, Jr., and H. Lanier. During payoff (7), R. Ewell signs voucher while W. F. Barth and paymasters look on. Later, Carroll Harper (left) and Ray Wright (8) count off earnings on the trip and look pretty pleased about it. In black gang foc'sle (9),~John Igleberr, fireman, washes and gets ready for shore leave, while shipmates V. McClosky (left) and John W, Altstatt (10) tote ship's laundry down gang­ way. Another trip comes to an end. �SEAFARERS September 13. 1957 QUESTION; Do you like day work or watch standing? the advantages of one over the other? li i to: What are Edward L. Woods, OS: Watch Tom Duncan, AB: 1 prefer watch standing. You can make more OT standing, of course. A man gets more rest doing standing watch that type of work and I think the then he docs do­ time passes much ing day work. faster. Besides The seven - day I think day work week does not is much harder. bother me and I True they quit don't mind put­ at 5 and have ting in port Saturday and watch; it's all Sunday off, but overtime. I've you go to sea to been sailing some eight years now work, not just to sit around. and take as much watch work as 4" Jj" 35" I can get. A. DaCo.sta, wiper: To me eight t t 4 Carlos Rodriquez, wiper: 1 would hours of work a day is enough. rather have day work. For then I That is why I can go ashore take day work while in port and instead of watch see my family. standing. It's just But if you are on like going to watch, you may business, work get stuck with 'til 5 and then the 4 to 12 shift take it easy. Be­ and not get a sides this we chance to enjoy have the week­ yourself. I like ends off. This is just as good as a shoreside job. overtime too, but you can't work all the time. 4« 4" t 4. 4 4 Earl Cronsell, OS: I'll take the Francis McGarry, AB: It seems watch any time. Day men work to ine that when a man is standing like horses. 1 watch the days know for I've go by much fast­ tried it. The er than when watch gets at working day least four hours tricks. Working of rest every seven days a night, and Sat­ week takes your urdays 5" sd Sun­ mind off many days are over­ things because time. But a day you don't have man has to turn the time to just to on the weekends to make some sit around. And besides, there is OT money. To me day work is a always good overtime money to be druggery. made standing watch. Cargo Slump Hits Coal Fleet; 5IU Holds Lead NORFOLK—^The American Coal shipping fight is taking a new tack as the shipping slump in coal and other bulk cargoes is seriously affecting the company's operations. Be­ cause of lack of cargo the company had the Casimir Pulaski on the hook for nearly three weeks before it sailed and hast had the Coal Miner, the only unions involved. coal ship jobs. NMU's tactics in ship it owns, in layup for the Attending the Washington meet­ this instance could very well back­ past two weeks. The Miner was scheduled to come out again early next week as company officials scouted up a cargo for it. Despite its name, the Coal Miner has been carrying bulk cargoes other than coal on recent voyages. The future outlook for the coal fleet has the Cleveland Abbe com­ ing in here this weekend but with no cargo in sight as yet. The coal shipping picture remains uncer­ tain with the charter market re­ fusing to snap out of the summer doldrums. Coal charter rates of $4 to $4.50 a ton are far below the break-even point for Americanflag operations. In the job competition picture, the SIU continues to hold the lead with the present count 86 to 83. It will go up to 100 SIU to 94 NMU if the Coal Miner crew is called back aboard Monday as presently planned. AFL-CIO Meetings Efforts to settle the dispute are still continuing within the AFLCIO on the basis of the proposals submitted by a special two-man committee and endorsed by all par­ ticipating unions. The committee appointed by AFL-CIO President George Meany, consisting of George Harrison, president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks and Jacob Potofsky, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, had met with all parties concerned in July. On Friday, September 6, a follow-up meeting was held in Washington with President Meany and the Converted Liberfys Make Grade WASHINGTON—The Government's experiment in upgrading Liberty ships and test­ ing new po\ver plants is turning out well under actual operating conditions. The Maritime Administration reported that the three war-built ships converted last year to new and dif­ ferent power plants are hold-> ing their own in transatlantic Pallice, and has done even better ures are believed to be below the service, and are making on shorter runs. The average actual maximum* speed of the ships. higher speeds tl^an estimated. Fuel consumption and maintenance probems are about what the Gov­ ernment expected. The ships are the first of four that were taken out of lay-up to test the feasibility of upgrading the reserve fleet in case of emergency. They are also being used to com­ pare steam turbine, diesel, and gas turbine power plants. The three ships are the Ben­ jamin Chew, the Thomas Nelson and the John Sergeant. The Chew, which has been converted into a steam turbine ship, has completed five voyages. The Nelson, which was given a new bow and equipped with diesel engines, has made five trips. The Sergeant, which got the same type of bow as the Nel­ son, as well as an open cycle re­ generative gas turbine, has com­ pleted four voyages. Fourth Ship Due A fourth ship, the William Pat­ terson, is equipped with a free pis­ ton gas turbine. It is undergoing sea trials before entering commer­ cial service. Reporting on the three ships last month, the Maritime Administra­ tion said that the Chew averaged 15.3 knots from Norfolk to La speed of a Liberty ship equipped with reciprocating engines is 10 knots. Even better speeds were made by the Thomas Nelson and the John Sergeant. The Nelson aver­ aged 15.61 knots between London and Miami, and 17.5 knots be­ tween Miami and Jacksonville. The Sergeant with her gas turbine has averaged 16.03 knots between La Pallice and New York. All the fig­ Pace Five LOG In fuel consumption, the dieseldriven Thomas Nelson is the low­ est, the gas-turbine John Sergeant next, and the steam turbine Benja­ min Chew worst. The three ships are operated in the North Atlantic by US Lines. The gas turbine vessel carries a crew of 37, while the diesel and steam turbine ships are manned by 40 and 41 crewmembers, re­ spectively. ing were representatives of unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department as well the old CIO martime committee. After discussion, Meany indicated he would seek a further meeting between himself, SIU SecretaryTreasurer Paul Hall, NMU Presi­ dent Joseph Curran and others he might invite to such a session. The further meeting is expected to take place in the near future. NMU Calls In CG Having failed so far in efforts to overcome the SlU's lead on the coal ships, despite many an assist from the company, the NMU ti'ied out a new tactic. It called in the Coast Guard to give it a hand in trying to rout SIU oldtimers out of fire against the. NMU. The NMU's discomfort over its failure to overcome the SIU's lead was shown by its persistent refusal to publish any figures in the NMU "Pilot." The NMU'insisted that it had a "very good lead" but wouldn't talk in terms of specific numbers. The SlU. with staunch support from oldtimers from the A&G Dis­ trict and the West Coast Sailors, Firemen and Cooks, has held the job lead consistently since a Fed­ eral court order last spring estab­ lished a seniority hiring system. Although the figures have fluctu­ ated narrowly in recent weeks, at no time has the NMU been able to overcome the SIU's edge. NLRB Schedules Robin Vote Hearing Sept. 16 NEW YORK—The NLRB has confirmed Monday, Septem­ ber 16, as the date for a formal hearing on the SIU's petition for an election for crewmembers on the eight Robin Line ships now owned and oper--*Puritan (Alcoa); Seatrain Georgia, ated by Moore-McCormack. The petition was filed on New York, Texas, Louisiana, Sa­ August 9 by the SIU in order to protect the jobs for Seafarers on the Robin vessels after MoorcMcCormack acquired them. An in­ formal hearing was held on August 22 with NLRB examiner L. J. Lurie. The Bull Line strike is now entering its fourth week with the ships tied up solidly. There are now four ships idle at the Bull Line terminal, the Frances, Kathryn, Elizabeth and Beatrice. No other Bull vessels were expected in for some time. Although shipping has not im­ proved during the past period quite a few jobs went to Class "B" and "C" men, so it seems that Class "A" men wei-e not finding it too difficult to secure berths. 27 Ships In A total of 27 ships hit the port dui-ing the past two.weeks. There were 18 paying off, four signing on and five intransit. The ships paying off were the Robin Trent (Robin); Steel Naviga­ tor, Steel Flyer, Steel Chemist (Isthmian); Alcoa Roamer, Alcoa vannah (Seatrain); Cantigny, CS Miami, Council Grove (Cities Serv­ ice); Maxton, Alniena (Pan-Atlan­ tic i; Beatrice and the Elizabeth (Bull). The Coeur D'Alene Victory (Vic­ tory Carriers), Steel Designer (Isthmian), Michael (Carras) and CS Miami (Cities Service) signed on while the Ideal X, Coalinga Hills (Pan-Atlantic), La Salle (Waterman), and Val Chem (Heron) wei-e in-transit. Don't Send Your Baggage COD Seafarers are again warned not to send their baggage COD to any Union hall. The Union cannot accept delivery of any baggage where express charges have not been prepaid. Men who send baggage COD to Union halls face the prospect of having to go to a lot of trou­ ble and red tape with the Rail­ way Express Co. Corks Ready To Pop For Wine Tanker Artist's conception of the first US-flag wine tanker, the Angelo Petri, which is expected to begin service late this month between Stockton, Calif., Houston and Port Newark, NJ, with an SIU Pacific District crew. The new vessel can carry 2'/2 million gallons of wine per trip in 26 stainless steel Janks. She will carry other liquid edibles on return trips^to the West Coast. The ship is about the some size as the conven­ tional T-2 tanker and includes the 250-foot after section of the T-2 Sacketts Harbor, including the original machinery. She can do 15 knots and is expected to make seven round trips a year between coasts. I �Pat* Six SEAFARERS September 13, 1957 LOG MARORR (Or* Nav.), July IS — Chairman, D. Stonai Sacratary, D. Caray. Ona man mlaicd ahlp. Re­ port acceptad. New delegate and traaaurer elected. Need new pluga for pantry alnk. Steward to poit tign regarding linen change. SEATRAIN TEXAS (ieatrain). May S7—Chairman, F. Sulllvani Sacratary, F. McBrlde. Repair list aubmitted. Some amaU beefa. Ship'a fund, S77.80. Reporta accepted. Need more or larger fane for crew'a guartera; canned cof­ fee in place of bagged coffee. August 21 Through September 3 - Registered port Soston . •••,••••••••••••••••••• New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Savannah Tampa Mobile New Orleans Lake Charles Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Total Port DecK • Dock A 20 80 30 61 8 3 6 28 42 7 43 20 30 30 Deck Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Savannah Tampa Mobile New Orleans Lake Charles Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle 9 37 17 35 3 2 9 25 52 7 20 7 24 13 Total 260 Deck Deck B 3 10 7 13 5 3 1 6 18 8 9 10 15 22 8 74 30 37 10 7 3 16 38 12 24 7 16 17 Deck B Eng. A 130 408 Deck A Eng. Ing. Stew. Stew. ABA* Deck C 299 . Shipped Eng. A Eng. B 4 19 3 5 1 1 2 3 5 11 20 6 11 6 1-7 5 10 43 11 0 18 10 4 21 12 0 4 3 0 10 14 0 0 14 6 Deck Deck 97 18 16 16 67 6 18 15 31 9 3 3 5 2 6 5 19 9 34 8 3 15 13 15 15 9 27 15 21 Eng. B 128 Eng. C 0 9 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 38 9 0 0 0 1 1 0 10 14 2 19 14 11 12 5 8 9 0 0 1 0 1 C Eng. A 209 Eng. 101 Stew. A Eng. lb 268 Stew. A 5 26 12 17 0 3 5 13 42 1 5 3 19 5 stew. A 156 Stew. B 5 8 6 4 2 2 1 6 9 8 5 4 12 12 stew. .B 84 5 13 0 5 4 2 1 4 6 7 10 5 18 14 Stew. B 99 Stew. C 0 7 0 0 2 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 Stew. C 16 Total B 9 39 18 33 18 8 4 15 33 23 34 30 42 51 Total B 357 Total A 34 221 78 129 21 15 15 63 114 22 80 42 73 68 Total A 975 Total A 21 106 47 73 7 6 18 52 132 18 39 12 62 32 Total A 625 Total B 14 38 19 21 6 3 3 15 23 30 37 15 31 27 Total 282 Total Reg. 43 260 96 162 39 23 19 78 147 45 114 72 115 119 Total Reg Total Total Ship. C 1 26 2 4 2 0 5 2 2 0 1 2 1 36 170 68 98 15 9 26 69 157 48 77 29 94 61 2 Total Total Ship. c 50 957 Notify Union About Sick Men Ship's delegates are urged to notify the Union immediately when a shipmate is taken off the vessel in any port because of illness or injury. Delegates should not wait until they send in the ship's minutes but should handle the matter in a separate communication, so that the Un­ ion can determine in what man­ ner it can aid the brother. It would also be helpful if the full name, rating and book number was sent in. Address these notifications to Welfare Services at headquarters. rrrrr WC Firemen, Cooks Start Voting Soon SAN FRANCISCO—^Members of all three unions in the SIU Pacific District will take part in referendum ballots this fall. Two elections and a vote on a new constitution for the Marine Firemen's Union are-* slated. MCS history, since the time the Already in motion is the union was first chartered by the ratification process for the amend­ ed MFOW by-laws. Voting on these will begin late this month or in October once ballots are pre­ pared. Nominations of the first officials to be elected under the recentlyadopted constitution of the Marine Cooks and Stewards were held at port membership meetings last night, with 14 posts at stake. This will be the first formal election in 22 Homes Built By La. Volunteers LAKE CHARLES — Volunteer builders from New Orleans - -.d Lake Charles continued to give up their weekends, including their traditional holiday—Labor Day, to construct seven more homes in Cameron County, La. This brings the total to 22 homes built by these men with three more to go under the original hurricane reconstruc­ tion program. The amount of ma­ terials and supplies left over will determine what will be done after these are constructed, writes Leroy Clarke, port agent. Shipping for the port was only fair during the past two weeks. The Chiwawa, CS Miami, Bents Fort, Cantigny and the Winter Hill (Cities Service); Petro Chem (Val­ entine); Maxton (Pan-Atlantic); Steel Advocate (Isthmian); Mer­ maid (Metro. Petroleum); Del Aires (Mississippi) and Pan Oceanic Transporter (Penn. Nav.) were in port during the last period. I . I •,-( -.'1.1 < J II, STEEL KINO (Isthmian), May 24— Chairman, J. Keavney; Secretary, J. 1332 Job activity fell off again in the last period, matching the low so far for the past year and a half. The total number of men shipped, 957, was less than the class A registration alone. Registration itself was 1,332, reflecting a considerable rise in this statistic. Only five SIU ports escaped the general decline and one other remained about the same as before. The increased shipping was listed for Boston Philadelphia, Tampa, New Orleans and San Francisco, but 'Frisco was the only one showing a major gain. Baltimore held to the status quo and was still only "fair." Ports that fell off were New York, Norfolk, Sav j.nah. Mobile, Lake Charles, Houston, Wilmington and Seattle, but most of these ex­ pected to bounce back again. New York was down due to the idling of Bull Line ships. Generally, the deck department accounted for the most shipping and the largest portion of the registration total as well. The proportion of jobs taken by class A men dropped to 65 per­ cent, while class B shipping rose to 30 percent of the total. Class C shipping fell off slightly once again, hitting a new low. The following is the forecast port by port: Boston: Fair . . . New York: Fair . . . Philadelphia: Good . . . Balti­ more: Fair . . . Norfolk: Slow . . . Savannah: Slow . . . Tampa: Fair . . . Mobile: Fair . . . New Orleans: Good . . . Lake Charles: Steady . . . Houston: Good . . . Wilmington: Fair . . . San Francisco: Good . . . Seattle: Good. YORKMAR (Calmar), May 21—Chalr^ man, E. Denchy; Secretary, J. Archie. Ship's fund *15.82. New delegate elected. SIU of North America in 1951. The constitution itself was ratified less than three months ago. Under the new constitution, jobs to be filled, all for a three-year term, are those of a secretarytreasurer, assistant secretary-treas­ urer, three patrolmen and a dis­ patcher at headquarters, and one port agent and patrolman each In the ports of Seattle, Portland, Wilmington and New York. Members nominated have until October 15 to accept or decline, and voting will begin for a 60-day period on November 1. Those elected will take office in January, 1958, once the results are certified by a membership-elected tallying committee. The Sailors Union of the Pacific will hold its annual election dur­ ing December and January. Nom­ inations will be made at the first SUP meeting in November. Tampa Gets Job Boost TAMPA — Shipping in this port picked up somewhat in the last period with registration dropping behind shipping in the deck and engine departments. But although jobs are on the increase, there are enough men on the beach now to handle any openings that may come along. There were four vessels calling into port within the last two weeks. The Citrus Packer (Waterman) paid off while the La Salle, Has­ tings (Waterman), Steel Flyer (Isthmian) and Del Campo (Missis­ sippi) were in transit. Furcell. Galley range needs repairing. Ship'a fund, SIS. Drunkards warned and wiU be turned over to Union. 4-8 watch turning to In morning not putting in for penalty meal hour. Delegate missed port payoff In NY. New delegate elected. Vary night lunch. Shower water too hot. Too much fraternizing topside. Warning issued if not stopped offenders wiU be dealt with accordingly. June 23—Chairman, J. Furcell; Sec­ retary, J. Keavney. Three men paid off without proper relief in Honolulu. Ship's fund, 816. Report accepted. Garbage to be dumped aft. Food beef to be taken up at meeting. Shipping rules to be posted in messroom. YORKMAR (Calmar), July 1—Chair­ man (none); Secretary, J. Archie. Few hours disputed OT. To be taken care of at payoff. Ship's fund, $15.82. Need fan in laundry room. Washing machine water line needs repairing. Return all cots after using. DEL AIRES (Miss.), July 7—Chair­ man, C. Cautreau; Secretary, J. Davis. New delegate elected. Ship's fund S73. Schedule for cleaning laundry to be posted. Safety representatives elected by each dept. Talk by stew­ ard regarding food and repairs. Door to be locked while kroo boys are aboard. Endeavor to get spring-type locks. FRANCES (Bull), July 21—Chair­ man, W. Deak; Secretary, F. Colonna. Reports accepted. Donation by crew to obtain new Ubrary. Toaster not te be used for griUed sandwiches. Pan­ try to be kept clean. IDEAL X (Fan-Atlantic), Aug. S— Chairman, Prokopuk; Secretary, Helvlnk. Few hours disputed OT. Re­ ports accepted. ALCOA PARTNER (Alcoa), July 29 —Chairman, S. Clarke; Secretary, C. Neumann. Few hours disputed OT. Repair lists to be submitted. Reporta accepted. Minimum of 2 hrs. OT to be paid for unUcensed personnel called after 5 PM and before 8 AM. New delegate elected. Ship to be ex­ terminated. Obtained new library. Vote of thanks to steward dept. DE SOTO (Waterman), June S — Chairman, C. Wallick; Secretary, W. Newsom. New delegate elected. Lock­ ers in foc'sles to be repaired. Water pressure to be Improved throughout ship. July 11—Chairman, R. Hedges; Sec­ retary, W. Newtem. Steward's actions unbecoming. Number of complaints from members in dept. Patrolman to take action. Few hours disputed OT. Few beefs to be taken up with pa­ trolman. Two men missed ship be­ tween ports. Reports accepted. Clariflcation of deck delegate's report. Beefs to be taken up with patrolman. Aug. 3—:Chalrman, R. Hodges; Sec­ retary, B. Varn, Jr. Repairs made. Vote of thanks to headquarters for progress made in American Coal beef. New delegate elected. Cups to be re­ turned to pantry after using. Take better care of cots. Vote of thanks to retiring ship's delegate. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for fine food and good service. ALCOA RAN(»BR (Alcea), July 27— Chairman, none; Secretary, J. Janes. No replacements fo^ crew members in Puerto Rico. Reports accepted. Re­ frain from making noise in passage­ ways—men sleeping. Discussion on type of milk put aboard in San Juan; general equipment on board. CALMAR (Calmar), July 21—Chair­ man, F. Miller; Secretary, T. Jackson. New secretary-reporter, treasurer and delegate elected. Messroom and bath­ rooms to be kept clean. MICHAEL (Carras), July SI—Chair­ man, H. Ward; Secretary, C. McLean. Ship sailed short two men. One man Ul. Ship's fund $2, Piu-chased maga­ zines and books. Observe quiet in passageways. Post repair list. ALICE BROWN (Bleemfleld), July IS—Chairman, O. Yeager; Secretary, T. Schulta. Safety meeting held. Re­ pair lists submitted. One member .>11. - I ..IL. 1,1 I. .1 • I 1 (• missed ship; one member hospitalized. Headquarters to be given Bloomfleld Steamship Co. schedules and ports of call so LOG may be received at all times. Slop chest not opened fre­ quently enough. Vote of thanks to steward dept. Approval of new SIU feeding program. NEVA WEST (Bloomfleld), June 14 —Chairman, D. Jones; Secretary, J. McDougall. New delegate elected. Drinking water changed. Brother Jones will submit article for the IX)G. Steward to act as treasurer. Ship being cleaned and painted. No beefs —things running smoothly. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for good food and service. Cleaning schedule for laundry and recreation room to be typed and posted. Need scuppers in laundry. Valves to be checked and changed to save. fresh water; place cold water hook-up to washing ma­ chine. General discussion. Aug. 3—Chairman, J. Rellly; Secre­ tary, D. Jones. Sick men to see doc­ tor upon arrival. Need new washing machine. Scupper to be placed in laundry. Members leaving ship to strip bunks and turn in soiled and extra linen. Two articles submitted to LOG. Ship's fund S14.23. No beefs, everything running smoothly. No LOGS received. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for fine food and serv­ ice. Need new washing machine and scupper in laundry. General discus­ sions. CAROLYN (Bull), July 28-Chair­ man, W. Smith; Secretary, R. Prin­ cipe. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for fine work. Ship's fund to be used to repair TV set. SI contribution from each crew member. WARRIOR (Waterman), Aug. 3 — Chairman, H. Starck; Secretary, W. Elliott. Captain warned crew about causing any trouble. Injured man repatriated to States. One man missed ship, rejoined in Moji. Reports ac­ cepted. Discussion on washing ma­ chine. Vote of thanks by steward for cooperation in changing linen. Cups to be returned to pantry. Repair list to be submitted. SEA COMET II (Seatrader), Aug. 4 —Chairman, F. Parsons; Secretary, G. Bryan. No major beefs. Some dis­ puted overtime. Delegate to check with patrolman regarding phosphate cargo and whether or not men would be permitted to pay off in Baltimore. One man missed ship. Clothes turned over to shipmate and necessary data given to delegate. Reports accepted. Extra linen to be turned in for inven­ tory. Vote of thanks to steward dept. Garbage to be dumped aft. Crew not to use lemon juice: set aside for meals only. CAROLYN (Bull), July 14—Chairman, W. Smith; Secretary, D. Pantes. One man hospitalized. No replace­ ment. Few hours disputed OT. New delegate elected. More variety in night lunch. Food not up to par. Poor grade of food-put aboard: to be discussed with patrolman. Complaints being brought topside. Washing ma­ chine to be kept clean. STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), May i —Chairman, S. Mangold; Secretary, V. Orenclo. Ship's fund S27.91. New delegate elected. New library ob­ tained. June 19—Chairman, V. Warfleld; Secretary, V. Orencle. No hot water for 11 hours. One man missed ship; rejoined. Ship's fund S27.91. Few hours disputed OT. Report accepted. Need more canned fruits. Vegetables not cooked properly. July 20—Chairman, W. Schlect; Sec­ retary, V. Orenclo. Subsistence not collectible—hot water supplied within 12 hours. Two Men paid off in Hono­ lulu. One man missed ship. In the future, anyone quitting before payoff must have medical slip certifying un­ fit for duty. Ship's fund S27.91. Car­ penter paid off. Unable to get re­ placement. All beefs to be settled by patrolman. Bosun refused to turn to. stating ho was fired. Patro!man to talk to bosun. Bread box to be closed to prevent bread from becoming stale. Pantry and mess hall doors te be closed while in port. ALCOA PEGASUS (Alcea), Aug. IS —Chairman, J. Bernard; Secretary, L. Phillips.. Two men left ship in PR. Cots to be stowed away at end of voyage. SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Seatrain), Aug. 18—Chairman, S. Charles; Sec­ retary, A. Lambert. Delayed sailing disputed OT to be referred to patrol­ man. Beef in deck dept. kept squared away. Wire sent to hall re: sending patrolman for Sunday payoff. Ship's fund S21.03. Safety meeting held. Ail suggestions taken care of. Com­ plaints not to be taken to captain. SHINNECOCK BAY (Tankship), Aug. 17 — Chairman, E. CzosnoskI; Secretary, R. Harp. All stores to be checked by delegate. Beef on steward to be taken up with patrolman in San Juan. Request 25 days supply of stores to be put aboard. DEL NORTE (Miss.), Aug. 18 — Chairman, J. Connors; Secretary, H. Crane. Everything running smoothly. Men Urged not to foul up. Ship's fund S127.03. Paid for new movie screen. New delegate elected. Messhails and pantry to be kept clean at all times. Steward to have cream and sugar in pantry at coffee time. Each man to donate $2 to purchase films for next voyage. ALCOIA ROAMER (Alcea), Aug. 14 — Chairman, B. DeBautte; secretary, R. Klenast. One man left ship in San Juan to fly to NY marine hospital. Letter from Union regarding 61 days received. Vote of thanks from ^ members to headquarters. �SEAFARERS September IS, ISST YOUR DOllAR'S WORTH I fi- Seafarer's Guide To Better Buying By Sidney Margolius II Shopping For A House Prices of new houses are at record high levels. This summer the average new house, on a countrywide basis, has a price tag close to $15,000. In just the three years since 1954", when the average dwelling was $12,300, the average price has gone up about 22 percent. Only one out of seven new houses recently offered for sale was priced under $10,000. Part of this rise is due to the fact that houses are larger now, be­ cause builders are concentrating on more expensive houses and less on the wage-earner market. The average house in 1956 provided 1,230 square feet of floor area compared to 1,140 in 1954. However, the cost per square foot of houging your family has jumped too, from a country wide average at $10.79 a square foot in '54 to $11.79 in '56, and an estimated $12 in May, 1957. The cost per square foot actually has dropped in the Northeast, but has gone up drastically in the West, South and North Central states. In the Northeast, housing demand has tapered off, but in booming areas where demand is keen, as in a number of Southern and Western states, builders are pricing new homes to get all the market will bear. In just two years, from '54 to '56, the square-foot prices of houses have jumped 16 percent in the South, to $10.32; 15 percent in the North Central states, to a whopping $14.08, and 10 percent in the West, to $11.72. Prices In South Now Rising The cost of houses in the South is relatively low, although going up fast, because most are basementless and only three out of five have central heating. It's valuable to know what you get for your money in square footage and "extras," and also what designs and materials are being favored. This helps you compare values ' •' ^ offered by different builders. It ( Alow MU^H ? _ ' judge the future resale value of a new house, and compare values among older houses on the market. The price per square foot of floor area is one yardstick of value. As the Bureau of Labor Statistics figures it, floor area is the number of square feet computed from out­ side dimensions, counting all fin­ ished livable space, including laundry and utility rooms, halls and closets. But it excludes reereation, storage, laundry and util­ ity rooms in the basement, unfin­ ished attic space and open or screened porches. The big switch in recent years is to three-bedroom houses, which have become the standard in place of the two-bedroom house that predominated in 1950. Another factor is the quality of construction. Despite the higher square-foot costs, basic construction quality is not necesarily improv­ ing. A recent BLS report showed relatively few new houses available nowadays for less than $10,000, with the majority of them in the South. These were small, basementless, frame houses with wood or asbestos shingle exteriors, often with only two bedrooms or even less; one bathroom, and with only space heaters or no heating facilities at all. You have to go into the-$10,000-$15,000 bracket to get a more ade­ quate house. In this bracket you can get 1,000 to 1,500 square feet of living space, with three bedrooms, one bath or a bath and a half, warm-air heat if not the costlier hot-water, and a garage or carport. But even hou.ses in this price class have basements in only one out of three cases and, most often, dry walls. Only in houses over $15,000 are you likely to get plaster walls, and then, in only three out of five cases. Hot-water heat has become relatively rare in houses selling for under $20,000. $10,000 Is Dividing Line On Wood, Brick Houses under $10,000 will more often have asbestos facing, but over the $10,000 price you have a good chance of getting wood, brick or stucco facing. If you go over $12,000, you should expect a full or at least partial basement and also, bathrooms with ceramic tiie walls and floors. Only at $15,000 and over do new houses now generally give you plaster walls, V/i> to 2 bathrooms and most generally, brick or brickfacing construction. Aluminum window frames are gaining in popularity with steel casements now less used. Wood double-hung windows are still pop­ ular and desirable, but nowadays are found more in the costlier houses than in moderate-priced ones. But besides lire price, regional preferences influence construction. People in the Northeast prefer basements, and in the North Central states over half the new houses have basements, with the trend in that direction. In the West arid South, most houses are basementless. Families in the Northeast and Nbrth Central states prefer wood win­ dows, BLS surveys show. It's more important to look for quality construction, rather th3n eye-catehing "extras," such as dishwashers, garbage disposal units, etc. Veiy few builders now give you a refrigerator and even less a washer,, as they often did when houses were cheaper. In most cases lyou should boabte 'toi get a range and exhaust fan; • An increasing riumber of cooking, units now are built-in tops and ej^-level ovens. Pare Serea LOG •I BME Boosts Yf elfare. Pensions In a move designed to insure greater welfare protection to its members, Brotherhood of Marine Engineers welfare plan trustees have announced substantial increases in benefits for engineers. • The changes involve in­ mended at the agents conference. tution of the AFL-CIO ethical creased death benefits, a pro- Up for revision are the union's practice code. fated pension plan for engi­ trials and appeals procedures, A special constitutional commit­ neers who wish to retire at age 60 and increased medical payments. Death benefit payments for active members were increased from $2,500 to $3,000 while a payment of $500 was approved to bene­ ficiaries of retired BME members. Prior to this pensioners were not eligible for death benefits. Realizing the need of additional protection against expensive medi­ cal costs, the benefit for doctors' visits has been increased and ex­ tended to cover additional medical services. The medical plan will now pay up to $100 a calendar year towards bills incurred by the en­ gineer or his family. The payments will be made for visits to a gen­ eral practitioner or to a specialist. It was also extended to cover eye examinations and eye glasses. The maximum payment for any one bill will be $20. The old plan had no provision for bills over $5 and did not include payments for eye examinations and glasses. Payments under the pension plan to qualified members have been changed to enable engineers to re­ tire at age 60 at a lower benefit rate. Earlier, BME members were not eligible for retirement bene­ fits until they reached 65. The pro­ rated payments range from $55 a month for a member retiring at age 60 to the full benefit of $100 a month for those retiring at 65. The expanded welfare and pen­ sion programs were the result of recommendations by delegates to the union's agents conference. Tliey were subsequently approved by the membership. The membership also voted to set machinery in motion for re­ vising certain clauses in the union's constitution. The changes would be along the lines recom- MTD Elects Port Heads In St. Louis ST. LOUIS—The St. Louis Mari­ time Port Council—one of the series of port councils now being set up by the AFL-CIO Martime Trades Department—^was formally chartered here on September 5. The charter was presented by Harry E. O'Reilly, MTD executive secretary. Officers of the council wei»e elected as follows: President. John Naber, secretary - treasurer of Teamsters Local 688; vice presi­ dent, Edward Weber, business rep­ resentative of Firemen and Oilers Local 6; secretary-treasurer, Ed­ ward Adams, business repi'esentative, MM&P. The charter meeting was attend­ ed by 25 delegates representing seven international unions with a total marine membership of 50,000. Local unions in the area are also applying for membership, and it is expected that ultimately about 20 unions will be affiliated with the council. Sign Name On LOG Letters For obvious reasons the LOG cannot print any letter or other communications sent in by Seafarers unless the author signs his name. Unsigned anonymous letters will only wind up in the waste-basket. If circumstances justify, the LOG will withhold a signature on request. quorums for membership meet­ ings, replacement of the executive board by an agents conference set­ up and inclusion in the consti­ tee has been called to prepare the recommendations for the Septem­ ber membership meeting at head­ quarters. It's There in Black 'n' White 1 British seaman Kevin Sealy, AS (left), looks over item in SlU con­ stitution as Seafarer John F. Murphy, bosun, points it out to him. Sealy, a member of the British Seamen's Union, aboard the SS Ulysses In New York, came up to the hall to pick up some copies of the constitution to show to his shipmates. Glass Fiber Lifeboats Wiil Be Tested By US WASHINGTON—new type of lifeboat constructed of re­ inforced glass fiber will be tested next year for use aboard American-flag ships. The Maritime Administration got the experiment under way last-*-month by asking manufactur­ ers to submit bids for produc­ ing several sets of oar- and motorpropelled boats for testing early in 1958. The study will be made on Government-owned ships. The new lifeboats, which are in use on foreign ships, are con­ structed of laminated glass fiber. The fiber may be pigmented with desired colors, and the hard, smooth type finish eliminates painting. Boats Have Long Life The Maritime Administration be­ lieves the boats will last as long as the ships they are assigned to, with little maintenance. It also believes that their elasticity should enable them to withstand shock and collision that might seriously damage metal boats. The proposed boats would have the following specifications: length overall 24 feet, beam 8 feet, and draft 3 feet 6 inches, certified for a maximum capacity of 40 persons. The Maritime Administration has also specified that the maximum hoisting weight when fully equipped (without persons) must not exceed 4,500 pounds, including 800 to 1,000 pounds of equipment. Resins used in construction must be fire retardent. Turbine Ship Test The boats will be tested aboard the Government's experimental Liberty ship GTS William Patter­ son, and on other Governmentowned vessels. The Coast Guard has specified that the boats must exceed the present tests required for metal boats. If the tests are successful, similar boats may be ordered on all new. Marltiipe Ad­ ministration construction. SlU Softball NineChantps In Baltimore BALTIMORE—The SIU chalked up another victory, but this time on the baseball diamond. The "Seafarers International Union" Softball team downed the South Baltimore champs. 4-3. in a final play-off game to take the city-wide championships for 16 to 18 year olds. The South Baltimore club, Fritz's Social Club, had jumped to a 2-run lead in the first innin,:?. but under the cool pitching of "Huch" Neal and some well placed hits by Neal. Gus Ceaenaio and right fielder Gavenas. the SlU-sponsorcd team turned the tables for a 4-3 victory. Fine defensive plays by shortstop Jack Norwood, .second baseman George Holland, first baseman Cliff Steward and Captain Jack Schaefer. the catcher, pulled the plugs on any threats by the southern champs. The SIU club is coached by Jack and Irvin Levin who have lead two straight championship teams. Last .year they captured the 14-16 title and this year the 16-18 crown with the SIU. SIU Baltimore members and officials have pitched in to help sponsor the local ball club. Besides being a factor in keeping the youths off the . streets, it has aroused a community spirit_in Sea­ farers from Baltimore who at­ tended the games .while on the j beach and rooted their team to • victory. - w •••5 . .'2 -u �Pare Eirht SEAFARERS 100 ITIUFrEIIED INTNESIU.. September 13, 195T I / I \ I I ; The dozen yeors since the end of World War 11 hove been the baclcdrop for numerous beefs in which Secfarers have played a significant role, as well as being a period of major gains for the Union and. Its member­ ship. Pictured here are scenes from just a handful of the many important events of the lost 12 years. \ I I I J AHERICAN FEDERATION CFNTRAt U&os UNION i of Fhiiad€ij>ha AViciNty A D • s;r?- -R '2; 3 ?. SIU-SUP general strike action in 1946 tied up shipping tight as a drum on both coasts in protest against continued Government lid on wage increases already negotiated with operators. Here mobile "stew pot" provides coffee and cakes for Philadelphia pickets. Strike was successful in regaining full bargaining rights for maritime unions and eliminating Government wage controls. World War II had ended and in 1946 the Communist Party made its strongest bid yet to control all of maritime. Here Seafarers demonstrate against an invasion of New York by Harry Bridges and his allies in the Committee For Maritime Unity. CMU later folded. Another major postwar organizing campaign was successfully followed through at Cities Service Oil Co. Here a Seafarers' picket squad conducts a dress rehearsal in preparation for a possible strike against the company in 1953 when its SIU agreement came up for renewal. Strike was called off when a new agreement was signed. w 1^ ^• The largest-scale organizing drive ever carried on in mari­ time reached its peak in '45 and '46. Here an organizer ' meets a group of Isthmian crewmembers off the William ' Whipple. SIU won election in 96-ship fleet by a command­ ing margin. y<it« wasTparitimc's biggest. : Int'l Union of Elec­ trical Workers gets SIU backing on Bal­ timore picket lines in bitter 1955-$j|i strike. First pooled Vacation Plan in maritime be­ gan in '52, guarantees vacation, pay for all every 90 days lyorked.. Constitution, first writ­ ten back in 1939, was revised and modernized in 1952 and approved by 95 percept,vote. �September IS, 1957 - X - / SEAFARERS - ,"•;, i' ' i' - - ,< LOG Paffe Nln* - -:' , '3 HI ' 1" P i'' m ,, K I 1^* 's^ : - ' to P' 5 ; SIU building program resulted in construction of new headquarters hall in Brooklyn which opened in Novemher, 1951. Hall was first on Atlantic and Gulf Coast to I boast modern shipping hall, recreational and eating facili•it:! Seafarers on the beach. Three years later Baltimore hall was opened, exceeding headquarters in space and improving on its facilities. Hall quickly became center of labor activities in the Maryland port city, as many unions took office space there. Andrew Furuseth train­ ing school in Mobile teaches seamanship to SIU newcomers in all ships' departments. •i'•) I >.i I -I Joseph Cave, Jr., 1st SIU maternity benefit baby in '52, marks birthday in New Orleans one year later. Sea Chest, founded in 1952, has continued to of­ fer top quality slops to SlU-contracted ships on competitive basis. Support of NY Stock Ex­ change strikers in '48 in­ volved this Seafarer in "Battle of Wall Street" as cops belabored pickets. Group of Seafarers attending headquarters meeting listens attentively as resolution calling for referendum on con­ stitution amendments is read at one of three successive meetings before being voted on by secret ballot. Amend­ ments were adopted by overwhelming margin. New Orleans Seafarers parade in support of CIO telephone workers during long 1955 strike against Southern Bell system. SIU started distributing 50-book ship's libraries in 1953 in effort to meet de­ mand for shipboard read­ ing matter. Longshoremen seeking new union in New York are shown at AFL rally at SIU headquarters in coiurse of '53 drive. iiiliil f , iillili Disability-pension benefits for Seafarers, any age, who are unable to work started at $15 weekly in 1952, have since been increased to $35 a week. Pictured above is dis­ abled Seafarer Walter Stoll with Mrs. Stoll at his retire­ ment home in Savannah. I 1' I I CIO shipyard workers were backed by -^lU on several occasions. Shown above is 1947 shipyard strike at Ira St Bushey's. Seafarer Jerry O'Neill, '56 SIU scholarship winner, reads all about it in LOG. Five $6,000 awards are hiade each year; Hospitalized Seafarers learn of new family hos­ pital-surgical plan. Pro­ gram begun. In 1955 has since been extended. First of four proposed SIU Welfare Plan medical centers opened in Brooklyn, one block from SIU hall, in April, 1957. , Well over 1,000 Seafarers have already had headto-loe check-ups at no cost. Other diagnostic clinics will be set up in Baltimore, Mobile and New' Orleans; • '' ' �Par* Tea SEAFARERS LOG Seatember IS. IMT Dow-Chem Men Get $125 Raise HOUSTON—Seamen aboard two of Dow Chemical Com­ pany boats came into a windfall this week when the com­ pany turned the vessels over to Dixie Carriers to operate for them, Dixie Carriers is an* HIWD-contracted operator By transferring, the seamen will re­ and under the terms of its ceive their increased wages and benefits without the need for a labor board election. Organizing in this area is still going strong. Another Houston company has been signed up and is now in the process of negotiating a contract. The company is Gautt Towing Company and an agree­ ment is expected to be signed with­ in a week. Shipping in this area was just fair during the past two weeks but is expected to pick up before the end of the month. "The Warrior (Waterman) and Matthew Thorn­ ton (Grainfieet) paid off while the Del Aires (Mississippi) signed on. The Del Monte (Mississippi) and the Royal Oak (Cities Service) are expected to take on full crews in WASHINGTON—Three SlU-con- the near future. tracted operators have been barred from raising rates on Puerto Rico cargo pending a Federal Maritime Board review next January. Acting on complaints from Puerto Rico sugar refiners, the Board ordered the US Atlantic & Gulf Puerto Rico Steamship con­ ference to suspend a proposed 12 BOSTON—^Men on the beach in per cent hike in refined sugar rates this port, writes James Sheehan, for four months. Conference mem­ port agent, are spending their free bers include the SlU-contracted time "sidewalk" supervising the Bull Line, Alcoa Steamship Co., loading of a special divers' boat. and Waterman Steamship Corp., The vessel is being specially outfit­ as well as Lykes Bros. Steamship ted by a group of divers who plan Co. to take photographs of the sunken Italian liner, Andrea Doria. Be­ Inbound Boost Barred The board also barred the Water­ sides the usual diving equipment man-affiliated Pan-Atlantic Steam­ of a decompression tank and suits, ship Co. from raising rates on gen­ they are also loading special eral inbound cargo from Puerto cameras and lights, he said. With Rico. The rate boost was scheduled all the talk of the possibility of raising the flagship, this could be to go into effect Sept. 18. the initial preparation for such an Earlier, the conference had been undertaking. ordered to postpone a 15 per cent Fair Shipping across-the-board increase on in­ Shipping has been fair during bound cargo from the Islands. The entire rate problem will be the past period with three vessels thrashed out before the FMB in causing most of the job activity. These ships, the Winter Hill (Cities January. Service), Valley Forge (Penn. Nav.) Cargo rates on refined sugar and the Pacific Ocean (Trans have gone up since August, 1956, Utility) paid off and signed on. The from 48 to 53 cents per hundred­ Steel Chemist and Steel Rover weight. The proposed increases (Isthmian) were in transit. All of would raise the rates to 59 cents the ships paid off clean with the per hundredweight. few repairs needed taken care of here in port. Seafarer Eddie Sheehan is now in Boston PSHS recuperating from an illness he suffered while on the Ocean Transporter. Eddie had As Seafarers know, copies of to leave the vessel in Jacksonville, each issue of the SEAFARERS and wishes to extend his thanks to LOG are mailed every two the captain and crew for all the weeks to all SIU ships as well as help they gave him. to numerous clubs, bars and other overseas spots where Sea­ farers congregate ashore. The procedure for mailing the LOG involves calling all SIU steam­ ship companies for the itiner­ aries of their ships. On the basis of the information sup­ plied by the ship operator, three MOBILE—Carroll B. Waterman, copies of the LOG, the head­ quarters report and minutes former vice-president of the SIUforms are then airmailed to the contracted Waterman Steamship company agent in the next port Co., was found shot to death near here last week, Police said that of call. Similarly, the seamen's clubs Waterman, 51, vas an apparent got various quantities of LOGs suicide. at every mailing. The LOG is The son of the founder of Water­ sent to any club when a Sea­ man Stveamship Co., he had farer so requests it by notifying resigned from his post in May, the LOG office that Seafarers 1955, after the company was pur­ congregate there. chased by McLean Industries. As always the Union would Lived Near Mobile like to hear promptly from SIU He had lived at nearby Canon ships whenever the LOG and ship's mail is not delivered so Gate, on the outskirts of Mobile. that the Union can maintain a Funeral services were held here ^d^y-torday check on the accu- last week followed by burial in Magnolia Cemetery. lie is sur­ raciy of its mailing lists. , vived by his'wifei and two children. agreement the men on these vessels will automatically receive an aver­ age wage increase of $123 a month, plus other HIWD welfare benefits. Just prior to the transfer, the SIU had filed for an NLRB election cov­ ering the men on these two vessels. Halt Boost In PR Ship Rate Levels Doria Attracts Hub Attention Notify Union On LOG Mail There's nothing ilk HOT SHOWER ... A shower can be refreshing after a day's hard work provided you don't emerge with a slashed foot from a earelessty-disearded razor blade or a back sprain from skidding on a chunk of soap or just sliding on the wet deck. Shower rooms always have a way of contributing more than their quota of accidents ashore and an ship. Of course, with the ship likely to pitch or roll any minute, the hazard is compounded. ideally, the shower room should have a grab bar to hang on to if the weather's the least bit rough and as clean a deck as possible. Water can't be avoided but the junkpile can. Sea­ farers can add to their margin of safety by wearing a good pair of non-skid shower shoes. They also keep the athlete's foot percentage low. Enjoy your shower, but take care to return to your foc'sle in one piece afterwards. Ex-Waterman Official Dies iI, An SIU Ship is a Safe Ship •• . • • • . �September IS, 19S7 SEAFARERS Pace Elevea IPG Don't Bother Me, I'm Busy! Pan-Atlantic Adds Pier Space For Boxship Run PORT NEWARK—Getting ready to expand its trailership operations next month, Pan-Atlantic Steamship has just leased another transit shed and about 350,000 more square feet of area here. The maiden sailing of its first "lift-on, lift-off" trailer- ship, the Gateway City, is now set for October 4. The service will in­ clude Miami, Tampa and New Or­ leans-as well as Houston, which is already linked by trailership oper­ ations with four "piggyback" tank­ ers. Eventually ten converted C-2s will join the Gateway City to link Port Newark, the above-mentioned ports and others along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The "piggyback" ships, which are modified T-2 tank­ ers with special platform decks to accommodate up to 60 truck trail­ ers, have been operating since April, 1956. -The new "lift-on" vessels will be capable of handling up to 226 35-foot trailer bodies above and below decks. The ships are being equipped with two 60,000-pound gantry cranes for loading and dis­ charging. This does away with the need for expensive terminals in the ports being serviced, since the trailers can easily be unloaded, locked onto waiting cabs and driven off the dock. In the "piggybank" operation, giant dockside cranes are needed instead. Crewing of the Gateway City for the first "dry runs" is expected next week in Mobile, where the conversions are being done. Shoreside Jobs Rise In Mobile MOBILE — Although shipping slacked off during the past period, It was necessary to farm out some engine room jobs to near-by ports to fill them. There are only about 20 to 30 engine room men regis­ tered in this port so the men in that department can afford to be selective about the jobs they want. Approximately one-third of the total local membership is now working In various affiliated jobs in and around the port. Of interest to those men on the beach who like to work In shipyards is the news that Gulf Shipyards leased a large dry dock from the Navy and are bringing it around from Jackson­ ville. Up to now all drydocking had to go down river to Alabama Drydock since Gulf had no drydocking facilities. This will mean a saving in travel time and money for the men working there. A crew of eight ABs and a cook were sent to tow the dock from Jacksonville. On the shipping side, the Alcoa Patriot, Alcoa Pennant, Alcoa Cavalier, (Alcoa); Claiborne, Citrus Packer, LaSalle (Waterman); Edith (Bull) and the Steel Advocate (Isthmian) were in port during the past two weeks. In addition, a full crew was sent to the SS Little Rock, a T-2 belonging to North American SS Company. Next period should bring better ship­ ping with almost 13 vessels ex­ pected in so far. SIU Port Agent Cal Tanner also noted the enthusiasm sweeping the entire Gulf area as a result of the mounting HIWD victories in the Louisiana tidelands field. A new control and another election sweep^gs ,gaiDg4 two weeks..aga The balance-sheet for the now-ended first session of the 85th Congress provides small comfort for the supporters of a strong US merchant fleet who had hoped for more encour­ agement from Capitol Hill. Help in the form of Federal sub­ sidies are still available only to the select few, and when the farm lobby-foreign shipowner bloc couldn't weaken "50-50 in the Congress itself, the Maritime Administration came along and did it by administrative ruling. The theory of the "prestige" ship is still uppermost in the minds of the lawmakers. Thus, a minor budget item of $100 millions for ship construction was pared to a mere $3 million, but the operators of luxury class passenger vessels got full as­ surance that they'd get assistance next year. At the same time, work goes ahead on an atom-powered ship that already has a pricetag of $42.5 million and will certainly cost more before it hits the water. But the commercial usefulness of this ex­ perimental vessel is still ten or more years away. We already have the first nuclear-powered subs and this experience is being translated to build Navy surface ships as well. The lessons from these will be applied eventually to merchant shipping, which is not interested so much in the fact that an atom ship can travel 60,000 miles on a bit of atomic fuel as big as a golf ball, but rather in how much cargo a similar surface ship can carry to justify the cost of the first nuclear bunkering. Surely some balance must be achieved between funds for experiments and for bread and butter cargo ships. What good is a lavish showcase if the shelves are bare? 4" 4" Qniet, Please! A hush seems to have spread over the tanker segment of the industry despite the ballyhoo last fall about the bigger and better oil carriers that were on the way to offset any future Suez crisis. There doesn't seem to be any rush to build any­ more, although more than a few of the operators put their ships under runaway flags on the understanding that new tonnage was forthcoming. Some of this tonnage is underway, but nobody would be surprised if it turned out that it was being built for Liberian registry after all. After the industry raked in the profits from the "emer­ gency" oil-lift last fall and winter. Egypt's President Nasser kind of spoiled the game by reopening the canal. One almost gets the impression that the oil bigwigs wish Nasser would pull the pins again. Then the "public service" announcements could start up again and then we might even see a ship or two built after all , President Eisenhower has said he regards Walter Reuther's pricecutting plan as a "hopeful augury" that the combined efforts of unions and management may curb infiation. The UAW president has urged the major auto companies to cut new car prices by $100 as an anti-inflation measure. He said they could maintain and even boost profits through greater production. In a letter to Reuther, Dr. Gabriel Hauge, Eisenhower's economic adviser, said that it would be in­ appropriate for the President to express a view on the specific pro­ posal, but that he thought the plan indicated a sense of civic responsi­ bility would prevail in future negotiations. 4* 4" 4" The Textile Workers Union of America has filed a new appeal with the NLRB to reopen the un­ fair labor practice case against the Darlington Manufacturing Company, Darlington, SC. The company closed down after the TWUA won a representation elec­ tion among the plant's 500 workers. The board found that the company liquidated for no other reason than to avoid having to bargain with the union. Earlier motions to bring the plant's real owner into the case failed because the NLRB was un­ able to determine the penalty it could recommend against the liquidated company. 4" 4" The United Steelworkers Union, whose unemployment benefits pro­ gram went Into effect Sept. 1, has worked out arrangements to pay out benefits in four states where payments are blocked by legal restrictions. The arrangements would cover 190,000 workers in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia. The program provides laid-off workers with 65% of their wages for a 82-week period. In Chip the union and the companies h^yOj^ a^eed to jOaske a court test Ease Some Restrictions On Aliens WASHINGTON — Legislation easing certain "hardship" cases arising out of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 finally cleared Congress the day before it adjourned. The measure makes minor ad­ justments so that families now here can be reunited with rela­ tives abroad. It also eases some quota restrictions affecting "refu­ gee-escapees" from Iron Curtain countries and displaced persons in the Middle East. Originally the Administration had asked for an overhaul of many of the re.strictive provisions of the MeCarran-Walter Immigration Act, particularly in the limited quotas for Asiatic and for some European countries. It is expected that a new bid for Immigration Act changes will be made in the up­ coming Congress. Full information on the changes which may affect' Seafarers or their families can be obtained from any Immigration and Naturaliza­ tion Office or by checking with SIU Welfare Services. of the legality of the ban. The method of payment will go to a special arbitration board in Indiana and Virginia. 4 4 4 Boston's newspaper presses started rolling again after the strik­ ing members of Mailers Union 16 okayed a $10.25 package wage in­ crease. The mailers walked out last month in an effort to gain pay parity with other big cities. In addition, the Massachusetts State Labor Commissioner has agreed to set up an arbitration board to determine whether there "should be any additional wage increases for the mailers over and above the $10.25." The strike lasted 21 days. 4 4 4 A petition against a decertifica­ tion vote has been filed with the NLRB by the United Rubber Workers Union on the heels of a claim by the O'SulIivan Rubber Company in Winchester, Virginia, that no union represented the workers. The company has been operating with scab workers since the union called a strike in May, 1956, and 400 employees went out for better wages and conditions. Meanwhile, the URW is continuing its nationwide boycott drive against the use of O'SulIivan heels. 4 4 4 Members of the International Union of Electrical Workers at the Westinghouse plant In Bloomfield, NJ, don't want any non-union made goods, even if they are given out free. The chief steward of lUE Local 410 told the plant manager that the union would consider it an unfriendly act to allow two adver­ tising men for the R. J. Reynolds Company to give out samples of Salem Cigarettes In the plant cafeteria. Reynolds, also makers of Camels, Is a non-union company As a result, no samples wert handed out. .-•^11 •••!< 1 i :|l y| i • n4 �Paffc Twelve SEAFARERS LOG Mate's For SIU Men Anytime ^ In these days of complaints and squabbles caused by "supposed-to-be officers and gen­ tlemen," it's refreshing to come across a chief mate who says: "They're happy; I'm happy." That kind of an attitude, according to Seafarer John Wunderlich on the tanker Mer­ maid, is a welcome change. As ship's delegate, Wunder­ required condition . . . through the for nine years before that ship be­ lich figures he'd otherwise dependable efficiency of my deck- came a Liberian-ilag runaway, and be at loggerheads gang." He was chief aboard the is one of the best tanker men in with the mate Sweetwater, another SIU tanker. the US fleet, Wunderlich says. most of the time However By Seafarer Robert 'Red' Fink there's not a heef in the world, re­ ports John G. "Skezo" Skevofeelax, the para­ gon of matehood. Wunderlich says Skevofeelax the chief even V. rote the company about his satis­ faction with the SIU deck gang. "Skezo's" formula, in his own words, is to "keep the ship in the 'Sea Spray' LOG-A-RHYTHM: Gone To Rest By William Willdridge (In memory of our departed brother, Robert McDonough.) Cone from our mist To a land beyond our control, Taken to the land of his Holy Father Where some day From this earth we must all depart. Gone to the kingdom of his maker, So far in the heav'ns above; Land of beauty and enchantment. Where every word spoken Is of kindness and love. Passing on to eternity To a icorld to us unknown. Never regretting his short stay As in heaven he is not alone. Gone to his master's sanctuary. Where preservation of the soul He will always keep, Even though flesh and bone turn to dust Lying in the long, long sleep. Gone into the future without end, To live on eternally Taken into the folds Of the ruler of mankind. No place better could there be; As the years roll on They take their toll. But it never is the end; When atonement day comes We will come face to face again. So, to the loved ones left behind, Ship)7iates of the Royal Oak, We offer our condolences And pray that some day Again we may convoke. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG — pleose 3ut my name on your mailing ist. (Print Information) "But officer, little Eddie was at sea for the holidays so he's cele­ brating now. . . ." SIU, A&G District B.^LTniORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. Earl Slieppard, Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St. James Shcehan, Agent Richmond 2-0140 HOUSTON 4202 Canal St. Robert Matthews, Agent Capital 7-6558 LAKE CHARLES, La 1419 Ryan St. Leroy Claike, Agent HEmlock 6-5744 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Cai Tanner, Agent HEmlock 2-1754 MORGAN CITY 012 Front St. Tom Gould, Agent Phone 2156 NEW ORLEANS 523 Bienville St. Lindsey Williams, Agent Tulane 8626 NEW YORK 673 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6600 .NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. Ben Rees. Agent MAdison 2-9834 PHILADELPHIA 337 Market St. S. Cardulio, Agent Market 7-1635 PUERTA de TIERRA PR 101 Pelayo Sal Colls, Agent Phone 2-5996 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Marty Breithoff, Agent Douglas 2-5475 SAVANNAH 2 Abercom St. E. B. Me.Vuiey, Agent Adams 3-1728 SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Jeff Gillette, Agent Elliott 4334 T.AMPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. Tom Banning, Agent Phone 2-1323 WILMINGTON, Calif 505 Marine Ave. Reed Humphries, Agent Terminal 4-2874 VICTORIA. 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Matthews, Joint SUP 16 Merchant St. Phone 5-8777 PORTLAND 211 SW Clay St. CApltal 3-4336 RICHMOND, Calif....510 Macdonald Ave. BEacon 2-0925 S.AN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Douglas 2-8363 SE.ATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Main 0200 WILMI.NGTON 605 Marine Ave. Terminal 4-3131 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you NEW YORK HYacinth 9-6165 •ra an old subscriber and have a change of address, please give your Canadian District former address below: HALIFAX, N.S 128V4 Hollis St. Phone 3-8911 MONTREAL 634 St. James St. West PLateau 8161 FORT WILLIAM 408 Simpson St. Qntario Phone: 3-3221 PORT COLBORNE 103 Durham St Ontario Phone: 5591 TORONTO, Ontario.......272 King St. E. . • EMplro 4-5719 HONOLULU " ZONE ... ADDRESS CITY . ZONE ... ST^kTE • •«• * •.. • • ••, letters To The Editor AH letters to the editor for publication in the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. Welfare Assist Is Appreciated To the Editor: I wish to have this letter of appreciation published in the LOG. In March, 1956, my wife un­ derwent surgery for a cancer. The welfare plan came through with generous support for our claims. This certainly helped us out and was greatly appreciated. My wife since that time has been under doctor's care and once again had to return to the hospital for treatment. Again the welfare plan benefits helped us out considerably. My wife is still bedridden but sends her most hearty thanks and appreciation for the serv­ ices of our SIU Welfare Plan. E. C. Yeamans if, fit i[> 'Just A Kid' In Coal Beef At 53 To the Editor: Regards to all the brothers especially the gang on the West Coast. Also thanks to the SUP and MCS boys for the help and the old "graybeards" who came to Norfolk to help us on the coal beef. I felt like a kid while I was here although I am 53 and started sailing 40 years ago in 1917. I am just a youngster amongst these oldtimers who date back as far as 1898, but 1 was standing by just in case. They sure treated us well while we were here. That Colley Street place is one swell set-up for the oldtimers. Jesse W. Puckett a. Widow Wants Loans Repaid STATE I To the Editor: The passage of the non-parti­ san civil rights bill by Congress expresses the will of the people that their Government should give active and effective assist­ ance, when needed, so that each and all citizens have the rights, privileges and immunities guar­ anteed by the constitution. Both Democrats and Republi­ cans should be congratulated for t. STREET ADDRESS CITY Lauds Congress On Rights' Bill supporting it. And even those who opposed it as not "strong" enough must be lauded. Their opposition stimulated compro­ mise and a final victory for fair play. Enactment of the bill should herald a new era in enlightened democracy. Roy Fleischer i t t NAME • • • • t September 13, 1937 WaUer "Shorfy" H. Cook looks a bit taken aback after he was surprised with a birth­ day cake by baker Percy Thompson on the Del Sol. Behind "Shorty" is Clyde Bankston, MM. Cook was 50 on July 10. Photo by Jose F. Santiago. To the Editor: I would like to ask a favor, not charity or a handout, from several SIU men. 1 know my husband, Harry L. Parrott, stood good for over $1,700 in gear and cash loans for them, and now 1 have had to pay these bills. 1 have two children to send through school and 1 cannot make ends meet now, let alone pay others' bills, too. 1 am sure the men thought that because Harry was dead they could get by without paying for these things, but 1 was appointed by the court to take care of Harry's estate and that also includes his bills. So please, fellows, be as good to Harry's widow as Harry was to you. Please help finish pay­ ing these bills. 1 have already paid some but my children are going back to school now and the people are pressing for the money. Please do what you can to help. Send it to me at 735 Dauphine Street, New Orleans, or to Lind­ sey Williams, SIU port agent in New Orleans. He will see that I get it. I will also let the LOG know that 1 have received it. You don't have to give your name, because 1 know who owes Harry and how much. Mrs. Harry L. Parrott 4" 4" Ex-SIU Man Says 'Hello' To the Editor: Please published the enclosed picture. It's my way of saying hello to a lot of old friends. The young man with the mustache is Steve Wagner, AB, who stopped here in Cincinnati enroute to Baltimore after pay­ ing off the S/T Orion Comet. He joined her in Baltimore and got off at San Pedro after nine months on the Persian GulfJapan run. I am the guy on the left, a former Seafarer and now owner of the Village Cafe here in Cin­ cinnati. I served on the SS Petrolite on an 18-month shuttle run from the Persian Gulf to Former SIU man Howard Rosenstiel (left) and Sea­ farer Steve Wagner, AB, make a twosome at Rosentiel's cafe in Cincinnati. Wagner ii just off the Orion Comet. Europe in 1949 and 1950 as chief steward, and would be glad to hear from some of the old crew. The pictures in the background are some of the ships I sailed on. The Village Cafe is one of the International barfly traps that are located in many cities around the world and which are familiar to world travelers. En­ closed is a donation to the LOG which we receive and pass along to seamen who happen to get this far inland. Thanks for the LOG and its good reading. Howard Rosenstiel 4» 4" 4" LOG Poem Stirs Fond Memories To the Editor: Thanks to William 1. Terry for his poem "Sailaway" in the SEAFARERS LOG on July 5, 1957. My husband sailed nine years and died Oct. 31, 1955, but you can know for sure from kind and thoughtful poems that he can live again in your memories. It was really sweet to read those lines. 1 know he was a good shipmate because he was a good husband — a 100-point man I'd say. Thank you for publishing that poem. Mrs. King W. Elliott �September IS, 1957 SEAFARERS BARBARA FRITCHIE (Llbtrty), July 4—Chairman, P. Hugalnt; Seeratary, R. Clarka. Shly'a fund $4.25. Few hours disputed overtime. Shortage of vegetables, no fruits, poor selection of meats and ration on cigarettes. No variety of clothing in sizes in the slop chest. Letter forwarded to head­ quarters for attention. July It—Chairman, R. Simpkins; Secretary, R. Clarke. Bring to the patrolmen's attention fact that the deck engineer signed on from engine utility to deck engineer in Le Havre, France, without being brought before the membership. Funds spent for hot pepper. Overtime disputed. ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Robin), August 10—Chairman, J. BrachW :hl4 Secretary, E. Sebczsk. One man missed ship in Copenh.agen, demoted to OS. Car- every 3 weeks. Everybody seems to have a different opinion of Just what la proper. July 27—Chairman, C. Larsen; Sec­ retary, G. Dunn. Ship to be turned over to States Marine on 7/30/57 at Swan Island. Captain agrees to pay anyone who hires out in NY and joined ship in New Haven. Two hours overtime In Ueu of the transportation was accepted. The chief cook was flown back to the States because of sickness. He took what clothes he needed and the rest will be turned over to the patrolman in Seattle. Spent $3.13 for radiogram to the San Francisco SlU Agent. $11.89 remain ing is to be given to the patrolman to use as he and the ship's delegate sees fit, possibly to buy cigarettei for the men on the beach. Disputed o\'ertime settled by patrolman. Every­ one sober at payoff; which is custom­ ary on ail SlU ships. All duly elected delegates te handle all beefs with the patrolman. Unanimous vote of thanks to th>: steward and the entire stew­ ards department for a job well done. LOG It Looks Real penter promoted to bosun, same man got off in Gavle, Sweden, to go to a hospital. To be reported to patrolman. Motion made to make less noise with the driers and to remove dry clothing as soon as possible. The coffee urn should be fi.xed. Make up a repair list. Some notification of Union ac­ tivities should be gotten. None was received this trip. DEL VIENTO (Mississippi), June 2$ —Chairman, C, Johnson; Secretary, T. Reynolds. A renewed request that garbage be dumped aft by the bosun. $29 in, supposedly, the possession of the New Orleans patrolman. One shipmate reported $200 missing from his looker. It was suggested that lock­ ers be bolted. Several of the crew requested "more greens" and the presence of a "first" on every menu. The steward accepted the recommen­ dation. August 4—Chairman, C. Johnson; Secretary, T. Reynolds. Repairs to be made. Electrician put off in Buenos Aires. Wiper retired in San­ tos with hernia. $29 in possession of New Orleans patrolman. Motion to inquire on improving ice cream in South America. ALAMAR (Calmar), July 14—Secre­ tary, J. McPhaul, M-27. Repair list turned in. Milk beef to be taken up with patroimen. $39.99 in ship's funds. Each man to deposit $1 for foc'sle key. Deposit to be returned when man leaves ship. ALCOA RUNNER (Alcoa), August 1 —Chairman, T. Wasiluk; Secretary, S. Bernstein. $5 in ship's fund. Request to have outside toilet opened so that the longshoremen can use It instead of the crew's toilet and shower. Question as to whether the hail in Puerto Rico will be opened. Com­ mendation for Clem and Sid for han­ dling two jobs as well as they did. A vote of thanks to the stewards de­ partment for a job well done. FLOMAR (Calmar), August t — Chairman, Callager; Secretary, Lanpher. Beef about overtime. Elected new ship's delegate. Food should he prepared in better taste. Request for more cots to be obtained on the East Coast. JOHN B. WATERMAN (Waterman), August 4—Chairman, N. West; Secre­ tary, C. Thornhill. Spoke to chief mate about putting the hospital in better shape. Slop chest should be better equipped. To be taken care of by chief mate. The black gang and deck department needs escape panels repaired. New keys for wipers fosc'les. General sougeeing for all departments. First aid kit to; be placed in galley. Leak to be fixed in galley also. One fireman ill. A ship's treasury was suggested. $1 to be col­ lected from each man. MARY ADAMS (Bloomfield), May 1* —Chairman, A. Nickle; Secretary, T. Zielinski. Ship to be laid up on West Coast after this trip. Ship's delegate re-elected. Night lunch to be in­ creased. Garbage to be dumped aft instead of aft housing. June 7—Chairman, G. ElinskI; Sec­ retary, Same. Washing machine is still not working correctly. Machine to be rechecked by first assistant. Captain intends to give three cartons of cigarettes every two weeks. A ship's arrival pool is to be run for the next port which will probably be San Francisco. Half the proceeds is to go to the ship's funds. Captain disputed a night's lodging due to noise from a compressor working around housing after 7 PM. Sent radiogram to the agent at next port of arrival to have a patrolman meet the ship and get cigarette situation straightened out. Replacements also needed. A vote of thanks and appre­ ciation for the resigning ships dele­ gate for last three trips. Elected the new ship's delegate. It would clarify a bad situation if the "LOG" would print an article on how many ciga­ rettes the captain Is actually supposed to give us, and how often they should be given. Some skippers will give 3 or 4 cartons a week every week, while some other Insist on only 3 SAMUEL F. MILLER (Boston), July 26—Chairman, H. Higginbotham; Sec­ retary, William O'Connor. $23 in ship's fund. Arrival pools to be run to raise money for the ship's fund. New ship's delegate elected. Discus­ sion was held on the outcome of re­ pair list supposedly taken care of in Portland, Ore. Most of the repairs can be taken care of at sea. SANTORE (Ore), August 4—Chair­ man, R. King; Secretary, S. Wojton. Four men logged for intoxication. OS missed ship. Man sick in deck de­ partment. Member reported that there will be no payoff after Venezualan trips. To see port agent on this matter. $12.26 in ship's fund. Nothing spent as yet. New ship's reporter elected. No pickles In mess. Vote of thanks extended to oldtimers of SUP, MC&S, MFOW and A&G Dis­ trict, for their support in the Ameri­ can Coal beef. STEEL EXECUTIVE (isthmian), July 6—Chairman, Alexander Brodie; Sec­ retary, W. Morris. A vote of thanks to brother C. Mazuk for keeping the ships' library in good order. Crew asked not to go to pantry or messhall in their underwear. Reminded crew that living up to their contract is an obligation for every man. Warned men against repeated performing. Crew to see that only door is kept open while in port. Stressed point that beefs among the crew should be kept below and not taken topside. WILD RANGER (Waterman), July 28—Chairman, W. Tregembo; Secre­ tary, Same. $24.65 in ship's fund. New ships' delegate elected. Crew would like to inform any new visitors to Inchon, Korea, of the fine hospital­ ity and good food with drinks at a reasonable price, put out at the NCO Club near "Charley" Gate. "Doc" Watson soys he's be­ ing "entertained" here by a native chief during a safari out of Durban, South Africa, but despite the evident goodfeeling oil around, it looks like "Doc' may be the main item on the tribal bill of fare if he doesn't watch his step. He's on the Robin Hood. Pacific. The Jackson, together with the Norwegian-flag M/S Bonneville, searched an area amounting to 720 square miles during a joint daynight rescue effort somewhere be­ tween Moji, Japan, and Honolulu. Moore, the electrician on the SIU ship, was last seen on board about 10 AM on August 5th, but wasn't missed until nearly sun­ down. At that point, according to a re­ port from shipmate John D. McLe­ more, "once a search of the ship failed to locate him. Captain Wil­ liam Harvey sent out radio notices and reversed the ship's course. A Norwegian ship, the M/S Bonne­ ville, arrived at the place that was our position when Brother Moore was last seen, and searched the area throughout the night. "We SEAFARER, NAVY TEAM UP; KOREAN KIDS GAIN The care and feeding of some 60 Korean war orphans has been turned into a joint operation by an SIU steward and a unit of US Navy men stationed in Pusan. Seafarer Homer L. Ringo said he and the Navy gang ing a worthwhile effort by tutoring these youngsters." "have taken a great interest Those who also in seeing these youngsters through" now that their former benefactor is nearing the end of his tour of duty in the area. Up until now, the children at the Mi Ae Orphanage have been under the wing of an Army sergeant with five children of his own. More To Be Done "The Korean people have come a long way in bettering themselves by American example during the past few years," he stated, "but much more needs to be done. Since the future of the Korean na­ tion depends on the youth of to­ day ... we feel we are accomplish- STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), August 12—Chairman, J. Smythe; Secretary, C. Dixon. Asked for a draw for New York. $27.91 in ship's fund. Discus­ sion to improve night lunch. Steward to put out more night lunch. The following are to be served every night; apples, oranges, grapes, hard boiled eggs, canned fish, fresh peaches and fresh pears and plums. PORTMAR (Calmar), August 4 — Chairman, Falrcloth; Secretary, Camp­ bell. $6.55 in ship's fund. Some dis­ puted overtime. Motion to elect new ships delegate. Beef aboard so tough that a fire-axe is needed to dent the gravy. ANDREW JACKSON (Waterman), August 8—Chairman, M. Cariin; Sec­ retary, J. McLemore. Sent radiogram to Wilmington in regards to death of ship's delegate. Bought book and magazines in San Francisco. To elect three department delegates to the safety committee. Bosun said the captain requests that all unsafe con­ ditions and hazards be reported to the mate so action can be obtained on them. Sea Brotherhood Shows In 2-Ship Rescue Try You'd have to look pretty hard to find a better example of the brotherhood among seamen of all nations than the com­ bined rescue efforts expended last month when veteran Seafarer William W. "Dutchy" ^ > ' Moore disappeared from the arrived there shortly before day­ SS Andrew Jackson in the light and began our search. Pro­ PACIFIC CLOUD (Peger), July 2$ —Chairman, H. RInga; Secretary, M. Clagle. Fireman and oiler missed ship in Inchon, Korea, rejoined same in Kobe, Japan. AB also missed ship in Yokohama, Japan. Ship's delegate resigned. Could not get along with captain. The captain accuses same of being drunk everytime he wishes to see him. New ship's delegate elected. Fireman broke his finger. Replaced by wiper. $16.75 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed avertime. To be taken up with patrolman. Wire that steward sent and paid for him­ self should be taken up with patrol­ man or refunded from ship's fund. Washing machine could not be re­ paired in Japan. Delegate to see chief engineer about this matter. Pace Thirteen Row IN BOTH HiHmwm Rlngo wish to lend a hand, he said, can do so by sending clothing or cash contributions for the orphange in care of the Com­ manding Officer, MSTS, APO 59, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, California. Ringo added praise for the generous help given by his shipmates on the Pacific Cloud, "We have a very excellent crew, all behaving and working with personal inter­ est and the usual SIU know-how. They have been cooperative in making living conditions on an old Liberty like those on a yacht." In a social note, he reported that both the Army and Navy had made accommodations in their "Open Mess Section Two," at Pier 3, Pu­ san, where merchant seamen can enjoy canned American beer and mixed drinks at 20-25 cents a throw. This club has dancing and. entertainment and will also have supply of LOGs available soon. ceeding over the territory we had traveled the day before, we con­ tinued lookout all day. The Bonne­ ville, bound for Los Angeles from Singapore, stayed with us through­ out the day and left us only after we had aban­ doned all hope." Before the two ships parted again, McLemore said, Capt. Har­ vey of the Jack­ son and Capt. Petter Haraldsen Moore of the Bonneville exchanged messages in which Harvey sent thanks to the Norwegians for their "kindness and good will." "At the leave-taking, both ships flew their flags at half-mast and ex­ changed salutes on the whistle. "All our officers did an excellent and conscientious job, par­ ticularly radio officer Joseph H. Casto, who should be highly com­ mended. But above all, we have the highest praise and regard for the master. "We, the crew, believe very few masters would have gone to the extreme that Capt. Harvey did in his effort to effect a rescue. The same should be said of Capt. Har­ aldsen. Brother Moore was wellliked aboard and we have all been greatly shocked by the tragedy." In a separate communication re­ ceived from Moore's mother, Mrs. A. Greenlee of Delray Beach, Fla., the crew was praised "for all the kindness you showed my son. He thought so highly of his Union, the SIU." Moore had been shipping over the past few years in between sea­ sons as skipper of his own parly fishing boat in the Florida keys. He had expected to remain on the Jackson for another trip, his mother noted, since she had gotten a card from him in Japan telling of a "smooth trip" and how he ex­ pected to stay on and "be home for Christmas." Shorthanded? If a crewmember quits while a ship is in port, delegates are asked to contact the hall immediately for a replace­ ment. Fast action on their part' will keep all jobs aboard ship filled at all times and elimi­ nate the chance of the ship sailing shorthanded. * Quiet Time On Alice Brown BEATRICE (Bull), July 28—Chair­ man, R. Veilinga; Secretary, A. Isaac. Repairs being made. Ship's fund $6. Reports accepted. Laundry to be kept clean. MASSMAR (Calmar), June 2—Chair­ man, none; Secretary, none. Few re­ pairs made. Two men missed ship in Panama. Washing machine to be repaired. Bathrooms need repairing. Door needs repairing. Need new iibrary. Discussion on chief mate's attitude toward men. Vote of thanks to baker for excellent baking and also galley crew. July 7—Chairman, J. Beam; Secre­ tary, J. Craft. Some disputed OT. Repair list te be submitted. Com­ plaint about chief mate's attitude; suggest writing letter te headquar­ ters. New delegate elected. Chief mate's A pantryman's attitude dis­ cussed. Talking over the day's doings during a belween-meals lull on the Alice Brown (I to r) ore Seafarers Olifidio Esquivel, galley utility; Corey Granger, MM, and John D. Manuel, BR. The sign in back­ ground points up the SIU ship safety program. 4jl,. �Pace Fourteen SEAFARERS Deck Gang On The Job Bosun "Ski" Swiderski (right) supervises repair of hole in a boom on the Steel Worker enroute to Massowa, Eritrea, on the Persian Gulf run. In foreground with "Ski" are Joe Duffy, DM (partly hidden), and Red Little, DM. "Gumps" Gural, AB, was credited with the welding job. L. Mayberger sent in the photo. USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LA. William Bargone Winford Powell James Bethea Randolph Ratclirt John W. Bigwood Toxie Sanford John Butler Edison Shaffer Roscoe Dearmon Harold W. Simmons John F. Dixon Toefil Smigielski William Driscoll Wert A. Spencer Jan Englehardt Gerald L. Thaxton Leon Gordon Clarence Thibodaux James Hudson Gilbert Trosclair Edward G. Knapp Paul R. Turner Leo Lang Giuseppe Vascarro Simon Morris James E. Ward Michael Muzio Clifford Wuertz Vincent Pizzitolo USPHS HOSPXT.AL SEATTLE, WASH. Frank J. Bradley John Jackson, Jr. Wayne T. Center Kenneth B. Marshall Michael Delano D. F. Sykes Thomas J. Driscoll Joseph W. Waits Michael Gretz WUliam F. Wiemers Earnest W. Home Tadeusz Zielinskl USPHS HOSPITAL S.WANNAH, GA. Jose Blanco Jimmie Littleton John A. Call Vincent T. Yates Thurston Dingier USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. William Brewer Pete Matovich Michael Duco George P. Melko Emil Dupont F. L. O'Laughlln Leo Dwyer Clyde P. Parker Alberto Espino Willis Record Allen Gary Jr. George H. Reier Carl E. Gibbs John Rekstin Joseph Gill Joseph Roll Gorman T. Glaze Alex Stankiewics Burl Haire Paul Strickland Joseph C. Lewallen Dolphus Walker James McFarlin Albert Willis Granville Matise Russell Wright MONTEBELLO CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. Francisco Bueiiu USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON, TEXAS Erick J. Berg James C. Lytle Jacob Cook Arthur J. Queary Maurice N. Gendron William Shaw C. N. Hatch Jr. William R. Walker Jacob Huisman Norman H. Whipple USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VA. Claude Bibb Claude M. Sturgle Frank Peskuric USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Roy J. Barker Thomas D. Foster Simon Bunda Michael J. Gaudlo Noah C. Carver Hoyt L. Hackney Chu Yung Chuan Sidney S. Irby Vincent D'Amato Vincent Kane Joseph Ebbole Harvey W. Morrle C. E. Owens A. O. VaUego Benjamin Pritiken Sung C. Wang Richard W. Smith G. L. Warrington USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON, MASS. Amos Buzzelle G. P. Lesnensky Edward J. Farrell Zachariah Williams James J. Girolami USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH. TEXAS Benjamin Diebler John C. Palmer Siegfried Gnittke USPHS HOSPITAL MEMPHIS, TENN. Charles Burton VA HOSPITAL BROOKLYN, NY Robert McCutcheon VA HOSPITAL HOUSTON, TEXAS John P. WUllamson VA HOSPITAL NEW YORK, NY E. T. Cunningham USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NY Oscar J. Adams Vincent E. Kane Hassen Ali Robert Larsen James T. Balmy Isidore Levy Edward Doyle Damian G. Mercado John Boldiszar Jan Mucins Frank Bosmente Robert A. Parker John H. Bove Frank J. Paylor Delaware Eldemire Frank Robertson Francisco Enfante Adolfo Rodrigues Arthur Englehart Jose Rodriguez Ramon Figueiras Antonio Russo Rufus Freeman ^Samuel B. Saunders William Gardner Paul W. Seidenberg Richard Geiling Juan Soto George Hall Frederick Staebler John B. Hamilton Harry E. Swanson C. A. Honorowskl Fred L. Travis Cecil Hughes William Vaughan Leroy Johnson Albert Williams Alfred Kaju USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH, BROOKLYN, NY Manuel Antonana Patrick McCann Eladio Arts Archibald McGuigan Fortunato Bacomo Albert MartinelU Joseph J. Bass Vic Milazzo Frank T. Campbell Joaquin Minis Juan Denopra W. P. O'Dea John J. Driscoll C. Osinski Fabin Furmanek George G. Hhlfer William Guenther G. A. Puissegur Bart E. Guranick Floro Regalado Howard Hailey Winston E. Renny Wade B. Harrell G. E. Shumaker Percy Harrelson Kevin B. Skelly Taib Hassen Henry E. Smith Billy R. Hill Harry S. Tuttle Thomas Isaksen Virgil E. WUmoth Ira H. Kilgore Pon P. Wing Ludwig Kristiansen Dexter Worrell Frederick Landry Antonio Infante Leonard Leidig "The crew of the Neva West gave a hearty vote of thanks to acting ship's delegate Joseph A. McDougall for a job well done," writes D. Casey Jones, ship's repor­ ter. The vessel had just been taken over from an NMU crew and Mac has been spending most of his time bringing her around to SIU standards. Even with good cooperation from McDougall all hands, Jones said, "the skipper and the chief mate are really going to have to work to have this ship cleaned and painted." The men also wished to extend their thanks to the steward department for the good food and service rendered since taking over the ship. ^ Seafarer on the Seamar don't want anyone to get any wrong notions about their steward, James Eichenberg, and his department. In no uncertain terms, the boys think they "have one of the best stewards afloat." Some misconcep­ tion may have arisen from the recent appearance in the LOG of the digests of two different sets of ship's minutes from the Seamar dated a day apart, one reporting "no beefs" and the other noting "beefs against the steward depart­ ment." The gang figures some­ body trying to be helpful put a fresh date on an old set of undated minutes found on the ship, and sent them in to headquarters. Eichenberg has been on the ship almost a year with no major squawks against him. 4 Seafarer Luis A, Vila was highly commended by his shipmates on the Kathryn for his work as ship's delegate for the past two months until she was laid laid up by strike the Union called against Bull Line. "He is doing a real bang-up job on all beefs, re­ Vila pair lists and all other details," the report stated. a> t September IS, 1951 LOG t Under the SIU constitution every union member is entitled to run for office, at sea or ashore, either as an official or ship's dele­ gate. And, says Nolan L, Flowers, delegate on the Steel King, every­ one should take a crack at these jobs whenever they can, especially at the delegate's posts. It helps them become familiar with differ­ ent union procedures and to appre­ ciate what their delegates do for them, he notes. APOUNDRIA (Wattrmin), July 3»-. Chairman, R. ingrami Sacralary, J, Guard. Minor beela regarding water cooler aft and steward's bathroom settled satisfactorily. Ship's fund $10.50. Few hours disputed. Discus­ sion on callback for deck dept. Beef now settled. Discussion on quality of food. Fruit juices, desserts and con­ diments not standard brands. Some trouble in obtaining fresh foods in foreign ports. Request ice cream to be stored in reefers for full trip and not be obtained in foreign ports. Aug. 17—Chairman 6. Ruff; Secre­ tary, J. Guard. Crew urged to attend meetings. Food Improved somewhat. Several members feel cook can do better. Ship's fund $10.25. Bunk lights unrepaired for four days. Engi­ neer worked on motor in engine room. dept, end messman commended for fine work. Purchased iron. New delegate elected. Members to donate $1 toward ship's fund. Cups to be returned to pantry. Safety measures discussed. COEUR D'ALENE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Aug. 12—Chairman, S. Fuiford; Secretary, J. Foster. No milk purchased in France due to alleged high prices for containers. Repairs being made. No beefs. Ship's fund of $6 turned over to delegate. List of grievances to be turned over to patrolman for payoff. Discussion on purchase of fresh fruits and vege­ tables at European ports. Requisitions presented to captain but no action taken. ROBIN SHERWOOD (Seas), Aug. 14 —Chairman, G. Hanson; Secretary, P, Devine. Discussion on headquarters communication. Ship's fund, $14.45. New delegate elected. One man taken off ship due to Illness. New secretary elected. Discussion on stores. New stores to be taken on in Lorenco Marques. VALCHEM (Heron), June 30—Chair­ man, B. Hayes; Secretary, W. Nesta, New delegate elected. Ship's fund, $22.50. Messhall to be kept clean. Crewmembers leaving ship to get new linen for new men coming aboard. Keys to bo left with delegate when leaving vessel. Remove cups from messhall when finished. Order paint, covered sugar Bowls next trip. Seattle agent to contact headquarters for Miss. Co. store list to help steward order food items. Crewmembers get­ ting off to strip bunks and clean lockers. CHILORE (Ore), Aug. 12—Chairman, W. Trolie; Secretary, C. Bortz. Ship's fund $21.75. New delegate elected. Books to be returned to library after reading. Ail departments to share in cleaning laundry and recreation rooms. COALiNGA HiLLS (Pan-Atianlic), Aug. S—Chairman, L. PickaH; Secre­ tary, H. Orlando. New delegate elected. Ask cooperation in keeping messhall clean. Obtain more milk for voyage. "Too many vegetables in soup and too much grease in cooking. SEATRAiN NEW YORK (Seatrain), Aug. 21—Chairman, J. Cole; Secretary, M. Lynch. Some disputed overtime. New delegate elected. Request bench for back aft. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard dept. for Job well done. WELLESLEY VICTORY (isthmian), Aug. 11—Chairman, C. Parker; Secre­ tary, J. Byers. Steward to square away beef on night lunch. Request to change slop chest hours. Arrange­ ments for cleaning laundry and rec­ reation room made. STEEL NAVIGATOR (isthmian), Aug. 3—Chairman, W. Biskas; secre­ tary, P. Harayo. Ship's fund S20.35. Few hours disputed. One man missed ship in Subic Bay: rejoined in Manila. Garbage not to be dumped over side. Request garbage chutes aboard ship. Ship to be fumigated. Request fresh fruit in Suez. Crew's quarters need painting. Discussion on repairs, gar­ bage situation. Notify membership not to mail letters in Java and Sum­ atra as some letters do not leave thesa countries. SEAMAR (Caimar), July 28—Chair­ man, W. Mason; Sacratary C. inman. No beefs. Ship in good shape. Vote of thanks to steward dept. Ship's fund $20. Discussion on minutes in Log which were erroneous regarding steward. These minutes were one year old. Vote of thanks to all for fine job done. STEEL FLYER (isthmian), Aug. 1$ —Chairman, E. Starns; Secretary, A. Fiatts. One man missed ship in Yokahama and rejoined in Kobe. One man hospitalized in Kobe. Ship's fund $59. 250 hours disputed in engine dept. Delegates to meet with patrol­ man at payoff to settle beef against steward and baker. Pound cake served every day. Steward not super­ vising meals. See agent about bonus in China. CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities Service), Aug. 12 — Chairman, L, Springer; Secretary, B. Nielsen. Stew- Burly WACOSTA (Waterman), Aug. 10— Chairman, H. Baiiday; Secretary, E. Ray. New delegate elected. Delegate to see about dogged-down skylights in hot weather. Drains not working in bathroom and passageways. No pressure in showers back aft. Laun­ dry to be kept clean. Cleaning sched­ ule to be posted for cleaning deck and bulkheads. Messhall and pantry to be kept clean. Action will be taken on violators for excessive drinking or missing watches. MAXTON (Pan-Atlantic), Aug. 33— Chairman, J. Seiby; Secretary, A. Finneii. No word concerning injury of Brother Hatch taken off ship at Port Arthur with pilot. Ship's fund, $27.29. All communications posted in mess­ hall. No beefs. E\-erything running smoothly. SEATRAiN TEXAS (Seatrain), Aug. 24—Chairman, W. Hail; Secretary, P, McBride. Repairs made with excep­ tion of hooks for lockers and key for foc'sle. Ship's fund, $89.75. Beef on captain holding back week-end OT at payoff. Cooperation urged in keeping fantail cleaner. ALCOA CORSAIR (Alcoa), Aug. ItChairman, H. Miliar; Secretary, Major Costeiio. Slop chest prices discussed and checked by patrolman. Beef on Trinidad laundry settled. Payoff in Mobile this trijt to be made according to number on articies. Safety and fire fighting equipment to be left in proper place and not moved around. Ship's fund, $185. Motion to start general fund for ship's benefit; at least 75% crew to vote before any expenditures made. Vote of thanks to relief captain for good job. Check air-conditioning in all quarters. Ob­ tain new washing machine. Delegate to check 4-hour relief set-up. Sugges­ tion to have regular crewmen show movies. RiON (Actium), June 3—Chairman, P. Hammei; Secretary, L. Geraghty. Draw may be given out before arrival. Ship going in very clean: no beefs, no disputed OT. Letter from chief mate read thanking crew for fine cooperation and cleaning out chain locker. Cooking needs improvement: food not cooked enough and needs more variety. Messhall and recreation rooms painted. Members urged to keep rooms clean. Water in scuttlebut undrinkable at times. Watch payoff slips. Need more cigarettes. STEEL DESIGNER (isthmian), Aug. 4—Chairman, C. Gait; Secretary, A. Ridings. Cold water in showers too hot. Vote of thanks to ship's delegate for job well done. No major beefs. Endeavor to get watch forecastles for FWT and oilers. Black gang foc'sles to be painted out. Insufficient stores cn board. JOHN CHESTER KENDALL (Bull), Aug. 4 — Chairman, J. Dunn; Secre­ tary, J. Hunt. Discussion on security watches. All bunks to be turned up­ right: foc'sles to be left clean. Return linen and books. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for fine service. Soiled linen to be turned in. Discussion on cold lunches. Vote of thanks to engine dept. for keeping engine running and in good shape. By Bernard Seaman TMI5 THIN6'S ON THE BLINK AGAINI ANYBODT KNOW HOW TO FIX ONE OF THESE AUTOmVC COFFBE POTSf WELL; IT'S RATHER SIMPU" YOUR TROUBLE STAf^ra HERE AT THE TN/RD CfCLO-FRAM, WHICH FAILS 10 GEN­ ERATE THE DhAyiALOBe,CAiiS\HQ THE MALFUNCTION OF THE FRAl' tBNSBR, AND THE RESULTANT DIMINUTION OF THE PtLX THOTHOOB WHICH VAVOOMSTOc.. ETC... ETC... �SEAFARERS September 13,. 1957 NY Seafarers Urged To Register For Voting Makes Debut All of the follounng SW families have received a $200 maternity' benefit plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name: Dierdre Lou Cantrell, born 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. John F; August 15, 1957, to Seafarer and Fay, Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Steward L. Cantrell, Balti­ i Martin Eric Levine, born June more, Md. 19, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ji Rita Mercedes Vivero, born Howard Levine, Farmington, Mich. $> August 12, 1957, to Seafarer and Peter Leo Gallagher, born April Mrs. Frank Vivero, New Orleans, 24, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. John La. M. Gallagher, Philadelphia, Pa. 4 t ^ Evelyn Marie Da Costa, born William Russell Smith, born Au­ August 4, 1957, to Seafarer and gust 31, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Mrs. Jose M. Da Costa, Baltimore, William J. Smith, Philadelphia, Pa. Md. 4 4 4 William E. King Jr., born August Michael Gerard Rome, born 14, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wil­ August 12, 1957, to Seafarer and liam E. King, Edmonds, Wash. Mrs. Calvin A. Rome, New Orleans, La. Union members and their families in New York City have been urged to register as early as possible at polling places located in their election districts. "By registering early, on September 28th, 30th, October Mayor Robert F. Wagner said, 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. On "you will help speed the task Saturday, September 2$, and Oc­ of permanently registering our voters. Furthermore, under this new permanent system, by regis­ tering now you will insure your right to vote in this fall's election and in all future elections. "Union members can set an example to the community for registering early and by getting members of their families, their friends, and their neighbors to register." Under the new permanent registration system, a voter has to register only once to vote every year. But this will apply only if he remains at the same address, or does not change his name. Local registration will take place tober 12th the polls will remain open for registration from 7 AM to 10:30 PM. On all other days they will be open from 5:30 PM to 10:30 PM. , Seafarers, who because of the nature of their work do not havg permanent addresses, can not apply for permanent registration. In order to vote, they must apply for absentee ballots. Post card appli­ cations for such ballots, where they are allowed, can be obtained from SIU headquarters. Information concerning absentee voting and the different state re­ quirements -was printed in the August 30th edition of the SEA­ FARERS LOG. Seafarer Pasquale O. Cirelli and his wife, Louise, show off their new arrival at home in Philadelphia. The baby, Mario, was born March 26, 1957. TO SHIPS IN ATLANTIC • SOUTH AMERICAN • EUROPEAN WATERS THE riRST DIRia VOICE BROADCAST TO SHIPS' CREWS ' #\ 1 iVlDY SVNDAY • I61D DMT \ Voice of the MTB, WFK49.19850 KCt WFL-65. 15850 KCt Shlpi In Caribbean, Eail Cooit of South America, South Atlantic and Eait Cooil of United Stotei. Shlpi In GuM of Mex­ ico, Caribbean, Weil CopM of South AmON Ico, Weil Coeii of Mexico and US Eon Cooit. Page Fifteen LOG WFK-95,15700 KCt ' 4 4 4 4 4 4 Micki Lee Harris, born August 17, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Morgan A. Harris, Houston, Texas. Philip M. (Pat) Robertson 4 4 4 Get in touch with your motherVickie Marie Powell, born Au­ gust 11, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. in-law, Mrs. M. Witham, 309 W. Odell B. Powell, Brodnax, Va. Alfred St., Tampa, Fla., at once. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Darol Cedric Frazier, born July Charles i!.arl Ray 13, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Dan Contact your mother at 64 W. Frazier Jr., Whistler, Ala. 165 St., New York, NY, or call CY 3-1137. She is very ill. 4 4 4 Anna Jean Worley, born August 4 4 4 15, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Vivian P. Sutton L. Worley, San Francisco, Calif. Get in touch with James M. Croff, 2467 Calvert Ave., Memphis, 4 4 4 Joclyn Marie Scotti, born August Tenn. 21, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rob­ 4 4 4 ert Seottt, Passaic, NJ. Otis J. Hardin 4 4 4 Call your sister May regarding Norma Erazo, born August 5, Mother. Dora. 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Pedro 4 4 4 J. Erazo, Brooklyn, NY. Raymond Perry 4 4 4, Lloyd Palmer of 305 N. Jackson Vivien Rivera Morales, born July St., Mobile, Ala., asks you to write 20, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Al­ or call HE 2-5247. fonso Rivera, Bay Amon, PR. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Herbert Libby Thomas John Hoar Jr., born Au­ Contact Everett A. Herd, EMS, gust 9, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. USS Denebola (AF56), c/o FPO, Thomas J. Hoar, Baltimore, Md. New York, NY, immediately! 4 4 4 4 4 4 Linda J. Ortiz, born August 26, Ernest Such 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rafael Get in touch with your wife im­ Ortiz, Santurce, PR. mediately. John F. Fay Jr., born August 12, Shlpi In Mediterranean area. North Atlantic, European ond US Eoit Cooit. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Ex-SS Coe Victory Crewmembers to whom he owes money are asked to contact James (Nick) Nicholson, bosun, c/o SIU Hall, 450 Han-ison St., San Fran­ cisco, Calif. James Bruce Elliott Your mother urges you to con­ tact her. UP-TO-THE-MINUTE UNION AND MARITIME sill; NEWS OP SPECIAL INTEREST BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE DEEP SEA UNIONS OP THC^ SlU-A&G DISTRICT • SUP • MFOW • MCS • ROU * MM&P • BME • SlU-CANADIAN DISTRICT Meanwhile, MTD Round-The-World Wireless Broadcasts Continue., e 4 4 4 The deaths of the following Sea­ Friends of dis; bled Seafarer farers have been reported to the Seafarers l^elfare Plan and the Edward Hansen are asked to write SIU death benefit is being paid to or visit him at Norwegian Hospital, 4520-4th Ave., Brooklyn, NY. their beneficiaries. Claudio Barreiros, 63: On June 7, 1957, Brother Barreiros died aboard the SS Casimir Pulaski in Genoa, Italy. Death was the result of stab wounds. He be­ came a full mem­ ber of the SIU on December 22, 1945, and sailed in the engine departme n t. Brother Barreiros is survived by his wife Dolores Barreiros, who re­ sides in Spain. Burial took place in Stagliono Cemetery, Genoa, Italy. Edward Hammond Burns, 38: Brother Burns died July 29, 1957 in Harris County, Texas. His death was due to accidental drowning in the San Jacinto River. Brother Burns became a full member of the Union December 30, 1954, and sailed in the steward department. He is survived by his wife, Vernon H. Burns, of Mobile, Alabama. Place of biirial is unknown. Pacific Disf. Opens Pact ^Continued from page 2) payment at the end of a calendar year in the event the articles would continue beyond that date. The three West Coast Unions have been negotiating jointly since 1955 when they whipped Harry Bridges' ILWU in a three-depart­ ment shipboard election. Since then they have combined their pen­ sion plans to provide greater ben­ efits for their members and are now considering a joint medical program. The "West Coast Sailors," the "Stewards News" and the "Marine Fireman," official organs of the Pacific District unions, joined to­ gether to publish a special edition honoring Labor Day. The 24-page edition highlighted the greater ben­ efits that can be achieved When the three departments work, as a teaih. .I . �Vol. XiX No. 19 SEAFARERS LOG • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • Congress Doles Out Little Shipping Aid Library Exhibit Features LOG WASHINGTON—The 85th Congress closed up shop for the summer on August 30, thus ending its first session with little in the way of productive legislation for the US merchant marine or American merchant seamen. Actually, there were only* three significant Congression­ conceined was in adding to the g.essional hopper and have not amount of farm surplus commodi­ been heard from since. al actions on the positive side ties to be sold abroad boosting the These bills included several in­ of the ledger as far as the mer­ chant marine is concerned: • Congress kept 50-50 cargoes on a fairly even keel, at least until 1958, by retaining the foreign aid program at just about the 1956 level and boosting authorizations to sell surplus farm products abroad by a billion dollars, despite renewed attempts by the farm bloc to whittle 50-50 down. • The legislators perked up trade with Iron Curtain satellites by okaying the sale of surplus farm products to Poland. This attitude could indicate the resump­ tion of trade with other "indepen­ dent" Communist nations in the future. • A $5 million boost was voted in appropriations for the PHS marine hospital program. The foreign aid bill, which was virtually Congress' last act before adjournment, represented a slash of just about a billion dollars in what President Eisenhower origin­ ally asked for. However, the final foreign aid figure of $3V^ billion was similar to what Congress appropriated in 1956. Congress' most favorable action, as far as the merchant marine is Bait. Quiet; Port Drive Continues BALTIMORE — Outside of the continuing HIWD organizing drive throughout Baltimore harbor, writes Earl Sheppard, port agent, there is nothing new to report from this port. Everything is fair­ ly quiet and running smoothly. There was only one major beef on the vessels coming into port during the past period. Since it was a fairly technical matter, the beef has been submitted to head­ quarters for clarification. Shipping for the period has been slow, slightly under the prior period's totals. There were 14 vessels paying off, eight signed on and 15 were in-transit. The vessels paying off were the Venore, Baltore, Marore, Santore, (Ore); Jean, Evelyn, Angelina, Em­ ilia (Bull); Chickasaw (Pan-Atlan­ tic); Westport (Trans. Util.); Mer­ maid (Metro. Patrol); Bethcoaster, Kenmar (Calmar) and the Govern­ ment Camp (Cities Service). The Venore, Baltore, Marore, Santore, Chilore (Ore); Chickasaw (PanAtlantic); Bents Fort (Cities Serv­ ice) and Westport (Trans. Util.) signed on. Among the vessels in transit were the Oremar, Marymar, Robin Mowbray, Alcoa Roamer, Steel Flyer, Alcoa Ranger, Robin Trent, Portmar, George A. Lawson, and the Bethdoaster. totai authorizations from $3 to $4 billion. Both foreign aid cargoes and surplus farm products are moved under the 50-50 law. These two Federal programs have been tbe major props for the merchant marine, particularly in face of a declining freight market. Of the $1 billion authorization, about $95 million was earmarked for surplus products for Poland, making it the first such action since Congress approved trade with Tito's Yugoslavia. The USSR itself, and Communist China, are still off limits. On the deficit side of the ledger was Congress' inclination to prac­ tice economy in ship construction and operating subsidies. Strong moves to sell US tonnage to foreign nations all were blocked, but they are expected to be revived in the future. No Action On Transfers Also disappointing to maritime unions was Congress' failure to crack down on easy transfers of US bottoms to runaway flags. This last action perhaps best tells the story of Congress' record: It was not so much the passage of legislation detrimental to the mer­ chant marine; ratlier, it was failure to act on constructive legislation which would have strengthened merchant shipping. There were a good number of bills introduced— in both the Senate and the House— which would have bolstered US shipping and the position of Amer­ ican seamen. But virtually all of these bills disappeared in the Con- YOUR • troduced by Senator Warren G. Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Foreign Commerce Committee. Among other things, they called for a review of all US maritime policies with an eye to overhauling the 1936 Merchant Marine Act; for clamping extremely tight restric­ tions on transfers, and for firmly establishing the legal status of the hiring hall. Other Bills Other measures introduced dur­ ing the session included a bill to subsidize US tramps, both Prominent among other prize-winning labor publications is the freighters and tankers; a bill to SEAFARERS LOG in a display now being featured in the head­ include seamen under the Federal quarters of the Detroit Public Library. Pictured with the LOG are wage-hour law, and one to tighten the other winners of AFL-CIO awards. restrictions on the hiring of alien seamen on US vessels. Congress did give final approval to the bill calling for 24-hour quarantine service, slated a probe of MSTS operations. It also okayed Robert B. Anderson, former run­ away tanker operator, as the new SAN FRANCISCO—A memorial statue of Harry Lunde­ Secretary of the Treasury. berg similar to the one of Andrew Furuseth now located out­ In the field of generaHegislation, side the main entrance to Sailors Union headquarters here which might have affected seamen's — unions. Congress took no action to has been authorized by the^ provide for Federal inspection or SUP membership. in the 1880's. The memorial had control of union welfare and pen­ The same sculptor who did to be removed earlier this year to sion funds, plthough the AFL-CIO the Furuseth monument in 1940 make way for a state freeway proj­ ect and the Sailors Union mem­ strongly urged such legislation. has been commissioned to do The legislators also bypassed a head and shoulder length statue of bership then voted to bring Andy Federal "right-to-work" law al­ the late SUP secretary, who was home. Furuseth had led the SUP for though Senator McClellan of the founder of the SIU of North many years until 1936, two years America. Lundeberg died last Arkansas tacked a "rider" onto the before his death, when he was civil rights bill. Congress did pass January 28 after a heart attack. Terms of the agreement provide succeeded by Lundeberg. the civil rights bill before it ad­ Erection of a suitable memorial journed, thus taking the first ac­ for the monument to be erected to Lundeberg was voted by the within six months. It will cast in tion in this area since the end of union membership soon after his bronze -after the sculptor's clay the Civil War. model is completed and approved. death, and then held in abeyance It will flank the other side of the until the sculptor who did the earlier statue could be located. entrance to the SUP hall. The Furuseth statue was origin­ ally erected near historic Folsom Street wharf where the first risings of the sailors' movement occurred Vofe Lundeberg Statue For SUP Hq. Entrance SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN ••i Low Cost Meals I I I I SEAFARER'S INT'L UNION, A&G DISTRICT Seafarers on the beach wailing to ship are en­ titled to meal books with which they can procure low-cost meals at consid­ erably less than the going commercial rate for feed­ ing. The meal book pro­ gram makes use of feed­ ing facilities in those SIU halls which possess them, or oifers meals through arrangements with out­ side eating places. In either case, the meal book is a valuable asset, particularly to men who are in ports other than their home towns. Frisco Back Curran's View To Normal On District 50 (Continued from page 2) pect of 30 ships (or was it 80) by the back door, Lewis and the Mine Workers became legitimate mari­ time unionists In Curran's view. The saddest part about the whole performance, of course, is Curran's effort to justify the sweet­ heart contract signed with Ameri­ can Coal by a paper local of District 50 in Norfolk which until then had no members, no office, and indeed, no existence. At a time when the AFL-CIO is bending its energies to eliminate the paper local evil, Curran—a member of the Ethical Practices Committee— goes out of his way to defend just such an arrangement. It all proves that Curran and ethics are incom­ patible, and that Curran is unfit to serve on that AFL-CIO body. His whole record, past and present, is contradictory to what the commit­ tee stands for. SAN FRANCISCO — Shipping for this port has more than tripled for the past two weeks and is now back to normal. The biggest jump in jobs was in the deck department with the stewards and black gang running about even. There were only two vessels pay­ ing off during the past period. They were the Ocean Eva (Ocean Clippers) and the Kyska (Water­ man). The Ocean Eva, Afoundria and Choctaw (Waterman) signed on while the Alamar (Calmar) and the Topa Topa (Waterman) were in-transit. 'Can-Shakers' Have No OK The membership is again cau­ tioned to beware of persons soliciting funds on ships in be­ half of memorials or any other so-called "worthy causes." No "can-shakers" or solicitors have been authorized by the SIU. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 13, 1957 Description An account of the resource Headlines: BULL LOSES MOVE TO BAR PICKETING PACIFIC DISTRICT ASKS PAY, RULE CHANGES IN PACT REOPENER CURRAN FLIP-FLOPS ON DIST. 50 ATOM SHIP PLANS RIPPED AS ‘FARCE’ BLOCK FOREIGN ‘INVASION’ OF OREGON-PR TRADE SHIP ACCIDENT TAKES 94 ARGENTINE LIVES CARGO SLUMP HITS COAL FLEET; SIU HOLDS LEAD NLRB SCHEDULES ROBIN VOTE HEARING SEPT. 16 BME BOOSTS WELFARE, PENSIONS GLASS FIBER LIFEBOATS WILL BE TESTED BY US DOW-CHEM MEN GET $125 RAISE HALT BOOST IN PR SHIP RATE LEVELS PAN-ATLANTIC ADDS PIER SPACE FOR BOXSHIP RUN SHORESIDE JOBS RISE IN MOBILE SEA BROTHERHOOD SHOWS IN 2-SHIP RESCUE TRY CONGRESS DOLES OUT LITTLE SHIPPING AID BALT. 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ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO Down the Ways for IVew SIlJ-Manned Tanker d 8 o tl 8 n n >t ss" r- it i' �Page Two SEAFARERS LOG SeplMBbflr IS, 1968 Proper Use of American-Flag Fleet Joint on Union Body Sets Cited as Answer to Payments Deficit Final Bargaining Program TULSA, Okla.—^A ten-point program designed to bring mem­ WASHINGTON—^The U.S. balance-of-payments deficit can be eliminated through "the proper bership gains estimated at 97 cents per hour during the term of utilization and encouragement of the American-fiag merchant marine," Representative Robert a new contract agreement was finalized in a two-day session Giaimo (D-Conn.) said here recently. held by the Union's Nationwide Coordiniting Council here last "K we had been utilizing ^~r~.—TT T of the gross tonnage," he pointed month. the Americae merchant marinl fully, built in American yards. out. Congress had in mind that The Council, wiiich is ccunposed of 17 unions representing properly, as we have not done Giaimo urged an inunediate more than 50 percent, if possible, 200,000 workers in the oil and allied industry throughout the for 20 years, then in all likelihood start on a program to "rebuild our should be shipped in American United States, includes the SIUNA-affiliated International Union we would not have to deal with merchant fleet" The profitable bottoms, he added. of Petroleum Workers and the SIUNA. The session was chaired any balance-of-payments problem operation of new, fast ships should "These practices have worked by UNWCC President William "BiU" Holper and Secretarytoday," he told a meeting spon­ be encouraged, he said, by guar­ to the detriment of the U.S.-flag Treasurer Sam Swisher. Its purpose was to finalize the wage sored by the nearly seven-million- anteeing preference to U.S.-flag fleet and to the detriment of our and bargaining policy set at a policy meeting in Washington member AFL-CIO Maritime vessels in the transport of Govern­ balance-of-payments account — last May. Trades Department because we ship our dollars ment-generated cargoes. Designed to bring the UNWCC membership gains which are. Calling attention to booming Emphasizing the importance of abroad when we employ foreiga. long overdue in the oil industry, the program reflects current foreign trade since World War II, assuring cargo for American ships to carry our goods over­ and future adjustment needs resulting from economic and tech­ the Connecticut Congressman said ships, he said "we would be fool­ seas," the Congressman said. nological changes. it is a "sad commentary" on hardy to embark on a large-scale "The way to make cargo prefer­ lO-Point Program Federal maritime policy that shipbuilding and fleet moderniza­ ence work is to end the present Included in the program are; common expiration date of all "throughout this period of boom tion program" without making it 50-50 requirement, and replace it contracts to be Nov. 30, 1970; a 12-j)ercent wage increase each and growth in foreign trade, more possible for U.S. shipowners to with a provision that calls for year of the contract; a cost-of-living escalator clause to maintain and more of this tonnage has compete for "our growing inter­ moving every ounce of "give­ employee buying power and to relieve fixed pension income^ crossed the seas aboard ships of national trade. We cannot have away" agricultural commodities full optional retirement at age 60 with no reduction and with other nations." vessels that go directly from the aboard U.S.-flag vessels. This full separation of Social Security from the pension plan, fully He charged the Administration shipyards to the boneyard, for would remove any excuse the paid by the company: full company-paid hospitalization, niedicid has remained "stubbornly and lack of cargo." agencies might want to offer for and insurance plans with Joint Administration; all overtime at strangely silent" on the question misinterpreting the law. Urges 50-50 Oveibaui double time rate. of the potential impact of the "We must take steps to end Among his recommenations for Also provided for are a five percent minimum differential for proper use of the U.S. maritime our reliance on foreign-flag ships; accomplishing this objective was the evening shift—and 10 percent for midnight shift; double industry for restoring a favorable a reliance which today results in a suggestion for overhauling exist­ time plus holiday pay for all hours worked on a holiday; vaca­ balance-of-payments account. "It about 95 percent of all our im­ ing "cargo preference" laws and tion pay at time and one half the regular rate and two additional has remained silent in the face of port-export commerce traveling practices. holidays. the fact that the merchant marine Legislative attempts to guar­ aboard foreign vessels. By regain­ The Council unanimously adopted a "Hot Line" systeni to is the great common denominator ing our lost supremacy on the antee to U.S. vessels preference communicate notifications and significant breaks in bargaining, in our international trade," he high seas we surely would regain in transporting foreign aid. Food and to coordinate economic action. said. for Peace and other Government- a favorable balance-of-payments Would Ke^ Dirflars Home generated cargoes has failed, he position." When our international trade charged, because Federal agencies on foreign ships, he explained, involved have "administered the money flows out of the United law in such a way as to deprive States in the form of wages to our fleet of its rightful share of foreign crewmen and profits to. the business." Accusing the agencies of inter­ foreign shipowners. "On the other hand," he said, "when our cargoes preting the 50-50 requirement of are shipped in our vessels, we the Cargo Prefemece Act as rep­ keep the dollars in the U.S. be­ resenting a ceiling. Congressman cause American seamen spend Giaimo said Congress intended it CHICAGO—Striking SIUNA cabdrivers here ended a two-week-old walkout on August 30, and their wages in America to support should serve as a floor. approved a new three-year agreement by an overwhelming majority. The workers are members of and educate their families, ship­ "The law is quite specific in the SIUNA-affiliated I^al 777, Democratic Union Organizing Committee. owners buy their fuel and pro­ stating that American flag ships The agreement was hailed ^ visions in American ports and should carry 'at least' 50 percent by Everett Clark, president of will get 47 Vi percent of fares col­ workers were doubled from three lected; drivers with four years, 48 to six a year. Local 777. percent; drivers with nine years, Wages were increased for inside "Everything, for everyone in 49 percent and drivers wiffi 10 workers from 24 to 27 percent, At The Morning Job Call this contract is raised," he said. years, 50 percent. Under the old which represents $900 a year in­ "It is the best contract I've ever contract 47Vi percent was the top crease for each of three years. seen, and I've been a cabdriver ' commission after 15 years of serv­ Another provision of ffie con­ for 25 years." tract is that the companies agreed ice. The strike, which involved Pension benefits were also to place special bullet-proof par­ 5,400 drivers and 600 mechanics, raised, from $82.50 a month to titions in some vehicles on an ex­ began August 17—seven weeks $100, for drivers 65 years old perimental basis in an effort to after the old contract expired on with 25 years service. Earlier protect drivers. June 30. The new contract is retirement—at a pro-rated level— This was a critical demand by retroactive to July 1. is permitted at ages 62 through the Union. If the experiment The companies struck were Yel­ 64 with 25 years service. Under shows positive results, the com­ low and Checker, the presidents the old contract there was no panies said they will put the par­ titions into all their cabs. of which refused to meet across early retirement. Another section of the contract the bargaining table with the Increased Vacation prohibits the use of lie detector Union and its membership-elected Vacation time was increased tests in determining whether a Negotiating Committee for most so that drivers will now get two driver who claims he was robbed of the two months of negotiations. weeks after three years service, is telling the truth. Pledges Full SupptHi three weeks after nine years and The companies also have Immediately after the strike four weeks after 20 years. The agreed to recognize the Union's was called, SIUNA President old contract allowed only three safety committee its inspec­ Paul Hall had pledged the full weeks after 12 years, and no tion of company and premises and support of the International until fourth week. equipment iA:b. the negotiations were successfuL Hospitalization benefits for em­ Certified In 1961 The Union's proposals origi­ ployees will increase from $22.50 nally were presented to the com­ a day to $34.50 immediately, and When Chicago cab drivers quit panies in June, after the mem­ continuing in steps, to $38.50 in the Teamsters in 1961, and bership had been polled by mail 1970. Similar increases were won DUOC was formally certified, regardmg the items they wanted for dependents. Surgical benefits it negotiated with Yellow and in the new contract will go from $300 to $400 and Checker for ten months before The Negotiating Committee other miscellaneous hospital fees finally calling a walkout that was headed by DUOC President from $200 to $300. lasted for 20 hours and produced Clark and SIUNA Vice President For the first time, part-time the first contract between the 13;,• John Yarmola. drivers will get $2,000 accidental Union and the companies. The Under the new three-year con­ death-on-the-job insurance. Full­ 1962 strike was the fim to hit the 'sm tract full-time drivers will get time drivers will get up to $10,000 Chicago cab industry since 1937. Seafarer Shaif Yafaie ffirows in for a |ob with Headquarters Rep­ across-the-board raises in commis­ instu-ance benefits; previous life The same management attitude resentative E. B. McAuley in the New York hall. Brother Yafaie, sions. insurance coverage was $4,000. and stalling practices forced a 23Drivers with two years service Paid holidays allowed inside day strike in 1965. who sails in the engine department^ shipped aboard the Fort Hoskins. Taxis Roll Again as SIUNA Drivers Overwhelmingly Adopt 3'Year Part ^if" • f i »• r J * jt 1 w. > d a' Ki 10 ,• .i' m I i �SEAFARERS LOG Septembw 13, 1968 Fred Stewart Dead at 55; Was Long-Time SlU Official NEW YORK—Fred M. (Freddie) Stewart, a veteran officer and member of the Seafarers International Union, died in his sleep on September 4 at his home here at 620 Lenox Avenue. He was 55 years of age. ^ tions to improve the quality of A Headquarters Representa­ shipboard life for merchant sea­ tive for the SIU in New York, men. Stewart served as an elected Stewart was unopposed as a can­ didate for reelection in the Un­ SIU Patrolman on the New York ion's forthcoming elections. He waterfront for almost 20 years, had served as an elected SIU and had participated in all of the Headquarters Representative since major maritime strikes and other actions which led to the develop­ 1960. ment of today's strong maritime Formerly a seaman, Stewart labor organizations in the United had been a member of the Sea­ States. farers for the past 30 years. Brother Stewart had been active in the early organizational cam­ paigns when the SIU was first established in 1938. His experience in the steward department, as a seaman on both American-fiag and foreign vessels fbr many years, projected him into many of the Ustoric battles for decent shipboard conditions for all seamen. He was especially active in efforts to secure milk, fresh provisions and other condi- Panoceanic Corp. Seeks Two Ships Te Cxpad fleet FredM. Stewmrt Born in New Orleans, Louisi­ ana, he had lived in New York City for many years and was active in various labor, communi­ ty and fraternal organizations. He was a Past Master of Jepthah WASHINGTON—The SIU- Lodge No. 89, F. & A. M., a contracted Panoceanic Tankers member of the Consistory of the Corporation of New York has' Order of Masons, and was also filed applications with the Mari­ a member of the Shriners. time Administration to obtain two Stewart headed the SIU dele­ vessels for expansion of its fleet gation and represented the Union in the tramping service. on many occasions at various The vessels—sought under the meetings and national conferences government's Ship Exchange Pro­ on housing, education and civil gram—are the VC2-AP3 Clovis rights, conducted by the AFLVictory, built in 1944, and the CIO and other organizations dur­ VC2-AP3 West Linn Victory, ing the past several years. constructed in 1945, MARAD an­ Surviving Brother Stewart is nounced this month. his wife, Mae, who was with him Panoceanic Tankers Corpora­ at the time of his death. Church and Masonic services tion owned the ill-fated Panoceanic Faith which sank in the were held on Sunday, September Northern Pacific Ocean last Oc­ 8, at the Prince Hall Masonic tober 9 with a loss of 17 Seafar­ Temple in Manhattan. Burial ers during a severe storm. Five was at Woodlawn Cemetery in other Seafarers were rescued fol­ the Bronx at 10 A.M. on the following day. lowing the disaster. f 1 •3• ^ —v The last official act of the late SIU Headquarters Represent­ ative Fred Stewart was presentation of first pension check to Seafarer Manuel Pinto. A native of India, Pinto lives in Flushing, N. Y. His first SIU ship was William Eaton, his last, the Steel Age. Page lliree SIU Urges Independent MARAD As Best Means to Revitalize Fleet NEW ORLEANS—Reconstltution of the Maritime Administration as a "completely independ­ ent federal agency" was called for here last week by SIU President Paul Hall as a means of re­ vitalizing the American merchant marine. Blaming official neglect for activate "to reverse the present Stressing the fact that only a merchant fleet that has be­ pattern of drift and decline:" about five percent of the nation's come "too old, too slow and • Increase the federal invest­ foreign trade cargoes are carried too small" to serve its proper na­ ment in new ship construction. in U.S.-flag ships. Hood stated: tional defense and economic func­ "No nation can remain a woild • Provide federal assistance power by placing the movement of tions, Hall, who is also president for modernization of shipyard fa­ its import and export cargoes at of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades cilities. Department, told the National the mercy of the changing politi­ • Encourage greater private cal whims of other nations. And Security Commission of the American Legion that a favorable investment in the unsubsidized the hazards of relying on foreignattitude toward the maritime in­ segment of the fleet through tax flag vessels for logistic support of dustry must be developed "within incentives, preference in carriage military forces overseas are even the Executive Branch of govern­ of government cargoes and long- more apparent." term charters for military and for­ ment." Cites U,S. Lag eign aid shipments. Establishment of an independ­ ent agency to give full attention • Make certain that operating Hood said every major mari­ to promotion of the best interests and construction subsidies are ap­ time nation has recognized the of the industry would be "the plied to the purpose for which need for retaining control over its most significant step we could they were intended — to help trade and commerce with the ex­ take" toward accomplishing this American shipowners compete ception of the United States. He objective. Hall said. with foreign operators for com­ pointed out that the Soviet Union Emphasizing the dependency of mercial cargo and not to give the has 75 percent of its ccMnmerce the merchant marine on a favor­ subsidized American an edge over carried in Russian bottoms. able attitude by the federal gov­ his unsubsidized countryman in Percentages for other nations, ernment, the president of the competition for government he added were: Greece, 53; seven-million-member MTD cargo. France, 48; Norway, 43; Great charged the industry's probI«ns • Develop—as our national Britain, 37, and Sweden, 30. have been magnified by an atti­ goal—a fleet capable of carrying "These separate nations have tude that has been hostile or ne­ 50 percent of U. S. imports and determined as a matter of na­ glectful "almost without excep­ exports. tional will that a high degree of tion since the end of World War • Adhere to the principle laid reliance on their own flipping II." down in the 1936 Merchant Ma­ resources is important to tiheir Cites Soviet Menace rine Act which called for the own self interest. They have dis­ Hall warned that the Russians building of American-flag ships in played a quality of resolute pur­ pose which has not been present have embarked on an all-out mer­ American shipyards. chant marine buildup which is Also addressing the American within our borders for quite some inimical to American interests. Legion group was Edwin M. time," Hood declared. "At the present pace, they will Hood, president of the Shipbuild­ He also deplored the fact that outstrip us in world shipping by ers Council of America, who more than 80 percent of Amer­ 1970," said Hall, a member of the charged the safety of the United ica's merchant fleet consists of AFL-CIO Executive Council. States is being jeopardized by "in­ ships 20 or more years of age and "They already carry 75 percent of ept maritime policies" that have if the present trend of "aimless Russia's waterborne commerce, resulted in an overwhelming re­ drifting" continues, only 100 new and within recent weeks they have liance on foreign-flag shipping for vessels will be added to the fleet made a bold bid for non-Com­ the movement of America's for­ by 1975, the shipbuilders council munist water traffic as well— eign commerce. president declared. threatening a disastrous rate war, if necessary," to achieve a domi­ nant place in the world shipping picture. The United States cannot reckon with this force, he warned, "if we must continue to rely on a fleet composed, in the main, of WASHINGTON—^A bill that would cut off United States aid ships built in World War II. dollars to any foreign nation which seizes American fishing vessels As a "ward of the Department in open seas has been signed into law by President Johnson. The of Commerce" since 1950 the measure, introduced by Repre-^ maritime industry has "gone stead­ eign aid-receiving nations from sentative Thomas Felly (Rily downhill," Hall declared. "If illegally seizing American fishing we're ever going to develop a ra­ Wash.) had been solidly backed vessels. tional program for our merchant by all SIUNA-affiliated Fisher­ Under the new law—called the marine, and if we're ever going to man's Unions. Fisherman's Protective Act of There have been a total of 125 put such a program into action, 1968—^the U.S. will cut off for­ we're going to need an independ­ seizures of U.S.-flag fishing vessels eign aid to an offending nation —a majority of them SlU-conent agency." which refuses to pay compensa­ Hall commended the American tracted— in the past 15 years by tion for seizing a U.S.-flag ship. Legion for its strong endorsement foreign countries, such as Ecua­ It also provides that the Ameri­ of "this concept of maritime in­ dor, Peru and Chile, which have can government would cover all been the recipients of millions of dependence." U.S. aid dollars. In most cases, damages and losses incurred by Recalling that the Legion was the U.S. had to pay high ransoms owners of American fishing ves­ subjected to "considerable pres­ to the "pirate" nations to secure sels who pay a participating fee. sure" for supporting a House Broadens 1954 Laiw measure providing for an inde­ the release of the vessels and the The new Act broadens legisla­ pendent maritime agency. Hall American fishermen who maimed tion enacted in 1954 to protect said "we salute you for your cour­ them. Several vessels were seized American fishing vessels grabbed age in standing up to those pres­ sures—and for standing on your earlier this year off the western by foreign nations while operating coast of South America. The last outside what the U.S. considers to principles." one was the Paramount, which be another country's territorial The bill in question passed the was taken into custody by Ecua­ waters. However, the Latin-Amer­ House, 326 to 44, in the face of dor March 20, 1968, while it was ican nations have been claiming strong Administration opposition. 46 miles at sea. that their territorial jurisdiction It is now pending in the Senate where it was reported out favor­ These seizures were protested extends 200 miles seaward from ably by the Senate Commerce by the SIUNA-affiliated unions their coasts. These claims are not Committee by a vote of 17 to 1. and led to the drive which cul­ recognized by the United States Hall suggested the following minated in the passage of the bill and there is no provision in Inter­ six-point program which an inde­ and its signing by the President. national Law wWch would permit pendent maritime agency could The law is intended to deter for­ a 200-mile limit for any country. flatien Seizing U.S fishing Vesseis Baired frem Foreign Aid Payments �Pace Fov SEAFARERS LOG September 13, 1968 Demo€rati€ Platform Aimed at Continuing Progress CHICAGO—^The Democratic Party, at its naticmal convention here last month, adopted a sweeping plat­ form pledging "to build greatly" on the achievements of the Jcriinson-Humphrey Administration and spelling out the party's programs to combat poverty and social injustice. AFL-CIO President George Meany called the plat­ form "a common sense approach to the great domestic and international problems" facing the nation, one that workers "can wholeheartedly support." It contains, Meany observed, "specific, sound and achievable programs to meet these problems. All are based on the belief, which we in the AFL-CIO fully share, that America can—and will—solve its problems." Meany said the platform stood "in stark and welcome contrast" to the one adopted by the Republicans in Miami Beach earlier last month. The cwitrast was marked both in the forthright liberal­ ism of the Democratic domestic proposals and the sharp detail in which they are set forth. Another major difference lay in the vigorous debate provoked by the Democratic plank on the war in Viet­ nam, a plank supporting the Administration's position in quest of an honorable, negotiated peace and rejecting the approach urged by supporters' of Senators Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota and George McGovem of South Dakota. There was no vocal dissent, however, from the planks dealing with domestic programs and problems. In the area of labor relations, the platform asserts unequivocally that "private collective bargaining and a strong and independent labor movement are essential to our system of free enterprise and economic democracy." It pledges a thorough review and updating of the Na­ tional Labor Relations Act "to assure an effective oppor­ tunity to all workers to exercise the right to organize and to bargain collectively." This overhaul of the basic labor law, the platform goes on, will include amendments to repeal Section 14(b) permitting states to enact compulsory open shop laws, extend coverage to farm workers and employees of non­ profit organizations; remove restrictions on the right of peaceful picketing including on-site picketing by con­ struction unions, speed decisions of the National Labor Relations Board and strengthen the remedies available to it, and give unions equal rights with employers to comitiunicate with workers. The platform declares that the government "will not do business with" companies which repeatedly violate their workers' rights to organize or which refuses to bargain with their unions. "By all these means," the platform continues, "we will sustain the right of workers to organize in unions of their own choosing and will foster truly effective c<dlective bargaining to provide the maximum opportunity for just and fair agreements between management and labor." The platform planks dealing with foreign affairs and national defense run the range from the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia to U.S. support for the state of Israel against the threat of its hostile Arab neighbors. It warned that the invasion of Czechoslovakia and "reimposition of Soviet tyranny raises the spectre of the darkest days of the Stalin era." But the debate focused almost solely on Vietnam. As finally adopted, the plank declares ^e nation's "most urgent task" to be ending the war in Vietnam and achieving a "lasting settlement" which respects the rights of "all the people of Vietnam." The platform rejects as "unacceptable" a unilateral withdrawal of tr^ps, which would allow "aggression and subversion" to succeed. It gives strong support to the Paris peace talks and applauds President Johnson's initiative in bringing North Vietnam to the peace table. The platform calls for a halt in the bombing of North Vietnam "when this action would not endanger the lives of our troops in the field; this action should take into account the response from Hanoi." Election of a post-war government, the platform says, "should be determined by fair and safeguarded elections, open to all major political factions and parties prepared to accept peaceful political processes." But until the fighting stops, the United States should step up its efforts to train and equip the South Viet­ namese army to take over "larger responsibilities," the platform declares. It goes on to endorse the President's pledge of sub­ stantial U.S. aid in the post-war reconstruction of South Vietnam "as well as to the economic development of the entire region" and urges that Japan and ^e indus­ trial nations of Europe join the effort. An alliance of McCarthy-McGovern supporters sought, in hours of emotion-charged debate, to persuade the con­ vention to adopt a substitute plank. TTiis called for an unconditional halt in the bombing, a phased withdrawal of all foreign forces and recognition of the National Liberation Front—the political arm of the Viet Cong— in the formation of a post-war government. In the end, however, the superior numbers of Admin­ istration supporters, lined up behind Vice President Humphrey, prevailed on the issue as they had on a series of earlier votes over rules and credentials. The final roll call vote was 1,567 in favor of the majority report, 1,041 for the McCarthy-McGovern alternative. The platform provides a full-scale review of the ac­ complishments of the Deniocratic administrations of the late President Kennedy and Johnson, including "a 90month period of recession-free prosperity, the lowest and strongest period of sustained economic growth in Ameri­ can history." , For all these "constructive changes," the platform warns, the party, must view its past successes as "a down payment on the hard tasks that lie ahead." For the future, it pledges, among other things to: • Launch "an aggressive and balanced program to replace and augment our obsolete merchant ships with modern vessels built in American shipyards" and to assist U.S. flag operators "to overcome the competitive disparity between American and foreign operating costs." A Square Deal SEAFARERSI^LOG Sept. 13, 1968 • Vol. XXX, No. 19 Official Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Exeeutive Board PAun HAU., President EARL SHEPARD CAL TANNER Exec. Vice-Pret. Vice-President LINDSEY WILLIAMS AL, KERB Sec.-Treae. Vice-President ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Vice-President Director of Publieatione MIKE POLLACK Editor HARRY WITTSCHEN Assistant Editors TOM FINNEOAN PETER WEISS WILL KAKP Staff Photographer ANTHONY ANSALDI Enjoying a game of cards between shipping calls at the New York hall are Seafarers J. Hanson, wearing hat, and clockwise around table Victor Tubo, Arthur Sequeira, Antonio Garcia, R. Lara. riUlihst kiwMkly st nO Ihsds lilsnt Ansit N.E., WsiklsitsB, D. C. 20018 ky ths SMifar•n intsfsitlsnsl ilsiM, Atlintis, Gilf, LskM sat Inlsat Watsn DIftrlet, AFL-CIO. 675 Fsirtk Anais, Brssklya, N.Y. 11232. Ttl. HVislatk 9-6600. SssMt slau yMtais isM at Watklnitoai, D. C. POSTMASTEI'S ATTENTION: Fsrai 3579 sarti skHlt ks Mat ta Stafarm iateraatloaal Ualsa, Atlaatis, Gall, LakM aat laiaat Watm Dlstrlet, AFL-CIO, 675 Faartk Anaas, Nnaklya, N.Y. 11232. • Revamp federal taxes "to make them more equitable as between rich and poor and as among people with the same income and family responsibilities." • Improve the "minimum standards" covering terms and conditions of employment by increasing the mini­ mum wage and extending its protection to all workers, enacting occupational health and safety legislation, as­ suring that "green card" foreign workers do not depress wages, and conditions of American workers and mod­ ernizing the unemployment insurance program through national minimum standards of benefits and coverage. • Reduce the tax burden on the poor "by lowering the income tax rates at the bottom of the tax scale and increasing the minimum standard deduction." 9 Press the goal of the new housing act to provide "a decent home and suitable living environment for every American family." 9 Expand programs of aid to mass transit and hi^way construction and strengthen the nation's railroads. 9 Broaden the war on poverty, "guided by the recom­ mendations of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders and the Commission on Rural Poverty." 9 Wipe out, "once and for all, the stain of racial and other discrimination from our national life." 9 Extend and adequately finance the model cities program. 9 Wage "a vigorous and sustained campaign against lawlessness in all its forms—organized crime, white collar crime, rioting and other violations of the rights and liberties of others" and to further this campaign "by attack on the root causes of crime and disorder." 9 Push ahead with programs for full employment, including expansion of public job and training programs for those who cannot find work and establishment of the federal government as the "employer of last resort." 9 Raise social security benefits to overcome present inequities with automatic adjustments thereafter to reflect rising living costs. 9 Expand medicare to cover the cost of prescription drugs. 9 Establish federal standards for welfare payments to the aged, the blind, the disabled and dependent children." 9 Extend medicare to disabled social security benefi­ ciaries. .. ^ 9 "Fully fund" the Elementary & Secondary Educa­ tion Act, enlarge the federal scholarship programs and expand loans to low-income students. 9 Continue to apply principles of collective bargain­ ing to federal employment. 9 Assume leadership "in removing all remaining bar­ riers to voter registration" and "seek to eliminate dissenfranchisement of voters who change residence. 9 Give full recognition to "the principle of one man, one vote in all elections," urging due consideration: to the question of presidential primaries throughout the nation and reform of the Electoral College and election procedures. UFWOC Adds Masson Wines In Latest Contract Victory FRESNO, C^.—^The AFL-CIO Farm Workers have capped d year of organizing and bargaining efforts in Fresno area vineyards by winning a hefty package of benefits in a first contract for the field employees of Paul Masson, Inc., producer of quality table wines and champagnes. United Farm Workers Organizing Committee signed a three-year agreement raising wages and pro­ viding union-won benefits for field crews totaling about 350 at the peak of the harvest season. It was the latest in a series of agreements won since April 1966, when UFWOC scored its first breakthrough toward union condi­ tions at Schenley Distillers prop­ erties. The new pact provides a pay range of $1.90 to $2.55 an hour, with 10-cent increases in each of ^he next two years. Piece rate pickers are guaranteed an aver­ age of $3.25 an hour. The contract provides a full union shop and dues checkoff^ union hiring hall, paid holidays and vacations. Workers will be covered by a 1 >p«ial Bene#,, Fund U.. union has negotiated with other employ­ ers in the industry. The company will pay 10 cents for every hour worked into the fund, whi^ pro­ vides comprehensive health and welfare protection. Many of the contract {MDvisions deal with benefits and woricing conditions industrial workers have had for many years—^which farm workers are just now achieving through organization. Began Last Febraary Masson agreed last Febniary, at a meeting with Chavez and AFL-CIO Director of Organiza­ tion William L. Kircher, to rec­ ognize UFWOC and to start con­ tract negotiations with a commit­ tee headed by Chavez and Invin L. DeShetler, national farm labor coordinator for AFL-CIO, �Septemlier 13, 1968 Mishap on the Mohawk SEAFARERS Pace Fhrc LOG On the March With Labor Vice President Humphrey Launches Drive 'Right Into the White House' I •• •H Chief electrician Ray Mathews (R) and chief engineer Jim McHugh, survey fallen boom aboard the Mohawk. The accident occurred while ship was docked at Inchon, Korea. Damage was limited to bro­ ken rail. The photo was taken by crew messman John D. Be'^nnett. •2-J Fleets of Soviet Satellites Joining Race for Sea Power While the United States Government continues its do nothing attitude to denumds that it revitalize the American-flag merchant ma­ rine, the analler Iron Curtain nations are taking a cue from Soviet Russia by steadily expanding their merchant fleets to grab off a larger share of the world's commercial cargoes. As a case in point, the 13,274-ton Bulgarian ship, Vejen—only a year old compai^ to the average 25 years of American-flag vessels —called at the Port of Baltimore recently to load a cargo of soybean meal for delivery to European countries. This was the first time a Bulgarian-flag vessel had dropped anchor in Baltimore, although Polish and Yugoslavian ships have been calling there regularly for some time. Conununist Himgary has also acquired its first deep-sea vessels this year. Since the country has no deep sea port, its budding merchant fleet must be oriented to Danube River traffic. However, the ocean­ going ships can reach the Mediterranean by way of the Black Sea and the Bosporus Strait. Earlier this year, it was disclosed that East Germany—as well as Poland and Bulgaria—^was producing more merchmit ships, not only for her own domestic use, but also for export to Soviet Russia. Bulgaria, according to the captain of the Japanese-built Vejen, plans to build its own dry cargo ships and bulk carriers in the 10,000 and 20,000-ton classes in an effort to compete for more cargoes in other countries, as well as carrying its own goods to other European lands. These vessels will likely be built in the Black Sea port of Varna, Bulgaria's largest, and will be crewed exclusively by Bulgarians —in accordance with the law in this satellite nation. Himgary is chiefly interested in building deep-sea vessels in order to carry an ever-greater proportion of the country's occan-bome trade cargoes—^This policy—common among Iron Curtain powers—is in contrast to that of the U.S. government, which has allowed carriage of our own foreign trade in American—^flag bottoms to dwindle to less than seven percent and evidences no official concern about the trend whatsoever. The largest of the new Hungarian vessels are the 6,200-ton Buda­ pest—already in service—^and a sister ship, the Hungaria, due this month. Also reported ready for service are two other vessels of 1,600 tons each. At present, Hungary has a fleet of 21 ships totalling approx­ imately 35,000 tons. East Germany now has a merchant fleet of 160 vessels, totalling 950,000 tons. It had only one ship—a 9,000 ton freighter—15 years ago. In addition to its own fleet, it has turned out 1,762,189 tons of shipping for Soviet Russia since 1952. Poland is still working on a five-year plan to deliver 175 ships to the U.S.S.R. by 1970 and Bulgaria is conunitted to produce 350 smaller ships and fishing boats for the Kremlin. Romania, too, has revealed ambitious strides in increasing its mer­ chant fleet, not only to handle the nation's growing trade, but to bid for foreign cargoes. Almost unnoticed a few years ago, Romania's fleet tonnage has swelled from 50,000 deadweight tons to 430,840 tons since 1961. The country's national plan for the merchant fleet is to have 70 vessels of 600,000 deadweight tons by 1970. Some 80 percent of Romania's ships have been built in the past 10 years—^many of them by shipyards in Japan, Great Britain and Sweden. The Government's Chamber of Commerce said that 2.3 million tons of goods were carried last year by the nation's own fleet. This is 11 times the total cargo carri^ a decade ago. The Chamber said that the increase share in total sea transport of petroleum products, ores, equipment and machinery and chemicals "shows the high techincal level of the Romanian fleet and also the pattern of our trade with other countries." Meanwhile, Russia continues to add an estimated one million tons of ships to its merchant fleet annually in an effort to move into first place among the maritime nations of the world. NEW YORK—^Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey launched his campaign for the presidency by marching with the labor movement in the Labor Day parade here as the Democratic Party gathered forces throughout the nation behind its new liberal team of standard bearers—the vice president and Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine. Humphrey was in the front rank of the nearly 150,000 marchers as the parade proceeded up Fifth Avenue and declared he would continue from there "right into the White House." The Vice President made no speeches but shook the hands of hundreds of well-wishers along the parade route and waved to the marching trade unionists as he reviewed the balance of the parade along with AFL-CIO Pres. George Meany and other labor officials. "This is good Democratic terri­ tory," Humphrey commented. It was his first public appear­ ance following his nomination as the Democratic candidate for President. He used the occasion, in radio and television interviews following the parade, to renew his Vice President Humphrey and Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine efforts to draw together party ele­ acknowledge applause after nomination as Democratic standard ments still chafing from the dis­ bearers at Chicago convention. Between them is Mrs. Humphrey. putes that tore the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. ing his speech, in which he pro­ vention three weeks earlier, he Humphrey won the nomination claimed "the end of an era and observed: "Had we just papered over the on the first convention ballot, re­ the begiiming of a new day." ceiving 1,761% delegate votes, The Vice President acknowl­ differences of frank, hard debate, far in excess of the 1,312 needed. edged the turmoil and the disputes we would deserve the contempt His principal opponent. Senator that had marked the convention, of our fellow citizens and the Eugene J. McCarthy, a fellow but in a pointed contrast to the condemnation of history ... I Minnesotan, drew 601. Senator blandness of the Republican con- submit that this is the debate, and this is the work of a free people, George McGovem of South Da­ the work of an open convention kota, a late entry, received 146Vi. and the work of a political party Humphrey's choice of Muskie responsive to the needs of this as his running mate came as no nation." surprise. The Maine senator was Humphrey paid tribute to the among those listed repeatedly as party traditions set by Franklin D. possible choices. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, AdMuskie's liberal record and lai Stevenson and John F. Ken­ philosophy as senator, and pre­ nedy. And he saluted President viously as Maine's governor, com­ Johnson for accomplishing "more plement Humphrey's own back­ SPARROWS POINT, Md.— of the unfinished business of ground and his approach to the The Overseas Vivian, a 37,500 America than any of his modem campaign. deadweight-ton tanker capable of predecessors." cruising in a range of 12,000 Praises McCarthy Three Realities miles because of her unique de­ Humphrey praised McCarthy sign, has been launched here at He said the nation approached during his Labor Day remarks for the Bethlehem Steel Corpora­ the presidential campaign at a compelling the nation "to take a tion's yard and is being readied time when three "realities" con­ good hard look" at Vietnam and for winter delivery to its owners, fronted it: for bringing American youth "into the SlU-contracted Maritime • "The necessity for peace in the channel of politics." He ex­ Overseas Corporation. Vietnam and in the world." t pressed the hope that "before the The ship is the third in a series • "The necessity for peace and campaign is too far along" Mc­ of similar vessels ordered by Carthy would "see fit to join us." Maritime Overseas and will be justice in our cities and in our The moves toward party unity used mainly for the carriage of nation." • "The paramount necessity began, however, with Humphrey's petroleum products in the United for unity in our country." acceptance speech, which elec­ States domestic trades. On Vietnam, the Vice Presi­ trified the convention delegates However, the 660-foot Over­ dent noted that it had posed a and brought them roaring to their seas Vivian, with a capacity of "vexing and painful issue" during feet. 330,000 barrels in 15 tanks, has the convention. He called for The Vice President made a di­ been constructed so it can be recognition not only of the differ­ rect appeal to both McCarthy and easily converted to carry as much ences within the party over the McGovem, who had emerged as as 1,500,000 bushels of grain. war, but also of "the much larger the candidate rallying supporters The vessel, which has a much of the slain Senator Rol^rt F. longer cruising range than most areas of agreement." And, he went on, "if there is Kennedy, "to help me in this dif­ tankers built in the United States, one lesson that we should have ficult campaign that lies ahead." has dry and refrigerated store­ And he reminded the delegates rooms, permitting storage of learned, it is that the policies of who had opposed his nomina­ enough supplies for six months. tomorrow need not be limited by tion "that all of your goals, that When the Overseas Vivian is de­ the policies of yesterday." Referring to the violent clashes all of your high hopes, that all livered, Maritime Overseas will of your dreams, all of them will have a fleet of 18 U.S.-flag tank­ between police and anti-war dem­ come to naught if we lose this ers—with an aggregate total of onstrators that had wracked Chi­ cago during the convention, Hum­ election and many of them can be 500,000 deadweight tons. phrey voiced "sorrow and distress" realized with the victory that can Bethlehem Steel Corporation over the incidents and the result­ come to us," also will soon build two larger ing injuries, declaring: McGovem and numerous other tankers for Maritime Overseas. "Surely, we have now learned Kennedy and McCarthy suppor­ These will be in the 61,440-ton ters came to the podium to con­ class and will be the largest ves­ the lesson that violence breeds gratulate Humphrey and give sels ever constructed at the Spar­ counterviolence and it cannot be evidence of their support follow­ rows Point facility.. condoned, whatever the source." New SlU Tmker Has Cruise Range OflZOOOMiles �Page Six SEAFARERS LOG Congressman Urges Senate Approval OfHouse-PassedMaritimeMeasures September IS* 19M Checkup In Chicago WASHINGTON — The Senate was urged last week to act on two pending merchant marine bills—to create an independent Maritime Administration and to prevent registry under the Amer^ ican flag of vessels whose midsections were built abroad. In making the plea, Repre- this industry, the merchant ma­ Proposed policies publicly ad­ sentative Herbert Tenzer (DN.Y.) said that Senate approval of the two House-passed measures was particularly vital because "there seems little prospect that Congress will act this year on a broad-ranging maritime pro­ gram." The New York Congressman spoke at a meeting sponsored by the nearly seven-million-member AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment. He noted that although both House and Senate committees have held "extensive hearings" on a proposed maritime program, only the House Merchant Marine Committee has recommended any action. The bill that emerged from committee, and which is now stalled in the adjournment rush in Congress, was "largely a warming-over of the existing pro­ grams, not any dramatic new ap­ proach to our maritime, needs," Tenzer said. *CIose the Door' He added that this makes it necessary for the Senate to "close the door to the threat of foreign shipbuilding," as called for in the bill on foreign-built midbodies, and to approve the maritime inde­ pendence bill so that the newly created agency can "begin to work on a new maritime pro­ gram." Tenzer said that the new pro­ gram must recognize "the eco­ nomic, as well as the military, role of our merchant marine," and should be geared to "maxi­ mum utilization of U.S.-flag ves­ sels in peace as well as war." In outlining the kind of pro­ gram that should be presented to the 91st Congress when it con­ venes in January, the New York lawmaker went on: "It must give the American tax­ payer the maximum benefit for the government funds that are invested, making sure that sub­ sidies are used for only one pur­ pose: To help our ships compete with foreign-flag vessels, not to compete with other' American ships. "It must recognize that, while government assistance is vital to Jl/eoff Cavalier OffereJAsStrt^ WASHINGTON—The old Al­ coa Cavalier, a former passenger liner of the SlU-contracted Alcoa Steamship Company, is being of­ fered for sale as scrap, it was an­ nounced last week by the Mari­ time Administration. The 8,481-ton vessel was one of three 100-passenger ships op­ erated by the Alcoa company on regular cruise service from New Orleans to the Caribbean. The service was ended in 1960 after 13 years of operation. Eight other layed-up vessels were offered for sale with the Alco Cavalier, which is now layed up in the Mobile, Alabama, re­ serve fleet anchorage. rine's future still is going to de­ pend, to an even greater degree, on private investment—and gov­ ernment policy must be designed to encourage, not discourage—^the flow of private capital into ship­ building and ship operation." Tenzer noted that both' major political parties have adopted "strong and forward-looking mar­ itime planks pledged to the revitalization" of the merchant fleet. "As is customary for political platforms," he added, "this year's maritime planks are general in tone. It now remains for an independent Maritime Adminis­ tration, and the 91st Congress, to add the specifics, and to get to work making the promises of the Republic:ia and Diemocratic plat­ forms a reality." Overwhelming Vote The Independent MARAD bill (H.R. 159) was passed by the House in October, 1967, by an overwhelming vote of 324 to 44. It was then sent to the Senate and placed before the Senate Com­ merce Committee for action. Approved by that committee— at the strong urging of its chair­ man, Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.)—by a vote of 17 to one last July, the measure still awaits the ^al endorsement of the full Senate. # vanced by Transportation Secre­ tary Alan S. Boyd—who has had Administration backing in his in­ cessant, though unsuccessful cam­ paign to have Congress incorpo­ rate the Maritime Administration into his own department—have been given a totally unfavorable reception by an increasing num­ ber of legislators in both houses of Congress and leaders of mari­ time labor and management. As a result, prospects for Sen­ ate passage of H.R. 159 during the busy closing weeks of the Ninetieth Congress have bright­ ened considerably in the light of recognition that Boyd's approach to the nation's maritime problems are not only ill-conceived and detrimental, but a very real poten­ tial threat to any hope of revi­ talizing the rapidly-ebbing United States-flag merchant marine so that it may once again compete effectively with the burgeoning commercial fleets of other nations —both friendly and unfriendly. As for the Mid-body Bill, which also has been passed by the House, the Senate Commerce Committee has announced plans to hold hearings on it before the session ends. Earlier this year, the committee voted the bill out favorably but then recalled it when opponent objected. SlU Engineer School Produces Four More Licensed Officers Hanson De Vito Krause Parker Four more Seafarers have upgraded to second or third assistant engineer after attending the school of marine engineering sponsored jointly by the SIU and District 2, MEBA and passing their Coast Guard examinations. They bring ^ A newly-licensed secmid assis­ to 269 the total number of SIU tant engineer, William Parker is graduates from the school. Three 58 years old. A Seafarer since men are new third assistants, while one received his second as­ sistant's license. Charles Hanson sailed as FOWT. A Seafarer since 1967, he joined the Union in Seattle where he makes his home. Brother Hanson is 42 years old and is a native of Spokane, Washington. He is a new third assistant engi­ neer. Angelo De Vito was bom in Italy and lives in Brooklyn. He is 20 years old and joined the Union in New York in 1965. Brother De Vito previously sailed as FOWT before receiving a tem­ porary third's license. William Krause, Jr. is a new third assistant engineer. The 36year-old Indiana native sailed as fireman, oiler and chief pumpman. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida, where he joined the Union in 1959. Great Lakes Seafarer Joseph Veno, who sails on the tanker Detroit,, keeps an eye on the needle as nurse in SIU Chicago Clinic takes a sample of his blood as part of his periodic physical examination. A. Philip Randolph Retires As Head of Pullman Porters NEW ORLEANS—grateful nation, labor movement and the imion he helped found paid tribute to AFL-CIO Vice President A. Philip Randolph as he stepped down as president of the Brother­ hood of Sleeping Car Porters ^ porters "from a condition of semiduring its convention here this serfs to the status of middle-class month. wage earners." Congratulatory messages to "Few men have had a more pro­ Randolph were sent by President found effect upon the social con­ Johnson, House Majority Whip sciousness of Americans in this Hale Boggs (D-La.), President century than A. Philip Randolph," George Meany and AFL-CIO said the presidential message. "His Secretary-Treasurer William F. courage, his wisdom, and his elo­ Schnitzler; Whitney M. Young, quent voice have been instruments Jr., Executive Director, National of progress and justice for black Urban League, and Roy Wilkins, people throughout our land. NAACP Executive Director, Na­ Where there was wrong, he sought tional Association for the Ad­ to right it. Where there was bit­ vancement of Colored People. terness, he sought to soothe it Randolph stressed in his open­ Where there was hatred, he sought ing day address to the convention to end it. both the progress and the unfin­ 'DebjtofGntitiide' ished tasks, but the basic tone was one of optimism. In his message, Meany said the He paid tribute to the Pullman American people and trade unions porters who persisted during the owe A. Philip Randoli^ a "great "bitter, grey and hopeless days" debt of gratitude" and "on behalf of struggle for the right to or­ of the AFL-CIO I am proud to ganize and bargain. acknowledge it" "The Brotherhood gave the por­ Expressing regret at Randolph's ter, and incidentally the Negro decision to step down, Meany said workers as a whole, a sense of he is confident Randolph will con­ racial and class identity and tinue "with undiminished vigor to pride," said Randolph. serve the cause to which you have "While the Brotherhood fought devoted your life—the betterment to break dovra racial barriers in of all mankind." labor unions, it also fought against Donald Slaiman, Director of Negro workers permitting them­ the AFL-CIO of Civil selves to be used as scabs against Rights, told the meeting that the their white brothers on strike." Brotherhood and Randolph have He outlined gains in wages, made tremendous contributions to working conditions, and said that their members, the labor move­ the Brotherhood had lifted the ment and to the country. 1939, he joined the SIU in Phila­ delphia. Brother Parker sailed as pumpman, oiler and FWT. He SIU WaFARE, VACATION PLANS was born in Florida and lives in July I-July 31, 1968 Plant City, Florida. Engine department Seafarers Number of Amount Benefits are eligible to apply for any of the Paid upgrading programs if they are at Hospital Banofits (Wolfare) . .. 4,524 $ 50A>61.70 least 19 years of age and have 18 Death Benefits (Welfare) ..... 40 84,576.23 months of Q.M.E.D. watchstandDisability Benefits (Welfare) .. 1,187 261,200.00 ing time in the engine department, Maternity Benefits (Welfare) . . 30 6,000.00 plus six months experience as Dependent Benefits (Welfare) . 453 91,851.50 wiper or the equivalent. (Average: $202.79) Those who qualify and wish to 7,549.30 500 enroll in the School of Marine Optical Benefits (Welfare) ... 44,635.00 Engineering can obtain additional Out-Patient Benefits (Welfare) 5,658 information and apply for the SUMMARY (Welfare) 12,392 545,873.73 course at any SIU hall, or they Vacation Benefits 1,688 693,439416 can write directly to SIU head­ (Average: $410.81) quarters at 675 Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, New York 11232. The Total Welfare, Vacation Benefits Paid This Period .. 14km $1,239A13.59 telephone number is 212-Hyacinth 9-6600. �Scplaaber 18, 1968 Democrats' Rules Reforms Would Outlaw Discrimination . I*. Page Sevan SEAFARERS LOG The Key to fhe City CHICAGO—inaj(M- overhaul of the rules and procedures of the Democratic Party took shaj^ at its 35th national convention here last month in a series of actions aimed at encouraging broad participaticm in party affairs and eliminating racial discrimination in the selection delegates. The actions involved the rules themselves and contests over the seating of challenged delegations. The convention agreed to set up two q>ecial groups—a rules com­ mission to study and codify procedures for future conventions and a committee to assure that state party organizations offer full oppor­ tunity for participation in choosing convention delegates and alternates. But the most dramatic changes took place in the banning of the unit rule, the historic refusal to seat the entire Mississippi regular dele­ gation, and in compromise findings against two other regular delega­ tions from the South—Georgia and Alabama. The issue of the unit rule was the first dispute to reach the con­ vention floor. Under the rule, a majority of a state's delegation controls its votes as a bloc. The rules committee recommended that enforce­ ment be denied and that each delegate's vote be left to his "individual conscience." Texas, one of six southern states still applying the unit rule, led the fight to keep it in effect this year. But the convention shouted down the effort by a voice vote. The credentials challenges involved more than 800 delegates from 15 states. Most of them were brought by McCarthy supporters who sought unsuccessfully to increase their minority representation on vari­ ous state delegations. The major contests, however, came under a party directive adopted at the 1964 convention that a state delegation would not be seated if all voters, regardless of race, creed or color, had not bear given the chance "to participate fully" in party affairs and elections. Acting on this directive, the credentials committee refused to seat the regular Mississippi delegation and installed in its place the challeng­ ing group called the Loyal Democrats of Mississippi. Headed by NAACP leader Qiarles Evers, the Loyalist group is half black and half white and is made up of liberals and modaates in the state, including a numba of trade unionists. The committee's ruling was not disputed on the convention floor. In the Georgia case, the regular delegation—handpicked the state party chairman with the approval of Governor Lester Maddox—^was initi^ly challenged by the Georgia Democratic Forum, headed by E. T. Kdua of the AipL-CIO Department of Civil Rights. This group later gave way to the Loyal National Democrats of Georgia, made up predominantly of McCarthy supporters. The credentials committee found that issues of discrimination and party loyalty wae present in the case but that it would be unfair to oust the entire regular delegation. A compromise was reached seat­ ing both delegations and requiring a loyalty oath. The state's 41 convention votes wae divided equally between the two groups. The Alabama detection was challenged by two groups, one of wdiich argued that many of the regulars were loyal to segregationist third-party candidate George C. Wallace and the other made up mostly of Negroes, charging racial discrimination. The credentials committee called for replacement of 16 of the regulars who refused to certify their party loyalty. Lewis McCracken, 55, secretary-treasura of the Glass and Ceramic Workers for the past 25 years, died last month in Univer­ sity Hospital at Columbus, Ohio. He had suffaed a coronary attack Aug. 1 at the union's convention in Florida. McCracken, who was bom in Butler, Pa., went to work for the Franklin Glass Company there in 1933, helped organize the plant a year later, and became Local 15's financial secretary. He was elected secretary-treasurer of the International in 1943, and re-elected every two years thaeafta in the union's referendum election. The union will hold a special referendum to fill out the term which expires next April. * • • Two union officials are among five new members Secretary of LabPr Willard Wirtz has appointed to the Advisory Council on em­ ployee welfare and pension bene­ fit plans. The new labor members are John F. Tomayko, director of the Insurance, Pension and Un­ employment Benefits Department of the Steelworkers and Joseph H. Davis, president of the Washing­ ton State AFL-CIO. Jeremiah P. Sullivan, treasurer of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers since 1957, died in Flushing, N.Y. at 77 after an illness of several months. Ini­ tiated into IBEW Local 3 in 1912, Sullivan served his union and the New York City community in many official posts. Appointed in­ ternational treasurer 11 years ago, he won unanimous election at three subsequent conventions. At his death he was an executive board member of the city AFLCIO, the New York City Career Appeals Salary Board, the con­ tractor's licensing board of the city Dept. of Wata Supply, and a trustee of the Joint Board of the electrical industry and seven of its constituent funds. * « * Workers who make typewriters, calculators and adding machines at a Smith-Corona-Marchant Corp. plant in Orangeburg, S.C., voted for the Communications Workers in a National Labor Re­ lations Board election. The vote was CWA 657, no union 402 in what the NLRB said was the larg­ est group of workers organized since 1953 in South Carolina. Retreating into the past is a symptom of escapism and the many problems which confront the nation will not yield to nos­ talgic journeys into the past. The horse and carriage were long ago replaced by a fuel-burning and pollutionspewing contrivance of man which has brought both the world and the graveyard closer to his doorstep. For the most part, modem man now captures the serenity of the countryside by gazing at colorful calendars which are dis­ tributed by enterprising merchants. The decline in farming and of the mral economy has spurred a great population migration to the big cities which has re­ sulted in a greater and greater compression of people into smaller and smaller areas. The change in America did not come overnight. The industrial revolution sig­ nalled the beginning of the transformation from a rural to an urban society. In the early 1900's, waves of immigrants came to our shores to escape famine and oppression in far off lands. The abimdant job market offered by urban centers lured these hapless newcomers to the cities in search of food and housing. Then the back and knee were bent in obeisance to unprincipled employers who grew rich by subjecting their employees to long hours and inhuman working conditions that were rewarded with a pittance. No longer willing to submit to these indig­ nities, workers all over the nation started to march the long, hard road which led to a strong trade union movement. Many years have passed since the indus­ trial revolution and the great immigration influx. The nation has made great strides forward through the efforts of organized labor and legislators concerned with the public welfare. Despite these great advances made in the areas of human betterment during the first half of the twentieth century, the lives of millions of U.S. citizens are still blighted by the effects of poverty. This is why many of our cities seethe with frustration and dispair—the same frustration and dispair which prompted the emergence of the trade union movement. Will the poor always be with us? Yes, they will always be with us as long as some people consider them as a scourge or plague that is best tucked away in a crumbling tene­ ment or a tar-paper shack. The disappearance of poverty in this na­ tion will come about only when the poor can no longer be distinguished by their oc­ cupation or the color of their skin. �Pace Elcht SEAFARERS LOG light AJJitlonal Seafarers Added Te Crowing SlU Pension Roster The names of eight more Seafarers have been added to the growing list of men collecting an SIU pension after completing their sailing careers. The latest group welcomed to the pension ros­ ter include: Joseph Bwker, Max Steinsapir, Thomas Moller, Jose Dehesa, Clyde Heirs, Edward MacDonald, Leon Jordan and Ferdinand Hart. Joseph Booker sailed as deck engineer and FOW. A native of Georgia, he lives in Fitzgerald, Ga., Brother Booker joined -the Union in 1939 in Baltimore. He last shipped on the Keva Ideal. Max Steinsapir was bom in Sweden and makes his home in New York with his wife, Blanche. A member of the steward departHeirs MacDonald Jmdan Hart native of that state. Brother Jor­ Ferdinand Hart sailed since dan joined the Union in Mobile 1938 and joined in New York. in 1938. He sailed as chief cook Born in that city, he continues to and his last vessel was the Tuc- live there. A steward, his last ,son Victory. ship was the Steel Director. >Booker Steinsapir ment, he joined the SIU in 1946 in Savannah, Georgia. His last ship was the Albany. Another steward department Seafarer, Thomas Moller first Union Aide Halls Poultiy Act, Predicts Fight Over Fish September 13, 1968 Reagan Pitch on Grape Ban Refuted by Calif. AFL-CIO SAN FRANCISCO—^The California AFL-CIO has called a foul on Governor Ronald Reagan for spreading "false" infor­ mation about the grape pickers' strike and urged that, "instead of siding so vociferously with the growers," he induce them to bargain with the union the strikers have chosen to represent them. Last week Reagan ^nt wires to Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, the governors of Oregon and Washington and the mayors of San Francisco and Vancouver, B.C., calling the boy­ cott of California grapes "ill-advised" and an attempt to compel farm workers to join the union against their wishes. He claimed earnings of California farm workers are "the highest in the U.S." Secretary-Treasurer Thomas L. Pitts of the state AFL-CIO said government statistics show the average hourly rate in Wash­ ington state is higher and that in Hawaii "much higher." He said Reagan "conveniently overlooked" the fact that median earnings of the state's regular farm workers are less than $1,400 a year or $27 a week. "The workers want a union," Pitts said in rebuttal telegrams. "The UFWOC has offered to meet with the growers; the growers have steadfastly refused. The UFWOC has agreed to represen­ tation elections; the growers have refused." Elsewhere on the grape front, widespread support of the strikers continued to mount. Mayor Alfonso J. Cervantes of St. Louis ordered city employ­ ees to halt all purchases of California grapes as a "tangible in­ dication of support for striking agricultural laborers in Califor­ nia who seek union organization and free collective bargaining." The order parallels similar action in New York, Detroit, Chicago and other cities and an agreement by Cleveland chain grocers to post "Don't Buy" signs in their stores. The Boston Tea Party was re-created when 400 boycott sup­ porters threw grapes into Boston harbor at the site where Ameri« can colonists once threw British tea overboard. The Minnesota Rabbinical Association voted to implement a decision by the American Jewish Committee and eight other national Jewish organizations to protest "repressive measures" by growers against farm workers. The rabbis agreed to protest "intolerable" working conditions and urge their congregations to support the boycott. WASHINGTON—leading consumer spokesman for orga­ nized labor last week hailed the new and stronger federal poultry inspection law that expands the scope and effectiveness of efforts to assure that poultry is clean and safe for human consump­ fish inspection programs at either the state or federal level. tion. Interviewing Mayer were Nick Arnold Mayer, legislative rep­ Kotz of the Des Moines -Register, resentative for the Meat Cutters, said that while poultry "isn't in­ iind Alan Adams of Business herently critical or unhealthful," Week magazine. it spoils easily and can carry dis­ eases that can be transmitted to human beings. He said the new law will help assure consumers that they are buying wholesome Midler Dehesa birds that have been processed in shipped out during World War clean plants, and are getting their II. He joined the Union in New "money's worth." York and lives in Brooklyn with The union spokesman empha­ his wife, Mary. Brother Moller sized that in addition to safeguards is a native of Denmark and last WASHINGTON—^A survey prepared for a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee must be re­ in the processing of millions of sailed on the Albion Victory. pudiated, AFL-CIO President George Meany said. He called the survey an attempt to destroy Jose Dehesa sailed as steward pounds of uninspected poultry the American Institute for Free Labor Development. and joined the Union in the Port now sold each year, the law, for In a letter to the subcommit- ® ^ of New York. A native of the the first time, will apply to ware-- tee's chairman, Senator Wayne State and not delegated to a pri­ Ignored, Meany said, is the fact housing, distribution and retailing Philippine Islands, he makes his vate institution or contracted that "the GRIT general secretary Morse (D-Ore.), Meany charged out." home in San Francisco with his of the products. and four of the most important Mayer was interviewed on the the document was filled with "in­ wife, Dolores. Brother Dehesa "If this statement refers to of­ Latin American labor leaders are AFL-CIO produced Labor News accuracies, distortions, misrepre­ ficial U.S. government policy," on the AIFLD board of trustees last sailed on the Fairport. Clyde Heirs sailed in the stew­ Conference which is broadcast on sentations and contradictions." Meany said, "then it is impossi­ helping to formulate its policy." In publishing the survey, ble ard department as chief cook. A Tuesdays over the Mutual Radio as a recommendation appli­ "As a matter of fact," Meany Meany noted that the subcom­ cable to AIFLD because the latter native of Florida, he lives in Network. continued, "the AIFLD is sujpMaver said he is ciHifident that mittee had made it clear that "the is a voluntary organization, an ported by and Tampa with his wife, Jewell. in turn lends its Brother Heirs joined the SIU in both the meat and poultry inspec­ points of view expressed do not auxiliary of the AFL-CIO, with complete support to the GRIT that city and last shipped on the tion laws adopted by the 90th necessarily reflect the opinion of management representation in its and its affiliated organizations." Bradford Isle. Congress will be "effectively im­ the subcommittee or any member policy board." Similarly, Meany exploded a Edward MacDonald sailed on plemented" by the federal and thereof." 'Undemocratic Attitude' Nevertheless, Meany pointed survey conclusion that AIFLD the Great Lakes and was last state departments of agriculture out, the survey's contents "have "If this stat^ent is directed at "has involved the AFL-CIG in employed on ships of the Ameri­ charged with that responsibility. can Steamship Company's fleet. "It is true that the state com­ already been given wide circula­ the AIFLD," he added, "it is some awkward contradictions of A native of Canada, he lives in missioners of agriculture fought tion in the United States and tantamount to a call for its dis­ its principles that the trade unions Toledo with his wife, Frances. certain provisions of the (pqpltry) throughout Latin America," avowal by the U.S. government. should not be tied to political Brother MacDonald joined the law . . . and the major part of the sometimes as an official govern­ This attitude towards the relations parties." between the U.S. government and SIU in Detroit He held a fire­ meat inspection act," he noted. ment view. Cites Facts As an example of this, he cited voluntary organizations has no man's rating. But this is now the law of the The facts are^ Meany stated, Leon Jordan lives in Daphne, land and I assume they will abide a July 27 Moscow propaganda place in our democratic society," that the AFL-CIG has been work­ broadcast beamed into Central Alabama, with his wife, Inez. A by it." As an "obvious contradiction," ing for more than 20 years with He also pointed out that the law America which termed the sur­ Meany noted that the survey at organizations like CTM of Mex­ requires regular reports to Con­ vey proof that the U.S. govern­ one point criticized AIFLD be­ ico, OTP of Peru and CTV of gress and the public on its imple­ ment, the AFL-CIO and "Ameri­ cause "many Latins view it as an Venezuela "and many other ma­ can monopolies" are trying to instrument of U.S. government" mentation and operation. "subvert" Latin America. and in another section recom­ jor trade union confederations Mayer predicted that fish in­ survey was made by Rob­ mended more U.S. government that have direct ties to political spection will be a major consumer ertThe parties." H. Dockery, a former research control over AIFLD. issue in Congress next year, and assistant Furthermore, he said the AFLMeany attacked an attempt by that the fight for such a program Union. in the Pan American CIG has maintained "warm, close Dockery to portray AIFLD as will be even harder than the Meany pointed at one of the being in competition with the relations" with the Trade Union battles for meat and poultry in­ recommendations that "decisions Inter-American Regional Orga­ Congress of Great Britain since spection. That is so, he said, be­ relating to official United States- nization of Workers (GRIT) in 1894, and it "is more closely tied cause fish presents "miH-e serious Latin American policy and pro­ helping to promote economic with a political party than any problems than meat and poultry," grams should be under the firm growth and social justice in Latin free labor naticmal center in Latin and there are now no mandatory control of the Department of America. America." •ii \ Repudiate Survey Attucking AiFLD, AFLCIO President Meuny Urges P0NtFQR6ET1O •I'; i i. ' 1 f' *'j. 1. .i'- �September 13, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG Pace Nine li all started Wfih ft' " '. -; :M- 'T • ^ ' of ships, from the earliest, | most primitive canoe-like contraption to the mod­ ern 69,000-ton giant tanker, has been spurred from the very beginning by man's quest for treasure. From the Viking's fearsome fighter to today's freighter, the transition has been mothered by man's needs. In the process, the discovery of the New World has been an incidental by-product of the main stream of adventure. Four thousand years ago the cedar-built trading vessels of the Phoenicians were a common sight in the Aegean Sea. Probably the best-known of the^cient sailors, these people brought jewels and gold across the Mediterranean. In the process, they built cities too—Tarshis of the Bible once stood where Cadiz stands today. These cities were primarily trading-stations. There was as yet no need for colonization as such. ! Even before the Phoenicians, the Sumerians of Mesopotamia exported their goods via vessels belong­ ing to a sea-faring people called the Magan, who sailed the Persian Gulf. These seafarers of long ago sailed to Britain for Cornish tin, to Nomay for dried fish. From the Red Sea to the Cape of Good Hope and then home through the Strait of Gibraltar led the trail of adven­ ture, the search for the world's treasure of every de­ scription. In the process, they became highly skilled seamen and navigators. In that same process, they charted newly discovered lands, firing the imagination of others with whatever goods they brought back and with tales of what they saw. One of the most famous of those early sailors was Hanno of Carthage, who, in the early 5th Century, B. C., visited the "Fortunate Isles"—known today as the Canary Islands—and sailed as far as the Cameroons, exploring the wild African Coast en route. Hanne was probably the first white man ever to see a gorilla, for he found an island off the Cameroons in­ habited by these great apes, which he described as "hairy savages which clawed and bit." Who hasn't heard of Homer's Odyssey, the story of the famous hero of the Bronze Age in what is today Greece? The people of that area were the most famous sailors of their day. They were, however, in­ distinguishable from pirates. A galley would board a trader, kill the crew, steal the cargo and sail away before an enemy galley could take action. From time to time raids were made on coastal tovms for plunder. Odysseus stayed away from home 10 years while patient Penelope piously protected her chastity... we can only surmise that there were more deliberate reasons for his prolonged absence than not being able to find his way borne because these were i': . excellent navigators. The early Norsemen left crude rock-carvings scat­ ''' tered about Standinavia which included carvings of lli camels and leopards, strange creatures indeed fir that neck of the woods. Their pictographs include shipSi shields and ither items clearly Egyptian in oricin. At the beginning of the 5fh century—-about a hun­ dred years before the Romans finally left Britain— %• the Saxons yrere raiding the east coasts of England in their fast, shallow-draught long boats. When the Romans left, the Saxons poured in, looking for such treasures as English tin. Many of them settled there, only to be conquered by the Vikings, the great war­ riors and great builders of the unexcelled, open longships. One must not imagine that the Vikings spent all their time fighting. They were great traders, pushing across Russia to the Black Sea, the Tigris, and into the seas of Western Europe and the Mediterranean. Their greatest discovery was made in 1000 A.D., when a Viking named Leif &icsson landed on a new continent, though it is questionable whether he knew it. They named the new land Vine Land, apparently impressed by the well-laden grapevines they had found. The Vikings sent further expeditions and settled in the New Land, first trading with the Indians and th^ fighting them. They carried many fine and unusual products back to Norway. , The longboat gave way to the squat gaUeon ... the emphasis going from fighting ship to cargo carrier. We perhaps like to think of the Criisades as "holy wars"—which they were, in a sense. However, much evidence exists that the religious aspect was more or less an excuse to raid the rich countries of the East. Again, the search for the world's treasures led many men to the land of silks and spices and jewels. The Venetian, Marco Polo, starting out in 1271, accompanied his father and uncle on an eastern, over­ land expedition which was peaceful. They reached China after four years of travels which were incred­ ible for their time and reported on the wonders they had found. Stories of the untold wealth'of China and India started many expeditions towards those "fabulous lands of mystery," and much of our Western culture still leans toward thinking of this part of the world in similar terms. A Portuguese prince, Henry the Navigator, ex­ plored the west coast of Africa as early as 1440, esr tablishing a slave and gold trade. He founded a school for the study (rf geography and navigation which had much to do with starting a man named Christopher Columbus on the idea of getting to India. When Bartholomew Diaz rounded the Cape of Good Hcpe^ 1486 and sailed on the waters of the Indian (Xcan, a new rqute and a new vista to the treasures of India were opened. Columbus sold the idea of his expedition to India to S^ain after being turned down by England and by Portugal. The selling point was access to the wealth he believed he would find in the Indies. The great ad­ venturer died never knowing he had found a New World. Not all the adventurers were successful. History emphasizes only those who made it. Jailors had brought rumors to England of the won­ derful perfumes and spices which could be gathered in the mysterious and unexplored Far East. A group of well-to-do English noblemen formed the EnglishRussian (Muscovy) Company in 1553, pooling to­ gether 6,000 pounds—a sizable fortune for those days—to get to Far Cathay. On May 10, 1553, three little ships set out for thib great treasure-hunt—the 120-ton Bona Esperanza, the 160-ton Edward Bonaventure and the little 90^ ton Bona Confidentia. Those who manned them were adventurers, not navigators, however, and th^ had no knowledge of weather or other conditions they would encounter. The ships were soon separated by howling gales. The Bona Esperanza ended up in Lapland, where the frozen bodies of the entire crew were later found. The Edward Bonaventure made it as far as Russia and later returned to England with breathless stories of the barbaric magnificence of Ivan the Terrible's court and the great opportunities for trade. The fate of the third ship is unknown. Spanish adventurers like Cortes and Pizarro were more direct and ruthless. They milked the area that is now Mexico, Central and South America of gold and other precious metals, leaving a trail of blood, plunder and intrigue as their treasure ships returneid to Spanish ports. Not only did they bring valuable booty, but excited all of Europe with tales of a great city of fabulous wealth wherein was reputed to dwell the Man of Gold, El Dorado. As a result the dis­ covery of El Dorado became the fantastic dream and the irresistible lure of innumerable adventurers. The English, not averse to gold, formed the Vir­ ginia Company in 1606, and Sir Walter Raleigh was one of its stars. The story about Walter, stressing his gallantry, is famous—^what is less known is the fact that he was executed in 1618 by an angry King James I for attacking Spanish settlements instead of getting on with the job of bringing back gold from the legendary El Dorado. While all this was going on, the history books tell of the pirates who were ostensibly operating separate­ ly from the colonizers and the adventurers. Pirates and patriots, however, are indistinguishable. Sir Wal­ ter Raleigh could well be regarded as a pirate. Merchants didn't tend to question the sources of their goods, so long as they were cheap. Smuggling became a regular facet of commerce. The slave trade was very lucrative, and a fortune could readily be made by hi-jacking ships on the high seas. The famous—or infamous—Jean Lafitte was a prime example. Raider, privateer, slave-runner, he became the darling of New Orleans when Andrew Jackson called upon him and his skilled gunners to take their places behind United States artillery pieces and the British, who were closing in on the city, were decisively defeated. ' John Paul Jones, the American navel hero, was a;*3 free-booter and, after his memorable service to ther! United States navy, ended up by serving the Russian' \ navy. . ^ Man's -sarch for treasure has opened up vast Q areas of the world to colonization and has led to hist ^ tory's great explorations. But always it was the lurebp^ of riches which drove men on through daring and ,'A danger. All else was a by-produci through wbich his- J tOry was made. ^ �SEAFARERS LOG Page Ten Almost everyone drives today. Unfortunately, however, accident rates continue to be far too high and result in a devastating annual toll of lives lost.and serious injuries. Following are excerpts from a timely National Safety Council booklet on highway panic preventers. How many of us—or mem­ bers of our families—would automatically remember what to do in the event of one or all of these sudden dangerous situations which may confront us on the nation's crowded highways today? Panic can be our worst highway enemy, as these pointers by experts illustrate. Yonr Brakes Fail You step on the brake. Noth­ ing happens! It's a terrifying ex­ perience. However, there are ways to stave off disaster if you don't allow yourself to panic. First, pump the pedal. You may be able to work up enough pressure to help some. No pressure? If the way is clear ahead, coast in drive gear and use the parking brake. If you need to slow up more quick­ ly, shift into a lower forward gear and let the engine help. On a hill? Look for something to sideswipe—roadside brush, a snowbank, a guard-rail, even parked cars. Use your horn and lights to warn other drivers and pedestrians that you are in trouble. You Go into a Skid You can be thrown into a dan­ gerous skid by abrupt turns, sud­ den lane changes, or hard brak­ ing—especially on wet or icy roads. If your rear end starts to slide, take your foot off the gas. Never turn hard away from the direc­ tion of the skid. Instead, turn your wheels in the same direc­ tion to which the rear of your car is skidding. Don't oversteer. When you feel the car regaining traction strmghten the wheels. Always avoid hitting the brakes. To stop most safely, pump yoa brakes hard and rapidly. The Acceloafm- Sticks You let up on the gas pedal and nothing happens. First, try to pull the pedal up with the toe of your shoe or have a front seat passenger do it. Whatever you do, don't try to reach down yourself. To st(^ quickly, turn off the ignition and brake to a st(^. Re­ member, however, that if you have power brakes and steering, these become very difficult to manipulate once the engine is off. You can always leave the engine on and shift into neutral but re­ member to stop quickly and pre­ vent racing of the engine which hurts the car's motor. Your Headlights Go Out There's only one thing to do— brake as hard as you can without skidding and strive to hold a straight course. Get off the road or off to one side quickly. Once stopped, use flares or a flashlight to warn oncoming traf­ fic. Use of a four-way flasher is the safest. If everything in your car is dead, your problem is probably the battery cable. Check both terminals. If only the headlights are out, the chances are good that only the circuit breaker has opened. With a rest, it should open and close, giving you enough light to reach safety. Yon Have a Blowont Keep a firm and steady grip on the steering wheel. DON'T OVERSTEER to correct the swerve. Above all, don't slam on the brakes! Sudden braking may throw you into a spin or out of control. Braking smoothly, get onto the shoulder and find a level place to change the tire safely. Day or night, set flares or other devices and turn on flashers. Yonr Hood FUes Up Brake smoothly and get off the road or as far to the nearest side as possible. You'll have to depend entirely upon the view from your side and your mirrors. On some cars you may be able to peek through the gap under the hinge end of the hood. To prevent this dangerous, pos­ sibility, check your hood latch regularly after each time it has been opened. Yon Are Forced to Sttqp on a Highway Oh a road with paved shoul­ ders, signal and pull off at near traffic speed. On unpaved shoul­ SeptemlMr 13, 1968 ders, make sure you slow down to a safe speed before turning off. Leave headlights on—^lowbeam in darkness, dusk or bad weather. Use four-way flashers if you have them. Whether in daylight or at night, place a flare or other device just behind the car and another at least 300 feet fur­ ther back. Get everyone out of the car and away from traffic. Raise the hood and tie a white handker­ chief, or similar banner, to the antenna or left door handle as a signal if you need help. Your Car Catches Fire Pull over to the side immedi­ ately. Use a fire extinguisher on burning wires. If you have none, try to smother burning wires with any bulky article of clothing. Don't use your bare hands—elec­ trical bums can be serious. Never waste time trying to disconnect battery terminals. Get the jack handle from the trunk and rip loose any burning wires. Try to flag down a passing trucker—they carry good extinguishers. If the fire is beyond your con­ trol, get everyone away from the car before any possible explosion of the gas tank. You Are on a C<dlision Course A head-on collision is the worst of all accidents. If a car is speed­ ing towards you in your lane, brake hard and head for the right shoulder. Don't try to outguess him and swerve left. He may go back to his own lane. If the onrushing car continues towards you, get off the road— but not into any hard obstruction. Even a roll-over gives you a bet­ ter chance than a head-on. Your Car Plunges into Wat«r A car with windows and doors closed will float from three to ten minutes. The best escape, how­ ever, is through a window. It is difficult to open a door against water pressure, but windows roll down easily. With power win­ dows which may short out quickly, maximum speed of action is mandatory. Your side and rear windows can be broken only with a heavy, hard object. A front-engine car will sink nose first, and it may be easier to open a door when air is pushed tq the rear. Even frmn such a precarious situation as this, there is usually time to escape if you don't panic. if" August 23 to Septennbor 5, 1968 P8CK DIPARTMINT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED _______ Boston New York ... Philadelphia . Baltimore ... Norfolk Jacksonville . Tampa Mobile ...... New Orleans Houston Wilmington .. San Francisco Seattle foWs 1 All Groops Class A aaasB 4 3 66 60 6 7 20 12 8 22 12 7 4 6 19 24 29 33 70 34 18 17 31 61 16 22 331 268 2 40 6 13 14 7 3 6 28 29 18 16 20 201 AD Groniw lA ClaasB ClaaaC 2 1 17 34 3 3 14 7 7 4 4 7 6 1 3 21 17 2 29 10 18 13 49 38 8 14 113 198 ENGINf DVARTMINT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED All Groni Port Boston New York ... Philadelphia . Baltimore ... Norfolk Jacksonville . Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington .. San Francisco Seattle fotals Port Boston New York .. Philadelphia . Baltimore ... Norfolk Jacksonville. . Tampa Mobile New OrleanaHouston Wilmington . San Francisco Seattle Totals ..... 4. Class A ClaaaB 6 2 66 82 6 8 18 22 8 12 10 16 6 8 22 21 17 21 22 42 8 21 39 43 14 13 229 310 qasaAfla-gq—C 3 12 37 41 14 4 72 16 12 6 8 9 7 10 14 10 6 13 6 4 9 0 20 18 2 23 26 17 7 21 8 33 29 33 16 12 10 186 212 116 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL RB6ISTERHD An Groui All Groupa aaasBda-C ClaasA CII^B' 2 31 8 13 8 4 7 14 26 26 11 32 21 W 3 20 5 13 10 7 3 7 16 27 8 68 10 186 0 34 1 9 7 & 1 4 20 26 6 40 13 167 0 17 4 9 7 6 3 1 6 10 6 63 7 ,129 1 11 6 10 11 16 3 0 1 3 10 23 4 98 REGISTERED on BEACH AD Groupa Class A Class B 13 8 197 103 19 14 87 14 27 22 20 6 16 12 73 39 129 98 139 116 38 1 72 14 20 6 860 461 RBGIffTERED en BEACH AD Groups OSMA ClaasB 6 4 116 104 16 16 67 36 17 20 18 16 2 16 63 42 73 121 96 109 14 0 63 11 9 7 64^ 499 REGISTERED en BEACH An GrouM aa-AflaSsB 6 129 18 64 22 6 11 64 109 86 14 60 16 694 4 60 13 40 21 10 6 26 71 49 0 39 7 336 �September IS, 1968 New Ship Tracking Service Started in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO—radiotelephone communications serv­ ice here which keeps track of ship movements and visibility control, has been proven so successful it has been placed on an around-the-clock basis, it was announced recently by the chair­ man of the Marine Exchange of the San Francisco Bay Region. All j-adiotelephone reports between ships and the ^change, as well as between operators of tugs and other equipment, will be recorded on a special slow-speed recorder, which can run continuously for 24 hours. Two of these units, to be operated on an alternate basis have been installed at the exchange's main look­ out station at Pier 45, San Francisco. San Francisco was the first port in the nation to adopt a comprehensive harbor ship radio plot program. It was placed in operation in January, 1967, being gradually extended until now the service is continuous around the clock. The idea for the communications system was formulated after a study was made of the set-up devis^ by the Federal Aviation Authority to record plane movements around an airport. The FAA aircraft control system also operates on a 24-hour basis. A similar layout to the Port of San Francisco system is being duplicated for the Port of Philadelphia so Delaware Bay shipping traffic can be kept under study. The U.S. Coast Guard is also experimenting with combinations of radio-telephone and elec­ tronic equipment applications to record ship traffic and visibility control. San Francisco's system provides for recording conversations between ship and shore not only in the Bay area and the Golden Gate but in the connecting rivers and waterways, according to the exchange chairman. Captain J. W. Dickover. The operation uses a graphic display console and moveable tiles to represent commercial ships, U.S. Navy vessels and other harbor traffic. Some 5,000 vessels arrive in the bay area annually. Designer of the system was William Nations, a port radio officer for a shipping line. The system, in its 18 months of opera­ tion, has receiv^ the endorsement of all maritime interests in the San Francisco area. SEAFARERS LOG Page Steven Wash. AFL-CIO Bids Strong Action To Save Lagging Maritime Industry SPOKANE, Wash.—A comprehensive resolution calling for the revitalization of the nation's merchant marine, shipbuilding and fishing industries was adopted by the Washington State AFLCIO Labor Council at its convention here last month. Submitted by the Puget Sound District Council of the nition of the need fw a greatly industry "which will produce AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ expanded shipbuilding program to benefits for citizens- of all the na­ include modem cargo and passen­ tions of the world from food and partment, the resolution strongly ger vessels and nuclear-powered minerals found in the oceans" dissented from the policies of ships. and requested appropriations to Secretary Alan S. Boyd of the Also requested were appropri­ assist in this endeavor. Department of Transportation, Copies of the resolution were ations for conversion of ships which, it made clear, would fur­ which can "usefully serve our sent to the President of the ther seriously impair the maritime maritime purposes" and subsidies United States, all appropriate industry. "as may be needed to make our agencies and the AFL-CIO unions "The maritime industry, with merchant marine and maritime involved. all its component parts," the res­ industry an effective instrument Criticizes Transpmlation Dept olution declared, "is vital to our for employment and defense." The labor body scored the De­ national economy, and even more Effective taxation, limitation partment of Transportation for its vital as an arm of national d^ense and regulation of runaway flag and as a producer of food. ships and strict enforcement— position on building American "We have seen a number of without exceptions—of existing flag vessels in foreign yards and foreign nations greatly improve Maritime laws providing for 50 its reconunendation that the Mar­ their fishing, shipbuilding and percent of Government cargoes to itime Administration be placed maritime activities — some of be carried in United States bot­ under the jurisdiction of that them at our expense and with toms, and, in fact "to increase Department. It also made clear its dissent the blessing of our administra­ the present 50 percent require­ from DOTs move to eliminate tion, which either does not care ment to 75 percent" were insisted existing tax-free capital resCTve or else is adhering to a foreign upon. funds and phase out subsidized policy which can only lead to As regards the fishing industry, American flag passenger liners, disaster and a rapid disintegra­ the resolution asks for ceilings on tion of the entire maritime indus­ imports of fishery products, and and pointed out that DOT has try. . ." products of other domestic indus­ offered neither commitments nor plans for any fleet expansion. The position adopted called for tries, now threatened with extinc­ "In the past 20 years," the immediate action by organized tion because of over-importation. labor body noted, "this country Legislation was also called for labor, to present to the next ses­ sion of the Congress, the need for to prescribe basic rules for the has slipped from first to sixth the creation of an independent maritime industry—^mandatory in place among the world's maritime Maritime Agency and for recog- application—in order to insure leaders in terms of shipping . . . United States flag ships are carry­ healthy shipbuilding and fishing ing only 5.6 percent of this coun­ industries, and asked that such try's export-import cargo." mles be "part of our national policy." During the same period, it Also, the resolution urged rec­ added, this country "has slipped ognition of oceanography and from first to sixteenth" in terms related sciences in establishing an of shipbuilding. SlU-Contracted Long Lines Rnlshes New Stateside-Caribbean Pbone Ties SAN JUAN, Puerto Rko—The SlU-contracted C.S. Long Lines, operated by Isthmian Lines, Inc., recently finished laying cable to complete a new, modem, 1,300 mile telephone hook-up between the continental United States and the Caribbean islands. A 17,000 ton vessel, the Long ^ of the cable was buried beneath radio operation from St. Thomas. Lines stopped here to load the ocean floor off Jacksonville The Long Lines completed enough cable for the remaining Beach by a specially designed sea the $33-million joint cable instal­ few hundred miles of the route plow which earlier has been used lation contract for the American from Jacksonville Beach, Fla., to to successfully bury sections of Telephone and Telegraph Com­ St Thomas in the Virgin Islands. cable off the New Jersey coast. pany, ITT World CommtmicaA substantial reduction in tele­ One difficult stage of the Long tions Inc., RCA Global Commu­ phone rates—with government Lines assignment was to lay 67 nications Inc., and Western Union approval—^is expected to go into miles of cable across a stretch of International Inc. and now will efifect now that the cable-laying the Atlantic Ocean, known as the lay a 388-mile-long cable between project is finished. Puerto Rican trench. This is the St. Thomas and the Dominican The largest and most modem deepest part of the ocean in the Republic. This will be a 144of cable ships, the Long Lines Caribbean and the cable had to be channel facility, costing $5.8 pays out cable and its repeaters— laid at depths of nearly five nau­ million. amplifiers that are spliced ^o the tical miles. The cable system has Placed in service in 1963, the cable to strengthen the signal— been linked to the Commonwealth Long Lines has laid more than from its stem. A 180,0i00-pound of Puerto Rico by a microwave 17,000 miles of undersea cable. electro-hydraulic engine, which has grips similar to the treads of a caterpillar tractor, controls the smooth, even passage of the cable from storage tank to water. The Long Lines was recently outfitted with new electronic test­ ing equipment for the tran­ sistorized Florida-Virgin Islands system and a new satellite navi­ gational system also was installed. The vessel is owned by Trans­ oceanic Cable Ship Company, a subsidiary of the American Tele­ phone and Telegraph Company. A total of 720 calls can be car­ ried at one time on the cable which is larger in diameter than any previous installation in the Caribbean area and has transis­ torized repeaters. The cable is the first to be pro­ tected from the outset against The most modern cable ship afloat, the SlU-contracted C.S. Long damage by commercial &hing Lines pays out deep-sea cable through the stern chute while trav­ nets and dredges. Forty-five ihiles eling at speeds up to eight knots in the waters of the Caribbean. SlU-SOA Pharmaeist Mate SehoiA Seeks fir// Qualifkatien fer 200 NEW YORK—As a result of talks with officials of the Public Health Service Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Ga., the SIUNA-affiliated Staff Officers Association has begun a twofold move to have almost and proceed directly to its dock in 200 pharmacist mates qualified Bayonne, N. J., was Chester Robto request advance health clear­ bins, aboard the Export Bay when ance for U.S.-flag merchant ships it entered New Yoric Harbor in entering American ports. Twenty- July. eight such pursers are entitled to War Vets to Study this privUege at present. The second step to increase the Burt Lanpher, SOA secretarynumber of pharmacist mates en­ treasurer, who made the an­ titled to request clearance, said nouncement, said the first step will be to provide a refresher Lanpher, will be to send 100 or course for the 26 pharmacist more purser-pharmacists who re­ mates who were in the first grad- ceived their ratings in World II back to school for three months iiating class of the SOA-sponsored study of new medical techniques, Pharmacist Mate Training School drugs and environmental health at the USPHS Hospital on Staten developments. This special cur­ Island, N. Y., in June. 1967, This riculum will be developed and im­ course will include foreign quar­ plemented as soon as possible, antine instructions, which was not Lanpher said. part of the initial curriculum. Regular students at the SOA Lanpher said this retraining Pharmacist Mate Training School will begin within a month at the must put in 1,080 hours in an in­ Staten Island-based school. tensive nine-month course, which The second class of graduates includes long periods in the hos­ from the school—^which included pital's emergency room, the lab­ 27 men and one woman—under­ oratory and the operating room. went the quarantine training and It was the quality of the schotfl's upon graduation they were certi­ training and the required instruc­ fied by the U. S. Public Health tion in quarantine procedure that Service and the Coast Guard as led the Public Health Service to qualified to request and obtain the officially recognize the school and health clearance after reporting on grant health clearance privileges health conditions aboard ship. This to its graduates. The school was class graduated in June of this establi^ed last year to provide year. expert medical care fm: seamen The first pharmacist mate to be aboard all U.S.-fiag merchant granted permission to have his ships—a much needed service that ship bypass quarantine inspection, was lacking for years. �Page Twdve Seafarer Aiming at College Degree While Following Fathers Footsteps Seafarer Walter H. Cook, Jr. is getting a chance to see the worid, learn a trade and save up enough money to attend college, wMe sailing as messman aboard the Halcyon Steamship Company vessel. Halcyon Panther. The ship most recently sailed to Trinidad and India, and bunkered at Singapore, and then headed for a San Di"90 percent out of that port and trips concerned voyages on the ego pay-off. 50 percent of the time on Delta Alcoa Cavalier and the Inez. Dur­ Toung Cook, who is the son Lines ships." ing a very important moment in of now-retired Seafarer Walter H. his life, Brother Cook was on the "My first trip was on the old Cook, Sr., an SIU man for many Cavalier when it called on the years, realized that the elder Cook Del Norte," he recalled. "She had port of Kingston, Jamaica. "I re­ did not have the money to send accommodations for 33 passen­ ceived a radiogram there that Wal­ him through a college. So, .the gers and on that trip, we had 32 ter, Jr., was bom," he said. "Then youth attended the Harry Lunde- female school teachers and one later on I was aboard the old Bull berg School of Seamanship in New male passenger. It's probable the Line ship Inez, when the com­ Orleans. He then picked up the latter had a good trip." The work. pany went broke. We were in the Halcyon Panther in Houston, for Brother Cook remembers was hard port of Aden, Arabia at the time and the pay low in those early his first voyage. days. "I sailed as passenger waiter. and the crew had to be flown Walter's trip means he will be On those ships, you had to feed home by a chartered BOAC late entering school, but the flight." youngster doesn't mind. A student Before moving to Hattiesburg at Petal High School in Hattiesabout eight years ago, the family burg, Mississippi, he will begin lived in New Orleans, from which the 11th grade next term. A good port Cook believes he has "cme student, he's always had A's or B's of the oldest books" ever issued. and, as the senior Cook pointed "Sailing is a good career since we out, "he's so determined to go to became tmionized," he declared. college he won't mind the make­ "I worked for $25 a month. Wal­ up work." The pay the youngster ter, Jr., on the other hand will makes as a Seafarer is "better make about $1,500 in less than than he can do around here and three months. I am proud of the Cook Sk. and Cotdc Jr. we figure the travelling will not honor of being a member of the only pay for his education, but the passengers, then attend to their SIU and down through the years, will be part of it and a sound cabins. Those passenger ships I have watched it grow steadily foimdation for a careo* at sea as were real workhouses then, but I into the ereat maritime union that well," his father said. it is today," the Georgia-bom miss them." Cook stated. Brother Cook enjoyed the South "W<Hiderfnl Experience" "Thanks to the SIU," he said, This view is shared by the American run with Delta. Sailing "I know that my pension check frequently on the Del Norte, Del school's principal. When Mrs. will be in the mail box and I can Delia Cook explained why he'd Mar and Del Sud, he "made a continue to walk down the street be late railing to class, the Prin­ shakedown trip on the Del Mar," with my head in the air and pride cipal thought it was "an exceUent when that vessel first left the ship­ in my heart. But, I still miss the experience"—one that would be yard shorly after World War II. old rust buckets, going here, there "equal to a year in college." Wal­ He has also made numerous trips and everywhere" he added nos­ ter, who has been saving his money to India on wheat-carrying vessels. talgically. "I'd do it again if I since he was 12 years old, seems Two of his most noteworthy could." most interested in electronics or machinery, his mother told the LOG. Young Cook worked on TV re­ pairing around Hattiesburg prior to sailing. In addition to seeing the sights and learning the customs Brian Keith Comett, bom Au­ Eloheyo George, bom April 26, of such places as India, Singapore gust 12, 1968, to Seafarer and 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wil­ and Trinidad, the good food on Mrs. Clyde M. Coriiett, Duliam George, Florida City, Fla. SIU ships seems to be agreeing Quoin, Illinois. with him and "he's gaining some Stefan Czerwinski, bom August weight," his father said. ^ 6, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rob»t L. Scott, Jr., born June The elder Cook has done a good deal of traveling himself during Aleksander Czerawinski, Brook­ 24, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert L. Scott, Sr., Mobile, Ala­ a sailing career that began on lyn, New York. bama. Christmas Eve of 1924, That first Michad Weaver, born July 7, trip was up and down the Atlantic —— 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Coastline. The 61-year-old Sea­ Emed Perrelra, bom July 26, farer, who went on SIU pension George M. Weaver. 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Clif­ in 1965, sailed in all three departs ford Perreira, Redwood City, ments, but primarily in the stew­ Carrie Hall, born December 22, Califomia. ard department. After joining the 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. James (tf Union in New Orleans, he sailed T. Hall, Grimstead, Va. Kyle Powe, bom July 28, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs, James A. Ruth Ann Visits Yokohama Powe, Mobile, Ala. ^ Douglass Torbeci^ bom July 31, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Warren Torbeck, Brooklyn, New York. —r<l> David Daniels, bom August 2, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Dixie W. Daniels, Wanchese, N. C. —<!>— Eric Walker, bom August 21, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Larry G. Walker, New Orleans, La. ^ Seafarers on the Ruth Ann (Alpine Geophysical) relax on deck at the North Pier in Yokohama. From left: Bosun Hank Murranka, ABs O. Vadstrom and Sal Conselino. The Ruth Ann is a research ship and has a great deal of unique equipment, the crewmen reported. September 13, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG John Hardin, bom July 31, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Homer D. Hardin, Port Arthur, Texas. Seafarers Donation Aids Japan Hospital Labor Will Lose If Nixon Wins To The Editor: To the Editor: I am taking this opportunity to convey to you personally the sincerest thanks of myself and all associated with the Bluff Hospital, Yokohama, for the magnificent donation of $5,000, which the Seafarers Internanational Union has made to assist us in our expansion pro­ gram. I was honored at a function held here by your Union's rep­ resentative and attended by the American General Consul, among others, where this fine donation was presented to me. We are deeply indebted to all members- of your Union for your close interest and assist­ ance with this project. This contribution will go a long way in helping with the realization of our goals. Our new hospital wing, which is presently under constmction, will contain compre­ hensive and modem medical facilities, which I believe will be a source of comfort to all mem­ bers of the Seafarers Intemational Union, should they be­ come ill in this part of the world. It is our wish to record in some permanent manner, this contribution by naming a pa­ tient's room in the new sea­ men's ward after the SIU. Our new wing should be completed sometime in late September of this year and will be officially opened early in October. Sincerely, L. R. Khson, MB. €h. B. Director Bhiff Hos|ritaI Ytrfnriiania, Japan As I see it the upccuning election is a very important one which labor can ill afford to take lightly, especially since the Republicans nominated Rich­ ard Nixon, a man who has never ^expressed many pro-la­ bor opinions and who has shown already that he may well be pressured by downright antilabor forces if he manages to get into the White House. During the recent Miami convention, Strom Thurmond and the ultra-conservatives seem to exert a great influence on Nixon. Such influence, togeth­ er with a Republican controlled Congress could make it mighty difficult to get needed pro­ gressive programs enacted. All workers must bear this in mind and make sure they vote for Humphrey come November and see to it that progress in our nation is not allowed to come to a standstill. Eric Thomas ^— Seafarer's Wife Grateful to Union To The Editmr: While recuperating from an illness, I wish to take this op­ portunity to express my grati­ tude for the assistance the Un­ ion gave me in meeting the fi­ nancial obligations caused by my illness. It was indeed comforting to know that I had a friend in the SIU. May you continue to succeed in your riForts to make the working and living condi­ tions of your members the best that is possible. Thank you most sincerely. Mrs. Carol Rolflnson Wife of Seafarer Winley Robinson (R-341) Sprii]^eld Gardens, N.Y. ^ ft* o THe B dit or Platforms Spark Hope for Maritime Expresses Thanks For Union's Help To The Editor: To The Editor: Words cannot express our ap­ preciation for the aid that the Union has given my wife Bessie in obtaining two hearings aids. From the bottom of our hearts, we say thanks. To my Brothers in the SIU, you belong to the best Union there is. I wish to say once again, there will be no other union like the SIU. To all offi­ cers of the Union, thanks a^ain for all you have done for me. Sincerely, Rrank E. Gardner Book Number G 173 ^ Thanks SIU Crew For Kind Gesture To The Editor: I wish to thank the Seafarers and officers of the S.S. James who donated money to buy flowers for the funeral of the mother of hosun Joe Green. She passed awaying during a re­ cent voyage and Brother Green is very appreciative of the sym­ pathy shown by the crew. Sincerely, William "Flatt<^" Koflowitch Ship's Delegate Both the Democratic and Republican parties have in­ cluded in their platforms a plank pledging aid to the mari­ time industry. It was interest­ ing to see that the Democratic Party specifically accepted the "build-American" viewpoint'so strongly advocated by the SIU, the AFL-CIO and the Mari­ time Trades Department. This plank implies direct criticism of the viewpoint con­ sistently expressed by Alan S. Boyd, the Transportation Sec­ retary, who has called for heavy shipbuilding in foreign yards. This is encouraging. It also seems fitting that Hale Boggs, chairman of the plat­ form committee and long-time friend of the merchant marine, was the man who presented the platform to the convention delegates in Chicago. I'm sure everyone in the maritime industry joins me in the hope that this will be the beginning of a new, vigorous, pro-maritime policy — regard­ less of the next Administration in Washington—following the November electi(Mi and with the start of the 91st Congress next January. Sbicefdy, John SuIUvan •I �September IS, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG FINAL DEPARTURES Louis Come, 71: Brother Corne passed away on July 19, at Englewood Hospital in Englewood, N. J. He sailed as steward and had been on an SIU pension since De­ cember of 1962. Brother Corne joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1943. His last ship was the Seatrain Louisiana. A native of New York, he lived in Tenafly, N. J. Surviving is his widow, Pauline. Burial services were held in Mt. Carmel Ceme­ tery, Tenafly. ^ I >• - r • Rupert Smltb, 54: Brother Smith died in Visakhapatnam, India, July 14, while sailing aboard the Missouri. A mem­ ber of the en­ gine department. Brother Smith joined the Union in Baltimore. He was born in Dur­ ham, N. C., and made his home in Houston. His last previous vessel was the Penn Transport. He served in the Army during World War II. Surviving is his mother, Mrs. Mary Pearl Elkins Smith, of Durham. Edward O'Brien, 49: A heat stroke and pneumonia claimed the life of Seafarer O'Brien on July 30, in New York City, He sailed as FOWT and join­ ed the Union in the Port of New York. A native of Richmond Hill, Queens, N. Y. Brother O'Brien resided there. He last sailed on the Yaka. During World War II, he served in the Marine Corps. Burial services were held at the Calvary Ceme­ tery, New York City. ^ Charlie Jones, 43: Brother Jones died on August 5 in Norfolk, Va. He was bom in Spout Spring, Va. and made his home in that town. A member of the steward de­ partment, he last shipped on the Arizpa. Seafarer Jones sailed for 21 years, and joined the SIU in Philadelphia. Brother Jones is survived by his mother, Mrs. Eu­ nice Furbush Jones, of Spout Spring. Burial services were held in Fort Hill Memorial Park, Lex­ ington, Va. T ^ Edward Taylor, 46: Brother Taylor died on July 24 in San Francisco, after a brief illness. A resident of that city, San Fran­ cisco, he was a native of Fowler, Calif. Brother Taylor joined the SIU in Houston and sailed as chief cook. His last vessel was the Seatr tin Carolina. From 1940 to 194S, he had served in the Army, llie burial was held in the Olivet Cemetery, Colma, Calif. James Mfller, 55: A carcinoma claimed the life of Brother Miller at Providence Hospital in Prov­ idence, Rhode Island on May 7. He was bom in Johnstown, Penn­ sylvania and re­ sided in Seattle. Seafarer Miller joined the Union in New Orleans and sailed in the deck department. His last ship was the Barbara Frietchie. A Seafarer 17 years, he was on dis­ ability pension at the time of death. Burial services were held in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Seattle. ^l> Peter Kubala, 60: Brother Kubala died August 24. He was a mem­ ber of the engine department, sail­ ing as oiler at the time of his death. Brother Kubala was last employed by the Independ­ ent Towing Com­ pany. A native of Philadelphia, he lived in that city and joined the Union there. A widower, he is survived by two sons, Edward of Philadelphia, John of Westmin­ ster, Pa., and a daughter, Eleanor, also of Philadelphia. At the time of his death he was an SIU pen­ sioner. Wiitford Powell, 45: Brother Powell died at sea on July 1, while sailing as a crewmember aboard the Man­ hattan. A native of Arkansas, he made his home in Hot Springs, Ark. He sailed as AB and his last prev­ ious vessel was tiie Anchorage. Brother Powell joined the Union in New York and had sailed for 17 years. From 1942 to 1947, he was a member of the Army. Surviving are two brothers, Jurel and Martin, both of Hot Springs. Orla Priest, 66: A coronary at­ tack claimed the life of Brother Priest on August 19, at his home in Rural Benzonia Township, Michi­ gan. A native of Hartford, Michi­ gan, Brother Priest joined the Union in the port of Elberta. He sailed on the Great Lakes and was last employed by the Ann Arbor Towing Company, sailing as an oiler. At the time of death, he was on an SIU pension. He had been a member of the Union from 1941 until his retirement. Surviving is his widow, Grace. The burial was held in Benzonia Township Cemetery. Pure Thirte— Seahrer-Sportsman Hits Jackpot With Own Six-Horse Racing Stable Horse racing can be an extremely precarious business, but for Seafarer Danny Meyers, it paid-<^ handsomely on his first venture into the turf world. Brother Meyers has six horses and the most prominent, a three-year-old named Port Digger, has won a total of $56,05 for the seaman-sportsman. "Port Digger has won three races, both as a two and threeyear-old," Brother Meyers in­ formed the LOG in a telephone interview from Detroit, where the horse was competing at the De­ troit Race Course. As a two-yearold, Port Digger won $16,144 and he upped that total to $39,910 this year. His record. Brother Meyers stated, is six wins, five sec­ onds and four third place fin­ ishes in a total of 31 races. Meyers As a two-yearold, Port Digger won the Kellogg Stakes and was second in the Kentucky Special Stakes. He fin­ ished third in both the Freshman Derby Trial and the Juvenile Stakes at River Downs. As a threeyear-old, he was victorious at New Orleans in the Le Comte Handi­ cap, in Ohio. He placed second in the Michigan Derby Trial Handicap and the Hamilton County Handicap. Port Digger had third place finishes in both the Louisiana Derby and Cincinnati Special Handicap. Bought At Auction "I bought Port Digger for $1,600 at an auction in Kingland, Kentucky, from a breeder named Albert Robinson," Meyers re­ called. "Port Digger was sired by an Argentine stallion named Sensitizo and his mare was Weeping Music. Sensitizo won $216,000 during his own racing career." The Seafarer said he was re­ cently "offered $475,000 to sell the horse. Several parties vere in­ terested in buying him, including an Argentine trainer who handled such big name horses as Northern Dancer. However, Meyers de­ cided to hold onto Port Digger and refused the offer. The five other horses in the Sea­ farer's stable include Port Music, Light Intentions, a filly named Maurice's Idea, a foal and a brood mare. In addition, he hopes to buy more horses in the fall. Light Intentions is also actively racing and the five-year-old geld­ ing has won two races so far this year. He did not race at all as a two-year-old, then won three races in 19 starts as a three-year-old. Port Digger, successful racehorse owned by Seafarer Danny Mey­ ers, Is shown at New Orleans Fairgrounds with H. Willis, who helped train him for Le Comte .Handicap. Port Digger came in first. The following year, he raced 18 times, but didn't register a victory. Port Digger, who will be racing soon at Keaneland, in Lexington, Kentucky, was described as a slow starter and a fast finisher. He was 23 lengths behind at the half-mile mark in one of his races but came on fast to lose by only five lengths. In another similar outing, he was only one and one-half lengths out at the finish, after trailing by 19. Names Are Unique Brother Meyers said he had thought of the name "Port Digger" because of the time he had spent operating a digging machine aboard barges on the Great Lakes. "It's hard to get names for the horses," he noted. "An owner has to turn in three potential names for each horse to the Jockey Qub in Louisville. They turn down about nine out of -ten. A race horse cannot bear the name of a Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 horse who had a similar name within a period of seventeen years," the Seafarer explained. "The jockey for Port Digger is Martinez Heath, while the horse is being trained by Jack Lohman. When you consider a potential jockey," Meyers said, "you just have to let him ride the horse and see if they get along. Some jock­ eys give some horses a good ride and others a bad one." A native of Tennessee, Brother Meyers has always had an interest in horses and horse racing. "I used to read racing magazines and followed the sport closely." Al­ though he realizes he "got lucky" having a productive horse at the beginning of his racing career. Brother Meyers will definitely stay with his avocation in the sport of Kings. Meyers is a resident of Bruce, Wisconsin. Before beginning his sailing career, he woriced on a farm. He joined the SIU in 1950 in the port of Cleveland. The 34year-old Seafarer usually sails for the Prinze Barge CtMnpany and works in the deck department. I woqid like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. fPHnt infermoNtn) NAME STREET ADDR^ cmr STATE. ZIP. Harry Peek, Jr. Please contact Mrs. L. Wessels at 2225 Gentilly Blvd., New Or­ leans, as soon as posable. The telephone number is 944-6532. to AVOID DUPUCADON: If you M« an oM wbKrilMr and IMV* • chanea of addraaa, ploosa giva yoer fanwar addroM baiew: omr Aknuo D. SiatruBk Please contact your wife in Handsboro, MississipjH, as soon as you possibly can. �, Page Fourteen t 25—duUrmui, John Alatatt; See-s^' , Fred M. Janci. All plannvd recompleted. No major or dlej|nite<l overtime reported hy any of the i^UiTee departments. Ship's delegate aiistgeats all crew member* read agreement iio find out exact duties. I CORNEL VICTOBT CWaterman), Aug. i»t 18—Chairman; Francis J. Connolly; Sectary. None. Ship's delegate reports no major beefs and no disputed over­ time reported. Captain Lomhud and Ist mate sent a message thanking the crew for their extra efforts and the fine co­ operation that helped make this trip ex'^remely succeeaful. A vote of thanks irom the crew to the steward's depart/iment tor a toe job. S STEEL (Isthmian). Uay 12^ Chairman, Joe McLaren; Secretary. H. Flores. Ship's delegate reports no m^gor beefh or disputed overtime in any of the three departments. Discussion held m keeping ship clean while on voyage. CHOCTAW (Waterman), August 17— Chairman. Ray Nickleson; Secretary, A. Foster. Chief cook elected ship's dele­ gate. One man hospitalized in Guam. $8.00 in the ^ip's fund. Game boards purehased in Guam. No major beefh or dis­ puted overtime reported in any of the three departments. BREMER VICTORY (Sooth Atlantic Caribbean), August 25—Cbairman. A. Myrex; Secretary, Wilmer Harper, Ship's delegate reports everything running smo^ly and looks like it will be a good; voyage. Brother Boy Evans, elected ship's delegate. Messman vrill keep good stock of fresh fruit for the crew at all times. A vote of thanks to the stevrard's topartment fCr the good choiw being served. STEEL MAEXR Gbthmlan). July 18—^ Chairman. Joe McLaren; Secretary,; Robert Ferreri. Everything is running smoothly. Green money in Honolulu. Mo- ; tion of appreciation made on the eo-; operation by the departocnt delegates. 1160.00 in ship's funA No major beefs or i dispute overtime reported in any : df| the three departments. Elected a sew g steward after the original steward left vessel at Singapore due to illness. TO L DO NOT Kayser-Rodi Hodeiy Co. Inc. Women's Hosiery Schi^areU, Kayser, Phoenix, Mojnd, Sapp-hose, Sapfdiire, Bachdor Giri, Fascination. Men's Hosiery & Underwear Esquire Socks, Bachelors' Friends, Sapp-hose, Sopp-hose Underwear, Siendo Children's Products Kays^, Fruit of the Loom Mojnd. 9ippen Jiffies, Mercury (Textile Workers Union of America) Stitzel-WeDer DlstiDcrfcs "Old Fitzseraid,** "Old Eik" "Cabin Stfli," W. L. WeUer Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) Kingsport Press "World Book,** "Chiidcraff* (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) Genesco Shtie Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statier Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson ft Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) ^1> Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) LOMA VICTORY (Delta Lines), July 28-r-Chsirman, Brother Spillane; Secre­ tary, Brother James Davis. Ship's dele­ gate reports various minor problcma ad­ justed. Beef in Canal Zone delayed sailing. No overtime disputed. List drawn up of who will be assigned to clean up recreation and laundry rooms: one person from each department. Screen doors fixed before leaving Saigon. Mor tion made to avoid unnecessary noise in and around berth area. Vote of thanks to steward's department and ship's dele­ gate lor job well done. i WESTERN HUNTER (Western Tankiers Ootp.), August 8—Chairman, Tom iBolIn; Sectary, Robert Rafael. Ship's I delegate, Rodger Swanson, retpiested istancniy'a to he hired for crew mmhers I when in port. Three men howitamed. I One man missed ship in Suhie Bay. iMotion mode for mess room to he painted land also recreation room as soon as posIsible. Decks were painted before eemins lintoiwrt.. Seplemba 1S( 1968 SEAFARERS LOG "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Hes, Boss Gloves, Richman (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) <|> Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) Baltimore Luggage Co. Lady Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starlite luggage Starflite luggage SiU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orieans Oct. 15—2:30 p.m. Mobile Oct. 16—^2:30 p.m. Wflmu^im .Oct 21—2:00 p.m. Smi Francisco Oct 23—2:00 p.m. Seattle Oct 25—^2:00 p.m. New York . .Oct 7—2:30 p.m. vtf Philadelphia Oct 8—2:30 p.m. White Fumitnre Co. Baltimore .Oct 9—^2:30 p.m. (United Furniture Workers of Detroit Oct. 11—2:30 p.m. America) HoustiHi Oct 14—^2:30 p.m. ^ United Industriai Woiliers Gypsmn WaOhoard, New Orieens Oct 15—^7:00 p.m. American Gypsmn Co. Mobile Oct 16—^7:00 p.nu (United Cement Lime and New York ..Oct 7—^7:00pan. Gypsum Workers International) Phikidelpllia Oct 8—7:00 p.m. Bdtimore ...Oct 9—^7:00p.m. ^Houston ...Oct 14—7:00p.m. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Great Lakes SIU Meetings Brandon, Cavalier and Salem Detroit Oct 7—^2:00 p.m. cigarettes Alpena Oct. 7—^7:00 p.m. (Tobacco Workers International Bitfdo Oct 7—^7:00 p.m. Union) Chkego Oct 7—^7:00 p.m. Duhith Oct 7—^7:00 p.m. Frankfort .. .Oct 7—^7:00 p.m. Comet Rice Mills Co. prodncts (International Union of United Great Lakes Tug and Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Dredge Region Drinks and Distillery Workers) Chicago .... Oct 15—7:30 p.m. tSauit St Marie -Oct 17—^7:30 p.m. Pioneer Flonr Mill Oct 16—^7:30 p.m. (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Buffalo Oct 18—^7:30 p.m. Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Duiuth Qeveland .. Oct 18—^7:30 pan. Local 110, San Antonio, Texas Toledo Oct 18—^7:30 p.m. Detroit Oct 14—7:30 p.m. IVfiiwaukee ..Oct 14—^7:30p.m. Giumarra Grapes SIU Iniand Boatmen's Uidon (United Farm Workers) New Orleans Oct 15—5:00 p.nL ^ Mobile Oct. 16—5:00 p.m. Peavy Paper Mill Products Philadelphia Oct. 8—5:00 p.m. (United Papermakers and Baltimore (Bceused and un­ Paperworkers Union) licensed) Oct 9—5:00 p.m. Norftdk ... .Oct 10—5:00 p.m. Houston Oct 14—5:00 p.m. Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division Railway Marine Region (Stove, Furnace and Allied PhliadeipUa Appliance Workers Oct 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. International Union) Baltimore Oct 16—10 ajn. ft 8 p.m. ^ *Noffolk Tennessee Packers Oct 17—10 a.m. ft 8 p.m. Reeifoot Packing Frosty Mom Jersey Oty Oct 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Vaileydale Packers t MeetinK held at Labor Temple, Sault (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Ste. Marie, Mich. Butcher Workmen of North * Meetintr held at Labor Ttoiple, New­ port Newa. America) t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) Brothers and SeweD Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) \t> — ,3> — , RALEIGH (Management A Shipping ITransport), August 14r-Chairman, Mliohael Vigo; Secretary, Victor Briant. f I Ship's delegate reports one messman imlsaed ship in Hotoluln. A few beefs land some overtime dispnted in engine^ idepartment. Motion made to have air FINANCIAL BEP0BT8. The constitution of the SIU AtUntle, Gulf, Lakes and leonditioner installed before next trip. Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the memberahip'a |A very smooth trip was reported. money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing etmunittee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. MISSOURI (Meadowbtook TVanspati TBUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Attentic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland lAugust 11—Chairman, M. Bngawaoi: iSeemtary, P. Fsqnie. One man paid off Watera District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds itit liidia. Brother Rupert C. Smith, FWT, Tin India; was buried in Udia. SoaiO shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. idled: , lirs have heat tone, Sito Will pay-oS All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only npon approval irepairs:: Norfolk. No major hcofs or disputed by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the Ime reported. A vote of thanks beatouarters of the various trust funds. to all hands fOr their eooiteratioB. SHIPPING BIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively vote of thanks atoo given to staward by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners.- Get to know your shipping partment for job well dona. rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals ;'^LUMBIA BANKER (CohunMa Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: ,,Steamship), Attgust 11—Chairman, F. Earl Shepard, Cbairman, Seafarers Appeals Board t^Rodrigues; Secretary, S. J. Peteraon. 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New Yoik 4, N. Y. . . Captain complimented crew on a good Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by and hopes ftat matv will stay on for another, ^p's delegate thanked writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. erew for ccoperstion given to him C0NTBACT8. Copies of all SIU contracts are available In all SIU tolls. These throngfaout trip. No major beefs ,or contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live ahoara disputed overtinm reported. Motion made, ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT to "get ice machine for next trip. Vote on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU j^ufoiman of thanks to steward department for a or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ fob well done. erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITOBIAL POLICY—SBAFABBBS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrain^ from puhlfahlng any article servihg the political purposes of any Individual in the ' DEL NOSIB (Delta Steamship Lines), Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed Ang. li:-^f!hlslrhum, H. B. Donnelly; harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This estehlished policy has b^ Secretary. Bin Kaiser. Ship's delegate mfBrmed by membmhip action at the September, 1960, meetinips In all conatiti^ reporta no ntajor bee& or disputed overtional ports. The rceponsibility for LOG policy is vested in an ^itor^ board which tbm; 862.80 reported in Ship's Fund.; consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive B^rd may delegate, Motion made to, have eretrVi wiudtogi from among Ite ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility* SIU A-riantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRBIDENT Cal Taniiar Earl Shapard Al Tannar VICE PRESIDENTS Undiay Wllllami Robari Mafthawi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Karr HEAD9UARTERS 871 4Hi Ava. iUya. (212) HY t-8M ALPENA, Midi 127 RIvar S». (SI7) EL 4-3818 RALTIMORE, Md 1218 E. laltlmora St. (301) EA 7-4fOO •OSTON, Man 177 State St. (817) Rl 2-0140 •UFFALO, N.Y 735 WaihlMton St. SIU (718) TL 3-t2St IBU (718) TL 3-t2St CHICAGO, III 7303 Ewlag Ava. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-fS70 CLEVELAND, Ohte 1420 W. 2Slh St. (218) MA I-S4S0 DETROIT, Mich ie22S W. Jaffanon Ava. (313) Vl 34741 DULUTH, Mlim. 312 W. 2ad St. (210) RA 24110 FRANKFORT, Mich P.O. i«x 287 4tB Mala St. (818) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Tax. 5004 r aoal St. (713) WA 0-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla 2800 Paarl St. (t04) EL 34107 JERSEY CITY, NJ tt Montgomary St. (201) NE5-t424 MOBILE, Ala I South Lawranca St. (205) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, U 830 Jackmn Ava. (504) 529-7548 NORFOLK, Va 115 3rd St. (703) 822-1072 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2804 S. 4th St. (215) DE 8-3810 PORT ARTHUR, Tax 1340 Savanth St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 3S0 Fraamont St. (415) DO 24401 SANTURCE, P.R 1313 Farnaadai Juitcoi Stop 20 724-2040 SEATTLE, Wath 2105 First Avanua (208) MA 34334 ST. LOUIS, Mo SOS Dal Mar (314) CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. (013) 227-2700 WILMINGTON, Calif., 450 Saailda Ava. farmlnal Island, Calif. (013) 832-7205 YOKOHAMA, Japan..Isava Mdg., Room 001 1-2 Kalgan-Dort-Nakaku 2014771 Ext. 281 PAYMENT OP MONIESs No monies are to he paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Undw no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he Is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment he made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an officUl receipt, hut feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should Immediately he reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL BIGHTS AND OBLIGATTONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union tolls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarise themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing With charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. BBTIBEO 8EAFABEBS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in. eluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving ed their duea. EQUAL BIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may he discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which be is entitled, hs should notify hadquarters. SEAFABEB8 POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legrislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of ihenuelves, their faiirilles and their Union. To schisys these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was atahlished. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds thrpugh which legislative and political actlyitlcs are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feeb ttot any of the above rights have been violat^, or ttot he has been denied his eonstitattenal right of access to Union records or teronaation. he stoald teimedlately notify SIU PrsaMent Paal HaU at headqaarters by eartifled mall, retam receipt reqwstad. -'I? -.1 �SepSessbar IS, 1968 fc--1"« •. • SEAFARERS LOG Page FlDteen With siPlj^P^^ In the Far East SlU'Contracted ships spend a good deal of time in the Orienf. This photo aibum shows some of the Seafarers who man them. n Burke end Sam Crosby of fhe deck departmenf, help Keep Del Rio in shipshape condition while ''vessel unloads cargo in Saigon. Ship's delegate Isidore Welsbrot reports from the Del Mar (Delta) that this has been a good voy­ age with "no logs and very little disputed overtime." Captain Jidm Koorlan told the men "this was one of the finest trips with one of the best crews" he has had in a long time. Ewing Rilin, meeting chairman, reports that a vote Meeting Chairman Robert FerPBnl Gazie was elected ship's of thanks was extended to the reri reported from the Steel delegate on the MidUie (Ameri­ purser Lee Leslie for "his kind­ Maker (Isthmian) can Bulk Carri­ ness and willing­ that Joe McLaren ers), it was re­ ness to aid each was eliected ship's ported by Meetcrewmember with ing Secretary delegate. Brothodraws, etc., at any Robert Marion. McLaren stated time." Engine . e. « Brother Gazic that he "appreci­ delegate Joan & spoke to the Capated the co-oper­ Cruz voiced his w , tain about the ation by the de­ thanks to the draws for the partment dele­ steward depart­ bunker port The gates." Steward Dial ment for "the Captain, it was delegate Phillips Rihn good food, serv­ Sherman said that a new steward learned, will issue a small cash ice and cleanliness." I%ip's treas­ was elected since the old one had draw in Bombay until the arrival urer Jean Latapie said a total of to leave the vessel due to illness. of traveler's checks. Meeting $157 is in the movie fund, col­ All Seafarers were "asked to help Chairman Mack Brendle wrote lected from the arrival pools. the steward department in any­ that there has been no disputed Cruz and fellow department del­ way possible," Brother Sherman overtime or beefs. The steward egates Eddie Patingo and Brother reported. The ship will call on department has done a fibae job. Rihn received compliments for Honolulu "where green money A discussion was held fm the pur­ their fine work. After calling at will be issued for draw." Other pose of informing new C card Houston, the vessel will head for department delegates elected were men of their duties and union ob­ a New Orleans pay-ofl. LOGS ligations. and mail are being received reg­ Robert Hathcock for the deck and James Dial, engine. ularly. The present trip of theMohawk (Oriental Exporter) has been a Meeting Chairman A. Myrex "wealth of expe­ reports that Roy Evans of the rience to all first Andrew Nickle was elected by deck department his fellow Seafarers on the Steel trippers," accord­ has been elected ing to Meeting Scientist to serve to serve as ship's Chairman Mich­ as ship's delegate, delegate on the ael Toth. There meeting chairman Bessemer Victory has been "plenty Jack Nelson, Jr., (South Atlantic of overtime for reported to the Caribbean Lines). a 11 departments LOG. According Brother Evans and no overtime to Brother Nel­ Toth told the Seafarers was disputed." son, there are no that "everything is Myrex beefs or disputed Meeting Secretary Gerard IVDttlerunning smoothly overtime as the borger informed that one crew­ Nelson and it looks like a good voyage." ship heads for man had to leave the ship due to Chief steward Wilmer Harper ac­ home after calling on Djibouti illness and another because of cepted a vote of thanks for his personal problems. The latter re­ department for the good food and Jeddah. Meeting Secretary joined the Mohawk in (%inawa. being served. The messmen, F. S. Omega reported that the From there, she left for Formosa, Freddie Horn, Edgar Young, ship's treasury contains a balance Inchon and Yokohama. Captain Donald Washington and Linton of $18.25. Brother Omega wrote Abramoski received the praise of Braddock, will keep a good stock that crewmen were informed that the Seafarers for "bending over of fresh fruit for the crew, Harper any communications received backwards in co-operation, but wrote. Canned juices will be would be posted on the crew bul­ still a perfectionist. He is every served at breakfast only for the inch a gentleman and very atten­ time being "since no one knows letin board. Seafarers were re­ tive to any ill crewman," Brother at this time how long the trip will minded of the need for keeping Mittleborger wrote. be." The ship will be calling at recreation room, library and laun­ vtf the Canal Zone shortly. dry rooms in good order. "The Master, William Lom­ bard and First Mate, J. Allen, MAIDEN CSEEE (Ottlf Puerto Rico SBEBTILLE (Waterman0. July 28— Lines), AUK. 18—ChAirman, H. C. Cain; Cliainaan, J. Cie Ciesieki; Secretary, .. J. sent a message Secretory, A. Q. Nail. SWp's delegate Davis. $.86 in the ship's fund. No major thanking the crew reports no major beets and no disputed beefs were reported by department dele­ overtime reported. New water fountain gates. for their fine co­ In crew mess to be installed. Present one not in working condition. SBATRAIN OHIO (Hudson Water­ operation and ex­ ways), August 18—Chairman. F. W. tra effort, making Brown; Secretary, J. E. Biggins. Brother J. Johnson was elected to serve as ship's this trip very suc­ delegate. Motion was made that all com­ panies should be required to have built-in cessful," reported bunks on the ships for the unlicensed ship's delegate personnel. Francis Connolly SEATRAm FLOBmA (Hudson Wa­ Witska terways), August 26—Chairman, J. Bartfrom the Conieil lett; Secretary, J. Malyscka Brother L. Victory (Waterman). Engine de­ C. Cope was elected to serve as new ships delegate. No beefs were reported partment delegate Ron Witska re­ ' artment delegates. Clothes dr:mr aboard ship. ports some overtime was dis­ puted in his department. The THETIS (Rye Marine), June 16—Chair­ man, Fatil Aii; Secretary, J. C. Harris. steward department has done a $40.00 in ship's fund. Vvte of thanks was extended to ^ steward department for fine job turning out the chow this Ihe good food and service. trip, all hands agreed. A new ^THETIS (S.m Marine), Aagwt 1— television antenna has been or­ ^airman, Norman Mem . Carman, A. Larsen; Secretary, J, C. Bafael Hemandee. Brother Frank OkooHarris. $66.00 in ship's fund. Bttrther ~ " dered for the crew. na Was elected to serve as ship% delegate, Emile Barrito was .te serve aa. ^1> <I> Aboard Thetis in Sasebo, (I to r): i i 7 steward J. Davis, patrolman, E. ; Morris, bosun Walter Nash and the ship's delegate Henry Simmons. : <1, DIGEST of SIU MEETINGS Vote of thanks was extended to the for. mer ship's delegate. Brother Norman Mendelson, for a Job well d<me. No beefs were reposted. ship's treasurer. Vote tmided to the steward excellent food and BBADFORD ISLAND (Stewart era), August 89—Chairman, William Oahome; Sectary, O. L. Shirah. No^ba^ Few hours dispnted OT in each dciMtytl^t. Dhensdon hdd on raltotttent plan., PECOS (Pecos Transport), August 14 —Chairman, H Ciaglo: Secretary, G, B. Tani«r. Brother Ciaglo said he waa re­ signing as ship's A^ate. Everyihing running smoothly. $87.00 hi djip's fund. No major beefs or disputed ovmthne re­ ported. Some r^ir work will be tal^' the proper departrnmit lMada.v PLAtSB mrteatal ' Att-. 25--43naIiia«an,' J" _ „ Sae- -: rstary, ^BtAert .Cotteio.: Vebt^lMim'vehtlla* ratsm te .the-' erew% ..was. mada^^^amid^a'Stiiy''^'. .:a^ang.vtaem; DiscnearoB em ^ramft was-'ex." * for the islsd whtS ow.lH)»rd.Wd^5;'^^'''^-! i.E. 'A." imH.: .-Saeretar Money Being HeM Checks are being held at New York Headquarters for the following Seafarers for disputed overtime aboard the Petrochem (Valentine Chem­ ical Carriers, Inc.): Joseph Towns^, Alvin Jayne, Donald pomcnki, Generosa Espada, Leandro Coma, Keny Choi and Wal­ ter Kubiafc. �SEAFARERSIfeI.OG Vol. XXX No. 19 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO 'f jrt»— •- \l ••Til m 9P^-ifr gg^ . < > 'OXiVLA. .. I • '"'--g membws awatt pay-o^ aFt&r a ^rlp to I il'; run is a ,popular one with Seafawtc^, wd the Suififl# calls there frequently mi Mi 1 I®! mx. 'te-a !'•• 'K? riv rr r r " TL UL C. . . .• ^^3 and other items of interest in LOG. prom left are: Ernesto Torres. AP; f Larry Kincer, George l-«rian?ltx a^^. <^^^|(tanzano, all of engine depa.H^r'"***'''^' ^ t;s b0 Discussing the voyage with E. B. McAuley, is veteran Seafarer F. V. Buckner, of the engine dept. m iitEo'sictls ,| aaif. I: 'v. •sef L/'. <;•._••; f .if g:ili •\M • 'V Talking things over with Mac, is oiler Larry Kincer. Brother Kincer joined the SlU in New York. - .••',! - z-'-'V ,:~<i s-r'j Paul Chafin of the deck department checks the ship's bulletin board in the passageway. Brother Chafin sailed as an ordinary. Bulletin board contains much useful information for Seafarers. m: \ - i'iT^ HI •'.C.vAl^'V -• c;i , ' 'M VM] . Mossman Anthony Siliva takes care paperwork with SlU Reps. E. McAuley and Dave Goldberg. fc,-r ;i4is f;•' r.2,'y' ]I' KMrnxmiMm I . •.. •.--^- L :.i "A f /^ llfi; 3r...->rv .. .. : . -•••• ,.f'' :• .v..-iV'.,' .VAAVt^: / '• Everasto Pontoja, deck malntainence, relaxes in mess room after at.tending to some work topside, H. L. McCleary sailed as a third cook and helped turn out top-notch, chow for the hungry crewmembers. ^ . 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Title A name given to the resource September 13, 1968 Description An account of the resource Headlines: PROPER USE OF AMERICAN FLAG FLEET CITED AS ANSWER TO PAYMENTS DEFICIT SIUNA DRIVERS OVERWHELMINGLY ADOPT 3-YEAR PACT FRED STWEART DEAD AT 55; WAS LONG-TIME SIU OFFICIAL SIU URGES INDEPENDENT MARAD AS BEST MEANS TO REVITALIZE FLEET VICE PRESIDENT HUMPHREY LAUNCHES DRIVE RIGHT INTO THE WHITE HOUSE CONGRESSMAN URGES SENATE APPROVAL OF HOUSE PASSED MARITIME MEASURES DEMOCRATS’ RULES REFORMS WOULD OUTLAW DISCRIMINATION WASH. AFL-CIO BIDS STRONG ACTION TO SAVE LAGGING MARITIME INDUSTRY SUMMIT PAYS OFF Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/13/1968 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXX, No. 19 1968 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/518b8664311f028005dc23d2b0b2f651.PDF 5cafd6ebe4f4db4afbb3ddcaa2c094b6 PDF Text Text Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America Vol. VII. NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 14. 1945 NOT EVEN HALF A LOAF I "NI;'' > Membership Appreves Pay Boost, Mere Adjustments Seen Needed General satisfaction with the $45 wage boost won by the SIU from the War Labor Board was expressed last week in all ports. The enthusiasm over the victory was tempered, however, by the knowledge that the increase still leaves seamen's wages far short of shoreside jrates and inadequate for a man to maintain a wife and children at a decent standard of living. When interviewed by the Log in New York, rank and file mem­ bers repeated over and over, "This is just the beginning.",. There is a general understanding by the membership that from here on in_is going to be a tough haul, for we must now wring further increases from the reluctant ship­ owners bent upon union busting. •V-'• It I '.-tr.. OPAStudy Shows 10 MHIion With No Johs In '46 HNK TMINIHG PROGRAM CALLED FRAUD UPOH U.S. TAXPAYERS Paul G. Bellingham worked in a steel mill, his job was interest­ ing—maintenance mechanic and rigger—but Pittsburgh was a long way from the ocean and Paul wanted the sea. Paul is not a young boy, but he heard that there was a cry­ ing need for sea­ men to man the boats so that de­ mocracy imight not drown. Any­ way that's what the newspapers, the radio and all the other propaganda agencies were telling the people. Well, Paul thought he saw an opportunity to see the sea and serve his country in the type of work he was trained for— mechanical, machining, rigger, \'J power plant, etc., so he tried to enlist in the USMS. It meant a drop from $1.75 an hour to eventually $98 a month—^but he •didn't mind too much. But they ,told him it would require a three • i ^.lonth wait unless he went to New York to "enroll. This he did, " at his own expense, then after r enlisting, moved his family to I New Jersey where they would be hr After seven months of being taught and then teaching at the USMC Depot No. 5 in Baltimore, Maryland, Frank DeMarco is right back where " _ he started from when he first tried to become a merchant sea­ man. Leaving an es­ sential job in Camden, N. J. he travelled to Baltimore, • there to enroll for trainir(g as a seaman. Seaman were "badly needed" the news­ papers and radios were crying. DeMarco found that exper­ ienced seamen were passing through the center in the course of being upgraded and that these men were receiving the doubtful benefits of Depot No. 5's educa­ tional facilities. DeMarco didn't know that this was going on at all the other training centers, too. He was in for another surprise when he started acting as an in­ structor—here he was, never at sea in his life—telling seamen how to do things aboard ship. It was obvious to him that many of these men knew more about what he was telling them than he did hiniself-—or for that matter, (Contimied on Page 4) (Continued on Page 4) 'J.;. ai» ---I - ^ No. 37 WASHINGTON (LPA Exclu­ sive)—A study by CPA research­ ers, which the agency has so far refused to publish, indicates that by the end of 1946 this country can have 10,400,000 people walk­ ing the streets for jobs, while at the same time we can achieve a level of production higher than in any peacetime year, and in­ dustry can make the highest prof­ its ever achieved in history. The report has gained wide cir­ culation among government agency economists, and there seems to be general agreement that the 10,400,000 figure—which confirms the predictions of AFL and CIO spokesmen—is no wild guess. Profits figures estimated by the CPA study assume removal of the wartime excess profits tax during 1946. CPA studies already have revealed that industry's profits before taxes rose from $2,577 million in the pre-war years to $8,842 million in 1943 when war production was "allout." By the last quarter of 1946, we can achieve a gross national prod­ uction of $156 billion, along with the highest profits in history, and still have 10,400,000 workers job­ less. This, labor economists in­ dicate, makes even more urgent action by Congress, industry, and government agencies, to raise wage levels, achieve full produc­ tion, and full employment, de­ spite the cries of industrialists J that they "cannot afford" cuts in profits and prices. But there is a determination ex­ pressed that promises a real scrap from the rank and file, with no quarter given. It is obvious from the temper of the membership that no union busting campaign will prostrate the SIU, now or in the future. tained that there was still room for improvement later on. "I think the wage increase is O.K.," said John Larivea, SUP Bosun, "because it's much better than before. It's a gain, all right, and best of all we know just where we stand when we start A sampling of membership out on a trip." opinion taken at the meeting last There is still room for im­ Friday night in New Orleans provement in making the Bosun's showed that the men in this port pay more in line with the know­ voted to concur in the wage and ledge and responsibility required bonus adjustments because, on of the job, according to Cecil the whole, they felt it was a fair Brown, SUP Bosun. He said, adjustment of the wage dispute. "This wage scale is a big gain, All of them were of the opinion, but now is the time to get the. however, that this was by no long-needed boost in a Bosun's means an ideal and that it should pay. I think this should be taken not be construed to mean that the up immediately." SIU regards it as such. "I think it's best to accept this Said C. T. White, AB, "I think wage adjustment," said John the main issue depends on Smalley, AB. "A year from now' whether prices go down in line when prices have gone down to with lower wages. If this wage pre-war levels, this should be adjustment is permanent I think a petty fair wage. The best it's for the best as it is certainly thing is that this wage increase much more than seamen ever got was voluntary on the part of the before." government and for that reason "I haven't thought much about it they won't have an excuse to can­ "I havent thought much about it cel it." A. M. "Sandy" Scivicque yet but it's better than having to strike for it. I believe union thought that wages and condi­ action brought this improvement tions could still be further im­ about, for the unions made it proved. Said Sandy; "By con­ known they would not be satis­ certed action the membership can now attain the wage which the fied with sub-standard wages." SIU has always contended neces­ J. G. Naugle, Bosun, believed sary for a seamen to raise a it was best to accept the wage ad­ family and live on the same stand­ justment at present but main­ ards as skilled workers ashore." New Basic Wage Scale As Providee By W.L.B. 1 (BEised on Waterman Contract) (Old Basic} (Increase) ,1 1 (New Basic) DECK DEPARTMENT Boatswcun Carpenter Quarter-Master AB AB OS $117.50 117.50 110.00 . 100.00 87.50 $45 45 45 45, 45 $182.50 182.50 155.00 145.00 132.50 117.50 110.00 .. 110.00 . 100.00 87.50 45 45 45 45 45 182.50 155.00 155.00 145.00 132.50 45 45 45 45 45 202.50 182.50 167.50 132.50 132.50 S '1 ; :••• I ENGINE DEPARTMENT Deck Engineer Oiler Water Tenders Firemen Wipers STEWARD DEPARTMENT Steward Chief Cook Second Cook . Utility Man Messman . 157.50 137.50 122.50 87.50 87.50 u- \ • ip �Page Two THE SEAFARERS LOG Published Weekly by the SEAFARERS LOG Friday, September 14, 1945 FORE 'n AFT By BUNKER SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Lest, in the exhultation of vic­ tory, we forget the price many of our union brothers paid in help­ ing to achieve it, let's consider the story of Zack Cullison, a story Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor typical of hundreds of SIU men. Zack, early SIU member from At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. Baltimore and the son of Captain Cullison, well known Bull Line HAnover 2-2784 skipper for many years, was Deck it Engineer on the John Witherspoon, Robin Line Liberty and HARRY LUNDEBERG - - - - - - President the fifth Liberty to be launched. lOS Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. The convoy which the Witherspoon was part of was bound for JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas. Murmansk and was attacked by 150 planes ion July 4, 1942. The P. O. Box 2 5, Station P., New York City planes got many ships during that first attack, but the merchant sea­ MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - Washington Rep. men gunners retaliated. Zack 424 5th Street, N. W., Washington, D, C. was credited for shooting down Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office a Heinkel 88 from his post at in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. one of the Witherspoon's 50 cali­ ber machine guns. '267 After this attack the convoy immediately broke up, and on the 5th the Witherspoon was sail­ ing in conipany with the Samuel Chase when they spotted a sub­ With the end of the shooting war, the "duration" sea­ marine and opened fire. The men are no longer in fear of their draft boards and are Chief went below and wired down the safety valves, enabling hitting the beach with unsteady legs and scurrying back the ship to do 14 knots. It seem­ to shoreside jobs. Still taking the ships out are the real ed, says Zack, that the Wither­ merchant seamen, those for whom the sea is a career, their spoon would shake itself to pieces, but they outran the sub. only job. * _ The Witherspoon's reprieve, ^ The SIU cannot and does not blame anyone for not liowever, didn't last for long. 'wanting to be a seaman. God knows, it's hard and lonely While sailing alone on the 6th, Members of the Atlantic Fish­ other union support has been work, an underpaid and thankless job. As the WSA must the ship was hit with two tor­ ermen's Union ended their 18 pledged to the workers should pedoes fired from an unseen sub. now be finding out, at long last, a seaman cannot be made The first hit between one and day old Boston area strike today they strike. Union leadership told the shop either by government decree or by a landlocked school. two holds, the second between (Sept. 10) after the RWLB issued a "back to work" order and start­ stewards that referring the dis­ four and five. These words, however, should not be construed as Thanks to a crew of seasoned ed taking testimony in the dis­ pute to the NLRB would merely criticism of the wartime seaman, most of whom were set veterans, only one man was lost pute from the union and fishing mean further delay. owners. Fourteen milk companies in ad­ aboard ship by forces-beyond their control, and who-ful- in launching the boats into a boat Issue in the case is pay chiseling dition to Bordens and Sheffield heavy sea. Zack, who stayed I-,4[iiled their tasks with bravery and heroism. Many of them on by the operators and the strike, face shutdown unless the de­ board to help get the boats have given their lives in manning the supply lines, and away, then jumped off the stern which started on the trawler mand of the engine room and many others have suffered greatly. What is important to into the cold Arctic water. "That Medford, tied up the majority of maintenance employes is met. Voting under the Smith-Conthe professional seaman is that their ranks have been thinned water was so cold," says Zack, the Boston fishing fleet. The Atlantic Fishermen's Union nally Act has been authorized It almost killed me. I couldn't in the past few months, while the job yet to be done is by 300 members of AFL locals breath for a while and the ten is affiliated with the SIU. making renewed demands upon them. and if their vote is for a strike, minutes before the boys picked % % they plan to call upon other AFL In New Jersey the WilsonWhat is important is that seamen are needed to bring me up seemed like an eternity." affiliates in the areas affected Jones Co., printers and stationary hack to this country the men in the armed forces who, After the crew had pulled manufacturers, for support. found their plant away, the U-Boat surfaced, apolo* too, have eagerly awaited the war's end; that seamen are gized profusely for having to tor­ closed by the walk-out of 300 Among their demands are a needed to carry supplies to the world's end to keep millions pedo the ship, and gave them di­ production workers. forty hour week, increased take The company's mis-interpreta­ home pay and sick benefits. from starvation and misery; and all this, an accelerated job rections to the nearest land. ,.with a diminishing personnel, while some of those who Like many other tough Liber­ tion of a WLB wage decision was ties, the Witherspoon had taken the cause of the strike which remain are hitting the beach. two torpedoes but still refused to started Saturday, Sept. 10. All branches of the Sea­ 4. i t No one knows better than the seaman himself what go down, so the sub sent another farers International Union are Two hundred Bronx dock 'he has gone through. No one knows better than he that, he one into her. It smashed into the workers protesting the nominaiton by returned to their jobs ammunition in number three hold is entitled to a rest, a long vacation, to recover his strenth and the explosion blew the ship following a six day work stop­ President Truman of R. A. McI" and forget his weariness. But this is hardly the time. page brought about by the NY, Keough as Commissioner of in half. Although Nova Zembla was NH&H RR refusal to pay over­ the vitally important, to sea­ But now, when the board is overfilled with jobs, is only 15 miles away, the wind was time wages for V-J day. men, United States Maritime not the time to relax. There will be time for that later. against the survivors and Zack Although the workers involved Commission. Telegrams have been sent Goldbricking now is a shortsighted policy. Present times spent four wet, cold days in the are members of the Utility Work­ from every port of the coun­ ers of America, joint action by boat before he and his mates were called for renewed effort to maintain and increase our try to Senator Bailey, Chair­ AFL Railway Clerks aided in picked up by a British corvette organizational lines so that we can remain strong in the and taken to Archangel, by which getting a satisfactory settlement. man of the Senate Commerce postwar period. Committee, which has opened time Zack's hands and feet had 4" i 4/ The Brotherhood of Consoli­ hearings on the nomination, By leaving jobs unfilled, the union halls are forced to turned black from the cold. dated Edison Employes in New pointing out that McKeough, The other boat of the Wither­ call upon the WSA to help man the ships—and there is spoon was picked up by the York will vote to strike if the as former Midwest Director of no greater anti-union force in America than the RMO. Panamanian freighter El Capitan recommendation of five hundred the Political Action Commit­ Every man who is placed by the RMO, or trained by the which, although being chased by shop stewards is accepted by the tee of the CIO, is hardly non­ partisan enough to decide WSA, is future competition for the merchant seaman. The a sub itself, stopped at great risk general membership. questions on which the various The issue is recognition of the and saved the men from probable way to remove this non-union threat to seamen's conditions union by the Edison company and AFL and CIO maritime unions death in the Arctic. is not to allow these fink agencies the chance to ship their may differ. mail-order sailors. Senator Bailey was inform­ union. And the union means you: It means your jobs, ed that appointment of Mc­ Besides aiding the WSA in its union busting activities, your wages, your conditions. The operators welcome your Keough may have repercus­ the failure of union men to ship out will make it more dif­ goldbricking. It means their position is strengthened; it sions on the waterfront, inso­ far as non-CIO seamen may ficult to negotiate with the shipowners on a new contract. means your position is weakened. feel that they are in danger Can't you hear the operators yelling, "But you can't crew The problem is easily solved: Get up off your easy of being discriminated againsi your ships. Why should we sign a contract with you?" chairs, grab a ship and do your job. Every berth you fill by one whose loyalties in the The future of the seaman will be largely what he him­ now means just so many more after this war has become a past have been to only a small segment of the maritime self makes it. SIU men on the beach for long periods now distant memory. It's for your future, for your security. workers. ^re contributing to a weakened b^i bargaining power for the No one else can do it for you. \ A Job To Be Done Protest Nomination �Friday, September 14. 1945 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Three SUP Bosun Tells Of Harrowing Experience In Jap Prison Camp By PAUL HALL Now that the war's over quite a few of the shipowners are tying up their ships. 'Although tnis action has not affected us as yet as far as jobs are concerned, we can definitely look in the future for a shortage of jobs because of these vessels being laid up. We will find ourselves with many more men on the beach than there are available jobs for. This future difficulty is a foregone conclusion and must be ac­ cepted as one of our most pressing problems. There are some who would have you believe there is no need to worry about unemploy­ ment in the future because of these layoffs. This, however, is strict­ ly wishful thinking and is not the case at all. ^ • The Seafarers has gone on record for something which, if put into effect, will help tremendously in avoiding this coming crisis of unemployment among seamen. That is the adoption of the 4-watch system for all ships—the placing of an extra watch in the de.k and engine departments as well as the placing in the Stewards Department of an extra man to handle these added watches. Not only has the Seafarers gone on record officially for this increased manning scale, but it is something which our SIU ships' crews have endorsed time after time through our rank and file ships meetings. This is one of the most, if not the most, important struggles which the Seafarers should make in the near future. The 4-watch system has long been one of the things that seamen have wanted and it is one of the things which all seamen will fight for when called upon. We are today, as a working group, hampered with the longest working week of any industry. Even wtih the adoption of the 4watch system, seamen will still be working on an average of two hours a week more than workers in other industries. So we can see that such a thing is certainly not impractical, even though some of the shipowners argue that the 4-watch system is only a "sailor's dream." Let us put this at the top of our agenda for future action, and prepare a careful and intelligent fight for this demand. There is no doubt but what we can win this fight if all unions in this industry fight for it. The Seafarers should make known their ideas and actions on the 4-watch system to all seamen, of all unions, and on all ships and solicit their cooperation in this battle, for it is a battle well worth the effort. If any seaman has a story to tell of his experiences in this war it is Brother Joe McCullen, vet­ eran SUP Bosun, who takes pride in two things; his friendship and association with Andy Furuseth, and his loyalty to the union back in the early days on the Gulf. In the port of New Orleans re­ cently to meet old friends and look over the shipping prospects, McCullen told about the last trip of the SS Capillo and the three years that followed. Chartered by the Red Cross as a relief ship, the Capillo was in Portland, Oregon, loading sup­ plies for Shanghai when McCul­ len and a veteran west coast crew, most of whom were over. Calling All SIU Men Now is Ihe lime lo come to the aid of your union. We are engaged in an all-out ef­ fort to make Isthmian a union outfit. This can only be done with the help of every rank and file SlUer afloat. When you tie-up along side an Isthmian ship, board her and give the crew the score on waterfront union­ ism. Show them a copy of our contract, tell them how we settle beefs, prove to them that unionism, the SIU way, means more pork chops for them. SHIPBOARD MEETINGS A MUST The recent mailing sent out to all ships on the proper way to conduct shipboard meetings is beginning to show results. This gear was only sent out two weeks ago and we are already getting a good return from all ships. Top much importance cannot be placed upon the ab^ute necessity of shipboard meeting. Not only is this the time to iron out your shipboard problems but, most important of all, it is the time that the union's policy and program should be discussed and explained to union members. It is also the best time to educate younger crew members to the ways of trade union­ ism—the Seafarers' way. One example of this came from a ship now on the v^est coast. During the course of the ship's meeting, there was a point on the agenda when the oldtimers of the crew gave educational talks to the first trippers on union policy. This^ethod proves highly beneficial in shaping up a good crew to where they can work together to settle their problems. Another thing which should be remembered is for crews to send in their ships' minutes so they can be. acted on by those members who are on the beach. These shipboard meetings and these educational discussions can be aided greatly by using the literature the Seafarers puts out. For example, one crev^s delegate notified the Log that the SIU booklet, "You And Your Union," was used as a basis for education of the younger members on his particular ship. Thus the member­ ship on that ship had an opportunity to discuss the union's policy .and program and was given some idea of the manner in which the SIU operates. One of the advantages shoreside unions have over maritime unions is that their membership is always present at all meetings and can participate in the work of the union. In our case, however, only a small fraction of the membership is on the beach at any one time. ,We must make every effort to offset this by shipboard meetings and education. Since most of the membership is always at sea, we must do most of our education aboard the ships. Regular shipboard meetings are the key to the problem. Hold those meetings often. Don't let beefs pile up. NEW ORLEANS — Three new These meetings are important and must be conducted. Not only 17,000 ton luxury liners now un­ will this aid the membership in obtaining the best results by proper der construction for the Delta interpretation of our contracts; but most important of all, by having Line, the Del Norte, Del Sud and the membership educated to the SIU's policy, we can maintain our the Del Mar, will be ready for 'unity of program and action so that we can achieve our purpose of SIU crews next spring, accord­ dhe bettering the seaman's lot. ing to the officials of the Missis­ forty years of age, joined her late in 1941. They were in Port Moresby when news came of the Jap at­ tack on Pearl Harbor, so their orders were changed and the Ca­ pillo sailed at once for Manila, reaching that city just in time to be caught in the midst of the heaviest air raid that Manila had yet undergone. Says McCullen: "We were chased around the bay for sev­ eral days by Jap bombers before we could unload. On the 27th of December, 1941, we were an­ chored near Corregidor when a huge armada of Jap planes came over. The Capillo was big and painted grey, so they probably thought we were an ammunition ship. Some of their planes con­ centrated on us while the rest of them pounded Corregidor. It seemed as though hundreds of guns were firing and the sky was full of shell bursts. One plane came in low right over us and dropped a bomb through number five hatch. A man was sitting on the hatch with a sprained ankle and the bomb went right down the hatch beside him, ex­ ploding when it hit the lower hold." With their ship on fire, the crew abandoned the Capillo and reached Corregidor, where they volunteered to man supply boats shuttling between the fortress and the mainland. It was on a trip to Manila for supplies that McCullen was caught by the Japs. He had gone into the old walled city and was walking down a dark street when two Jap soldiers suddenly ap­ peared in front of him and jam­ med bayonets toward his stom­ ach, hesitating for a moment in apparent indecision whether to kill him or take him prisoner. The latter alternative wpn out and they marched him off to Villamore Hall. In this little music hall, intend­ ed for about 500, the Japs had crammed a thousand prisoners arid here they kept them for three days, without food or sani­ tary arrangements. When the prisoners were final­ ly sorted, McCullen and some others were taken to Santo Thomas, where they spent the next year and- a half. In 1943 they were removed to Los Banos, from which they were delivered by Army paratroopers in 1945. At Los Banos so many died of beri beri and other diseases that there were never enough cof­ fins in which to bury them all. In addition to American and Phillipino soldiers and civilians, about 400 merchant seamen of many nations were also impriSf oned at Los Banos, according to McCullen. The merchant marine captives included Americans, British, Dutch, Canadians and Norwegians. The Japs, says McCullen, were strange people. Some times they would completely ignore the prisoners, while on other occa­ sions they took delight in being cruel and occasionally even bayonetted the tired and hungry men for what they called loafing. Prisoners were supposed to bowwhen a Jap soldier passed but, as McCullen says, "We always tried to look the other way to avoid being humiliated. If we didn't bow it usually meant getting hitby a fist or the butt of a rifle." Occasionally during the first year or two, loyal Phillipinos would bring them coffee, but later on this was only obtainable at $75 a pound through the black market. Bread could not be ob­ tained after 1943. Cocoanuts brought six American dollars a piece, cigarettes sold for fifteen dollars a pack. During the last year of his imprisonment the menu consisted of a thin, tasteless paste made from some kind of hard cereal and was limited to a tiimbler full every 24 hours. In order to subsist the prisoners ate grass, shoots of wild potato vines, roots, and even the leaves of trees. "All I dreamed about," says McCullen, "was some of those meals we had on the Capillo. During three j^ears in prison they seemed like feasts for a king. I thought if I ever survived that ordeal I would eat ham and eggs every day for the rest of my . life." Three New SIU Liners Soon Ready * ,^,1 sippi Shipping Company. Identical in size, speed and ac­ commodations, the ships are be­ ing built in Pascagoula, Miss., and will be launched this fall. Each ship will accommodate 120 passengers and will be com­ pletely air conditioned. They will be 492 feet in length, 70 feet wide and capable of hitting IGt^ knots. When they are completed. Delta Line sailings from New Or­ leans will be stepped up to the rate of one ship every eight days. �Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOG Discharged From Navy, Finds The Jap War On iWerchant Ship Friday, September 14. 1945 Mud And Orchids Mud and Orchids—blood and sand. Death and beauty, hand in hand. Men and misery, maul and mar The beauty of this land they scar. Stately, swaying palm trees hide When William Zarkas, Bosun's King Louis was the King of Quag and mire where men abide: Mate 2/c, USN, received his hon­ France Refuse piles, all overgrown orable discharge, he thought that Before the revolution. With giant ferns and brush unknown. the sum total of his experiences 'Way haul way. we'll haul he would relate to his, as yet un­ away boys Coral sea that's crystal clear. born, grandchildren would be And then he got his head Myriad ships all anchored here. how he shot down two enemy cut off. Garbage dumped to drift ashore. aircraft while serving aboard the Which spoiled his constitution. And leave its mark for evermore. USS Bagley. 'Way haul away, we'll haul Colors bright and rephyr's breeze. Little did he think that while away boys. Jungle rot and skin disease. working in the "safer"' maritime After being congratulated by industry he would get into a the skipper and men, he had time Make Jans and men to rot and rust. hand to hand tussle with a Jap­ to study his own reactions. "I anese suicide-dynamiter bent on Plane that spurns both heat and tULrst was more scared during those few blowing Zarkas and his ship­ Falls to earth like meteor's burst. minutes than at any time during mates to kingdom come. Twisted strut and broken wing my time with the Navy," he said. It was while his ship, the Cape Are all that's left of this proud thing. It took me two full days to re­ Perpetual, an APO converted C-1, cover my nerve." was anchored off Okinawa one WILLIAM ZARKAS The hallowed dead, forget them not Thus William Zarkas, SIU dark night last July, that Brother Who won this land of heat and rot Bill found himself back in active Jap still in the water. This one member known as Holly by his service fighting Japs—commando apparently carried the explosives shipmates because his hometown style. On the 12 to 8 security with which they had intended to is the movie capitol, left the watch, he was making his tour destroy the ship. One shot from Navy to get into hand to hand aroimd, checking the ship when, him and a mighty explosion roar­ fighting with the enemy. Which should be quite a tale looking over the side towards the ed down in the water blowing the bow, he saw a figure climbing swimmer to join the one Bill had for the kids who'll someday call iiim "grandpa." the anchor chain. so neatly dissected. Orders were to fire on any swimmers near the ship and Bill pulled his gun. He couldn't get a bead on the guy, who was by now climbing into the hawse Billed for many years by cir­ the job. "He was going to fire pipe, so Bill got out of sight wait­ cuses and carnivals as "The Little me," says Kurt, "when I went ing for the intruder to show his Strong Man," Brother Kurt down the dock, took a heavy box head. Knowing the dangers of a Starke, AB, is continually amazing of stores from two ABs who were struggling with it up the gang­ ricocheting bullet in such close skippers who think, be­ mates and plank, and carried the box on quarters, he pulled out a hunting cause he is so short, that he can't board by myself. When the mate knife he was carrying. saw that he said I could stay on Imagine the surprise of the un­ do ship's work. lucky Jap when he climbed out Kurt, who has traveled for his ship as long as I liked." on deck to be barbecued by the many years with midget ac^, Since Kurt was shipped out of (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1) knife Bill wielded so expertly. In likes to tell about the mate who Tampa back in '41 by J. P. "Red near friends and nearer to him more than the people who had the meantime the Navy man, also was ready to fire him because Beans" Shuler, he has been going during his training period. taught him . on the alert, had spotted another he considered him too small for (Ccmtinued on Page 9) Then followed his period of Something was rotten in Den­ disillusionment — Paul never — mark, he decided, but he kept but let's not rush things. They right on, rigging, repairing, test­ sent him to Fort Trumbull for ing torpedo nets. Gaining won­ his training and there, this man derful experience, dry land ex­ who wanted to go to sea, took his perience in the art of handling shots, studied marine engineer­ torpedo nets. (A decidedly use­ ing, seamanship and the other ful occupation for a man who By GENE MARKEY sundry facts of life necessary to wanted to go to sea.) Time and We seamen of the SIU are quite money and better living and manning pools or central slave a seagoer. The weeks went by, again he would ask about getting capable of handling the job of working conditions. The super markets (as they should be more then the months, Paul became his seaman's papers but always going to sea. We are also capable patriot officials of the Canadian appropriately named). Seameii FWT, worked on . the - Fort the same answer, "Not yet, no of dispatching men to the ships Seamen's Union plead for the con- should demand to ship through a Trumbull power plant and more ships." without them being pushed tinuance of the pool, with it's un- legitimate union hall. Force the months went by. around by some political heeler.' sanitary conditions and indus- bosses to pay adequate wages, By now he was breaking in The great fraud started to When new seamen are required,! trial school regimentation. "We'll and supply decent working con­ OC's who were passing through dawn upon Frank. Here he was, being "trained" at the taxpayer's oldtime seamen are best fitted to fix it up," they glibly tell the sea- ditions. the training center and almost expense, to man, non-existent train them and we contend that [men, no doubt keeping an eye S, t X everyone thought Paul was doing the best seamen come out of a on the possibility of a future job The Stately Barque "Pamir" very well, but he noticed that ships, by dry land sailors who union hall not out of a govern­ as "po-jugglers" in this glorious which arrived here from the quite a few of the boys were were telling the public about the ment flophouse. institution. It is time the seamen Antipodes June 11, has made a going over the hill—disgusted. wonderful job being done by the The SIU repeatedly demanded got wise and fired them out of record run from Vancouver to Our - man was made of better USMS training schools for mer­ that the government sanction the their present role as "ace" dues New Zealand. She left here July stuff, though. He'd finish what chant seamen. setting up of a school of seaman­ collectors! 7 and reached her destination 49 he'd started or bust trying. He The other part of the fraud was ship operated by the seamen on Long before, and since the in­ days out of Vancouver. This ves­ wanted to get out—^but with a the manner in which the WSA union premises, but of course this ception of Seamen's Manning sel was the smartest and cleanest good record—and he asked for was getting their maintenance would never do. The SIU might Pools in Canada, the Seafarers sailing vessel ever to enter the disenrollment. and other work done at coolie teach the new men too much, International Union has consis­ Port of Vancouver. All credit to During all this time Paul's total wages. Enroll a man under the especially the art of getting more tently opposed any form of gov­ her crew who was 100% organ­ sight of the sea was a small pretense of teaching him the sea ernment regimentation of sea­ ized and sailing unuer a union part of Long Island Sound visible and then using him to stand men. The pool idea having orig­ agreement. This ship, and her from Fort Trumbull and he was watch, be on call 24 hours a day, Believe It Or Not work all hours of the night, over­ (By Ripley) — Liberty Ships, inated in England is a further crew, is very definitely an asset fast becoming insistent upon get­ time Sundays, anything they ar­ weapon against a strong militant to its country and the "Federated ting released from the USMS. have been used as troop trans­ union in the ships. The idea Seamen's Union of New Zealand." It was obvious to everyone that bitrarily decided upon AND NOT ports. Hospital Ships. Training schemed out by the profit bloated XXX he was being used up there as PAY CIVILIAN LABOR WAGES. Ships, Tankers, Mule Carriers. shipowners in defense of their The Union company vessel cheap labor in the power plant They paid 87 dollars, or there­ Prison Ships. Target Ships. Motor abouts, a month. rotten imperialist method of Vehicle Carriers. Bulk Carriers. bloodsucking the seamen for the "Camosun" has been sold to the maintenance. He had firemen Oriental Navigation Company of Frank's days as a USMS slave working under him there and ap­ Fire Test Ships. Engine Repair furtherance of their ill gotten Tel Aviv, Palestine, through the parently was doing a satisfactory are over. He shipped out the Ships and Artificial Breakwaters. booty, is another chain forged Greek shipowning firm of John job. After 5% months of this other day through the SIU hall. A Liberty Ship can carry enough around the workers' necks under Livanos and Sons. he managed to get a disenroll­ Seven months in training and C-ridions for 3.440.000 men. the guise of a necessary wartime ment certificate but no sailing now he ships as a Messman, for XXX measure. It was an easy matter Now that the War is success­ papers. which he was not trained by the for the shipowners here to usher fully .won, Canada shows her ap­ Meanwhile he had met some USMS. in the "Pool" set-up. The gov­ preciation to her people. The SIU boys up there, among them ernment which usually acts as Layoff is the Payoff." Charlie McCummisky, Velton the whip of big busines, did not In Australia the efforts of their Morton and Norman McCloud, consider the voice of the sea­ people is al^o appreciated, the who advised him to get in touch men in this matter. They just wartime ship building program with the New York union hall. went ahead and did as they were is to be maintained. Ship Lines He arrived today and efforts are told by the big boys. are to be established and jobs as- already being made to get him There is no further excuse for sured for her people. seaman's papers and a ship out. 'f SIU's Little Strong Man FiNK TRAINING PROGRAM CALLED A FRAUD UPON U.S. TAXPAYERS WITH THE SIU IN CANADA �Friday. September 14, 1945 ITHIITK 1 HE SEAFARERS LOG Page Delegate To NMU Convention Subjected To Much Intimidation over and over, "The NMU is a By DICK GILPIN ed through the committees, and democratic union." 'in the past almost every motion toward mili­ year I tested the truth of that could repent and change their tant democratic unionism put on statement and found it to be sad­ vote. While this speech was go­ the floor by rank and file dele­ ing on I was informed by a -party ly false. gates was sidetracked or filbusgoon in no uncertain terms that tered down. Fully aware at the time I joined Question: What was the strangest experi­ that the NMU was a Communist if I spoiled the unanimity of the After the convention I left ence you've had aboard ship. controlled union, I was foolish vote I wouldn't walk out of town for a while to let things cool Manhattan Center. NMU goon EDWARD DOMPKOSKY. OS— enough to think that they could squads have a long record of liv­ down. Coming back to the New My strangest experience was quite be fought on fair grounds. It was ing up to the union slogan of York shipping hall, I was greeted painful—for me. It happened one my belief that seamen, regard­ "delivering the goods." Not wish­ by the usual bunch of commie dark night aboard the James less of union, are too militant a ing to become a piece of goods, stooges. When asked if I was Gunn when we were all singing group of workers to be led along I didn't vote at the next showing going to ship out an any more NMU ships, I replied, "You're and enjoying the air up n deck. a phony line. of hands. damn right." They were as Two or three of us were walk­ My first ' clash with the ing forward when suddenly the "brains" of the NMU came at a This wasn't the end. That night happy as a bunch of cats with a deck opened up and swallowed general membership meeting dur­ I was approached by a couple of mouse. The murderous gleam in me—or so I thought. What ac­ ing the time the United Mine goons, who declared that they their eyes, and their frank state­ tually happened was that I had Workers were planning a strike. hoped it wouldn't be necessary ment that if I ever shipped on fallen down the hawse pipe. A resolution to take "political ac­ to put any marks on me until after an NMU ship I'd never get off While I was down there, wedged tion" against the "fascist fifth the convention. Next morning on alive, were too much for me. I between the anchor chain and the columnist, John L. Lewis" was in­ the convention floor proceedings had become as closely acquainted pipe I could hear the guys asking troduced. I took the floor and were held up for nearly an hour with NMU "democracy" as I cared, one another where I'd disappeared defended Lewis and his miners, with the demands and ravings to. I quit. to. When they finally hauled me explained the justness of their of commie fanatics that I be I have now joined the SIU out I was still dazed and quite claims and suggested that the thrown out, be investigated, ex­ where democracy is not just a cut-up about the whole thing. least the NMU could do would be plain my outrageous actions, ad slogan used to cover up totali­ tarian methods, but an actuality* And I do mean cut-up—still carry to remain neutral. The chair­ infinitum. the scars. man of the meeting, Joe Stack, After letting all this go on. have found a union that is not countered by recognizing half a Chairman Curran made a little controlled by a ruthless minority. DAYMON SADLER. ChS. — I have found a union that goes dozen big gun party line speakers speech about the NMU being a guess my strangest experience who ranted and raved until the democratic union, and that, after down the line with militant dol­ was my first contact with infla­ anti-union resolution was passed all, shipowners' stooges always lar and cents unionism and tion. When the SS Daniel Wilgave themselves away sooner or doesn't fluctuate in- policy dicta­ by a satisfactory margin. lard hit Murmansk and we went later, anyway. ted by a foreign power. I'll now After this meeting I was ap­ ashore, some of the boys told me The story of the rest of the con­ be represented as I want to be proached by half a dozen smallto be sure to take a bar of soap fry commies who tried by various vention you can guess. No reso- represented and not by a group along. I went along with the stupid arguments to . convert me ution against the party line leak­ of Communist Party mouthpieces. gag and sure enough I found that to the right way of thinking. I the bar of soap covered every­ didn't convert and they had my thing; introduction, cost of en­ number. tertainment. future social engage­ At the recent NMU convention ments and dessert. Although the I was a delegate elected from a experience was strange and em rank and file crew of militant joyable I shudder to think of Jimmy Stewart is that quiet, July display. "Great balls of seamen of the type you find in shortages and inflation creating the SIU, and no doubt sooner or unassuming and efficient guy you fire," we shouted. such a condition here at home. later this crew will be in the meet on the third deck lounge and Shutting out the glare with the FRED LEUFFER. AB—I've had SIU. I was given four pages of recreation hall. He's the fellow borrowed glasses we could make a few strange things happen since instructions as to what to present out the reason for the phenome­ I've been going to sea (1941) but and how to vote at the conven­ who hands you those books to non. Standing nonchalantly at the read, the union agreements with counter was a guy—yes, just a I suppose the one that stands out tion. was when the skipper of the The first clash I had was on the shipowners, keeps the cigar­ guy—but the uniform and gold Robin Doncaster was kicked off the first resolution, the reaffirm­ ettes and sodas coming, and does braid was just gorgaous. At that the ship. It happened this way. ing of the no-strike pledge. The a dozen and one things which go moment someone shouted "Turn The captain had been treating the resolutibin was put on the floor towards making the members out the lights and, save the elec­ crew lousy commiting rash acts after a razzle-dazzle of patriotic welcome at the New York hall. tric." which endangered the ship and speeches and no discussion. Only So, when the other day the With closed eyes we walked everyone aboard. At every port four delegates voted against the phone rang and lifting the re­ out of the hall after handing Jim the crew spokesmen protested to resolution, although a substantial ceiver we heard Jirnmy's voice, the eye protectors. The rest of the U. S. consuls without success. number were opposed but afraid strangely excited and emotional, the story is told by Jimmy him­ Finally at Montivideo the Naval to say so. One of the dissenters, we knew something was wrong. self. Attache came aboard with the a former party member, hastily He was hollering "bring down "That guy said that he had Coast Guard and took the skipper changed his vote and disappeared some smoked glasses, bring down come to the SIU hall to get sea­ off. He was charged with seven never to be seen at the conven­ some smoked glas.ses" and by the man's papers but I told him with counts, among them negligence, tion again. Another of the rebels, sound of it, minutes counted. all that braid and stuff he must not following naval orders, and Robert Coleman, stayed silent but be in the wrong place. I asked taking his ship into a minefield. was kicked out a few days later. him where he got it from and he The real cause of his downfall His story has already appeared said that it went with the captain was the united action of the crew. in the Log. rating he got up at Fort Trumbull, They really stood together. New London, where he had been The ship was brought in by I was the sole delegate to speak an instructor. How long had he LEONARD LESKOWSKY. OS another skipper who was among against the no-strike pledge. A been sailing I wanted to know. good test for the NMU "demo­ —First ship I was on was the some survivors of a torpedoing Sailing . . . you mean on water cracy," the barrage began. Speak­ John Larson, South Atlantic, and we had picked up at Durban. ... Oh! I've never been to sea ers, ranging from outraged penny I was green as grass. I didn't s. A. in my life. He said that they ante pip-squeek commies to Joe know anything! about leering wouldn't give him seaman papers CUrran himself, insinuated that I and navigation. A convoy was in New London that's why he was an agent of the shipowners, just starting on its way. and I was here. a fascist fifth-columnist, and .SIU was told to take the wheel. It's disrupter, a Nazi, a Japan­ "I finally sent him on his way just like steering an auto they ese spy and a moron. so that the regular inmates of told, and left me there. What the lounge could come back in Not fitting into any of these The only thing we could find they didn't know was that I had without endangering their eyes. categories, I took the floor and around the place was an old pair never driven a car either. The My last words to him were: See explained that I was only mildly of sun glasses, discarded by the old man told me to give her a here, this is a union, a good expressing the views of the rank Editor in favor of glassless cheat­ 20 degree turn. Not wanting to union, just go away and if you and file crew that had elected me ers, and we rushed down to the be accused of doing a bad job. ever come back, burn that gold I gave her a whirl and turned to the convention. After this third deck with these. When we braid first, we don't -want her more than 50 degrees. The Curran made a speech which arrived we knew we had made a phonies around here." old man almost exploded—asked must have been for my benefit, mistake in only bringing one me if I were heading back to since I was the only dissenter pair. For there, over by Jimmy's That's the end of the story ex­ Norfolk. WelL I've learned since, left, assuring me that the NMU counter we saw it ... It was cept for one thing. Jimmj^s but I'll never forget the look on was a democratic union; and that something that looked like a drinking lots of malted milks in the skipper's face—^it was the every brother was entitled to combination of the rainbow being order to regain the weight he lost closest thing to a stroke I've voice his opinion, but that dele­ exploded by an atom bomb, the because of the heat the guy in ever seen. gates who had made mistakes aurora borealis, and a fourth of gold braid generated. Aurora Borealis Walks Into New York Recreation Hall �....... THE Page Six SEAEARbHS LOG M Friday, September 14, 1945 , SHIPS' M1N1TTES AMD MEWS Crew's Response In Emergency Changes LeHand Skipper's Mind Officers Steal From Each Other On Edw. Sparrow If, on some dark and f-ainy night aboard ship, you should happen to see a kerosene drum moving along the deck, with a chief engineer underneath it, fellers, you're aboard the Ed­ ward Sparrow with a bunch of officers who can't get along to­ gether and, we are led to be­ lieve, who are part owners of the Calmar company. "To judge by the strange tale we heard when this Calmar Lib­ erty hit port, the officers aboard her were over-anxious in their efforts to save Calmar dough at the expense of their crew. When the acting Bosun was told to lock up a drum of kero­ sene he raised his eyebrows, questioningly, and was told, by the chief mate, "I caught the chief engineer trying to make off with it last night and I want it locked up so that it stays where it belongs in the deck department." 'Apparently the chief himself was no bargain for at the be­ ginning of the trip he handed the deck engineer a goose-neck call of grease with the remark. "That's enough for this trip." When a holiday came he told the Wiper that he could make overtime if he would help blow the tubes but after the job was completed he backtracked by saying that the Wiper would have to collect without his, the CM, signature. Another time the Wiper was deprived of over­ time while the chief spent three days painting. The Wiper's beef has been set­ tled satisfactorily by the Patrol­ man. N, Z. VICTORY ON ATLANTIC RUN Loaded with lumber and scheduled for an Atlantic run to Liverpool, the New Zealand Vic­ tory left Mobile last week with a good percentage of book men on board. Included in the crew were: Francis Knight, Oiler; L. L, Stone, AB; Orestes Allen, Wiper; M. D. Daravich, Electrician; and Fred Swanson, Oiler. Swanson was one of Mobile's stand-by .artists till Tucker high-pres­ sured him into getting signed ap on foreign articles. The Los Angeles tanker Marguerite LeHand left Mobile recently with a crew that was shanghaied out of every gin mill and cocktail lounge in town. When the skipper took one look at his crew he threat­ ened to fire them all when the ship got to New Orleans, and shouted this fact all over the ship and the pier, so the crew was sure they were in for a very short trip and a meager pay-off. But circumstances often change the intentions of men and so it was with the skipper of the Marguerite. Going down the river his ship rammed and sank the light house tender Magnolia. In the excitement of the col­ lision one of the officers on the bridge rang the abandon ship alarm and, before the old man knew what has happening, the crew had the boats out of their cradles and over the side. The old man later claimed that they accomplished this feat in two minutes flat. In fact the skip­ per was so proud of this display of expert seamanship that he announced to the crew they could ride his ship anywhere. The tanker came out of the tangle with only a dent in her hull. The Magnolia didn't fare so well and is now sitting under the water with only her stack showing above the tide. Fort Frederica Chief Steward Nabs Duke Hail GOOD DELEGATES ON CAPE FARO A clean ship and an easy pay­ off resulted from good delegate's work, when the Cape Faro paid off last week in the port of New Orleans, After leaving New York on thq^ 18th of July, the Cape Faro made several Venezuelan ports, including LaCruz, Quanta, and Porto Cabello. All hands had such a good time with the senoritas at Porto Cabello that the mate had to call out reinforce­ ments to wake up the deck gang when the ship pulled out for Cuba. A beef on this ship, common to many stewards departments, was about a Second, Cook and Baker who had the required WSA papers saying he was a Cook, but no experience to back them up. Delegates for the trip were John Dugina, AB; Laymon Seay, Oiler; and Skeets Ritter, Messman. T. J. Jackson First Liberty Passenger Job John Quitman Crew Stands By In Job Action Although scheduled for MediBelieved to be the first Lib­ teranean waters the SS John erty to carry passengers on a Quitman, Waterman Line, put regular run, the Mississippi T. J. about as she neared Gibralter Jackson has made several trips and returned home. When they out of New Orleans to Brazilian docked at the Bush Terminal, ports with six or eight on each Brooklyn, the master tried to payoff without company repre­ trip. sentation being present to settle Warned before hand that the beefs. ship is no luxury liner, the pas­ The officers at the army base sengers, both men and women, have to pse the crew's bath and then arranged for the skipper washroom facilities; sleep in ca­ to do business outside the base bins converted from gunner's so the old man took the com- L missions, articles, and payrolls quarters. with him. The Jackson is now in New The disputes only involved Orleans, where she has been three hours of legitimate over­ loading for the past two weeks. time in the Steward dept. but Brother A. E. Fassett, who the captain stood pat for about made the last trip on this ship, an hour. Unfortunately for him says the passengers get along the crew stood pat, too. All theO. K. despite the combined ac­ unlicensed personnel, including commodations and seem to en­ two trip carders, stood by until joy the trip. the skipper decided to settle the Sieweird dept. beef. ^ The Patrolman remarked later > that crews like this make ship HOLD THOSE payoffs much easier and united job action such as these men SHIPBOARD demonstrated will insure our union against all shipowner at- ^ ]}IEETINGS tacks on wages and working conditions. Hooligan Navy Unwelcome, Says Lillirilfton Skipper Outstanding event in the payoff on the South At­ lantic Alexander Lillington was the disappointment shown by the gestapo officer who boarded the ship when she hit port Neither the old man or the crew minced any The old art of shanghaing is words in informing him that the supposed to be out of style, ex­ space was preferable to his com­ cept in stories, but you can't pany and that merchant sea-, men's business could be very tell that to Duke Hall. Duke well .taken care of without the stepped through the door of the aid of the hooligan navy. Hats hall at New Orleans the other off to the skipper for standing day after riding up from Tampa by his crew in this matter. and walked right into the arms of Chief Steward Ted Tarring- CHAS. A. KEFFER With 28 men in the Steward ton of the Fort Frederica who IN NEW ORLEANS dept. and 450 troops aboard, was running around like a mad­ The Charles A. Keffer, South she hit port an extremely clean man hunting a Second Cook and Atlantic Liberty, paid off in New ship. There were no disputes Baker for a pier head jump. Orleans last week after a four in the Deck or Steward depts. Ted and most of the crew of weeks voyage from Frisco in but a number of disputed hours in the Engine dept. All beefs the Frederica were all for quit­ ballast. were squared away before the ting this scow at sailing time if Despite the fact that the ship payoff. a competent Second Cook couldn't be found, so Duke's ar­ was well supplied with fruit The ship was cursed with a rival on the scene was like man­ juices, the steward refused to number of trip card men who put any on the table and al­ na from heaven. though there was plenty of ice will never become good union High pressured by Ted, Joe cream on board it wasn't until members. These monkeys were Dread, Jimmy Doherty, and Ed the delegates brought the pres­ being led by an ex-NMU gasHigdon all at the same time, sure on him that he put this on hound who spent his time drink­ Duke gave in and was rushed the table, evidently preferring ing with the officers and telling down to the ship before he to have it melt in the tropics them what good guys they were. None of the SIU men could find could even wave to the ladies at than to serve it up to the crew. a good word to say for this punk the Marine Bar. Charges were brought against so he was sent on his way back Others in the Frederica's crey/ a wiper for neglecting his job were: Edward J. Esteve, OS, and thereby making the other to the NMU, where he could fol­ low their policy of chop-licking WiUiam Wolfe, AB, V. S. Alford wiper do all the work. instead of settling beefs. Jr., AB, C. H. Roberts, FWT, J. Delegates for the trip were: R. Pullen, Oiler, L. R. Bowen, James Powell, Deck Engineer; Wiper, and J. H. Ponson, Wiper. Jerry Delmas, Oiler; and Pete dication that there is slowly get­ ting to be a surplus shipping Some of the boys were a little Tammaro, Deck Maintenance. problem. homesick for the Florida Bar George Stack, AB; rode this and the Metropole and were Maryville Victory ship in from the west coast. hoping that this T-T would head When she pulled into Mobile, ac­ The Maryville Victory is lay­ towards Rio, but it looks so far cording to Stack, there was just ing in Mobile but there doesn't as though they'll be sampling SAKI instead, for rumor .says seem to be any rush about get­ enough line on board to tie her ting this ship out, another ia- up to the dock. she's Tokyo bound. • CAPE ST. GEORGE CREW IRKED BY MESS CROWDING After a four day trip from New York, the Cape St. George pulled into the port of New Or­ leans last week, where she is scheduled to go on the Puerto Rican run for the winter. Chief beef of the crew on this ship was about crowded messroom conditions. With a crew of 45, the crew's mess seats only 15, and the company has* been asked to install a P.O. mess to alleviate this crowding. On this ship the Junior Engineers and Assistant Electrician eat in the crew's mess. When the ship left New York short handed, the WSA put a 16 year old schoolboy who had never been to sea before on her as AB. Upon arriving in New Orleans, where replacements were available, the WSA was for taking the kid off and send­ ing him home, but the crew pro­ tested. If he was good enough to help take the ship out, the\ crew told the WSA, he was good enough to stay on the ship, and they succeeded in keeping the boy on board as Deck Main­ tenance. Delegates on this ship are Omar Ames, AB; Joe Johnson, Steward; and Vic Milazzo, Sec­ ond Cook and Baker. �, Friday, Seplember 14, 1945 THE SEAEAREKS LOG THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS DID BUM OX-TAIL SOUP CAUSE FRENCHTS MISHAP Editor •^ 1 ^ I * Rumor has it that Frenchy Michelet's broken rib "accident" is the direct result of some ox­ tail soup he concocted aboard a tanker the other p. m. He had reported being hit by a taxi at Times Square but a check with the authorities did not reveal any record of such an accident. The rumor persists that Frenchy, trying to avoid expo­ sure of his culinary defects, rushed into the union hall to get enough good menus from Jake Shuler to last at least till the ship left port. He antici­ pated that the later bad menus could be blamed on the lack of food. However, at least that's the way the story goes. Brother Shuler crossed him up, and by accident or design, gave him a .couple of menus prepared for Jap POWs, which one of the men had brought in for a sou­ venir. Naturally Frenchy didn't know the difference. Now the story circulating here is that a couple of the larger size members of the tanker's crew had been suffering (the same night as Frenchy's "acci­ dent," mind you) with acute in­ digestion after a supper which included Frenchy's ox-tail soup. JOHN WEIR We're sorry to report that Frenchy really did get hit by a cab.—ED. ^ X % WORKAWAYS AID IN e. G, TRIAL OF POINDEXTER MEN Log, li We signed ship articles on the SS G. Poindexter on May \2, V 1945. Left New York to load in New Orleans. We were helped plenty by our Patrolmen down in our SIU hall there. The union representatives stand by ready to help all our men to the utmost of their ability. The next port was Cartagena - Columbia, and boy what a port. As wide open as a house with no bulkheads or doors. Plenty to drink. We stayed there about ten days then went to Cristo­ bal, C. Z., also a nice port. From there to Tocopilla, Chile, where they say it hasn't rained in five years, - It was the first time I had seen the Andes Mountains and • what a sight they are. In the morning the birds all leave the island and coast and you see millions of birds of every des­ i-. cription, big, small, fat and lean, hunting food. While anchored we saw squids four foot long which we tried to catch on a hook but they let go as soon as they get out of the water. We tried har­ pooning them. I hit one but he broke loose. We started back and stopped at Panama for fuel, picking up about thirty workaways, and then on to Jacksonville, Fla. It was a good crew and we worked all during this time without one afternoon off. Incidently Peter Kirkimilas is one of the best Bosuns I've ever met. When we reached Jackson­ ville the ship tied up, all ready to discharge when the Captain and Chief Mate called the Coast Guard and charged that we re­ fused to work. As a result the whole deck crew stood trial. Even some of the workaways came to our defense (some SIU men were among them). William "Red" Morris SIU Agent in Jacksonville put up a real good fight for us and my hat's off to him for the job^ he did. We paid off July 23 after a most miserable trip with a most miserable Captain Perdersen and Chief Mate Arnold.' DONALD GIANGIORDA Page Seven m sure that these things are fol­ lowed through. The SIU is pretty efficient and I'm sure we could think of a system to guar­ antee that the necessary im­ provements, as drawn up by the crew, "are carried out this trip we're getting a break instead of what is rightfully ours. not next. Unless an increase in basic Some of the ways that might wages come through, married help solve this problem would men with families ashore will be to make it part of a Dele­ gate's job to stay aboard until have to go on relief, Seamen the next signing on or until must get a wage raise, its a the new crew has had time to necessity which will have to be elect new Delegates. Then, af­ fought for with all the weapons ter turning over his records to we have. the new Delegates, he could con­ EDWARD KULIS2 sider himself relieved. Along 4> 4, 4' C. Canfield with that, the Patrolman who paid off the ship should be re­ OWNERS' FIFTH was collected thanks to the quired to check back and see COLUMN SEEN IN efforts of the union. Not a bad if the repairs or improvements RMO TRAINEES dividend I would say. are being carried out according CLIFFORD CANFIELD, OS to his agreement with the com­ A lot of the RMO trainees who pany. A master file could be have been taking good union FAMILY ENJOYS kept in the Agent's office with wages away from SIU men are the name of each ship and the SEAFARERS LOG, now in a very bad position. Al­ list of improvements to be made. SAYS SEAMAN At signing on time the Patrol­ though they had a fine time man should be there with the sailing on fink books as deck To the Editor, list to check up on the work. cadets and engine cadets these Just a line to let you know These are a few suggestions guys find that we're catchitng that I am now receiving copies of the Log every week—I had that came to my mind. Perhaps up with them and are looking previously turned my name into others, sailing with the fans in to get out from under. They're coming into the SIU ^he librarian on the third floor disrepair, quarters unpainted, short on one supply or another, hall in droves trying to get at the New York ha)l. The Log is very well received have thought about this and union books so that they can by my family and friends as have come up with some bright well as myself. They tell me ideas. I'd like to hear them. KEFFER CREWMEN that they consider it the best IRVING WEINSTEIN labor paper they've read. SAY THANKS TO 4* 4* 4* Keep up the good work and N. O. SIU REP we'll show people a thing or GIVES OVERTIME two yet. Seafarers Log, TIP ON CLEANING MAX FINGERHUT We SIU members aboard the DIESEL PURIFIER S. 4- t SS Chas. A. Keefer want to Dear Brothers, thank the New Orleans branch SUGGESTS FOLLOW of the union for the cooperation I have just arrived back in UP SYSTEM ON given to us in settling the beefs. New York after paying off in We are well satisfied and feel REPAIR BEEFS New Orleans on the MV Cape that the officials there went "be­ Dear Brothers, Faro, Waterman Line. yond the call of duty" in getting About four days before we There's a point I'd like to let become palsy walsies with us our disputes squared away. left New York we called up the the membership in on regarding (The letter is signed by; hall and asked one of the Pa­ the cleaning of purifiers by now that the war is over. Some (James S. Powel, Jerry Delmas, trolmen to call the company junior engineers on these Diesel of them, I suppose, never had Bruce Hensley, James L. Thomp­ about getting the black gang's jobs. For two trips before this bad intentions and were just son, Daniel S. Castrillo, John A. toilet and shower room painted, last voyage, the junior engineers misguided, some of them had bad intentions but have come Warken, Jerry Graves, Harold new mirrors put up, etc. on this ship were cleaning puri­ to understand unionism, and L. Frowiss, Joseph E. Pragl, At the time of sailing nothing fiers without overtime. I in­ some never had good intentions James E. Ramsey, Bill Di Long, had been done. I am not using sisted that between the hours of Art S. Hernandez. Dwayne L. this example to put the Patrol­ 5 p. m. and 8 a. .m it was over­ and never will. Its the last batch that we Fleer, William W. Grovers. man on the spot, but to show time. must watch out for. When the Johnny R, Jordan, Peter L. Lam- what is happening on dozens of Well, thanks to the good rep­ days of struggle are back with maro ((prob. book)). Tommy F. ships. The ship comes into the resentation by our Patrolmen Hall and Kenneth Crockett. ED.) home port with a list of im­ in N. O. we collected. In my us (and I guess we all know & 1 provements to be made, drawn opinion its a nice victory for the that they'll come) these punks will be the union busters' fifth up by the crew. The list is turn­ SIU black gangs. INVESTS IN SIU column in the ranks of the sea­ ed over to the Patrolman at the I want to mention my appre­ men. AND GETS GOOD time of paying off and from ciation of the Log coming each JOHN MARCIANO there on it may or may not go week to my home as it enables CASH DIVIDENDS through. me to keep up with what's been Dear Editor, Does the Patrolman contact going on while I was away. SO THEY TELL US !! I was not a member of the the company? Sure! But does "Lovemaking," argued the THOMAS L. ATHEY SIU until I met Emit C. Milton, he know if the company carries Skipper, "is 75% work and 25% 4. t 4. better known to the boys as out any promises it makes? Does "Rebel." It was on the Moran anyone in the old crew, remain­ RAISE BASIC PAY pleasure." "You're w^ r o n g , tug Dry Tortugas that this Ala­ ing aboard, have a list of the skipper," said the Mate, "It's bama "Reb" and I became bud­ proposed improvements? Does LEST FAMILY MEN 50% work and 50% pleasure." dies and he showed me the SIU he understand that his duty is to GO ON RELIEF The 2nd mate walked by way of doing things. call the hall in a few days if Dear Editor, and they called him over. Tell­ Although "Rebel" convinced the improvements are not car­ After few weeks on the beach ing him about their debate they me that the" union wasn't a slot ried out? Does the new crew during which I became reacasked what he thought. "You're know that they have to look machine into which you put a quainted with my folks again, both wrong, it's 25% work and around and see what has to be dollar and got out ten, it so hap­ I'm shipping out once more. I 75% pleasure. Not being able done before the ship sails? pens that it amounted to some­ can't understand how men with to come to an agreement, they Maybe they do and maybe not. thing like that for me. With 423 hours overtime to It's all left to chance with no families are going to exist un­ called to a passing OS and collcet at the payoff I naturally systematic following through less something is done about our asked his opinion. "All of you wondered what was going to from the time the list is drawn pay. The cutting of the bonus are wrong 'cause if there was happen to my dough. My total up by the old ci'ew until the doesn't bother me too much be­ any work attached to lovemak­ cause I'd much sooner see a ing you guys would become investment in the union was time the ship sails again. raise in our basis wages so that hermits," was the seaman's I think that the union ought $75. we won't have to feel as though quick reply. to devise some way to make Every cent of my overtime �1^ »., THE Page Eight SEAFARERS Friday, September 14, 1945 LOG Discouraged That Free Loaders Will Never Learn Their Lesson By CHARLIE STARLING BALTIMORE—Things are like road, only one could see the coming off a good drunk in this light (Mack B. Singleton), and he now has his transportation fair city. Nothing to do or no­ money coming and can get same body to do it with. The only at Bull Line office here in Bal­ help we will have for sure will be timore. The other 15 will be rid­ two new Victories coming out for ing in a box car if they go broke. the Bull Line some time this Ti-ansportation was not all they week. However, some bright lost, as it seems the Steward did morning we will wake up and not turn in their last weekend have the bay full of ships and no overtime. If any or all of those men ever find themselves stand­ pfece to dock them. ing- in a bread line, 1 hope they Had one of the cleanest pay- stop and think about the little Ipjffs in here last week on the talk they had with me on the George Westinghouse of the Robin William Rawle. In closing let's hope that all Line, and I would like to take men like these go down with the fny hat off to all the crew for WSA and stay down while the the help they gave me, as 1 had SlU goes up, and up. to pay this ship off alone and had about 1,800 hours overtime red-leaded in the Stewards De­ partment. ' • I never dreamed there could be such a clean payoff with all the overtime paid at the payoff and everybody happy. Good crews can work wonders when they are not gassed up at the tiayoff. This payoff of the West­ inghouse is probably her last one, as she is scheduled for the boneyard and is one of five in this port being readied for a last STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL trip down the bay to the Fort W. W. FISHER Eustis anchorage in Hampton FRED ENGLAND Roads. L. WREITH After that one, 1 was very hap­ C. A. SHERROD py for two days or until the Wil­ A. RAYMOND liam Rawle paid off. All over- JAMES F. CLARKE ' tin^ on this ship was okayed, but W. B. MUIR EMIL VON TESMAR 16 men had transportation due th^em back to Charleston. It so L. M. MOODY, Jr. happened that all 16 were trip- K. E. OLSEN B. B. LENOIR card men who have been going to sea for about two years with the L. C. KATES •^iTSA as their collective bargain­ BERTEL BRYDER J. A. SPAULDING ing agency. All but one said they did not want anyone else and L. L. LEWIS they always got everything they L. R. BORJA had coming. (I wonder if they J. S. CAMPBELL really know what they have com­ R. A. BLAKE E. V. FERRER ing.) ;So after an hour or so spent H. W. E. FREDERICKSEN along with some of the crew try­ ROBERT POWELL ing to show these men the right JOHN NEAL Casualities Mount As Seafaring NO NEWS?? Commandos Take Over San Juan Silence ihis week from the Branch Agents of the follow-, ing ports: HOUSTON NEW ORLEANS JACKSONVILLE BOSTON NORFOLK CHARLESTON Men Now In The Marine Hospitals Asks Deck Men To Sail Steward By ARTHUR THOMPSON SAVANNAH—Business picked bring some of our men back, but up for a while at least. We ship­ it's still important and necessary ped 19 men during the week and for the welfare of the union for just got a call from the SS Smith everyone to ship out as often as Victory for 60 men. Forty of possible so we can keep our ships these are for the stewards depart­ moving. ment and may be hard to fill. The I noticed a bit of poetry by other 20 are deck and engine and "Top 'n Lift" in a recent issue we should have no trouble get­ of the Log about which depart­ ting these men, since our ship­ ment runs the ship. Well, here's ping list is pretty heavy in these the way I heard it: The captain and chief engineer were having two departments. The Commissioners office in an argument as to which was Savannah is being swamped with more important and finally they applicants for seaman's papers. agreed to change jobs for a day Most of them are asking for OS to see who was the better man. or wiper endorsements. We have Everything went along fine for a crying need for messmen and a few hours and finally the en­ bedroom stewards, but no one gines stopped dead. seems to want to work in the The skipper was aU over the stewards department. Maybe engine room trying to figure out some of our excess ordinaries and why the engines wouldn't turn wipers will sail, for oije trip at and, since no one would help him, least, as an endorsement for an­ he whistled up to the chief and said. "You win, I can't get these other department is easy now. I notice from reports from engines started and don't know various branches that seamen are what's wrong." again scarce. Even the RMO is The chief replied, "Hell, Cap­ short of men. Maybe the forth­ tain, I ran this scow on the beach coming increase in wages will an hour ago." WILLIAM GATES S- 4- 4ELLIS ISLAND HOSPITAL D. MC DONALD t BALTIMORE MARINE HOSPITAL HARRY BENNETT FRANCES FOWLER LAWRENCE STEELE 4^ 4. 4 MOBILE HOSPITAL TIM BURKE J. P. CLARK E. E. MCCARTHY M. E. CARDANA CHARLES L. LONG t 4. BRIGHTON MARINE HOSP. BOSTON AMOS BUZZEL PETE KOGOY JOSEPH ELIE J. HINES JOHN DUFFY Normal Times Return After Tanker Deluge MOBILE—Shipping is slowing down to normal again after the deluge of tankers, as we do not expect aify more in for a while. Expect to have a new tank-car­ rier out of Panama City for the South Atlantic some time this week. We are now getting some C-ls on the Puerto Rico run which will be a lot nicer than some of the old rust-buckets they had on it before the war. Also a few Liberties are being put on the bauxite run, so we look for some of the rust-buckets on that run to be junked, which should have been done a few years back. We will have the old Unico in from the Island run this week; she's old, but stiU one of the best of the ships that hit this area. We have with us the Pan-Orleans, the Little Queen Mary of the Waterman fleet, still on the ba­ nana run. It's only a short nine (Continued on Page 9) By BUD RAY SAN JUAN — Well, things are still buzzing along here in the enchanted island. Business is improving with more ships com ing in all the time. Shipping is picking up but there are very few rated men on the beach, and we have to ship a lot of trip card men. But it will be like old times soon with the boys rotating their turns with the fair ladies of shame and going a few rounds with the Ole Demon Rum and then making a revolution on a ship to get the system back in shape and to recuperate the bank roll. Well,. I,for one will be glad If He Likes A Ship He Sticks To Her Steward Jimmie Higham has a war time record for staying on one ship which can't be matched by many men in the unlicensed personnel. When the Waterman Liberty William Evarts paid off in Bal­ timore several weeks ago, Jim­ mie hit the dock with his sea bag after riding the ship for two and a half years, during which time she made 14 voyages, in­ cluding one trip around the world. Says Jimmie: "You can't find a better ship than the Evarts anywhere. She was a very lucky ship the whole time I was on her. We went through all the war zones and never got a scratch— didn't even see any action. She always had good officers and good crewmen who kept her clean." Although he doesn't look it. Brother Higham has spent 22 years of his life at sea, 10 years of which have been spent on ships running out of Gulf ports Before the war came along and Waterman acquired Liberties and other special types, Jimmie had sailed every ship in that outfit, including such well known oldtimers as the Bayou Chico, Hastings, Cofresi, Maiden Creek and Pan Orleans. The biggest ship he ever sailed was the Leviathan, on which he made so many North Atlantic crossings during the five years he was on her that he can't remem­ ber them all. This big liner, he says, carried 1,100 in the crew of which 150 were Messmen, who were paid the magnificient salary of $28 a month. "There was no such thing as overtime in those days," Jimmie recalls. "Each trip we tied up for about 12 days and often the company would lay us off until the ship was ready to sail, then we would tramp over to the ship­ ping master and he would hire us all over again." Of all the ports in the world that he has visited, Jimmie likes one best of all. "I've seen a lot of ports," he says, "but the best of them all is Mobile. That's because its home." to see things back to normal. I understand Bull is to have a sailing from N. Y. every week and the Jean, Ellenor, and Maryory are to run out from Balti­ more. Waterman's to have three new ones and three old ones from the Gulf. It sure looked sorrow^ ful to see the old Maryory come struggling in looking like an 0I4 woman on crutches. There shoui^ be a law to make them pasture this old veteran of two wars out, and I am sure that any one who has sailed her in the last few years will agree with me. I tried to lecture the boys on the Collabee of the evils that lurk around some of these houses of ill fame but they were young and full of vim, vigor and vitality and nodded their head in answer to the statements that I made. So on the arrival back in Mobile, Brother Tucker can have five purple hearts and five medals for meritous action beyond the call of duty ready to pin on these brave wai-riors' chests.' j They landed on the beach at Ponce and after a hard struggle and fight every inch of the wa;^ they surrounded and took the Bar Azul located on said beach; there­ on they entered and proceeded to give the ladies of the Scarlet Sis­ terhood a play, and to down the hatch with a few; along toward media noche things started to • roll and take shape. Now, all of these questionable sisters have a steady man and when„things started to go wrong ' with the meal ticket, naturally they had to get in the fracas. The wind up was cuts on the boys and from fifteen to forty stitches were needed to hang them back together. The 2nd Cook of the Alther got a good break and a good lawyer, so thirty days will do it for him. I got a call from the Alther and was notified the C. G. would be aboard to try seven men for mis­ conduct. 'There were four of them there, and I got them clear, but the other three got this of­ fense entered to their records. Fellows, this isn't putting your union in a very good light when you persist in not turning to in these outports; and you give the C. G. an argument to hold ovef you after this is all over. Remember, if you are a good union man and seaman you will help fight the men who make a practice of doing this. •»> �Friday, September 14. 1945 THE SEAFARERS Page Nine LOG -:.g lAilitant Shipboard Action Occurs In New York SIU's Little Strong Man By J. P. SHULER (Coniimted from Page 4) to sea steadily throughout the war. It may have been his luck or his good living, Kurt says, but three of his ships were lost the trip after he left them. They were the Edith, the Topa Topa, and the Henry Bacon. Since 1918 Kurt has been a featured acrobat with circuses and carnival midget shows, traveling all over the United States and Europe. An expert in difficult acroba­ tics, Kurt specializes in hand stands and intricate somersaults. One trick which he developed himself and which always pleases the carnival crowds is a three finger hand stand on the tops of Coca Cola bottles. Is it hard? Just try a hand stand on the tips of your fingers! After returning from a roundthe-world trip on the Henry Ba­ con in 1943, Kurt put in a sum­ mer traveling with Ringling Brothers just to keep in touch with his old friends and keep his reflexes, so important to an acro­ bat, active and alert. In his years of trouping Kurt NEW YORK — This port has seen a touch of militant action in the past week wherein several ships crews remained on board until the beefs were settled to their satisfaction. Among these were the SS George Washington v/hich has been sailing under the promises of better conditions for the last six months. Her crew has worn out many big men with his endless energy. He has done as many as 33 shows a day, when traveling with such big carnival outfits as Harris Shows and All American Shows; this in addition to helping stow the show at night, put it on the train, and get it set up in another town on the fol­ lowing day, all without any rest. "Seamen and show people," Kurt says, "are very much alike. They are unassuming, friendly, and always willing to help a guy along." Kurt thinks his circus days are gone forever. "It's not a job for an older man," he says, "when you lose that trigger-like reaction you are liable to miss a cue and hurt some one seriously. When you notice that your hands aren't as steady as they use to be it's time to quit." But Kurt doesn't want to lose contact with his two great loves: the circus and the sea. Now that the war is over he plans to re­ tire to a Florida chicken farm, close to circus winter quarters and close to his friends at the Tampa hall. decided not to sign off articles men 'at this time, these men are until the deck department's quar­ finding new clauses in the con­ ters had full length lockers, port stitution voted upon by the mem­ screens, etc. She was also sup­ bership that went to sea through­ plied with sufficient fans and out the war that make it diffi­ got a new water cooling system. cult for them to be reinstated. There are also a number of The SS John Quitman, Water­ man Shipping Company, started men that started to sea during paying off in an Army Base the war now retiring their books aboard the ship. The Patrolmen now that the war is over. There were waiting in a payoff room are few ships being tied up in the and the Master had an idea that bone yards and few new ships he would pay off on board the being launched, so seamen and vessel. After the officers had ships are at a see-saw noW mak­ paid off and the first unlicensed ing it hard to tell just what post­ man came up, the captain was war shipping will be. By BILL LUTH There is one thing which we informed that there must be a ^ PHILADELPHIA — It seems Patrolman present before the must bear in mind; and that is, as though the panic is on, boys. payoff. This crew stood pat and regardless of how many ships are A few days ago, a couple of the old man and the commis­ tied up and how many seamen guys strolled into the hall and sioner had to pick up their gear there are on the beach, that there told me that they had decided to and bring it out to the payoff is going to have to be a certain join the union. After a few ques­ room for the crew to accept their amount of seamen sailing,them— no more, no less. If wages and tions they admitted that they money. had been shipping through the There was only three hours dis­ conditions are maintained, it must ,WSA. Now that the war is over, puted overtime on this ship for be realized that we cannot cut and the WSA and the RMO are the entire crew but the crew our throats by bowing to the going to fold up, they realized stood for their principles and col­ shipowners, but that we must that they had better join a union, lected the three hours before they continue united solidly and be if they are to continue going to signed off articles. A number of prepared to hit the bricks in case sea for a liyelihood. After "nosing these men were permit card men. the shipowners try to take ad­ arcrund" they found that the SIU Book and trip card men are to be vantage of the fact that there are is the best outfit in the country. congratulated for the militant more seamen than there are jobs. It really griped me to see these stand they took on this payoff. By D. STONE guys who shipped through the The Steamship Companies for "factory" all through the war the past five or six months have GALVESTON — The past two our busiest days, we here in coming up here, not because they been reviewing their agreements, (Coitfimtcd frotn Page 8) weeks in this port were record Galveston were on our toes ex­ are unionists, but because the and trying to chisel here and day trip, and pays off every third weeks for this branch so far ship­ pecting to have to move off the draft board is still after them. island out of the way of the there wherever they found an trip, but each time" she is in quite However, I restrained my thick opening. But novf that the war a few get off and out go more ping was concerned. On one par­ hurricane. Fortunately this storm ticular day we had no less than passed 50 miles west of Houston. Danish blood and told them to is over they are aware of the trip card men. hang around the hall, and that I fact that the seamen have again In the hospital we still have 150 jobs on the board. How we Galveston got its share of rain, would ship them if the members come into their own, and that Brothers Tim Burke, 7417; J. P. ever managed to crew up these and when it rains down here the M. didn't want any of the jobs—all in the very near future economic Clarke, 37212; E. E. McCarthy, ships is still a mystery to us. water in the streets rises over the because we have a hall full of pressure can be applied without P.D.-385; and M. E. Cardana, Nevertheless, we did and the only curbs. men who can't get off their dead the interference of some of the G-91. We also have in the hos­ shortage was an Electrician on one This past week also brought ^nds to take a ship. Galveston its first C-4 type ship, maritime set-ups that were de­ pital Brother Charles L. Long, ship. Our books are not closed, and rived out of this war. Next week we are getting up the SS Marine Star, Grace Lines. 45701, a newcomer to the union no doubt some of these men will There are a number of old book but a good man. He had shipped another M-A-V-1 type ship for These ships are not bad although make good union men, but I'm members who quit the sea in 1942 out on the SS McKittrick Hills Waterman. There are two more they do carry a lot of deck gear. not too hot about these guys who when shipping was really tough as Wiper and the night before the of the same type ships due out The quarters are nice and large with plenty of elbow room for the A have been sailing out of the gov­ who are drifting back to the ship was to sail he was hit by an of the Beaumont yards during ernment fink halls and come here crew members. next 30 days. These ships will waterfront now that the war haz­ auto. At the writing of this he i only when the RMO dissolves ards are at a minimum. Although is still unconscious with his no doubt be used in the coast­ Shipping continues good and s from under their feet. wise and island trade. During we need men in all ratings. there's a dire need for rated sea­ parents by his bedside. WSA Stiffs Flocking To Seafarers Union Galveston Reports Record Shipping Normal Times Return H New Area Bonus Rates Now Payable h ':r$ V" : xi' ATI. : iri-'J-....'.' . �THE Page Ten SEAFARERS Friday. September 14. 1945 LOG THE WEEK'S MEWSm REVIEW J A Sports And Nf^ws Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports. CURRENT EVENTS SPORTS.. eight out of the ten games he BOXING By rallying in the last round, has pitched since he came from and dumping Nick Moran, Mexi­ the Yankees, proving to be the AT HOME can lightweight on his pretty shot in the arm that the* Cubs pants in the last few seconds of needed. Following legislation urged by President Truman in his message the 10th round, Ike Williams earn­ Miles below sea level, the to Congress: Increase in unemployment benefits to a $25 weekly ed a close, but popular decision Dodgers, Giants and the Pirates maximum for 26 weeks, to include workers not covered now, such at Madison Square Garden last are having a battle royal for as merchant seamen . . . Early action on Full Employment Bill . . . third place. All three are play­ Friday night. Substantial increase in the present 40 cent minimum hourly wage Moran started well and took ing sloppy ball, with poor pitch­ leagues, the ultimate winners to . .. Clarification and liberalizaton of veterans benefits . . . Reduction most of the early rounds, but as ing and plenty of errors, and it meet in the Little World Series of taxes ... He also called for extension of draft, and for the raising the fight progressed Williams will probably be the case of the . . . This playoff business is okay. of Congressional salaries to $20,000 a year, a mere 100% hike. solved his style and picked up least bad team pulling out ahead. It means more games and more Director of Economic Stabilization William H. Davis will issue in points. However, until Ike Dick Fowler, recently dis­ gate receipts, and gives a fourth new wage-price regulations to permit wage increases without af­ charged from the Canadian Army, place team a chance to win the uncorked his knockdown punch fecting general price structure . . . Says wages can be upped 50% pitched a no-hitter for the Ath­ pennant. there was little to chose between in five years without increasing cost of living . . . He has all the in­ letics against the Browns, win­ Rumor is that Marty Marion, them. There was little science shown, the boys swinging from ning 1-0. He walked four men, just about the best shortstop there dustrialists in tears . . . Army cancelled all its cigarette orders and their toes for the most part, but but two were wiped out by double is, may be sold by the Cards next cut down the gum and cereal contracts . . . Are your choppers in plays . . . Bob Feller hurled the season . . . Just an old St. Louis good condition? the fans liked it. last no-hitter in the American in custom. Build 'em up and then 1,600,000 lost their jobs in August, according to the Department On Monday, also at the Garden, 1940 . . . The season has ended of Labor . . . New York State to tighten regulations on sleeping sell them for a pile of dough . . . Freddie Schott, Paterson heavy­ weight, knocked out the veteran for the International League, the A1 Barrillari of Baltimore pitched pills. Too many have taken the easy way out, sleeping their way Freddie Fiducia in the ninth. American Association and the and won both games of a double- into Valhalla . .. New York Police Commissioner Valentine has re­ Southern Association . . . Play­ signed his job to become "chief investigator-commentator" on the Schott had things pretty much offs have begun in the first two header against Syracuse. . Gang Busters radio program ... He will get $45,000 a year for mak­ his own way, and had Fiducia ing bang-bang over the air waves . . . LaGuardia paid him $12,500. on the canvass six times before A Tennessee preacher and a Virginia woman were killed by he put him down for the full rattlesnakes handled during religious services ... At the minister's count. funeral two others were bitten by the same snake . . . Evidently After the fight the State Com­ there are other things besides atomic bombs to worry about . . . mission announced that the purse Despite heavy taxes, war profits increased 120%, reaching six an^ of both fighters were being held Monday, September 10. 1945 half billion dollars . . . The story of the victory over Germany is up. The next day Fiducia claim­ told in official British and American films released for the public ed that he had been offered $20,National League American League in the "True Glory." Good stuff; don't miss it . . . Pearl Harbor 000 by gamblers to throw the inquiry voted by Senate and House. fight. Fiducia's manager says STANDING OF THE CLUBS STANDING OF THE CLUBS that he went to the Commission W L PC GB W L PC GB INTERNATIONAL before the fight with the story. Chicago 84 49 .632 Detroit 78 56 .582 They will both appear before the St. Louis 81 53 .604 3!/l Washington 79 59 .5 72 I The Big Five are meeting in London to draft peace settlements 73 59 .553 IQi^ St, Louis 70 65 .519 Wi Commission in a few days to ex­ Brooklyn New York 73 63 .537 MYi New York 69 65 .5 15 9 with their former enemies. Italy will probably be the first country Pittsburgh 74 65 .532 13 plain more fully. Cleveland 67 64 .511 9tl dealt with . . . America and Britain are insisting that repi-eseritative Boston 58 77 .430 27 Chicago 65 71 .4 78 14 In the semi-final Abel Cestac, Cincinnati 54 79 .406 30 Boston 65 71 .4 78 14 democratic regimes must be set up in Finland, Rumania, Bulgaria 42 94 .309 43 !4 Philadelphia 46 88 .343 32 Luis Firpo's protege, beat Ben Philadelphia and Hungary before they will deal with them . . . Russia insists Moroz of Philadelphia in eight that these countries are democracies . . . Russia insists she's a rounds. It was a battle of beef— Major League Leaders democracy, too. Cestac tipped the scales at 218 ¥2 The Army can't convince our troops still in Germany that oc­ CLUB BATTING CLUB BATTING pounds, while Moroz pushed the cupation is necessary . . . The men want to go home . . . Part of the marker up to 285. R ' H HR RBI PC R H HR RBI PC Other results: Louis Long, Chi­ Chicago ... 641 1266 53 586 .278 Chicago .. 535 1182 20 487 ,262 blame lies in the lack of a good Army orientation program . . . Lt. Pittsburgh . 685 1294 69 628 .272 530 1216 48 481 .260 Louis Zamperini, mile runner in the 1936 Olympics, who was given cago heavyweight, kayoed Fer­ Boston ... .649 1287 93 608 .272 Boston New York . 579 1164 70 558 .260 nando (The Mighty) Mcnichelli St. Louis . 655 1274 62 606 .271 Wash-ton . 542 1201 27 487 .257 up for lost more than two years ago, turned up in a Jap prison .. 685 1239 50 608 .271 Cleveland . 520 1122 58 463 .257 camp ... He survived 47 days on a raft, and incredible cruelties in eight rounds. Out in Wales, Brooklyn New York . 598 1263 105 555 .269 Detroit ... 537 1148 69 510 .256 Cuicinnall . 447 1133 42 404 .252 St. Louis . . 526 1 155 54 490 .25 1 at the hands of the Nips. Jock MacAvoy, former middle­ Phila 489 1103 51 440 .244 Philadell .. 435 1139 30 376 .245 weight champ of England, out­ Counterfeiters caught in Italy had printed their bogus $50 bills LEADING BATTERS pointed Tommy Davies of Wales LEADING BATTERS as redeemable in "awful currency" of the United States treasury. in an eight-rounder. A1 (Bummy) It was a lousy job, at that, and they reserved to be caught from G AB R PC G AB R PC Davis of Brooklyn was returned Cavarretta, Chic,. 1 12 422 86 .360 Cuccinello, Chi. .. 109 369 4 7 .312 a strictly artistic viewpoint . . . The Spanish Government in Exile Holmes, Boston . 136 361 117 .351 Case, Wash 107 435 64 ,308 will meet in Mexico City on October 12th . . . Note to sportsmen: the winner over Johnny Jones of Rosen, Brooklyn . 125 523 109 .331 Moses, Chicago.. 127 5 10 74 .306 Hack, . . 134 533 99 .321 Boudreau, Cleve. . Pittsburgh, the referee stopping Olmo, Chicago 97 346 50 .306 General Wainwright says you can't beat the game solitaire ... He Brooklyn.. 125 502 58 .3 17 Meyer, Clev,116 469 67 .303 the fight in the sixth because Mayo, Detroit.... 124 459 67 .303 won only 6.8% of 8,642 games he played in a Jap camp . . . Moral: HUNS BATTED IN Jones was not trying. Don't play solitaire for money, and keep out of jails, Japs or RUNS BATTED IN Walker, Brooklyn otherwise. 1 12 BASEBALL Etten, New York 91 Major League Baseball The American League pennant fight has resolved itself into a battle between the Tigers and the Washington Senators, with De­ troit still maintaining its pre­ carious lead. The Yankees and the St. Louis Brown have been erased from the running and are rassling around for third place money. The Yankees had a chance to do something for them­ selves in a long series with De­ troit, but could win only two of the seven games played. Exit the Yankees. In the National, the Cubs and the Cards are still one-two in the standings, with the Cubs pick­ ing up a game and a half in the last week. Chicago stiU looks good with Borowy, wlio has won X Holmes, Boston . Adams, St. Louis 107 106 Cullenbine, Detroit York, Detroit HOME-RUN HITTERS LEADING PITCHERS G 19 10 26 29 34 23 25 26 19 31 58 39 33 27 22 23 30 29 32 34 W L 11 3 7 2 8 3 15 6 16 7 9 4 11 5 14 7 6 3 15 8 11 6 20 1 1 18 10 9 5 7 4 7 4 II 7 11 7 14 9 15 1 1 Minor League Standings HOME-RUN HITTERS 28 Stephens, St. Louis 22 Cullenbine, Detroit 22 York, Detroit Holmes, Boston . . . Workman, Boston Adams, St. Louis Brecheen, St. Louis. Borowy, Chicago . . Dockins, St. L Passeau, Chicago . . Burkhart, St. L. ... Cooper, St. L.-Bos.,. Gables, Pitts Mungo, New York . . Herring, Bklyn Derringer, Chi Adams, New York . . Barrett, Bost.-St. L.. Wyse, Chicago .... Seats, Brooklyn .... Beck, Cin.-Pitts. . .. Erickson, Chicago .. Sewell, Pitts Prim, Chicago Strincevich, Pitts. , Gregg, Brooklyn .. 85 83 20 17 16 LEADING PITCHERS PC .786 .778 .727 .714 .696 .692 .688 .667 .667 .652 .647 .645 ,643 .643 .636 .636 .611 .61 1 .609 .577 G Muncrief, St. L 24 Newhouser, Det. ... 34 Ferriss, Boston 32 Ryba, . Boston 29 Leonard, Wash. ... 27 Gromek, Clev ,29 Benton, Detroit .... 25 Wolff, Wash. 29 Sevens, New York . 27 Gettel, New York .. 25 Reynolds, Clev. ... 39 Grove, Chicago .... 29 Lee, Chicago 25 Potter, St. Louis .. 28 Haefnor. Wash 33 Hollingsworth, St, L. 23 Jakucki, St. L 30 Christopher. Phil.... 30 PierettI, Wash 38 Trout, Detroit ..... 32 W 11 22 20 7 15 16 II 17 13 9 16 13 14 13 15 10 12 13 13 14 L 3 0 8 3 7 8 6 10 8 6 11 9 10 10 12 8 10 II 12 13 PC .786 .733 .714 .700 .682 .667 .647 .630 .619 .600 .593 ..591 .563 .565 .556 .556 .545 .542 .520 .519 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FINAL STANDING OF CLUBS W L Montreal 95 58 Newark 89 64 Toronto 85 67 Baltimore 80 73 lersey City 71 82 Buffalo ...a.y 64 89 Syracuse .. . .V 64 89 Rochester:.;.-;' 64 90 PC .621 ,582 ,559 .523 .464 .418 .418 .416 SOUTHEliN ASSOCIATION FINAL STANDING OF CLUBS Atlanta Chattanooga Mobile New Orleans Memphis Birmingham Nashville Little Rock .. W L 94 46 85 .55 74 65 73 67 68 72 58 82 55 84 52 88 PC ,671 ,607 .532 .521 .486 .414 ,396 ,371 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FINAL STANDING OF CLUBS W L PC Milwaukee 93 61 ,604 Indianapolis 90 63 ,588 Louisville 84 70 -,545 St. Paul 75 76 ,497 Minneapolis 72 81 ,4 71 Toledo ; 69 84 ,451 Kansas City 65 86 .430 Columbus 63 90 .412 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Portland Seattle Sacramento San Francisco Oakland San Diego Los Angeles Hollywood W L 104 65 98 71 90 79 89 80 82 86 77 92 70 98 65 104 PC .615 .580 .532 ,527 ,488 ,456 ,417 .383 �Friday, Sepiember 14, 1945 THE -" I SS ALCOA TRADER SEAFARERS J I— \ /-• LOG Page Eleven 1 —Unclaimed Wages— Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc. Scarlett, H Bohlds, T Murphy, J 25 25 19.50 Miner, Willianm C 2.64 Wolak, Walter 2.64 Geer, William R 12.34 SS CODY VICTORY Piatak, Alex 3.63 Bankston, Arrelions, 1.48 3.ao Langerin, Leo E. Folse, William P 9.44 14.27 Short, Lloyd 2.76 Kulick, Michael 2.97 3.56 Linn, Kenneth E Silva, Joseph G. SS COTEAUDOC 2.76 Nielson, Clifford J 74 -•• 5.07 Boone, Albq S Foisy, Arthur T 2.64 Atkinson, I. S. Bull, James 11.31 Crawford, James M 1.14 4.91 McCamley, Richard J 2.84 Marshall, P SS CASSIUS HUDSON 1.14 4.91 Bunnell, John L Gabor, Frank 3.56 Holliday, L SS HART CRANE 10.73 2.76 Loth, Edgar A 4.74 Kopcho, Michael Fyock, Charles 3.56 Green, E. M Odato, Joseph M 7.05 McClintock, George 4.36 14.68 12.44 Reuber, Robert L Denman, Frank 2.68 Brodie, J. M Reilly, John F 4.81 McCollum, Henry 4.49 5.11 Coulowridis, Dimitrious .... 19.35 •i i Poppich, George 2.50 Kessler, C 89.10 Tefft, Lawrence E 6.88 2.64 Shirlock, Arthur W 6.12 Shedlock, Norman f i Thomas, William J 2.50 Smith, I. M Moynihan, Timothy J 5.51 2.66 SS CITY OF BIRMINGHAM 8.82 Xidias, Dimitrios Salas, Rafael T 3.63 Witt, H Slaney, Edward R : 2.25 4.73 Lucree, William 1.48 Noonan, E. J Brown, Samuel G 7.12 Zaumseil, W. B 3.12 Van Vliet, Jacob T 5.85 5.94 Ruggiero, Constantino 7.11 Watterhorn, K. G. Taylor, Charles 7.20 SS FELIPI DE BASTROP 11.53 Smith, George 5.94 Wright, Louis W Joyce, Thomas J 4.43 Barrial, F 7.20 McDowell, Raymond H 7.42 11.53 Hayes, Solomon 5.94 Mawson, Richard B •Grimes, Lloyd 3.63 Hurley, L. J 29.50 Koch, Francis T 8.17 5.51 G. Newman 23.76 Bryan, William Gromacki, Edward 2.64 Materson, J. J 14.00 Messier, Linwood J 1.44 1.35 Murphy, J 2.23 Peters, A Maynard, Ezra A 2.84 Blues, F 10.00 1.48 Aguado, C 5.67 Lusby, Donald V SS DUNDAS Young, Charles E 2.84 Blues, F 10.10 1.48 Salter, H 9.81 Miller, William A. .. Croteau, Charles 3.23 Friedberg, A. F 8.08 Mouritz, C 40.96 Scott, Elwood F 1.48 Dickerson, A. Smith, Harry 2.68 7.07 Grogan, Aanthony 143.86 Wilkerson, Albert E. 1.48 Scarlett, H Stevens, Le Roy A 7.83 SS GEORGE WASHINGTON 3.93 Fahey, Peter 137.26 1.48 Smith, William Drewniany, Joseph J 3.22 De Santo, Candido 4.04 Arthur, V. F 6.98 7.23 Kiel, Henry Louis .... Bennett, Thomas 3.22 Cole, Marvin Bohlds, Thomas 10.10 Moylon, Roger F 2.16 3.28 M.V. ANDREE Shields, Frederick 3.22 Nisbeth, Baren .14 Towns, H. P 2.71 Grant, C 28.37 SS SS FALMOUTH Ritchey, David 7.84 Brown, Eustas .41 Henze, H , 1.98 Leffler, L 39.57 Gates, T. C 62 Thomas, Virgil 1270 Scott, Alfred .03 Laffin, J 1.98 Chai, Lee W 167.57 Tucker, W. E 1.62 Russell, Ham 25.41 Johnson, Robert .03 Galphia, H 1.98 Chung, Mow Young 109.89 15.78 Curran, George F 1.71 Thomas, Clarence .03 Carroll, James H Winekoff, H 5.52 Brown, W 3.56 ' Stonicher, Paul L 5.08 De Santo, Candido .30 Meacham, H 5.54 SS WILLIAM BREWSTER 3.23 Munsell, Donald 0 5.08 Van der Werken, Marcel.. .03 Lowrey, C Weeks, Robert .74 Mendy, Louis 618.36 3.23 Pierre Driessens 3.82 McCoskey, Maurice .03 Wiggins, W Christensen, L. .... 74 Cousins, Nelson 21.60 * 3.64 Peters, Berkley 42.69 McEtchin, William .03 Vanderwort, R Paetzel, Chris 74 Wilson, Herbert B 4.93 Emberg, Oscar Jr 13.03 .. 2.99 McLaughlin, John T. .03 Lucree, William ., Cole, Marvin 74 Giangiordano, Danto 10.04 .04 Penco, E Manuel, Sanchez 74 SS FARRANDOC Gibbs, Ed. S. Jr 3.30 SS ALCOA TRANSPORT .04 Lightfoot, J Enrique, Allje 74 Santos, E 2.68 Watson, Frank 11.47 .03 1.66 Camps, Chalres Mathers, Wm 74 D'Olive, S Vernay, James A 10.20 Vetrhus, R. 3.68 .03 .06 Puello, G Scheibold, B. '. 74 Durant, Howard L. Boyd, Charles E 8.26 .92 Ward, James E Martins, M .17 2.97 Hays, C SS PEROY E. FOXWORTH Snowden, Ralph W 7.23 Lourence, C 17.31 Norford, Thomas 4.95 .17 Guines, John M Tone, George C 6.65 Torp, Arlen K 5.51 De Souza, V .79 Walter, John ..i .14 Demitratos, Jerry L 74 Jlat-ris, Thomas 1.98 Watler, James E 7.23 .17 Litzheim, Raymond N Quarles, Ch 1.58 Rodriguez, Jose 4.95 Simrhons, John . 1.98 Woodall, Lawrence A 69 Jones, Cr .17 .79 Johnson, Robert 2.97 Jordan, S Miller, William A 7.57 7.13 Hassell, Joseph Green, L .14 4.95 Ross, R Foster, Floyd D. 7.57 Simmons, W. H 1.58 Grignon, Albert .03 4.95 Gottach, E Gutierrez, Arturo 8.95 703 7.92 Fonseca, Armand Harris, E. J 5.42 Martin, T Zimmerman, Henry D. .... 41.24 .14 .79 Willimas, Burnet Foss, William 2.88 Peters, A SS ROBERT LA FOLLETTE Graham, Benjamin .07 1.58 Lauriano, Henry 2.88 Ruterford, Mack SS CAPE EDMONT The following men have money 3.96 Brown, E Morgan, Theodore 2.97 .04 Bowen, J due: Coultas, James L 4.45 4.31 Howell, Williard Greene, William .... .32 45.14 Lawson, B Joseph A. Gamos, 12 hrs.; Ed­ Karr, John E 4.45 Shellman, J .23 3.66 Freddie, A 1.78 De Costa, A ward G. Blakmon, 12 hrs.; Eu­ Shingleton, William M. 4.45 Morgan, Theodore .31 3.71 Constantine, C 3.56 Canard, J gene T. Cullinan, 12 hrs.; Frank Jensen, Lindsay P. 8.91 Colley, Thomas .... 3.96 Manning, G .25 » 3.56 Christian, J Maher, 12 hrs.;. Floyd M. John­ Smith, John L 2.97 3.76 Laland, H 2.67 Hulbert, H son, 12 hrs.; William Memstead, Mythen, Francis J. 2.97 3.76 Norford, C 2.67 Pittman, J 12 hrs.; William A. Weston, 24 Hyde, Whitman .74 3.76 Jake, O ." 89 Smith, D. L hrs.; Raymond F. Sly, 28 hrs.; Osborn, C. W. ....... .74 3.96 Smalls, J 89 Chappell, E GREGORY TROCHE Joaquin Minis, 28 hrs.; Andrew Little, John A .74 p. Note 4.85 Hart, F 1.78 Get in touch' with Mr. Hinte- Minis, 28 hrs.; Andrew Kovalik, Oden, Jack N 2.97 4.36 King, W 1.78 Pritchett, L man. Agent for the Coastwise 20 hrs.; Marlen T. Buttke, 20 hrs.; Liddle, Lloyd J 2.97 4.45 Ford, C 1.78 Jones, D Line at the U. S. Lines office, 1 Henry E.*Sohl, 20 hrs.; Dale L. 9.36 Preddie, Avelyn 2.71 Thompson, James T. Broadway, N. Y. re: your beef on Fry, 28 hrs.; Monta A. Moore, 36 5.84 Snowden, P 5.40 Smith, James T, the SS Joshua Hendy, and ex­ hrs.; Efstratios Vlahos, 36 hrs.; 2.86 Shipp, Elmer 1.80 Warren, Paul A. plain your case. Or write to Mr. George L. Preston, 36 hrs.; Axel 74 NEW YORK 24.25 Lopez, Victor ,. Marchand, John M. 51 Beaver St. Peterson, Coastwise Line, Pier W. Johnson, 36 hrs.; Alphonse 330 Atlantic Ave. 28.50 Williams, Jarvis 4.52 BOSTON Wentzell, Henry J. No. 35, San Francisco, giving him Shimkus, 36 hrs.; Joseph C. CoriBALTIMORE 14 North Cay St. all details of any vouchers you ture, 36 hrs.; D. L. Gilbert, 36 PHILADELPHIA ...6 North 6th SL SS WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT SS ALCOA VOYAGER have. Please give a fuller ex­ hrs.; Antonio Martin Jr., 36 hrs.; NORFOLK 25 Commercial PI. 68.93 NEW ORLEANS ...339 Chartres St. planation to the union represen­ .. 62.15 Reese, George Fleming, G Edgar T. Bush, 36 hrs. 68 Society St. .. 8.80 Dyksman, Jacobus 3.91 CHARLESTON Fleming, G tatives, as they ai-e not quite sure Collect at Mississippi Shipping 220 East Bay St. 4.62 SAVANNAH .. 5.00 Quinn, John R Vandersall, W what to look for. Co. TAMPA 842 Zack St. .. 1.78 Dabrowski, Frank Janson, P. O 3.55 JACKSONVILLE 920 Main St. t t- t. 4 4 4 4.45 Pringi, Paolo 54.31 MOBILE Toler, C. H .7 St. Michael St. CREW OF SS JASON LEE SS VERDES BERING .75 Shafer, Paul W Letson, G. L. Letson . 2.76 SAN JUAN, P. R. .45 Ponce de Leon All crew members who were GALVESTON 305'/, 22nd St. Fredrick W. Gouth has $479 ., 2.25 Ryan, Joseph Turnbull, J. A 2.07 aboard on December 1, 1943 when coming to him, and collect at the HOUSTON 6605 Canal St. .75 Gillezeau, Vincent A 2.81 Daines, A. N. Daines RICHMOND, Calif 257 Sth St. Brothers Ernest Martin and General Steamship Co., 553 .. 10.76 Kvalkauskas, Paul Cr. 12.16 SAN FRANCISCO Stuart, J. 59 Clay St. David Turenne were injured Stuart Building, Seattle Washing­ 2.88 SEATTLE .. 5.75 Poppich, George Seron, Louis 86 Seneca St. please get in touch with attorney ton. (Submitted by the Seattle 1.83 PORTLAND ...111 W. Burnside St. Balke, Ollie 3.20 Callaghan, Edmund W Richard Cantor, 51 Chambers branch.) 2.66 Shields, Delbert E 1.38 WILMINGTON ....440 Avalon Blvd. /Hhamberlain, E. F. HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. Street, New York City. 2.66 Stephan, George J 1.38 BUFFALO Nelson, C. S 10 Exchange St. 4 4 4. Gilbert Venouri, 25 hrs.; Jo­ "3.76 Litvak, Joseph S • 1.48 CHICAGO Daines, A. N 24 W. Superior Ave. CREW OF RICHARD JOHNSON seph E. Gelinas, 19H hrs.; Gohl3.60 Harris, John 1.83 SO. CHICAGO, 9137 So. Houston Ave. Burns, R We have a letter at Log office man Traweek, 4 hrs.; Henry C. 16.02 Gillezeau, Vincent A. 1.18 CLEVELAND .. 1014 £. St. Clair St. Elcano, Paul 1038 Third St. signed "Crew of Richard John­ Michels, 22 hrs.. 5.64 Gavin, Joseph P 7.85 DETROIT W. T. Straw DULUTH S31 W. Michigan St. Collect at South Atlantic SS Will writer please send 6.04 Hansen, Carl V 1.14 VICTORIA, B. C. ..602 Boughton St. son." Burkhart, R. E Company office. 4.76. O'Neill, Patrick -.14 VANCOUVER ..144 W. Hastinga St. HIS name. Jackson, P MONEY DUE PERSONALS SlU HALLS �• f' Page Twelve I'r^ f'fnS' • W f:«r T:w J THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. September 14, 1945 1^ u>ti6e,f^ewLY-m(i» iSHft? 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I . 41 ^I -Story On Page 3 Stoiy On Page 2 ' _ '^-1 I 'r ••T- KintM ^arat% Rican longshoremen ponder big job of moving VWrjfW# ii2.ton turbine stator rig to nearby power plant after the stator was skidded off the Dorothy onto the dock in San Juan. It was put aboard in Baltimore after a rail trip from Pittsburgh. The huge mechanism was moved off without a hitch. (Story on Pago 7.) CAfftiArilir B man to seek UOffTS jemonwy* higher seniority under SIU contract's amended hiring rules, Joseph Scaturro, oiler (right), files papers as hq. patrolman Frank Bose looks on. Changes start Oct. 1. (Story on Page 2). �-:t.:: •;' fV..«j-' ' - f SEAFARERS Pace Twe September 14, 1^5t LOG BrOSdSr shrimpers' Fete SlU Seniority Hiring Clause Acknowledging a rise in shipping wd job opportunities for Seafarers, the SIU has won agreement from its contracted employers on a modification of Article 1 of the SIU contract, the seniority hiring provision. ptoviaon. Effective October 1 of'this year, all rated men with Class B seniority can qualify for class A seniority if they began ship­ Under the original coniract pro­ were required by the terms of the ping before January 1, 1952 vision, class A seniority was contract clause to accumulate 90 days seatime a year for eight years before graduating to class A status. Normally then, the earliest a class B man could have advanced to class A would have been January, 1959. Seafarers who do not have ratings will still follow this rule. Increase in Jobs However, in the year and a half since the seniority agreement was negotiated, there has been a steady increase in contracted jobs and shipping for Seafarers, reflecting the reactivation of once idle ships and the addition of new vessels to the SlU-contracted fleet through Representatives of the old International Longshoremen's Union organizing activities. The Association and the New York Shipping Association con­ job increase has led to spot short­ tinued their delaying tactics last week in an attempt to side-, ages of rated men and the ship­ ping of large numbers of men with step a showdown election on + class B and class C seniority to the New York docks. How­ ued discussions as to the composi­ man the ships. ' ever, the National Labor Rela­ tion of the voting unit and the tions Board continued to take the procedures to be followed in con­ necessary steps to set up an early ducting the election. The first ILAelection among the port's long­ shijJowner stall came when the IBL asked the Board to order the ship­ shoremen. The first applicant at headqdarowners to turn over a\ list of long­ TV Programs Started ters for an A seniority rating un­ Meanwhile, the International shoremen eligible to vote. der the new contract provision was The IBL pointed out that the Seafarer Joseph Scaturro, oiler. Brotherhood of Longshoremen, general practice has been to con­ Scaturro started sailing with the AFL-CIO, stepped up its campaign sider all men working 700 hours in-the port with the first of a series a year as regular longshoremen. SIU in April, 1951, which he de­ of weekly television programs The only source of this informa­ scribed as a "joyous day for me." aimed at longshoremen. The pro­ tion is the payoll records main­ His first ship was the Julesburg, a Some of the 5,000 spectatorji from several states (top) grams are carried in the New York tained by the various stevedoring Mathiasen tanker. crowd a dockside platform at the annual blessing of the Since then he has been sailing area on Channel 5 at 1 PM, Sun­ firms. Such records should be pretty regularly on Robin Line runs shrimp fleet in Bayou la Batre, Ale. Visitors and crewmen of days. They spotlight the issues of made available to all parties, the 83 boats heard the Rev. Thomas Nunan, (at^ mike), and the the election and the abuses long­ IBL argued, so that ineligible men to South Africa. He heard the good news about Rev. Joseph Adams (far left) make the blessings. About shoremen have suffered during the could be quickly weeded out and the new seniority agreement at the half of the boats are operated by members of the SlU-afFiliyears of ILA misrule. prevented from voting. Wednesday night, September 5, ated Ivlobile Bay Seafood Union. ' Meetings held at the New York Reduce Challenges headquarters membership meeting office of the Labor Board continThis procedure, IBL said, would and showed up the next morning reduce challenges to a minimum to make his application. and make for a clcar-cut election "I really appreciate getting this decision. It would also discourage top seniority rating," he said, "be­ any efforts on the part of ILA to cause having worked ashore I know "vote tombstones" in the coming there's no Union like the SlU.when balloting. The ILA, as the current it comes to protection and party to the longshore contract, al­ benefits." ready has information on eligible voters available to it. The biggest surplus commodity deal ever negotiated lias Class B Seafarers who possess been reached between the US and India. It calls for sale of Shipowner spokesmen argued that they should not be compelled only the entry ratings of ordinary, $360 million worth of food and commodities from the US wiper and messman, but who have to make such- lists available. stockpile, principally wheat, An AFL-CIO crackdown on al­ Another issue to be decided by the seatime requirments, can move cotton, rice and tobacco. Since sales negotiated until now, it is into class A by passing a -Coast the Board is the question of voting leged welfare fund abuses in three unions has again pinpointed the ad­ by hatch bosses. The IBL argued Guard examination for a rating in the "50-50" law will apply to only one of several recent arrange­ vantages of the self-insured SIU that hatch bosses are supervisory their particular department. Other­ this cargo, the sale means a con­ ments made with Asiatic countries. Welfare Plan jointly administered employees and should not be al­ wise, the negotiators agreed, they siderable boost for US shipping to Others include sale of condensed milk and cotton to Burma, sale lowed to vote as longshoremen. will wait out the full eight years. India. by Union and shipowner trustees. of cotton to Indonesia and Hong The magnitude of the'new sur­ The ILA has also attempted to be­ In accord with the Union's own The AFL-CIO recently took steps Kong, and other sales to Denmark, plus deal is shown by the fact that for the possible suspension of the cloud the issue by calling for a rules on membership, those Sea­ Great Britain and West Germany. the $360. million figure represents coastwise election. farers who attain class A seniority 25,000-member Distillery, RectifyThe sales to Denmark and Great It is expected that the regional as per the amended contract will far less than the tcue market value big and Wine Workers Interna­ of the commodities, somewhere Britain, whUe relatively small ones, office of the board will refer these now become eligible for full mem­ tional Union and warned of similar indicate that efforts by foreign action against the Laundry Workers matters to the Washington head­ bership in the SIU, replacing the around $650 million. maritime nations to undermine Wheat Shipment Big International Union and the Allied quarters of the NLRB for final probationary membership they The wheat cargoes alone will "50-50" have been given up for the held up until now. Industrial Workers, the latter for­ decision. amount to 130 million bushels or time being. merly known as the United Auto approximately 3,500,000 long tons, One of the arguments used by AVorkers-AFL. at least half of which must be "50-50" opponents was that the Widespread charges of misman­ carried on American-flag vessels un­ maritime nations were boycotting Unable to face up to the issues posed by the International Broth­ agement and "corrupt influences" der the laws. The rest of the agree­ US surplus sales abroad because erhood of Longshoremen, the waterfront mobs who control the dis­ in the handling of welfare and pen­ ment includes 500,000 bales of cot­ they could not carry them exclu­ credited International Longshoremen's Association have* unleashed sion trust funds have been made ton; 4.4'million bags of rice at 100 sively on their own ships. a campaign of vituperation against the SIU. against all three unions, particular­ pounds to the bag; 6 million pounds ly against the distillery workers. The SIU has been selected as the prime target for an ILA filtii of tobacco and^31^ million worth barrage because of its staunch support of the IBL. Similar mudAll three have insurance com­ of dairy products. The wheat to be slinging attacks have been made many times in the past against pany-managed welfare plans. Un­ shipped represents over 15 percent S.,,. 14. 1tS6 V.I. kvill. ion officials and brokers have been the SIU, AFL-CIO president Meany and others who have sup­ of all wheat now held in Govern-'' PAOI HAU., Becretaru-Xreasiirer cnarged with manipulating the ported IBL in the past'and are supporting its current campaign HcsBERr fiRAHD, Sditor," KAY JUcNisoir, ment surplus. for a new waterfront election. ffinds for heavy kickbacks and The entire transaction will be Managing Editor; BeRMAH> SCA&IAN, Art, Editor; HEDMAIC ABTBUB, Imvm SPIVACK, splits on substantial brokerage com­ The ttiA attacks have been echoed in similar form by "Dockers paid for in Indian currency. In Staff Writirs; Biu. MOODY, Gulf Area missions. News," an organ of the Communist Party's waterfront section, indi­ turn, the US will spend the money Representative. The self-insurance feature of the cating that the ILA-Bridges-Communist alliance is still in full to help develop India's economy SIU Welfare Plan, which a number swing. It is believed that Irving Velson is acting ah the coordinator and expand markets for US prod­ for this anti-SlU campaign. of unions have subsequently adopt­ ucts in India. ^ Because of the ed, has kept administrative costs scope of the transaction, the ship­ Published biweekly at ttie headquartere Seafarers can expect intensification of these attacks in the next low and benefits .higb by avoiding ping of the commodities will be of the Sjafarers International Union, At­ few weeks with possible efforts to contact SIU ships and attempt lantic A Cult District, APL-CIO. 675 Fourth high premiums to insurance com­ spread over a three-year period. to interfere in the internal affairs of the SIU.. The SEAFARERS Avenue, Brooktyn aj, NV. Tel HYaclnth panies and forestalling ppssible While the Indian transaction is 9-6600. Entered as second class matter LOG will keep Seafarers posted on developments along these lines. at the .Post Office in Brooklyn, NYj under abuses over fees and commiss|ogjp; and have been sailing regularly since that time. In other words, any rated Sea­ farer who started shipping before 1952 and shipped steadily in the years that followed will now quali­ fy as a class A man. granted to men who started with the Union before January 1, 1951, a full year earlier than the cutoff ^ate which is now going into effect Originally men who were eligible for B seniority (those who started any time after January 1, 1951) Await Labor Bd^ Dock Vote Action Scatturo 1st in Line Shipping Boost Seen In India Snrplns Deal AFL Acts On Abuses Of 3 Welfare Funds ILA Fires Filth Barrage Against SIU SEAFARERS LOG \W — I 1 �i^ptember 14, 198$ SEAFARERS LOG Paffe Thrai NY Will Get Firsf SlU Health Center: • .^1 Director Chosen Planning for SIU health centers shifted into high gear as the trustees of the Seafarers Welfare Plan named Dr. Joseph B. Logue medical director of the Sea­ farers Welfare Plan Medical Program. At the same time, the trustees are making arrangements to obtain fa-^ out for x-ray and laboratory (nations,, chest x-rays, , electrocar­ cilities near the New York ing equipment for installation in the diograph' checks, blood tests and headquarters hall to house first center. The bids will be acted other standard medical tests aimed Dr. Joseph Logue (center), newly-appointed medical direc­ tor of the SlU Welfare Plan Medical Program, shows trustees Joe Algina (left), SlU assistant secretary-treasurer, and Max Harrison, shipowner representative, a list of the lab equipment and supplies he plans to order for the first center in New York. Dr. Logue was Isthmian medical director. -the first of four projected Union health centers. The trustees have already, na'rrowed down their hunt to specific properties within walking distance of the headquarters hall. They expect to close a property deal within the next few days for the health center's location. Meanwhile bids are already go- Center's Goal: Preventive Medicine "What we are out to do is apply some" preventive medicine. Our object will be to detect incipient illness and physical defects and have them attended to before they become seri­ ous handicaps. In doing so, we will be providing the Seafarers with the type of check-up which is available to others only at considerable cost.", years he has been medical director months before war broke out. That's how Dr. Joseph B. for the Isthmian Steamship Com­ Subsequently he was assigned to Logue, newly-appointed medical director of the Seafarers Welfare Pian Medical Program, described his approach to the operation of the Seafarers health centers. At present Dr. Logue is drafting standards and procedures and let­ ting bids for lab equipment to be installed in the first center in New York. Others will be built in Balti­ more, Mobile and New Orleans. Extensive Career The new director brings a wealth of experience to the post both as a medical administrator and a prac­ ticing physician. For the last two pany. But before that he had a dis­ tinguished medical career with the Navy and the Marine Corps dating back to World War 1." He retired in-1954 with the rank of vice-ad­ miral. Was Navy Surgeon Before becoming an administra­ tor Dr. Logue specialized in sur­ gery, particularly traumatic sur­ gery, and served in a number of Naval hospitals as assistant chief surgeon and chief surgeon. He was chief surgeon at the Pearl Har­ bor Naval hospital just before World War II, but was shifted to Chelsea; Massachusetts a few the Marine Corps, as executive officer of the Parris Island Naval hospital and then went overseas as division surgeon for the famed 1st Marine Division. He spent two years in the Pa­ cific in the course of which he was awarded the Legion of Merit with combat star and other citations. When World War II ended he served is medical administrator in a variety of capacities for Navy hospitals and districts until his re­ tirement in 1954. Dr. Logue is a native of Georgia and got his medical training at the University of Georgia. on at the next tru*stees' meeting later in the month. It is expected that it will take three pr six months to install the necessaiy equipment and put the center in operating order. Diagnostic Facilities The four health centers—in New York, Mobile, Baltimore and New Orleans—will offer Seafarers the finest in diagnostic and examina­ tion facilities to provide them with regular physical check-ups. They are one part of the health and safe­ ty program that was negotiated by the SIU in contract talks with the operators last fall. The major function of the cen­ ters will be the practice of preven­ tive medicine. Seafarers will be able to obtain thorough physical No Seafarers now shipping regularly on SIU ships need fear loss of Job eligibility because of the operation of the SIU health centers. The purpose of the centers is to prevent ailments from reach­ ing the serious stage and to keep Seafarers healthy mid on the job at all times. check-ups to detect and prevent ailments before they reach the serious stage. These check-ups could include such items as eye and ear examinations, dental exam- Union Wins Ala. Jobless $ $ Tesf MOBILE—Seafarers holding Class B and C seniority won a major legal victory in Alabama last week. The three-man Board of Appeals of the Department of Industrial Relations ruled unanimously that seamen leaving ships under the 60-day provision of the Union contract are entitled to unemployment insurance benefits. The speedy decision by the Alabama board is the third in­ the Alabama department had al­ off in accord with the provisions of stance in which the Union has ways upheld the "voluntary quit" the Union-company hiring agree­ Seafarers holding B and C seniority who pay off under the 60 - day contract provision should inform Unemployment Insurance offices accordingly when applying for their bene­ fits. The accurate and official reason under such circum­ stances is "leaving vessel be­ cause of a provision in the contract." Merely listing "60-day rule" or "Union rule" is not accepted as sufficient reason and could c.ause loss of benefits. Where ajppeals are pending. Seafarers should report regu­ larly as required by the Unem­ ployment Insurance office. won test cases on unemployment insurance. Previous decisions in New York and Delaware also up­ held the Union's stand. : The Alabama decision is of ma­ jor importance because the Water­ man and Pan Atlantic Steamship companies have their home offices In the state. It has been the prac­ tice of the companies to contest un­ employment benefits for seamen leaving a ship after 60 days on the grounds that this constituted a "voluntary quit;" Up: until now. Jobs Empty Boston Hall ment. argument. Because of this practice, the Un­ ion carried, an appeal to the Ap­ peals Board. The Union argued BOSTON—still sharing in the that the quit was not voluntai'y, job prosperity affecting most ports, but was a mandatory provision, of the SIU branch here maintained the Union contract. a busy pace during the last period The Alabama Board agreed that and was virtually cleaned out of any man leaving the ship under the SIU membership meet­ men in all departments. provisions of a contract negotiated New York had to fill in on many between the employer and the Un­ ings are held regularly jobs. Port Agent James Sheehan ion cannot be called a "voluntary every two weeks on Wed­ reported, because of the sudden quit" and is entitled to his unem­ demand. nesday nights at 7 PM in ployment benefits. No Replacements Company Changes Practices all SMJ ports. All Sea­ Even so, Sheehan said, several Aside from the legal victory, the farers are expected to men who had planned to pay off Union has done away with a Water­ their ships here could not be re­ man company practice which had attend; those who wish to placed and agreed to remain the effect of denying many seamen aboard so the ships would not sail their unemployment insurance. It be excused should request shorthanded. This cooperation by had been the company's practice permission by telegram the crews helped avoid a lot of to list men as paying off under problems, he commented. (be sure to include reg­ mutual consent, no matter what It is. hoped shipping will con­ the circumstances under which istration number). The tinue to be good, although the out­ they left the ship. "Mutual con­ look is uncertain right now. sent" meant that the men left the next SIU meetings will be: Four ships, the McKittrick Hills ship of their own accord and could (Western Tankers), Lake George September 19 not collect benefits. (US Petrol), Republic (Trafalgar), and Cantigny (Cities Service) paid In discussions with Waterman October 3 off and signed on during the pe­ the Union has won agreement that October 17 the company will instruct skippers riod. In transit were the Robin to enter the specific reason for Doncaster (Seas Shipping), Steel . October 31 Executive (Isthmian), Ines (Bull which a man paid off. From now November 14 on, men paying off under the 60Line) and Harold T. Andrews day rule will be listed as paying -UOverseafr-NavrL— - - - — SCHEDULE OF SIU MEETIMGS at detecting illness. All of these' will be offered at no cost to the Seafarer. The centers themselves will not offer any treatment but "will refer Seafarers to the Public Health Service Hospitals in the event medical treatment is needed. A secondary function of the cen­ ters will be to offer a standardized physical for Seafarers shipped out of the hall to SlU-contracted ves­ sels. The standard physical will re­ place the haphazard system pres(Continued on page 15) Ease Rules In Hardship Hosp. Cases Liberalizing the provisions of the family hospital and surgical benefits program, the trustees of the Welfare Plan have agreed to waive the $50 deductible provision and the 31-day limit in certain spe­ cial hardship cases. The waiver would apply to such illness as can­ cer and other severe ailments or injuries where it becomes neces­ sary for a Seafarer's family member to reenter the hospital for further treatment. The trustees have also voted to give benefits coverage in case of miscarriages where the patient has to enter a hospital. Pajrments Over $100,000 Meanwhile, payments to Seafar­ ers under the dependents plan passed the $100,000 mark in Au­ gust. Since the plan went into ef­ fect on June 1, 1955, 749 Sea­ farers have collected a total of $108,718.82 toward payment of hospital, medical and surgical bills for their wives and children. The newly-liberalized rules for hardship cases provide that on the second trip to the hospital the plan will pay the $10 a day past 31 days, if qecessary, and will not require the Seafarer to pay the first $50 of the second hospital bill. Similar­ ly, the Plan will pay the $100 worth of hospital extra costs and any added surgical costs the sec­ ond time around, up to the limits of the schedule of fees. The new rules make it possible for Seafarers in these hardship cases to collect benefits covering all of their hospital and surgical expense for the second period of treatment. Of course if the sur­ geon's bill is over the fees sched­ uled by the Plan, or the hospital daily rate is more than $10, then the Seafarer would have to pay the difference. In one instance, the wife of a Seafarer contracted osteomelitis, a bone infection, following fracture of a leg and had to return to the hospital. The total bill came to $644.64, and payment equaling that amount has been made to the Sea­ farer. X �Fare Four SEdFARERS LOG Sevtemker 1«. IFSt Revised Job Rules Seen Big Aid To NY NEW YORK—Good shipping is still the rule at headquar­ ters, where SIU port officials handled a total of 41 ships dur­ August 22 Through September 4 ing the last period. ' ments was a touch and go proposi­ All of this traffic assured a Registered lentiful supply of jobs for aH tion on several occasions, accord­ Port Deck Deck Xng. StoS. Stew. Total ing to Claude Simmons, SIU assis­ Stew. ToW ToUl A B ands on the beach. In addi­ tant secretary-treasurer, but most B B R«B. A Boston 9 5 5 3 5 19 28 2 10 tion to replacements for ships in 81 25 47 18 47 14 175 57 232 the harbor, Seafarers were dis­ 32 15 18 17 13 . 13 108 63 45 patched for ships in Philadelphia, See story on revised senior­ 64 25 39 12 30 13 188 133 50 Boston and as far north as Port­ ity on page 2. Norfolk 19 15 11 12 9 10 37 39 7ft land, Me. Savannah . 9 4 7 8 2 1 19 12 31 7 Securing some of the replace- of the men involved were willing Tampa 1 3 4 6 4 16 9 29 35 11 18 13 25 11 78 35 118 to remain aboard, so no real diffi­ 54 • 20 34 18 64 20 152 58 218 culty was encountered. 14 7 4 5 3 3 24 12 38^ 22 5 18 12 "The answer to this problem, of 7 6 47 23 7® Wilmington 7 3 - 8 7 5 0 20 10 30 course, is to eliminate some of the 1« 9 11 10 11 8 29 36 65 turnover in jobs," he said. "The 17 10 14 4 10 9 41 19 .6® way to do this, we have found, is Deck Deck Eng. Bns. Stew. Stew. Tetal Tfltal Tatm to have a greater number of men B A B A B B A 386* 155 239 141 237 110 406 862 1268 with class A seniority in the Union. WASHINGTON—The third ex­ perimental Liberty ship, this one a These men are not required to Shipped gas turbine-powered vessel, is be­ leave their ships after 60 days, un­ ginning her sea trials off the Vir­ der the Union contract, like the Port -Deck Beck Deck Stew. Staw. Stew. Xotal~ Total Total Total ginia Coast this week. The Liberty men who, hold less than class A B A C A C • C A B' status. Boston 9 4 3 8 4 8 3 2 14 5 19 18 ship John Sergeant will be the first 84 23 26 61 29 18 "Thus we have met with the op­ 54 15 1® 199 67 54 320 gas turbine vessel to operate un­ 32 3 6 14 7 7 10 4 11 56 14 erators and renegotiated the hir­ 24 94 der the American flag. 66 13 14 40 18 23 21 12 13 127 48 45 220 ing section of our agreement to Has New Propeller 16 13 15 11 6 20 3 6 22 30 25 57 112. allow all rated men who started 2 1 Q 0 2 1 0 0 0 4 2 0 In addition to the new power sailing regularly on SIU ships in Savannah ft 2 2 3 9 4 2 7 3 1 15 9 5 29 plant, the ship new has a controll­ 1951 and have sailed regularly 26 5 2 15 15 2 23 4 4 64 24 8 90 able-pitch propeller and has been since to be granted class A senior­ 12 44 13 35 9 8 44 25 13 123 40 34 203 lengthened by 20 feet. ity. Both the operators and the 17 4 3 12 16 3 6 1 1 35 21 7 63 The fourth ship, the William Union feel this will cut down the 15 3 1 8 10 4 11 3 9 36 14 10 60 Patterson, powered with another turnover and therefore ease the Wilmington 4 9 9 1 2 4 3 9 4 11 19 7 37 12 9 6 9 10 0 version of the fas turbine engine, manpower shortage with which 10 3 0 32 17 0 49 22 9 4 14 9 7 12 2 3 48 16 will go out for sea trials in Decem­ we're often faced," Simmons com­ 14 78 Deck Deck Deck Ens. Eng. «»& Stew. Stew. Stew. Total Total Total ber. Two previous conversions mented. A B C A B C A B c 351 110 92 236 137 99 207 89 Twenty^five ships were paid off, under the Maritime Administration 92 794 332 283 1409 upgrading program are already at four signed on and 12 ships were SIU shipping leveled off some- 4 sea. They have made speeds of up in transit during the last period. what during the past two weeks, BALTIMORE: Good . . . NOR­ LEANS: Slowing up . . . LAKB All of them were in good shape. to IV/ii knots. but still managed to stay above FOLK: Booming ... SAVAN­ CHARLES: Good . . . HOUSTON: the 1,400-mark. The total number NAH: Slow; registration is Should stay good . . . WILMING­ of men dispatched was 1,409; reg­ up . . . TAMPA: Good . . . TON; Fair . . . SAN FRANCISCO: istration was low at 1,268. MOBILE: Good . . . NEW OR­ Fair . . . SEATTLE:* Good. The current job total reflects a sustained period of booming ship­ ping activity which has lasted Question: An SIU operator is talking of a 100,000-ton super­ three and a half months. An aver­ age of 1,420 jobs have been dis­ tanker. It would be 935 feet long and carry 830,000 bar­ patched evdry two weeks during rels (about 35 million gallons) of oil. How would you feel about this period, marked by a peak of 1,532 jobs two weeks ago. riding a ship of this size? No major letdown is in prospect Complaints about unsafe and unsanitary conditions on two in the coming months, with good foreign-flag ships again highlighted the lack of adequate Thomas Gray, MM: I imagine it John Rivera, pumpman: I've shipping expected to continue for supervision of non-US vessels on the high seas. Two ships, v.ould have a nice roomy galley never been on any supertanker, some time. the Italian passenger vessel" and messhall, so it would be Five Ports Gain Irpinia and the Mexican "wet­ illegal Mexican entrants from plenty of store­ hard for me to Five ports, Philadelphia, Norfolk, back" ship Mercurio One, were Texas back to Vera Cruz. She has room and refrig­ say until I saw been the target of considerable erator space and the pumproom. Tampa, Lake Charles and Seattle, the targets of the beefs. , individual C er t a i n 1 y you all showed shipping increases this The Irpinia arrived in New York criticism from Rep. Robert Mollofoc'sles. It might would need an­ period, while one Mobile, remain­ last week on its first visit to this han (Dem., W. Va.), who charged be a little more other pumpman ed the same: good. Philadelphia port with 1,200 passengers and a that conditions aboard were un­ work but being and extra main­ and Norfolk had the biggest gains. bellyful "of beefs about the ves­ sanitary and unsafe. Subsequently, comfortable is Declines in varying degrees hit sel's seaworthiness and sanitary it was reported that a mutiny had tenance men. what counts. The Tankers corrode Boston, New York, Baltimore, Sav­ conditions. Forty of the passen­ broken out aboard the ship, in the more room you have to live and fast and there is annah, New Orleans, Houston, gers made signed complaints to the port of Tampico, Mexico, with sev­ plenty of work, Individual rooms Wilmington and San Franciseo, Coast Guard on conditions aboard eral passengers jumping overboard. work, the better it is. would be an advantage. but New York still shipped better her. The Mercurio One is under char­ 4" 4" 4" than 300 men and Baltimore and One of the passengers, a Chicago ter to the US Immigration Service. 4« 4« 4" Michael Strawinski, FWT: It schoolteacher, reported she bought Critics of the operation have de­ Frank S. Costa, MM: I would New Orleans handled over 200. doesn't matter to me what kind of The current period was marked a cabin class ticket but was as­ clared that the Immigration Service like to work on a ship that size. ship I'm working by the lowest proportion of ship­ signed to a dormitory with 45 should have chartered an Ameri­ I think it would on as long as ping for class B men since the SIU other persons in one room. The can-flag vessel for this purpose. be a lot easier there is a good seniority hiring system began al­ dormitory had no water or lava­ with more space crew aboard. most a year and a half ago. Class tory facilities, she said. . to work in and a Whether you are B accounted for 24 percent of the private room for Other dormitory set-ups on the on a tug or a total shipping, while class A every crewmemsame deck had as many as 200 supertanker, the dropped one point to 56 percent ber. There would passengers, without any sanitary important thing and class C rose to 20 percent. be extra work, of Under the Union constitu­ facilities. is not to get in Three of the 14 ports shipped course, but more tion every member attending Other passengers signed state­ each other's hair. no class C men at all, but Norfolk, men in the crew a Union meeting is entitled to ments to the effect that two or I guess this faced with a job boom and a short­ would take care nominate himself for the would be easier on a big ship. age of A and B men, shipped more three passengers had been sold of that. elected posts to be filled at tickets for the same cabin space, class 0 men than the combined 3^ 4" the meeting—chairman, read­ 4> 4* 4* with pursers having a field day ac­ total of the other two groups. ing clerk and recording secre­ John Fanning, AB: A ship this L. P. Hogan, pumpman: I would cordingly in assigning people to Black Gang Still Short tary. Your Union urges you big means putting a couple of like to be her chief pumpman. I cabins. to take an active part in meet­ other ships and Although the number of class C was working Several of the travelers formed ings by taking these posts of seamen out of down in Maracai- men shipped in the engine depart­ a group to take up their complaint service. business. ,Y o u bo harbor on the ment was not far different from with the House Merchant Marine wouldn't take And, of course, all members dredge just be­ the deck and steward class C fig­ Committee. They said they would many more men have the right to take the flooc cause of these ures, the spread between the total ask for legislation to protect than a T-2 does. and express their opinions on. big tankers and number registered and shipped American travelers against abuses 1 also wonder any officer's report or issue it would be good was greatest in that department. of this kind. hew safe it would under discussion. Seafarers to see one of Most ports bave been low on black The Irpinia is a 27-year-old ship be in a sterm. I them under the gang men for seme time. are urged to hit the deck at of 10,982 tone displacement. She guess your watch US flag. Every The following is the forecast had jammed 1,200 passengers these meetings and let their would be half man would have port by port: shipnutea know what's en aboard her. She was originally the •vw the time yen went from hia own room and air conditioning BOSTON; Fair . . . NEW YORK: Freneh vessel Campana. their minds. teo-rl hope. Jbeek>afk t»ioolutaUfiopd..,, , FHII^DBI'PlilAi^Gopd <The wetback ship is used to>earry • 'il •••rrtir "Irhf ••'M E 1st Gas Potter Ship Underttay T V- SSI INOUIRING SEAFARER Rap Safety Lack On Foreign-Flag Liners Speak Out At SIU Meetinss f- [!-• �Seyt^ber If, IfSt SEAFARERS Pare Fiei LOG^ Budding SIU Medic Treats His Shipmates Seafarer Seymour Wallace may not quite be ready to prac­ tice medicine according to the authorities. But as far as the' crew of the Kathryn is concerned, he has all the medics beat. The 26-year-old Seafarer is| currently an SIU scholars^p medicine, but this time it was dif­ student at Columbia Univer- ferent. According to the crew, "Wallace Medical ScbooL Like other Seafarers on the scholarship, he used his limited medical knowledge as well as a grad­ grabbed a summertime ship job to uate physician. help meet his living costs. In Wal­ Only about half­ lace's instance, he shipped as third mate aboard the Kathryn on the way through ichool, neTl prob­ Puerto Rico run. In the course of the voyage two ably have smooth crewmembers suffered injimies. sailing once he Third mate Wallace was immedi­ hangs out his ately pressed- into service to care shingle. for the injured men. Normally, Wallace will mm have mates have limited experience in to call it Wallace first aid and the rudiments - of quite in the next few days to return to his studies at Columbia, where he expects to graduate in 1959. The Kathryn gang will undoubtedly be unhappy to lose their doctor, even if he isn't a full-fledged one yet. Nominations Close For SIU Voting Nominations for 39 SIU elective offices closed this past week at midnight, Wednesday, September 12. Under the constitution, all nominees had to submit their qualifications for office and the posf for which they wished to run by that date. . The constitution provides that the credentials must have been re­ ceived at headquarters by that date for the candidate to qualify. Six-Man Committee A six man rank and file creden­ tials committee was elected at the September 5th headquarters membership meeting. The committee is now examining the credentials of the candidates to determine'lf they meet the constitutional re­ quirements. Members of the commltttee are Frank Moran and Joseph Schwinn, deck department; C. Benway and Y. DiCiacomo, engine department, and John Jellette and F. Corio, steward department. The credentials committee is ex­ pected to make its report at th6 September 19 membership meet­ ing. Full details of the commit­ tee's report, including the men eligible to run for various elective posts, will be carried in the Sep­ tember 28 issue of the SEA­ FARERS LOG. Then two weeks later, the LOG will carry a special supplement with photos and biographies of all the candidates so that Seafarers can be acquainted with the men running for office. 4 4 Another Seafarer scholarship winner currently winding up a summer's sailing is Wallace Simp­ son, AB, aboard the Waterman ship Yaka. Simpson recently dropped in at headquarters to report on his progress at Stanford'University. He will be starting his junior year at Stanford on September 27, specializing in International rela­ tions. He has just completed a two year course in Chinese and served as feature editor and occa­ sionally night editor of the uni­ versity publication. When he gets but of school he hopes to go to work for the State Department's Foreign Service Di­ vision. If all goes well. Seafarers putting in at Formosa, Hong Kong, or possibly mainland Chinese ports some dayjmay , ^ yet run into a consul used to be their shipmate. One of two Atlantic Refining Company tankers now manned by Seafarers, with three more on the way, the Atl^antic Importer is shown as she looked in 1953 right after she and four other Atlantic tankers were bought by the SlU-contracted Pan Oceanic Navigation Corp. The ships remainedh under charter, to Atlantic unfil the charters expired recently. Crew Two Ex-Atlantic Tankers, 3 More Due BALTIMORE—^Two Atlantic Refining Company ships, the Atlantic Importer and the Atlantic Transporter, have been crewed by Seafarers here as the Pan Oceanic Navigation Corp., an SIU operator, picked up its"* bareboat charters on the ves­ the five ships to the SIU was fore­ sels. Thrpe other Atlantic cast three years" ago in the "At­ ships, the Producer, Shipper and Voyager, are also owned by Pan Oceanic., It is expected that these ships will be taken over as well when the charters expire. The Atlantic Importer will be renamed the American Importer and the Transporter will become jthe Pan Oceanic Transporter as soon as the necessary legal for­ malities are completed. All five of the ships are T-2s. Oddly enough, the transfer of Finish Mobile Overhaul MOBILE—Work on the structural changes in the SIU build­ ing here have now been completed. The revisions will help keep the non-SIU men out of the hall and keep all facilities open to Seafarers only. The major change is the these "piggyback" tankers to be elimination of all. but one crewed up in this port, so tankerfront entrance to the building, so that men with no union identifi­ cation can be Icept out. A new back entrance within the building leads directly from the recreation deck to the shipping hall for the convenience of Seafarers. Tanker TO#D "This port is rapidly acquiring a nucleus of tanker men, some tff whom crewed up the Ideal X (Pan Atlantic) when she came out of the shipyard :after several weeks of repairs.. This is the third of men are no longer a novelty, said Port Agent Cal Tanner. Shipping continues at a steady pace, and is holding up very well. Tanner added. Ninety-six men were dispatched to regular jobs and almost 150 more to various re­ lief assignments around the har­ bor. All told, prospects for the coming two weeks are also good. There were nine payoffs, five sign-ons and three ships in transit during the last period. Only minor beefs were encountered. lantic Fleet News," the organiz­ ing publication put out by the At­ lantic Tankermen's committee. At that time, the publication an­ nounced the purchase of the five ships by Pan Oceanic from another company that had bareboated them to Atlantic Refining. Story Upset Company The story had a startling effect on the oil company's headquarters which immediately circulated a let­ ter through its fleet over the sig­ nature of a company vice-president denying that the ships would go under contract to the SIU then or thereafter. It asserted that men sailing with Atlantic Refining were assured "job security" by the com­ pany's policy of keeping the ships running at all times under all con­ ditions. Since then, transfers to foreign flags, sales and the current pick-up of charters have decimated the 24ship Atlantic fleet. It is now down to 17 ships under American flag operation with three more due to go. Ships removed from the fleet besides the Importer and Trans­ porter have been the MV Franklin, Van Dyke, Atlantic Refiner, Rang­ er, States and Coast. One new ship was added making a net loss of seven thus far. Backs SIU Stand The current development strong­ ly confirms the SIU's argument that tankermen cannot rely on a single company for employment security, but are better off shipping through a union hirihg hall. The transfer of the two Atlantic ships to SIU contract recalls a similar incident early in 1953 when US Petroleum Carriers picked up the charters on four ships previ­ ously operated by StandarcJ. Oil of New Jersey. The four vessels have been manned by Seafarers since then. A new fight against a Liberianflag operation is in the offing on the West Coast. The membership of the Sailors Union of the Pacific voted,approval of action against a Liberian-flag ship scheduled to run between Vancouver and Antioch, Calif. The ship, manned by Japa­ nese, will carry wet pulp to the California port. i 44' The Pacific District, including the SUP, Marine Firemen's Union at:d the Marine Cooks and Stew­ ards,. expects to meet shortly with the shipowners on a wage review. Indications are that coverage for dependents on hospitalization and other benefits will be sought, in ad­ dition to a wage increase and other gains. i 4" t Signing of the Commonwealth Inter Island Towing Corp.," a Florida-West Indies tug operator has been reported by the Brother­ hood of Marine Engineers. The BME also reports that it is nego­ tiating with its contracted opera­ tors on the basis of a six percent wage increase, plus an additional cash boost ranging up to $15 for chief enginers. Find Fairisle Copf. Guilty As was expected, the Coast Guard hearing examiner has found the captain of the Fairisle guiity of negligence when the Waterman C-2 collided with a Panamanian tanker on July 23. The captain was suspended for six months con­ sisting of the two months' outright suspension and four months' prcv bation. He can sail on his license during the probationary period. The skipper had previously pleaded guilty to excessive speed. He had testified that the Fairisle was making about 15 knots on a foggy morning Report Traveler's Check Experiences Seafarers a^ SIU Iteadquarters meeting register their votes for Joseph Schwinn as one of the deck department members on the six-man membership-elected Credentials Committee for the coming SIU elections. Schwinn later was named chairman of the committee. Nomina­ tions ended this week. '^. Headquarters is interested in hearing from Seafarers as to any difficulties they might have cashing traveler's checks in over­ seas ports. In most instances, th'e traveler's checks have proved superior to issuance of local currency, giving Seafarers a better breaJs: on exchange. Traveler's checks are also acceptable in some countries which have restrictions on the use of American dollars. However, in isolated Instances, Seafarers have had trouble cashing these checks in ports where the traveler's check is not well known. Such incidents should-be reported to the Union so that appropriate action can be tjken through .the Union's Wash­ ington office. - . . '31 - I �SEAFARERS Pace Six HOW AMERICAN UNIONS SERVE EVERY AMERICAN Memban .of Congress and loccd legislators as welL vote on a bewilder­ ing variety of issues while in ofii^. The overlxge voter finds it difficult to keep track of the records of the men whose future he has to decide in the ballot booth. ^ To cut through the fog of promises, claims and counter-claims. American unions have made it a practice in re­ cent years to print and distribute "box scores" on the legislators' performance on key iissues. These appear in union publications and are distributed to voters in many areas, helping them fudge for themselves on the basis of the record. In addition, unions distribute infor­ mation on registration requirements, cmd conduct "get out the vote" drives helping imion members and other citilens qualify for election day voting. Ore Line Laggards Face Union Action BALTIMORE—Ore Line crewmembers who have-been re­ turning to their ships right at sailing time instead of an hour early may find themselves facing Union disciplinary action before long. 4 At the present rate, Port are back at their old habits again. Agent Earl Sheppard pointed This action must be stopped . . . out, "anywhere from three to 11 men have to be shipped from the hall to Sparrows Point for every Ore Line sailing. In most cases, the ^original crewmembers return just in time, so the others have to go back to the Union hall. This inconveniences all hands, to say the least. "It's time that all of the Ore Line crews began living up to the terms of our contract with the coiflpany, which calls for everyone to report back to the ship one hour before the scheduled sailing. All hands should also remember that smooth sailing requires Union members as well as the operators to live up to the contract. "The last warning on this issue was a Union letter posted aboard all Ore Line ships regarding the sailing time. It served the pur­ pose of shaking up these crews for a time, but now many of the men Tampa Holding Fair Job Pace TAMPA—Shipping is holding steady here although there isn't too much in the way of ship activ­ ity altogether. Port Agent Tom Banning noted. One ship, the Raphael Semmes (Waterman), came in to pay off and there were just four others in transit, the Steel Architect (Isth­ mian), Gateway City (Waterman), Bradford Island (Cities Service) and Bienville (Pan-Atlantic). The level of shipping has re­ mained about the same here for some time, however, and the out­ look is unchanged. All of the ships in port were in good shape. 1? ' even if we have to invoke the Un­ ion constitution against the delin­ quents," he added. Shipping in the port, meanwhile, remains good and the outlook right now is fair for the present two weeks. There have been no major beefs on any of the ships. Ten ships paid off, six signed -on and 18 stopped off in transit during the period. September 14, 1956 LOG New Tanker Plans Still Up In Air WASHINGTON—Two years of negotiations by the Military' Sea Transportation Service to get pri­ vate operators to build 15 new tankers have gotten nowhere. Now with tanker construction costs on the rise, chances are pretty doubt­ ful that the ships will be built for long-term Navy charters. When the first bids were oalled for two years back, they involved construction costs of under $8 miliion. At that time the act un­ der which they. werfe to be built set a ceiling rate on the charter price the Navy would pay for the tankers. Originally, MSTS and the bid­ ding operators were unable to reach agreement on a contract. Then the legislation was changed to call for bigger ships—between 25,000 and 27,500 tons and an 18knot speed. By that time, the con­ struction costs were up to $9.3 million. MSTS was still talking optimisticaliy about getting a genuine bid when it opened the envelopes the third time this week. But private operators now figure they can do Hbetter in the market. The result is that the proposed new ships are as far away as ever. Get That SS Number Right Seafarers filing vacation money claims should make sure that tbey use their correct Social Security number. Use of the wrong number means a clerical headache for the Vaca­ tion Plan office and slows up the handling of payments. -Also, a Seafarer who uses the incorrect Social Security number is crediting his tax de­ ductions to some other US worker. CHIWAWA (CltU* SaiSrIct), Aug. S— accepted. Motion that no one pay off Chairman, J. Malenay; Sacratary, J. until aU beefs are settled. Captain Hughat. Repair Ust turned In. Men gives men only $10.00 each on draw, advlaed to keep lockera locked to up with patrolman. Suggestion to avoid stealing. One man missing ship. teletype haU regarding mall. Steward at l4ike Charles. CUer paid own dept. beef to be taken up with patrol­ transportation. To see agent about man. Vote of thanks to steward and reimbursement. Report accepted. passenger for piping music Into mess Request Information about New delegate elected. Delegates haU. thanked for accomplishments. Gen­ draws In doUars Instead of yen. In­ erally agreed that fair trials of foul- quire If shore gang can take stores ups are only way to protect majority aboard because of short stay In port. membershp. 1 ARLYN (Bull), Aug. S—Chairman, J. Lincoln; Sacratary. O. Waltar. One man paid off In San vuan and replace­ ment missed ship sailing for stateside. Deck delegate resigning as could not handle two jobs efficiently. To act on all outstanding business. Ship's fund $3.09. - Reports accepted, and go along with headquarters and ap- prove pubUclzlng democratic way of union. Need more cooked meats In night lunch, sardines and boiled eggs. Discussion on grade of Ice cream and fresh vegetables—put aboard too soon. Some trouble with Ice cream box. New motor Installed. Request variety of flavors. $ DE SOTO (Pan Atlantic), Aug. S— Chairman, vy. Holllngar; Secretary, W. Fleishman. Ship's fund $31.22. Three men logged and flred. One man from improvised gangway. Full statement to be signed and copy given to patrol­ man. Reports accepted. J. HILTON (Bull), Aug. 12—Chairman, Crowley; Secretary, J. Mitchell. Ship's fund $20.50. Reports accepted. Motion to have meeting every other week to eliminate piling up of reports. Delegates to decide best time to have meetings convenient to ail depart­ ments. Suggestion steward check necessary, night lunch per agreement: focs'les to be painted. MASSMAR (Calmar), July 22—Chairjnan, T. Hanson; Secretary, W. Ham­ mond. Ship's fund $15.()0 given to brother's wife who suffered an acci­ dent. Seven hours disputed overtime. Repair list turned In. Reports ac­ cepted. Menus to be turned over to patrolman and Inspected by commit­ tee to determine whether variety of meats Is good or not. Letter received regarding the AB taken off In Panama. Bosun suggests all tables be set up in messhall In port. Cannot be done because of man shortage. Letter writ­ ten to company unsigned about stew­ ard and baker stealing food from ship in Newark. This not true. Seattle agent suggested writing a letter to company. . Ship's meeting suggested before payoff. ALCOA PLANTER (Alco'b), July 29 —Chairman, C. Thompson; C. DsHos- John William Goarin, born Au­ gust 21, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. gust 5, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. John W. Calhoun, Crichton, Ala. Frank W. Goarin, New York, NY. 4 4 Francis Victor Thommen III, $1 ti Christine Emily Nielsen, born born June 21, 1956, to Seafarer and March 6, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Francis V. Thommen Jr., Bal­ Mrs. Sigwart G. Nielsen, Brooklyn, timore, Md. 4 4 4 NY. Rosa Linda Gonzales, born May 4" t 4" Rodney Lee Cooper, born July 5, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gil­ 28, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rob­ bert R. Gonzales, Galveston, Tex. 4 4 4 ert L. Cooper, Port Arthur, Tex. Joan Mary Treitler, born August £ 4' ^ 2, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Carl Jean Joseph Latapie Jr., born T. Treitler, Arable, La. July 5, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. 4 4 4 Jean Latapie, New Orleans, La. Armond Ramos, Jr., born August i 4" 4' 12, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. William Brady Tillis, born Au­ Armond Ramos, East Boston, Mass. gust 4,-1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. 4 4 4 John U. Tillis, Savannah, Ga. Winon E. Walker, Jr., born July 10, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. W. 4" 4" 4< Elizabeth Cooper Young, born E. Walker, Long Beach, iMiss. August 8, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Larry P. Young, New York, Linda Elizabeth Whitten, born NY. August 17, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Walter H. Whitten, Mobile, 4i 4." i Michael Vincent Pierone, born Ala. August 9, 1956, to Seafarer and 4 4 4 Mrs. Gerald Pierone, East Orange, Victoria Georgia Rossi, bora Au­ NJ. gust 4, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edward A. Rossi, Baltimore, Md. ^ 4 4> Kim Allison Terpe, bom July 11, 4 4 4 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Keith George Charles Drzewicki, born A. Terpe, Elizabeth. NJ. August 11, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas V. Drzewicki, Wil­ 4i 4^ 4 PehM -Lynn. Calhoun, born Au- mington, DeL>< ^ • ?,• ; --vv- Wells. New delegate elected. Two men missed ship In New Orleans. Gear to be put ashore In San Francisco. Few hours disputed overtime. Crew to be careful not to aplU coffee on bridge and deck. Repair list to be made up and given to patrolman In San Fran­ cisco. One member requested locker to/be moved to get more air, if pos­ sible. Steward department room should be sougeed. Vote of thanks to steward department for fine meals. WESTPORT (New England Ind.), June 21—Chairman, W. Bunker; Sec­ retary, J. Laughlln. Meeting • called to Inform engine utility of agent's re­ port from Lake Charles on cargo over­ time and other duties. E. U. to work under deck engineer's Working rules Insofar as winches and winch time Is concerned; also about working over­ time and not putting In for it; also about turning to before 8:00 AM with­ out overtime. WINTER HILL (Cities Service), Aug. 9—Chairman, D. Downey, Secretary, Y. Culllos. New delegate elected. One man missed ship in Lake Charles. All of the following SIV families will collect the $200 maternity benefit plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name: HASTINGS (Waterman), July 2$— Chairman, C. E. Wallick; Secretary, J. pedales. Delayed sailing disputed. Ship's fund $24.18. Reports accepted. Baker did not accept job. neglected to return card to hall. Sailed short one baker. Slop water not to be thrown into laundry room. Locker under stairway to be used for slop buckets. LONCViaW VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), Aug. 4—Chairman, J. Lewis; Secretary, R. Barker. Iron donated by brother. Ship's fund $9.15. Dele­ gate and reporter elected. Sink-to be repaired. M. V. PONCE (Ponce Cement), July 31—Chairman, M. Manning; Secretary, C. Knowles, Special meeting called to settle question of who keeps laundry clean. Report accepted. Each depart­ ment to alternate in keeping laundry clean. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), July 29—Chairman, F. Hartshorn; Secretary, M. Sosplna. Ship's fund, $18.00. Every­ thing running smoothly. Secretarytreasurer and reporter elected. Repair list to be given to delegate. Letter to be sent to headquarters about acci­ dent aboard ship. Delay In obtaining medical attention for Injured man. Request notification of Injury to Wel­ fare Dept. CHELSEA (North Atlantic Marine), July 8—Chairman, J. Smith; Secretary, J. Andrews. Reports accepted. No beefs. Discussion on keeping mess rooms, recreation rooms and laundry room clean. Suggestion made that-if men want time off In foreign ports they are to ask for It and not take it on their own. ORION PLANET (Colonial), Aug. 2 —Chairman, J. Davis; Secretary, B. Padgett. Repairs not made. Tele­ gram sent to American consul con­ cerning non-delivery of mail. 66c each for extra launches. No logs. Passengers given hospital. $10.00 donated to fund by winners of ar­ rival pool. Ship's fund $7.00. Vote of thanks to engineer for fine coopera­ tion. Chipping and scraping under. way In focs'les. Headquarters report concerning changes In Union eonstitutlon received and accepted.. Report ^ ..FORT HOSKINS (Cities Service), Aug. 3—Chairman, B. Cries; Secre­ tary, R^ Myers. New delegate elected. Two men missed ship; patrolman no­ tified. Two hours delayed sailing be­ cause of men missing ship. One man hospitalized with burned eyes caused by electric weld arc. Beef in engine department. Ship sprayed for roaches Ship's fund $26.50. Engineer per­ forming unlicensed personnel work causing dissension among members and causing them to quit ship, and criticism. Expect men on overtime to do contract work. Report accepted. Port holes to be Installed in deck and steward department bathrooms and showers. Grating to be put in show­ ers deck, engine and steward depart­ ment. Cots to be returned after us­ ing. Ship to be sprayed for roaches again. Washing machine tp be fast­ ened to deck. Engine- department beef to be taken up with headquar­ ters. WESTPORT (Arthur .Steamship), Aug. 5—Chairman, S. Krswnynskl;. Secretary, K. Skelly. Tglegram sent to headquarters to have patrolman visit ship on arrival In states.' Head­ quarters notified of death of Brother Maher. Ship's fund $12. Some dis­ puted overtime. Beefs to be taken up with patrolman. Request 4b4t when replacement Is needed in fordtgh port, any available SlU member Aould be shipped. Letter to be sent i«qaestlng action toward better mail service by company. Crew requests draws In American money in future. Ship needs fumigating. Passageways and focs'les need sougeelng. Repair list to be made up. Caew requests signon be held up untU ship is fumigated. SWEETWATER (Metro Petroleum)— Chairman, R. Lundqulst; Secretary, W. Kehrwieder. Water-tight doors not to be opened In rough weather. Few hours disputed overtime. Repair list to be made up. Ship needs fumi­ gating for roaches. July 1—Chairman, R. Lundqulst; Secretary, B. Meontslkarls. Watch smoking - when unloading grain andcarrying oil. Washing machine to be cleaned after using. Keep mess hall clean. Ashes not to be thrown out on deck.' Pay attention during fire and boat drills. FREDERIC C./COLLIN (Dry Trans), Aug. 7—Chairman (none). Secretary (none). One man hospitalized in Casa­ blanca and one In Piraeus. Greece, one In Cartagene, Spain. Expect to be in New York Aug. 16-17 after roundthe-world trip. Good trip except for fouled-up travelers checks and nonco-operation of captain. ALCOA PATRIOT (Alcoa), July $— Chairman, J. Fedesovlch; Secretary, A. Tremer. Mobile notified about lack of fresh seasonal fruit on board when leaving Mobile. Ship's fund $29.25. $75.00 loaned to member for plane tickets for his family. Money to be repaid at payoff. Report accepted. Inquire when shore men to be fed during meal hour. All men to at­ tend fire and boat drill in port. Aug. 5—Chairman, B. McNulty; Sec­ retary, J. Fedesovlch. Ship's fund $104.25. Report accepted. Discussion pertaining to loan of $250,000.00 to IBL Organizing Committee. To be discussed further with boarding pat­ rolman. New delegate elected. Sug­ gestion to keep laundry locked when in port. Radio and TV set to be locked up. Record player stolen last trip. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for fine food and services rendered. HIGH POINT VICTORY (Bull), Aug. 9—Chairman, R. Godwin; Secretary, J. Hodges. Ship's fund $8.46. All de­ partment to make up repair list. All men who have beef to get together with patrolman before payoff. Vote of thanks to electrician for keeping life boats in good working order. Vote of thanks to baker for excellent pastries. SEA COMET II (Seatraders, Inc.), Aug. S—Chairman, G. Ruf; Secretary, W. Rackley. Ship's fund $25.75. Mag­ azines purchased. Treasurer and sec­ retary-reporter elected. Pipes above dairy to be more secure. Hose for galley salt water line to be installed. Galley messroom needs painting. BENTS FORT (Cities Service), Aug. 12—Chairman, W. Thompson; Sacra­ tary, C, Wiggins. Ca^aln will pay off in next port north. Secretary elected. Report accepted. Delegate to check on fans. �.1 S«»teab«r U. MM SEAWARERS LOG Far* Sere* Dorothy Delivers A 'Monster' lOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH Seafarer's Gnide To Better Bnyind By Sidney iSargoliut While all hands held their collective breaths, the Dorothy (BnH Line) completed delivery in San Juan last week of a monster 225,000-potmd stator to a local Puerto Rican power plant. The huge piece of generating equipment was literally skidded off the ship onto the dock be­ cause there is no heavy lift.^ equipment in San Juan harbor big enough to^andle the load. To unload the stator, the Dor­ othy was first heavily loaded with Hous^to-house canvassers selling costly vitamin "supplements," 10,500 tons of sugar until her deck widely distributed in the West for some time, are now blanketing the lined up approximately with a entire' country. The number of canvassers is multiplying fast. One platform on the dock. The deck company selling a vitamin product which costs the user $19.50 a month railing was cut with acetylene has developed a system of "daisy-chain" neighborhood distribution in torches and the delicate job of which local people become "isub-distributors" and sell to friends and moving-the stator began. neighbors. "Sub-distributors" who can recruit enough additional Gear Slid Ashore sellers, often among the users, then become "distributors" and ulti­ A 50-ton heavy lift was hooked mately "wholesale distributors." Each person in the selling chain gets to the package for steadying pur­ a commission on the high price* paid by moderate-income people wor­ ried about their health or frightened into buying by scare talk. This poses and the stator, resting on 12 writer estimates that at least btf per cent of the retail price of such by 12 hardwood timbers, slowly vitamin products sold house to 'house goes to the distributors and slid ashore down a slight incline on to a five-foot high platform salesman. ^ built on the dock. On the dock But the unnecessarily high cpst of such products, whether sold by side, the stator was eased onto canvassers or in stores, is only part ojf the danger buyers run. The four-inch steel pipes which were other* is that they will rely on the medical and nutritional advice of filled with sand. It was rolled untrained part-time sellers,"^ho are not doctors, pharmacists nor down the length of a 2,500-foot nutritionists, and thereby neglect to seek the professional medical sand lane to a power plant where it care they may actually need. This writer has even come across will help meet the rapidly-growing guarded hints by vitamin sellers that vitamins will correct eye and need for electric power in San dental problems requiring skilled care, such as cavities and pyorrhea. Juan. The other danger is that users may reply on vitamin products to sup­ Just to make sure everything went plement inadequate or .unbalanced diets, rather than make sore they well. Captain Milton Williams, Bull eat an adequate, varied diet. No Line operations manager, flew to (00^ diCK • 1 >8^ .combination of vitamins sold as a San Juan to supervise the unload­ -/ "complete supplement" can possib­ ing. ly have all the nutritional ele­ 12-Day Trip ments you need, since they have The stator was put aboard the not all been discovered yet. Food itself contains unknown nutrients Dorothy in Baltimore by heavy lift A passing longshoreman is dwarfed by a I 12-ton turbine sta­ floating cranes with a total lift we probably nCed for health. capacity of 130 tons. It was built at tor rig loaded aboard the Dorothy in Baltimore. The giant Unfortunately, while Govern­ Westinghouse Electric's East Pitts­ turbine mechanism required extra special handling and pre­ ment authorities can limit (and burgh plant and shipped by rail­ sented lots of headaches before it was finally unloaded in San have done so) the claims of inter­ road flatcar to Baltimore. Be­ Juan for use at a local power plant. state distributors of vitamins, it cause of the size of the equipment, is almost impossible to police the the flatcar spent 12 days on the individual salesmen. They often journey detouring low overheads, use part truths to scare people in­ tunnels and narrow cuts en-route. to buying. Among the part truths This is not a record shipment, as are arguments that fresh foods lose much of their vitamin content a much larger item of the same by the time they reach the con­ type was recently shipped to Ja­ Over 84,000 new members were Workers of America calling for sumer; that many serious illnesses pan. But as far as the Dorothy added to labor's ranks in the sec­ average increases of ten cents an gang is concerned, it will do until are due to insufficient vitamins ond three months of 1956 with hour. Improved holiday pay is also and minerals in the diet (includ­ a bigger one comes along. AFL-CIO unions winning 770 re­ provided. Negotiations are now ing even mental depression); that presentation elections. Indepen­ getting underway between the un­ foods grown .with commercial fer­ dent unions won another 96 elec­ ion and six major telephone com­ tilizers ar^not as nourishing as organically-grown foods; that soils in tions during the period. The per­ panies, • which your food is grown are depleted of psentlal minerals, and centage of voters favoring unions 4 4 4 similar claims. ' jumped from 59 percent in the Employees of Gear Specialties, Now there is some truth in some of these stalemenls, but they are first three months of 1956 to 65 per­ Inc., of Chicago, will get polio inoften .exaggerated by nutritional faddists and sellers of "health" cent. orulations during working hours. foods and vitamins, and may not apply to you at all. The fact is, quali­ The company will provide the fa­ i t fied nutritional authorities testify, if you eat a balanced diet including cilities and the union, the InternaThe National Labor Relations a variety of foods, you Can feel assured-ttiat you are getting all the Board has thrown out a secondary tLonal Union of Electrical Work­ nutrients you need. boycott charge against the State, ers, will pay the costs. Chicago LAKE CHARLES — Shipping County and Municipal Emj)loyees suffered from a polio epidemic Perhaps the most frightening thing the vitamin sellers do is to tell people their health problem may be "sub-clinical"; that is, noth­ spurted upwards again over the which grew out of the Kohler this summer. ing a doctor can observe, but manifesting itsel£.an a generally tired past two weeks here, as an assort­ Company stiilte. The Municipal 4 4 4 or depressed condition where "you just don't feel right." Many peo­ ment of 14 ships arrived for pay­ Employees Union had been accused off and replacements. The last of the major aluminum ple are scared into buying dietary supplements on this basis. of an illegal boycott when its mem­ producers. Kaiser Aluminum, has Ten Cities Service tankers, in­ Before anyone starts buying vitamins from a canvasser or even by bers in Milwaukee refused to un­ mail or from a store on a self-prescribed basis, he ought to consult cluding two of her three new su­ load a cargo of china clay for the signed with the United Steelworka doctor. This is urgent both to be certain you don't have an illness pertankers, the Baltimore and the strike-bound Kohler works. The ers on the same basis as Alcoa, requiring other treatment, and to know that you do need vitamins be­ Miami, made an appearance. All board held that Milwaukee is not Reynolds and the nation's steel of them were in fair shape, said an employer within the definition companies. About 8,000 workers fore you spend a lot of money for them. Now that some vitamin sellers have resorted to scaring parents by Port Agent Leroy Clarke. The of the Taft-Hartley law. The are covered by the latest alumi­ quoting various surveys indicating malnourishment among children, new tankers are beauties, he added, United Automobile Workers has num contract. it is especially important to get professional medical advice. Young echoing sentiments of their crews. been striking at Kohler since early children generally do require vitamin D during the winter at least A third is due in December. in 1954. (so do some adults), and sometimes other vitamins. But it is up to a j; it 4" In addition, the Sweetwater doctor to prescribe what additional vitamins your children need, and (Metro) and the "piggyback" tanker Approximately 100,000 shirt and the amount. Pediatricians have found that mothers sometimes give Ideal X (Pan Atlantic) called at cotton garment workers received a The following is the latest their children too much of vitamin preparations, with ill effects noted Port Arthur, Texas. The Del San­ ten-cents hourly wage increase in in cases of over-dosage of vitamin D. available listing of official ex­ tos (Mississippi) came in here, a new contract negotiated between If you do need vitamins, you can buy them at only a fraction of along with the Transatlantic (Pa­ the Amalgamated Clothing Work­ change rates for foreign cur­ the cost charged by the canvassers and by manufacturers of nation- cific Waterways), which signed on ers Union and the National Shirt rencies. Listings are as of ally-advertised brands. Drugs and vitamins are one place where price for a long offshore trip to Indo­ and Cotton GfStment Manufactur­ Sept. 12, 1956, and are sub­ often has no relation to quality. You can buy any vitamin product nesia and Japan. ing Association. Health insurance ject to change without notice. sold in interstate commerce with safety by comparing the potencies and retirement benefits are also im­ Needed Help listed on the label, and making sure the label has the initials "USP." proved. England, New Zealand, South Af­ With all this, job activity rose rica; $2.80 per pound sterling. Thi« means the product measures up to the established standard for 4 t Australia: $2.24 per pound sterling. substantially and required an as­ that vitamin or drug. Approximately 800,000 non-oper­ Belgium; 50 francs'to the dollar. For example, highly-advertised brands of vitamin A sell, for as much sist from both Houston , and New ating rail employees in 11 unions Denmark; 14.45 cents per krone. aiA $4 for a bottle of 100 capsules containing 25,000USP units. In con­ Orleans. Rated engine department have now completed a strike vote France; 350 francs to the dollar. trast, some retailers who stock their own brands offer this same amount men, particularly, were in short on the nation's leading railroads. Germany: 4.2 marks to the dollar. supply. and potency, made to the same official standards, for only $1.25. The unions have asked a 25-cent Holland: 3.7-3.8 guilders to the dollar. Similarly, you can buy multiple vitamins containing A and D, the On the labor front, the Office wage increase which the carriers Italy: 624.8 Ure to the doUar. B vitamins and others, from some consumer cooperative for as little as Workers Union just signed a new have countered with demands for Norway: 14 cents per krone. $2.50 for 100 capsules, compared to prices up to $20 for various types contract with ^e help of several a 6Ai-cent cut in hourly wages. Portugal: 28.75 escudos to the dollar of multiple vitamins or dietary supplements. local labor groups. The outlook is The voting came to an, end on Sweden: 19.33 cent$ per krona. Among sources for low-cost private-brand vitamins are consumer also good for m beef led by the September 7. India: 21 cents per rupee. co-ops, department stores and drug retailers who have their own Building Trades Council agabi^ Pakistan; 31 cents per rupee. 4 4 4 Argentina: 18 pesos to the dollar. brands, the general mail-order houses and mail-order specialists like non-union contractors at Fort Polk, Western Electric Company, Brazil: 3.4. cents per cruzeiro. Vitamins-Plus and Foods-Plus. about 40 miles from here. This manufacturer of telephone equip­ Uruguay: 53.63 cents per peso. A cooperative mail-order source for vitamins and other drug products dispute should be wrapped up suc­ ment, has signed a one-year agree­ Venezuela; 39.85 cents per bolivar. previously mentioned here, is Cdo Laboratories, Celo, North Carolina. cessfully before long, Clarke said. ment with the Communications High-Pressure Vitamin Peddiers LABOR ROUND-UP Lake Charies' Ship Activity Clears Beach Money Exchange Rates Listed �SEAFARERS Face Eicht September 14^ 196f_ IPG • keeping watchful eye on Stephen Carr, 3%, as he tries out his new tri­ cycle, is Mrs. Doncas Carr. Gloria, 9; Robert, 3; and Richard, 10, are children of Seafarer Van Whit­ ney. They live in Bayshore, LI. ,• A "Down Easter" is Priscilia Ruth Sawin, 3, daughter of Bob Sawin. Seafarer Max Acosta of Philadelphia boasts this growing SIU family. From left to right are Sandra, 6; Daniel, 4; and Elizabeth, 10 months old. Elizabeth is still in the "stroller" stage. oeaiarer duim o. xianagai. oci.u .....a _—— o three children from his San Pedro, California, home. Youngest col­ lected SIU maternity benefit. - - •-•7. V %/ EAFARERS' children as shown here, represent more than the fact that their fathers happen to be seamen by occupation. They dem­ onstrate the new way of life lived by so many Seafarers today, who have found homes and families part of their pattern just as It is for shoreside workers. ... L • • As many Seafarers have written when sending in these photos, it^s having the Union which has made the difference. One Seafarer put it this way, "When I look around while at home and think of our own con­ ditions compared to the shoreside workers, I know really how lucky I om to belong and be a part of the SIU." S sr^ 0rT'" • • ki'-.v •: ' * ^ lit ^ irt ^ eit Christmas toys bemuse Elizabeth Alexander. Dad is Fred Alexander. �•|J I Clitabing up in the world Vargas, 2%, of Baltimore, Md. 1 Ronnie Lee Terry, 4, son M Charles Terry, lives in Kosciusko, Miss. Jo Ann Malazihsky will soon mark 1st birthday. Dad IS Joseph Malazinsky. Ginia Lee Gambaro was just a few weeks old when snapped last December. Juamce Poole, 3, lives in De Qumey, La. Father, Shirley Poole, sads AB. :r:il fto ?rwmtam IMI from the SIU Welfare Plan. 6 fnd ? h 'l-lf 1. . received $575 in benefits On left is ThomasWiltoi^i^e^2nr^ toan I.„i, Green, who was one year old \-x , TSeyKn B^Sl :^l •Ul '^1 •"^1 Derryl Wheeler is 4. D^ IS Seafarer Orien Wheeler of York, Ala. Seafarer Eddie O'Conn'ell s first born is Nancv 6 months old. Kathy Jane Hayes is im­ pressed by Niagara Falls on visit from Virginia. John Worley, Jr. is son of Seafarer John Worley of San Francisco. Harry Gauntlett, Jr., is sweating out Army hitch with dad in Ft. Bragg. �SEAFARERS Par* Tea . NORTHWItTIKN VICTORY (Viet»ry Carriart), AuBuat 5—Chairman, J. Harton> Sacratary, S. Aralaa. Suf^ CesUon that all remaining funda ba donated to mlgsiBg brother at Cher* bourg. France, last trip. *43.30 for flowers to deceased brother who died in accident. Master clamped on time off of steward department due to one hour a day for making ice: explained that three hours a week is overtime paid on board. Members to be prop­ erly attired in messroom. Discussion on water cooler. OCEAN ULLA (Maritime Overseas). July 21—Chairman, R. Sanderlln; Sec­ retary. F. Sulllns. One m.-m hired in Newport News on.day of saiiing last liour. New delegate elected. One man on a pier head jump. Steward depart­ ment to keep recreation room clean; deck and engine department to keep laundry clean. Messroom to be cleaned Sertember 1«, 1»H LOG Seafarers OffflcMa At Launching Ship's fund *15.05. Twelve hours dOiputed overtime. Repair list to be drawn up. Contact patrolman about wind shutes and new refrigerator. Chipping after 5:00 P.M. to be re­ ferred to patrolman, and condition of mess hall table and chairs, also car­ penter being able to work overtime. TEXMAR (Calmer), July 29—Chair­ man, J. Brooks; Secretary, C. Hansley. Repair list turned in. Some items not attended to. Ship's fund *12.00.. Fans needed. No screens re­ ceived. Letter to be written to head­ quarters to have items repaired. TRANSATLANTIC (Pacific- Water­ ways), July 24—Chairman, C. Dlax; Secretary, E. Wright. Repairs to be made. Latch to be repaired on Ice box door. Cook injured right knee while working on ice box door. BEAUREGARD (Waterman), August *—Chairman, W. ZaIeskI; Secretary, E. Revlere. Mate will increase slop chest and order items for anyone wishing them. No communications received. Ship's fund $27.72. Part purchased for washing machine. Pump in washing machine repaired. Water pressure aft to be checked. Need logs and communications. Food prepared very well. up at night. Cups to be put away. Washing machine not to be over­ loaded. Clothes to be removed. ALCOA CORSAIR (Alcoa), July 29— Chairman, S. Morris; Secretary, Maior T. Costello. Delegate talked to purser about draws and slop chest. Ship's fund, *186.60. Seven hours disputed overtime. Report accepted. Movies purchased. Motion to collect' *1.00 more per man for movie fund for bet­ ter type movies. Motion to try out new picture film without extra dol­ lar assessment. RAYVAH (Ship A Freight), July 5— Chairman, D. Knight; Secretary, R. Bunnar. Rule to determine in what order gangway watches in port to stand watch. Men may switch watches so long as someone is on duty at all times. Some dissatisfaction: list re­ vised. Security watch in all ports to keep out longshoremen and people having no official business aboard. These people create overcrowded con­ ditions, ruhi furniture, foul up facili­ ties, take food and articles which do not belong to them. Suggestion that deck maintenance and bosun share same room. Present quarters very warm and undesirable. Suggestion to convert room into bathroom and shower. Discussion on coffee situation. Urged to cut down waste. Vote of thanks to steward department. Sug­ gestion that disputed items be printed in clarification section: particularly, chipping over side with air hammers or electric devices, and under what circumstances they should not be used. etc. Signed articles at Norfolk. ROBIN WENTLEY (Seat Shipping), July 22—Chairman, J. Ferreira; Sec­ retary, L. Gadson. New delegate and treasurer elected. Ship's fund, $10.00. One man short. Cook injured when leaving Savannah, was put off at sea on coast guard boat. Report accepted. Union to investigate problem that en­ gine department watch standees have, with three watches in same room. Less noise in passageway during day. DEL ORG (Mississippi), August 3— Chairman, W. Morrel; Secretary, H. Cerees. Repairs not made to be car­ ried over to new list for this voyage. No logs although some were close to it. Ship's fund, *45.00. Two hours dis­ puted overtime. Report accepted. Dis­ cussion regarding locked screen doors off passageways to deck, i.e. Karu boys. Suggestion that door be kept open for dumping refuse. Coffee sit­ uation squared away. Warning to be sober at payoff. Vote of thanks to delegate. DEL MAR (Mississippi), Aug. 5— Chairman, C. Cobb; Secretary, R. KIpp. One brother hurt, hospitalized in St. Thomas. A repatriate picked up in Buenos Aires and given dona­ tion of $10.00 from fund. Two logs in steward dept. and false one in en­ gine dept. Beefs settled satisfactorily. Vote of thanks to steward and chief mate. Temperature in crew's quarters too cold. Chief engineer lied, erased and substituted temperatures from engine log book. Worked engine crew from bell to bell. Attempted to have false statements entered in engine log book regarding temperatures. Dele­ gates instructed to pick up books on arrival and "C" men to see patrolman before leaving ship. Ship's fund *370.57. Three men logged in deck dept. Some disputed overtime. *52.00 contributed by 92 percent of deck dept. 100 percent engine dept. Reports accepted. When fuses blow out in gaUey on weekends, -engineer is to be notified to call electrician. Toilet in steward dept. to be fixed. ALCOA PEGASUS (Alcoa), July 29— Chairman, J. Rivers; Sacratary, V. Whitnay. Crew advised to keep plen­ ty of water in washing machine when in use. Ship's fund *120.00. New delegate electe'd. Radio to be purcased on arrival In New York. MARYMAR (Calma/), August S — Chairman, D. Barry; Secretary, W. Dawlay. Reports accepted. Repairs made. Hailing situation very poor; matter to be turned over to patrol­ man. Vote of thanks to patrolmen who contacted vessel in ports of Long peach and San Francisco for efflclent handUttg of miner preMems, LEWIS EMERY JR. (Victory Carriers), July 22—Chairman, P. Parker; Secretary, F. Hicks. New mattresses purchased. Water to be conserved in laundry room, otherwise may have to be rationed. Articles wdth photos sent to LOG. Movie fund collected and secured 14 featured pictures at San Pedro for crew on voyage to Ja­ pan. Fund short *150.00: to be col­ lected from crew members.- Report accepted. Fund to be collected to make up differences in movie fund and any monies over and above to be transferred to ship's fund. Sugges­ tions made on method of collection. ROBIN DONCASTER (Seas Ship­ ping), July 27—Chairman, W. Glick; Secretary, J. DeVlto. Glick resigns as ship's delegate. -New delegate elected. Dispute on delayed sailing. Repair list to be made up. Cleaning supplies needed. WILD RANGER (Waterman), July 22 —Chairman, L. Hodges; Secretary, D. Ruddy. Need drinking fountain and washing machine. New library to be secured. Five hours disputed over-' time. Patrolman to see about new arrangement of quarters for steward dept. with arrival of passenger utility. Frozen milk unsatisfactory. Request to increase ship's fund. Foreign launch service time to be posted AM and PM. HAROLD T. ANDREWS (Overseas Navigation), July 29—Chairman, R. Ayres; Secretary, W. Burton. Report on the 10 percent penalty cargo bonus. Captain neglected to pay this on am­ monia nitrate fertilizer. To refer is­ sue to patrolman. Discussion on transportation: also mess boy picked up in San Pedro. Flat *50 draw to be given out in case of late arrival in Olympia to pay off. Some disputed overtime. Discussion about late saii­ ing. Late sailing okayed by captain on oveftime sheets. Report accepted. Delegates to meet with patrolman to settle ship's affairs. All books & per­ mits to be handled by department delegates. Three copies of repair list to be made, one for master, one for patrolman and one. for future crew. HEYWOOD BROUN (Victory Cjrrlers), August 4—Chairman, C. Lee, Jr., Secretary, H. Shartzen. One man jumped ship in Napies, Italy: to be put aboard in Fiume., Some men log-, ged. Hope to get them lifted before reaching New York. Report accepted. Motion made that any one returning to ship drunk and entering another man's room be turned over to patrol­ man at port of payoff with recommen­ dation that he be 6ned *25 for each offense. Washing machine being re­ paired. Checkers to use room aft. Ail hands requested to be cleaner in bathrooms. Steward drunk during trip. Screen door repaired. Repair list to be made up on return to states. BRADFORD ISLAND (Cities Service), Aug. 12—Chairman, W. Smith; Secre­ tary, H. WIrtz. Secretary-Treasurer's report read and accepted. Reports ac­ cepted. New delegate elected. Dis­ cussion regarding men leaving ship without 24 hours notice. Crew re­ quested to give sanitary man chance to clean bathroom and laundry. DEL MONTE (Miss.), July 15—Chair­ man, W. Kavitt; Secretary, O. Payna. Agent to see that sufficient stores are put aboard. Fan to be removed from laundry room—not to be used at same time as washing machine. , STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), Aug. S —Chairman, H. Newton; Secretary, V. Orenclo. Repair lists turned in. Ship's fund $31.53. Reports accepted. Wiper signed off in Manila. Dne man hospitalized in Colombo. Vote of thanks to steward dept. and chief cook for tasty food during entire voyage. Delegate to see patrolman about re­ newing cover of setee seat in bosun's room: also about bugs in flour and some cereals. Cabinet in messhaU needs new drawer. STONY POINT (USPC), July 22— —Chairman, J. Purcell; Secretary, C. . Johnson. Awning fixed. Cots pur­ chased in Singapore, wind scoops and balance of cots to be picked up in Singapore. Keys will be ordered. Fans purchased. Report on men hos­ pitalized and missing ship read and accepted. Ship's fund *10.30. Two men short: one man missed ship in Japan: one man logged in Bahrein. Report accepted. Some food served cold daring evening meal. Cook will keep food hot in future. Crew not to ridicule messman and urged to co­ operate with him. .Vote of thanks to headquarters fOr prompt actiod on previous beefs. Seafarers Chuck Babich and Frank Schumacher, ABs, launch a brand-new punt for some work on the hull of the Robin Wentley while in Laurence Marques, Portuguese East Africa. Einar Hansen, carpenter (not shown), built the punt after Robin Line revised its former practice of having native labfir do the hull work in East Africa. Reporter C. Mathews sent in the photo. Whaddya Do With Green Tomatoes? Complaints about shoreside laundries, slop dealers, chandlers and so on are commonplace among seamen, but Seafarer Michael Gottschalk, chief steward, has one that is a stumper. He now has 120 p(»unds of pure green tomatoes on hand and can't figure what to do with them. Except of course, to wrap them in the yellow linen he matoes would ripen in a few days. was informed that the overcharge been taken out of the present ot back from a Rotterdam By what miracle this would take had bUl. gRundry. Gottschalk, who is now aboard the Liberty ship Pacific Ocean, got the tomatoes from a Rotterdam ship chandler. "The ship chan­ dler" he writes, "Atlas Economic Shipstores Ltd. . . . stuck me with 120 pounds of absolutely green to­ matoes. He refused to take them back, and when I insisted, started to take all stores back including milk. "With. the ship sailing immedi­ ately I had no alternative hut to accept same." His excuse was that the to­ place in the chill box he refused to explain. My suggestion to take them back and ripen them himself in the sun, a thing I could not do, was ignored." The linen story Is an equally sad one. "In July," he writes, "I sent 12 bags of ships linen ashore to be washed. The firm recommended by the company agent was Nico Nijman 33-41 in Rotterdam . . . "Upon scrutinizing the bill I found there was an overcharge of about $48 ... On the next voyage, I made it clear that matters would have to be adjusted. "When the linen was delivered I MEET THE DELEGATE The backbone of every SIU ship is its delegates. These Sea­ farers, elected by the crew, are volunteers who represent the crew' to the officers, defend the Union agreement and shoulder the re­ sponsibility of keeping a crew happy and beefs to a minimum dur­ ing o voyage. The success of a voyage often hinges on these efforts. down on paper and take it up with Allen J. FrieniJ, MM "Put It down in writing" is a the patrolman." slogan Seafarer Allen J. Friend re­ He faithfully keeps copies of all lies on heavily when serving as proceedings—ships meetings, re­ ship or department delegate. From pair lists and other matters. "These past e.xperience he's found tiiere's can be turned over to a new- crew nothing like having things down In after the payoff so that beefs that black and white to settle a ship- have been hanging fire can be at­ hoard beef either with or without tended to. Otherwise, some per­ sistent beefs can go on and on the help of a patrolman. The 33-year-old Seafarer has had without any solution. considerable experience as a dele­ For example, in dealing with re­ pairs, he makes up four copies; gate since the one for the mate, one for the skip­ first time he was per, one of the chief engineer and tapped for the his own. Then nobody can pass job "because the buck and say that the matter there was no­ wasn't called to his attention. body else around Every delegate sooner or later who was interest­ runs into the problem of the hum ed." He readily beef. That's when a crewmemher agrees that the or two misinterprets the contract delegate's job is to mean that h* has more coming no picnic but Friend to him. There are a lot of men, "it's also an edu­ cation. You really get to know the he agrees, who are- not too famil­ Union agreement by the time iar with all sections of the agree­ ment. "It's up to the delegate to you're through." When you get down to It, he sit down with the agreement in finds that being a delegate consists his hand and explain just what that largely of leaniing how to handle particular clause means and what diiferent personalities. "You have the man is entitled to get in the to figure out what gets results with way of overtime." He feels that experienced Union the skipper and know how, to ap­ proach him. There' are some cap­ members should consider the dele­ tains you can't talk to at all. It gate's job an obligation and c(>me doesn't pay to argue or get worked forward when the call goes 'out up over It. You put your beefs for a delegate. "When I pointed out I . . . could detect no reductions ... he asked to see the hill in dispute and sud­ denly discovered a 'mistake'... He promised to come next day and return the money to the captain but he never came around." . What's more, Gottschalk adds sadly, "new linen sent ashore has a habit of aging rapidly when re­ turned." P.S.: Will someone tell Mike what to do with green tomatoes? Mass Quit By Suez Pilots Due With about 100 foreign pilots scheduled to walk off their jobs tonight, a major interruption of Suez Canal shipping seems likely this weekend. Efforts of the Egyptian govern-' ment to hire Suez Canal pilots in the United States have been un­ successful, the Masters, Mates and Pilots Union reports. The MM&P's New York headquarters said it did not know of a single MM&P mem­ ber who had accepted an Egyptian offer.. The Canal pilots were expected to walk out after receiving per­ mission from Egjrpt to leave the country. The ^valkout follows col­ lapse of talks between the western powers, and Egypt, although the door is still open for an agree­ ment. I The MM&P has been advising its members not to get involved in the Suez situation. In any case, the Egyptian bid has obviously had a lukewarm response in the United States because of unwillingness of skilled pilots to put themselves and their families in a risky trouble area. The MM&P further declared that the Captain Bishop who had been reported as meeting Egyp­ tian embassy officials in Washing­ ton was from the. Maritime Admin­ istration. Some newspaper reports had wrongly, . Identified: him as from ' thtf niM&P's Waihlhgton office. �September 14, 1956 SEAFARERS Pare ElcTen LdG On The Way' 65,000-Ton Tankship Contracted By SlU Co. '•m , The rivalry among world shipping tycoons to build the biggest tankers afloat was marked this week by the comple­ tion of a contract for a giant 65,000-deadweight-ton petroleurp carrier for US-flag operation ^ it is possible that by 1958 the new early in 1958. . ship be manned by Seafarers. This ship will be the largest Of may immediate interest, however, merchant ship- ever to be con­ structed in an American shipyard. Since the order was placed by Transoceanic Marine, Inc., New York agents for Stavros Niarchos and front runner for two com­ panies already under SIU contract, Seafarer Hero Of Nighttime Rescue Effort Seafarer Kenneth Collins of the Steel Artisan was the hero of a successful rescue effort in the port of Penang, Malaya, when seven British navy men were swept into the ^ater from a launch. Despite the mid-morning darkness, Collins leaped into the water and hauled a drowning Britisher to safety. According to Dick Grant, chief steward on the Artisan, it was about one In the morning when Artisan crewmembers heard cries for help coming from the water. "S e V e n British navy men were returning to their ship when the launch they were in overturned in the choppy water and they were left floundering Collins in the darkness.'' A tug quickly picked up six of the men, he related. "One man was left in the water and was being carried out to sea by the swift cur­ rent. But he was sighted by Col­ lins, a member of the steward department aboard this vessel . . . Collins grabbed two lifejackets, put one on\ and jumped into the sea. After quite a struggle he reached the drowning man and hauled him to safety." He concludes that "Collins de­ serves a lot of praise for his cour­ age in jumping into the sharkinfested waters to save this man." I ^ The expected activation within the next six months of the first of four Union medical centers in major SIU ports means that the SIU is well on its way to another outstanding "first in maritime." These first seamen's medical centers in history will contribute immeasurably to a longer, happier working life and greater earning power for all Seafarers. Long prone to disabling injuries in their line of work, plus SEATTLE — S h i p p i ir g here a variety of ailments encountered in their travels, seamen helped perk up all West Coast have a serious need for the type of medical protection and ports during the past two weeks. San Francisco and Wilmington specialized diagnosis planned in this program. handled several jobs on hurry-up Seamen fortunately have some of the best medicat institu­ calls when replacements couldn't tions in the world at their disposal in the US Public Health be found here. Service hospitals. Thus, the medical centers will not pro­ One ship expected in didn't ap­ vide treatment, but instead will concentrate on preventive pear, but two others arrived in its place to more than make up for medicine, to scout out ailments before they impair a man's the loss. Of the lot, the George A. ability to earn his livelihood. Lawson (Pan Oceanic), Ocean They will also provide a standardized physical exam to re­ Evelyn (Ocean Trans) and Afoun- place the haphazard system in the industry today, under dria (Waterm^) paid off and which each company has its own set of medical standards and signed on, while the William Bur­ some have none at all. Serious problems are created at sea den (Western Tankers) and Battle All's well on the Alcoa Pegasus, Rock (US Petrol) paid off and when the safety of ship aVid crew are jeopardized by the un­ checked advance of an ailment which might have been rend­ and a standout gang of delegates went into drydock. is helping make The Battle Rock is expected to ered harmless if diagnosed and treated Earlier. take a full crew tomorrow for an­ . Major purpose of the program, of course, is keeping the it BO. Charles T. Scott, ship's dele­ other long stay in the Far East. professional seaman in top condition so that he can enjoy the gate; Adam KoThe Lawson and Evelyn were the economic benefits won by his Union for as long as he chooses sinskl, deck; Wil­ unexpected arrivals, and still on to sail. liam Gonzalez, tap are the Coe Victory and Lewis t J. 4. engine and F. A. Emery, Jr., both for Victory Car­ Seattle's On Prowl For Rated Men is Maritime Administration ap­ proval of another part of the trans­ action, involving the transfer to foreign flag of two SlU-manned Libertys, the Algonkin and Ara­ pahoe. Both ships are operated by separate companies. . Another tanker of 32,650 tons was also ordered by Transoceanic Marine this week, following an earlier order of two other 32,050tonners and a 46,000-ton sistership to the World Glory. The largest tanker ever completed in the US, the World Glory is under Liberian registry. In addition to the 65,000ton ship, two of the 32,650-ton jobs will also be operated under Ameri­ can registry. The Niarchos order quickly trimmed the sails of a new opera­ tor, Barracuda Tankers Corp., which ordered three 60,000-ton' tankers in the US two weeks ago. But the Niarchos 65,000-tpn ship may soon be dwarfed by a 100,500-ton ship planned by US inter­ ests of Aristotle Onassis, which are also under SIU contract. In addition to the five tankers on order or under construction here, the Niarchos interests have 23 ships on the ways in foreign . shipyards to add to their present active fleet of 47 vessels totalling 1 over one million tons. The new toifnage will give Niarchos a fleet of 75 ships of more than two mil-, lion tons, said to be the largest in­ dividual holding of merchant ves­ sels in history. Make Checks To 'SlU-A&G' Seafarers mailing in checks or money orders to the Union to cover dues payments are urged to be sure to make all of them payable to the SIU-A&G District. Some Sea.farers have sent in checks and money orders in the names of individual-wheadquarters officials. This makes for a problem in bookkeeping which can be avoided if checks are made out to tbe Union directly. • ' ^-^1 . SEAFARERS IN ACTION riers. There were no in-transit ships during the period, and no major beefs, according to Jeff Gillette, port agent. Nineteen standby jobs helped boost the total job figure to 97. A number of jobs that couldn't be filled were given to other ports. Clear-Cnt Vicfoi^ The speed with which Alabama has acted to clear the way for Seafarers to collect unemployment benefits in that state when they leave a ship under the 60-day contract rule again points up the fact that the SIU seniority hiring rules are fair to all. It is another boost, too, if any are needed at this late date, for the rotary hiring hall system of filling jobs on ships. The Alabama ruling follows similar victories in Dela­ ware and New York benefiting class B and C Seafarers in periods of slow shipping. If Seafarers do encounter difficulty collecting benefits in some states, they should notify the Union immediately. One advisable caution in this regard is the necessity, when ap­ plying, to point put that the reason for leaving the ship is a "contract rule" not a "Union rule." This is an essential dif­ ference w^ich some states have been reluctant to acknowledge.^.,,^ I ' Fulford gave the crew a report on no less than 12 different beefs and matters of interest to the crew. He dealt with .such items as the condition of the stores, keys for the foc'sles, unclaimed mail, draws in Japan, painting of foc'sles, in­ spection and a number of other matters. Stephen, steward 4" 4) 4" are all credited The gavel wielders are assistants with doing a at the last August membership good job of han­ Scott. meeting included dling the beefs as chairmen, M. in their respective departments. M a eh e 1, San 4) Francisco; J. D. Aboard the Seacloud, bosun A. Gribble, II o u s H. Anderson rates a hand for care­ ton; K. A. Hellfully explaining the procedure to m a n, Lake be followed in securing the ship Charles; O. Ste­ and keeping it safe at all times. A vens, Mobile; G. little reminder like this never G. Parker in Sa­ hurts. vannah; and J. Moser » » » Banners in Phila­ Talk about ship's delegates do­ delphia. Other Seafarers on the ing a bang-up job, Steve Fulford dais were C. Moser and W. Mason of the Orion Planet seems to fill in Norfolk; F. G. Wesley in Savan­ the bill. At the last shipboard nah, H. Thomas in 'Frisco and C. meeting reported to headquarters Alnsworth and G. Frank in Seattle. i I I f4{ it- �SEAFARERS Paffe Twehra Denmark 'Dream Trip' Comes True Making his way around Denmark on that long-talked-about "vacation to .the old counr try" about which he's been dreaming out loud for years, Seafarer Eddie Mijckelsen is hav­ ing a real time of it. "There can never be a thriU the little towns and even some of the ties between Denmark and the larger ones that a common the US; This annual event drew like the one this Seafarer is working guy like myself can own the King and Queen, the US and enjoying at present riding such a big car anjl travel around Danish ambassadors, the Danish around Denmark in .a new *56 car. prime minister and other notables "There is much surprise in all like this. this year. Needs Baseball Bat Since then, Mikkelsen has aver­ "I forgot to take a baseball bat along to keep the girls off, so I aged 1,000 miles a week, driving have to keep the doo^ locked at avound to the different towns all times. I wonder how'a halfway which make Seafarers who have good looking fellow would make been lucky enough to make a trip out over here. The guys who know to Denmark sit back and lick their me know I'm the kind who has lips. He cited Aalborg, Aarhus, trouble making out on Cherry Hill Vejle and "wonderful,' woaderful Copenhagen," among others. in Yokohama," he said. After Denmark, he plans to visit Mikkelsen visited the Rebild One thing's certain on the Yaka Hills in the north of Jutland for some of the other European coun­ these days: You can't trifle with the annual 4th of July celebration tries and hopes tO' run into a majority rule even if your taste where he and 40,000 others list­ couple of SIU ships and taste some buds_ are bursting. ened to speeches celebrating American cooking for a change. The situation In point apparent­ ly arises from the generosity with which the cooks have been dis­ pensing garlic in the food. There are some crewmembers, it seems, who look unkindly on the use of garlic in the preparation of prime ribs, hamburgers and sausage. They were led by Frank McCall, who urged at the last meeting that garlic be eliminated from McCall these cuts. Garlic, they pointed but, is sup­ posed to be a lilylike plant, but it very often reacts like a lion in­ stead. The stuff can't be trusted, they insisted, and too liberal use of it has been known to make guys wish they were under the Equipped with this '56 showboat and winning smile, Seafarer lilies instead of reeking with tile Ed Mikkelsen (he's on the left) is having the time of his life fragrance of one of its kinfolk. on a vacation tour of Denmark, He didn't say whether he But democratic procedure pre­ merely stopped short or had to back up, like the sign says, vailed. The pro-garlic faction mus­ tered a majority and that's that. for his companion on the opposite fender. Garlic Stirs RhubarbOver Yaka Cookery USPHS HOSPITAL James T. Moore Wm. E. Roberts John A. Morris Wm. E. Salazar NEW ORLEANS. LA. Thomas Mungo Merwyn Watson WUUam £. ApUne John McCasIin Waldo OUver Cameron Wooten James M. Mason Jose F. Arch Roy R. Rayiield John Attaway Michael O. Muzia Alfred Nassar Thomas Ballard USPHS HOSPITAL Richard Parko J. L. Buckelew STATEN ISLAND, NY Sebastian Carregal Jerry PonUff Joseph Burns Eugene P. O'Brien Winford Powell Cloise Coats George Carlson Nlcanor Orencio Randolph RatcIiS Albert T. Cooyor James J. Cronin George H. Robinson Floyd Cummings Clabum Reed Anthon Dalesandro Jose Rodriguez Chas. F. Dorrough Edwin Rhoads Horacio DaSilva Rafael Rodriguez Charles Sawyer William DriscoU Alberto DeLapaz Stanley Sargeant Wade H. Sexton WiUiam Evitt Jose Garcia Callsto Slaran Toefil Smiglelskl J. T. Gehringer EsteU Godfrey Andrew Snyder We^ A. Spencer Clarence Graham Alfred Kaju Heinrich Sterling Louis Suslovitz Carl Jones Carl Kaziol James Stickney Charles Sweeny Martin Kelly Teofilo Lacson Fred Thayer Frankie Kittchner Lonnie R. Tickle Manuel Lopez Peter Ucci Luciano Toribio Edward G. Knapp .loaquin Miniz Frank VUlacort# James E. Ward Thomas Landa Thomas Moncho Thomas Wabolls Leo H. Lang Lewis Williamson John F. Murphy WiUiam Lawless Edward Woods 6TH DIST. TB HOSPITAC Frank Lonczynski David A. Wright MOBILE, ALA. Joseph Lucas William Havelin USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. USPHS HOSPITAL Howard Abell Alphonsus Galdikas SAVANNAH, GA. David Barry C. Garrabrant C. C. Burkett Joseph A. Rockko Robert Brain Gorman T. Glaze H. T. Nungzer George W. Wilson Barron Brown Ruthwin V. Hayloek Jlmmie Littleton Francisco Bueno Edward Huizenga USPHS HO.SPITAL Rosario Copanl Basilio Maldonado MEMPHIS, TENN. Coley Crockett Diego Martinez I Claude F. Blanks VA HOSPITAL ALBERQUERQUE, NM Charles Burton USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH. TEXAS Benjamin Deibler Rounds Serrano John C. Palmer Robert N. Young Edoardo Piscepo VA HOSPITAL MEMPHIS, TENN. BUly R. HUl USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VA. Francis J. Boner James W. Davis Thomas Bunch Claud E. Denny Earl T. Congleton C. v. Heywood ' Wm. B. Cottman WUllam S. Rudd Clarence Crowder Alfred Sawyer USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE. WASH. L. Bosley Leonard J. Cox Donald K. Campbell A. W. Sadenwater USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS Thomas DaUey WiUiam R. Walker Conspcion Mejia USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON. MASS. John Farrand USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. Charles Atkins Andrew HarvUIa T. M. BarracUff He Tse Kong Marcelo B. Belen Antonios Malios Charles Doroba Antonio E. Manesls Charles Dwyer Jobe E. Mullen Gilbert Essberg H. M. Proios Jose Gonzalez Harold Spicer Thomas F. Greaney Wm. A. Van Dyne M. M. Hammond USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH BROOKLYN, NY Edmund Abualy Leonard Leidig Manuel Antonana Anthony D. Leva Eladio Aris Mike Lubas Fortunato Baoomo Archibald McGuigan Wm. C. Baldwin W. C. McQuistion Frank W. Bemrick Harry MacDcnald Frank T. CampbeU Michael Machusky Joseph Carr Benjamin Martin Wm. J. Conner* Albert MartinelU £. T. Cunningham Vic Milazzo' Joseph Murphy Walter L. Davie Emllio Delgado Ralph Palmer Robert M. Douglas George Phifer James Quinn John J. Drlscoll Dolan D. GaskiU George Renate Robert E. GUbert Danid Ruggiano Wi~iam Guenther George Shumaker' Bart E. Guranick C. Sivertsen Henry SmithE. F. Halslett TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you'nre an-old subscriber entl have • change Taib Hassen Michael Toth Joseph If sits Karl Treimann of address, please give your former address below: Thomas Isaksen Harry S. Tuttle Ira Kilgore Fred West ADDRESS Ludwig Elrlstiansea Norman West Frank Kubek VirgU WUmoth Frederick. LandrF . Pon p. Wing ZONE CITY .. STATE . Kaatel Leetrntia' ' Chee K. Zal ' Editor, SEAFARERS LOG. 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) NAME STREET ADDRESS,,...... CITY Signed ZONE STATE SafteoAer 14, 1956 LOG Suggests Form ^ For Union Trials To the Editor: Based on my experience with several committees, I'd like to offer some recommendations re­ garding the trials and appeals procedure in our Union consti­ tution. - First off, a trial should gen­ erally consist of four parts: a conference session, trial session, deliberation session and a ver­ dict. In this connection, the accused letters To The Editor AH letters to the editor fot^ publication in the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. should be supplied with and ad­ vised to read .Articles XV and XVI of the Union constitution before the trial. Members of the trial committee, the ac­ cusers and the accused should be fully informed as Jo the gen­ eral form and proper procedure to follow". If possible, the Union should publish a handbook for trial committees containing the constitution, the forms of pro­ cedure and advice on how tot conduct the sessions and ex­ amine the charges and testi­ mony. It should be the duty of the accuser to have as much eyidence and as many witnesses as possible with which to uphold his case at the time the com­ mittee meets. The accuser should obtain a certified tran­ script from the ship's logbook that covers any of the time that an offense was alleged to have taken place. Full Discussion The patrolman, delegate or brother desiring to bring a ship­ mate up on charges should call a special meeting at the payoff and have the difficulty fully dis­ cussed. This special meeting should be fully recorded and the minutes forwarded to the trial committee, along with the min­ utes of all ship's meetings for the duration of the voyage on which the alleged offense oc­ curred. In addition, two alternates should be elected along with the regular trial committee. They should not participate In -the trial in any way, except to vis­ ually examine evidence, but they should be present as silent spectators until or if they're needed. The first portion of the trial should be the conference ses­ sion, during which the committee elects a chairman and secre­ tary. The necessity of taking notes and having all official pa­ pers filled out properly can't be over-emphasized. Article XV of the constitution dealing with trials and appeals should be read and fully dis­ cussed. All charges should be read aloud and examined one by one as to their constitutional­ ity and fitness. It's important to consider whether they really fit both the letter and the in­ tent of the constitution and if they can be proven by fact. All the pertinent evidence (transcript of logbook, minutes of ship's meetings, letters, etc.) should be at hand. Arrange­ ments should be made for any witnesses, other than those the interested parties may briiiSi to be present. The committee should dllcuss at this time the lines and pro­ cedure for questioning. What are proper questions, what is cir­ cumstantial, what is fact? Are questions of opinion to be asked, are they in order? What effects will opinion have in developing the case? The committee must note the points of fact it may want to establish. It must know how it is to. go about obtaining these facts. Should it examine the witnesses separately as the first order of business? Should wit­ nesses and other parties to the case be allowed to communicate with other persons during the time this case is being con­ sidered? It's also up to the committee to even discuss such things as a proper seating arrangement in the trial room, such as a semi­ circle of committeemen facing the parties to the case. Those giving testimony should sit alone directly in front of the committee. At the actnal trial session, thecharges should be read through completely, the accuser should be asked to elaborate on each section as it is taken up and the accused should be asked to reply to each section in the same way. The committee should cross-examine the ac­ cuser and the accused, and the accuser and the accused should be able to cross-examine each other. Witnesses should be called for questions and cross-examination, and then- the committee should sum up the case as it sees it. The accuser and the accused should have the opportunity to make a final statement. , Rights Of Accused Then the deliberation session of' the committee itself should consider the rights of the ac­ cused. Have they been violated? Have they been protected? Do the facts seem valid as present­ ed? Is the situation actually covered by the constitution? Once everything has been fully explored, a secret ballot vote on a verdict should be taken on each charge. If the verdict is guilty, the man's pre­ vious record should be studied and considered. The possible penalties for the offense involved should be con­ sidered, under Article XVI, and a secret ballot vote held on the sentence. All parts of the trial that were recorded should be read aloud and approved by the committee. The accused should then be called in and advised of the committee's recommendations. If he has been found guilty, he should be advised of the affect, if any, on his shipping rights. He should know his rights of ap­ peal, and that the committee's findings are not complete until approved at a membership meeting. All of this is to assure that the rights of all concerned, the accused, as well as his brother members and the Union itself, are upheld. Van N. Dalhouse Offers Thanks For SIU Aid To the Editor: I would like to express my appreciation and thanks to the Union and the Welfare Services office, for the help given me upon the death of my brother, Thomas Clark, who died on August 6. . My. brother spoke very well about the SIU and was proud ,to be one of its members and officials. I hope you will con­ tinue to send me the LOG. Mrs. Margaret McKay IM �Scptenlwr 14. USi •TilL KINa (Mlimton), July Chalrmah, J. Frucall; ••cratary, P. Harayu, RayaUr llat tuniad In. Naad new waaMnc niaeiilne. Ship'* taid> f36.9S. No beeft. . WINTIR HILL (ClHaa SMWIea). July r—Chairman. K. Hallman; Saeratary, J. LaBlane. Quite a few beefa. Ice box to be replaced In Bridgeport. Dlaputa over firing two wipera. Report accepted. Ship to be fumigated for roachea. Vote of thanka to company for releaaing aleward. July 2*—Chairman, K. Hellmann; Saeratary, J. LaBlanc. Some diaputed overtime. Report accepted. New dele­ gate to be elected. Motion to move air compreaaor to atack deck. Fana to be checked. Fresh coffee after each meal and more coffee cupa to be left out at night time. SEAFAUERS of thanks to stewards department. Patrolman ta check slop chest for supplies and prices; also for hospital suppiies and equlpmenL It's Csffeetime ALCOA PENNANT (Alcoa), July 11 —Chairman, E. Koundovbaklk; Secre­ tary, A. Dunne. Two men Injured on ship July 7. One hour disputed over­ time. New delegate and treasurer elected. Fund to be made up for emergency use only. JEFFERSON CITY VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), June 27—Chairman, J. Smith; Secretary, R. Elliott. Quite a few made the book. More logs if any­ one fouls up. One man missed ship In Inchon. Captain contacted agent. Agent will take care of him until ship gets back to Korea. One man logged. C. F. Sharp have not been delivering WESTERN TRADER (Western NavL mall. Few letters received in Inchon. gatlan), June 17—Chairman, D. Wll- Laundry gratings need repair. July It—Chairman,- J. James; Sec­ retary, R. Elliott. Ship changed course and will go into Newport. Oregon, then to Texas and San Francisco. Some disputed overtime. Few men logged. One man jumped ship in Pusan. Communications read and ac­ cepted. Headquarters to be notified about mall service with Victory Car­ riers. They do not forward mall and something should be done about this. Headquarters to determine why com­ pany ean't or will not put out Ameri­ can money or travelers checks fat Korea as other ships do. Members requested to wait to see patrolman until delegates arc finished with Union business. Some of the men who wera logged came aboard few minutes late but went to work. Were legged the next day. Four men will go before patrolman—one from deck departBsent, one from engine depart­ and two from steward depart­ ten> Secretary, J. Pawara. All repaira ment ment. attended to except shipyard jobs. Some disputed overtime. Steward de­ HIGH POINT VICTORY (Bull), July partment ndea posted and passed en by crew. Motion made to take work 23—Chairman, W. Culpepper; Secre­ tary, J. Hedges. Ship's fund, $6.46. shop aft of engine room and make New officers foc'ale for night cook and baker, as Reports accepted. quarters are crowded. Vote of thanka elected. •to steward department for good fopd and service by mesaman. BIENVILLE (Pan-Atlantic), August S—Chalrmati, H. Helley; Secretary, J. BEL MUNPO (Delta Llnel, July 12 Strlngfellew. Some repairs not com­ —Chairman, C. McLailam Secretary, pleted. Few items to be taken up with I. Thompson. One man logged: leg patrolman at payoff. Need new wash­ lifted by captain. Messroom painted. ing machine, new ice box. Most repairs completed. Performer (wiper) to be turned over to patrol­ ROBIN KIRK (Seas Shipping), July man. Ship's fund, $41.00, Few hours S-p-Chalrman, 6. Urick; Secretary, K. disputed overtime. Some overtime not tkenberg. Ship's fund, $82.40. Delayed okay for working on company launch. sailing. Some disputed overtime. Re­ To see patrolman. Due to extended port accepted. Beef about variety of voyage, food variety not too good. Reports accepted. Rubber stamp to food. Not enough fruits and vegebe purchased to stamp ship's library. Ubles. Motion made that Mississippi Shinting STEEL WORKER (Isthmian), July 27 put 90 days' stores on all freighters. Delegate to see port agent. Black —Chairman, G. Champlln; Secretary, H. Kllmon. Captain has written orders gang unable to get cooperation from wipers on keeping washrooms, showers regarding shore leave in Ras Tanura and foc'sles clean. What can be done on second entry. Letter from head­ about sanitary men performing their quarters regarding delayed sailing in Ras Tanura, and also one in answer duties? to one from biack gang regarding MAE (Bull), July 20—Chairman, W. their watch foc'sles. Ship's fund, Morris; Secretary, R. Ruttkay. Ship's $14.00. Delayed sailing and 23 hours fund, $28.66. Need new ice box, spare overtime disputed. Reports accepted. motor for blowers. Would like ship Ail cots to be returned to steward. air-conditioned. Suggestion to have Men paying off to leave foc'sles clean. delegate handle beefs at payoff. Keep Foc'sles to be sougeed and painted. fantail cleaner. Buy more chairs for Vote of thanks to librarian. Repair fantail. All crew members to donate lists to be turned over to secretary. Refuse not to be thrown on decks. one dollar to ship's fund. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for excellent Fourth of July MONTEBELLO HILLS (Western Tankers), June 23—Chairman, Hanna; dinner. Secretary, McKreth. Met with captain NATIONAL VICTORY (Amer. about new mattresses, awnings or dunnage and water tanks. .So far'no Water), July 28—Chairman, F. Miller; action after long spell in shipyard. Secretary, N. Starton. Repair list Headquarters notified of two men turned in. Ail disputed overtime was taken off ship due to illness. One man okay by captain to crew's satisfaction. transferred to another ship. Contacted Captain thanked crew for fine be­ American consulate about paying havior. Messman praised by crew. transportation • home. Notified that Suggested voluntary contribution be money would be returned. Vote of sent to brother hospitalized at Man­ thanks to steward for job well done. hattan Beach hospital. Steward Headquarters to send clarifications on thanked crew for fine cooperation. electrical work done by pumpman. ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Seas Shipping), Ordered to do work by engineer and overtime was disputed. Messhall' to July 29—Chairman, S. Furtado; Secre­ be kept clean. tary, R. Bowley. Ail members urged to cooperate iq having clean payoff. FELTORE (Ore), August 1—Chair­ Ship's fund, $21.00. Some disputed man, T. Hansen; Secretary, H. Schroe- overtime. Reports accepted. Need new der. One man missed ship at Canal washing machine. Brother donated Zone. Stated he went to see doctor punching bag to sliip as he is getting but apparently never reported for off. Beef about preparation of meats, treatment. New reporter elected. soups and sauces. Not enough spices Ship's fund, $2.64. Bought new books. used and food too greasy. Chief cook No ice water in engine room and port getting oft. passageway. Ice cream served only ROYAL OAK (Cities Service), July three times in 22 days. Poor quality of food, small quantity and poor va­ 26—Chairman, W. Wandell; Secretary, riety. Insufficient glasses. No fresh D. Beard. Insufficient milk. Tankers bread entire trip. Ship needs painting. should be stored same as cargo ships. Stb. pump room ladder bolts rusted Steward refuses overtime sheets. No off, held only by railing. overtime record issued by company steward. Patrolman orders overtime QUEENSTON HEIGHTS (Mar Trade), to be -recorded and turned over to July 31—Chairman, M. Brightwell; boarding patrolman at payoff. Two Secretary, E.-Ray. No Logs or reports men fired. No cots a's yet. Ship's fund, received. Notified headquarters. One $21.17. Reports accepted. Tank clean­ for draw. Baker hospitalized In Guam. ing helmets needed. Radio needs re­ Third cook promoted to baker, mess- pairing. General discussion on TV man to 3rd cook, wiper to messman. sets and radios aboard ship. 81.00 to No beer or liquor to be brdught be collected at payoff for radio. aboard by order of the master. Cap­ tain reminded to put out draws per C S BALTIMORE (Cities Service), agreement, also using fire hoses for August 5—Chairman, D. Rood; Secre­ taking on water. Welfare acknowl­ tary, A. Staybough. Twelve hours dis­ edged radiogram regarding man hos­ puted overtime. List of suppiies from pitalized in Singapore. Ship's fund, slop chest on Persian Gulf shuttle'to $15.00. All brothers requested to do­ be made out. Reports accepted. Dele­ nate. Few hours disputed overtime. gate to telephone hail concerning Repairs not completed. Membership 10:00 P.M. payoff. Membership to recommended steward department place charges against one brother. man not be allowed to sail In depart­ Salt tablets to be put on board. , ment but return to deck department In future. Bosun claims lack of .mpSAND CAPTAIN (Construction Ag­ plies and equipment to perform work. gregates), August 5—Chairman, J. Company refuses to order paint and Sweeney; Secretary, C. Gilbert. New other gear. One brother to leave ship awning ordered. No pay slips in the upon arrival In the US claims It ta an last three periods. Report accepted. emergency. All brothers warned ta be Discussion en work in all deputcautious. ments. IVY (Orlen), July 28—Chairman, M. Macel; Secretery, W, Oswinkle. List ef wages and overtime to be given mem­ bers befSore arrival by master. All cemmunlcaUons rood and posted. Some disputed overtime. Repair Hat turned ill. Capias given to patrebnan. Most miner repair* completed. V$t* LOd MAXTON (Waterman), July 3«— Chairmen, W. Yates; Secretary, C. Ccabtroo. All diM>utes settled In New Y-erk. Ship's fund, $17.00. Took on two new men in New Vark. Report accoBted. New delegate elected. To ro­ tate cleaning ef laundry. Repair Ust . t« bg made up for all departments Page TUrteem \ Island Run (And Rita) Sure Beat A Seatrain Mix a closeup view of Rita Hayworth with a return visit to the Caribbean islainis after a lapse of nine years and you have a mighty good combination. It would be fine, if you never got any further than-*" Coney Island, for that matter. Guanta, most of the crew went Now back from a Caribbean ashore, hut seemed to shy away Enjoying the pause that re­ freshes, Juan Vila,. AB on the Lewis Emery, Jr., takes time out for a cup of cof­ fee. The ship is now cut in the Far East. Photo submit­ ted by ship's delegate Oeve Rivers. run on the Alcoa Pegasus, Sea­ farer. Van Whitney says the land o£ rum and coke—and all points in between—makes for a real fine trip. It was on a dock in Trinidad that he met up with Rita Hayworth and movie toughguy Robert Mitciium, who were making a new pic­ ture down there. Rita still has plenty of the old sparkle that drove the GIs crazy in World W«r II, he says. A refugee from Seatrain's plod­ ding coastwise runs, Whitney cant be blamed too much for his enthu­ siasm. Once they got to Venezuela, and La Guaira, Puerto Cabeilo and LOOKED FOR SERVICETHEY GOT THE BUSINESS A steady diet deluxe service and feeding by the steward department aboard ship has softened a bad blow for a couple of Seafarers on the Marie Hamil who gambled—and lost— when they tried to get some"*^ were extended particularly to deluxe service ashore. Freddie the > baker, "one of the The two men, according to best w^io will please everyone if ship's reporter Harry H. Diddiebock, met a couple ef girls in Eng­ land, who "said they could get 'first-class service* — including breakfast in bed" . . . But our two heroes are sadder but wiser now. They got no service and are out a bundle of dough besides. Prior to reaching England, the Hamil visited Iceland and later, Germany. "Ice­ land offers noth­ ing but lots of daylight, al­ though the GIs were nice to us while we were there. Germany was better; .< there's always Diddiebock something doing there," Diddlebock commented. England, of course, was where the two unnamed sailors met their Waterloo in the form of a couple of sharpshooters in skirts. "They'll know better next time; that's the oldest racket as well as the oldest profession in the world," he added. The cheers for the galley gang he can." All of the delegates also drew praise for always being on the ball. "This is a strictly-busi­ ness crew, with no horseplay, and it's made things a lot easier." from the beaches, althoug!i there are many beautiful ones to visit. "Maybe it was because we lost one of our shipmates on the pre­ vious voyage through drowning," Whitney commented. Guadeloupe and Martinigue were also taken in along the route, although the for­ mer turned out to be a dud on this occasion, since the day was some sort of holi­ day and almost everything was closed down. Martinique, however, provided Whitney most of the gang with a chance to brush up on their French, and even those who left their French home managed to get along. Barbados was next, and here Sil­ ver Sands Beach got a big play, it seems. "There was a sea of handkerchiefs waving from the dock when we sailed from there," said Whitney. He added that the good living in port was complemented between ports by harmony among the crew and excellent feeding by the gal­ ley. "It is really amazing to see an ideal ship like this one. She feeds like the Waldorf Astoria, too. Who could ask for anything more?" Monotony 'n Mamselles Taking it easy (above) on the Persian Gulf-Japan shuttle, on which the Camp Namanu has alraaoy put in over nine months, are Seafarars Fred Smith, chief pumpman; Fry, FWT; Bill O'Connor, OS, and William Tacy, engine maintenance. Since chief cook Allan S. Ritchie took this photo, Tacy got hospitalixed in Bahrein and O'Connor broke his arm in Ras Tanura, per­ haps just to break the-monotony. Below, Seafarers end officers from the Oceenstar have themselves • time in Bordeaux, Franca. Pictured are 3rd mete J. Walters; Capt. J. H. Young; William MUBsion, bosun; Anthony C. Landwajtowicz, AB; "Midge" RuMeO, pantrymen, end two moidemoUelts^ lUiMerby'•Rgbeft.^ Ml I I :TI -1 �SEAFARERS ftge Fourteen Union V-P Enjoys SiU Service Relaxing in deckchairs on the frip down to San Juan on the Elizabeth are Mr. and Mrs. David Sullivan. Sullivan is a viceresident of the AFL-CIO Building Service Employees Int'l nion and head of its Local 328 in New York. The photo by deck delegate Felix Serrano was submitted by Allen Friend. C Coe Victory Cookery Churns Up Calories Conditions on the Coe Victory have taken such a turn that the crew is openly beefing about the food. The chow is "too good," it seems. It's turning the light­ weights into heavyweights and the heavyweights into ing to Franklin, is claiming the behemoths. This happy state of affairs is a "heavywe i g h t delight to steward Harry L. Frank­ championship" of lin, who leads off in the culinary the SIU. A major asset department with Jose Toro, chief here is Clifton V. cook. Next in line Is John Pietrzak, Berg, chief elec­ who doesn't care about the weather trician and ship's and keeps his deep fryer going delegate -"who no matter what. Wilson Deal, sail­ has become a ing as night cook and baker, han­ real ' s e c u r it y dles his end of the chores as If risk' when he starts 'throwing his he was born to them. Franklin weight around.' Nicholas Leone, 2nd electrician, refuses to sleep adds. Heading into Yokohama, Japan, in the bottom bunk under Berg. at the last report, the Coe, accord­ He's not sure it will hold." LOG-A-RHYTHM: Sea Laughter By H. Owen Out in the bowl is the pulsing sea. Full of tempting mystery; Responsive to the moon in hourly lifts. White-tipped tide signs parallel rifts, Crashing on rocks like bombs from the air. Booming and lashing in loud sea-laughter. Foaming and crashing in echo .. . and afier. Loud is the laughter thrown back to the sea From placid rocks quivering inwardly. Water withdrawing in valleyed-hush. Gathering power for another slush. Pulling and swelling and eternally flapping Deep throated laughter thrown back from the land. Green lace trailing ruffling wave-edge . . , . . . Within the bowl, rimmed yellow in sand Is life and power and death-mocking night Actively surging, a neophyte. . . . Older than centuries and greater than land The sea pounds the centuries' rock into sand, ' And out in the bowl of rhythmic sea 1 hear sea-laughter challenging me. Burly September 14, 1058 LOG Dei Norte Crew Kindness Lauded tees meet with the shipping companies to improve those conditions, they have enough work to jperform without having To the Editor: To the Editor: the burden of these performers The SS Catherine is still on on their minds to make it more ^ I have written this at the re­ the move, and nobody knows difficult for them to deal with quest of Brothers Hugh Dick to thank the officers and men of when we'll arrive Stateside. We the employers. the Del Norte for helping him arrived ITere in Rotterdam with Turn Into Lambs in time of need. coal from Sydney, Nova Scotia, We have a number of mem­ This brother's wife died and our cargo was promptly un­ bers who, while on the beach loaded onto six English colliers. near a Union hall or on a vessel while the ship was in Santos, Next on the schedule is along the coast within telephone Brazil. The generous contribu­ Georgetown, British Guiana, distance of the hall where they tion of over $300 towards the where we will load bauxite; can be dealt with pronto are purchase of a plane ticket en­ then a day's sail across to Port meek and ^ild and apparently abled Dick to attend his wife's funeral. It was a fine example of Spain, in Trinidad, to* top off. good Union men. But as soon as-the ship leaves of the brotherhood of the sea. the Union halls, behind ^ they -• A vote of thanks also to Cap­ show their true colors and start tain James T. O'Pry for consent­ raising hell. These men just ing to pay the man off and han­ ignore the fact that the Union dling the necessary arrange­ got them the job they hold. As ments for customs and trans­ portation. A special vote of many of our members know, it is impossible to advise, correct thanks also to our two stew­ or put these men straight; they ardesses who were instrumental are immune to reason or a de­ in starting the collection. All letters to the editor for cent approach. These men are publication in the SEAFAR­ Once again, on behalf of constantly violating their oath Hugh Dick, sincere thanks to ERS LOG must be signed by of membership and our Union each and every member for his the writer. Names will be constitution. withheld upon request. kindness. Brothers, let's get together and Pete Prevas ' Ship's delegate This cargo is destined for Port get rid of these malcontents. Alfred, Quebec. From there, Write in to the LOG and let's 4 4 4 it's anybody's guess—Stateside? figure out a way to end this hogwild performing. another load of coal? or may­ Arthur F. Smith be even back for more baux­ SS Maiden Creek ite ? To the Editor: Our crew now includes three 4 4 4 Here's a couple of items from Canadians, an ordinary, an AB the Ines, now returning from a and a fireman, and one deck fine, but mostly uneventful trip maintenance replacement who to Hawaii. just came aboard ^here at Rot­ To the Editor: Number one regards the terdam. birth of John Charles Rivera, On July 13, while this vessel, . Rotterdam On Downgrade who weighed in at 5 pounds and the SS Ocean Nimet, was in the All hands seem to agree that 9 ounces, at the Bronx Hospital Rotterdam just isn't what it Arabian Sea running into rough in New York. John is the son seas created by the southwest used to be. Everything costs of Brother Robert Rivera who's more and the only thing really monsoon, a sea knocked No. 2 now aboard this ship. Brother lifeboat adrift. busy about this harbor is its I went down to see what dam­ Rivera expects to apply for his shipping. age had accrued. Several mem­ maternity benefits as soon as we The Sea Comet II is also here, bers of ^the engine and stew­ get back to town this month. and our crew has run into some Other news concerns the hos­ ards department had heard the of the brothers from that ship. pitalization in Oahu of Brothers smash and came up to the boat We're just about ready to pay Charles Morrison, Henry Arm­ off anywhere, anytime, as long deck to have a look. strong and Louis Flrlie. They These men promptly pitched as it's somewhere in the States. in and gave me and the boats­ have all since gotten better and The Catherine crew is certainly are returning with us on the going to be very glad when we wain a hand securing the boat ship. One brother whose work with no questions asked. can finish this trip and get back I thought this was a fine dis­ Is particularly missed is Mor­ home. play of loyalty, spirit and good rison, who was downed by a Ship's reporter seamanship on their part and I case of pneumonia. He was the SS Catherine want to take the opportunity to baker. After our arrival in the Isl­ 4 t 4" express my appreciation and ands some of the brothers thanks to them all. toured Oahu and elsewhere and Claude Marthey, master enjoyed the fine climate. When SS Ocean Nimet the Ship went to some of the To the Editor: 4 4 4 other islands, the crew had lit­ We, the conscientious mem­ tle or no chance to go ashore. bership of the SIU, have a very But right now we are enjoying important job to do for our Un­ fine_ sailing in all respects and ion's prestige and the principles the morale is excellent. for which it stands, as stated in To the Editor: Please convey our sincere R. G. Gluey the preamble to our SIU consti­ thanks and appreciation for the Ship's reporter tution. That job is to purge the small lovely gladiolas sent to the 4 4 4 conglomeration of foul-ups, per­ Ralph NuckoLs' family by the formers and gashrounds we have crew of the Barbara Frietchie. Ralph was the brother of within our fold. The time has come to take drastic action Billy Nuckols, AB, who is still aboard the Frietchie. He To the Editor: against these individuals. We wish to thahk the trustees This Union has fought tooth passed away very suddenly, and and nail with the shipping com­ flowers sent by the crew helped of the SIU Welfare Plan for the panies for years for the condi-' lift the burden we all felt. The prompt and courteous service /tions, wages and privileges we crew made the load much we received recently in the have today, which are outstand­ lighter for Bill by its thought- handling of a claim for hospital benefits. fulness. ing. Mrs. Billy K. Nuckols John & Catherine Cook When our negotiating commit­ Catherine Still Far From Home Letters To The Editor Ines Due Soon; Baby Awaits Dad Skipper Applauds Good Seamanship Says Performers Just Have To Go Thanks Frietchie Crew For Gift Welfare Service Speeds Benefits Follow The Leader By Bernard Seaman t it �SEAFARERS September 14. MM Pa«e Ptfteea LOG • vi. TO SHIPS m ATUimC • SOUIM AMOUCAN • EUROPSAN WATERS THE FIRST DIRECT VOICE BROAHaST TO SHIPS' CREWS fVlRV SUNDAY • 1620 DMT m V«iee of the MTO SM Wn(-39,m54KCt WffUS, 15450 KCS Ships In Corlbbson, East Cooii ol South Amoflca, South Atlantic and East Coast •! Unhed Statos. Ships in OuH of MMIco, Caribboari, West Com of South AnwrIco, Wost Coosi ol Moxko and US East Coast. The deaths of the following Sea­ farers have been reported to the Seafarers Welfare Plan and the SIU death benefit is being paid to their beneficiaries: Elmer Black, 44: An automobile accident was the cause of Brother Black's death on July 16. 1956, in Brunswick, North Carolina. Place of burial is not known. Brother Black had been sailing out of the Port of New York since joining the Union in 1949. He is survived by his wife Jamie Mae Black of Tampa, Florida. WFK^S, ISZPO KC» Ships in Mednarronaan area, North Atlantic, European and US East Coast Alberto Santiago Contact law offices of Hillman and Hillman, Sulie 522-3-4, Munsey Building, Baltimore 2, Md., in ref­ erence to the estate of your broth­ er, Angel Luis Bio's. •Li-L'..'-..:,..'' 4 Fred Shaia Contact Kenneth Blackstone by mail. Route 1, Box 119H, Perry, Georgia. ' 8ROU©HT TO. YOU BY THI OEiP SEA UNIONS OF THE MARiriME TRADES DEPARTMENT*^ SIU-A&G DISTRia • SUP • MFOW • MCS • ROU • iMM&P • BME • SlU-CANADIAN DISTRia $•4 4 4 4 Frank- Maher, 54: A heart attack proved fatal to Brother Maher who died aboard the SS Westport on July 21, 1956. Burial took place in European cem­ etery in Casa­ blanca, Morocco. Brother Maher joined the union in New York in 1943 and had been sailing in the engine department. He is survived by his sister, Marie Smith of Brooklyn, NY. •-m i I : ^1 Welfare Names Med. Director Oliver K. Pierce Get in touch with Roger Close, Calmar Line, 25 Broadway, NY, (Continued from page 3) NY, regarding a package being ently in operation in which each held for you. company had its own physical 4 4 4standards and some gave no ex­ Cyril J. Magnan aminations at all. Standardizing . Contact your family at 1817 Col­ lins St., Grand Rapids, Mich., as the examinations at a center close soon as possible. by the Union halls will be a great 4 4 4 convenience for Seafarers. Elwood Read But the major purpose of the Get in touch with Russel Lapham, RFD No. 2, Smithfield, centers will be to keep Seafarers in Rhode Island, regarding payments good health at all times by check­ on yotm furniture. Newton Paine. ing defects and ailments before 4 4 4 they reach the point of interfering Eric W. Johnson with a man's ability to work on I am anxious to hear from you. Please contact me. Richie. ships and earn a living. 4 Isidro D. Avecilla Contact E M. Piccerill, State Tax Commission, 320 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn 17, NY, or call MAin 5-1000, ext. 103. Meanwhile, MTD Round-The-World Wireless Broadcasts Continue... Richard Ricketts, SS: On August 14, 1956, Brother Ricketts died of natural causes at his,home in New York City. Burial took place in Evergreen Ceme­ tery. A member of the steward department. Brother Ricketts joined the Union in the early part of 1939 in Jacksonville, Florida. He is survived by a daughter, Gertrude Edvvards, New York, NY. 4 4 4 4 4 4 —" for SIU MEMBERS! E. S. Vlodek Contact J. E. Gerken, 200 Com­ fort Ct., Clarkburg, West Va. James W. Simmons Get in touch with your brother WUUaro in Clinton, NC. Frisco Shipping On Slow Bell SAN FRANCISCO—Job activity slowed down-during the past two weeks but is slated to increase again. Three payoffs are scheduled. The Fairport (Waterman) paid off the day after Labor iJay and four other Waterman ships ar­ rived in transit. Among them were the Morning Light, Azalea City, De Soto and John B. Waterman, plus the Steel Architect (Isthmian). All of the ships were in clean shape, said Leon Johnson, SIU port agent. SIU, A&G District BALTIMORB 1316 S. Baltimore St. Earl Sbeppard. Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 876 State St. Jamea Sheehaa, Agent Bictamond 3-0140 HOUSTON 4303 Canal St. C. TannehiU, Acting Agent Capital 7-6958 LAKE CHARLES, La 1419 Ryan St. Leroy Clarke. Agent HEmlock 6-9744 MOBILE 1 lontb Lawrence St. Cal Tanner. Agent HEi^ock 8-1754 NEW OCEANS 533 BtenvtUe St. Undaey WilUama, Agent ^ Tulane 8626 NEW VORK 675 4tb Ave.. BcooUyn HYacintli 9-6600 NORFOLR 137-139 Bank St. Ben Reel, Agent UAdlaon 3-9834 raXLADELPHlA ..337 Market St. S. CarduUo, Agent Market 7-1635 PUERTA de TQER^, PR. .Pelayo 91—La 5 Sal CoUa, Agent Phone 8-5986 SAN FRANCISCO 490 Barrlaon St Leon Johnaon, Agent Douglaa 3-9475 Marty BrelthofL Weat Coaat Rapreaentatlv* SAVANNAH • Abercom St E. B. McAuley, Acting Agent Adapig 3-17% imATTLE . .1 1905 Irt Ave. JeS OUlette, Agent Bllrott 4334 TAMPA..;,..... 1809-1811 N. Pranklln St. WILBONGTON, Calif 509 Marine Ave. Reed Humphrlea. Agent. .Terminal 4-3874 HEADQUARTERS....675 4tb Ave., Bklyn. SECRETARY-TREASURER Paul HaU ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS J. Algina, Deck C. Slmmona, Joint J. Vdplan. Eng. W. HaU. Joint B. Mooney, Std. R. Matthewa. Joint SUP HONOLULU FORT COLBORNE Ontario TORONTO, Ontario 103 Durham St. Phone: 6591 872 King St. E EMplre 4-5719 VICTORIA BC ei7V» Cormorant St Empire 4531 VANCOUVER, BC 298 Main St. Pacific 3468 SYDNEY, NS 304 Charlotte St. Phone 6346 BAGOTVILLB, Quebec 20 Elgin St. Phone: 545 THOROLD, Ontario 53 St. Davida St. CAnal 7-3202 QUEBEC 85 St. Pierre St. Quehee Phone: 3-1569 SAINT JOHN 85 Germain St. NB Phone: 3-5332 16 Merchant St. Phone 6-8777 PORTLAND..... 311 SW Clay St. CApital 3-4336 RICHMOND. CALIF. .510 Macdonald Ave. BEacon 3-0925 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrlaon St. Douglaa 3-6363 SEATTLE .3505 lat Ave. Main 0290 WILMINGTON 805 Marine Ave. ALPENA. Terminal 4-3131 NEW YORK 678 4th Ave., Brooklyn BUFFALO. NY HYacinth 8-6165 CLEVELAND Great Lakes District Canadian District HALIFAX N-S.-. 138tb HoUla St. Phone: 3891J 934 St Jamea St. Weat PLateau 8161. FORT WHXIAM: ISO Slmpson St. Phonei 3-3231 MONTREAL 1215 N. Second Ave. Phone: 713J 180 Main St Phone: Cleveland 7391 734 Lakeside Ave., NE Phone: M^ 1-0147 DETROIT 1038 3rd St. Headquartera Phone: Woodward 1-6857 DULUTH.. 531 W. Michigan SL Phone: Randolph 2-4110 SOUTH CHICAGO 3261 E. 92tid St . Phanei..Easex.ai3AU. NEW IN SEAGEAK AND S#«3«e WEAKmtWATEO/WBftlSM TOAecuvi/ESIER/UlATSReOAL Se40^ PRICES your SEA CHEST SHOE WEAR ( SEA 6EAI! SEA GEARS SHOE WEAR s:' �SEAFARERS^ LOG AWARDED FIRST PRIZE • • OSNSRAL EDITORIAL EXCELLENCE • IMS • INTERNATIONAL LABOR PBESE OF AMERICA - • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • • ik That's the chief mate on the run. In background are Pat Marinelli, carpenter, (with saw) and unidentified deck gang member involved in some carpentry work. Gervais and Marinelli show a miss­ ing denture or two, but the smiles are toothy all the same. Checking the overtime sheets are (1 to r) Marinelli, George Decker, DM; Leo Lonev, AB; Poimds, AB, and Jack Geryais, DM. Looks like some heavy arithmetic. F pictures tell the story, this SlU gang looks like it enjoyed a pleasant trip while making the long Far East haul on the Steel Executive. The ship's minutes back up the im­ pression by reporting "no beefs" in all three depart­ ments and a smooth-running ship, SlU style. Summertime on this run Is a sure guarantee of plenty of sunshine to bask In between . watches with short pants the order of the day. The Executive has come back to the East Coast after mak­ ing the run via the Mediter­ ranean and Suez.' She is now heading to India. I •ft. ; i j 'A'- y}-', ' 1^],: •* l-^ly - W'^ IIS ' • m t/. fee.;'- Bosun Bill Funk pauses in the midst of operations on the Jacob's ladder to get his photo in the record. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1950-1959 Description An account of the resource Volumes XII-XXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 14, 1956 Description An account of the resource Headlines: FIRST SIU HEALTH CENTER ON WAY BROADEN SENIORITY HIRING CLAUSE AWAIT LABOR BD. DOCK VOTE ACTION SHIPPING BOOST SEEN IN INDIA SURPLUS DEAL AFL ACTS ON ABUSES OF 3 WELFARE FUNDS UNION WINS ALA. JOBLESS $$ TEST EASE RULES IN HARDSHIP HOSP. CASES REVISED JOB RULES SEEN BIG AID TO NY RAP SAFETY LACK ON FOREIGN-FLAG LINERS BUDDING SIU MEDIC TREATS HIS SHIPMATES CREW TWO EX-ATLANTIC TANKERS, 3 MORE DUE NEW TANKER PLANS STILL UP IN THE AIR DORTHY DELIVERS A ‘MONSTER’ MASS QUIT BY SUEZ PILOTS DUE 65,000-TON TANKSHIP CONTRACTED BY SIU CO. 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SEPTEMBER 15. 1944 No. 29 SIU Proposals On Electricians' Wages OKayed NOTICE . During the paying off of two South Atlantic ships in Philadel­ phia. at the Army Pier 98-S. the SS HOWARD COFFIN and the SS JOHN GORRIC. and during the usual confusion and excite­ ment that accompanies a pay off job. one union brother picked up a one hundred dollar bill off the desk, either by accident or other­ wise. We have an idea who it is. but so as to not cause any ill feeling I am asking the brother to be man enough and send it back to me. This is causing me a great deal of inconvience. I have to make good to the Union this amount. Therefore, I hope the brother when he reads this will realize that he took a hundred dollars out of my badly needed pay. If the money is sent back I will acknowledge it in the LOG. and no questions asked. So hoping this man will have the decency to live up to what Union stands for and send me my hundred dollars. Fraternally. RICHARD CROPPER, Philadelphia Patrolman War Labor Board's Shipping Panel Approves Demands For Pay Rates And Conditions By JOHN .HAWK Sec'y-Treasurer Atlantic and Gnlf District, SIU of NA On July 24, 1944, at Washington, D. C., Joe Volpian and myself represented the Union at a meeting called by the War Shipping Panel of the National War Labor Board. for the purpose of hearing our dispute re: WAGES AND WORKING CONDITIONS FOR CHIEF ELECTRICIANS AND 2ND ELECTRICIANS, on "CI," "C2," "C3," and "C4" type vessels with the Mississippi Shipping Company, Inc., Waterman Steam­ ship Corp., American-Range-Lib-^ erty Lines, Inc., The Seas Ship­ ping Co., Inc., South Atlantic 2. Steamship Lines, Eastern Steam­ ship Lines, Inc. Union Proposals were as follows: per month Chief Electrician ....$207.00 3. 2nd Electrician $184.00 1. The Chief Electrician shall be directly respon.sible to the Chief Engineer or first Assist­ ant Engineer. The 2nd Electrician shall work under the direction of the Chief Electrician, except when tending winches, at which time he shall be responsible to the Engineer in charge. 4. When cargo is being worked They shall do no work other with electrical winches after f than electrical work and shall P.M. and before 8 A.M. over­ not be required to work on time shall be paid to electric­ steam or diesel end of any ians on duty and they shall be machinery. requested to do any work Electricians refusal to do elec­ necessary to keep electrical trical work, when such work cargo handling machinery in operation. renders them liable to elec­ trocution, .shall not be deemed 5. When Electricians arc requir­ refusal of duty. ed to install any additional equipment, it shall be classi­ fied as overtime and paid for at the regular overtime rate. This clause, however, shall not apply to renewals or re(Continued on Page 3) NWLB Shipping Panel Enlarged The war shipping panel of the National War Labor Board has been stiffened by the appointment of one new industry member and seven new alternate industry members, it was reveal­ ed this week by the American Merchant Marine Institute. The one remaining industry member and the eight other in­ WASHINGTON—The six American labor represen­ dustry alternates have been re­ tatives who have just completed a two-week visit to the appointed. Taking the place of European Theater of Operations conferred with the Hon. Edward J. Barber, president of Robert P. Patterson, Under Secretary of War, on their re­ the Barber Steamship Co., who resigned recently. Earl A. Jimiturn and presented to him a letter expressing their appreci­ son, manager of Lykes Brothers ation for the opportunity of mak-" Steamship Co., has been appoint­ of our soldiers. It shall be our ing the tour, and pledging their . . determination to see "that our mission to see to xt that otm Army ed regular industry member to Army never lacks for the things "ever lacks for the things it serve with J. B. Bryan, president of the American Shipowners As­ it needs," it was announced this needs. We shall strive to bring sociation, who was reappointed. week. » the war to the eax-liest possible The following new alternate conclusion so that our troops may "The opportunity to learn first­ members have been appointed to (Ccmtiniied on Page 3) hand the awful significance of to­ represent offshore shipping: B. G. tal war has not been a pleasant Furey, chief of operations, Moore, experience," the letter stated. McCormack Lines; Captain J. M. "We return with a new compre­ Jameison, manager of the oper­ hension of war's destructiveness ating department of Parry Navi­ and of the extent to which sup­ gation Co.; George Cohee, man­ plies and equipment can reduce ager of operations of the Overthe toll of human lives." lakes Freight Corporation, and The letter explained that the Louis B. Pate, vice president. Seas , labor leaders had been greeted SUPERIOR, WIS.—AFL unions Shipping Co. everywhere as friends and part­ won a smashing victory in a Na­ Representing the Great Lakes ners and that the production of tional Labor Relations Board will be Arthur B. Rathbone, of American labor had received election among employes of the Oglebay, Horton & Co. Inland praise on all sides, from generals Globe Shipyard here. water transportation will be rep­ and privates alike. The AFL vote totaled 1,141 to resented by Alternate John H. The letter concluded, "But we only 319 for/'he CIO. Eisenhart, secretary of the Am­ are not disposed to rest on past William ^ Wright, AFL organ-, erican Waterways Operators, Inc., accomplishments or to count thejizer, reportt i the outcome of the and Richard Specker, of the Na­ war as already wuii. Our own collective bargaining poll tn Pre.s- tional Water Carriers' Associa­ sacrifices and contributions are ^ ident Green, whom expressed tion, will represent tug and barge small by comparison with those pleasure over the result. operators on the Atlantic Coast. US Labor Leaders Pledge Continued Production Effort For Total War AFL Unions Win In Wisconsin Shipyard Election I'-I 3,465 Merchant Ships Now Under Control Of WSA WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—As of September 1, the War Shipping Administration had 3,465 mer­ chant type ships under its control, according to the Journal of Com­ merce. Other shipping statistics given in round figures in a statement issued today by the Maritime Commission and the War Ship­ ping Administration follow: Deadweight tonnage of Ameri­ can merchant marine, January 1, 1942, 11,000,000; deadweight ton­ nage built from January 1, 1942, to September 1, 1944, 38,387,600; number of ships built January 1, 1942, to September 1, 1944, 3,751, including 2,316 Libertys; number of men employed in merchant marine, 165,000; number of mer­ chant seamen dead, missing or prisoners of war as of July 31, 1944, 5,750; long tons of cargo shipped out of U. S. in 1943, 62,000,000, and average number of workers in Maritime Commission yards in July, 1944, 595,000. WSA Outlines New Developments In Merchant Seamen's Voting Procedure WAR SHIPPING ADMINISTRATION New York, New York September 6, 1944 Voting Procedure for yierchant Seamen Through the facilities of all seamen's organizations post card applications for state absentee ballots have been made available to merchant seamen on shore. Bulletins explaining the voting" law have been issued at various gram certain of the bulletins are times. Due to changes in the pro- no longer of interest to seamen desiring to vote. The important bulletins now are No. 4 (with AFL MEMBERSHIP Supplement No. 1), 5 and 7. IS NOW OVER Bulletin No. 4 gives a summary of state voting, laws as they ap­ SEVEN MILLION ply to merchant seamen. The Total membership of the majority of the states will accept American Federation of La­ the post card application for bal­ bor now surpasses the 7,000.- lot. 000 mark. President Green Bulletin No. 5 advises seamen announced at a celebration on merchant vessels that the staged by the Toledo Central Armed Guard Officer is the vot­ Labor Union in honoring the ing officer aboard his ship. Bulletin No. 7 explains the use AF of L chieftain. of the Federal Ballot. Nineteen The 7,000,000 figure repre­ states authorize use of the Feder­ sents members actually pay­ al Ballot by the merchant marine. ing per capita tax to the par­ ent body, and with the re- The Federal Ballot is only an ad­ ditional assurance to a person affiliation of the Internation­ al Typographical Union the who wants to vote. If his absentee State ballot does not reach him a number will increase approx­ Jf'ederal Ballot will be furnished imately 85,000. (Continued on Page 4) �' Page Two THE SEAFARERS LOG Published by the SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District SEAFARERS LOG Friday. Seplember 15. 1944 /^|| WHArS DOING Around the Ports NEW YORK This is only one of the many busy again. All routine beefs advantages offered by our new were settled to the satisfaction of Affiliated with the American Federate of Labor, You have heard the old one hall here. The most important the crews on the various vessels about being as "busy as a one- being the recreation facilities and entering this port. HARRY LUNDEBERG ------ Tresident. arm paper-hanger with the the cleanliness of the entire ef­ My last week's report describ­ ed the antics of one of the many hives." Well, Brother, you aint fort. 105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. Waterman would-be Bucco Skip­ NEW BUILDING seen nothing yet! If you could only have been around New York The membership in this Port pers. Namely Henry T. Bishop. JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas, last week, then you would have is more than pleased with our To date nothing new has devel­ P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York Qty really seen what a busy place new set-up and we are all happy oped as to what, further actions looks like. The Branch here just —hoping it won't be long before the various Government author­ MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - Washington Rep. shipped the highest number of we have a union hall like this ities are going to take on him, but 424 ,5tli Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. men ever shipped for one week not only in New York but in Brother John Mogan, Boston and did the most business ever every Port, and if the Building Agent, and Vice President of the done over the same period in the Fund keeps growing as fast as it Seafarers International, submit­ is, then there is no question but ted some interesting and very en­ entire Seafarers history. Directory of Branches This broke the record set here what we will have them shortly. lightening data on Captain Bis­ BRANCH ADDRESS PHONE around three weeks ago. To make Quite a few of the boys have hop, which I am sure will greatly NEW YORK (4) 5 1 Beaver St HAnover 2-2784 it even tougher than that, was been inquiring when we are go­ aid us in getting Bishop his just BOSTON (10) 330 Atlantic Ave Liberty 4057 BALTIMORE (2) 14 North Gay St Calvert 4539 the fact that the offices were be- ing to throw our house warming dues. Also Brother Hall obtained PHILADELPHIA 6 North 6th St Lombard 7651 ng moved over into the new party a la "New Orleans style" some notarized statements from NORFOLK 25 Commercial PI Norfolk 4-1083 NEW ORLEANS (16). .. 339 Chartres St. Canal 3336 building and we had to continue and it has been discussed several several members of the crew on CHARLESTON (9) 68 Society St Charleston 3-2930 SAVANNAH 220 East Bav St Savannah 3-1728 "Business as usual." As a result, times at our meetings. All hands the last voyage with Bishop TAMPA 423 East Piatt St Tamprt MM-1323 it slowed our affairs up where are of the opinion that we should which will be of great help to­ JACKSONVILLE 920 Main St Jacksonville 5-1231 MOBILE 7 St. Michael St Dial 2-1392 we are operating a couple of days hold this until we have our new wards that end. SAN JUAN, 28, P.R.. behind on settlement of disputes. building laid out to the last "T" However, to get back to Broth­ PUERTO RICO 45 Ponce de Leon San Juan 1885 GALVESTON 2 19 20th Street Galveston 2-8043 which will be second to none and er Mogan's data: BEEFS COLLECTED It seems that Bishop quit We are now in the middle of then pitch a housewarming that all the ships at the time the em, however, and if all hands, will ALSO be second to none. PUBLICATION OFFICE: Submarines and Planes were us­ with disputes in New York, local This sounds pretty good and it ing them for duck hunting sport, 51 BEAVER STREET and outports, will look under the looks as though the fellows and when every one including New York, (4) N. Y. KAnover 2-2784 Money Due List in the LOG this around here are going to follow the WSA, was singing their ~ >267 week they will see the settlement through on it and do the job up praises of the heroic and daring jrown. of disputes. Your for a Greater Member­ deeds of the Seamen. Some of the vessels involved in This Phoney, incidently claims ship. these disputes are the SS JOHN that he returned to sea due to PAUL HALL, Agent MYERS, Alcoa; SS LAFAYETTE, his extreme patriotic fervor after Waterman; SS JAMES GILLIS, working ashore for over two Smith & Johnson; SS CAPE BALTIMORE years for far less money than he AN EDITORIAL COR WIN, Bull; SS LUCY would have earned as a Captain. America stancJs at the crossroads of decision. One road STONE, Mississippi; SS ROBERT Shipping has slowed up some­ Finally he worked up enough leads to Centralzed "Planning" and attendent Dictatorship TREAT, Eastern; and the SS WM. what after a three week spell of courage to ship out again, doing PEPPER, Calmar. Look for your —the other leads to a return to a pre-war status quo with name and the amount due and hectic business and shipping. this, of' course, when the Sub Well this 6eems "to be the regular danger had lessened. economy revamped to the needs of a post-war augmented details under the Money Due List. cycle, so if things run true to During the voyage Bishop was market, domestic and foreign, under a business leadership. The rest of the disputes being form we shall have a two week so scared that he stayed drunk Totalitarian termites are moving heaven and earth to handled in New York should lapse and after that be plenty (Continued m Page i) insure the success of bigger and better Bureaucratic con­ have a decision reached on them very shortly and all hands will be trol and a Government in the United States of America notified by the Money Due List in which will march down the road to Collectivism controlled the following Seafarers Log. By secret tentacles of the Stalinist octopus as the prelude to During the past week, when SS JOHN F. MYERS SS M. T. GOLDSBORO a seizure of power. They are intent on the job of "marry­ we had so many ships paying off,, Donald R. Willis has 32 hrs. Alcoa SS Co. ing" the Administration and through this strategy CAP­ we had for the first time, diffi­ E Sheppard, 16 hrs; P. Reilly. coming. Collect at company of­ culty in obtaining enough rank TURING THE GOVERNMENT FROM WITHIN. The and file Seafarers members from 13 h'rs; R. G. Fink, 8 hrs; S. Jan- fice. • * K plan and process has long been underwayl the floor to act as temporary Pa­ kowski, 8 hrs; J. Marino, 8 hrs. SS LUCY STONE The drive of the CPA, CIO Political Action Commit­ trolmen. The system we have R Tatterman 9 hrs, J. Regan, 8 Mississippi Shipping Co. tees, and so-called "Trade Union leaders" to regiment the been using around here is when hrs, G. E. Miller, 8 hrs. and 2 days' The Steward Dept. can collect votes of American Workers is part of the struggle to cap­ business was very heavy, we pay each for doing Chief Cook's money for extra meals at the would get the necessary number work; T. I. Shelton, 19 hrs; I>. ture control of the American Government with their power of members with the necessary Cruz, 8 hrs; P. J. Olso, 8 hrs; A. company office. • • • extended over the entire nation. The "Trade Union" qualifications to fill in and act as King. B hrs; J. Burton. 8 hrs; W. SS LUCY STONE spheres of operations act as the base of activities. Capture Patrolmen and we must say that H. Valler, 8 hrs. Collect at com­ Mississippi SS Company •of the Government will open the tcay to limitless horizons everyone of these men that have pany office! David Archia, Chief Steward, • • • the potver over the people—over all Unions. They will mold assisted us in this manner so far 121 hrs. Collect at company of­ SS LAFAYETTE American International policies. THIS IS THEIR BID have done crackerjack jobs of fice. filling in. Waterman SS Company • • » FOR POWER. GOOD SHIPPING The 6 AB's who made the last SS ROBERT TREAT Regimentation of American workers is constantly be­ Shipping is so very good here trip each have $6.00 security due Eastern SS Co. ing stepped up by yarious devices. An American seaman lately, however, and the boys them. Collect at company office. E Chapman, OS, 16 hrs; O. * * * carries a Seamen's Certificate, Passports, Coastguard Passes. were turning over so fast, we Rupp, AB, 29 hrs; A. Gosh, AB, SS LAFAYETTE He is mugged and fingerprinted. His life history is on rec- don't have the opportunity to get 3 hrs; H. Randolph, OS. 18 hrs; ord. He must procure a birth certificate if born here, or a man to stay on the beach long Wolfe. Black, Johnson, $21.00 F. Snyder. Carpenter, 1 hr; P. each extra meal money. Vroom, AB, 9 hrs; R. Eley, O.S., citizenship. Records of sailings are kept in Washington by enough to work even one day. Here's hoping that during the • * * 12 hrs; R. Amstutz, AB, 17 hrs. the War Shipping Administration. Time ashore between next big rush we have it will be SS JAMES GILLIS Engine Dept.—W. D. McLaugh­ trips is regulated. He must pass physical examinations by easier for us to get men to fill in. lin. Oiler, 12 hrs; R. Bryant, Oiler, Smith & Johnson SS Co. the War Shipping Administration and records are left be­ We have a very nice set-up 8 Log Beef—William J. Meehan hrs; W. W. Ridgers, Fire, 3 hrs; here in our new building and it hind. He is recorded by a Social Security Number. has had Commissioner's decision J. Rudsill. Fire, 5 hrs; G. McGee, is going to help the membership Fire, 6V2 hrs. These measures are largely necessary and unavoidable, * * to quite an extent. We are ar­ in his favor and can be paid a re­ especially in times of War. We micst add to necessary war ranged so that we can handle any fund of $91.00 by calling at the SS WM. PEPPER time controls, however, the burdens of a totalitarian nature amount of business within our company office. Calmar SS Office • • • placed upon seamen ivho are members of Stalinist-control- building or any amount of ship­ Entire unlicensed pershnttel SS CAPE CORWIN ed "Labor Front Unions." WE SPECIFIC AT TV NAME ping, regardless of how heavy it hnvn 4 weeks' linen money coiU' Bull SS Company gets. ing. THE NMU! Entire crew has $5.00 each due • We are lined up so that we can NMU members are bedevilled by numerous sets of handle disputes as we get them, for lack of linen, with exception Keep In Touch With controls placed upon them by the Stalinist "leaders." They and are able to keep a complete of S. Prestigiacomo, who has $7. due. Collect at company oiBce. (Continued on Page 4) check on them at aU times. Your Draft Board The Face Of The Future MONEY DUE ]r • li-'r.- ,1 ty ii ^ r �Friday, Seplember 15, 1944 War Shipping Panel' OK's SIU Proposals On Electricians' Wages THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Three N Y Meeting Another Skipper Lauds Shows Union's SIU Crew's Conduct Progress Under Invasion Fire NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 12— ceived, while seamen sailing on One of the largest meetings ever (Ccmtmud frwn Page 1) NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 14—An example of the placements of wbrn-mit equip­ SIU contracted ships have been held in this port assembled in the actions of all crews of the Seafarers International Union of receiving overtime for this work new hall here last evening to ment. since 1938. the year the SIU was showed enthusiastic acclaim to the NA is seen in a letter from D. W. Hayman, Master of the 6. Their hours of work shall be MV Trinidad Head to the officials of the Moran Towing from 8 A.M. to 12 Noon and born. This means that hundreds Union's progress. Several mem­ from 1 P.M. to 5 P.M. Week­ of thousands of dollars went into bers praised the way that the Co., which was made public today. The letter lauds the spirit with which the SIU mem-* days and from 8 A.M. to 12 the shipowners' pockets instead officers of the Branch had held advancement, which I hope they of the pockets of the rank and up under a record week for fi­ bers carried out their duties dur- will be successful in attaining. Noon on Saturdays. Provided, ing many crossings of the English however, he shall make his file seamen sailing on NMU con­ nances and shipping while under Channel while under the heavy They are all looking forward to a tracted ships. the added pressure of moving; al­ routine inspections daily with­ short vacation and rest, and no out payment of overtime in­ The War Labor Board handed though it was explained that a fire of the invasion of the Nor­ doubt, you will be in contact with mandy beachhead. cluding Saturday afternoons, them this because the NMU rep­ few beefs necessarily were hang­ some of them. You can assure The letter pays tribute to the ing fire due to the press of work resentatives screamed for stabili­ Sunddys and Holidays. them that the manner in which "endurance, cooperation and ef­ and business. zation and used as basis for ar­ they have conducted themselves, The Companies' proposals were gument, SIU contracts which con­ Over one thousand men were ficiency" of the crew as well as and their loyalty has been most as follows:" tained these conditions, stating shipped from the hall as crew pointing out their attention to highly appreciated by me, and I Wages P®r month that they should have the same replacements during the week, as their duties and their soberiety. sincerely and unhesitatingly rec­ Chief Electricians $185.25 conditions. We are glad they got well as sixty ships being handled They are also complimented on ommend them to anyone with these conditions because it bene­ by the patrolmen and agent of their discipline. 2nd Electricians $137.50 whom they came in contact. The Companies objected to fits the rank and file National the Branch. Many of these ves­ The full text of Captain Hay- Last but not least, the Navy most of the Union's proposed Maritime Union seamen but it is sels came in with hundreds of man's letter follows: gun crew have at all times co­ MV TRINIDAD HEAD working rules. Matthew Dushane no credit to the top faction of the hours of overtime in dispute be­ operated with me, my officers cause of technical angles worked Capt. Earl C. Palmer, was the labor representative of NMU. and crew. The manner in which We can look forward now to up by some of the operators' rep­ Marine Superintendant, the War Shipping Panel. The War they have conducted themselves War Shipping Administration, Shipping Panel unanimously the National Maritime Union ne­ resentatives, it was reported. shows fine training and efficiency. To my knowledge and belief agreed on the Union's wage pro­ gotiators to go to the National One Brother commented upon Moran Towing and there has never been any dispute posal and recommended that the War Labor Board and ask that the attitude of some of the mem­ Transportation Co., Inc. or greivance between the gun wages for electricians with chief they boost the electricians' wages bers about Chief Stewards and 17 Battery Place, crew and the officers and crew electricians endorsement for "C" on NMU contracted ships for the declared that: "Crews had better New York, 4, N. Y. of this vessel. They are a fine type vessel be $207.00 per month sake of stabilization. They will quit discriminating against them Dear Captain Palmer: •and that electricians with only go with their hat in their hand as Chief Stewards, since the at­ While on the trip to the United hunch of men, sober, and conduct assistant electricians endorse- and say, "We have been good titude of some of the crews was Kingdom, including the task force themselves in the most gentle­ boys, we have not struck any ves­ forcing them as a whole group and several crossings of the Eng­ manly manner at all times. Part ments be $137.50 per month. away from the Union." The SIU has been fighting for sel but the bad, bad SIU boys The members present concurr­ lish Channel, the trip was quite of these men have been with me for a year, and all of them on this have struck vessels and you this scale of wages for Chief Elec­ ed in his expressed sentiments interesting, but a bit trying at particular voyage, and I find them should give us what you gave tricians on "C" type vessels since and asked that measures be taken times, especially during the inva­ today as enthusiastic as ever. It 1941, finally we have wofa our them." to stop unthinking members sion. However, the entire crew point provided that the National I hope they do get the same aboard the ships from rigging up performed their duties in the would be greatly appreciated by War Labor Board approves of the wages for electricians because charges against Chief Stewards most excellent manner at all me, if you would pass on this inWar Shipping Panel's unanimous the seamen electricians will be that were without any basis or times. Not one man showed the frmation to the proper authorities recommendation, which I have the winners but no credit for ob­ foundation. slightest trace of obstinacy. And, on behalf of these men. Very truly yours, every reason to believe they will. taining same should go to NMU It was also reported in the I must say, that in all the many D. W. HAYMAN, Master. The biggest obstacle that has negotiators. years I have been master of a meeting that many of the dis­ MV Trinidad Head. been in our way in winning this War Shipping Panel's Recom­ putes taken up before the Draft vessel, that my present officers decision is the finky wages paid mendation on the Union Proposed Boards and the Coast Guard were and crew head the list so far as to electricians by East Coast op­ of the type that would benefit efficiency, cooperation and endur­ erators contracted to the National Working Rules: ance are concerned. They have THIS IS THE PANEL'S RULING: the welfare of the members of been sober, have been attentive The SS WM. R. DAVIES was in Maritime Union. the Union. This type of dispute Of course, it is common knowl­ 1. Was denied. "Electricians shall it is noted has been becoming to their duties at all times, there Oran on March 23rd, 1943. All be directly responsible to the prevalent of late months. have been no disputes or friction, members of the crew on this voy­ edge to all old-time seamen that Chief Engineer or, in his ab­ and they have maintained the age have attack bonus coming, the SIU has to pave the way now­ sence, to the Engineer in highest regard for discipline. They $125.00. Please get in touch with, adays via the War Labor Board for Overseas Xmas Gifts have worked hard, and every re­ the South Atlantic Steamship Cow charge." better wages, working conditions quest, as well as my orders, have Savannah, Georgia, for collecting and bonuses, etc., for all Ameri­ 2. Was Granted. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 12 been carried out in the most same. can merchant seamen like the 3. Was denied. —GI advice to the home folks on whole-hearted manner. CHARLES WAID, Agent Sru has done in the past, but, be­ 4. Was Granted. Christmas presents for boys over­ Some of these men now seek Savannah Branch fore the war, wages and working 5. Was denied. seas sifts down to "What you send conditions were bettered by the 6. Was Granted. is not as important as the fact SIU via strikes while the top fac­ (Refer to points on Page 1) you remembered to send it," the tion, NMU officials sat on their The Companies proposed that OWI announced this week. prats and got their high powered the following provisions be in­ Christmas packages to service­ political machine to blow their cluded in the agreement: men abroad must be mailed be­ horns loud and long about the BALTIMORE (Coniinued from Page 2) gains that they have made for HIRING OF ELECTRICIANS tween Sept. 15 and Oct. 15. the entire trip. He also develop­ PATROLMEN'S REPORTS "The Union recognizes that the seamen. An example of this ed a halucination that the crew is their last triumph published in special training and experience was talking about him, and Brother Dickey's Report: are required in the case of cer­ would sneak up to the crew's Paid off the Chas. Nordoff, and the "Pilot." of the gains they tain ratings on the modern rooms and listen in order to de­ Trinidad Head. All beefs settled made when they were handed down a decision by the War La­ complex vessel. In view of the termine if that was so, and due to to entire satisfaction of crew. Ap­ above, it is agreed that Elec­ bor Board calling for overtime in his fears he made a general nui- proximately 400 hours disputed tricians should be selected by port after 5 P.M. and before 8 siance of himself the entire voy­ over time settled. Visited various the Company from these mem­ A.M. for a man on watch in fire age, demoralizing the crew and ships on routine beefs which were bers of the Union who are room while cargo is being work­ officers with his childish and yel­ adjusted. available, provided such men I would like to commend the low actions. ed. {CotUhvued from Page 1) are suitable to the Company. come home alive and whole." At the completion of the trip delegate on the Trinidad Head, This concession they just reThe Company shall be the sole The labor leaders who toured Bishop brought two messmen up Brother Lloyd Daniels, whom act­ judge of the man's suitability. ETO at the invitation of the Sec­ on charges before the Coast ed in that capacity for the entire' If suitable men are not avail­ retary of War were R. J. Tliomas, Guard. After hearing all the crew, and turned in the best re­ Will George Flinn, Cook and able from among the Union president, UAW - CIO; Sherman evidence the Coast Guard dis­ port we have seen here for a long membership, the Company may H. Dalrymple, president. United missed the charges against the time. If other ships' delegates Galley Utility man on last voy­ secure men for these ratings Rubber Workers, CIO; David J. messmen, and severely repri­ would do likewise it would make age of John T, Mitchell kindly get from any source whatsoever McD o n a I d, secretary-treasurer. manded Captain Bishop for his things a whole lot easier on the in touch with Captain Hedrick, and without regard to Union United Steelworkers of America, demoralizing actions during the officials. U. S. Shipping Commissioner at membership. Men so secured CIO; Eric Peterson, vice-presi­ trip. Brother Macauly's report: Baltimore, Md. This is in refer­ may remain in the employ of Paid off Trinidad Head, Yam­ This occured at Boston, Mass., dent, International Association of ence to a refund on your Log. the Company, provided that Machinists, AFL; Frank Fenton, last year. Needless to state that hill, the latter a Pacific Dist. JOSEPH FLANAGAN, within a reasonable leiiglli of director of organization, AFL; I referred the added Information Tanker. Overtime beefs all settled Baltimore Agent time they become members of and A. L. Wegener, assistant to to the Fifth Naval District. to crews' satisfaction. Visited vari­ the Union." FRATERNALLY YOURS FOR ous other ships in port on routine the president. International F. O. Swendson, Jr. — Your issues, signed on Walter FlemPanel denied Companies' pro­ Brotherhood of Electrical Work­ LESS HOURS. book is being held in New York ming. JOSEPH FLANAGAN, Agent ers, AFL. posal. for you to pick up. NOTICE Around The Ports Labor Leaders Pledge Continued Total War Effort NOTICES / �Page Four THE New Ships Are Named For 'Raymond V. IngersolF And 'Abraham Rosenberg' The U.S. Maritime Commission has made known that hulls have been assigned for two Liberty Ships, to be desig­ nated the SS Kayinond V. Ingersoll and the SS Abraham Rosenberg, in recognition of War Bond purchases of $5,585,150 made by the members of the Joint Board of the Cloak,. Suit, Shirt and Reefer*: Kings County served for a num­ Makers' Unions in the Fifth War ber of years as the impartial Loan Drive. chairman of the cloak industry. Cloakmakers, in responding to In all the years that he served the call of their country to pur­ chase bonds, and to the call of the cloak trade in the capacity, the union to purchase bonds for his decisions were always direct­ these two Liberty Ships, deem it ed toward the economic welfare, an honor and great privilege to needs and interest of the cloakhave the ships bear the names of makers. Abraham Rosenberg was two such outstanding personal­ the president of the ILGWU in ities as Raymond V. Inggrsoll and the year- 1910, at the time of the Abraham Rosenberg. For, Ray­ great general strike. During that time he was the mond V. Ingersoll, before he was elected Borough President of leader of that general strike of the cloak industry in the City of New York which, was struggling for union recognition, for better union conditions and the moving force of its present great inter­ national. As leader of this strike, NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 6— Abraham Rosenberg helped in­ Another member of the Seafarers spire other trades to fight for International Union gave his life union recognition and improved for the war effort, it was revealed union conditions. Both Raymond V. Ingersoll and here today by his shipmates who survived action on the Normandy Abraham Rosenberg will remain beach-head. His fellow shipmates everlasting in the memory of tell the story of the death of Har- cloakmakers. Complete arrangements for ap­ ley F. Snapp, Jr., a messman, who was killed accidentally while propriate ceremonies marked the ashore on the beach-head on July launching of the Ingersoll at Pan­ ama City, Florida, August 28. The 7, 1944. Brother Snapp, his shipmates Rosenberg will be set afloat on , sayf was killed while helping to September 30 at the yards in South Portland, Maine. get war materials ashore. SIU Man Gives . Life In War SEAFARERS LOG Friday, September 15; 1944 'ABMIRAL" CUHRAN The Greal One stood on the NMU roof And pointed toward the sea "We keep *em sailing," he shouted "They sail because of ME! "I'm winning this war by remote control "By the headlines in our Press "I'll sail those ships though the Heavens fall "And never know distress. "I am the Voice from Teheran "And all points East or West "My political speeches, in this War "Shall feather an Admiral's nest. "The Order of Stalin shall grace my breast "In the days that are to come "The Admiral of the NMU roof "Who put Nazis on the bum! "I and my Captains gaze towards the sea "With the Charts for lands afar "We plot the answers to Human Fate "Browder's quadrant and Stalin's Star! "Oh storms may blow and pumps may clog "And the sea moan o'er the bar "The deadly torpedoes do their work "On ships both near and far— "Whatever betide It don't hurt US "We're Captains' of the Main "With our CPA Chart on the NMU roof "We live and light again. "Terriiic our battles in headline news "We quaff our champalgne at the Rltz "At shipowners' dinners In our behalf "Five dollars per plate and our 'blitz.' "Our own self-praise can show no wane "Our Ink wells never run dry "Planes and loudspeakers at our command "In the name of the men who die. WSA Outlines NewDevelopmentg In Seamen's Votes !IMl (Continued from Page 1) by the Armed Guard Officer af­ ter October 1st. If a seaman is ashore in a foreign port a Federal Ballot may be secured from the American Consul or the WSA agent. To use the Federal Ballot he must: 1. Be outside the continental United States. 2. Have applied before Septem­ ber 1st for absentee state bal­ lot, but not have received it. 3. Be a resident of one of the nineteen states that authorize use of the Federal Ballot as per Bulletin No. 7.' We feel that if too many bul­ letins £u:e displayed they will not be read. Therefore, we suggest that only Bulletins No. 4 (with Supplement No. 1), 5 and 7 should be displayed with this notice. M. A. MENDLESEN, Voling Supervisor, Atlanlic Coast District. WSA SPEAKS ON JOBS FOR DISABLED SEAMEN "We're heroes tossed on political waves "We sail on the winds we blow "We're never at a loss for words "New slogans from us flow!" The War Shipping Administra­ tion announced this week that every possible consideration is being given toward finding jobs for disabled seamen within the .shipping industry at their highest practicable capacity. The Great One stood on the NMU roof With Hlllman's glass in his hand Defeating Nazis by remote control The "Sailor" of dry land. —^Top 'n Lift. Protect Both America and^ Your Money hy Investing It in War Bonds, The Face Of The Future AN EDITORIAL {Continued from page 2) must attend all the NMU's so-called "union" meetings and listen to long political tirades and speeches under rigid penalty of not getting their shipping cards starhped. This is in sharp con­ trast to the AFL SIU-SUP, the real seamen's Unions, which encourage their members to at­ tend meetings and take an active and democratic part in conducting the affairs of their OWN " UNIONS, with minor punishment for failure to attend at least every second meeting. The NMU's rigid control of the actions of its members has worked a hazard on the war effort ty causing many of its members to be thrown to the draft boards for failure to attend the NMU's political rallies—for the member's rights of shipping were withdrawn. Under the RMO rules he was thrown to the wolves as an "inac­ tive seaman." Thus, in the NMU regardless of che particular member's needs—compulsion is the root of his behaviour I the Stalinist "union" rules conflict with the war effort. Manning and Manpower. In spite of the fact that Joseph Curran, Stalinist .stooge, is a member of the War Manpower Com­ mission for the New York area, this totalitarian malpractice—its effect upon men and manning of ships HAS NEVER BEEN BROUGHT TO LIGHT! The reason is easily understood! How many have been "fingered" by the CPNMU control and drafted into the army or driven from the 'industry through this simple J .)•, device—their places on. the NMU ships, filled by green trainees shipped from the RMO pools as replacements (to be handed books in the "Union" later at $2 5 per or all they can collect) will never be known, nor the effects on efficiency and safety at sea. Compulsion under guise of "free contribu­ tions" is now used to separate the NMU mem­ bers from hard earned money which the "lead­ ers" utilize to support the Stalinist-controlled CIO Political Action Committee pledged to the re-election of the present Administration. Not only are the seamen TOLD HOW TO VOTE AND WHO TO VOTE FOR—are forced to pay for this ^'Service." Ironically enough their Soveriegn Rights as American Citizens are sub­ verted by CP Labor Frouters who label them­ selves "fighters for Democracy and Freedom from Axis tyranny." Woe to the NMU member who dares to ex­ press the opinion that the right to vote as he sees fit is inherent in Our system of society and Government and that this right is the soul and spirit of Freedom. Without this Right and the exercise of this Right there can be no freedom, nor can there be a TWO PARTY SYSTEM. And, unless we have a two Party or multi-party system we fall prey to the grip of the ONE PARTY TOTALITARIAN RULE. Through the regimentation of Stalinist-controlled "Unionism" the burden of American seamen is aggravated beyond belief. Older sea­ men in large numbers realized this, based upon pre-war experience with Stalinist political rack­ eteers and quit the "Union" to join their ship­ mates in the ranks of clean American Federation of Labor Unions operated under American prin­ ciples of fair play and understanding. The sup­ erimposed regimentations of Stalinists are avoid­ ed and necessary Government regulations more easily borne as the result. This NMU's doubling of regimentation, filled hospitals with nervous wrecks cracking under the strain of ship and shore "Union" serveillance. They spend necessary rest periods ashore ringing door bells "voluntarily" for the election of Vito Marcantonio even though newcomers kno^ nothing of the man or his Stalinist history. This was the NMU members' assignment in "Political Action" regardless of the state of nerves or the hardships of trips at sea. ' Fighting for the Freedom of Mankind we are in moral danger of losing Freedom at home through the machinations of this sinister, politic­ al, racketeering sect masking their activities with super patriotic phrases while they dodge ships and the draft. America stands at the crossroads of decision. Each and everyone of us are America. The VOTE is our heritage and power. Let us think hard and use it wisely in the interests of the American people—in the interests of true Free­ dom and not the ambitions of a Stalinist pol­ itical clique. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 15, 1944 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. VI, No. 29 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU PROPOSALS ON ELECTRICIANS' WAGES O KAYED 3465 MERCHANT SHIPS NOW UNDER CONTROL OF WSA NWLB SHIPPING PANEL ENLARGED US LABOR LEADERS PLEDGE CONTINUED PRODUCTION EFFORT FOR TOTAL WAR WSA OUTLINES NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN MERCHANT SEAMEN'S VOTING PROCEDURE AFL UNIONS WIN IN WISCONSIN AFL MEMBERSHIP IS NOW OVER SEVEN MILLION THE FACE OF THE FUTURE NY MEETING SHOWS UNION'S PROGRESS ANOTHER SKIPPER LAUDS SIU CREW'S CONDUCT UNDER INVASION FIRE NEW SHIPS ARE NAMED FORE 'RAYMOND V. INGERSOLL'AND 'ABRAAM ROSENBERG' SIU MAN GIVES LIFE IN WAR THE FACE OF THE FUTURE Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/15/1944 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1944 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/2c36ad4a6281d25309bd26f613f47033.pdf c6e35eff0dc25424756dfabd45c8a059 PDF Text Text , ';­*5 *  ,  r  ^  ; • • • •  Official Organ of  the  Atlantic and  Gulf  District, Seafarers International Union of  North America  VOL.  XII  NEW  YORK,  N.  Y»  FRIDAY,  SEPTEMBER  15.  1950  No.  18  Seuiareis  Bejects  CG  Plan  For  New  'Validated'  Papers  Protests  Spike  "TOelast La*^... *  Plan  To  Scuttle  Merchant  Fleet  The  plan  to  liquidate  the  US  merchant fleet,  advanced  by  an  unnamed  government  agency  to  let  foreign  nations  improve  their  economic  position,  appears  to  have  been  "spiked,"  according  to  Senator  Warren  G.  Magnuson,  chairman of  the Senate  merchant  marine  subcommittee.  #  ­  Although  the  plan  was  not  re­ leased  officially,  it  was circulated  throughout,  the  maritime  indus­ try^  and  it  evoked  a  storm  of  protest.  The  Washington  Senator  said  hi^i  information  was  that  the  controversial  plan  had  been  of­ fered  to  a  conunittee  studying  ways  of  helping  Western  Euro­ pean  nations  after  the  Marshall  (Continued on Page 12) Seafarers  Log  Wins  2  Awards  '  Tlie  deep  sea  sections  of  the  Seafarers  International  Union  went  on  record  this  week  to  ignore  the  Coast  Guard's  proposal  that  sea­ men  voluntarily  surrender  their  present  certificates  for  a  new  "specially  validate.d  merchant  mariner's  docu­ ment."  The  SIU  A&G  District  and  SUP  memberships,  at  special meetings  up and  down all  coasts,  voted  unanimously  "to  notify  (the  Coast  Guard)  that  members  of  our  organization  have  no  intention  of  signing  applications  for  new  seamen's  certificates  as  proposed  by  the  Coast  Guard."  SIU  International  President  Harry  Lundeberg  informed  the  Coast  Guard  of  the Union's stand  in"  a  telegram  to  Commandant  Merlin  O'Neill  in  Washington.  The  Coast  Guard's  attempt  to  get  SIU  seamen  to  go  for  their  proposal  on  a  voluntary  basis  "sounds  very  suspicious  to  us,"  Lundeberg's  message  stated.  "If  this  is  supposed  to  be  for  security  reasons,  it  is  not  what  we  understand  a  screen  to  be,"  the telegram  continued. "Further­ more  Coast  Guard  has  tolerated  communists  and  otl er  subver­r  sives in  American ships  .^or  years  without  attempting  to  get  rid  of  them  so  we  can't  understand  why  all  of  a  sudden  bonafide  I  »  •  (Continued  on  Page  3)  The  SEAFARERS  LOG  once  again  was  awarded  two  prizes  in the  annual  Journalistic  Award  contest  sponsored  by  the  Inter­ national  Labw  Press  of  America,  an  official  AFL  body,  it  was .an­ nouhced  this  week.  Selected  as  the  best  feature  article  was  '­'The  Union  Hiring  Hall—A  Way  Of  Life,"  which  appeared  in  the  April  21st  issue  of  the  LOG.  Second  place  was  given  to  the  editorial  cartoon  "Talk  About  Since  the  communist  aggression  got  under  way  in  in  anything  that  might  affect  the sale  of  its  products,  so  The  Atomic  Bomb,"  which  dealt  with  the  booming  prices  and  Korea  we've  been  witnessing  a  sorry  show  of  hysterical  it  cancelled  Miss  Muir's  contract.  No  effort  was  made  proflts,  from  the  July  21st  LOG.  finger­pointing  by  sundry  characters  posing  as  super­ to  investigate  the  allegations,  no  hearing  was  given  the  The  cartoon,  which  has  al­ patriots,  but  who apparently  don't  give  two hoots  for  the  actress.  She  stood  convicted  solely  on  the  basis  of  the  ready  been  reprinted by the labor  democracy  we are so  intent  upon  preserving.  finger­pointing  of  a  few  individuals,  the  background  and  press  throughout  the  country,  is  reproduced  on  Page  2  of  this  More  surprising,  perhaps,  than  the "witch  hunters  motives  of  whom  the  food  company  didn't  even  bother,  issue.  .  .  themselves  has  been  the effectiveness  of  their  wild  charges.  to  question.  So  much  for  Miss  Muir,  the  former  actress,  Previously,  the  LOG  had  won  A  few  short  weeks  ago,  for  example,  a  television  actress  several  of  whose  accusers  later  said  they  didn't  mean  to  two  second  prizes  in  1947  for  cause  her  the  loss  of  her  livelihood.  its editorial  cartoon  and  pictorial  nam^d  Jean  Muir  was  removed  from  a  show  moments  At  the  moment  another  'actress  (of  no  mean  pro­ display,  and,  in  1948,  first  prize  before  it  was  scheduled  to  begin  because  the  sponsor.  portions)  by  name  of  Gypsy  Rose  Lee,  is  being subjected'  for  the  best  editorial  and  second  General  Foods  Corporation,  had  received  a  dozen  or  so  plfice  for  its  editorial  cartoon.  letters  pr9testing  her  appearance.  Miss  IVluir  was  accused  to  the  same  kind  of  treatment.  A  Chicago  American  . Last  year,  the  LOG  was­dis­ of  once  having  sympathized  with  a  communist­front  I.egion  official  has  demanded  that  the  American  Broad­ qualified  from  competition  be­ casting Company  ban  Miss  Lee  from  a  forthcoming  radio  cause  the  Editor  served  as  one  organization.  ­*1  (Continued  on  Page  2)  General  Foods  said  it  didn't  want  to  get  mixed  up  of  the  judjges.  The Super­Supers Begin Their Ail­Out  Attack  �Page Two  TEES EA FAR EES  LOG  SEAFARERS  PHday# Sejplejmiier  lis.  idSO  The  Log's  Prize  Winning  Cartoon  %  Published  Every  Other  Week,  by  the  SEAFARERS  INTERNATIONAL  UNION  OF  NORTH  AMERICA  Atlantic and Gulf  District *  Aailiated  with  the  American  FederaUon  «i  Ltiaor  At  51  Beaver Street,  New  York 4,  N.  Y.  1  VV­;,..'­';.  HAnover  2­2784  lEeefitered  as second  class  matter  August  2»  1948,  at  tlte  Post  Office  in  New  York,  N.Y.,  under  the  Act  of  August  24,  1912.  ,267  The Super­Supers In Action  (Continued  from  Page  1)  show  because  she  allegedly  appeared  for  a  communist  front  organization,  according  to  his  information.  The  source  for  the  charges  against  both  women  is  a  book  called _"Red  Channels,"  published  by  a  former  FBI  man,  Theodore  Kirkpatrick,  which  lists  entertainers  hav­ ing  connections  with  red­front  organizations.  Miss  Lee  is  listed  as  having  entertained  a  commie­front  group  in  New  York's  Hotel  Capitol  last  March.  Kirkpatrick  got  his  information  from  a  story  in  the  Daily  Worker.  Miss  Lee  denied  that  she  ever  appeared  and  the  radio  network  the  Legion  accuser  to substantiate  his  charges.  Thfe  Legion  official  passed  the  buck, to  the  publisher  of "Red Channels," saying  he was  not an investigator. The  Tied, Channels"  publisher  replied  that  he  is  "not  adding  any  further  documentation  to  the  information  already  j^blisiied.'V  ,  ­. c  5:  Miss  Lee,  who  is  an  official  of  the  American  Guild  of  Variety  Artists, and  who has signed  an anti­communist  affidavit,  is  outraged  but  apparently  helpless.  "Am  I  just  to­  be  left  high  and  dry?"  she  asked.  "I'm  the  victim  of  accusations  and everyone  of  them is a lie.  Now everybody  is  tryifig­to pass "the  buck  and  forget  it. What  can  I do?  This  is  an  outrage."  Although  seafaring  is  a  bit  afield  of  Miss  Lee's  type  of  artistry,  she  and  seanien  are  in  the same  boat  when  it  comes  to  exposure  to  wild,  baseless  charges.  Under  the Co^t  Guard's current  screening  program,  two  Seafarers­recently  were  barred  from  ships.  The  men  protested  16  the" Coast  Guard  and  sought  an  explanation  ©f  ­the  action.  No  reason  was  given  for  the Coast  Guard's  decision  and  demands  that  an  appeal  be  heard,  in  com­ pliance  with  the  ^arantee  made  by  the  Coast  Guard  that  such  ruling could  be  appealed,  were  met  with  notifi­ cation  that  the  Appeal  Board  is  as  yet  non­existent.  ­ Tt  is  this  kind  of  sniping  in  the  dark  that  the SIU  is  rigorously  attacking  and,  from  present  indications,  it  appears  that  the  Coast  Guard  is  no  more  above  such  per­ formances  than , are  the  irresponsible  groups  that  have  cost  Miss  Muir  her  means  of  livelihood,  and  which  are  Seeking  to do  the same  for  Miss  Lee.  If­: a  man  is  a  ccwtunie,  and  consequently  a  threat  to  our  security,  then  by  all  means  he  should  be  kept  off  the  waterfront.  The  SIU  has  been fighting  to keep  the com­ mies  off  the  waterfronts  of  North  America  for  the  past  dozen  years,  but  there  was  never  any  question  about the  status  of  those  whom  it  attacked.  But,  if  a man  is  not  a  ctwnmie,  we  have  a  right  to  know  why  he  is  being  deprived  of  making  his  living  in  the only  way  he  knows  how.  The SIU  is  just  as  determined  to see  that  seamen  get  the "full  protection  guaranteed  in  our  democracy,  as  it  is  jn  defeating  the  communistic  ambition  to  wipe  freedom  from  the  face of  the earth.'  The only ones  who can  profit  from  the  current  hys­ teria  and  hurling of  indiscriminate  charges  are  the  com­ munists themselves. It is exactly the  kind of  program  they  foster  in  order  to  confuse  'democraCy­loving  .Aniericans and  to encourage loss of faith in the democratic  Ng­ process.  This  is  the  c&Pleoii  which  was  judged second  best  in  the AFL  Journalistic Award  Contest.  Awards will be  made at  the  forthcoming  AFL  convention.  Mewkiikeilidrftie  BALTIMORE  J.  HA YES  FRED  PITTMAN  TONY  MASTONTUNO  PHILLIP  DEXTER  A.  S.  WHEELER  GEORGE  JACKSON  GEORGE  MELTZER„­ ZYGUNUND  WYDRA  S.  L.  CONTRELL  S.  P.  DRURY  R.  S.  HODGES  P.  MATAN  WM.  LANE  X  %  SAVANNAH  WM.  C.  SHEALY  LEO  KUDERAND  W.  J.  MORRIS  WILL  JONES  X  %  tr  MOBILE  M.  MORRISON  F.  HOBIN  A.SAAVEDRA  W.  M.  SIMPSON  TIM  BURKE  XXX  BOSTON  J.  KALLASTE  E.  DIRKSMEYER  GEORGE  WELDON  A.  FERRIE  R.  LUFLIN  X  X  X  NEW  ORLEANS  J.  BEDDINGFIELD  0.  A.  BROWN  JOHN  CALDWELL  WILSON  O.  CARA  ­ LEWIS  F.  CAUBLE  WINSTON  R.  CHANDLER  ROGELIO  CRUZ^  THOMAS  F.  FAULKNER  ERNEST  E.  GROSS  ROBERT  H.  GUIBERSON  L.  A.  HOLMES  GEO.  F.  IMMEL  ­  .  D.  D.  IvELLY  ­ HUGH  F.  LAGAN  ;  LEO  H.  LANG  WILLIAM  MAUTERSTOCK  E.  NAVARRE  W;  H.  PARKER  OTTO  PEDERSEN  J.  R. PHIPPS  LONNIE  R  TICKLE  R.  W.  THOMPSON  LOUIS  VECCHEIT  L.  WILLIS  WALTER  O.  WILSON  XXX  SAN  PRANCISC&  ERNEST  SCHIWEK  •   EDWARD  L.  PRrrCHARD  JAMES  HODO  DEMOSTHENES  TSELEKIS  WILLIE  WATSON  MICHAEL  ARMANDO  XXX  NORFOLK  JOHN  M.  SADLER  »  »  »  D.  MCDONALD  R.  A.  RATCLIFPE  P.  SMITH  S.  WALKER  XX  X  .  STATEN  ISLAND  J.  Li  ROBERTS  J.  GHAKER  D;  IRVINE  K  PTJCHALSKI  J.  CQUENDO  '  G.  EVERETT  G.  GYLPTIS  W.  MEEHAN  P.  KUBEC  P. PRON  D.  KOROLIA  • • V::  O.  STEFANSSON  P.  ASIGON  L.  HOLLIDAY  J.  QUIMERA  J.  DE JESUS  XXX  ELLIS  ISLAND  G.  G.  GAGE  M.  COLLINS  W.  HUSSON  B.  T.  KNEW  •  :  ;  •  •   ­  W(  SEATTLE  EDWARD  RULEY  X  Xr  X  PHOJIDELPHZA—ST,  AGNES  DIEGO  CALARIN  ^  ^  XXX  MANHATTAN  BEACH  BRIGHTON,  MASS.  J. T.  EDWARDS  ROBY  S.  LUFLIN  E.  FERRER  PRANK  ALASAVICH  V.  CHESNER  ANGELO  FERRIE  •  i­ M.  BRUNO  A., REMOS  R,  A.  BLAKE  XXX  J.  PADZIK  GALVESTON  E.  LOPEZ  W.  VIDAL  W.  PADGETT  A.  J. BROWNE  ^  J. J.  DRISCOLL  W.  J.  OLIVERI  J.  H.  ASHURST  L.  EVANS  A.  LOMAS  A.  P.  COPA  %  V.  MILAZZO  L. E. COH^N  H.  S.  TUTTLE  G.  W.  RID. SCK  S.  BERGSTROM  ^  XXX  P.  VORKE  R.  CALUBRA  FORT  STAMTOIf;  HAL  Ml  Pkdcett,  SIU  delaf ctfl  kt: MiiU  C.  NEAL  ^  '  hiittan  Beach  Heefltal,  c«ii. ha  edntkct*  GIDLOW  WOODiS  A.  McGUIGAN  "  ed  from  9­4:30  m ovoiy  dajr  on  tho  second  deck,  West  Side,  Wnrd  t. .  J.  LIGHTTOOT  |  }  '*r'  • • sM  �i^mE'  S B  AF  AkE R  S  LO G  Pitge l^ee  Seafarers Turns Down Coast Guard Plan  be  made  on  a  purely  voluntary  *  (Continued  from  Page  1)  basis,  the  CG  memorandum  con­^  INTRODUCING  COAST  GUARD  GUifMICK  American  seamen  who  are  anti­ eluded  with  this  statement:  "It  communists  have  got  to  change  v,­'  ­ may  be  expected  that  after  a  their  papers.  "Until  such  time  as  you  give  reasonable  time  only  those  per­ us  a  proper  explanation  of  the  sons  holding  specially  validated  activities  of  the  Coast  Guard  documents  will  be  eligible, for  in  this  respect  we  have  no  in­ employment  on  merchant  ves7  ,  '  tention  of  complying,"  the  SIU  sels."  By  WILLIAM  (CurlyL RENTZ  In  New  York,  SIU  Vice­Presi­ official  declared.  In  announcing  that  seamen  dents  Paul  Hall  and  Morris Weis­ BALTIMORE — Shipping  slow­ would  be  asked  to  voluntarily  berger  characterized  the  Coas/t  ed  down  here  in  the,..past  two  apply  for  a  new  "specially,  vali­ Guard's  plan  as  "another  of  ite  Weeks..  In  spite  of  the  spurt  en­ dated  merchant  mariner's  docu­ moves  against  seamen.  joyed  here  in  the last  month,  we  ment,"  the  Coast  Guard  said  the  ­'The  best  way  for  the  Coast..  ptai  have  plenty  of  men  on  the  applications would be "forwarded  Guard  to  win  the  confidence  oT  beach,  although  it  appears  that  to  Coast  Guard  Headquarters  in  the  American  seamen  is  for  it  some  of  them  are  not  anxious  to  Washington,  D.  C.,  for  approval."  to  knock  off  this  double­talk  and  ship  out.—  It  added  that  "an  average  of  30  come  clean  as  to  just  what  it's  A  lot  of  these  men  have  been  •  •  days  from  date  of  application  trying  to^  do.  ,  passing  up  jobs,  especially  on  "As  a  matter  of  fact  the  Coast  Ore  Line  L­hlps, figuring  that  in  This is a  fascimile of  the new "validated" emergency  would  be  required  for  process­ Guard  still  has  to  make  good  oh  IJie  good  shipping  they  could  papers which  the Coast  Guard is asking seamen  to apply  ing."  its  promise  to  set  up  review  The  Coast  Guard  did  not  say,  pick  their  spots.  This  is  always  for.  Although  the  CG  says  that  applications  are  volun­ boards  to handle  cases  of  seamea  howler,  what  the  "processing"  e  mistake,.  because  a  drop  in  shipping  suddenly finds  these  tary,  their  official  announcement  says  that  "it  may  be  was  for  and  by  whom  it  was  to  barred  from  sailing,"  they  said.  guys  high  and {^. Furthermore,  expected that  after a  reasonable time  only  those  pexsons  be  made.  In  fact  no  explanation  "It's  been  more  than two  months  it  means  that  white  cards  have  holding  specially  validated  documents  will  be  eligSble  or  reasons  for  the  issuance  of  since  the  unions  were  promised  this  protection  against­possible .  to  be  issued  to fill  the  calls.  ­"for..­employment  on metchant  vessels"—which is a pretty  the  new  certificates  and  the­sur­ injustice  to  its  members.  render  of  the  present  ones  was  1  '  The  smairt  thing' is  always  to­ roundabout  way  of  saying  that  the "voluntary" business  given  at  all.  ,  "They  ask  for  our  support  take  the  jobs  as  they  come* on  • iB strictly  a  gag,  and  the  Coast  Guard  plans  to  make  it  The  suspicious  nature  of  the  with  one  haild,  but  never  let  us  the  board;  that's  the  surd  way.  stick.  Coast  Guard  scheme  was  further  Tcnow  what's  going  oh  in  the  PAYOFFS  Although  the  Coast  Gihird  assured  everybne  that  evidenced  by  a  contradiction  other  one.  Our  job  is  to  protect  Ships  that  paid  off  here  dur­ cSntaine'd  in its  memorandum  on  our  membership  agaifisf  any  en­ ^g the  past  two weeks  were  the  no charge would  be  made ior  the new  document,  both  the  issuance  of  the  new  sea­ croachment  upon  their  rights  the  SIU  and  SUP  said,  "no,  thanks"  —  and  said  it  men's  papers.  Carolyn,  Chilore,  Raphael  Sem­ and  we're  not  going  to  be  placed  unanimously.  tties,  Algonquin  Victory,  York­ Although  applications  were  to  in  the  position  of  stooging  for  tear,  Feltore,  Evelyn,  John  H.  the  Coast  Guard."  Marion,  Robin  Locksley,  Andrew  The  SIU  officials  recalled  that  Jackson,  Mar ore,  Strathcape,  the SIU  has been  vigilant against  Catahoula,  Cape  Mohican,  Ala­ communist  infiltration  and  the  Jnar,  Bienville  and  Monroe.  waterfront  and  that  commies  are  Signing  on  were  the  Childre,  Virtually  non­existent  in  the  Union.  ^orkmar,  Andrew  Jackson,  Ala­ "In  the fight  to  preserve  de­ mar,  Raphael  Semmes  and  the  Bienville.  mocracy,  let's  not ­  dumb  demo­ ,  The  International  Confedera­ can  go  to  prison  for  as  high  as  "For  this  reason,  wages  are  cratic  procedures,"  Hall  and  We  also  had  a  bunch  of  ships  tion  of  Free  Trade  Unions  has  8  years."  here  in­transit.  Four  of  them  submitted  to  the  United  Nations  The  Soviet  government  has  regulated  in  our  country  in  a  Weisberger  said.  Meanwhile  both  the  A&G  Dis­ Were Waterman  vessels,  two  Isth­ Economic  and  Social  Council  a  published  a  work  called  Model  centralized  manner,  by  the  gov­ ernment  of  the  USSR  through  trict  and  the  SUP  cautioned  its  mian  and  the  rest  were  scattered  document  bristling  with  charges  Rules  for  Workers.  appropriate  normative  acts  (that  among  other  outfits.  of  violations  of  trade  union  and  According  to  Section  21,  dis­ is,  acts  having  the  character  of  members  not  to  lose  their  pres­ ent  seamen's  papers.  Loss  of  the  The  payoffs  came  off  smoothly.  workers'  rights  by  the  Soviet  ciplinary  penalties  are  visited  binding  legal  rule)  and  not  by  papCTS  would  mean  they  could  With  all  hands  present  and  wait­ Union.  upon  any  worker  "who  is  late  not  be  replaced  and. application  ing  imtil  everything  had  been  Trade unions in  the Soviet Un­ in  coming  to  work  without  valid  contract."  The  inviolability  of  this  prin­ would  have  to  be  made  for  the  settled.  All  beefs  were  squared  ion  since  1932  have  not  called  reason,  or  leaving  his  work  to  ciple  was  emphasized  by  the  de­ new  "specially  validated"  papers.  away  right  on thjB  spot.  a  convention.  In  1934,  the  prac­ go  to  lunch  too  early,  or  late  in  One  of  the  most  pleasant  pay­ tice  of  fixing  wage  rates  and  returning  after  lunch  "time  or  cree  of  the  Council  of  Ministers  bffs  was  that  of  the  Calmar  ship  working  conditions  by  collective  slacking  during  working  hours."  of  the  USSR  of  Feb.  4,  1947,  Gets POW Pay  according  to  which  it  is  express­ that  came  in  without  one  hour  bargainini  conditions  was  dis­ This  provision  applies  only  to  ly  forbidden  to include  in  collec­ continued.  Since  then,  wages  in  those  less  than  20  minutes  late.  tive  agreements  any  system  of  the  USSR Jiave  been  determined  Anybody  more  than  00  minutes  pay  for  ­the  work  of  manual  by  Soviet  government  agencies.  late  is  liable  to  criminal  prose­ workers,  engineers,  technicians  In  1947,  the  jdea  of  collective  cution.  and  white­collar  workers  which  agreements  was  reintroduced  —  There  are  special  regulations ^  has  not  been  approved  by  the  but  in  name  or^, since currentiy  regarding  "the  material  liability j  government.  negotiated  agreements  iii the  So­ of  workers  for  damages"  and  viet  ­Union  exclude  wages  and  losses  of  plant  property  for  The  outgrowth  of  such  literal  wage  slavery  is  the  widespread  working  conditions.  which  they  are  made  responsi­ use  and  government­endorsed  Trade  Unions  in  the  Soviet  ble.  practices  of  piece­rate  cutting  Union  ^e  directly  under  the  and  speed­up.  thumb  of  the  communist  party.  ri^t  to  deduct  from  wages  spe­;  The  foreman  is  assigned  the  The  ICFTU  report  quotes  a  icific  sUtos  as  odmpehsafabn  for  task  of  revising  piece  rates  and  a disputed  overthne.  ®ie  Came  statement  from  the  Soviet, mag­ losses  and  damages  attributed  to  forces  him  to  use  "drive"  meth­ in  very  clean  and,  althoqgh  you  azihe,  Trud  fApril  20,  1949)  by  the , workers.  This  is  from  the  ods.  can  never  count­on anything,  we  V.  V.  Kuznetsov,  chairman  of  Official Textbook  of  Soviet Labor  Another  sample  of  how  to  en­ fcope  the  next  time  she  arrives  the  Central  Council  of  Soviet  Law,  pages  284  to  297.  Trade  Unions,  that  "in  all  their  i  ­  .  slave  workers  is  the  outlawry  phe'll  be  in  the  same  shape.  Workers  have  to  pay  5  times  by  the  Soviet  constitution  of  a  activities  the_  trade  unions  un­ RIGUT  WAY  Wearing  a  broad  smile  and;  relentingly  follow  the  directives  the  value  of  the  act(ial  loss  if  secret  ballot  in  the  election  of  By  the  way,  Brothers,  when  of  Lenin  and  Stalin  on  the  role  any  raw  materials,  partly  pro­ so­called  "Trade  Union  Group"  hardly  looking  like  the  half­ cessed  or  manufactured  goods,  organizers.  .starved.' bent  man  who  was  ever  you  put  in  overtime,  make  of  trade  unions."  sure  that  you  turn in  a complete  The  ordinary  Soviet  laborer  tools,  working  clothed  and  other  Tbe  group,  with  a  maximum  Ixbexafed  from  a  Japanese  pri­.  record  of­ it  to  your  department,  is  as  tied  to  his  machine  as  if  factory  property  entrusted  to  of  20  members,  is  the  lowest  • on camp eight  years  ago. Sea­ them,  are  lost  or  damaged  be­ unit  of  the  Soviet  Trade  Unions.  farer  Earl  Spear  walked  into  head.  Never  p,ut  in  for  overtime  he  were  chained  to  it.  cause  of  their  negligence.  before  doing  the  job,  because  no  Surrounded  by  laws  which  in­ The  key  person  in  this  group  ifhe  SIU's  Special  Services  of­ tone  can  accurately  estimate  how  hibit  free  choice  of  job,  hedged  The  individual  worker  has  no  is  the  group  organizer  who  is  fice  the  other  day  and  said  long  a  job  will  take. Besides  this  about  by  regulations  which  bar  contrcl  or  bargaining  power  in  the  unit's  steward,  and  should  that  he  had finally  won  set­ violates  our  agreement.  movement  from  one  job  to  a  determining  his  wage.  His  fore­ be  the  person  through  whom  the  tlement  of  his  prisoner­of­war  Everything  is  running smooth­ better  job,  he  faces  drastic  pen­ man  decides  that,'based­  on  an  workers'  sentiments  and  desires  claim.  Brother  Spear  sweated­ ly  in  Baltimore,  and  we're  hop­ alties  for  the  most  trivial  of­ official  handbook  which  classifies  are  transmitted.  But  the  group  out  two and  a  half  years of  in­;  ing  it  continues  that  way.  Let's  fenses.  various  jobs  and  the  correspond­ organizer  is  imposed  upon  the  temment  under  the  Jap  occu­ take  those  jobs  wheii  they  hit  One' decree  of  June  26,  1940,  ing  wage  category.  group  and  not  voted  on  by  se­ pation  of  Manila,  dropping'  from. 206  to  128  pounds.  the  board, and  let's not  have  any  declared  that  no  worker  could  "In  effect,  no  diversity,"  says  cret  ballot.  Spear  was  ashore  in  Maadla  ships  gdlng  out  shoi^handed.  W'e  leave  his  job  or,  apply  for  an­ an  official  comment  in  1947  (No.  The  ICFTU  statement  to  the  must  not  lose  anything  of  what  other  job  without  the  consent  of  8,  Trade  Union,  organ  of  the  UN  Council  charges  that  "trade  when  the  islands  fell  and  the  we  have  fought  so  hard  to  gaih|  his  employer  Central  Council  of  Soviet  Un­ unions,  in  the  true  sense  of  the  Japanese  tossed  him  into  an  pwer  the  years.  It  wasn't  so  long  A  worker  found  guilty  of  such  ions),  "in  the  determination  of  word  do  not  exist  in  the  internment  camp  on  January  ago  that  we  were  walking  pick­ offense faces  imprisonment  up  to  wage  systems  and  levels  can  be  Soviet  Union." It  further  charges  4.  1942.  where  he  remained  ctlines  to  get  what  we  now  en­ 4  months. A  wprker. employed  in  admitted  under  the  conditions  that  "wherever  the  Soviet  in­ until  he  and  his  fellow  un­ joy  in  the  way  of­  wages  and  munitions  factory  who  is  of  unified  national  economic  fluence  exists,  the  same  pattern  fortunates  were  liberated  on  Feb.  23.  M45  by  paratro<^?ers.  found  guilty  of  the  sa'me  offense  planning.  working  conditions.  is ­applied.''  .  Jake nose Joh  As  They  Come,  Says  Ba/thnere  i'  AFL  Accuses  Reds  Of  Vielating  Trade Union And Workers' Rights  i s.  •  �hi'  Page  Four  THE  SEAFARERS  LOG  r  Ships  Into  Lay­Up  Take  k:ilge  jOff  Good  Shipping  In New  York  I  By  JOE  ALGINA  f. Se^etia^^S,  195D  Wi^m An Waned  Boston Shipping  Down From Peak  SnJ  b on  rocerd  that  chwgM  will  ba  placed  against  men  guilty  of. being,  the  fbllowtngt  PILFERERS:  Man  whor walk  off  ships  with  crew's  equip­ ment  or  ship's  gear,  such a»  sheets, towels,  ship's  stores. *oargo.  etcw  for  sab  ashore.  ; •  NEW  YORK—If  it  hadn't  been  As  an  ex­army  officer^  the  ref­ for  several  ships  going  into  lay­ eree  apparently  construes  every­ v.p,  shipping  very  likely  would  thing  as  an  order  and,  as  he  have continued  to be  pretty  good  said,  "orders  must  be  obeyed.  WEEDHOUNDS:  Men  erho  are  in  the  possession  of  or  in  this  port.  As  a  result  of  the  This  is  not  the  Ihst  time'that  who  use  marijuana  or  other  narcotics  on* board  an  SIU  ship  lay­ups,  job  opportunities  drop­ seamen  have  been  given  shabby  jTed  somewhSt.  treatment  by  the  unemployment  or  in  the  vicinity  of  an  SIU  HgU.  GASHOUND  PERFORMERS:  Men  who. jeopudise  the  .  Here  are  the  payoff  ships:  Hil­ insurance  office.  ton,  Suzanne,  Prances,  Kathryn  safety  of  their shipmates  by drinking  while  at  work  on  a  ship  REPEAT  PERFORMANCE  and Jean,  Bull; Chickasaw,  Beau­ or  who turn  to  in  a  drunken  condition.  Those  who disrupt  the  regard,  Tppa  Topa  and  Fairland,  Previously  they  had  been ­tell­ operation  of  a  ship,  the  payoff  or  sign­on  by  being  gassed  up.  Waterman;  Steel  Seafarer,  Steel  ing  men  reporting for  unemploy­ This  Union  was  built  of.  by  and  for  seamei^  Seafarers  Director,  Steel  Surveyor,  Steel  ment  insurance  that  they  should  report  to  the  Army  Transport  Maker  and  Steel  Architect,  Isth­ fought  many  long  and  bloody fighta  to  obtain  the  wages  and  mian;  Trinity,  Carras;  Bull  Run,  Service  for  jobs  —  although  no  conditions  we  now  enjoy.  For  the first  time  in  the  hbtory  of  Mathiasen;  Evangeline,  Eastern,  jobs  existed  there.  It  was  mere­ ly.­ a  waiting  list  they  referred  the  maritime  industry  n seaman  can'support  Mnself  and  bb  and  the  Seatrain  Havana.  family  in  a­  decent  and  independent  manner.  The  SIU  does  Of  these,  the  Jean  and  the  to.  This  latest  ruling  by  the  ref­ not  tolerate  the  jeopardising  of  these  conditions  by  the  actions  Evangeline  went  into  lay­up.  eree  makes  us  wonder  whether  of  irrespondblee.  One  ship,  the  Gadsden,  came  the  unemployment  insurance  ag­ In  any  occupation  there  b  a  small  group  of  foulballs.  out  of  lay­up  this  week  and  ency  is  on  the  job  to  se^ that  While  the  Union har­been  fortunate  in keeping  such  characters  somewhat  offset  the  loss  caused  jobless  seamen  get  what  is right­ to  a  minimum,  we  must  eliminate  them  altogether  from  the  by  the  boneyard  entries.  fully  theirs,  or  whether  they  are  SIU.  The  sign­ons  were  the  Beaure­ All  Seafarers,  memben  and  offidab  alike,  are  under  gard,  Kyska,  Robin  Locksley  and  out  to  run  interference  for  big  obligation  td  pla^ charges  against  these  types  of  characters.  the  Bull  Lines  ships  and  the  business.  Seatrain  Havana.  Now  that  the  Coast  Guard  is  f:iTlES  SERVICE  SE^ME^ BECOME  SEAFARERS  looming  larger  in  the  present  picture,  here's  a  good  rule  for  all  men  to  bear  in  mind.  We've  always  stressed  that  it  is  a  must  for  men  to  keep  sober  and  avoid  fouling  up  aboard  ship.  With  the  probability  that  CG  hearing  units  will  become  ac­ tive  again,  it  is  essential  that  men  stay  on  the  ball.  We've  had  By  BEN  LAWSON  BOSTON  —  The • f  airly  good  shipping  enjoyed  up  in  this  port  dining  the  past tew  months  ap­ pears  to  have  hit  its  peak,  and  from  here  on  out  is  expected  to  slide.  On  the«. payoff  side  in  the  past  two  weeks  were  the  Ann  Mfirie,  Binghamton  Victory,  Simmons  Victory,  Bull;  Kyska,  Waterman;  John  Stagg,  Philadelphia  Marine  Corporation;  W.  E.  Downing;  State  Fuel,  and  the  Council'  Grove,  Bents  Fort,  an^  Winter  Hill,  Cities  Service.  Signing  on  again  were  tne  John  Stagg,  Binghamton  Victory,  Simmons  Victory,  Council  Grov^  and  Bents  Fort.  VISITORS  In  addition  the  following  ship?  called  in­transit:  Steel  Seafarer^  Anniston  City,  Isthmian;  La  Salle,  Waterman;  Beauregard j  Waterman,  and  Robin  Mowbray,  Seas  Shipping.  There  were  a  few  beefs  on  overtime  on  the  Stagg  and  the*  Ann  Marie  but  these  were'set­ tled  to  the  satisfaction  of  all  hands  involved.  The  Yarmouth,  which  has been  on  the  Boston­Nova  Scotia  run,  will  be  tying  up  on  September  18  and  that  will  put  plenty  of  men  on  the  Boston  beach.  Our  spurt  in  shipping  seems  ended,  for  the  time  being  anyway.  ,  In  the  Boston  Marine  Hospital  this  week  are  J.  Kallaste,  E.  Dirksmeyer,  Gorge  Weldon,  A.;  Ferrie  and  R.  Luflin.  That's  all^ for  now.  More  irt  the  next  issue.  Hheck Sailing Tima  Don't depend  on guesses or  nunors.  Before  going  ashore,,  take  a  look  at  the  sailing  board  so  you'll  know '• ^hen  your  ship  is  ­scheduled.  to  leave port.  If  the time  is not  posted,  ask  the  Delegates  to  find  out  the  correct  depar­ ture fime  from  the Mate.  In  any  event,  don't  leave  the  ship  until  you  know  when'  you're  due  back  aboard.  YouTl  save  yourself  and  your  shipmates  a  lot  of  trouble by  checking  with the  proper  sources.  enough  experience  to  know  how  high­handed  the  CG  can  be  in  dealing  with  seamen.  So  be  careful  not  to  give  anyone  an  opportunity  to  cause  you  any  trouble.  RAW  DEAL  A  pretty  arbitrary  way  of  set­ tling an  unemployment  insurance  Pictured  here  in  the  SIU's  New  York  Hall, thb group of  Cities Service seamen, all  of  whom  claim  was  demonstrated  recent­ were  recently  shipm^es  aboard  the  SS  Paoli,  have received  book  membership in the Seafarers.  ly  by  the  New  York  State  Bur­ From  left  to  right:  Donsdd  Boos,  Elmo  Robinson,  Edgar  Dillon,  Fletcher  Robertsofl,  John  De  eau of  Placement  and Unemploy­ Rocha,  John  Lasky  and  Paul  Efstathiou.  All  of  them  are  continuing  to  sail  in  the  Citie^  ment  In­gyrance;  Service fleet.  case  involved  a  member  of  this  .Union  working  on  a  non­contracted  ship  who  had  been  asked  whether  he  would  care  to  work  overtime  on  a  particular  job.  He  replied  that  By LLOYD  GARDNER  East  Coast.  But  for  some  strange  and  Ray  Gates,  Seattle  represeit­ year as  one of  these great  United  he  didn't  and  shortly  thereafter  reason,  a  few  of  them  are  under  tative,.  have  assured  me  that  States,  was  a  huge  success.  I  was fired.  SAN  FRANCISCO —Activity  the  illusion  that  once  they  hit  they  intend  to  pursue  the  same  think  the  people  of  California  When  he  went  to file  for  job­ in  the  hai­bor  here  is reminiscent  can  justly  be  proud  of  their  thei  West  Coast  anything  goes  policy.  less  pay,  he  was  turned  down  of  the  late  war.  The  docks  are  State.  I  have' always  felt  that  and  to  hell  with  the  ship  and  CELEBRATION  because  the  unemployment  bu­ jammed  with  ships,  while  others  way  and  I  have  travelled  the  the  contract,  which  calls  for  a  reau's  record  showed  that  the  wait  at  anchorage  for  their  turn  This h^s  been  a  big  week  here  length  and  breadth  of  the  State  day's  work  on  the  West  Coast  as  company  said  the  man  had  re­ at  berths.  The  job  situation,  The  California  Centennial,  cele­ many  times  —  sometimes  riding  well  as  anywhere  else.  fused  to  work  overtime.  The  therefore,  has  been  very  good,  brating  the  Golden  State's  100th  the  cushions,  and  liaany  times  and  it  looks  as  though  it  will  I  want  to  say  for  these  guys'  case  was  appealed.  on  the  better  freight  trains.  Oh,  In  representing  the  man,  the  remain  that  way  for  SO>IM  time.  benefit:  Knock  it  off!  Get  that  for  those  good  old  days!  idea  out  of  your  heads.  Gas­ Union  contended  that,  since  he  I  have  visited  all  the  SlU­con­ 'Anyway  the  weather  is  swell,  hounds,  performers  and  guys  had  only  been  asked  whether  he  tracted  ships  in  port  hero,  and  the fishing  is  good  and  it  looks  cared  to  work,  it  had  been  left  squared  away  the  usual  run  of  goofing  off  from  their  work  will  From  Seatlle,  SIU  Pert  as though  the fightin'  Phillies are  be  given  the  same  treatment  out  to  the  man's  discretion.  Further­ beefs.  The  Coe  Victory,  Victory  Agent  Ray  Gates  has  wired  in  for  the  National  League  pen­ more,  the  job  had  nothing  to  do  Carriers,  paid  off  clean  v/ith  a  here  as  they'get  in  every  other  that  the  West  Coast  shipping  nant.  What  more  co^ld  a  guy  SIU  A&G  District  port.  with  the  welfare  of  the  ship  or  good  crew.  The  same  holds  for  boom  continues  to  drain  the  ask?  The  A's—^why  bring  that  the  Southstar,  South  Atlantic,  The  membership  has  repeated­ the  crew.  beach  of  men  and  that  there  up?  The  referee,  a  former ­  army  skippered  by  Captain  Haman.  ly  gone  on  record  instructing  are shortages  of  moat  ratings.  .  I  have  run  into  a  number  of  officer,  took  the  view  that  the  The  entire  crew  praised  Captain  the  officials  to  take'  action  Barring  an  overnight  old  shipmates  and  friends,  soHie­^  against  foul­ups.  And  the  mem­ £pplicant  had  refused  an  order  Haman.  It's  always  a  genuint  change in  conditions.  Brother  thing  that  is  always  a  real  plea­ pleasiu­e  to  payoff  ships  like  bership's  policy  and  the  Union  and  ruled  against  his  claim.  Gates  says  that  Seafarers  sure.  In  fact,  I  hope  to'  get  a  rules  will  be  rigorously  enforced  In  deciding  the  case,  the  un­ these  two.  chance  to  meet  and  talk  with  'Wishing  to ship out  in a  rela­ Ml  every  way  otit  here.  employment  office  relied  solely  WRONG  VIEW  more  of­them  soon.  tively ' short  time  will find  The  Wilmington,  Calif.}  repre­ vOn  the  company's  written  claim,  It  appears  that  «  great  many  the  West .­Coast­ a  good  spot  That's  about  all­  from  Frisco;  svfltative,  Jeff  Morrison,  who  had  Neither  the  Mate,  Bosun  nor  of  our  guys  behavs  themselves  done  a fine  job  as  West  Coast  to  be  iq ­right  now.  but  we'll  be  back  with  more  in  i^Rldpper  appeared  to  testify.  and  do  their  jobs  well  on  the  representntivo  in  San  Francisco,  the  next  issue.  ­ Job Boom On West Coast Continues; No Lot­Up In Sight  Seamen  Wanted  �Basking  in  the'  sunlight  aboard  the Cities Service  tank­ er  Bradford  Island,  Seaiaser  'lied"  ^^^an^bell,  vji^  occa­ sionally contributes  laugh­load­ ed  accounts  of  his  voyages  to  the  LOG,  shows  the  camera­ man  how  he  looks  in  one  of  his  more  serious  moments.  All  hands  register  smiles  as  the  Bradford  Island's  shipboard  photographer  gets  them  to  pose  for  a  SEAFikRERS  LOG  photo.  This  good  shot  would  have  been, better  if  of  the  mem had  accompanied  it.  The  man  who  took  these'  Bradford  Island  photos  left  the'­ name  getting  to  a  shipmate.  The  photographer  showed  up  at .  the  LOG  office  with  his  pics,  but  the  name­taker  didn't  arrive  by  press  time.  So  the  man  shown  here  has  to  be  re­:  ferred  to  as  "unidentified."  ABOVE—This  trio  of  Semmes  Seafarers  ere  (L  to  r.)  Charlie  Sanderson,  AB;  John  Friend,  Fireman,  and  Willie  Blanding,  Oiler,  whose  accordion­playing  helped  make  those  off­hours  more  pleasant  for  the  crew.  LEFT—With  the  SlU­contracied  Fairport  serving  as  a  backdrop,  John  Friend  of  the SS  Raphael  Semmes  caught  this  shot  of  some  of  his  shipmates  at  the  rail  during  stopover  in  Antwerp.  Left  to  right:  Willie  Blanding,  Oiler;  Nelson,  ABr  Kells,  OS;  Rudy  Tick,  AB;  Pete  Matuze,  OS;  Andy  Anderson,  AB,  and  Jim  Howisan,  Oiler.  This  Seafarer  is  all  smiies  as  .ha  wields  paint  brush  aboard  the  Steel  fabricator.  Photo  was  taken  on recent  return  trip  to fbe St^»e  by  O.  Romaine,  a passenger,  who submitted it and the one on Bte ri^dtt io the SEAFARERS LOG.  • yj./  ;  ij i. •   f­.  J.:  '  T'­  f  Passenger  Romaine,  who  was xetuming  from a stint  as  photographer  for  an  archeological: esqpadition  in .Egypt  found  the  zip  and  zest  of  Seafarers  at  work,  as  demoxutr^ed  In  photo  above,  a  welcome  change  in  subject  matter.  �Page Six  THESEAFARERS  LO G  The Tale Of  The ^Ancient' Mariner  Has A Happy Ending For All Hands  Friday.  September:. 16,  19S0 .  THEY HAVE A GOOD CASE Despite  a  somewhat  bleak  beginnin;,  the  recent  Far  East  voyage  of  the  SS  Steel  Mariner  turned  out  highly  successful,  thanks  to  the  personable,  efficient  crew  that  manned  the  Isthmian  freighter,  Seafar  r  Blackie  Otvos  reported  this  wefek.  Blackie  said  that  when  the®"  them  in  various  ports.  Blackie  boys  boarded  Ihe  snow­covered  said  the  lads  awaited  the  Union  ship  for  the  sign­on  March  13,  newssheet  wherever  they  went,  "the  'Ancient'  Mariner  lay  stone  and  all  hands  are  for  continuing  cold  dead  in  the  harbor."  How­ this  Union  service.  ever,  with  the  crtew  aboard,  Blackie  closed  his  account  of  jg's  things  perked  up  immediafely­ the  "Ancient"  Mariner's ^rip  by  and  kept  perking  until  the  swift,  telling  of  Bosun  Will  "Denny,  clean  payoff  in  New  York five  who  raved  all  the  way  thome  months  later.  about  two  old  acquaintenances  The  trip  was  spotted  by  some  named  Lulu  and  Linda.  casualties  among  the  crew,  Blackie  said,  with  Tommy  Lan­ "1  don't  know  who  the  girls  ganos  sustaining  severe  injuries  were  we  saw  him  with.  One  while  working  on  deck.  He  was  might  have  been  Linda,  but  they  After  presentation  of  brief  cases  to  vessel's  Union  dele­ left  at  Honolulu's  Tripler  Gen­ sure  looked  like  Lulus  to  me,  gates,  Del  Norte  crewmembers  gathered  for  this  photo  in  the  eral  Hospital,  where  he  is  re­ said  Blackie.  crew's  mess. The ladies—Sister  Chopin  (left)  and  Sister  Johans­ ported  to  be  recuperating.  It'll  son—are  the  popular  Stewardesses.  probably  be  another  month  be­ fore  the  popular  i­anganos  is  The  smooth­functioning  crew  as  a  means . of  helping  them  BLACKIE  OTVOS  |;«  able  to  navigate  under  his  own  of  the  Del  Norte,  Mississii^i  handle  the  task  more  efficiently,  steam  again,  Otvos figured.  No  SIU  Crew  is to  pay  off  passenger  cruise  ship  operating  The  ceremony  was  also  a­ sym­ trampled  to  death.  No  wonder,  any  ship  until  the  crew's  out  of  New  Orleans,  apparently  bol  of  the  cooperation  existing  SOME  LUMP  the  cooks  really  did  a first­class  quarters  and  equipment  are  believe  in  making ­the  delegates'  among  the • crewmembers.  "We  nearly  left  two  other  job,"  af  dean as any Seafarer likes  jobs  as  easy  as  possible—if  the  The  brief  cases;  each  of  which  boys  behind,"  continued  Blackie,  A;  family  reunion  was  cele­ to find  a  ship  when  he first  little  ceremony  that  took  place  bears  a  handpainted  emblem., of  "but  Lady  Luck  gave  the  push  brated  in  Singapore,  where  the  goes  aboard.  Patrolmen  have  aboard  the  vessel  recently  is  any  the  SIU,  the  title  of  the  dele­ • and everything  came  out  okay.  Steel  Mariner  crossed  paths  with  been  instructed  that  the  indicator.  gate  and  the  sjiip's  name,  were  Lou  Zompetti,  a  Messman  and  another  of  the  Isthmian  freight  crew's  quarters  must  be  ab­ Very  informally,  as  many  of  presented  to  Blackie  Bankston,^  a top­riotcher,  had a tooth  yanked  ers,  the  Steel  Admiral.  Aboard  solutely  dean  b^re  a  pay­ the  crewmembers  as  could,  ga­ Ship's  Delegate;  Bobby  (5arn,  in  Aden. His  noggin  looked  more  the  Admiral  was  Harry  Rowe,  off  will  be  allowed.  Please  thered  in  the  messhall  where  Deck;  Jack  ­Thornton,  Stewards,  like  a  basketball  until  the  tooth  brother  of  Bill,  the  Mariner's  coc^erate  with  your  officials  spokesmen  presented  each  of  the  and  Gordon  Peck,  Engine.  was  out.  Oiler.  in carrying  out this member­ Delegates  with  a  leather  brief  E.  Reyes,  a  member  of  the  "Old  John  Sair,  Wiper,  fell  off  ship  order.  case,  in  appreciation  of  the  job  Del  Norte  crew,  painted  the  The  Steel  Mariner  was  the  a staging in  the Engine room  and  being  done  by  these  men  and  inscriptions  on  the  cases.  got  banged  up.  And  on  tHe  way  first  Yankee  ship  to  hit  Bais  in  about  a  year,  Blackie  said.  "Al­ back  to  the  Phillippines  Jack  Schaeffer  got  a  tropical  poison^  though  the  beer  was  steep  (one  ing  and  had  to  be  left  in  Bais.  peso)  we  had  a  swell  time. Some  Fortunately,­  he  caught  up  with  of  the  boys  still  correspond  with  John  C.  Mclntyre,  a  New  Jersey.  The  crew  sent  a  passing  is  S"  terrific  blow  to­  all  us  again  in  Manila  a few  weeks  the  fair  maidens  of  this  tropical  of  us.  That  the  Seafarers  has  port.  One  of  the  crewmen  re­ member  of  the SIU's Atlan­ wreath,  to  the  funeral.  later."  . Brother  Mclntyre,  who  was  lost  ope  of  its  staunchest  sup­ Among  the  Brothers  providing  ports  that  their  biggest  request  tic  and  Gulf  District  since  born  in Latta,  South  Carolina, on  porters  goes  with'out  saying.'.'  the  bright  spots  of  the  voyage  is  for  Sears,  Roebuck  catalogs."  P­­ were  "Pop"  Kennedy.  OS;  Ah­ "Ship's  Delegate  Steve  Karlak  its  founding,  died  aboard  the  July  8,  1896,  joined  the  SIU  in  Janisch  affded  that  "all  hands  w  the  Port  of  New"­York  on  No­ med  Hussein,  OS;  Bill  Rowe,  teamed  up  with  the  local  har­ SS  Seatrain  Havana  off  the  vember  21,  1938.  He  sailed  ih  aboard  the, Seatrain  Havana  wish  Florida  coast  as  the  vessel  head­ it  to  be  known  that  ­Brothers  oner;  Frank  Buono,  Cook;  and  monica  group  in  Bais,  with  Bill  the  Engine  Department  and  car­ ed  for  Texas  City  on  September  Vincent  , Becker  and  Louis  "Singing  Mike"  Kennedy,  the  Kennedy  supplying  the  vocals  ried  Book  No.  444.  3.  He  was  54  years  old.  Greaux,  together  with  Captain  talented  thrush  who  works  as  and  the  rest  of  the  crew  joined  Mclntyre's  sudden  passing  According  to A.  L. Seay, Ship's  in  a  la  Sinatra,"  Otvos  says.  Van  Gelder  and  Chief  Mate  Sin­ Deck  Engineer.  threw  a  pall  of  ^ief  oyer  the  No  phase  of  the  trip  was more  "And  we  left  behind  a  tall  stack  Delegate,  Brother  Mclntju­e  be­ Seatrain  Havana.  Speaking  for  nick,  did  everything  in  their  popular  than  chow  time.  "The  of  empty  beer  cans  and  fond  came  ill  while  working  about  the  crew,  William  F.  Janisch  power  to  help  our  dear  departed  11  AM.  He  died  several  hours  scow  was  as  quiet  as  a  cemetery  memories."  said  that  "Brother  Mclntyre's  Brother."  til  the  chow  beU  rang,"  Blackie  Throughout  the  voyage  the  later.  Two  crewmem­bers,  Vincent  recalled,  "But  then  if  was  stand  Steel  Mariners  were  kept  in­ END  OF  A TOUGH  JOB  Becker  and  Louis  Greaux,  ar­ clear.  Anyone  standing  idle  in  formed  through  the  medium  of  ranged  for  transportation  of  the  any  of  the  paths  leading  to  the  the Overseas  Edition  of  the SEA­ messhall  would  have  been  FARERS  LOG,  which  reached  body,  which  was  removed  fi­om  the  Seatrain  Havana  when  it  docked  in  Texas  City  on  Sep­ ANYBODY GOTTA KNIFE? tember  6.  The  body  was  shipped  north  to  Mclntyre's  next  of  kin  in  Un­ ion  City,  N.  J.  Burial  was  in  Notice To  Crews  J. C. Mclntyre Dies Aboard Seatrain Havana  Corsair  Crewmen  Plan Blood Bank  lis.  Seafarers  C^rl  Starke  (left)  and  W.  L.  Nihem  cut  up  for  the  camera  abodrd  the SS  South  Atlantic.  Brother  Starke,  by  the  way,  donate<|i  the  l&i^^e  SIU  emblem  that  adorns  ihe  front  window  of  the Savannah  HalL  Crewmembers  of  the  SS  Alcoa  Corsair  who  become  ill  and  re­ quire  emergency  blood  transfu­ sions  may find  a  blood  bank  at  their  disposal—if  plans  adopted  at  a  recent  shipboard  meeting  materialize.  The  crew  went  on  record  to  start  a  blood  bank  for  seamen.  Although  th^  minutes didn't  ela­ borate  on  tl ­  plan,  the men  ap­ parently  had  m  tr  build­ ing  up  of  a  reserve  to  ?it" "^t  hur­ ry­up calls  to  the^Hp"  donors  to  aid  sick  Brothers,  Tommy  Freeland  sent  in  lh» photo  of  shipmates  L. Dower  and  George  Peppier,  as  they  standing  by  on  overtime  during recent  trip on Steei Admiral. Young elephant was amopg,  .  animals  brought  here  from  Africa.  �• • • TT  Friday. SaptoinMr  15. 1950  THE  SEA F  ARERS  LO G  Page Seven  Digested Minutes  Of  SlU  Ship  ALGONQUIN  YICTOP.Y.  Jttly  food;  Department  Delegates  to  not  repbrt  aboard  to  examine  23—Chairman.  E.  Mulford:  Sec>  make  up  and  turn over  to ^Ship's  John  Kallasle,  who  had  been M  rei?jry»  Paul  Witlhaus.  Jr.  Dele­ Delegate  repair  lists.  sick  for  several  days  and  had'.  s|  gates  .reported  all  departments  &  requested  a  doctor.  Suggestion  running  smoothly.  Because  of  TOPA  TOPA.  Aug.  31—Chair­ made  that  old  washing  machine  that  there  were  no  matters  to  man.  W.  Walsh;  Secretary.  S,  be  traded  in  for  a  new  model.  ­ be  discussed.  Bosun  Garrison  Cohen.  Ship's  Delegate  reported  gave  a  talk  on  history  of  the  en  two  men  who  missed  ship  Seafarers,  the shipping  rules  and  on  the  West  Coast.  Motion  car­ LOS  shall continue to follour the same  how  a  good. Union  man  conducts  ried  to  have Patrolman  see about  policu in the ilctune, and iS tjou have sorne­ iiimself  on  the  sWp  and  ashore,  awning  f6r  poop  deck.  Gaskets  to sag. it ujill heprinfied. Hoiueven  tit  for  portholes  and  watertight  fere  are a fetu rules whicti must be  XXX.  YQRKNUVR.  Aug.  6 —Chair­ doors  to  be  checked  before  crew  Atllouredi  SOUTHSTAR,  Sept.  2—Chair­ man,  Sieve  Bergeria;  Secretary,  signs  on.  Complaint  registered  *  Bverg letter must be  s ioned.  A nony­ man.  Gene  Lyttle;  Secretary,  X. Barcizski.  Motion  carried  that  on  drinking *water  taken  aboard  Mike  Buckley.  Delegates  report­ mous  l etters tvmriot be published.  iPatrolman.  check  Steward  for  in  Ponce.  ed  everything  okay.  Motion  car­ * Letters must notdail in. personalities.  catering  to  topside  and  serving _  XXX  ried  to  have  overtime  sheets  wew stale  cakes.  Crew  asked  for  MALDEN  VICTORY.  Sept.  checked  by  Ship  Delegates  and  a ' greater­  assortment  of  cereal  —Chairman,  James  McRae;  Sec­ Agent.  Steward  reminded  he  is  and  jam.  retary,  Red  Brady.  Delegates  re­ not  to  go  into  crew's  quarters  t  t  t  ported  on  number  of  books  and  while  search  is  being  made  by  CHILOHE,  July  16—Chairman,  permits  in  their  departments.  customs.  Warning  issued  against  .James  Corcoran;  Secretary.  W.  Motion  carried  that  Ship's  Dele­ anyone  carrying  news  from  Gillard. Stewards Delegate  raised  gate  purchase  new  washing  ma­ meeting  to  topside.  beef  that  some  men  in  his  de­ chine in first  port  of  arrival. One  X  X  t  partment  were  docked  one  hour  man  per  department  per  week  RAPHAEL  SEMMES,  Aug. 6^  overtime,  for  reporting  late  for  to  handle  cleaning  of  laundry.  Chairman,  Frank  Van  Dusen;  work in  Baltimore.  Men  claimed  XXX  Secretary,  W.  Blanding.  Dele­ they  were on  time. Steward  ask­ PAOLI,  Aug. 26—Chairman.  A.  gates  reported  everything  okay, ^  ed  to  get  niore  blankets  aboard,  Jackman:  Secretary,  Maurice  Motion  by  Steward  to  ask  ne­ t  t  t  Qilp.  Delegates  reported  no  gotiating  committee  to  ask  for  LILICA,  July  16 — Chairman,  beefs.  Engine  Department  urged  an  increase  in  wages  if  prices  M.  Spires;  Secretary.  H.  Ridge­ to  get  together  and  elect  a  dele­ continue  to  rise  before  a  wage  Way.  Ship's  Delegate  reported  gate  before  the  next  meeting.  freeze  goes  into effect.  ­that  corhpany  was  not  going  to  supply,,  mattresses  for  bunks  Stewards  Department  urged  to  XXX  which  had  been  broken  by  crew.^  put  out  better­  meals.  EVELYN,  Aug.  20—Chairman,  STEEL  WORKER.  Aug.  6  —  CALMAR.  Aug.  6—Chairman,  XXX  B.eefs  on  Chief  Mate  working  Charles  Mitchell;  Secretary,  W.^  ;pn  deck  and  method  of  giving  OREMAR,  Sept.  1<—Chairman.  Chairman.  Teddy  Moyer;  Secre­ Bodzik;  Secretary,  Kelly.  Dele­ Hendershot.  Motion  carried  to  .4,1  out  draws  to  be  taken  up  with  Eugene  Ray;  Secretary.  R.  Dur­ tary.. Sidney  Swilxer.  Delegates  gates  reported  everything  run­ discontinue  ordering  ice  as  the  bin.  Delegates  reported  standing  reported  no  disputed  overtime.  ning  smoothly.  Discussion  on  ship  can  make  all  that is  needed.  Patrolman.  of  men  in  their  departments.  Report  made  on  crewmember  welfare  plan  postponed  until  Hansen  elected  Ship's  Delegate,  i  t  Repair  list  made  up  and  re­ who  left  ship  in  Boston  follow­ more  comprehensive  information  with  three  department  delegates  STONEWALL  JACKSON. July  ing  a  personal  beef  with  the  is  obtained.  Motion  made  that  ferred  to  Captain.  16r­Chairman. A.  Anderson; Sec­ to  rotate  job.  Mate.  action  be  taken against  men  pay­ XXX  retary.  C.  Turner.  Delegates  re­ ing  off  on  the  west  coast,  there­ XXX  ported  smsll' amount  of  disputed  GATEWAY  CITY,  Aug.  27—  FRANCES,  Aug.  29  —  Chair­ by  throwing  east  coast  men  out  overtime.  Cooking  methods  cri­ Chairman. M. Driscoll;  Secretary,  man.  Carl  Cowl;  Secretary,  Ray­ of  work.  Discussion  that  men  ticized  by  crew  and  Steward  J.  Kelly.  Delegates  reported  mond  Torres.  Motion  carried  to  can  payoff  wherever  they  please.  promised  that  he  would  give  number  of  books  and  permits  in  notify  SIU  in  New  York  to  re­ Motion  lost.  their  departments.  Suggestion  closer  supervision  to  cooking.  quest  the  company  to  post  more  XXX  XXX  made' that  all  crewmembers  help  accurate  sailing  time  than  in  STRATHCAPE.  July  9—Chair­ STRATHCAPE. Aug.  27—  individually  the^ white  card  men  the  past.  Chairman.  D.  Stone;  Secretary.  man. D. Slone;  Secretary, C. Gill.  'iss:' aboard  and  acquaint  theni  with  Ship's  Delegate  instructed  to  see  Cbeurles  Martin.  Delegate  report­ the  history  and  functions  of  the  Captain  about  having  all  foc'sles  ed  that  an  answer  had  been  re­ SIU.  Chief  Steward  to  inspect  painted.  D.  Stone  elected  Ship's  ceived  from  washing  machine  the  meat  and  if  not  up  to  speci­ Delegate.  New  mattresses  to  be  company  telling  where  a , DC  fications  the  Patrolman  is  to  be  purchased  for  bunks.  motor can be  purchased for  ship's  notified  before  the  ship  sails.  machine.  Motion  carried  that  letj­ XXX  XXX  ROBIN  MOWBRAY.  Aug.  20—  ter  be  written  to  LOG  about  the  DEL  VALLE.  July  22—Chair­ Chairman.  J.  C.  Howard;  Secre­ cooperation  between  the  crew  man,  F.  Kendriek;  Secreiary.  M  tary.  Amos  Baum.  Delegates  re­ and  officers  during  the  trip.  Gasdy.  Delegates  reported  on  ported  everything  in  order.  Mo­ Stewards  Department  given  a  book  members  in  their  depart­ tion  carried  that  investigation  vote  of  thanks  for  the  good  ments.  McArly  elected  Ship's  XXX  be  made  as, to  why  doctor  did  menus.  NATHANIEL  B.  PALMER,  Delegate  by  acclamation.  Need  for  more  electric  outlets  in  sa­ Aug. 10—Chairman. James Doris;  loon  pantry  mentioned.  Mat­ Secreiary.  V.  Sorensen.  Motion  .  a>  4.  STEEL  FLYER.  July  23  —  tresses  to  be  inspected  by  Agent  carried  that  LOG  publish  an  ar­ Chairman,  F.  Travis;  Secretary.  when  ship  hits  port.  An  Arrival  ticle  requesting  the  Delegates  of  R. Stevens.  Motion  carried  to  al­ Pool  made  up  to  help  build  the  ships  paying  off  entire  crew  to  ASST.  SECRETARY­TREASURERS  leave  copies  of  repair  list  and  SIU, A&G  District  low  black  gang  to  get  sugar  in  ship's  fund.  Robert  Matthews  Lloyd  Gardner  requisition  with  iPatrolman  so  messhall  when  unable  to  get  it  Joseph  Volpian  XXX  BALTIMORE  .14  North  Gay  St.  from  the  Steward.  Motion  car­ COE  VICTORY,  Aug.  27  —  the  new  crew  will  know  the  William  Rentz,  Agent  Mulberry  4640  SUP  BOSTON.  276  State  St.  ried  to  have  the  SIU  clarify  a  Chairman,  Frank  Collins;  Secre­ score.  Ben ­  Lawson,  Agent  Richmond  2­0140  situaticm  when  Fireman  is  be­ tary,  S.  Zygarowski.  Delegates  4  4  »  HONOLULU.  16  Merchant  St.  Dispatcher  Richmond  2­0141  ing  paid  overtime  as  Stevedore.  reported  small  number  of  beefs  ALCOA  PARTNER,  Aug.  27—  GALVESTON  Phone  5­8777  308VS—23rd  SL  PORTLAND  Ill  W.  Burnstde  St..  Chairman.  Nelson  Crews;  Secre­ in  their  departments.  Discussion  Keit^  Alsop,  Agent  Phone  2­8448  Beacon  4339  PONCE  DE  IJEON,  Aug.  7  —  on  the  hard  time  the  Skipper  is  iary.  Roy  Mullins.  Delegates  re­ LAKE  CHARLES,  La....1419  Ryan  St.  RICHMOND,  Calif  257  Sth  St.  Chairman,  S. Furtado;  Secretary,  giving  the  Steward.  Treasurer  ported  no  disputed  overtime.  L.  S.  Johnston,  Agent  Phone  25^  MOBILE  1  South  Lawrence  St.  SAN  FRANCISCO  460  Harrkon  St.  N.  Spencer.  Ship's  Delegate  re­ reported  $10  in  the  ship's  fund.  Suggestion  made  that  Union  Gal  Tanner,  Agent  Phone  2­1754  Douglas  2­8363  ported  that  no  repairs  have  been  Crew  gave  the  Stewards  De­ meeting  be  held  every  two  NEW  ORLEANS  523  Bienville  St.  SEATTLE  86  Seneca  St.  made  for  the  past  four  trips  and  partment  a  vote  of  thanks  for  weeks.  Suggestion  made  that  E. Sheppard, Agent  Magnolia  6112­6113  Main  0290  NEW  YORK  51  Beaver  St.  to;  have  San  Francisco  Agent  its fine  work.  gangway  watchman  keep  a  rec­ Joe  Algina,'  Agent  HAnover  2­2784  WILMINGTON  440  Avalon  Blvd.  Terminal  4­3131  look  into  matter.  Delegates  re­ ord  of  the  changes  of  the  sail­ NORFOLK  127­129  Bank  St.  ported  no  beefs.  Motion  carried  ing  board  in  order  to  avoid  con­ Ben  Rees,  Agent  Phone  4­1083  Canadian  District  337  Market  St.  to  have  Ship's  Delegate,and  Ag­ fusion  and  to  keep  a  record  of  PHILADELPHIA  S..  Cardullo,  Agent  Market  7.­163S  MONTREAL  463  McGill  SL  ent  check  slopchest  when  ship  the  delayed  sailing  overtime.  SAN  FRANCISCO  450  Harrison  St.  MArquette  5909  Send  in  the.  minutes  of  reaches  San  Francisco.  Radio  XXX  Jeff  Morrison,  Agent  Douglas  2­5475  FORT  WILLIAM.. 118H  Syndicate  Ave.  Operator  to  be  asked  to  post  your  ship's  meeting  to' the  McKETTRICK  HILLS,  Aug.  28  SAN  JUAN,  PR  252  Ponce  de  Leon  Ontario  Phone  3­3221  HALIFAX  .128>/,  HoUis  SL  war  news  in  messroom.  Record  New  York  Hall. Only  in  that  —Chairman,  J.  McKee;  Secre­ Sal  Colls,  Agent  2  Aberconi  St.  Phone  3­8911  holder  to  be  made  and  new  way  can  the  membership  act  tary,  R.  McGinness.  Delegates'  SAVANNAH  E.  Bryant,  Agent  Phone  3­1728  PORT  COLBORNE  103  Durham  SL  needles  purchased.  on  your  recommendations,  reports  accepted.  Resolution  SEATTLE  2700  Ist  Ave.  Phone  5591  and  then  the  minutes can  be  adopted  calling for  better  ventifa­ Wm.  McKay,  Agent  Seneca  4570  TORONTO  86  Coihorne  SL  t  t  '  1809­1811  N.  Franklin  St.  Elgin  5719  STEEL  DIRECTOR.  July  20—  printed  in  the  LOG  for  the  tion  be  provided,  to  include  air­ TAMPA  Ray  White,  Agent  Phone  2­1323  VICTORIA  617^  Cormorant  SL  Chairman,  J.  Grant;  Secretary,  benefit  of  all  other  SIU  conditioning  units  to  be  attached  WlLMiNGTON.  Calif.,  440  Avalon  Blvd.  Empire  4531  R.  McNeil. Delegates  reported  no  crews.  to  blowers  and,  if  torrid  condi­ E.  B.  Tilley,  Agent  Terminal  4­2874  VANCOUVER  565  Hamilton  SL  beefs.  Delegate  appointed  to  col­ Hold  those shipboard meet­ tions  are  not  relieved,  that  the  HEADQUARTERS.. 51 Beaver St.,  N.Y.C.  '  Pacific  7824  SYDNEY  304  Charlotte  SL  SECRETARY­TREASURER  lect  $1  from  men  who  had  not  ings  regularly,  and  send  company  should  pay  a  daily  Phona  6349  Paul  Hall  contributed  twoard  purchase  and  those  minutes  In  as' soon  as  bonus  to  the  crew  for  impair­ HEADQUARTERS  463  McGiU  SL  DIRECTOR  OF  ORGANIZATION  repair of  washing machine. Stew­ possible. Thai's  the SIU  wayl  ment  of  health  and  working  un­ Montreal  MArquette  7377  Undsey  WUllama  ard  asked  to  improve  variety  of  der  unsafe  conditions.  0  Directory  Of  SIU  Halls  Send Those Minutes  �Keep  Those  Home Fires Burning  — The Alawai Men Are Returning  On  Deck  Need Car Repair?  He  Recommends':  ReUable  Shop  j:';  able  Chief  Cook  Tony  Sosa  from  They're  now  convalescing  in  our  To  the  Ediiof:  Tampa.  Tony  says  these  decks  ship's  hospital,  and  both  are  "  , We  of  the  SS  Alawai,  a  Wa­ on  these  long  trips  just  don't fit  doing fine.  We  regret  having,  to  Recently  one  of  my  Union  terman  scow,  wish  to  be  remem­ his  feet  "no  mo'."  leave  one  of  the  Deck  Depart­ Brothers  mentioned  that  he  had  "bered  to  the  folks  at  home  and  All  the ­  boys  in  that  depart­ ment  in  the  Army  hospital  at  to  have  his  automobile  repaireji  'bid  shipmates  on  the  beach.  ment  have  built  good  morale  Okinawa.  and  asked  me  if  I  knew  of  a  Most  of  the  present  crew  signed  and  are  maintaining  it  all  along  Captain  Ben  Martin  is  very  reliable  place  to  get  the­  job  'on  June  1  at  Tampa,  a  few  the  way. Our  Segond  Cook,  Paul  strict  but  all  in  aU  is  a  good  dohej  '  ,  others  joined  at  Mobile  and  Reed;  our  Baker,  Sam,  and  John  man  and  an  able  Skii^er,  who  It  happens  that  my  brother  'New  Orleans.  Then  we  sailed  Drake,  who  is  a  real  galley  man,  believes  in things  being  done  ac­ has  a  body  and  fender  repair  for  Pedro.  are  all  doing  a  splendid  job.  cording  to  Hoyle.  He's  to  be  ad­ shop  in  Flushing,  New  York  "  Orders  changed  en  route  and  The  Black  Gang  are  ^ tops.  mired  for  that.  City,  and  he  does  work  that  )[  "took  us  to  the  Army  base  at  Most  always  they  work  in  a  We  are  aU  looking  forward  to  would  not  hesitate  to  reconi­ Frisco,  where  some  very  fast  quiet  manner  and  do. their  jobs  .a  happy  landing  in  New  York  mend.  So  I  told  my  Union  Bro­ loading  took  place.  Our  deck  well.  City,  where  we  pay  off,  and  ther  about  it.  ^  .  •   "cargo  of  army  trucks  and  ambu­ from  where  each  man  will  go  Harold  Rivers  (left)  and  HEAT  AND  ILLNESS  When  the  job  was finish^,  the  lances  brought  back  memories  in  his  own  direction  to  see  the  of  recent  war  days  to  many  The  heat  has  been  terrific.  light  burning  in  the  window  at  Frank  (Red)  Baron  catch  some  Union  Brother  told  me  that  he  Quite  a  few  of  the  boys  have  fresh  air  on  the  deck  of  the  was  highly  pleased  with  the  • of  us.  home." This  is  always  a  welcome  SS  Baltore,  while  a  fellow  work  and  suggested  that  I  pass  been  sick,  some  had  to  go to the  We  left  Frisco  in  the  usual  bgacon  to  us  wandering  seamen  California  style  —  blowirig  and  doctors  at, Manila­—t^  for  ope­ —like  a  homing  pigeon  sighting  crewman  records  the  scene  the word  to the  rest of  the mem­ with  his camera.  Charlie  Oma­ bers  through  the  LOG,  since  going  for  the  Far  East.  The  fog  rations.  We're "glad  to  have  them  his nest.  ^  hundra,  vdio  submitted  photo,  lots of  the guys occasionally need  back  again,  as  we  made  that  ^stayed  with  us  most  of  the  way  Here's for a  happy landing!  says  crew  is  "highly  pleased  auto  repair  work  and  know  of  port  twice  and  caught  them  on  to  Yokohama,  our first  port  of  with  progress  Union  has  made  no reliable  place'to get  it done.  .  the  rebound.  They  are  Henry  B.  K.  "call. ^I  might  add  here  that  the  Princiviere,  and  Emile  Hoda.  and  is  still  making."  SS  Alawai  Here  it  is:  j  fog  was  so  thick  that  if  we  had  Paul's  Auto  Body  and  Fender  been  in  a  convoy,  we  would  Works,  132­15  35th  Ave.,  Flush,­ (have  had  to fire  the  bow  gun  ing.  New  York  City.  They  cap  cat  intervals  and  then  peep  handle  any  kind  of  auto  job.  through  the  hole  right  quick'be­ Don't  foi­gei  to  mention  that  fore  it  closed  up,  in  order  to  you're  a  member  of  the  Seafar­ .^ee  the  ship  ahead  of  us.  ers  International  Union.  .  To  Ihe  Editor:  through  a  loudspeaker.  I  go  Well,  that  was  all  okay.  As  I  GOOD  CREW  Fred  Paul  back  to  get  a drink of  water  and  walk aft,  I see the Deck  Engineer  We  have  a  good  crew  all  How  I  got  on  this  ship—^the  in  the  galley  I  see  the  Chief  sawing  the  winches  off  the  deck.  around.  We've  got  a  hardwork­ good  ship  SS  Elly.  Cook  has  got  two  men  sliding  Now  how  will  we  get  the  cargo  Army­Bound,  Clontz  ing  deck  force.  In  and  out  of  I  was  sitting  in  the  Victoria  up  and  doym  the  stove  with  off  the  ship?  ­ Bids Brothers 'So  Longr*  so  many  ports  so  often  gives  Bar  in  Baltimore  having  a  good  hams  tied  to  their  feet,  keeping  »  I  am  on  the  12­4  watch  and  them  plenty  to  do^  They  all  go  time.  In  steps  Chuck  Allen.  He  the  stove  well  greased.  They  To  the  Editor:  ,  at  it  in  real  SlU  style  and  get  said,  "Hello,  Jack.  How  long  are  going  fo  fry  steak  for  the  when  I  come  off  watch  four  men  walk  out  of  the' saloon with  l­s^ so long  for  the  next  t^o  you  been  on  the  beach?"  "the  job  done.  crew.  wheel  barrels,  ­full ­  of  cement.;  years.  It  has  been  a  pleasure  I say,  "About  two  months."  •   In  case  Keith  Alsop  and  the  V  Says  I,  "This  ship  is  nuts,  not  They  are  building  a  swimming;  to  sail  with  most,  of  you,  and  "Well,"  says  he,  "here  is five  "boys  in  Galveston  are  wonder­ me."  pool  aft  and  the  Deck  Engineer  I'm  sorry  that  I cannot  continue  ing  why  Toots  Harris  has  not  bucks.  Get  yourself  a  few'  Dinnpr  we are eating  spaghetti  is  putting  the  water  line' in'.  .  ^  to  do  so.  been  haunting  the  Hall  lately,  drinks."  arid  meat balls.  The Bosun speaks  ­Right  now  I'm  going  to  work  he  is  busy  as  Bosun  on  here.  "Thanks,"  says  I,  "Old  pal  up and  says,  "Don't  eat  the meat  Well,  I'll  sail  the'" ship  this  for  Uncle Sam,  as  I  recently  got  He's  a  good  one  and  a fine  fel­ Chuck."  balls.  Put  four  in  each  life  time.  But  when  we  get.  back  the  caU  for  Army  service.  low.  He  says  hello  to  the  gang  'The  phone  started  to  ring  and  I'll  have  Agent Curly  Rentz send  the  boss,  Robie,  answers  it.  He;  boat  tor  fenders."  back  there.  die whole crew out to the Marine  I  hope  to  resume  sailing  wRh'I  you  in  the  SIU  after  I  put  in  We  have  Bill  Vam  who  heads  comes  over  to my  table  and says,  Well,  the  Bosim  says  we  need  Hospital .for  treatment.  sorpe  heaving  lines  and  we  ain't  my  time ,  and  am  discharged.  "Polack  Eddie  says  foy  j'ou  —  a  good  and  efficient  Stewards  J. Delaney  got  any  six  or  nine  thread  to  Here's hoping that  aU  my friends  Delaney  —  to  see  Johnnie  Hog­ Department.  The'  menus  are  (Approved)  make  them. I  said, "Why  not  use  and  former  shipmates  see  this  gie at  Baltimore and  Gay Streets.  good,  even  if  we  are  getting  spaghetti."  And,  says  I,  "Use  Fred  Israel.  Ship's  DeL  if  it  is  published  in  the  LOG.  pineapple  and  stringbeans  on  He  has  a  ship  for  you."  SS  EUy  BiUy  E.  Cloniz  every  one  of  them.  Must  have  I said,  "Today  is  Saturday,  the  macaroni  to  tie  ^r  up."  been  a  bargain  sale  ^^omewhere.  hall  is  closed."  HOW  MANY CAFTAINS CAN YOU  SEE IN THIS PICTURE?  He said, "Don't  the Union come  He's  still  liked  by  ail.  The  food  is  well­cooked  and  first?"  well­seasoned  by  our  good  and  "Yes,"  I  said.  "Well  go  see  him.  Johnnie  Hoggie  is  waiting  for^you."  Keeping  In  Shape  Well,  I meet  him and  he gives  me  cab  fare  to  get  to  the  ship.  When  I  get  on  board  I  under­ stand  the  Captain  says, "I  migtit  .as  well  throw  the log  book  over  the  side—Delaney  is on  board."  I  see  the  Chief  Mate.  I  pass  the  sawbones.  Then  I find  out  the  ship  will  sail  at  6  AM,  so  I'll  go  ashore  with  a  few  ship­ mates.  I'm  waiting  at  the  gangway  and  the  Chief  Mate  goes  over  the  gangway  with  the  smoke­ stack  under  his  arm.  He  is going  to  peddle  it.  Says  I,  "This  ship  is  nuts,  not  me."  Just  then  the Second  Engineer  comes  up  to  go  ashore.  I  said,  "What  have  you  got  there?"  He  said,  "Got  the  main  engine  wrapped  up  in  a  bag."  He  is  going  to  peddle  it.  CAPTAINS SfjRE SORE ro Be Larry Schxoeder  slays young  I  said,  "i  know  someone  is  If  you  don't  hear  from  me  my  cartoons.  .  •  i'i  V  To  the  Editor:  ­  mid fit  by  working  out  almost  crazy,  not  me."  daily  aboard  the  SS  Ponce de  In  the  morning  I  get  back  to  11 am  seixding  j  ­  ^ome  more  again  in  ­the  near  future,  you'll  "Red"  Fink  ; ;  Leon. Here  he is  as  he donned  the  ship  and  turn  to.  What  do  I  cartoons.  I  hope  they  can  be  SB  Bents  Fort  the  padded  mitts  for  a  cciiple  see  but  the  Bosun  riding  around  pririted  in  the  SEAFARERS  know  that  the  Captain  of  this  .  P.S.:  No  wise  cracks,,  please­j  of  rounds  with  a  ihiipmjBte.  .ship  failed  to  see  the^ humor  in  Fink  4s  my  name.  on . a  motorcycle,  giving  orders  LOG.  ;  To  the  Editor:  Like  Her Says,  It  Seems  Sailor  Delaney  Got  Mixed  Up In  A  Floating Fruit Cake  m  TME  BIEMTS WT  EVERY  WHERE:  THE  eye  CAM  see  �Friday,  Saptombar  15,  1950  THE  SEAE ARERS  LOC  SOME LIKE IT COLD AND SOME LIKE IT  HOT  Page  Nine  Colorful Crew On Fairport,  'Queen Of  The Gravy Fleet*  I'd  have  let  pass  by,  and  I  can  truthfully  state  that  there  is  not  Just  a  hello  and  a  howdy  from  a  real  rumpot  nor  a  performer  the  §S  Fairport,  better  known  on this  ship; The  doubting Thomr  as  the  "Queen  of  the  Grits  and  ases  can  take  it  or  leave—or  be­ Gravy  Fleet."  That's  the  Water­ lieve  it  or  not.  man  scows  to  you  Brothers  who  The  baseball  team,  which  fail"  ship  out. north  of  Hatteras.  ed  to  get  together,  has  now  ofr  She's a  pretty  fair  tub  and  has  ficiaUy  disbanded.  "Speed  Ball"  ­ a  great  crew,  which  is  made  up  Krakovich,  a  supposed  to  be  ex­ of  quite  a  few  oldtimers  and  major  leaguer  has  quit  and  now  ­ many  youngsters  from. all  parts  Red  House  has  about  decided  of  the  United  States  and  other  he's  through.  So  what  can  you  parts  of  the  universe.  do?  Everything  is  running  smooth  WON'T  HAVE  IT  and  nice,  yrhich  automatically  proves  that  this  is  an  SIU  ves­ The  crew  bought  a  washing  ^achine  "la.st  trip  but  we  have  sel.  a  Brother  and  shipmate  on  this  Whenever  Ihe  summer  heal  begins  to 'oppress  John  Ferreira,  he  hauls  out  <the  picture  at  A  few  notes  on  some  of  the  tub  (from  Arkansas)  who  refuses  left  to  remind  him  of  cooler  dsys.  It shows  one  of  his  shipmates,  Jtdumy  Kirchner,  aboard  the  Brothers  should  not  be  ^mlss:  ice­encrusted  Claiborne  lut  winter.  In  photo  right,  taken  in  Beirut,  Lebanon,  Otto  Preusseler  Carl  (Pudding  Head)  Jones  has  to  use  same.  He  says  he  wasv^  raised  in  a  tub,  ate  out  of  a  sips  a  coke  while  he  and  Sh^'s  Delegate  "Blackie"  rest  at  gangway of  Steel  Chemist.  just  issued  a  statement  to  the  bucket  and  he'd  be  gosh­damed  effect  that  should  the  femmes  if  he  was  going  to  get  a  finger  south  of  the  Mason­Dixon  line  caught  in  a  ringer.  All  right,  persist  in  stealing  a  lock  of  his  then  it  ain't  poetry.  curly  raven  hair,  he  will  ship  from  the  East  of  West  Coast  in  The  new  Stewards  Depart­ ment  has  really  been  hitting  the  the  near  future.  ball.  There's  Shorty  DeLoach,  To  the  Editor:  Springs  over  the  hairpin  turns  of  Hereford  (beef)  cattle,  and  ANOTHER  FOR  BILLY  the  alligator  tamer  from  Tampa,  on  Highway  336,  it  may  be  en­ the  big  Boeing  plant  at  Wichita  Usually  I  leave  New  York  BiUy  (The  Kid)  Sihith  has  (shades  of  Jimmies Hand),  who  couraging  to  remember  that  I  which  produces  B­29s.  i|by  ship  on  a  foreign  voyage  and  From  Chicago  to  Buffalo,  we  decided  to  make  another  trip  on  is  doing  the  second­cooking;  E.  follow  a  charted  course.  But  this  made  it!  this  packet  because  the  Skipper,  summer  my  wife  and  I  took  an  We  drove  up  in  the  mountains  followed  the  shore  of  the  Great  Captain  Graham,  who,  inciden­ T.  Laurent,  better  known  as  overland  trip  in  a  convertible  to  Central  City,  a  deserted  min­ Lakes  which  seemed  to  us  as  tally  is  a  square  shooter  and  is  "New  Orleans,"  doing  the  chef­ automobile  with  no  set  plans,  ing  town,  where  there  was  once  beautiful  as  the  Mediterranean.  well­Jiked  by  the  crew,  uses  the  fing  and  how  he  can  concoct  bur. vagabond  journey  took  us  some  of  the  greatest  mines  in  Outside  of  ports,  vacationists  iron  mike  at  every  opportunity.  gumbo;  Ralph  (Lemonade)  Bum­ sed;  Jason  (Skyscraper)  Gibbs;  the  world.  Memories  of  bygone  were  enjoying  lake­shore  homes  bver  6,748  miles  in  the  USA.  days  are  still  preserved  in  Tel­ and  cottages  all  the  way.  If  I  That  means  that  he  can  pose  in  Dutch  De  Zee,  the  bicycle  rid­ We  toured  through  fifteen  dif­ had  not  shipped  on  the  Great  his  khaki  shorts,  and,  I  must  in­ ing  champ  from  The  Hague;  ferent  states  and  a  bit  of  Can­ ffr  Lakes  at  one  time,  I  probably  form  you,  we  have  quite  a  few  George  (Seagull)  May;  BiU  •  ,  ada,  visited  ten  ports  on  the  nice  looking  female  passengers.  (Boyd)  Stone  and  D.  C.  Jones,  • f :  would  not  have  .realized  that  Great  Lakes,  and  had  ourselves  Red  (The  Squatter)  House,  the  leading  Belly  Robber.  these  lakes  are  the  greatest  in­ ft  boat  trip  on  the  Mississippi  1^  dustrial  waterway  in.  the  world.  after  two  years,  has  finally  de­ Keep  up  the  good  work,  fel­ River  at  my  hometown,  Dubu­ We  spent  a  day  at  Niagara  cided  that  he  believes  in  rotary  lows,  and  perhaps  the  rope  ijue,  Iowa.  I did  the driving,  and  Falls  and  then  proceeded  on  shipping  and  will  probably  ship  chokers  and  the  underground  tny  wife  acted  as  navigator  and  Highway  20  along  the  Erie  Ca­ out  of  li'l  ole  New  York  in  the  savages  will  not  hardtime  you  recorder  .  nal  and  Finger  Lakes  in  the  near  future.  So  long  Carrot  Top.  this  trip.  We  were  off  to  a flying  start  Mohawk  Valley  to Albany. From  There  are  plenty  of  us  who'll  The  Deck  Gang,  Black  Gang  is  we  motored  along  the­ Penn­ there  on,  we  followed  Route  US  miss  that  great  big  smile  and  and  the  Stewards  Department  sylvania  Turnpike,  a  four­lane  9  down  the  Hudson  River,  stop­ that ^  voice  yelling:  "Give  the  send  their  regard  to  all  SIU  aighway  with  east­v/est  traffic  ping  at  Hyde  Park,  N.  Y.,  to  house  another  drink."  And  when  Brothers  wherever  they  may  be.  separated  by  a  parkway,  which  visit  the  home  of  Franklin  D.  I  say  house,  it  means  the  whole  We  hope  all  of  you  will  always  pierces  the  Appalachian  Moufl­ have  smooth  sailing,  good  food,  Roosevelt  and  to  see  the  ship  house.  ains  with  easy  grades  and  tun­ happiness  and  prosperity.  models  collected  by  the  late  As  Ship's  Delegate  on  many  aels.  Paul  Morris  President.  other  ships  ere  this  one,  it  has  j  This  $1.50  toll  road  takes  you  Ship's  Delegate  We  traveled  about  300  miles  been  my  privilege  and  pleasure  ilmost  all  the  way  from  Harris­ SS  Fairport  a  day  and  spent  the  nights  in  to  notice  things  that  otherwise  purg  to  Pittsburgh,  and  you  motels.  We  preferred  motels  to  practically  roll  along  for  171  other  tourist  accommodations  pailes  without  an  intersection  or  JOHN  (BANANAS)  ZIEREIS  because  they  are  located  out­ oplight.  side  of  cities  and  eliminate  the.  It  was  grand  to  be  back  with  ler House,  an ancient hotel  which  parking  problem  and  the  hand­ >ld  friends  in  the  hometown,  contains  the  original  "Face  Upon  ling  of  grips.  owed  the  two  Seafarers' films  the  Floor."  You  probably  know  With  a  famous  guidebook  at  they  had  seen  the  women  from  is is  the SIU"  and  "The  Wall  the  old  ballad  it  inspired^  hand,  we  had  no  difficulty  in  To  the  Editor:  the  cities  of  Hull,  Immingham  |  " 'Twas  a  balmy  summer  even­ Street  Strike"  three  times  while  finding  good  places  at  which  to  Some  time  has  passed  since  I  and  Grimsby  fovmd  it  cosUy.  ing,  and  a  goodly  crowd  was  lere—once  before  a  group  of  eat.  We  liked  the  Western  wait­ penned  some  scuttlebutt  for  the  Further  more,  they  herded  the  there.  cal  business  men  and  their  resses,  who  bid  you  Good  Morn­ amilies,  again  before  a  group  of  Which  well­nigh filled  Joe's  ing  and  serve  you  a  hot  cup  of  LOG  from  here  and  yon,  but  boys  around  to  keep  the  local  bar­room  on  the  corner  of  coffee  when they  bring the  menu  have  decided  that  this  trip  has  gals  from  infringing  on  their  VFL  and  CIO  members,  and  an­ been  so  good  that  I  would  drop  boy  friends.  the  square;  rther  time  for  some  professional  at  breakfast  time,  an^  pour  you  a  few  lines.  neil and friends'of  my old  neigh­ And 6s songs  and  witty  stories  the  second  cup  when  the  meal  NO  CHAIN  SMOKING  came  through  ihe  open  door,  We  made* the  Port  of  Imming­ Cigarettes are something else, r* lorhood  in  Dubuque.  arrives.  These  two  films  were  also  A  vagabond  crept  slowly  in  For  future  reference  in  plan­ ham,  Englaftd,  which  is  between  Here you are allowed one carton and  posed  upon  the floor."  hown  in  Colorado Springs,  Colo­ ning  another  vacation,  we  kept  the  ports  of  Grimsby  and  HuU.  per eight days. No exceptions. ado,  before  120  residents  at  the  Our  preoccupation  in  Texas  a  record  of  expenses,and  know  It  is  a  very  nice  place.  The  wo­ You're allowed one poimd Jnion  Printers'  Home.  The  In­ and  Kansas  was  with  weather.  what  the  trip  cost  us.  We  have  men  are  something  to  write  tobacco for each carton of cig- j ernational  Typographical  Union  It  can  almost  literally  be  a  mat­ been  asked  whether  a  recrea­ home  about.  There  are  about  arettes, .if you prefer pipe smok- ! as  a  beautiful  set­up  for  its  ter  of  life  or  death.  We  saw  the  tional  motor  trip  is  worth  the  eight  of  them  to  every  man.  ing. . ( nembers,  as  you  will  see  from  clouds  burst  wide  open  one  day  cost.  Our  answer" is POS­I­TIVE­ Guys  who went  with girls  who  Brother  Stone  who  was  Agent  :  he  photograph.  near  Dalhart,  Texas.  And,  man,  LY.  had  come  across  the  island  from  in  Galveston  some  years  ago  is  Favorable  comments  were  for  seven  miles  we  had  to  creep  John  A.  Ziereis  the  city  of  Manchester  before  aboard  this  ship  and  the  boys  tiade  by  all  four  groups  who  along  at five  miles  an  hour  have  given  him  the  name  ol  iw  the films,  and  many  ques­ through  a  rain,  wind,  and  hail  "Deacon."  ;ons  were  asked  on  the  Hiring  storm  the  violence  of  which  I  Well,  right  now  we  are  in  the  lall  and  Union  procedures.  One  have  seldom  seen  —  and  I  am  small  town  of  Narvick,  Norway*  rinter  commented  to  me  that  used  to  battling  the  elements  The  Romeos  don't  get  off  with  ,  be  spirit  of  the  SIU  seems  to  at  sea.  ,  about  the  threat  of  this  condi­ these  women,, for  the  odds  are  ,  To  the  Editor:  e progressive,  and  that he  would  Even  with  lights on  and  wind­ tion  to  higher  standards  else­ not  so  much.  ke to  see more  Union­sponsored  shield  wiper  going,  the  visibility­ This  is  to  let  you  know  that  This  ship  is  a  very  fair  ship.  ducational films.  was  exactly  zei'o.  At  Wichita,  the  American  tanker  has  chang­ where  in  the world.  The  Captain  worries  about  the  Tourist  traffic  was  heaviest  in  Kansas, five  inches  of  rain  had  ed  her flag  to Liberian.  Now  she  I have  been  receiving the SEA­ crew.  A  few  more  trips  and  olorado,  and  for  good  reason,  fallen  in  forty  minutes,  and  we  is  sailing  with  a  German  crew  FARERS  LOG  for  a  number  of  everything  will  really  be  in  '^ery  little  in  the  world  (and  I  splashed  through  jhuddy  waters  With  the  rate  of  pay  for  ABs  years  and  I  appreciated  it  very  shape.  much.  I have  missed  the last  few  ave  seen  much  of  it)  can ^com­ up to  the hub  of  the car  in  cross­ at  $70  a  month.  are  to  the  scenery  of  Colorado.  ing  the flooded  areas  of  that  This  ship  carries  a  crew  of  38  issues.  Please  send  it  to  me  To  all  my  friends  and  Broth­ ers—my  best  regards  and  keep  In  Colorado,  we  passed' ghost  state.  Never  will  I  forget  that  men,  who  came  from  the  30­ again.  illages  where  gold  mines  once  day! Nor  the landscape  of  Kansas  40,000  seamen  beached  in  Ger­ Your  paper  is  like  bread  and  them  sailing.  Steady  as she  goes.  "The  Beachcombef*  .  Eooped  out  easy  money.  Inci­ with  its  giant  wheat  elevators  many.  Ihe  German  union  offic­ butter  in  my  life.  ^  Book  No.  16  Frank  Pietsak  entally, if  you should  ever drive  like  s^scrapers, oil  wells  pump­ ials  are  doing  nothing  about  this  SS  Strathcape  Bremen,  Germany  • om Cripple  Creek/to  Colorado  ing  dway  like  crazy, fine  herds  matter, and I  have, been  warning  To  the  Editor:  The  Vacationing  Ziereises  Show  SIU  Films  As  Highlight  Of  Cross­Country  Auto  Trip  British Gals Worth Writing  Home About—So He Writes  Cut­Rate  Foreign  Crews  Held  Threat  To  US  Seamen  �F&ge  TJIE SEAFARERS LO^ rridar^ SUptooaber  4^  In  "  CHAPTER  IS  THE  FIGHTING  HENRY  BACON  By  JOHN  BUNKER  No  better  finale  to  the  story  of  SIU  ships  in  World  War  II could  be  written  than  the  epic  ac­ count  of  the  SS  Henry  Bacon,  an  SlU­manned  Liberty  operated  by  the South  Atlantic  Steam­ ship  Company.  Cold  were the  Artie waters and forbidding  was  the sky  when  the  Henry  Bacon  added  its  name  to  the  list  of  valiant  fighting  freighters.  Besides  her  crew,  the Henry  Bacon  carried  19  Norwegian  refugees  as  p^sengers,  .when  she  headed  back  toward  Scotland  after  a  voyage  to  Murmansk,  North  Russia, in  the early  winter  of  1945.  After  leaving  the  White  Sea,  the  Bacon  had  been  in  convoy,  only  to  lose  contact  with  it  on  the 19th of  February  because  of  heavy  weather.  She  rejoined  it  on  the  20th,  then  dropped  out  again  two  days  later  when  trouble  developed  with  the steering  gear.  A  heavy  gale  was  blow­ By  BILL  DI  smoke  pouring  from  his  engine.­  He  probably  Scott  counted  the  regular  crew  assigned  to  i:h€|j  crashed  into  the steep,  green  seas soon  after,  but  boati^  and  then  caUed  to  the deck  above for  halflj  the crew  had  no  time  to worry  about  verifying  a  dozen  more  to  climb  dpwn  over  the  scramble  their  hits.  >  •   nets  and  take  their  places  between  the  thwarts  \\^en  the  Germans  swooped  down  on  the  un­ BOSUN  LEMMON  ,  accompanied  Bacon  they  probably  ware  expect­ During  this time  Bosun  Holcomb  Lenunon  was  ing  an  easy  time  of  it. Three  or  four  torpedoes  making  what  the  survivors  later  described  a  and the laboring  Liberty  would siidc  beneath  the  "heroic  efforts"  to  help  his shipmates  over  t'  waves,  they  no  doubt  thought.  If  they  expected  side  into  lifeboats  and  unto  several  life  r  any resistance  at all,  they  were  certainly  unpre­ which had  been launched into the chilling waters]  pared for  the flame and fire of  battle with which  This  done,  he  hurried  about  the  sinking  shi  the 'men  of  the "Bacon  met  this  overpowering  gathering  boards  to  lash  together  as  emergen  assaiilt.  rafts.  MORE  AMMUNITION  The  Henry  Bacon  was  slowly  sinking.  Watt  ing, and  Captain  Alfred  Carini  radioed  his plight  was  pouring  into  her  holds.  The  black  gang  he  The  20­mfllimeters  stopped  firing  long  enough  the  convoy  while  the  black  gang  worked  on  I! f'-- to  the steering mechanism.  only  to  load  more  ammimition,  to  change over­ left  the  engineroom  and  all  was  deserted  do\  heated  barrels.  A  bomber  which  tried  to  get in  below.  ]Kt  by  bit  the  cold  water  rose  bight  CONTACT  LOST  at  the  ship  from  dead  ahead  ran  into  a  storm  around  her  rust  streaked  side  plates.  I'  With  this  finally  fixed,  the  Bacon  proceeded,  of  this  small  shellfire  and  disintegrated  into  a  One  of  the  men  assigned  to  a  place  in  th^  meeting  up  with  more  moderate  seas,  but  see­ thousand  pieces,  as  tracers  found  the  torpedo  Third  Mate's  boat  was  Chief  Engineer  Donalc  ing  no feign  of  her  companions  which.  Captain  slvmg  beneath the  fuselage  and  blew^  up  plane  Haviland,  who  climbed  over  the  side  into  Carini then  decided,  they  must  have  passed  dur­ and  occupants  in  a  terrible  explosion  of  steel  bt^foing  craft  only  to  decline  his  chance for  ing the night  as they  hmried  to  rejoin  the fleet;  and  flaming  debris.  cue in favor  of  a yoimg  crewman. The  Chief  hac  Having  lost  radio  contact,  and  there  being  no  Torpedo  after  torpedo  missed  the  ship  when  already  taken  a  seat  in  the  boat  when,  lookim  response to his messages, he decided to turn  back  the  pilots  faltered  in  their  aim  in  the  fa^  of  up at  the  men  still  left  on  the Bacon's  deck,  h«  over  his  course for  just  one hour  in  the hope of  such concentrated  fire from this fighting laherty.  saw  among  the  forlorn  group  a  youthful  crt  picking  up  their  companion  ships.  For  twenty  minutes  the  gunners  of  the  Henry  man  staring  down  at  those  who  were  about  t«  It  was  while  doubling  back  on  her  wake  that  Bacon,  standing  side  by  side  withrthe  men  of  push away  from  the settling  hulk.  •  the  Henry  Bacon  was  suddenly  attacked  by  a  the  merchant  crew,  held  off  this  armada  of  Deserting  his  own  place  in  the  boat,  Mr. Havl|  huge  flight  of  23  torpedo  planes  that  pounced  Junkers  bombers  that  had  by  now  become  so  . iland  yelled  to  the  lad  to  hurry  down  the  nel|  upon  the  lone  Liberty  almost  as  soon  as  the  madly  exasperated  by  the heroic  defense  of  the  and  taike  his  chapce  for  safety.  thundering  roar  oi  their  engines  was  heard  ship that, once  their torpedoes were wasted,  they  SO LONG,  BROTHERS  through  the  leaden  sky,  sending  the  crew'run­ flew  at  her  with  machine  guns  blazing.  ning  to  battle  stations.  "Hey,  you,"  he  called. "You're  a  young  fellow]  Bol such  a fleet  of  planes  h^ only  to  persist,  Twenty­three  planes  against  one  merchant  matter  so  much  if  I  don't  get  back."  if  nothing else,  to foe successful  against  one  un­ It  won't  •  •  •   sh^J  It  was  odds  enough  for  a  battleship  or  a  escorted ship, and  a torpedo finally hit the Henry  _  •   As  the Henry  Bacon went down,  the survivor]  cruiser.  Many  a  big  aircraft carrier  that  thought  Bacon  on  the  starboard  side  in  number­three  in  the  lifeboats  saw  Chief  Engineer  Havilamj  itself  hard  pressed in  the Pacific  thxmdered  back  hold,  forward.  When  another  tin  fish  found  its  leaning  against  the  bulwarks  with  Bosup  Hoi  at half  as  much  opposition  with  a  himdred tim^  ,  mark soon after. Captain  Carini ordered  the ship  comb  Lemmon,  as  casually  as  though  the  shi^  the  firepower  that  this  unattended  freighter  was leaving the dock  for another  routine voyaj  could  muster  for  its  defense  there  amid  the»  to  be  abandoned.  Weak,  rolling  waters.  There  Was  not  another^  NOT  ALL  LEAVE  ship around  upon  whkdi  to  call  for  help.  • fhe fateful  signal to  "leave  her"  was  sounded  The  bombers­w^re  Junkers  88s,  coming  in  off.  in  long,  solemn  blasts  from  the  whistle  while  the starboard  bow  in  an  extended,  wing­to­wing  the  Juhkers—about  eight  or  nine  fewer  than  formation,  nh more  than  30­feet  above  the  jum­ when  they  had  begun  the  fight—roared  away  bled  wave  tops.  ­ from  the  scene  toward  the coast  of  Norway  200  miles  to  the  east.  The  doughty  Bacon  had  kept  ALL  GUNS  WORKING  them  in  action  longer  than  they  wanted.  Every  gun  on  the  Bacon  went  into  action  as  Captain  Carini  waved  to  them, from  the  brie  Witih their gas  gettiuig  low,  they could  find  no  and,  as  he  did  so,  the  Henry  Bacon  slid  swiftlj  socn  as  the  canvas  covers  could  be  jerked  off  the barrels,  and^ the  magazines  clamped  onto  the  satisfaction  in  winging  around  as  this "bulldog"  and  quietly  under  the  sea.  ,  breech of  the 20­millimeters.  The sky  around  the  settled  beneath  the  waves.  *  A  big  wave rolled  over  the spot  and  soon  or  ship was  pocked  with shell  bursts as  the fighting  The  order  from  the  Skipper  was  "passengers  some  floating  boards  and  crates  marked  wl  \ merchantmen and the vessel's armed guard drove  first" and,  though  two­of  the lifeboats  had, been  this  gallant  fighting  freighter  of  the  SIU  hAj  • off sally  ofter  sally  by  those  audacious  bombers  smashed  in  high  seas,  the  Norwegian  refugees—  written  such  a  glorious  chapter  into  the  anna^  that  attacked  simultaneously,  one to a  side,  dart­ man,  women and  children—^were  put safely  over  of  the  American  merchant  service.  ing  away  through  a  hail  of  20­millimeter  shells.  the Side  into  the first  boat  launched,  along  with  The gun on  the bow  boomed out at point  blank  some of  the merchant  crew  and  Navy  gunners.  This  is  the  concluding  article  of  the  seri  range,  blowing one  bomber  to  pieces  as  it  baiik­ Into the second  lifeboat  went  as many more  as  ­ed  and exposed its  belly to tbe Beacon's  forward  could  be  accomodated.  It could  not  possibly  hold  "Seafarers  In  World  War  11"  by  John  Bunfej  ;gun.  Another  Nazi  nosed  into  a  wall  of  20­milli­ them  all,  but  still  there  W&s  no  rush  for  seats  which  will  be  reprinted  in  bodk  form  in  meter'fire  and  dived  into  the  sea  in. flames.  A  of  safety.  These  SIU  crewmen^ and  their  Navy  very  near  future.  .  ""  third  wobbled  aimlessly  over  the  waves  with  comrades  waited  quietly  aS^Third  Mate  Joseph  I'  j'j  ii'.ifrfSi •   .  iT''i 'i  �v'";  Friday, S«pi«ipbez  15,  1950  r H  E  SEAFARERS  LOG  1' ­ • ' •  ^  t  Page Eli  'mm  ;  BALTIMORE—Chairman.  WU­ of  its  membership.  Motion  car­ iiam  Rents,  26445;  Recording  ried  to  concur  in  Headquarters  Secretary,  A1  Stansbury,  4683;  report  and  to  accept  its  recom­ Reading  Clerk.  G.  A.  Masterson,  mendations.  Port  Agent  discuss­ 20297.  REG.  REG.  REG.  TOTAL  SHIPPED  SHIPPED  SHIPPED  TOTAL  ed  port  shipping.  Motion  carried  .  The  following  men  took  the  PORT  DECK  ENG.  STWDS.  REG.  DECK^  ENG.  STWDS.  SHIPPED  to  accept  Quarterly  Finance  Union  Oath  of  Obligation:  F.  R.  Committee's  report  as  read.  26  22  12.  60  46  36  29  Wilt,  Fred  Israel,  and  Pedro  Boston  111'  Meeting  adjourned  at  7:45  PM.  134  12fi  171  431  110  .  105  91  Floras.  Charges  wei^  read  and  New  York  306  *  *  *  .30  23  28  81  19'.^  9  13  following  trial  committeemen' Philadelphia.....—  41  NORFOLK—Not  enough  mem­^  93  97  66  256  ­  Ill  elected:  R.  Waters,  B.  W.  Sher­ Baltimore  89  49  249  bers  being  present  to  constitute  12  9  6  27  21  5  man,  O.  Payne,  Fred  Israel  and  Norfolk  42  a  forum,  a  special  meeting  was  3  7  2  12  |5  Carl  Gibbs.  Minutes  of  all  Savannah.....  11  2  18  held  to check  the  shipping  cards.  11  10  8  29  As  16  Branch  meetings  read  and  ap­ Tampa..  12  46  *  *  *  67  Mobile.......  47  40  154  54  52  47  proV'Sd.  Motions  carried  to  con­ 153  GALVESTON  —Chairman,  .  44  41  59  144  70  73  cur  in  Headquarters  and  Secre­ New  Orleans  92  235  Keith  Alsop,  7311; Recording Sec­ 35  26  23  84  42  32  . tary­Treasurer's financial  report.  Galveston  25  99  retary.  W.  Wilbura,  37739;  Head­ 62  38  45  145  70  Port  .Agent  discussed  shipping  West  Coast............  03  54  187  ing  Clerk.  C. M.  Tannehill,  25822.  in  the  port.  Motion  (by  B.  L.  517  GRAND  TOTAL..  460  446  1,423  561  507  419  1,487  Minutes  of  previous  meetings  Robbins)  carried  to  go  on  record  in  aU  Branches  read  and  approv­ in  support  of  the  CIO  Shipyard  ed.  Motion  carried  to  accept  the  coming  two  weeks  does  not  room.  Oath  of  Obligation  admin­ before  trial  committee.  Minutes  Workers  striking  at  Fairfield.  Headquarters  report  and  Secre­ look  too  good,  since  the  major­ istered  to  John  F.  Harden.  Meet­ 'of  other  Branch  meetings  read  Under  Good  and.  Welfare,  sev­ tary­Treasurer's financial  report  ity  of  the  ships  coming  in  are  ing  adjourned  at  7:40  I^,  with  and  accepted.  Agent  Lindsey  eral  members  talked  about  the  as  read.  Agent  reported  on  ship­ coastwise  payoffs.  The  Fairisle  215  members  present.  Williams  reported  that  affairs  of  advisability  of  taking  up  a  col­ ping  in  this  port,  which  he  des­ %  %  %>  port  were  in  good  shape  and  lection  for  a  television  set  for  is  due  to  crew  up  on  September  cribed  as  pretty  good.  Meeting  bur  members  in  the  Baltimore  15,  he  said.  He  said  a  commu­ SAir  FRANCISCO—Chairman,  that  shipping  had  exceeded  the  Marine  Hospital.  It  was  recom­ nication  has  been  received  from  Lloyd  Gardner.  3897;  Recording  number  of  men  registering,  be­ adjourned  at  7:35  PM.  *  *  *  mended  that  a  collection  box  be  Gardner  on  the  West  Gk>ast  stat­ Secretary,  Frank  CoUins,  102120;  cause  of  the  crewing  up  of  four  WILMINGTON  —  No  regular  ing  that  shipping  is  very,  good  Reading  Clerk,  Harold  Fischer.  ships.  The  outlook  for  the  com­ out  there  for  ail  ratings.  He  59,  ing  two  wcclts  is  not  too  good,  meeting  was  held  because  of  a  ./  suggested  that  qualified  men way  Motion  caiTled' to  suspend  reg­ he  said,  with  only five  payoffs  lack  of  a  quorum.  down  on  the  local  shipping  list  ular  order  of  business  to  elwt  scheduled  and  no  ships  crewing  could  get  jobs  on  the  Coast  as  Trial  Conunittee. Following  elect­ up .out  of  the  boneyard.  Motion  there  is  a  large  fleet  there  and  ed: M.  Bm­nstine, W.  R.  Flaherty,  carried  to  accept  and  concur  in  it  is  growing.  The  Agent  con­ W.  R.  Thompson,  John  Sullivan,  Brother  Williams'  report  and  ex­ cluded  his  report  by  annoxmcing  W.  O'DonneU.  Motion  carried  to  tend  him  a  vote  of  confidence.  filaced  at  Dispatcher's  window,  that  he  had  met  with  Col.  How­ accept  Headquarters  report  as  Communications  from  Brothers  so  that  anyone  wishing  to  con­ ell,  Director  of  the  Alabama  seeking  to  be  excused from  meet­ By  L.  M.  BRYANT  tribute  may  do  so.  Agent  to  pur­ Selective  Service  System.  ing  were  referred  to"  the  Dis­ chase  the  set  when  sufficient  Groundwork  was  laid,  he  said,  patcher.  Headquarters  report  to  SAVANNAH  —  Shipping  was  funds  have  been  collected.  Meet­ for  future  meetings  to  be  held  the  membership  read  and  con­ slow  during  the  past  couple  of  ing  adjourned  at  8:05  PM,  with  sometime  around  the  first  week  curred  in.  Committee  report  rec­ weeks,  but  was  a  little  better  of  October  concerning  defer­ 241  members  present.  ommending  the  reinstatement  of  than  it  had  been  at  any  time  ment  of  essential  ratings  In  the  read.  Secretary ­ Treasurer's  re­ two  Brothers  read  and  concurred  in  the  past month.  Although  only­ i  i,  i.  MOBILE  —  Chairman.  S.  P.  maritime  industry.  Motion  car­ port  read  and  approved.  Minutes  in.  Motion  carri^  to. have  com­ one  vessel  paid  off  and  signed  Morris,  44484;  Recording  Secre­ ried  to  concur  in  recommenda­ of  other  Branch  meetings  read  mittee  of five  bookmemiaers from  on  we  had  four  ships  in­transit.  tary,  J.  Carroll,  14;  Reading  tions  made  in  Headquarters  re­ and  accepted. Agent reported  and  Group  No.  1  of" Stewards  De­ The  payoff  and  sign­on  took  port.  Motions  carried  to  accept  said  that  there  were  two  smooth  partment  study  request  of  Or­ place  aboard  the  SS  Southland,  Clerk,  L.  Neira,  26393.  Minutes  of  previous  meetings  Secretary ­ Treasurer's  financial  payoffs  in  the  past  10  days—Coe  ville  Payne  for  extension  of  his  South  'Atlantic.  There  were  no  in  all  ports  read  and  approved.  report  and  to  purchase  a  radio  Victory"  and  Southstar.  There  shipping  card.  Motion  carried  at  beefs  to  mar  the  proceedings.  Agent  said  that  shipping  during  for  the  Mobile  Branch  recreation  were  also  20  ships  in­transit  and  8:20  PM  to  adjourn  meeting,  In­transit  were  the  SS  Emilia,  two  sign­ons,  he  said.  He  called  with  260  members  present.  Bull­  and  the  SS  Maiden  Creek,  .  men's  attention  to  circular  put  SS  Raphael  Semmes,  and  S3  *  *  *  out  by  Coast  Guard  asking  men  SAVANNAH  —  No  regular  Kyska,  all  Waterman.  to  turn  in  their  papers  and  get  meeting  was  held  due  to  the  WAITING  TO  SHIP  a  validated  set.  He  advised  rtien  lack  of  a  quorum.. Special  meet­ Waiting  for  shipping  to  im­ to  withhold  action  until  he  Could  ing. _was.  called  io  order  at  7:30  prove  are  a  number  of  Seafarers,  check  on  this.  He  stressed  "need'  PM  to  check  registration  cards  including Brothers  Walter  Breed­ for  A&G  men  to  take  jobs  offer­ of  men  present.  love,  D.  L.  Martin,  Marvin  ed  on  the  board.  Gardner  ex­ Swords,  C.  vA.  Gardner.  K.  O. ^  *  *  *  pressed  pleasure  at  being  on  the  HOMER  D.  HARDIN  BOB  MELOY  Broadway  and  M.  R.  Wickham.  BOSTON­^^ecause  a  sufficient  Coast  and  offered  full  coopera­ •   Please  send  my  radio  to  Jack  Get  in  touch  with  your  mother  tion  to  all  hands.  Communica­ number  ­of  members  was  not  Noth'pg  is  new  on  the  organ­ Parker's  Sea  Hawk,  219  North  at  2312  Daisy  Street,  East  tions, offering  ekcuses referred lo;  present  for  a  quorum,  special  izing  front  in  this  town,  but  Peters,  New  Orleans,  Louisiana:  Chattanooga,  Tennessee.  Dispatcher.  Motion  carried  to  meeting  was  held  to  check  the  every  now  and  then  some  un­ *  *  *  knowing  Brother  rides  a  non­ Teddj.e  MacGregor,  conciu*  in  Trial  Committee's  re­' ;i^pping  cards.  JOSEPH  CIMENO  union  cab.  The  thing  to  do  be­ »  »  t  *  *  *  Your  friend  Bob  Flaherty  port.  Meeting  adjourned  at  8:10  TAMPA  —  Because  a  heavy  fore  you  get  in  a  cab  here  is  to"'  CHARLIE  M.  JONES  would  like  to  hear  from­you  at  P.M.,  with  79  members  in  atten­ storm  was  at  its height  at  meet­ ask  the  driver  to  show  you  his  Contact  your  mother.  Import­ the  San  Francisco  Branch.  dance.  ^  ing  fime,  and  there  was  no  union  book.  ant.  *  *  *  *  *  *  means  of  transportation  in  the  Several  of  our  Brothers  are  in  PHILADELPHIA  —  Chairman;  3;  t  i  THOMAS  RISHDIDGER  cfty,  itr  was  impossible  to  hold  the  local  Marine  Hospital.  They  JPSEPH  E.  SENNEVILLE  Get  in  touch  with  Mrs.  Shir­ A.  S.  Cardullo,  24599;  Recording  a  meeting.  are  "William  C.  Shealy,  Leo  Kud­ Extremely  impoii^t  that  you  ley  Wessel,  25  South Street,  New  Secretary,  S.  Clark,  49258;  Read­ erand,  W.  J.  Morris  and  Will  contact  Joe  Volpian  at  Head­ York. She has  a message  for  you.  ing  Clerk,  G;  Seebecger,  6932,  *  *  3r  Jones.  Pay  them  a  visit  or  drop  Minutes  of  previous  meeting  NEW  YOTK—Chairman,  Earl  quarters.  *  *  *  them  a  line,  if  you're  a  friend  in  all  Branches  read  and  accept­ S^pp^d,  203;  Recording  'Secre­ DONALD RUNDBLAD *  t  %  or  former  shipmate.  These  lads  ^  RUDOLPH  CEFBRATTI  Please  contact  S.  W.  Miller  ed.  Agent  reported  on  the  state  tary,  Fr'eddie  Stewart,  4935;  will  appreciate  it.  Notify  your  loc^  boaid  of  c/o  Ben  Sterling,  45  Broadway,  of  shipping, pointing  out  that  the  Reading. Clerk,  Robert  Matthews.  job  situation  has  not  been  as  154.  your  whereabouts  immediately.  New  York  City.  Urgent.  good  as  in  the  previous  periods.  Motions  carried  to  accept  min­ Motion  carried  to  refer  excuses  utes  of­other  Branch  meetings  VINCENT  CHAVEZ  to  the  Di^atcher.  Motion  (by  as read.­Secretary­Treasurer's  re­ Write  to  Angelo  and  to  Mr,  Skee)  carried,  calling  for election  port  read  and  motion  carried  to  and  Mrs.  Franco,  Capetowni  SA.  of  building  committee. Secretary­ accept  dpd­refer  to auditing com­ it*  Treasurer's financial  report  read  mittee.  Ii!|r  Headquarters  report,  PAUL  PETAK  and  approved.  Motion  carried  to  Secretary^reasurer  reported  on  MM  Extremely  important  that  you  concur  in. Headquarters report  as  progress  of.,jCities  Service  nego­ SS  ALCOA  PIONEER  wire  or  cable  yoim  local  Draft  tiations.  He  also  explained  shift­ Regarding  the  oveiTime  beef  read.  Board  at  once—giving  the'fvame  ing  of  officials­4o  West  Coast  to  aboard  this  vessel  at  the  payoff  ^  MV  PONCE  *  *  *  p£  the  ship  and  the  company  by  The following men have mdney  NEW  ORLEANS  —  Chairman,  meet  demands  made  by  heavier  in  New  York  on  June  16,  1959,  whom  you  are  presently  em­ due  at  the  cMffice  of  the  Ponce  Leroy  Clarke,  23082;  Recording  shipping  fronrdhaf area  as  e re­ investigation  shows  that  in Haifa  ployed.  Cement  .Corp.  for  cement  pen­ Secretary,  James  Tucker.  2209;  sult  of  the  "Ebrean  war.  The  shore  leave  passes  are  issued  by  *  *  *  explained  the  Port  Marine  Police  during  alty.  It  can  be  obtained, by  writ­ Reading  Clevk,  Buck  Stephens,  Secretary­Treasurer  WILLIAM  JOHN  CALLY  the  reason  for ­4he  Union  stand  the  daytime  only.  No  passes  are  ing  or  applying,  to  Captain  Os­ 76.  Extremely  important  that  you  car  Williams,  Ponce  Cement  Charges  against member  were  on  the Coast  Guard appeal  board  issued  after  2200  hours.  Since  Wire  or  cable  your  local  Draft  Co  poration,  Playa  Ponce,  Puer­ read  and,  inasmuch,  as  he  was  setup.  He  said  the  Union  could  this  is  the  law  of  the  land,  men  feoard  at  once—giving  the  name  to  Rico.  not  present,  a  motion icarried  to  net  participate  unfiT it  had  been  restricted  to  the  ship  by  the  of  the  ship  and  the  company  by  L.  Bond,  S.  Crespd,  V.  Car­ notify  all  ports  that" ebalr^s''are  apprised  of  Uie  manner to  which  Port  Marine  Police  caimot  be  Whom  you  are  presently  em­ bone,  S.  Carbone,  A.  Cabrera,  pending  in  this  port  unfil  such  the  board  will  operate,  as  a  ^aid­  for*  the  time  involved,  as  ployed.  —.  time  as  he  appears  for  hearing  means  of  protecting  the^  rights  per  agreement.  T.  Jackson,  C.  Gonzalez.  c  A&G Shipping From Aug, 23 Jo Sept 6 Savannah Enjoys  Slight  Pick­Up  Jf^gbes  '  'M'  �Page Twelre  TH E  SEAF ARERS  LOG  f  ', Septombar  15/  • vti Charges  made  by  the Seafarers  wages  paid  on  the  various  ships.  to  share  the  few  lockers  avail­ deck.  EigM ships  had  one  mess­ (Crejj^  accommodations,  hours  of  iiiiernational  Union  and  its affili­ A  differential  exists  even  where  able.  room  for  an  hands.  work,  overtime  at  sea, * inspec­*  ates  in  the  International  Trans­ the  crews  of  several  ships  may  Half  of  the ships inspected  had  From  the  standpoint  of  the  tion .of  shipboard  working ,  con­,  portworkers  Federation  that  Pa­ be  of  one  nationality.  no  .seats  at  all.  '  crew's  health,  the  conunittee  ditions  and  food  and  patering  namanian­flag  ships  undermine  Monthly  wages  for. ABs  ran  In  four  cases,  there  was  no  viewed  the  vessels  as  particu­ aboard  ship.  the security  of  seamen  the  world  anywhere  from  $70  to  $170.  In  heating  of  any  kind,  while  two  larly  hazardous.  Half  of  the  30  The  ILO  also  found  that  be­ over  have  been  substantiated  by  some instances  crewmembers told  ships  used  coal  stoves.  ships  checked  had  inadequate  cause'  most  of  the  ships  regis­ an  investigation  conducted  by  members  of  the  investigating  Lighting  facilities  were  rated  sanitary  facilities  tered  under  the  Panamanian  the  International  Lhbor  Organi­ committee  that  they  were  not  poor  in  nine  cases.  Ventilation,  A  portion  of  the  ILO's  report,  flag  did. not»go  there  for  the  act  paid  the  amounts  which  ­were  other  than  portholes,  were  non­ released  by  the  ITF  earlier  this  of  registry  and  generally  do  not  zation.  agreed  upon  at  the  signing  of  existent  on  11 ships.  year  and  published  in  the­SEA­ trade' to  and  from  Panama  ports,  •   The  ILO  probe  got  under  way  articles.  Five  of  the  Panamanian  ships  FARERS  LOG,  pointed  out  that  it is  obvious  that  no inspection  is  after  the  ITF  filed  protests  that  shipowners  were  transferring  On  several  of  the  vessels  no  had  no  messrooms  and  the crew­ Panamanian  maritime  regula­ made  by ­  authorities  when  the  tonnage  to  Panama  to  escape  lockers  were  provided  for  the  members  had  to  eat  their  meals  tions  contain  no  provisions  cov­ ships  are  received  into  the  coun­ taxes,  ­strict  manning  and  wage  crewmen,  on  others  the  men  had  in  their  own  quarters  or  out  on  ering  maniiing  requirements.  try's  merchant  marine.  scales  and  other  conditions  in  force  in  legitimate  maritime  na­ tions.  An  ILO  investigating  commit­ tee  selected  at  random  30  Pana­ manian  ships  of  different  char­ acter  for  spot­checking.  The  ships  visited  were  located  in  ports  in  the  United  States,  Uni­ ted  Kingdom,  Belgium,  France,  Egypt  and  Italy,  and  ranged  in  Because  of  the  expressed interest  of  several, members,  a  mild  boom.  As  a  result,  not  only  the  bookmembers  but  size  from  771  to  22,300  tons.  here  are  the  names  and  runs  of  the  five  Seatrains:  The  the permits  passed  up  jobs on  the  board,  which  resulted  in  They  included  passenger,  mixed­ Seatrains  Texas  and  New­Jersey  run  their  load  of  freight  fifty­seven  tripcard  men  getting  out  of  the  Hall  during  passenger  and  cargo,  tramp  and  cars to  New  Orleans and  Texas  City from  Edgewater,  N.J.;  the month  of  August,  covering  all ratings. When  the boom  tanker  vessels.  The Seatrains  New  York  and  Havana  run  from  Edgewater  slowed  down  and  the  bookmen  started  throwing  in  fof  CHECKED  EVERYTHING  to  Texas  City  and  back.  The  Seatrain  New  Orleans  is  at  the  jobs,  you  could  hear  the  cussing  and  groaning  a  long  The' investigators  observed  the  present  out  of  operation.  Havana  was  formerly  a  port  of  way  off.  Luckily  for  the permit  membership,  despite  their  H'iK  ships'  general  characteristics,  call for  these ships  until  they  ran  afoul  of  a  recently  pass­ action,  no  noticeable  influx  of  permits  resulted  due  to  ac­ 5­­ safety  standards  and  social  and  ed  Cuban  regulation.  tion  by  Headquarters  officials  and  Port  Agents,  but  per­ labor  conditions.  Karl  Karlsson,  who  was  doing  quite  a  bit  of  romanc­ mitmen  should  remember  that,  for  their  own  protection,  Highlights  of  the  committee's  ing  around  town,  wishes  to  inform  his  friends  and  ship­ they  should  not  turn  down  jobs  even^n  boom  times,  or  findings  were  these:  mates  that  he  has  received  his  full  citizenship  papers  and  they  will some  day find  the competition  among  themselves  The  majority  of  the  ships  had  inferior  lifeboat  and  other  safety  therefore  does  not  wish  to.be  called, a  box­head  anymore.  tougher  than at  present. Continued  shipping  of  white cards  W­:  f''  •  '  'U, • equipment.  So help  me,  that's  just  what  he said! . . . All members  who  will  eventually  result  in­ issuance  of  more  permits,  and  Conditions  of  employment  var­ are  interested  in  sailing  Cities  Service  ships  should  carry  you  know  who  feels  the  efiect  of  such  action—not  ths  ied  with  almost  every  ship.  their  discharges  with  them.  This  bitterly  anti­Union  outfit  bookmembers.  Sometimes, on  a single  ship  there  would  be  different  contracts  for  has a  policy  that  requires  potential  employees  to show  dis­ different  members  of  the  crew.  charges  .  .  .  George  Bryan,  Cook  and  Steward,  ready  to  There  is  a  wide  spread  in  ship.  Rest  assured  the  gang  he  feeds  will  be  satisfied  The  Trial  Committee  is  still  grinning  about  some  char­ acter  that  went  aboard  a  Cities Service  ship and  represent­ ed  himself  as  a  special  representative  of  the  Union,  sent  aboard  to  straighten  her  out.  Seems  he  messed  her  up  The  conditions  under  which  to  raise  such  questions,"  said  more  than  ever  and  was  given  an  extended  vacation,  both  Russian  sailors  work  have  been  Kustin.  revealed  by  Enno  Kustin,  an  Es­ by  the  company  and  the  Union.  The  political  chief  at  these  By  CAL  TANNER  Congratulations  to  the  crew  of  the  SS  Puerto  Rico.  tonian  who  deserted  from  the  meetings,  said  Kustin,  expects  • !^­ , ^  '  MOBILE—There  were  enough  This  crew  is  well  represented  at  every  meeting.  Crews  Tosno.  To  get  a  seaman's  jols,  one  to  hear  whether  each  man  has  ships  in  this  port"  during  the  aboard  other  SIU  ships,  in  port  on  meeting  night,  take  must  go  to  school.  To  be  ac­ filled  his  working  quota.  past  two  weeks  to  enable  ship­ ping  to  hold  its  own.  Job  oppor­ notice ... If  you  are  a  potential .draftee,  don't  kid  your­ cepted,  ope  must  furnish:  a  For  breakfast  the  men  get  tunities  roughly  equaled  those  of  self  into  thinking  that  by  not  opening  or  accepting  notices  written  recommendation  signed  tea,  butter,  sugar,,  bread;  for  from  the  draft  board,  you  will  delay  your  day  of  judg­ by  three  members  of  the  com­ lunch,  soup,  meat,  boiled  fruit;  the  previous  period.  munist  party;  a  testimonial  from  for  afternoon  meal,  same  as  Seven  ships  paid  off:  the  An­ ment.  That  is  one  of  the  surest  ways  to  insure  yourself  his  last  employer:  a  certificate  breakfast;  for  supper,  soup  ot  tinous,  Alcoa  Pointer,  Monarch  of  a  buck  private's  job  and  the  honor of  singing  the "Cais­ from  the ideal  police;  six  photos;  cereal  and  a  meat  dish.  of  the Seas,  Alcoa Clipper, Morn­ son  Song"  in  a  khaki  imiform.  Worse  yet,  no  promotions  information  about  any  relatives  ing  Light,  De  Soto  and  William  y­.  allowed  . . . For  the  benefit  of  those  just  returning  from  living  abroad.  H.  Carruth,  Those  with  parents  living  in  All  of  these  vessels  were  in  a  trip,  Henry  "Cut  and  Run  Hank"  Piekutowski  passed  the  Soviet  Union  are  preferred.  good  shape.  Only  a  few  minor  away" recently.  If  you  are  interested ^in  the  "tarpaulin  The  applicant  also  must  appear  beefs  existed  on  any  of  them,  muster"  for  the  benefit  of  Hank's  young  daughter  and  before  the  Political  Commission,  and  all  were  settled  to  the  satis­ parents,  see  any  of  the  Port  Agents.  which  has  the  last  word.  faction  of  the  crews  involved.  Red  Mosher  has  been  seen  trying  tj)  play  Romeo  to  a  Kustin,  as  an  ordinary  sea­ The  Alcoa  Pointer  signed  on  man,  got  465  rubles  a  month  again,  and  was  joined  by  the  lass  who, ^we  understand,  "works  for  the  Manufacturers  ($37.20).  Compulsory  deductions  (Continued  from  Poge  1)  V  Ij  Fairhope,  Warrior,  Fairisle  and  Trust  Company.  Unfortunately  for  Red,  she seems  to  have  included  income  tax;  childless­ Carroll  Victory.  left  all  her  trust  in  the  Manufacturers  Trust.  You'lt never  ness  tax,  state  loan,  and  trade  Plan  ended  in 1952.  The  commit­]  go  hungry.  Red.  You're  getting  cold  shoulder  now.  and  if  union  contribution.  Overtime  is  tee  is  headed  by  Gordon  GrayV;  IN­TRANSIT  former  Secretary  of  the  Army.  you  continue  bothering  her  you'll  get  hot  tongue,  (Damn  paid  at  the  regular  rate.  Contributing  to  the  port's  ac­ In  foreign  ports,  special  per­ The  proposal  would  have  halt­ i  tivity  were  four  'in­transit  call­ thing  don't  sound  as  good  as  when  I  started).  mission  is  needed  for  shore  ed  the  50  percent  requirement  Kenny "Kid"  Bancroft,  who  used  to shine  shoes  in  the  ers: the Steel  Flyer,  Azalea  City,  leave.  Seamen  may  not  drink,  that  half  of  all  Marshall  Plan  Del  Santo  and  the  Gateway  Hall,  is  back  in  town  after  making  a  pierhead  jump  on  visit  restaurants  or  write  letters  cargoes  be  carried  in  American  City.  the  Seawind.  He  is  also  in  danger  of  losing  that  permit,  ashore.  bottoms,  reduced  subsidies,  al­ Prospects  for  shipping  in  the  since  both  the  members  and  the  local  piecards  miss  his  lowed  foreign flag  ships  to  entejj  Only  under  special  circum­ next  two  weeks  are  not  too  US  coastwise  trades  and  trans­ bright,  as  things  stand  at  the  fine  shoe  shines  . . . The  New  York  Dispatcher  wishes  it .stances  may  they  visit  a  movie,  ferred  XOO  American  tankers  and  and  then  only  with  a  ship's  offi­ to  be  known  that  registration  cards  which are  picked  up  moment.  Only  the  usual  run  of  freighters to the nations involved.  ships  that  make  this  port  are  on  meeting  night  can  be  retrieved  anytime  before  the  fol­ cer.  scheduled  for  arrival.  lowing  meeting  .  .  .  Tex  Morton  and  his  ever­present  Each  seaman  must  enter  in  a  Senator  Magnuson  said  that  a3  Among  the  Brothers  in  the  flowers  drc^ped  in  while  he  and  the  Robin  Locksley  were  book  all  purchases  made,  and  he  soon  as  he  got  "wind"  of  thai  is  told  what  he  may  or  may  not  suggestion,  he  protested  to  Mr.  Mobile  Marine  Hospital  who  are  in  port  enroute  from  Baltimore  to  let  us  know  that  he  buy.  Gray's  group  and  asked  to  ba  now  receiving  benefits  from  the  hasn't  had  a  drink  for  over  twenty­six  months—let's  see,  A  political chief  is aboard  each  heard  before  any  decision  waa  Seafarers  Welfare  Plan  are  M,  twelve  into  twenty  six  is—^holy  cow—^how  does  the  guy  ship.  He  watches  the  men  in  made.  Morrison,  F. Hobin, *A.  Saavedra,  foreign  ports,  gives  them  politi­ W.  M.  Simpson  and  Tim  Burke.  do  it  and  live?  Congratulations,  Tex,  However,  his  appearance  does  In  port,  hoping  for  that  ship  Don  Rood,  with a  John Stagg  discharge, his smile  and  cal  instructions,  and  distributes  not  appear  to  ba  necessary,  siucei  communist  literature  in  port.  to  come  in,  are S.  Piner,  P. Dro­ the  protest  made  by  the  seago­l  "line  of  you  know  what,"  just  pulled  into  town,  from  zak,  A.  Bell,  E.  D,  Moyd,  Tom  At  union  meetings  there  are  ing  unions  and  shlpowners^^  hdsj  Wilkins,  N.  Larson  and  Fred  Philly  , . . New  York  permits  learned  a  lesson  the  hard  no  discussions  of  working  condi­ resulted  in  "the  thing  being!  way.  During  the first  few  weeks  of  August,­ this  port  had  tions. "It is  dangerous to  attempt  spiked,"  Senator  Magnuson  said.]  Hutto.  Mobile  Shipping  Ordinary  Seaman Gets $37  In Workers'Heaven (Rassia)  Remains  Fair  Protests  Spike  Plan  To  Scuttle  Merchant  Fleet  Ife;­.  � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource September 15, 1950 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XII, No. 18 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Description An account of the resource SEAFARERS REJECTS CG PLAN FOR NEW 'VALIDATED' PAPERS PROTESTS SPIKE PLAN TO SCUTTLE MERCHANT FLEET SEAFARERS LOG WINS 2 AWARDS THE SUPER-SUPERS BEGIN THEIR ALL-OUT ATTACK TAKE THOSE JOBS AS THEY COME, SAYS BALTIMORE AFL ACCUSES REDS OF VIOLATING TRADE UNION AND WORKERS' RIGHTS SHIPS INTO LAY-UP TAKE EDGE OFF GOOD SHIPPING IN NEW YORK BOSTON SHIPPING DOWN FROM PEAK JOB BOOM ON WEST COAST CONTINUES; NO LET-UP IN SIGHT CAMERA ROUNDUP OF SIU CREWS AT SEA THE TALE OF THE 'ANCIENT' MARINER HAS A HAPPY ENDING FOR ALL HANDS J.C. MCINTYRE DIES ABOARD SEATRAIN HAVANA CORSAIR CREWMEN PLAN BLOOD BANK THE SEAFARERS IN WORLD WAR II SAVANNAH ENJOYS SLIGHT PICK-UP ILO EXPOSES POOR PANAMANIAN STANDARDS MOBILE SHIPPING REMAINS FAIR ORDINARY SEAMAN GETS $37 IN WORKERS' HEAVEN Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/15/1950 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1950 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/75a214036f515a9a8ddf04d4eeadf375.PDF 57b7ec554184c3ddab66e12cdb986c9d PDF Text Text SEAFARERSALOG Vol. XXIX No. 19 September 15, 1967 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO IPlEm 1'^^ -a m '.^Pv; •S^ Mi. X •' , a- . x-r.' 5>. ^ m PaiiSSK: ' •'"s.• •.',.t' IS . , •rf - •, M - V • ;. "L ->/ ' /: " fSr •. ^ ^ , '* I . i ''' MM) • MM '2^ sy -x'S^PaSi .m w5'i MM': 'f•^ •' p:! •'m ••: . PI 9 • • ' \ ' , • •. v.." •' •"': r • ^.... >y" ••{ ,-•••' ANNUAL REPORT M :M-.-- .vV ••,-•" . py r. jfMf:'] -- - • , • •. P' '-V •• , Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Pension Fund ; Filed With N. Y. State Insurance Department ji- P'®- . . -. : .. Page'9 �SEAFARERS LOG Page Two September 15, 1967 Hall Cites Role of Maritime US Fleet Upgrading Best Solution To Balanre of Payments Dofirit Report of International President by Paul Hall Hearings are currently being held by the House Subcommittee on Labor on widespread abuse of workers in non-union shops. They are once again offering public proof that just because laws are on the books there is no assurance that big business will feel compelled to abide by them. Not only can we in the trade union movement never afford the luxury of taking for granted that fair labor laws necessarily mean fair labor practices, the unorganized average citizen cannot sit smugly back either. Directly or indirectly every American is effected by the continuing struggle against the injustices imposed by many segments of management. Many years ago the Wagner act achieved a historic break-through by legalizing collective bargaining and providing for union repre­ sentation elections under the supervision of the National Labor Rela­ tions Board. Many companies never accepted the provisions set forth by the act and have spent the ensuing years using every trick in the book to get around it and subsequent laws which protected an em­ ployee's collective bargaining rights. The fact remains that the basic right of all workers in America is guaranteed by the law of the land. Yet in this supposedly more en­ lightened year of 1967, it takes Congressional hearings to uncover the fact that employers are still blatantly ignoring the law to an extent that one member of the subcommittee referred to the situation as like "something out of Alice in Wonderland" and commented that "even union people wouldn't believe this is still happening" unless they read the testimony. Well, we in the AFL-CIO believe it's happening and are all too well aware that labor-management relations in this country are like a nightmare to employees in some areas, particularly in the southern states and rural sections. Revitalization of the United States merchant marine could be the means of completely wiping out this nation's annual $2 billion balance of payments deficit, according to Paul Hall, president of the SIU and of the Maritime Trades Department (AFL-CIO). Writing in the September is- O sue of Maritime, official publi­ program and an infusion of rea­ modern American fleet unless we cation of the six-million- sonable amoyints of tax dollars fill the holds of those vessels with member MTD, Hall cited current and private investment capital." American import-export cargoes. figures which show only seven per Hall said that the following Turn to Foreign-Flags cent of America's export-import actions must be taken to revitalize A research study in the same trade is carried on U.S.-flag ves­ U.S. Fleet: issue of the magazine was sharply "The American fleet today is sels and referred to repeated Ad­ critical of the fact that "in the ministration warnings that "a con­ small and old—and it must be face of the need for an adequate tinued outflow of American gold modernized and enlarged to meet sealift," the U.S. has turned to seriously endangers the U.S. econ­ our continually expanding world foreign-flag ships to carry most trading position. omy." of the 77 raw materials consid­ "The new vessels joining the "As small as the role which ered by the government to be American-flag shipping now plays fleet must be built in American "strategic" to national defense. in the handling of U.S. export- yards—for that is the surest way The study reveals that 95 per import cargo," the MTD president way to reinforce our own nation­ cent of the imported bauxite, 75 wrote, "it contributes a billion al economy, prevent further de­ dollars a year to the plus side of terioration in our balance of pay­ per cent of the imported lead and ments, and assure the nation of a some 90 per cent of such crucial the balance of payments. "If American ships were carry­ shipyard capacity and a pool of materials as columbite and chroing the same proportion of U.S. skilled labor in case of national mite—which are used in the aero­ space program—are brought to cargoes which ffiey carried a emergency. dozen years ago—some 34 per "There must be enough tax dol­ this country in ships of other na­ cent there would be no balance of lars put into operating subsidies tions. payments deficit at all." so that our U.S.-flag ships can Calling this situation "totally Noting numerous press reports compete for their share of the unacceptable," the MTD said "the which picture the merchant ma­ trade with the lower-wage ship­ very nature of strategic materials rine as a "sick and dying" indus­ ping of other nations—^for it makes their carriage on Ameri­ try, Hall said that "There's noth- would be ridiculous to build a can-flag vessels imperative.". Jng so wrong with our maritime Victimized employees have kept up a steady stream of testimony industry that it can't be cured. All before the subcommittee which centers on the same general theme: it needs is a positive government the workers "want a union but the company says no." These people are threatened, intimidated and often fired without cause if they even try to organize-—the law notwithstanding. The companies in­ ST. LOUIS—While disregarding his own sJifety to reach a volved defy the law and have thus far succeeded largely in getting wounded comrade, who lay exposed to enemy fire. Van Vernon away with it. Corporate bosses such as Robert T. Stevens, president MONTREAL—The strike of Trantham III, 23, a member of the SIU's Inland Boatmen's Union of the second largest textile company in the nation, J. P. Stevens & 5,400 Canadian SIU members Co., shun requests to appear at hearings and stall in the face of against 32 of Canada's inland here, was killed in Vietnam on federal orders to reinstate employees illegally fired. the hostile fire before he ex­ shipping companies is continuing, August 7. J. P. Stevens' campaign against unionization is typical. Repre­ For his heroism in connection hausted his supply of ammuni­ as the SIU awaits action on its tion. He immediately left his sentative elections have been held in its plants, during a year-long request that Canadian - Labor with his attempt to save his com­ position to search for mwe sup­ effort by the Textile Workers to organize its employees, but they Minister John Nicholson ap­ rade and for his actions against point a Federal mediator to the enemy, PFC Trantham has plies. Shortly thereafter, he saw have been systematically sabotaged by the company through harrassposthumously been awarded the a wounded soldier lying fully ex­ ment and mass firings of more than 500 for union sympathies. The enter the strike talks. posed to the vicious enemy fire. The dispute has cenered around Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. While attempting to reach his NLRB has ruled that the company employed spies and other illegal PFC Tribitham was serving as the key issues of ship manning, comrades, PFC Trantham re­ means to upset the elections and has specifically ordered the rehiring paid leave and the twenty-four a machine gunner in defense of ceived a mortal wound. His great of 107 employees—^with full back pay, plus interest, dating from the hour work span. courage under fire inspired his time of their dismissal. SIU of Canada President Leon­ fellow soldiers to fight with in­ With the vast amounts of money and hi^-priced legal talent at its ard McLaughlin said that the bulk creased determination, until the command, management's answer to such rulings is to appeal them to of the union's demands are in the large enemy force was defeated." the highest courts. Meanwhile, the workers involved are kept without area of fringe benefits. Primary among the demands jobs or money to feed and clothe their families while the company is that two watchmen be kept on continues to thrive. the decks of all ships and that In the case of companies like J. P. Stevens, who derive a higji pro­ one watchman be assigned to the portion of their wealth from profits off government contracts, such engine rooms of new diesel a condition is even more deplorable. To' at least some degree, it puts vessels. taxpaying employees in the position of financing company actions On the issue of paid leave, against themselves and their fellow workers. the union is seeking a reduction in There can be no justification for the government to continue their the entitlement period. SAN JUAN, P.R.—Following contract with J. P. Stevens. This nation recently tightened its laws The work span issue deals with several months of negotiations. against discrimination in employment by denying government contracts the periods during which a serThe SIU of Puerto Rico recently to any company who is found to be denying employment to any per­ man is on call. At present time, signed a new three-year contract son because of their race or nationality. Great Lakes sailors can be called with Texaco Puerto Rico, Inc. on to work any eight hours during It would appear that the government does condone employment The pact provides the Texaco a twenty-four hour period. This discrimination when it applies to a worker who has been denied his Van Vemon Trantham m employees with pay raises of is a practice which has been abol­ rights because of union activity. ished in shipping on the east and his battalion's base camp seven $15.40 a month during the first Equal justice for all working Americans can be achieved only west coast and on the St. Law­ kilometers southwest of An Loc, year, $14 per month the second year and $15 monthly in the third through a strong labor union movement supported by all workers in rence Seaway. The union con­ when his position was attacked by year. every way possible. Earlier this month we celebrated Union Label siders it unfair to require a sea­ elements of the 101st North Viet­ Week—an important annual reminder for all citizens to buy only Also included is an increase in man to be on call for a full namese Regiment, using heavy twenty-four hour period, and is mortar and automatic weapons company medical plan contribu­ goods and services bearing the union label 52 weeks a year. By doing tions from the old $15 a month to this we not only help and encourage those who actively support or­ seeking to have the time-span fire. $4 weekly for each employee who ganized labor but can put damaging pressure on companies who reduced. The award of the Bronze Star The average Canadian sailor reads in part: "PFC Trantham un­ chooses the SIU plan, and up to think workers are second-class citizens to be exploited. works up to 70 hours a week and hesitatingly manned his machine the same amount for those who Unfortunately, there are many Americans—even some otherwise takes home a basic wage of only gun and began to return the fire. choose other plans. militant union members—who shop indiscriminately or forget to look Signing the contract for the for the union label. They are perhaps unaware that they are only $350 a month. He is not covered When he saw nearby positions in by the provisions of Canadian danger of being overrun by the Union were SIU negotiator Salva­ hurting themselves by giving any help at all to companies sworn to 40-hour work week, as are mem- insurgent onslaught, he complete­ dor Coll and general delegate fight unions to the last breath. Remember, just as in the ca.se of . - hers of other industries in Canada. ly disregarded his personal safety Rafael Hernandez. thousands who stay away from poll booths on election day because The union is also calling for and moved to assist his embattled The agreemefit with Texaco they think their one vote won't get a candidate elected, the indiffer­ an improved pension plan and an comrades. He fired his weapcHi was the second gained by SIU ence of individuals can cause a great deal of harm in other areas upgrading of welfare benefits. effectively and silenced much of of Puerto Rico in recent weeks. as well. ' SIU of Canada Continues Strike '.A . i i t \ •h SlU-IBU Member Killed in Vietnam, Receives Bronze Star For Bravery Puerto Rico SIU Inks 3-Yr. Pact WIdi Texaco Co. ;i . 'I �September 15, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG Four More Seafarers Upgraded To Eagiaeers; Total Now 177 Curry III ^r •J. Zohar McDavitt With the graduation of four more Seafarers from the jointlysponsored SIU-MEBA District 2 School of Marine, Engineering, the total number of Searfarers who have upgraded to their engi<$>neer's license reached 177. Seafarer Charles Longworth As a result of the reciprocal Curry of Corona, New York, agreement between MEBA Dis­ earned his temporary third assis­ trict 2 and the SIU unlicensed tant license August 25, upgrading SIU men receive full credit and himself from a previous rating of complete protection for all of their FOWT. The 30-year old Seafarer accumulated pension and welfare last sailed early this year on the credits. While sailing as engineers, Jefferson City Victory. they will also receive pension and Seafarer Phillip Arthur Deck, welfare credits. As a result, upon 40, graduated as a third assis­ reaching retirement eligibility their tant engineer, having passed the pension will be paid based on United States Coast Guard Exam combined time. MEBA District 2 has waived on August 30. Though born in Detroit, Michigan, he makes his its $1,000 initiation fee for all home in Florrissant, Mo. Brother men who begin sailing as licensed Deck's most recent voyage was on engineers under the joint program the Achilles. His previous rating during the period of the Vietnam crisis. was FOWT. The joint venture, between SIU Formerly a resident of Santurce, P.R. newly-licensed Tem­ and MEBA District 2, was cre­ porary third assistant engineer ated to help .fill the increasing Frank Zohar is currently making shortage of licensed marine engi­ his home in New York City. neers on American-flag ships, After completing a voyage early which results in large part from this year on the Detroit as a chief the demands imposed on the U.S. electrician, Brother Zohar, 40, shipping industry by the war in entered the SIU-MEBA District 2 Vietnam. The upgrading program Engineering School for upgrad­ of the school is open to any mem­ ing. He received his license from bers of the engine department the U.S. Coast Guard on August over 19 years old who have 18 months of Q.M.E.D. watch stand­ 30. Robert Lee McDavitt, 41, ing time in the engine department, earned his second assistant Engi­ plus six month's experience as a neer's license from the school on wiper or the equivalent. Further September 5. This upgrades him information about the School and from the rating of pumpman, application procedures can be ob­ which is the rating he sailed tained at any SIU hall, or by with during his most recent voy­ writing to SIU headquarters at age on the Fort Hoskins. Brother 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, McDavitt is a native of McComb, New York, 11232. The phone number is (212)—HL 9-6600. Mississippi. President Signs Into Law Maritime Authorization Bill IW' WASHINGTON—President Johnson last week signed the Mari­ time Authorization bill into law. The new law, this year's first major piece of maritime legislation, calls for specific Congressional authorization of future maritime ^ Aeronautics and Space Adminis­ funds. The Administration had been tration and certain activities of the against the bill (HR-158) from Defense Department which were the beginning but finally bowed already subject to Congressional in face of the strong support for authorizing procedures. The new law requires that Con­ the measure both in the industry gress authorize all maritime pro­ and Congress, particularly in the grams before actual funds are House. voted on. Included are govern­ Representative Edward A. Gar- ment spending for the acquisition, matz (D-Md.) chairman of the construction or reconstruction of House Merchant Marine and Fish­ vessels; construction subsidies and eries Committee who originally payments for national defense fea­ introduced the bill, said the annual tures; operating subsidies; research Congressional review of merchant and development programs; mainmarine needs the law provides will tainance of the reserve fleet; fed­ be "one of the keys to revitalizing eral and state maritime training our maritime industry." He added and operation of the revolving that he considers the measure "the fund. most important piece of legisla­ Maritime administration costs tion to come before our commit­ and salaries will not come under tee for years." the authorization process, nor will Great importance has been at­ war-risk insurance and federal tached to the measure by represen­ ship mortgage funds. tatives of maritime labor as well Although the bill was intro­ as management because it puts the duced in the House, the Senate Maritime Administration on a par did not amend it and passed it with the Coast Guard, the Atomic with only brief hearings and no Energy Commission, the National floor debate. Page Three MTD Board Plans Drive to Win Sound U.S, Poiiry on Maritime NEW YORK—The Executive Board of the AFL-CIO Maritime Tirades Department took firm action at meetings here last week in support of greater protection for the job security and working conditions of American workers. The Board met September 7 ; — : — ties are lost to American shipsist these unions in every possible and 8, prior to the meeting of pers. way ... in their efforts to pre­ the AFL-CIO Executive Coun­ Import tariffs — Tariff reduc­ serve their collective bargaining cil last Monday, and dealt with rights." issues ranging from the need for tions on some 60 thousand com­ Independent MARAD — Crea­ modities imported into this coun­ a sound maritime policy to aid tion of an independent and flexi­ for the U.S. fishing industry and try will go into effect next January ble Maritime Administration 1, according to agreement under domestic shipbuilding. the Kennedy Round negotiations "which is able to report and rec­ Calling for adoption of the by member nations of the General ommend programs to the highest MTD's 20-point maritime pro­ Agreement on Tariffs and Trades echelon of our government." was gram, the Board urged all state (GATT). Within five years, the fully supported and passage of and local central bodies affiliated reduction of duty on many of House Bill 159 called for. with the AFL-CIO to organize an these items will reach 50 per cent Balance of payments — The effective membership and com­ and adversely effect American in­ MTD requested the Administra­ munity drive for Congressional dustry and its higher-paid work­ tion to do all possible to stop the support to this end. ers. Although the MTD has fa­ increase in the balance of pay­ In reaffirming MTD support of vored increased trade, it con­ ments deficit and called for a shipyard workers in their opposi­ demned the influx of cheaply strong American-built and man­ tion to "any foreign building pro­ made foreign goods which, under ned merchant marine as one of visions in a future maritime pro­ drastic duty cuts, will provide un­ the steps necessary to achieve this gram," the board urged all af­ fair competition for American goal. filiated unions "to redouble their industry.' The Board called upon Bulk carrier construction—Im­ efforts to exert effective political Congress to incorporate "mean­ mediate adoption by the govern­ and legislative efforts to insure ingful reciprocal arrangements" ment of a program to build bulk that (the) "build-abroad" philos­ protecting job opportunities and vessels was urged without waiting ophy does not become national standards of American workers in for determination of an overall policy." any agreement it approves. maritime policy. Otherwise, the Another resolution related to Maritime training — Revision Board stated, the U.S. "will abdi­ foreign shipbuilding cited the and expansion by the government cate carriage of a huge portion of 1,129 tankers and other bulk car­ of U.S. Merchant Marine Acad­ its foreign commerce." go carriers built abroad by Ameri­ emies to include facilities for Defense appropriations — All can corporations, "chiefly by the graduate studies in the advanced MTD affiliates were urged to con­ oil companies," since 1950. technology of nuclear power, ship­ tact all members of Congress to Recommendations for putting ping operations, etc., and more insure passage of House Bill the American fishing industry on research facilities were urged by 10738 which includes a provision "that none of the funds herein a more competitive basis with the the MTD Executive Board. Compulsory arbitration — The provided (for defense appropria­ more modern fishing fleets of foreign nations were also made. Board deplored the government's tions) shall be used for the con­ Noting that Russia, in 1965— interference in the continuing rail­ struction of any naval vessels in with its large ocean-going trawlers road dispute and condemned any foreign shipyards." Building naval and factory ships—had a catch imposition of compulsory arbitra­ vessels abroad would expose clas­ 3.3 million tons greater than this tion in the dispute. The resolution sified equipment and material to country, the MTD called upon said in part that the MTD "stands the world, "thus endangering the the U.S. government to enact a behind the shopcraft unions in­ security of our nation," the Exec­ modernization program to solve volved" and "fully intends to as­ utive Board said. the "plight of the United States fishing industry and those who rely upon the products of the sea in earning their livelihood." In addition to expansion of re­ search and conservation efforts, the MTD's chief demand was for the "institution of a system of tax incentives" for "vessel constmction and modernization." The threat posed by the over­ all buildup of the Russian mer­ The United States merchant marine has slipped still another chant marine, and the continuing notch in the world's shipping figures by falling to fifth place, be­ decline of America's, gave the hind Japan, as a tanker-owning nation. Executive Board cause for alarm. According to its 25th annual O It called for all affiliated inter­ tanker study, the Sun Oil Com­ weight tons in 595 vessels. In sec­ national unions to publicize the pany found that by the end of ond place is Norway with 15.3 facts and spread the warning in 1966 the Japanese had 8.9 mil­ million tons and Great Britain is addition to an urgent plea that lion dead-weight tons of tankers third with 12.3 million tons. Congress "immediately meet this The Liberian tanker leadership while the U.S. had only 8.5 mil­ challenge by passing legislation can be attributed to the large lion. calling for a crash program to number of vessels owned by U.S. Although Japan had only 185 build the necessary ships so vitally companies, which have been transtankers in her fleet at the begin­ needed by our merchant fleet." fered to the Liberian registry to ning of this year and the United Other matters of concern to States had 387, the average weight escape U.S. manning and safety maritime and the trade union of the newer Japanese vessels standards as well as to avoid movement on which the Board was 48,400 deadweight tons com­ paying taxes to the U.S. govern­ adopted resolutions included: pared with America's average of ment. The study also found a size­ Cargo Preference — Continued 22,100. The figure for the U.S. support for cargo preference laws also showed 23 fewer tankers able increase in. Russian tonnage. was urged and a demand made than in 1966 and a drop of 200,- The Soviet Union had 232 tank­ ers for a total of 3.8 million tons for "future cargo compensation 000 tons in carrying capacity. The drop from fourth place in at the beginning of this year com­ for U.S. flag vessels which are presently responding to the Viet­ tanker tonnage follows the down­ pared with 196 vessels of 3.2 mil­ nam emergency." The Agricul­ ward trend suffered in recent lion tons at the start of 1966. A slight increase in the total ture Department was scored for years by the U.S. merchant ma­ world tanker fleet was noted with rine which has also fallen off "promoting the use of foreignflag vpssels" in delivery of its car­ sharply in dry cargo shipping and a 3.524 ships of at least 2,000 gross tons in 1967 compared with goes "without provision being ship construction. Liberia is the leading tanker 3,436 the year before. Carrying made" to protect U.S. ships in the future. "As a result, thousands power, according to the Sun Oil capacity was up from 93.1 million of Ions of agricultural commodi- survey, with 22.6 million dead­ to 102.9 million tons. U.S. Sinks to Fifth Place In World Tanker Fleet �SEAFARERS LOG Page Four Still Fit to Go 10 September 15, 1967 Meany Urges Nation to Fate Up To Problems of Cities' Ghettos WASHINGTON—Riots in slums and ghettos m ade the past summer a "long sad" one, but the "tragedy" is that we still only talk about resolving the crises of our cities, AFL-CIO President George Meany stressed in a Labor Day radio address. Meany said that all Ameri- ^ who want them and need them, it developing job training programs cans must share the blame "for would put these people to work of its own in cooperation with tolerating the slums which breed doing some of the things left un­ industry and government under diseases and crime, helplessness done in America." the existing Manpower Develop­ and anger," and the responsibility Meany pointed out that the ment & Training Act, Abel noted. for not helping solve urban prob­ grants, permitted by O'Hara He cited the example of a new lems that plague the nation. would create jobs in urban im­ program begun by the Steelwork"But," he added, "let us not provement, education, hospitals, ers in cooperation with steel com­ hesitate to place the greatest reforestation and many other panies and the government that burden of responsibility where it areas of the economy where jobs will teach new skills to some 1,belongs, upon the Congress of are needed and where they "do 600 unskilled and untrained the United States. It is the Con­ not now exist." workers. gress that has failed in its re­ He also called for improve­ Beime, president of the Com­ sponsibility—failed miserably." ments in social security — "far munications Workers, told his Meany spoke over the National greater improvements" than those listeners on the American Broad­ Broadcasting Co. radio network. approved by the House—and a casting Co. network that labor Other Labor Day radio addresses, tax increase more "equitable" today is "infinitely more inter­ Chairman Emile Bruneau of Louisiana Athletic Commission (left) cuts over other radio networks, were than proposed by the Adminis­ connected and inter-twined in so­ delivered by AFL-CIO Vice Pres­ tration. cake with ex-boxing champs (l-r) Pete Herman, Jimmy Perrin and Tony ciety" than it was when the first idents I. W. Abel, Joseph A. He emphasized that it is "dis­ Labor Day parade was held back Zaie at special dinner in New Orleans SlU hall. Zaie was world Mid­ astrous in principle and false in in 1882. dleweight king, Herman a former world Bantamweight champ and Beime and Paul Hall. Congress was criticized by fact" to argue that domestic Perrin held Southern Featherweight crown. Trio came from Midwest. He ticked off labor's interest in Meany for its failure so far to progress must be sacrificed to the eliminating slums, securing "equal­ enact any of 23 programs affect­ war in Viet Nam. "It is disas­ ity" education, improving com­ ing urban problems which Pres. trous in principle because Amer­ munications, getting a fair tax Johnson proposed in January. ica cannot truly stand for the system, protecting natural re­ They include proposals for jobs, security of free people abroad if sources and helping the less for­ housing, urban renewal, educa­ it fails to provide true security for tion, civil rights, model cities pro­ its people at home. It is false in tunate areas of the world. "The fact is that there is only grams and mass transit. fact because the resources of this one substantial private organiza­ If these measures had been nation, the richest and most pow­ NEW BEDFORD—^The recent "dumping" charges leveled passed six months ago, "there tion in the United States whose erful the world has ever seen, are primary dedication is to the widest against Canadian fish exporters by James Ackert, president of the might not be a crisis today," ample for both tasks." SIUNA-aflfiliated Atlantic Fishermen's Union, have prompted t|ie Meany observed. Meany concluded that there is and best interests of all the Amer­ "Most of these measures," he still time for Congress to pass the ican people"—and that organiza* Treasury Department's Bureau ^ net, f.o.b. price to purchasers said, "have been suggested, urged, vital legislation proposed ,by the tion is the labor movement, of Customs to launch an inquiry in the home market of the ex­ demanded by the AFL-CIO, not President and he urged workers Beime asserted. into fish imports from Eastern porting country, after due al­ for months but for years." Ending poverty, keeping pace to appeal to their Congressmen Canadian provinces. lowance is made for differences with technology and applying its "By far the greatest immediate for action. Ackert's "dumping" charges, in quantity and circumstances need is for jobs," Meany said. Abel, president of the Steel- benefits fairly, "building a society set forth in a letter to the United of sale. He urged passage of a bill intro­ workers, who spoke over the Co­ of unlimited opportunity and States Commissioner for Customs A reply to AFU President duced by Rep. James G. O'Hara boundless horizons" — these are in Washington, noted that such Ackert, from the office of U. S. (D-Mich.) and 76 other members lumbia Broadcasting System, also the present goals of American fish products as frozen cod fillets, Commissioner of customs, Lester of the House to provide a million underscored the importance of labor, Beirne concluded. exported from Canada to the D. Johnson, said that on the basis new jobs in a year through $4 solving urban problems and end­ Hall, who is president of the United States in tremendous of the results of a summary inves­ billion in grants to federal, state ing "the literal imprisonment of SIU and the AFL-CIO Maritime millions of Americans in the na­ quantities, are being sold at less tigation, the Bureau of Customs and local government agencies, as Trades Department, pointed to tion's ghettos." than fair market value here con­ is instituting a further, more ex­ well as non-profit groups. He emphasized the need for the important role maritime work­ trary to the Federal Antidumping tensive inquiry into the subject of The legislation would give jobs, job training and education. ers play in maintaining a life-line Act of 1921. fish imports from such Canadian "meaning and substance" to the "Our economy," he noted, "is to U.S. forces in Viet Nam. He Under the provisions of the provinces as Nova Scotia, New­ "landmark" Employment Act of producing more jobs, but the lack spoke over the Mutual Broadcast­ Antidumping Act, merchandise is foundland and Ontario. 1946 which called for a full-em­ of education and training make ing Co. considered to be sold at less than Ackert noted that "It is a rare ployment economy, Meany said. it impossible to match the jobless The "unhappy fact" is that the fair value when the net, f.o.b. occasion when a domestic indus­ "It would start," he said, "where of the slums with the new jobs nation was caught short with an price for exportation to the try is found to be justified in the task must start—by provid­ being created." inadequate merchant fleet when United States is less than the filing such a charge." ing decent jobs for Americans In addition to pressing Con­ the Vi6t Nam war was intensified, gress for strengthened manpower and the fleet is still being neg­ and training programs, labor is lected, Hall declared. CanaJim Fish 'Dumpii^' Charged By SlUNA Atlantic Fishermen SlUNA West Coast Cannery Union Signs New Pact at Quaker Oats CWU President, Steve Edney (right) and AL M. Lether. Manager of Quaker Oats Cannery at Wilming­ ton. Calif., sign new three-year contract which provides 'historic' new gains for CWU^ rnembers. Present at the signing were (l-r) standing: D, Zwolle, F. Hermosilld, ,CWU business agents': J. Perez, CWU negotiator: G. Hayes, Quaker Oats Cannerry: R. Hall and J, Upright, CWU representatives. WILMINGTON, Calif.—A new three-year contract, hailed as "the best the Cannery Workers Union of the Pacific ever nego­ tiated," by Steve Edney, president of the SIUNA-affiiiated cannery union, has been signed with the Quaker Oats Company. tory basis. Under certain condi­ The new contract, covering tions, a worker's dependents may pet-food canners in the Quaker also be covered. Oats plant here, was signed after Another unique aspect of the three months of negotiations. It contract is delegation of authority runs from September 1, 1967 to to Cannery Union negotiators to September 1, 1970. decide which of Quaker's three Under the contract, a majority pension plans is most beneficial in of the plant's workers will receive each individual case. a 30-cent hourly wage increase, Sick leave is provided for at all maintenance workers will re­ the rate of five days per year, be­ ceive a 37Vi-cent wage increase, ginning with the second year of and maintenance joiuneymen will the contract, and an increased receive a 45-cent increase in vacation schedule was also nego­ wages. A shift differential wage scale is also included in the new tiated by the* Union. Cannery Workers Union Presi­ contract. dent Edney said that the new pact The new pact includes an im­ provides inq)ortant major gains proved medical plan which pro­ for the SIUNA-aifiliated employ­ vides workers with a year of free hospitalization on a non-contribu­ ees at the Quaker Oats plant. •i '"S �September 15, 1967 Qakk Action by Lifeboat Crew Saves Sbipaiate Aboard Warrior SEAFARERS LOG Six More Seafarer Veterans Join Growing SlU Pension List George Shown above are men of S.S. Warrior who participa+ed in sea res­ cue. Standing are (l-r) Nick Tyll, wiper; Chuck Custer, messman; Agustin Castelo, oiler; George Adamisin, AB; Leo Rice, AS; and Bill Seisfield, OS. Kneeling (l-r); Vic CarabaHo, bedroom utility; James Courtney, the Chief Mate; and Jack Caskey, messman. PANAMA CITY—Fact action and fine teamwork by both crew and officers of the SlU-contracted Warrior recently saved the life of Sea­ farer Donald Cosma who fell over the side into shark-infested waters off the Panama coast. As the "man overboard" call was sounded, Captain Wayne Waldo immediately ordered a 180-degree turn while all crew members mus­ tered to their stations and readied the Number 2 lifeboat which was launched almost as quickly as Cosma was sighted in the water. At the risk" of their own lives, the nine men who manned the life­ boat pulled the floundering OS from the sea just 26 minutes after he had gone overboard. Many sharks were seen following the boat as it proceeded back to the Warrior. Captain Waldo later expressed great pride in the crew who par­ ticipated in the rescue, two of whom were first trippers. The men in the lifeboat were messmen Chuck Custer and Jack Gaskey; Augustin Castelo, oiler; Nicholas N. Tyll, wiper; Victor Caraballo, bed room util.; William Seisfield, OS; George Adamisin and Leo Rice, both AB's; and Chief Mate James Courtney. Within exactly one hour of the beginning of the incident, the War­ rior was back on course to Panama, where Brother Cosma was removed to hospital for a checkup. i :• J. SlU-Contracted Sea Pioneer Escapes Explosive Situation BEAUMONT, Texas—The SlU-contracted supertanker Sea Pioneer (Victory) gave this port a nervous time of it a couple of weeks ago when a leak in a tank bulkhead flooded the engine room with diesel fuel and threatened an explosion with 225,000 bar­ tion and along the Port Arthur rels of jet fuel and diesel oil Ship Channel. Before the vessel was moved, aboard. The ship's crew was quickly firemen from two engine compa­ evacuated and the dock area nies of the Beaumont Fire De­ around the No. 4 berth was partment poured 3,000 gallons of cleared. Just minutes after diesel water into her engine and pump fuel seepage was discovered in rooms and topped it oflf with 65 the boiler compartments, boiler gallons of foam from a generator fire% were extinguished and all truck to minimize the danger of electric power on the vessel was explosion in transit. The Sea Pioneer had taken a cut. Later in the evening two tugs violent shaking up from the ex­ from the Picton Towing Co., and plosion of a Cities Service refinery two from the Sabine Towing Co. in Lake Charles earlier in the —all contracted to the SlU-affili- week. Concussion from the blast ated Inland Boatmen's Union— slammed the ship into the wharves were carefully easing the giant T5 where it was tied up and many tanker down the Neches River to Seafarers were thrown from their an old Texaco slip opposite Port bunks. Three days later the tanker Neches. Only a Coast Guard had arrived here to take on dry officer and a Sabine pilot made cargo and deck freight before pro­ the dangerous down-channel jour­ ceeding to Bethlehem Shipyard ney aboard the Sea Pioneer, which for inspection and any needed re­ pairs. had to be steered manually. Cargo already aboard the super­ All shipping traffic from Beau­ mont to Sabine Pass was stopped tanker—175,000 barrels of Jet P4 as were coastwise barge move­ fuel and 50,000 barrels of diesel ments on the Intercoastal Canal fuel—was reportedly consigned to between the Neches River junc- Vietnam. Page Five Lewis Schmidt McNiel The names of six additional Seafarers has been added to the list of SIU men enjoying their re­ tirement years on an SIU pension. The latest additions to the growing pension list are, John Schmidt, Qaude Hayes, Wilton McNiel, William Lewis, James George and Toomas Laarents. John Schmidt joined the SIU ^ —— in Chicago and sailed as an oiler. James George sailed as deck Toomas Laarents sailed as an A resident of Chicago, Schmidt engineer since joining the SIU in AB and joined the Union in New was employed by Dunbar and New Orleans, where he lives with Orleans. He was born in Estonia Sullivan Dredging Co. He served his wife, Wilhemina. A native and resides in Baltimore, with his in the Army during World War Californian, George's last ship wife, Mary. Laarents' last ship was the Antinous. was the Steel King. II. Schmidt is a widower. Claude Hayes was a bosun and last shipped on the Alcoa Voy­ ager. Born in the British West Indies, he now lives in Mobile. Hayes joined the'Union in Mobile. Wilton McNiel joined the SIU in Mobile. He was born in Ala­ bama and is a resident of Stock­ by Earl (Bull) Shepard, Vice-President, At/antic Coast Area ton, Ala. McNiel sailed as a In only one year from now, the nation will elect a new President, bosun and his last ship was the Halcyon Panther. McNiel served a new House of Representatives, and a third of the U.S. Senate. in the Army during World War II. Now is the time for organized labor to start marshalling our support William Lewis joined the Union behind those candidates favorable to our cause. I urge all Seafarers in New York and sailed in the to join the SIU and the AFL-CIO in the fight for the election of engine and deck departments for all candidates who support the ® — over 20 years. Born in New York, aims of organized labor. Talk to Shipping here has been excel­ he still lives in that city. His last your friends' about the issues, lent and the outlook for the future ship was the Azalea City. about those candidates and elected is very good. There were six pay­ men who are strong supporters of offs, six sign-ons, and one ship labor and an upgraded U.S. mer­ in transit, with no laid-up vessels. chant fleet. Contribute your dol­ Baltimore lars to COPE (the AFL-CIO's Political Action Department), c/o William Brightwell, though un­ AFL-CIO, 815 16th Street, Wash­ fit for duty now, will take any ington, D.C. 20006, or to SPAD job in the steward department as (the Seafarers Political Activity soon as he is able. He has been Department), c/o Seafarers Inter­ in the SIU 23 years and has seen national Union, 675 4th Avenue, many gains in membership bene­ WASHINGTON—A bill, plac­ Brooklyn, New York 11232. fits since he first started. ing a quota on imports of ground Red Clough, just off the Jasfish, has been introduced in the Boston mina, visited the hall to say hello House of Representatives jointly After finishing a trip on the to his old shipmates. Next stop; by Congressmen Hastings Keith R/V Conrad, John Waliack is (R.-Mass.), Wendell Wyatt (R.- back home, spending a little time a much-needed vacation at home. Russell Henry has sailed on Ore.), and A1 Ullman (D.-Ore.). to get re-acquainted with his fam­ SIU ships for the past 16 years. Keith explained that this legisla­ ily and friends before shipping His last trip was on the Seatrain tion is vital, since "the American out again. Brother Waliack has Maine to Vietnam, and he is now ground fishing industry is being been in the SIU for 20 years. taking a short vacation. He plans choked to death by foreign im­ Henry "Hank" Martin, a 25- to head for Vietnam again after ports." year man in the SIU, is presently resting up. The by-partisan legislation stip­ in drydock. He'll be raring to go ulates that the total number of Puerto Rico as soon as his doctor gives the pounds of ground fish products Connecticut became the 44th imported each year shall not be word. His last ship was the Alice state to sign an agreement with Brown, where he shipped as a more than the average number of Puerto Rico to honor unemploy­ pounds imported for the years cook. ment insurance claims made from Munroe Hail, also in the SIU 1963 and 1964. Fish blocks, por­ the island by persons who worked tions, fillets, and steaks of all for a quarter-century, is ready to in the state but have to return to ground fish except tuna, sea go and will grab the first cook's Puerto Rico for involuntary rea­ herring, and smelt, are covered job to be put on the board. The sons. Eagle'Voyager was his last ship, by the proposed quota. The Steel Chemist stopped in on which he sailed as a 3rd cook. Keith noted the vast decline of San Juan en route to Honolulu the American-produced portion of Norfolk to pick up part of the plant ma­ the ground fish market during the chinery for one of the sugar com­ Thomas Gower, 15 years in the last 16 years: "Our percentage of panies here in Puerto Rico. On SIU, just signed off after four the national ground fish market board were such old-timers as has declined from 62.9% in 1951 MSTS trips, his last one being James Keno and Stanley Swets&a. on the Robin Trent as oiler. After to, where at the present time. Jose Lopez recently shipped as United States fishermen provide a short vacation, he wants to catch a trip to Vietnam. a FWT and Frank Mateo took an only 19.2% of the ground fish AB's slot. Cecil Jeannett, an SIU member produced in this country. All the for 20 years, is on the beach now. rest is foreign imports." PhBadelpliia The Massacusetts Congressman In the meantime, he is looking for Ready and raring to go, John further noted that the proposed a short trip to Europe as bosun. Smith will take the first wiper's legislation would reserve a larger He last sailed as bosun on the job that hits the board. His last portion of the domestic market to Ocean Ulia. job was on the Globe Carrier. Charlie Phelps, who was dryNew Bedford's fishing industry, Thomas Martinez has been with which relies a great deal on docked fc»- awhile, has just re­ the Union over 20 years and sails ceived his FED. A Brother for 15 ground fish, and would aid the healthy growth of the domestic years, he is looking for an oiler's in the black gang. Tom's last ship was the Potomac. job to Northern Europe. industry as a whole. The Atlantic Coast Fisb Import Carb Urged in Hoase BUI �Page Six September 15, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG DISPATCHERS REPORT Atlantic, Gulf & Inland Waters District From Aug. 25 to Sept. 7, 1967 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groupa The Gulf Coast by Lindsay Williams, Vice-President, Gulf Area The West Gulf Ports Council held its annual Pre-Labor Day Dinner-Dance in Houston recently. There were over 500 people in attendance, including representatives from the Sabine area, Galveston, Brownsville, South Carolina, Jacksonville, Florida, and New Orleans. The key speaker was U.S. Con­ Veikko (Vic) Pollaiien, whose gressman Bob Eckhardt, 8th Dis­ last ship was the Del Rio, said that trict of Texas. Other speakers he likes a ship that is on a regular were; Councilman Frank O. Man- run so he can homestead for a cuso, representing the City of spell. After he got off the Del Rio, Houston; Anthony Scotto, Vice- he went on a vacation with his President, ILA, Brooklyn, and wife and niece to North Europe, President of the New York Port where he visted his family in Maritime Council of the MTD, Finland. Vic ships in the deck (AFL-CIO); Peter M. McGavin, dept. Executive Secretary-Treasurer, •Norman (Pat) Ragas, after two Maritime Trades Department, trips on the Yellowstone, as ste­ (AFL-CIO); Roy R. Evans, Secre­ ward, is back on the beach. He tary-Treasurer, Texas AFL-CIO plans to take a short vacation and and Representative Jim Clark, then look for another steward's State Representative of Harris slot. He isn't particular about the County. run or the ship. Senator John Tower (R.-Texas) Mobile had been scheduled to attend the F. A. Pehler last sailed about sbt function but was detained by other duties. In a telegram sent to the months on the Ocean Anne. Mar­ Council expressing his regret. ried, he makes his home in Mobile Tower pledged continuing support with his wife and family. He's for MTD policies: "I have long been shipping from the Gulf area been interested in the affairs of the for the last 20 years, and sails in maritime industry, knowing of the all deck ratings from AB to Bosun. worsening plight of this most im­ portant part of our economy. I introduced a joint resolution into (the) Senate calling for the estab­ lishment of a blue ribbon com­ mittee to investigate Ibis situation and to come up with some con­ crete proposals as to how it can be solved. "One alarming thing to me is the ever increasing reliance of the Ragas United States on foreign flag ves­ sels to carry our cargo abroad, Raymond Ferriera is currently totaling more than 90 percent. The Soviet Union is building a huge registered in the deck department. fleet far larger than they need for He last spent around three months their own trade. They are seem­ on the Whitehall. Married, he ingly preparing this vast fleet to makes his home in Mobile with use as an instrument of interna­ his wife. He has been shipping as tional policy; they would then be bosun for the last 25 years. able to greatly disrupt the eco­ Currently registered in the nomic basis of ocean service upon engine department, Francis E. which we vitally depend. We must Thompson was last with the Hast­ not allow this to occur." ings on a fast trip to Vietnam. He The Greater New Orleans, has been with the SIU from the AFL-CIO, Maritime Trades De­ beginning, and ships from the partment Council of Greater New Gulf area most of the time in Orleans and Vicinity's Pre-Labor various engine ratings. He makes Day Celebration was also a huge his home in Mobile. success, with more than 600 peo­ Bevelon D. Locke is presently ple in attendance. registered in the engine depart­ The Maritime Trades E)epart- ment. He was last out on the ment of Greater New Orleans and Claiborne as an electrician for Vicinity increased its affiliates, seven months on the Puerto within the past month, with the Rican run. Making his home in acceptance of the following Un­ Mobile with his family, he has ions into the Council: Brewery been shipping from the Gulf area Workers of America, Local Num­ for many years, mostly as chief ber 165; American Radio Associa­ electrician. tion; and Glass, Bottle Blowers of John R. Tilley was on the Fanthe United States and Canada, wood but said to get off due to the Local Number 184. recent death of his wife in PensaNew Orleans cola, Fla. John has been shipping Now on the beach, Chadboume in various steward ratings over the (Chad) Grft, was on the New past 20 years. He makes his home Yorker on the New Orleans to in Pensacola. Puerto Rico run. He had been In general, shipping at Mobile waiting for the M/V Sacal Borin- has been fair, with few men on the cano, but the ship had to go into beach and no laid-up ships. drydock for repair. Houston WllHam (Ull) TiUman last sailed We all send our best wishes on the City of Alma. He made one trip on her to Vietnam, but had for a quick recovery to retired to get off due to sickness in the SIU Brother H. E. Rhodes, who's family. Bill found it a good ship now drydocked. T. Jones, recently off the Westand a good crew, and would like to have stayed on her. Now he is em Clipper, is back looking for a waiting for a short run on the chief pumpman's job. Maiden Creek or the Claiborne to In transit were the following Puerto Rico so that he can be ships: Globe Explorer, Trans close to home. He sails as Bosum Juron, Jeanlna, and Ocean Pio­ and AB. neer. Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Class A Class B 8 1 56 30 13 6 20 20 13 3 9 6 2 2 14 20 36 32 49 29 14 4 46 25 26 9 306 187 TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 2 1 57 48 4 1 13 17 11 0 6 10 6 5 12 23 25 34 39 30 5 9 71 43 14 12 265 233 Class A Class B Class C 1 3 0 37 23 8 6 1 3 12 8 14 10 7 2 3 1 1 4 2 1 5 6 2 22 22 3 23 26 5 10 8 13 68 36 . 58 12 10 19 212 154 128 ilNE DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED All Grou]IS Class A Class B Class C 2 1 4 34 32 18 3 1 3 15 11 9 10 3 7 1 7 0 2 4 0 5 2 3 28 17 6 18 27 2 7 9 13 48 52 72 15 10 13 185 179 150 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groups Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston Wilmington San Francisco .. Seattle Totals ..... Class A Class B 7 1 15 15 4 2 20 7 3 8 5 4 4 0 16 12 26 26 21 10 1 5 42 41 20 13 184 144 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A 24 274 26 104 24 21 11 70 135 115 26 46 54 930 Class B 3 118 9 53 20 10 9 46 90 113 0 4 3 478 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 6 2 156 110 18 12 51 43 20 17 10 10 3 2 47 26 107 108 111 87 17 2 43 3 22 12 611 434 REGISTERED on BEACH Class A Class B Class C 3 12 23 11 3 1 11 19 8 9 2 3 0 0 2 4 0 10 4 4 3 19 16 9 16 8 2 9 7 7 50 30 76 14 7 7 reO 99 123 Class A Class B 13 2 161 46 13 10 78 47 11 7 12 3 5 3 • 40 25 117 94 70 48 9 1 54 7 34 10 617 303 YO U R D O I.LA R' S WORT H Seafarer's Guide to Better Buying * I'i By Sidney Margoiius New instant food products are coming on the market faster than this column can digest them. Not that there's much to digest, since some of the ingredients are artificial. But the price is hard to swallow. Ordinary milk is expensive enough for working families this year. It's typically 26 to 30 cents a quart depending on where you live and where you buy your milk, and even more in some areas. But now food processors have learned how to package inexpensive milk powder, add fiavoring and a few synthetic vitamins, in some cases, thickeners, and sell these products at high prices as "Instant Breakfast," "Diet Milk," "Carnation Slender," "Great Shakes," and of course, our old friends Metrecal and Sego. The "instant breakfasts" and "diet milks" can be even more expensive for what you get. What you do get is shown in the list of ingredients on the package. In the case of one brand of "diet milk" selling for 89 cents for five one-pint en­ velopes, you are getting the equivalent of 20 cents worth of dry skim milk with added vitamins and flavoring. You can reconstitute ordinary dry non­ fat milk powder by mixing with water, for only 4 cents a pint compared to 18 cents a pint for "Diet Milk." Similarly, one of the leading brands of "instant breakfast"—a dry powder you mix with whole milk—again is merely nonfat dry milk, sugar, thickeners, egg yolk solids, artificial flavor and added vitamins. In fact, if you buy some of the flavored varieties, you actually get sugar as the leading ingredient. For this combination you pay at the rate of $1.10 to $1.65 a pound. That's what a box of six envelopes weighing 7.2 ounces comes to, at the 59 to 75 cents charged by various stores. The claim is that the "Instant Breakfast" powder makes milk a meal. But you get more protein— the expensive nutrient—in a breakfast of a glass of reconstituted non-fat milk, one egg and a slice or two of bread, at a cost of 8 to 9 cents, than in "Instant Breakfast" with the added milk at a cost of 18 cents. You can be fooled by some of the nomencla­ ture of ingredients if you aren't sharp. "Carna­ tion Instant Breakfast" lists as one of its main ingredients "sucrose." That, of course, is merely the chemical name for ordinary sugar. Similarly in "Great Shakes," a chocolateflavored mix which you mix with milk, the leading ingredient is sugar, followed by malted milk, cocoa and various thickeners and flavorings. You can also buy already-prepared milk shakes (By Mr. Borden) for your kids. At 17 cents for 10 ounces, this comes to 53 cents a quart for milk, with added sugar, thickeners and artificial flavor. . You even have to consider what you are really getting when you pay an extra or premium price for "richer" or "extra rich" milks. Mary Gullberg, home economist at the Berkeley, California Co­ ops, points out that small differences in milk, the amount of butterfat or even in the protein value often are not nutritionally significant. You can't get away from the fact that ordinary nonfat milk powder, at a cost of 8 to 10 cents a quart when reconstituted is probably the single best buy to use as a basis for flavored milk drinks for children, and "diet milk" for yourself. It's also a simple, inexpensive way to add protein value to regular milk; soups, baked desserts; cakes and cookies; meat patties and loaf, casseroles and other dishes. Margarine, too, which began as a low-cost alternative, now can cost almost as much as butter merely with variations in ingredients and texture. �September 15, 1967 Six Rail Shopcraft Unions Propose Wage Dispute Terms WASHINGTON—Six shopcraft unions told a special presidential board that they are willing to settle their long wage dispute with the nation's railroads on terms that are "reasonable, equitable and in the public interest." The description was given to their settlement proposal in a brief filed with the five-member board during three days of hearings into the dispute. The carriers also submitted a brief and a settlement offer. The unions, representing 137,000 workers, called for a two-year contract with a 6.5 per cent general increase the first year and five per cent the second, plus two annual raises of 12.5 cents each for all skilled workers. The railroads proposed a 6 per cent basic wage increase over 18 months. They offered only a single five-cent skill adjustment and hinged it on acceptance of a "job cvakfation" study. An earlier panel, headed by Judge Charles Fahy, had recommended an 18-month pact with a 6 per cent general wage boost and three fivecent skill increases. It rejected the idea of a "job evaluation" study. The presidential board, created by Congress in July and headed by Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), is to hand down its settlement recommendations by Sept. 15. These recommendations, unless the parties reach an agreement on their own, will become binding Oct. 15. The unions' case, as presented in the brief and by Vice President Thomas Ramsey of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Work­ ers, shopcrafts' spokesman stressed that: A two-year wage contract, rather than one extending for 18 months, would be better to encourage "a period of stability in the railroad industry." "On the basis of an increase in the cost of living and an increase in productivity" the unions' proposal is fully justified. The unions asserted that a climb in living costs has more than wiped out the shopmen's last pay hike, in January, 1966; and that productivity on railroads has increased an average of 7 per cent a year, contpared to a 3.5 per cent annual rise in industry as a whole. The unions said their wage proposal actually is less than would be justified under a "catch-up" formula reflecting the full impact of changes in prices and wage adjustments for comparable work in other industries. The shopcrafts advanced wage figures showing a "tremendous gap" between wages of skilled shopmen and those of comparable skilled workers in other industries. Ramsey said that "the rates of railroad journeymen and mechanics are generally from 50 cents to $1.50 an hour under the rates paid to similar employees in other industries." Unions involved in the dispute in addition to IBEW are Railway Carmen, Machinists, Boilermakers, Sheet Metal Workers and Firemen & Oilers. They bargain jointly through the AFL-CIO Railway Em­ ployes Dept. k If '' '' 1/ * tf l' The AFL-CIO Kentucky Build­ ing Trades Council has called on state officials for strict enforce­ ment of the prevailing wage law here. State AFL-CIO Executive Secretary Sam Ezelle strongly criticized the State Labor Com­ mission for its handling of state labor laws and charged that ex­ perienced labor experts were be­ ing relegated to minor desk jobs. • p:I !•: 1• it President Johnson's War on Poverty got strong endorsement from the Montana State AFLCIO eleventh convention here. Also praising the Job Corps, a resolution declared that "the sal­ vaging of even a small percentage of delinquent boys; the education of them to take their place in the communities as responsible citi­ zens, is worth all the money spent on the entire program." • * • A1 Bilik, formerly Cincinnati area Labor Coundl president and now executive secretary of the Hamilton County Democratic -Party, is withdrawing as a candi­ date for next November's City Council elections. He is leaving his party post in order to become director of the Ohio Council of the State, County and Municipal Workers. * « The Operative Plasterers and Cement Ma^ns International As­ sociation is cooperating with the U.S. Office of Education in an Page Seven SEAFARERS LOG 18-month program in 34 states to provide 1,500 men with class­ room and on-the-job training. Some 500 unemployed men will be given a six-month course in an apprentice program while 1,000 men now working as plasterers and cement masons will have their skills upgraded. • * * Cesar Chavez, director of the AFL-CIO's United Farm Work­ ers Organizing Committee, has charged that migrating Mexican "green card" holders are be­ ing used illegally as strikebreak­ ers in the Central Valley. Chavez has called on the U.S. Depart­ ment of Labor to stop this illegal use of the immigrants. » * • Two veteran organizers in the South are retiring. They are AFL-CIO Regional Director Charles H. Gillman who served 30 years in the labor movement, and Carey Haigler, assistant di­ rector of the North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee re­ gion for the past three years. « )|e * President William Peitler of the Marble, Slate and Stone Pol­ ishers has been re-elected at the union's convention here. Nine in­ cumbent vice presidents also were re-elected, while Michael Hogan was elected to fill the tenth post left vacant by the death of Wil­ liam Mclntyre on August 13. Squeeze Play! A further blow has been dealt to the American merchant marine and to the inter­ national prestige of the United States itself with the rise by Japan to the fourth-ranking spot in tanker carrying capacity—previously held by this nation since 1961. This is just one more evidence of defeat by default. Every time a new set of sta­ tistics is released on any phase of world maritime activity, the persistent indifference and stalling on the subject by the White House becomes more obvious. While the rest of the world registers steady —and often startling—progress in shipping tonnage, the United States either shows a decline or reactivates some more old tubs from the mothball fleet as a move to lessen the scope of our inadequacies. This, instead of getting on with the urgent need for fast, modern American vessels. We are sure that no one—anywhere—can really believe that the United States would be incapable of regaining its former role of supremacy in world shipping if the hands of its maritime industry were not tied by the indifference of Administration bureaucrats. Twenty years ago our ships did dominate the seas—and the fleets of Japan, Russia and Germany were a shambles. As recently as ten years ago, we were still on top in tanker capacity. Now, however, Japan has already passed us in tanker capacity and Russia, West Germany and others are gain­ ing on the U.S. in all areas of shipping at a pace much too fast for comfort. And why are these nations — some of whom made use of American aid to start off their massive shipbuilding programs — so anxious for sea strength? Because their governments are not blind to the fact that a self-sufficient merchant marine must al­ ways play a vital role in the survival of any country, and they are doing everything they can to see to it that they acquire, and keep, such a merchant marine. The United States is not losing the world maritime race. Far from it! The United States isn't even in the race. The sad, sim­ ple truth of the matter is that the Executive Branch of the United States governmentalone among all large nations of the world— has chosen to deliberately scratch America's strong starting-gate position in the race for more than 15 years. If the continuing Vietnam conflict and the necessity of diverting more and more of our meager merchant fleet from commer­ cial shipping to the Southeast Asia sealift didn't open the eyes of the administration to how desperate our maritime situation had become, surely the recent Mid-east war and resultant closing of the Suez Canal points up the potentially dangerous position this country could be in because of inferior maritime strength. Fortunately, the United States is not de­ pendent on the Arab nations for petroleum and petroleum products but if we were and an embargo against us was ever imposed by countries controlling tankers and other ves­ sels used in our foreign trade we would not have enough ships of our own to fall back on. Only an insignificant fraction of the oil America does import is currently carried in American-flag tankers. All the rest moves either in foreign-flag ships or under runaway flags the defense department claims to have under what it calls "effective control." It is folly to believe that this so-called "effective control" could not dissolve overnight at the whim of foreign powers. This applies not only to oil but to any other dry cargo this country imports as well. In this unsettled world of shifting inter­ national alliances, the only possible way for any country to insure that its needs will be filled without interruption is to have suffi­ cient ships—under its own flag and manned by its own citizens — to fill those needs. �September 15, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG Page Eight House Agriculture Committee OKs New Hieut Inspection Ueusure AFL'CIO Education Director Outlines Program Effective Member Education Program Cited as Essential to Union Growth WASHINGTON—The House Agriculture Committee has ap­ proved a meat inspectipn bill that closes some of the loopholes in the antiquated 60 year old law, but organized labor is fighting to to make the measure a whole ^ Colorado as in Connecticut." MONTREAL—An effective trade union movement must develop an education program designed lot stronger. Mayer said that the Committee to strengthen the individual union as well as strengthening the movement as a whole, AFL-CIO Ed­ The committee bill authorizes bill provides new authority over ucation Director Walter G. Davis told an international conference here. a 50-50 matching program by the fat rendereds, transportation, meat federal government and the states Speaking at the first world fbrokers, animal food manufactur­ In terms of education designed to help finance both inspection ers and wholesalers and would conference on trade union edu­ that will achieve these objectives. to strengthen the entire move­ activities and inspector training A strong, effective union in the permit federal inspection of plants, cation sponsored by the Inter­ ment, Davis pointed out that costs. but that it stops at the crucial national Confederation of Free United States, he told the 200 What it fails to do is to place point—federal inspection for vir­ Trade Unions, Davis spelled out delegates from over 50 countries, American unions today are "issue minded in terms of local and na­ the whole meat inspection pro­ the fundamentals of programs requires a national leadership at­ tional political issues, administra­ tually all meat. gram under federal direction and tuned to all of the important so­ federal control which is what the cial, political and economic mat­ tive policies of government agen­ AFL-CIO has long asked. ters affecting _ the union and the cies, economic policy, etc. The new legislation proposed These areas are important to industry to which it is related and by the House Committee would an aggressive organizing pro­ any education effort from week­ "modernize" the old 1906 Meat end institutes to summer schools gram. Inspection Act, which gives the and conferences, he said. Tied to these, he added, is the federal government inspection au­ Summing up the conference, need for an effective new member thority over meat in interstate Herbert A. Tulatz, assistant gen­ program, on-going staff training, commerce. It does not, however, eral secretary of the ICFTU, an adequately trained education give the federal government in­ termed it a "turning point for division, effective two-way com­ spection authority over meat in the tradition-bound labor move­ munication between the national intrastate commerce where it is ment" and the beginning of a "re­ union and its locals. The union now desperately needed even in must participate fully in shaping thinking of aims and methods by the states that have inspection policy at all levels and develop which the union movement could codes of their own. also a program review to update contribute towards the education­ Arnold Mayer, Legislative Rep­ tactics and strategy in reaching al needs of their communities." resentative of the Meat Cutters The conference participants its goals. and Butcher Workmen, in testi­ divided into five working groups Davis noted that in the U.S. and their reports, adopted by the mony before the House Agricul­ an educational objective is to pro­ conference, reflected a consensus ture Committee, has stressed the mote the expansion of university that labor movements must par­ high importance of a greatly labor centers, .particularly in the ticipate more in the total com­ strengthened law with basic au­ South. "It is ironic, he said, 'for munity. thority centered in the federal gov­ us to find state universities, sup­ ernment. There were recommendations ported by the workers' tax dol­ for greater coordination of activ­ Mayer noted that some 85 per lars, providing services for busi­ ities of free trade union move­ cent of meat slaughtered in the ness and management while re­ ments with the ILO and UNESCX) United States is inspected by the fusing to provide comparable federal' government now, but that as well as within the ICFTU and services for the labor movement." the remaining 15 per cent plus 25 Extensive construction operations were under way for Newport's the trade secretariats. Free and per cent of processed meat consti­ He told the conference that a equal education regardless of fi­ Wharf No. I in December, 1966. As piles were being driven tute the real problem. labor college is under considera­ nancial conditions or social status, down, prefab steel warehouses went up on concrete dock. He declared that cattle which tion by the AFL-CIO, but there integration of vocational educar could not pass federal inspection A new major port, dubbed Newport, and expected to unravel is no intention of replacing the tion into the general education are sent to uninspected plants— the "logjam" of ships'in South Vietnam's two main ports, has university "with our own" for system, leave for workers partici­ cattle that fit into the 4 D's clas­ been completed and put into operation two miles from Saigon. those universities which have con­ pating in trade union courses and sification—dead, dying, disabled cerned themselves with training guidelines for the operations of Newport is expected to speed up the lengthy "turn-around and diseased. These go into state of workers "are making a valua­ labor colleges, were among the time" of ships so that all loading, unloading, repairing, and other commerce where the consumer ble contribution." recommendations. processes can be done rapidly. At the same time, Newport more often than not is unpro­ will expedite the strengthening of the U.S. fighting forces in tected. Vietnam. "We firmly believe," he said, Before Newport was officially opened on July 10, 1967, after "that all of the industry must be two years of construction, there were only two ports available brought under inspection — and to handle the enormous volume of cargo required to fight the under inspection which operates war. The harbors—Cam Ranh Bay, with three deep-draft berths, with approximately the same rules and Saigon, with six deep-draft berths—^were overloaded with in California as in Texas, and in WASHINGTON—Three SlU-contracted companies, Sea-Land ships. Turn-around time was 30-40 days. New York as in Minnesota and in Service, Inc., Waterman Steamship Corp., and Columbia Steam­ In contrast, Newport covers a 100-acre site, has a 1,300 foot concrete barge wharf, an LCU ramp area, two LST ramps and ship Co., have acquired a total of six C-4 troopships for conver­ slips, four 600-foot concrete wharves, ei^t transit sheds total­ sion to commercial service. SEAB!4BEBafejLOG ling 192,000 square-feet, a 29,400 square-foot repair and main­ In announcing allocation of in the Reserve Fleet by the Navy Department and notice was pub­ tenance shop, and a helicopter pad. Soon to be completed are the vessels under the Ship Ex­ lished last May of their avail­ Sept. 15. 1967 • Vol. XXIX, No. 19 a 1,500 kilowatt power-house, a 700-man messhall, and a 30,000 change Program, Acting Maritime ability for trade out under the OiBcial Publication of the square-foot operations building. At present, Newport has an un­ Administrator J. W. Gulick said Ship Exchange Program. They Seafarers International Union loading capacity of 6,000 tons per day. It can accommodate "We are pleased with the produc­ had been previously withheld from of North America, simultaneously two LCM's at a ramp, seven barges at a concrete Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes tivity of the design of the pro­ a group of 25 C-4's offered under and Inland Waters District, wharf, two LST's at a slip, and four ocean-going vessels with one posed conversion." He added that the program in June 1966 until AFL-CIO at each 600-foot concrete wharf. "when completed, these ships the MSTS decided whether or not Executive Board Though there were difficulties involved in the port's construc­ should greatly improve the service PAUL HALL, President to convert them to containerships tion, such as the need for massive importing from other areas CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD available to U.S. shippers in sev­ Exec. Vice-Pree. Vice-President for use in Vietnam. The other 15 of sand for the river bed, they were outweighed by the port's eral important trades." AL KERR LINDSEY WILLIAMS vessels were released for commer­ strategic importance. It is close to the Bien Hoa highway and Sec.-Treas. Vice-President Waterman will convert the cial service by the Navy last April. ROBERT MATTHEWS bridge, which facilitate movement of supplies to the troops. And General A. W. Brewster and the Vice-President Three other SlU-contracted because none of its cargoes have to travel by truck through Sai­ General C. H. Muir to dry cargo HERBERT BRAND companies, Merrimac Transport, gon's narrow streets, which is a major hindrance to the Saigon Director of Organizing and ships for use in its foreign and Publications Victory Transport and Hudson port's operations, increased materiel flow is expedited. domestic trade routes. Managing Editor Waterways were recently allo­ The U.S. Commander in Vietnam, General William West­ The Generals B. E. Aultman, MIKE POLLACK cated one ship each under the moreland, recently visited Newport. He noted that not only will M. N. Patrick and H. B. Freeman Stag Writers Ship Exchange Program. Newport and other facilities under construction in the country will be converted by Sea-Land into PETER WEISS help the war effort, but they will also provide for a stronger Allocations of ships from the containerships with a capacity of HARRY WITTSCHEN Vietnam economy. He said, "Every stage in the buildup of our FRANK MARGIOTTA approximately 325 containers each Reserve Fleet are made to unsubSTEVE STEINBERG armed forces here has required a corresponding buildup of the 35 feet long. The vessels are to be sidized companies based on the facilities to support them. This has involved the construction used in the company's Puerto productivity of the conversions Piklhhed biweekly at 810 Rhsde liland Annae N.E., Washlniton, D. C. 20018 by the Seafarof entire harbors to get the goods of war into this country, proposed by the companies and Rico service. eri International Union, Atlantic, Calf, Lakes logistical depots to store them, and airfields and roads to use the capabilities of the applicants. and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Columbia Steamship plans to Fearth Avenie, Brooklyn, N.V. 11232. Tel. them. But we are not only building to help the Vietnamese peo­ convert one ship for service in the Ship exchange contracts must HVaelnth 9-6600. Second class postafc paid at Washlniton, D. C. ple thwart aggression. Many of the harbors, hospitals, roads and Gulf/Far East trade and return be entered into with 90 days of FOSTHASTER'S ATTENTION: Forai 3579 support facilities we're building here will last many years beyond to the Pacific Northwest via Ma­ allocation and the conversions cards shoald be sent to Seafarers International the present conflict. When peace is restored, these facilities will Union, Atlantic, Galf, Lakes and Inland Waters laysia, Indonesia and the Phil­ must be completeit within 12 District, AFL-CIO, 675 Foarth Ayenae, Brook­ be turned over to the Vietnamese. So. in a very real sense, we're ippines. months thereafter unless the Mar­ lyn, N.y. 11232. building for peace in Vietnam." The C-4's were among ten such itime Administration grants addi­ ships released from priority status tional time for good cause. Vietnam Ship logjam' Aided By New Port of 'Newport' Six C-4 Troopships Allocuted To Three SlU-Contructed Compumes r-T Tifrw:, �September IS, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG ANNUAL REPORT For the fiscal year ended March 31, 1967 GREAT LAKES TUG AND DREDGE PENSION FUND 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215 to the SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE of the STATE OF NEW YORK 4. 5. The data contained herein is for the purpose of providing general information as to the condition and affairs of the fund. The presentation is necessarily abbreviated. For a more comprehensive treatment, refer to the Annual Statement, copies of which may be inspected at the office of the fund, or at the New York Insurance Department, 55 John Street, New York, New York 10038. 6. 7. CHANGES IN FUND BALANCE (RESERVE FOR FUTURE BENEFITS) ADDITIONS TO FUND BALANCE 1. Contributions: (a) Employer (b) Employee (c) Other (Specify) (d) Total Contributions 2. Dividends and Experience Ratings Refunds from Insurance Companies 3. Investment Income: (a) Interest (b) Dividends (c) Rents (d) Other (Specify) (e) Total Income from Investments 4. Profit on disposal of investments 5. Increase by adjustment in asset values of investments 6. Other Additions: (Itemize) (a) (b) (c) Total Other Additions 7. Total Additions 8. $110,035.42 71,025.73 o $ 181,061.15 —o 19,603.61 22,122.31 —o— —o— 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Page Nine (1) Preferred (2) Common (c) Bonds and Debentures: (1) Government Obligations (a) Federal (b) State and Municipal (2) Foreign Government Obligations (3) Non-Government Obligations (d) Common Trusts: (1) (Identify) (2) (Identify) (e) Subsidiary Organizations (Identify and Indicate Percentage of Ownership by this plan in the subsidiary) (1) % (2) % Real Estate Loans and Mortgages Loans and Notes Receivable: (Other than Real Estate) (a) Secured (b) Unsecured Real Estate: (a) Operated (b) Other Real Estate Other Assets: (a) Accrued Income (b) Prepaid Expenses (c) Other (Specify) Total Assets 44,760.84 459,807.50 1,020,719.38 LIABILITIES Insurance and Annuity Premiums Payable .. Unpaid Claims (Not Covered by Insurance) .. Accounts Payable Accrued Expenses Other Liabilities (Specify) Reserve for Future Benefits (Fund Balance) Total Liabilities and Reserves 1,321.84 1,019,397.54 1,020,719.38 41,725.92 6,716.81 —o— —o— -o—o— 229,503.88 DEDUCTIONS FROM FUND BALANCE 8. Insurance and Annuity Premiums to Insurance Carriers and to Service Organizations . (Including Prepaid Medical Plans) 9. Benefits Provided Directly by the Trust or Separately Maintained Fund 10. Payments to an Organization Maintained by the Plan for the Purpose of Providing Benefits to Participants 11. Payments or Contract Fees Paid to Independent Organizations or Individuals Providing Plan Benefits (Clinics, Hospitals, Doctors, etc.) 12. Administrative Expenses: (a) Salaries 9,551.76 (b) Allowances, Expenses, etc 1,817.09 (c) Taxes 444.17 (d) Fees and Commissions .'. 6,078.46 (e) Rent ; 1,246.86 (f) Insurance Premiums 27.74 (g) Fidelity Bond Premiums 56.00 (h) Other Administrative Expenses (Specify) Schedule attached 4,582.39 (i) Total Administrative Expenses 13. Loss on disposal of investments 14. Decrease by adjustment in asset values of investments 15. Other Deductions: (Itemize) (a) —o— (b) -o(c) Total Other Deductions 16. Total Deductions —o— 21,217.34 —o— GREAT LAKES TUG AND DREDGE PENSION FUND ATTACHMENT TO THE ANNUAL REPORT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Year ended March 31, 1967 Deductions from Fund Balance Item 12(h) — Other Administrative Expenses Stationery supplies and printing Postage, express and freight Telephone and telegraph Equipment rental Employee benefits Miscellaneous Repairs and maintenance Tabulating service ' Microfilming Dues and subscriptions Miscellaneous trustees' meetings expense —o— ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Pension Fund STATE OF , New York COUNTY OP , Kings .and. Trustees of the Fund and affirm, under the penalties of perjury that the contents of this Annual Report are true and hereby —o— 51,339.84 subscribe thereto. RECONCILEMENT OF FUND BALANCE 841,233.50 229,503.88 51,339.84 178,164.04 Employee trustee: 1,019,397.54 STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND UABILITIES Item ASSETS 1. Cash 2. Receivables: (a) Contributions: (1) Employer (2) Other (Specify) (b) Dividends or Experience Rating Refunds * (c) Other (Specify) Accrued interest paid on bonds purchased 3. Investments: (Other than Real Estate) (a) Banks Deposits At Interest and Deposits or Shares in Savings and Loan Associations (b) Stocks: '. $1,917.40 7.83 237.73 740.01 453.53 147.22 101.05 757.77 8.94 19.64 191.27 $4,582.39 Employer tms^: 17. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits) at Beginning of Year 18. Total Additions During Year (Item 7) 19. Total Deductions During Year (Item 16) 20. Total Net Increase (Decrease) 21. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits) at end of Year (Item 14, Statement of Assets and Liabilities) $ 68,567.17 441,710.78 others (Indicate titles): $5,578.50 294.59 �Page Ten SEAFARERS LOG September 15, 1967 i fi Lakes Seafarer Receives Pension i; |.h N.LR.B. Again Raps J. P. Stevens For Violating Employees' Rights •I f Alex Dolsen (right) joins the ranks of SIU pensioners as he re­ ceives his first monthly pension chdfck from SIU Welfare Represent­ ative Dick Hollingsworth (center) in Detroit. Dolsen receives his first check as IBU Regional Director Robert Jones (left) looks on. The Pacific Coast by Frank Drozak, West Coast Representative About 150 union pickets, bi-lingual placards on high, marched through the narrow streets of San Francisco's world-famous China­ town last week to "declare a war on poverty." The trade unionists gathered in Portsmouth Square to kick off the first major union organizing drive in Chinatown's long history. The city's top AFL-CIO leaders pledged "a fight to the finish Anchorage were signed on, and against substandard wages and the Penmar, Los Angeles, Maryconditions." The JGWU has as­ mar, and Herminia were in transit. serted that the women at the gar­ While shipping has be'Cn very ment factories make 70 cents an good in the last few weeks, it looks hour at the most, in violation of as though it will slacken a bit in laws requiring pay of at least the next few weeks. However, the $1.40 per hour, and work beyond presently laid-up Steel Apprentice the legal eight-hour-a-day limit. is expected to crew up next week. Clyde Miller, who has 20 The SIU is active in this cam­ paign, and is giving its strongest years as an SIU member, is now support to the IGWU relative to fit for duty after having served several months in a marine hospi­ this organizing drive. The SIUNA-affiliated Military tal. He last served on the Cosmos Sea Transport Union last week Mariner as bosun. won formal recognition to repre­ A1 Smith, a Seafarer since 1939, sent the members of the San Fran­ has retired after his last voyage cisco Public Health Service Hos­ on the Seattle where he served 20 pital. months as bosun. His many friends will miss Smitty on the ships, but San FrancisK^o they will probably see him fre­ Shipping is booming here, and quently around the union hall, Oilers, FWT's, as well as AB's, where he intends to remain active can find work. We paid off in union affairs. and signed on the following ships Gus Skendelas, a 20-year SIU during the last period: Young member, having completed his as­ America, Pan Oceanic Faith, Free signment as steward on the Sag­ America, Minot Victory, Seamar, amore Hills, is taking a short rest Steel Apprentice, Lynn Victory, before shipping out again. Halcyon Tiger, Council Groves, Wilmington Pecos, Joplin Victmy, Penmar, Beaver Victory, Elizabethport, In the past few weeks there Seatrain Carolina, Lucile Bloom- were pay-offs on the Lucille field, and Margarett Brown. Ships Bloomfield, Seatrain Maine, Sea­ in transit are the Fairport and train Texas, Margarett Brown, Depauw Victory. and Steel Artisan. Eight ships Brother Daniel O'Connor from were through in transit. Shipping Lansdowne, Pa., is waiting for an is still booming here for rated men oiler's job to hit the board, and in all departments, and the out­ when it does, he'll be aboard a look is for continued good ship­ ship within a matter of hours. ping. Brother W. J. MBtchell is just Mike Ohannesian is back in back from a month's vacation in town after a short trip on the his home town of Houston, Texas. Seatrain Puerto Rico, where he He has been an active SIU mem­ served as an AB. ber for years, and ships as an Don Bartlett re-registered here electriican. after a long trip as bosun on the Oscar Stevens, who hails from ^ngview Victory. He'll be look­ Mobile, Ala., just took the bosun's ing for a ship after a short vaca­ job for a one-year trip on the tion with his grandchildren. Trans-Eastern to the Far East. Curley Lyles is on the beach Brother Stevens has been in the here looking for a steward's slot. SIU since its inception. He was last on the Express Virginia. Seattle Edgar Mitchell is planning a The Seatrain Puerto Rico, the short vacation on the beach .after Anchorage, and the Steel Flyer getting off the Steel. Artisan. He were paid off in this period. The ships FWT and won't have any Hastings, Halauln Victory, and trouble when ready to go. The National Labor Relations Board hit J. P. Stevens & Co. with two more orders to reinstate and give back pay to employees it fired illegally to smash their union, the Textile Workers Union of America. In two unanimous decisions ^ antiunion speeches, both for a ordered reinstatement with full the NLRB added the names of one-year period, and to conduct compensation for lost pay since 18 more firing victims to the list any election for the next five years August 1966. of 89 whom the nation's second off Stevens premises. In both cases the NLRB used largest textile chain must rein­ the new simplified notice form. It The NLRB also turned down state. the union's request, made in pre­ states that "after a trial at which But Stevens—a major govern­ vious cases, that management be all sides had the chance to give ment contractor—continues to re­ ordered to bargain with the union evidence, the NLRB found .that sist two previous findings and de­ becailse its illegal conduct made a we, J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., lays of 18 months and more are fair election impossible. violated the National Labor Rela­ still in prospect as management But the board did agree that tions Act and ordered us to post takes the cases through court ap­ Stevens should read the NLRB this notice to inform our em­ peals. notice to assembled employees, or ployees of their rights." In the latest rulings, the board permit an NLRB agent to do so; The notices conclude: "We will upheld Trial Examiner Boyd Lee- mail copies of the notice to em­ give back to these employees their dom's landmark decision of last ployees of all its North Carolina jobs and seniority, and we'll make Jan. 31 and Examiner Thomas A. and South Carolina plants; and up the pay they lost and also pay Ricci's finding of Mar. 23 that give the TWUA access to plant them 6 per cent interest." Stevens management violated the bulletin boards for one year. Employees of Stevens and other labor law repeatedly and deliber­ firms recently testified before a The case heard by Leedom in­ ately to thwart TWUA's 1963-66 volved Stevens plants in Green­ House Labor subcommittee on Carolina organizing campaigns. ville, S.C., and Roanoke Rapids, the illegal acts of management. AFL-CIO Director of Organi­ N.C. Ricci held hearings involving Two employees of a New Orleans zation William L. Kircher said of discharges at those two plants and firm—J. H. Rutter-Rex Co.—said the findings—the fourth in 17 one in Rock Hill, S.C. He ruled they have waited 12 years for re­ months against Stevens—that they that three union members had instatement and backpay ordered demonstrate once again that a been fired on phony grounds and by the board and a court. rich corporation can commit "eco­ nomic mayhem" against its work­ ers "and not only get by with it_ but continue to get fat contracts" from the U.S. Former NLRB Chairman Leedom was NLRB chairman in the Republican Administration of former President Eisenhower, when Stevens President Robert T. Stevens was secretary of the Army. Leedom's decision scored management not only for repeat­ edly violating employee rights, but also for setting policies that he said led many company super­ visors to lie on the witness stand. Upholding his findings in the main, the board noted Leedom's opinion: "I have the inescapable . . . conviction . . . that many of the witnesses called by (management) testified as they did pursuant to a policy, made at a higher level of management than theirs, to defeat this union's organizational effort ... at the cost, if necessary, of committing unfair labor practices and then denying the unlawful acts." The witnesses followed a pat­ tern, Leedom observed, of believ­ ing they were engaged in a crusade "to overcome a common enemy," unionism, and "so either believing or rationalizing that their position is just, they engage in the common error of fighting real or pretended 'evil' with evil." Leedom had ordered reinstate­ ment with backpay for 13 unlaw­ fully fired employees. The board added names of two more workers and dismissed the complaint as to seven others. Also it sustained un­ ion objections to company con­ duct in an election held Mar. 9, 1966, at the Dunean plant of Stevens in Greenville, S.C., and ordered a new vote when the NLRB regional director deems the atmosphere conducive to a fair election. The board denied special rem­ edies sought for the first time by the TWUA—to give the unions apcess to Stevens perking Jots and equal time to reply , to company If!'• •'J .r 4 Soviet Maritime Union OfUtiai Predkts Rapid Fleet Expansion Not only has the Soviet Union risen from 12th to sixth place— just behind the United States—among the shipping nations of the world since 1959, but it is confident of a further maritime transport increase of 180 per cent by the end of its current five year plan in 1970, a Russian labor leader declared recently. G. Sayenko, president of the Central Council of Sea and River Transport Worker's Union of the USSR, wrote of his nation's maritime progress in the July Quarterly Review of the Trade Union International of Transport, Port and Fishery Workers, published in Prague. He predicted that the Soviet fleet will con­ tinue to "grow at a rapid rate over the coming years." Recalling that World War II had caused serious damage to [Russia's fleet and left her major ports in near total destruction, Sayenko said that "even 10 years after the end of the war our fieet had only some 150 ocean-going ships," but today the Soviet Union "has over 1,300 ships ships totaling about 7 million tons." "The creation of a powerful modern fleet is a great victory for our country which has put an end to the political and economic dependence of our country in the field of maritime transport," the Russian unionist continued. "The transport of exports or imports sold or bought on condi­ tion that they can be transported by the Soviet partner can be fully handled by Soviet shipping. The carriage of freight by foreign ships takes place, generally speaking, when Soviet ships can be used more rationally to carry goods for foreign owners, and not because of lack of shipping." Although Sayenko's article dwells at some length on the Com­ munist line and the so-called "bright future" of the Russian sys­ tem, it does show clearly the full support given by the Soviet government to all phases of its merchant marine and the deter­ mination of that government to eventually dominate the seas. Sayenko points to Russian efforts toward making life at sea more attractive to crew members by building modern ships with all the latest facilities for their safety and comfort—including air conditioning, one or two-berth cabins, rest rooms, libraries, etc. He backs his claim that the Soviet fleet is manned by highly qualified crews by listing government-backed maritime training institutions: "There are four high schools, 12 nautical secondary schools and two technical schools for further training of seamen —and they have many facilities for continuing their studies by correspondence courses." While Russian wages and living standards cannot be compared with those enjoyed by Americans, Sayenko gives an interesting insight into the favored status of maritime workers within the framework of the Soviet system. "From 1959 to 1965 seaman's wages rose by 33 per cent, and those of port workers by 24 per cent," he said. During the sam» years "investments in house building and cultural facilities for maritime transport workers amounted to more tl:an 240 million rubles (and) more than 80,000 maritime transport workers' families received new flats." 11 �September 15, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG SlU Patrolmen Service Lakes Ship SlU Lakes District patrolman George Telegrades and Scottie Aubusson service the SlU-contracted ship, Reiss Brothers. The tanker was one of several ships being serviced in Detroit during July. V • The Great Lakes by Fred^rnen,Secretery-Treesurer,6reat Lakes ""i .• i'i' Negotiations with the Ann Arbor Railroad have finally been completed and the contract has been ratified by SIU crewmembers who work aboard the three car ferries that service the port of Frankfort and the Wisconsin shore line. The total money package, including 74 cents a day in welfare and pension contributions, ranges from 29 VA cents per hour ^ for wheelsmen and oilers, down to together with shipboard promo­ 2414 cents per hour for entry tions, all of the vessels have been ratings. The wage increase is re­ sailing with a full complement. We regret that old-timer Mar­ troactive as of January 1, 1967. The SIU Great Lakes District tin Dahl recently passed away scored a major victory recently after a short illness. Martin was when the Ohio Industry and Labor an IBU member and at 74 retired Committee, by a 9 to 3 vote, ap­ after racking up some 45 years of proved the unemployment bill for tugging and dredging. Our new building in Chicago, seamen. House Bill No. 427 now goes before the House Rules Com­ located at 1306 South Michigan mittee, which has the authority to Avenue, is almost completed. The clear the bill for a House vote. clinic has had all the finishing This is the first time an unemploy­ touches done and the grand open­ ment bill for Ohio seamen has ing will be announced in the near ever been approved by a commit­ future. Our taxi-driver affiliate, DUOC tee. We urge all SIU members 777, has already moved into the and their families to continue to write to the Ohio legislators asking second floor and is now operat­ ing at the new address. final support of this bill. Detroit We recently paid off the Bea­ trice Victory after a four-month voyage and we are happy to re­ port that this was a smooth pay­ off. In addition, the Delaware paid off on coastwise articles. The Beatrice Victory sailed last week and we hope to have the Dela­ ware on its way soon. Both ves­ sels are carrying military cargo to Vietnam. Some of the oldtimers who shipped aboard these vessels are Joe Rollins, night cook and baker. Bill Cowan, chief cook, Hubert Kams, steward, and Har­ old Pilkey, bridgeman. Cleveland Although things have slowed down, shipping has been going at a steady pace, with all book men in this area working. As of this date, we are still waiting for word from the NLRB as to the start of the PickandsMather election. Smooth sailing to all. Chicago Shipping has been steady this period, with calls for rated jobs taking priority. We have managed to fill the majority of them, and Duluth Shipping in Duluth is very slow, but should pick up with the fittingopt of the James Ferris, which was laid up for a week. Ken Lund just shipped on the Trans-Eastern as cook and baker. He is flying to Japan to catch that ship. The grain strike has gone into its fifteenth day with no settlement in sight. There is a meeting sched­ uled for this week. Alpena Shipping in the port of Alpena has kept a steady pace. It is still very difficult to fill rated jobs. We have Otto Zarske, porter, on the beach waiting for that spe­ cial ship. Hope you won't have to wait too long. Otto. Buffalo Because of the grain strike in Duluth, this port has not had many vessels down this way for the past week or so. On the local scene, the. grain elevator local is still negotiating with Cargill Elevator and has not agreed to a settlement. However, there is no indication at this time that there will be a strike. Page Eleven AFL-CIO Fully Behind U.S. Effort In Vietnam, Wurf Tells British TUC BRIGHTON, England—Tfie AFL-CTO "stands four square" behind the United States effort to defend freedom in South Vietnam, President Jerry Wurf of the State, County & Municipal Employees told the British Trade Union Congress here. Wurf, an AFL-CIO fraternal 'As free workers," Wurf de­ strongly supporting programs "to delegate to the annual TUC clared, "you and we know that keep us moving still further meeting, also emphasized that there can be no just or enduring along." America has no economic, politi­ He cited legislation enacted to cal, or territorial designs in Viet­ peace as long as millions are in poverty or denied their individual assure equal employment, public nam or anywhere in Southeast dignity and human and national accommodations, financial aid to Asia, and "has welcomed every freedom." schools and job training as ex­ move for ending the war through He described "bread, peace and amples of process to benefit negotiations." Negroes. President William J. Pachler of freedom" as the ideal that "ce­ "But we must do more," Pach­ the Utility Workers — Wurf's ments" the AFL-CIO, the TUC and other free labor movements ler continued. "And in the view of fellow fraternal delegate — re­ in cooperation. He .pledged that the AFL-CIO that means stepping ported on U.S. labor's continuing up public investment to create push for economic and social American labor "will spare no ef­ progress in our "highly urbanized, fort to strengthen the free trade more jobs, to improve our edu­ high-industrialized and technolog­ union partnership of workers of cation systems, and to build more every race, creed, color and con­ and better housing." ically-advanced society." tinent." Pachler hit out at Stokely CarPachler particularly stressed michael, the self-styled Negro Wurf scored France's General labor's determination to advance leader "who carried his message equality, end racial discrimina­ De Gaulle for his "hostile" atti­ of violence to your shores just a tude toward the U.S. and Britain. tion, reduce poverty and rehabili­ few months ago." tate and rebuild the nation's He also deplored DeGaulle's ef­ fort to blame Israel for the Mid­ Describing Carmichael as one slums. east war and his intervention in who "offers no solution, no rem­ In discussing U.S. policy on the affairs of Canada. edy and no program except one Vietnam, Wurf quoted a recent "He does not speak for the that preaches hate and destruc­ address by the Socialist Prime French people when he follows a tion," Pachler added: Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan policy of rewarding their enemies "Fortunately, despite the im­ Yew, whom he described as an and punishing their friends," pression he tries to create, he rep­ "authentic voice of the Asian Wurf suggested. resents few people, and he rep­ peoples." . Pachler said that progress has resents none at all who are sin­ In a speech at Singapore Uni­ been made in the U.S. toward cerely concerned—as is the labor versity, Yew said "A United eliminating discrimination and movement—^with creating a socie­ States withdrawal would greatly poverty even though there "re­ ty in which a man's position de­ hurt the small and middle fishes mains a very long way to go." pends on his abilities and talent in Asia. ... I don't believe that The AFL-CIO, he added, is and not his color." the U.S. can withdraw from Viet­ nam early or in haste. ... If South Vietnam is erased from the globe, what would be the fate of Laos and other friendly na­ tions in Southeast Asia? "Every day hundreds ... die on the battlefield. For what? Just A 3,080-ton Danish merchant ship was recently salvaged from to defend Vietnam. No, also to 114 feet of freezing Greenland water by means of air-filled plastic prevent another Vietnam." bubbles no larger than a pea. Wurf said that the "shortcom­ The new technique, developed® per cent of the ship's weight was ings" of the United Nations, as by Danish engineers, makes use supported by the bubbles and the illustrated by the recent Middle East crisis, should not cause de­ of polystyrene which is boiled to salvage boats were able to bring spair but should spur a more de­ form the small bubbles. The her to the surface. The Martin S. termined effort "to build the UN bubbles are then pumped through was then towed to Nakskov, Den­ into an effective instrument for a hose into the hull of a sunken mark, for repairs. A spokesman for the salvage preserving peace and promoting vessel. Last April, the Martin S., broke company said the plastic bubbles human rights and freedom." her moorings and settled in the are not likely to replace usual sal­ 32-degree water of Sukkertoppen vage methods but will be reserved Harbor, West Greenland, with a for special cases in which the hole in her bow. wreck is too deep for divers to Because of the temperature and seal off all compartments. With depth of the water, divers could the bubbles, only large hull open­ not have worked on raising the ings need be closed to keep them NORFOLK — A new contract vessel for more than 30 minutes inside. has been signed by the SIU Inland at a time. For this reason and Boatmen's Union here with Curtis also because bad weather was Bay Towing and McAllister Bros, likely to set in by the end of which calls for a substantial wage August, time-consuming conven­ hike, additional holiday and vaca­ tional methods of salvage were tion time, and increased holiday ruled out in favor of the bubble A Public Health Service Out­ method. pay. patient Clinic for seamen has In mid-May, nine divers began been established in the Daven­ The new contract, which was recently ratified by the member­ strengthening hatch covers and port, Iowa area. It will serve the ship, provides for an additional decks on three of the ship's holds medical needs of seamen living three holidays, double-time-and-a- to counteract the upward pressure in the area as well as maritime half pay on all holidays worked, that would be exerted on the personnel working on commercial 27 instead of the previous 21 days undersides of the decks when the vessels traversing the Mississippi of vacation, and a 21 cent-per- bubbles were introduced. After River. The Clinic was established by hour salary increase over a two- this was completed, holes were year period. The newly-negotiated burned into the sides of the vessel the Medical Officer in Charge of pact will further expire simultane­ to admit the hoses and the bubble the Chicago Public Health Serv­ ice Outpatient Clinic, who visited ously with the contracts in effect pumping was begun. at Philadelphia and Baltimore. The three holds had received Davenport to study the situation. The 125 IBU members affected their quota of plastic bubbles by He then recommended the form­ by the agreement man the 15 the middle of June and in early ing of the Clinic. The Medical Officer in Charge commercial tugs operated by the July two salvage ships were able Curtis Bay and McAllister com­ to raise the 290-foot motor vessel of the new Clinic is Dr. M. C. panies. These companies provide three feet off the bottom with McCabe. The office is located at all commercial tug service in the their lifting gear. Pumping was 430 W. 35th Street, Davenport, then continued until about 90 Iowa. area. New Plastic Bubble Technique Raises 3,000 Ton Vessel Norfolk Tugmen Ink New Pacts New USPHS Clittit laDare^iort, Iowa �Page Twelve .3 . September 15, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG Wviera Cast' Untouthed by War, SlU Veteran of Vietnam Kan Reports "Vung Tau is a touch of the unreal, a sanctuary inside a trembling countryside. No wonder the GI's call it "Riviera East," Seafarer James "Pat" Conley, reported in a recent letter to the Log. Conley is a veteran of the Vietnam run, having made six trips and logging 420 days of sea time. Conley was a member of the ^ and deck department aboard the tomers. Open bars are side by men, government figures, side, many built within the last 18 Premier Ky and Chief of State Vantage Progress when he months. Sloe-eyed, raven-haired Van Thieu are attracted to the wrote of his experiences in Vung Vietnamese girls with miniskirts area, along with some long-haired Tau. and eye shadow make Vung Tau beatniks. It is probably the only seashore heaven for the Gl with a three They come by car along the resort untouched by the war, Con­ day pass. relatively safe highway, helicopter ley reported. Because of it's lack "The bars are meant for the and motor scooter, to sit in the of napalm bombs and terrorists, Gl. They have such names as sun, swim and water ski. "It the scene resem­ Esquire, Detroit, Playboy, James could be Southern Italy, the Ore­ bles Vietnam in Bond 007," Conley related. Some gon coast or the Caribbean. Vung the "gold rush of them feature black jack, poker Tau is a touch of the unreal to all days." The pop­ and roulette, with girls spinning who have traveled this war-torn ulation has dou­ the wheels "like pros right out of land," Conley said. bled, from 30,000 Las Vegas." The night curfew, Somewhere there's war, the to more than strictly enforced elsewhere, is vir­ Seafarer reflected, but here you 70,000. Numer­ tually ignored here, with bars hop­ can listen to a Strauss waltz, dance ous refugee camps ping until 6 a.m. on a rooftop lined with palm trees and villages have The GI's and local Vietnamese and forget. Conley will take some Conley sprung up. don't have the area to themselves, time off from the Vietnam run for The town gets its electricity by any means. Vietnamese from awhile. "It's time to get out the from two American ships but as Saigon, French businessmen, sec­ old rocking chair for a few weeks Vung Tau continues to grow, the retaries from 22 embassies, sea­ of relaxation," he said. generators are continually over­ loaded. Food can be a problem for these people, just as it is in most of this unfortunate country. Peasants fight to be first in line for garbage disposed of from GI meals. Gear is being held for the Seafarers listed below at Pier 39, San For the most part, life is pleas­ Francisco, Calif. These men are asked to claim their gear at the ant here, as pleasant as anywhere earliest possible moment. in Vietnam. For this reason, the military purposely kept the town Name Vessel carefree because "it wanted one I James Ackerman Steel Fabricator place where there is respite from I John C. Bamett Steel Architect war," Conley pointed out in his letter. H. L. Bremlett No vessel indicated David Caldwell Vung Tau is at the tip of a Steel Flyer trumpet-shaped peninsula that juts Joseph Carr Steel Worker into the China Sea. The town is Ted Clay Steel Recorder bounded by water on three sides. 1 Jose C(don No vessel indicated Some 10,000 allied troops are in I Connie L. Eaves No vessel indicated the area, and Conley has heard that Viet Cong also vacation here, Hairy H. Harper No vessel indicated swimming and soaking up sun C. Hudson No vessel indicated next to soldiers they may have Harry King No vessel indicated been fighting only a few days be­ Donald O'Brien Steel Recorder fore. Warren Owens War Not Far Off No vessel indicated Albert Schwartz Although shelling can be heard Steel Worker there is little talk of war. One Howard Wright Steel Maker would even find it difficult to think of war in this setting. "An emperor's villa overlooks the tiny harbor. Other once-opulent villas, built by the French, dot the Entry Rating Lifeboat Class No. 11 town," Conley reported. Some of these homes, with such names as Chalet Liza, Villa Blanche, Villa Poche make it hard to forget the heavy French influence still found in Vietnam. Conley explained that most of the homes are built into the hillsides, with stone steps cut into cliffs. A winding, bumpy road clings to the waterfront. Streets are lined with almond trees and pink benches. The town's beaches were developed by the French, homesick for the Riviera. They called it Cap St. Jacques. Vietnamese were dis­ criminated against, some allowed to walk only the streets but not the beach. Some of the richer families uphold the luxury tradi­ tion, Conley said. Guests of the mayor can expect five courses of choice French cui­ viembers of the eleventh graduating class of the SlU's Entry Rating sine, each with carefully selected Training Program are gathered together after having qualified wine. A bottle of Algerian wine •or their lifeboat tickets. Seated (l-r) are: C. Gonzales, S. Lowe, costs $6 to $10. Conley said that S. Roberts, C. Johnson, S. Todordwski, C. Bahnsen and S. Gotler. most of the wine is considered n the second row are: P. McSaharn, instructor, R, Stalls, H. Fleckmediocre in quality. enstein, O. Flite, L. Voight, J. Baason, T. Reno and senior in­ Vung Tau offers 200 bars with structor Ami Bjornsson. Shown in the third row are: P. Willson, 2,000 bar girls to attend to cus­ J. West, R. Scott, J. White, C. Myzwinski, J. Curren, and W. Bell. GEAR BEING HELD Big Improvement In Shipboard Chow To the Editor: I read with much interest your full-page article, "Danger on the Dinner Table," in the September 1, i967, issue of the Log. The miserable and haz­ ardous state of the meat in­ dustry, while it shocked most people in the early part of the twentieth century, was no sur­ prise to seafarers of that day. Food aboard ship was normally kept in horrid, unsanitary con­ dition, and the crews had no choice but to eat it or starve. One of the reasons was that the shipping companies were only out to make money, and to get their cargoes through as cheaply as possible; the crew didn't seem to count. Until maritime unions came along, it was impossible to collectively pressure the companies' for bet­ ter conditions. Now, with the work of the maritime unions, we can be thankful that food on ship is prepared not only well but also under healthful conditions. In fact, 1 think we seamen eat better than most people. Tim Franklin Oblivion is Port Of No Return To the Editor: Your paper seems to give the impression that some govern­ ment agencies such as MARAD are somewhat soft in the head! 1 mean, just because the Amer­ ican merchant marine is float­ ing to oblivion, 1 can't see why this is any reason to worry; 1, for one, have never been to this place Oblivion, and 1 think it might be nice to visit a new place for a change. It must be a pretty small port to pull into, though^ because Transportation Secretary Boyd apparently plans to float the whole maritime fleet there. And there is another thing to be said in praise of the permanent vacation for the maritime fleet. If we all pull out and drift off into the red sunset, we won't pose a threat to other countries which are building their merchant fleets in prepara­ tion for supporting their na­ tions' economies or military se­ curity, such as the Soviet Un­ ion. The sunset may indeed be Red, but we won't have to worry about a war or suppres­ sion, no sir! Because we'd all be away on a permanent vacation . . . somewhere. Louis Kinney I!il ^lli 'j •' J1I J ? LETTERS To Tlxe Bditor Grateful to Union For Welfare Aid To the Edhor: My husband, who was on the SlU pension died in July. With­ out delay, 1 have received the settlement. 1 want to thank those people who are responsible, for their immediate attention to settling this. No one but those in a posi­ tion similar to mine, can fully appreciate my gratitude for the help such a 'Godsend' can bring. Also, your Union pension made life much easier for my husband and me. 1 am very grateful. ReqtectfuDy, Christiiie Garibaldi Needs Information On WW II Convoy To the Editor: I wonder if I might ask your kind cooperation to make it known in the "Seafarer's Log" that I am searching for survi­ vors of a World War 11 convoy to Russia? I am engaged in researching for a book 1 am writing about the ill-fated convoy F.Q. 17 of June/July 1942 on which 1 my­ self served (escort vessel). Many of the merchant ships in this convoy were of course American—^Liberty ships and others—and a very consider­ able number of American sea­ men were involved. For some, as 1 well remember, it was their very first time at sea. I would be very interested in­ deed to hear from any Ameri­ can veterans of convoy P.Q. 17. Yours sincerely, Paid Lund (ex-ILN.V.F.) 6 Spath Walk, Grove Lane Cbeadle Hulme Cheshire, Engtand. CPlione: BramhaU 2957). CI.S. Should Claim Lend-lease Ships To the Editor: 1 recently learned of a start­ ling fact: that a number of American-owned ships that were lent to Russia in 1942, for defense against the Germans and Japanese, are. now. being used by the U.S.S.R. to supply North Vietnam with military materiel. Whether 1 agree with U.S. policy in Vietnam is not the question; it is the idiocy of the U.S. supplying ships that are being used against it. Why is it that, even though the lendlease agreement has been can­ celled for years, the U.S. has not bothered to reclaim its rightful property? This sort of issue is nothing to fool around with; in the Vietnam war, lives stand' in the balance. Congress­ man Thomas R. Pelley (R.Wash.), who recently uncov­ ered these facts and, together with Senator Clifford P. Han­ sen (R.-Wyoming), exposed them in Congress, even found that some of these ships were actively used by Russia in the Korean conflict and in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. I I j y. Verdegas ^ Can't See Why U.S. Neglects Shipping To the EAton 1 do not see why the govern­ ment continues to neglect your industry the way that it does. Your contribution to the na­ tion's defense has been constant and most people do not realize the tremendous risks that a sea­ man takes during time of war. I am not in the haWt of writ­ ing letters to my Congressman about matters that need atten­ tion. However, I feel so strong­ ly about the maritime decline that I am planning to tell my congressman to support the drive to build up the American merchant marine. Hmy We / �Septemlier 15, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG Adrift With Broken Shaft, Seafarers Angle For Sharks I 'i li)' I 'v 11 li "There we were, 100 miles North of the Hawaiian Islands and 1600 miles West of San Francisco. The propeller shaft was broken and we had nothing to do but drift and angle for sharks." William Aycock, ship's delegate on the Overseas Rose recently told the dry. Everybody then assisted in washing the shark stink off the Log. deck, Aycock said. "We were enroute from Viet­ "We didn't mind drifting be­ nam to Long Beach, Calif.," Ay­ cock stated, when "with a snap cause the weather was good. It's and a groan, the shaft let go." a good thing we weren't in the Seafarers were notified by the ves­ one-hundred degrees zone," Ay­ sel's owners. Maritime Overseas, cock emphasized. Finally, after a long, weary that a tug was on the way to take wait the tug Mauno Loa arrived them into port. and took the Overseas Rose in "But it would tow. "The tug did seven knots. take some time Brother Aycock said and about before it could four days later we started loosen­ arrive," Aycock ing the screw. Bosun George Hayes, Karl Karlser and Charles said. The crewmem- Phillips finally got it secured after bers decided to working eight long hard hours. Aycock spend some of There was a lot of broken wire their spare time sharkfishing. No and chain lying around when the regular tackle was available, Ay­ ship came in for repairs." The Overseas Rose arrived in cock explained, but meat hooks •are always on hand "so we filed San Francisco and Aycock re­ and rigged until we were satisfied. ported a payoff "without too many Then, with heaving lines and meat beefs" and after the payoff the scraps provided by our good stew­ Seafarers aboard the ship "scat­ ard, Stan Schuyler, we wet our tered to the four winds, meeting again on other ships and in SIU lines and waited." It didn't take long before a long halls, but never again will the grey line of sharks started to ap­ same crew assemble on an SIU proach the ship. Lawrence Tefft, ship." "Maybe that's a good thing," one of our fine cooks, Charles Phillips, and Jay Beavers, of the Aycock concluded, "as there are deck department were among the still a lot of good guys in the SIU first to land their catch. All avail­ with whom we have never sailed." Seafarer Aycock is a 10-year able hands put out some muscle to bring them in. When the sharks SIU veteran and hails from were safely aboard the dangerous Georgia. He joined the union in teeth were cut out and hung up to New York and sails as a Bosun. Xi J . Jacqueline Knox, bom March 6, 1967, to the Howard C. Knoxs, New York, New York. Dean Lillie, born October 14, 1967, to the Harold E. Lillies, Honor, Michigan. Gregoria Vargas, born July 23, 1967, to the Ramon Vargas, Paya Pone, Puerto Rico. Benjamin Pierce, born July 5, 1967, to the Benjamin P. Pierces, Lucedale, Mississippi. Kimberly Keye McMlliian, born April 21, 1967, to the Dave McMillians, Uriah, Alabama. William Stowe, bom June 14, 1967, to the William M. Stowes, Hatteras, North Carolina. John Michael Broxson, bom July 3, 1967, to the Lowell T. Broxsons, Vidor, Texas. ^ Keith Anthony Striffolino, bom July 19, 1967, to the Anthony Striffolinos, Bayonne, New Jersey. FORflGN PAYOFF? LiAVE aSAN SHIP Seafarers are reminded that when they leave a ship after articles expire in a foreign port, the ohligation to leave a clean ship for the next crew is the same as in any Statraide port; Ati^tipn T^ of hoipe^ keying and efforts to leave, quarters, messiooms-and o woiidng spaces clean will appreciated by the new when it comes aboard, Theodore Davis, bom August 16, 1967, to the James W. Davis, Fitzgerald, Georgia. Kelly Joseph Doyle, bom De­ cember 6, 1966, to the Thomas Doyles, New Orleans, La. <1> William Lesage, born July 26, 1967, to the William Lesages, Luna Pier, Michigan. Page Thirleen ps Prom tlio SMps at A very smooth payoff and sign-on occured in Yokahoma, meeting secretary W. Starke reports from the Mount Vernon Victory (Victory). E. B. Hardcastle, meeting chairman, wrote that a repair sheet was drawn up with work to begin when the vessel reaches Subic-Bay. The ship's fund has $26 according to treasurer Walter ^ Richard Buie was elected ship's was reported in the fund. Sea­ Orr. Seafarer Hardcastle, who also delegate at the recent meeting of farers requested a supply of serves as ship's delegate, was _ the East Point American cigarettes for the next re-elected to that post and Brother Victory (Hudson voyage and were disappointed Orr will continue as treasurer for Waterways). A that none were available in Sasthe remainder of the voyage. The ebo. No beefs or disputed over­ question was Captain will make time reported. brought up about an attempt to ob­ possible advance tain a slop chest pay, and it was through the Navy Bill Pittman told his fellow Sea­ decided that (jie in Subic Bay. Sea­ farers on the Del Sud (Delta) that Captain should farers have been the movie fund see about issuing reminded by the totals $555 and a draw in Yokachief cook to the ship's fund is make every effort hama against the bonus time in up to $384. V. Cam Ranh Bay. Some repair Starke to be on time for Guest was elected work was done on the bunks. meals. deck delegate and Deck delegate Robert Smith re­ Alfred De Agro ported "no beefs and plenty of iS w a s named to Seafarers on the Fairide (Pan. overtime." Engine and steward serve as engine Oceanic) got their new fans at delegates W. S. Daniel and Albert delegate. Also Pittman the last minute, Brown agreed that everything serving are V. meeting secretary was going smoothly. The payoff Ira Brown re­ is expected in San Francisco in Call, topside delegate and H. Spiegel, galley delegate. M. Dunn, ports. The gang­ early October. meeting secretary noted that the way was raised hours of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. were and the ship was set for the use of the washing Meeting chairman Howard set to leave when machine. Seafarers were remind­ they arrived. Reagan did a fine job filling in ed not to remove chairs from the as deck delegate, Brown writes. mess hall for any reason, I. W. ship's secretary Brown C. Loper, who Griggus, meeting chairman re­ and meeting sec­ was acting ship's retary in addition ported. J. Whited made a motion delegate, was elected to the job to ship's delegate that payoffs should not be delayed unanimously, according to J. S. on the Raymond if the ship is cleared. McRae, meeting chairman. A Reiss (Reiss total of $22 is in the ship's treas­ IBERVILLE (Waterman), Ausrust 6— Steamship Co.). Chairman, ury. The previous ship's delegate Harold L.0II; Swretary, Wil­ Cre wmembers liam G. I^ird. {6.50 in ship's fund. Sev­ forgot to pick up his money for eral beefs in engine department. Motion will try and elect made that men with 20 years membership Reagan radiograms sent to union head­ in SIU be required to retire regardless men to these jobs of quarters, so that the money is age, or men wiUi 15 years sea time. as soon as possible. Steward de­ being put back into the fund. All department heads reported smooth partment delegate Ray Anderson ORO (Delta), June 30—Chairman, asked the crew to make sure they W.DEL sailing with no complaints. T. Briggs; Secretary. W. H. Sim­ scrape their plates clean before mons. $31.08 in ship's fund. Ship's dele­ gate commended crew for making this a putting them into the sink. This fine trip. Everything is running smoothly. Meeting Secretary W. E. Morse will keep the drains from clog­ Steward thanked all hands for their cooperation. Vote of thanks to the ste­ reports from the Barre Viclory ging, he said. Some radiators were ward department for a job well done. (Delta) that Qar- defective and the chief engineer ence E. Rooney promised to see to this problem was elected ship's as soon as possible. delegate. V. Burnell suggested that the ice machine When the Connecticut (Oriental should be m.oved Exporters) arrives in Alaska to to a more suit­ pick up a cargo able place. Meet­ of crude oil, it ing chairman J. Morse will be the first Moss reported trip to this state that the steward department did for the majority a fine job and prepared some of the Seafarer. Harry Dengate, tasty dishes. No beefs were re­ CONNECTICUT (Oriental Exporters), August 25—Chairman, Harry A. Den­ ported and department delegates meeting chairman gate. Secretary, Tom Walsh. $33.75 in reported everything OK. The reported to the ship's fund. Motion was made to have headquarters contact Yokohama hall to black gang needs some new fans Dengate Log. New fans find out reason why bonded cigarettes not available in Sasebo, or to arrange for the foc'sle. A request was were installed and are for supply for ship's shuttling. Safety made by some crew members most of the foc'sles were painted, lights should be put aboard for tank that there should be new hot Tom Walsh, meeting secretary, cleaning before ship makes next voyage. water urns for each pantry. reported. A balance of $33.75 4, <1/ Crosbie Gets Third's License <|> Shawn Fruge, born August 14, 1967, to the Joseph B. Fmges, Lake Charles, Louisiana. of sru DEL SUD (Delta), August 12—Chair­ man, I. W. Griggus: Secretary, M. Dunn. $348 in ship's fund and $555.00 in the movie fund. Motion was made that headquarters finds out why payoff should be held up when ship is cleared, and that OT apply after 30 minutes from posted payoff time. PRINCETON VICTORY (Columbia), August 20—Chairman, Arthur C. Clayk; Secretary, Ray Souza. Deck delegate reported that he has a very good deck crew aboard. (General discussion held for the new members regarding living aboard ship. —— Robert Wondolowski, born July 28, 1967, to the Thomas P. Wondolowskis, Jersey City, New Jersey. FAIRISLE (Pan Oceanic Tankers), September 2—Chairman, J. S. McRae; Secretary, Ira C. Brown. $22.00 in ship's fund. Brother Collie Loper was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Everything is running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. —John Joseph Dennis, born June 1, 1967, to the Carl V. Dennis, Maringouin, Louisiana. Dennis E. Hansen^ born March 16, 1967, to the Hans Hansens, Dania, Florida. mCLEST^ Richard Crosbie (left) is presented with a Third Assistant Engin­ eer's License by the SIU Headquarters Representative, Bill Hall. Crosbie attended joint SIU-MEBA District 2 school in New York. MT. VERNON VICTORY (Victory Carriers), August 6—Chairman, E. B. Hardcastle; Secretary, W. Stark. Had a very smooth payoff and sign on in Yokohama. No beefs and no disputed OT was reported by department dele­ gates. $26.00 in ship's fund. Brother Hardcastle will continue as ship's dele­ gate. Captain will try to get slop chest through the Navy in Subic Bay. �Page Fourteen SEAFARERS LOG Viet Run Gives Seafarer Opportunity To Visit Son Serving in U.S. Army September' 15, 1967 SfU Lifeboat Class No. 184 For most parents who have a son fighting in Vietnam, the only means of communication with a loved one is through the writing of letters. Seafarer David Holobaiigh plans to bridge this communi­ cations gap by signing on an SIU ship bound for Vietnam where his son is serving in the U.S. Army. Six months ago, his younger son, Lieutenant David B. Holo­ baugh, Jr., joined the Amer­ ican forces in Vietnam as a Ranger Pilot in the Army's new First Air Cavalry. Piloting a jet-helicopter, the "Huey," his job is to be the first to cover areas before troops arrive, to find enemy activity and report "anything that moves." This means that his chopper is the first target of enemy fire, and the most vulner­ able. With a crew of only a pilot, Holobaugh two gunners, and an observer, it would have little defense if it were shot down. And it was. Twice. The first time, while sweeping through the battle-torn Song Re Valley in South Vietnam, the Huey was suddenly under attack. Ground- Alinot Vittory 0-ew Praised By Captain Chief Officer G. M. Keymer of the Minot Victory recently praised Seafarer's in the deck department for the "excellent seamanship" they displayed when the ship ran aground on North Reef of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. Boatswain Malcom Woods was in charge of the group, which in­ cluded AB's James Grinnel, H. Hall, Billy Scott, J. Stokes, John Higgins, and Glen Wells; deck maintenance, Chester Just; and ordinary seamen, M. Thomas, D. Famsworth and Thomas Reim. Navy salvage crews arrived on the scene and the Seafarers aided in the removal of the vessel's cargo. A total of 39 tons of cargo were lifted onto a barge in an open seaway by utilizing a lighter. "Anchors were brought from the bow to a position off number three hatch to aid in freeing the vessel or checking it as she was pulled off by the tugs and the beaching gear that the Navy had rigged out," Keymer wrote in a letter of commendation to the Union. When the tugs finally got the Minot Victory out of her pre­ dicament, six days had elapsed. The vessel's damage was not ex­ tensive and no injuries were re­ ported. The Minot Victory was carry­ ing general cargo and vehicle for the Army on the Vietnam run. The ship paid off in San Francisco on June 20. It was "a pleasure and a credit to the Seafarers Union to have aboard such men as these," Key­ mer wrote. They were all good Seafarers and on the ball. "They were a credit to the union and the American Merchant Marine. Keep em Sailing," Chief Officer Key­ mer concluded. to-air fire blitzed the sky. Brother Holobaugh reports that the enemy, who were "dug in" in permanent bunkers that riddled the area like rabbit-burrows, "shot up the ship, but it managed to limp home to base forty miles sputh of Song Re Valley." Then came August 7, 1967. Lt. Holobaugh was over the valley again, carefully seeking out the enemy. The air burst with the staccato of gunfire and the sound of shots zipping by. The copter, even with its maneuverability and thrusting jet engines, swallowed chunks of metal. It crashed to the ground, "shot to hell." Pilot Holo­ baugh made a quick status report by radio, and the crew took cover. They waited. In fifteen minutes, troop-carrying choppers zoomed in. Infantrymen poured out, guns ready. They secured the injured chopper while its crew clambered safely abroad a waiting copter. Now the gunfire was getting thick. The enemy sniped and the troops fired back. In the ensuing battle, seven of eleven enemy bunkers were knocked out. As Lt. Holo­ baugh and his men were headed out, the other four bunkers were "still receiving fire" and had suf­ fered "undertermined damage." The Lieutenant knew he would probably be under attack many more times in Song Re Valley; his father explains that the enemy "had permanent bunkers every­ where," throughout the area; "The Viet Cong were figuring to hold it." John Richborg George Forte would appreciate it if you would contact him. His address is 4517 Surf Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11224. ^ Miguel Antonio Torres Rodriguez We have received an urgent re­ quest that you contact Yvonne M. Fraticelli at Loiza St. #1863, Apt. #2, Santurce, Puerto Rico 00911. <t> Angelo Amone Please contact Phyllis Maney (c/o Kay Mashbum, Route #3, Hayesville, North Carolina) in re­ gards to a very important matter. ^ Charles "Ted" Green Please get in touch with your wife, at 1822 Silver Street, Jack­ sonville, Fla., 32206. Robert J. Prideaux Please contact the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection, De­ partment of Transporation, United States Coast Guard. P.O. Box 191, Savannah, Ga. 31402, concern­ ing the disposition of personal property. Donald CLeary Please get in touch with William W. Smith, at 323-86th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. The Log apolo­ gizes for having given an incorrect address in a previous issue. Brother Holobaugh, who started shipping for the SIU in the stew­ ard department 20 years ago, will bring some welcome news to his son—a baby boy, bom to his wife in the last week of August. He has another boy, 2V^ years old. Brother Holobaugh's idea to ship out to see his son is quite and ambitious project. His eagerness to go"through with the venture shows in his answer to what particular type of ship he wants to go by: "I'll take anything they got." He does, however, have one com­ plaint about today's seafaring in comparison to his earlier days at sea. Back in the Second World War, a crewman would be alert "all the time," have to wear cloth­ ing to sleep and be ready for any action. Brother Holobaugh was in the midst of much action then, sailing on runs to Mediterranean area and the Middle East. Now, there is less danger but, he la­ ments, more tedium, with the crew wanting you to keep "giving 'em ice-water all the time," and so on. Seafarer Holobaugh and his wife Margaret live in Dayton, Ohio, and have three children: Lt. David B. Holobaugh, Jr., 24, Dwight Lee Holobaugh, 22, a member of the Arms Reserve who recently served in the Dominican Republic with the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army; and daughter Beroadette Holobaugh, a sophomore at Palm Beach Junior College in Florida. Dennis J. Neville Unclaimed wages are being held for you from your voyage on the Pecos. Please get in touch with Pecos Transport, Inc., William Feris, Paymaster, Oriental Ex­ porters, Inc., Ship Management Division, Empire State Building, Suite 6801, N. Y., N. Y. 10001. — — The family of Buford C. Jones wishes to inform all his friends and shipmates that he passed away August 8, 1967. WilUam R. King Please contact your attorney, John Kuttas, as soon as you can. You may reach him at his New York office, 150 Broadway, Suite 1515, or phone 212-WO-2-4187 or 212-WO-2-4124. Claude W. Friche^ Please contact your brother Harvey in Alberta, Virginia, by phoning 703-676-5560. Joseph Daive Ftmrhia Please get in touch with your wife, Evelyn, at 2718 Annette Street, New Orleans, La. 70119. Irving H. Bkkford Please contact your mother at 1163 Sierra Avenue, San Jose, California 95126. Having earned their Coast Guard lifeboat endorsements, the mem­ bers of the 184th Lifeboat School class of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship have met a requirement for their AB tickets. Seated (l-r) are Trinidad Sanchez, James Lewis, James Meilinger, and Oscar Reeks. Backing them up are: Paul McGaharn, instructor, John Noble, Juan Guaris, James Hurst and instructor Ami Bjornsson. FINAL DEPARTURES Ir f Marsbel Johnson, 47: A heart ailment claimed Brother Johnson at the USPHS Hospital in Seat­ tle. He was bom in Texas and made his home in Burlingame, Calif. A steward. Brother Johnson's last ship was the Ames Victory. He joined the union in the port of San Francisco. Surviving is his wife, Carol. Burial took place in Hayward, Calif. Voldermar Fold, 57: A liver ail­ ment claimed the life of Brother Fold on August 3 in Baltimore. He was a native of Estonia and made his home in Balti­ more where he joined the SIU. A member of the Union for over 20 years. Brother Pold sailed as a FOWT. His last ship was the Wilmar. Burial took place in the Moreland Memorial Park Cemetery, Baltimore. • i. John Flanagan, 66: Brother Flanagan died at the USPHS Hos­ pital in San Fran­ cisco on July 5. He had been a resident of San Pedro, Calif., at the time of his death. A native of New Hamp­ shire, he joined the Union in Bos­ ton. Flanagan sailed as FOWT and his last ship was the Hercu­ les Victory. He is survived by his wife, Caroline. The body was cremated at the Olivet Cemetery, Colma, Calif. George Little, 55: Brother Lit­ tle died on June 30 in St. Joseph Hospital, Hous­ ton, Texas. He was a native of Virginia and re­ sided in Hitch­ cock, Texas. Lit­ tle joined the Un­ ion in Baltimore and held the rat­ ing of carpenter in the deck department. He last sailed on the Del Mundo. The Seafarer was buried in Grace Memorial Park, Galveston, Texas. Minnie Jacobs, 62: Mrs. Jacobs died August 10, in USPHS Hos­ pital, Baltimore. A native of Italy, she joined the SIU in Baltimore and sailed with the SIU Inland Boatmen's Union. She was a wait­ ress on the Port Welcome Cruise ships in Baltimore. Mrs. Jacobs was a widow. Surviving is a daughter. Iris Miles of Baltimore. The burial was in the Cedar Hills Cemetery, Glen Burnie, Mary­ land. Martin Dahl, 78: Heart failure caused the death of Brother Dahl, an SIU pensioner, in Physicians and Surgeons Hos­ pital, Los An­ geles, Calif. Dahl was bom in Nor­ way and had pre­ viously resided in Chicago. He joined the Union in that port and sailed in the SIU's Great Lakes District. A deck­ hand, he was last employed by Merritt Chapman and Scott Corp. Surviving is his wife, Signe, of Bull Head, Arizona. Burial was in Los Angeles. �September 15, 1967 UNFAIR TO LABOR DO NOT BUY Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) 1 'I :;.v V Sdlzd-Weller Distfflcries "Old Fitzgerald,'* "Old EHt" "Cabin Stni," W. L. Weller Bonrbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) vl> Kingsport Press "World Book," "Childcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) ^ Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) SEAFARERS LOG FINANCIAL REPOBTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lalcea and Inland Waters District makes apeciflc provision for safeKuardinK the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file audltingr committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU AUantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund SKreements. All these acreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All exiienditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shniard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. , , Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are avaUable in all SIU hrils. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union offlctel, in your opinion, faUs to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of My indirddual In the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This esUblished policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in ^1 institu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an ^itorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, trim aoMog its ranks, one individual to carry out this raponaibility. OVERSEAS DINNY (Maritime Over­ seas), July 29—Chairman, Jesse S. Lewis; Secretary, Edwin L. Brown. Brother Ernest C. Anderson resigned as ship's delegate and Brother Gideon A. Allen was elected to serve in his place. No beefs were reported by department delegates. It was requested that a more adequate slop chest be put aboard. ALBION VICTORY (Bulk Transport), July 15—Chairman, Frank Natale; Sec­ retary, B. M. Savage. Disputed OT in all departments to be taken up with boarding patrolman. $11.90 in ship's fund. Discussion about stores. Crew would like to know if this ship was stored for 5 months as they were told, and why the Captain cut the steward's supply in Manila. Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler " Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) K' • Baltimore Luggage Co. Lady Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starlite luggage Starfllte luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves, RIchman Brothers and Sewell Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) ^— R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) Peavy Paper Mill Products (United Papermakers and Paperworkers Union) ^I> PI Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) ^1> Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) SOUTHWESTERN VICTORY (Delta), August 13—Chairman, Joe E. Lujan; Secretary, Richard Stewart. Brother William Beadles was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. No beefs and no disputed OT was reported by department delegates. Crew of previous voyage left ship in bad shape. They didn't strip their bunks or clean their rooms. LONG BEACH (Sea-Land), August 13 —Chairman, F. T. Dicarlo; Secretary, W. Christiansen. No beefs were report^ by department delegates. Some disputed OT in deck department STEEL MAKER (Isthmian), August 6 —Chairman, E. S. Harris; Secretary, Yasser Szymanski. Two men failed to join ship before she sailed from New York. Brother E. S. Harris was elected to serve as ship's delegate. All is run­ ning smoothly in each of the depart­ ments. $9.45 in ship's fund. TRANSPACIFIC (Hudson Waterways), August 20—Chairman, O. R. Frezza; Secretary, J. Crivello. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly with fine cooperation from all departments. $10.20 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. Ship's delegate is doing a good job in keeping everyone happy. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for the fine chow. WESTERN COMET (Western Agency), August 26—Chairman, C. K. Bowles; Secretary, J. A. Stevens. No beefs were reported by department delegates. WALTER RICE (Reynolds Metals), August 11—Chairman, Pete Scroggins; Secretary, Frank Urbina. Repair lists were turned in. Department delegates re­ ported no beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks was extended to the entire steward department for a job well done. TRANSONTARIO (Hudson Water­ ways), August 8—Chairman, Kazimerze Lynch; Secretary, Richard Drunkle. Brother Richard Drunkle was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs and no disputed OT reported. EAST POINT VICTORY (Hudson Waterways) August 13—Chairman H. B. Caufman; Secretary, F. Hall. No beefs reported by department delegates. Cap­ tain will see about issuing a draw in Yokohama against the bonus time in Cam Ranh Bay. Brother Richard Buie was elected to serve as ship's delegate. DEL ALBA (Delta), August 6—Chair­ man, Donald C. Nelson; Secretary, Everett Crawford. Ship's delegate reu ported that everything is ' running smoothly. Brother Donald G. Nelson was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. SAN JUAN (Sea-Land), August 13— Chairman, Harold L. Rapp; Secretary, G. P. Thlu. $1.50 in ship's fund. One man missed ship in Naha. Ships' dele­ gate reported that everything is going along smoothly with no beefs or disputed OT. It was suggested that- more canned fresh milk be put on board. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. TRANSORLEANS (Hudson Water­ ways), July 30—Chairman, William S. Montgomery; Secretary, William S. Montgomery. Ship's delegate reported that the ship sailed short an AB and an oiler. Three men were bospitaliaed and sent home. Disputed OT in deck and engine departments to be taken up with boarding patrolman. Excellent stew­ ard department. GLOBE CARRIER (Maritime Oveiv seas), August 19—Chairman, Nicholas Hatgimisios; Secretary, Joseph J. Wolan. One man missed ship in Rotterdam and one man was hospitalized in Rotterdam. Some disputed OT in engine department. Vote of thanks to the ship's delegate for a job well done. COLUMBIA VICTORY (Columbia), August lU—Chairman Sam p. Drury; Secretary M. E. Greenwald. Brother Wil­ liam Delappe was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Good crew aboard. Every one is working together. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Ice machine is not in very good working con­ dition, but thanks to Sam, the chief elec­ trician, who has been working every day trying to get enough ice to keep drinks and food cool. STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian), Au­ gust 13—Chairman, Jack Nelson, Jr.; Secretary, Florencio S. Omega. Brother John Fanoli was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $19.14 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT was reported by department delegates. BARRE VICTORY (Delta), August 18 —Chairman, J. Moss; Secretary, W. E. Morse. Brother Clarence Rooney was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. Motion was made that all widows and dependents of retired brothers con­ tinue to draw pension after their death, and said pension be raised to $3<)p.OO per month in order to meet the increased cost of living. Pension to be stopped after widow remarries or dependents be­ come of age. ALCOA VOYAGER (Alcoa), August 20—Chairman, F. Russo ; Secretary, M. P. Cox. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. $32.00 in ship's fund. Broth­ er H. Baron was elects to serve as ship's delegate. Suggestion made that delegates receive more cooperation from crewmembers. NEVA WEST (States Marine), Sep­ tember 2—Chairman, J. Marshall; Secre­ tary, James Stewart. $4.91 in ship's fund. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly with no beefs and no disputed OT. There is a shortage of essential items in slop chest. It was sug­ gested that Headquarters contaci Frank Boyne in Yokohama asking him to board ship in Japan and consult with the cap­ tain concerning this important matter. Page Fifteen PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is ariven an official receipt, but feds that he should not have been required to make such payment, Ais should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SBAFARE31S LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarten. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at memb^hip meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to reUin their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic ori^n. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which be is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he haa been denied his constitutional right of aeeesa to Union records or in­ formation. he should immcdiaUly notify SIU President Paul HaU at headquarters hy MTtUcd mail, return receipt requested. Schedule of Membership Meetings SIU-AGLTWD Meetings New Orleans Oct. 10—^2:30 p.m. Mobile Oct. 11—2:30 p.m. Wilmington Oct. 16—2:00 p.m. San Francisco Oct. 18—2:00 p.m. Seattle Oct. 20—2:00 p.m. New York Oct. 20—^2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Oct. 2—2:30 p.m. Baltimore . . .Oct. 4—2:30 p.m. Detroit Oct 13—2:30 p.m. Houston Oct 9—^2:30 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit .. .Oct 2—2:00 p.m. Alpena .. .Oct. 2—7.00 p.m. Buffalo .. .Oct. 2—7:00 p.m. Chicago . .Oct 2—7:00 p.m. • Oct 2—7;:00 p.m. Oeveland Duluth .. ,Oct 2—7:00 p.m. Firankfort .Oct 2—7;:00 p.m. SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Gal Tanner Earl Shepard VICE PRESIDENTS Lindsey Williams Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Chicago Oct 10—7:30 p.m. tSault Ste. Marie Oct 12—^7:30 p.m. Buffalo Oct 11—^7:30 p.m. Duluth .....Oct 13—7:30 p.m. Cleveland ...Oct 13—7:30 p.m. Detrmt Oct. 9—^7:30 p.m. Milwaukee . .Oct. 9—^7:30 p.m. HEADQUARTERS SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Oct. 10—5:00 p.m. Mfdiile Oct 10—5:00 p.m. Philadeiphia Oct. 10—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and iinlicensed) Oct. 4—5:00 p.m. Norfolk Oct 5—5:00 p.m. Houston Oct 9—^5:00 p.m. CLEVELAND, Ohio ALPENA, Mich BALTIMORE, Md United Industrial Workers New Orleans Oct. 10—^7:00 p.m. MoUle Oct. 11—7:00 p.m. New York.. Oct. 2—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Oct 3—7:00 p.m. Baltimore ... Oct. 4—7:00 p.m. ^Houston .. .Oct. 9—7:00 p.m. t Meeting held «t Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. * Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. $ Meeting held at Galveston wharve?. 127 Rwer^SL 1214 E. Baltimore^ EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Mats 177 State St Rl 2-0140 BUFFALO, N.Y 735 Washinqton St. SIU TL 3-9259 IBU TL 3-9259 "'s'lu'li'l^Tli IBU ES 5-9570 1420 W. 25th St. MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich 10225 W. Jefferton^Ave. DULUTH, Minn 312 W. 2nd St. RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich HOUSTON, Tex JACKSONVILLE. Fla Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Oct 10—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Oct 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk Oct 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City Sept. 9—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. 475 4th Ave., Bklyn. HY 9-4400 JERSEY CITY, N.J MOBILE, Ala NEW ORLEANS. U P.O. Boz 287 415 Main St. EL 7-2441 5804 Canal St. WA B-3207 2408 St. EL 3-0987 99 Montgome^^^ I South Lav^ence St. HE 2'I754 430 Jackson ^a. Tel. 529-7544 PHILADELPHIA. Pa 2404 S. 4th St DE 4-38IB PORT ARTHUR. Tex 1348 Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO. Calif;, 350 Freemont St. DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R 1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 Tel. 724-2648 SEAHLE, Wash 2505 First Avenue MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 805 Del Mar CE 1-1434 TAMPA. Fla 312 HarrBon SL Tel. 229-2788 WILMINGTON, Calif. .. 505 N. Marine Ave. 834-2528 YOKOHAMA, Japan .Iseya BIdg., Room 801 1-2 Kaigan-Dori-Nakaku 2Q497I Ext, ?8! �Vol. XXIX No. 19 SEAFARERS^LOG Sopfombor 15/ 1967 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO C A rv n A ^ O 1968 SEAFARERS SCHOLARSHIPS rN . .. — \.il. • I V F«V • M LI V Vy V The time has come again to make application for the five annual SIU College Scholarships to be awarded in 1968. Each grant is worth $6,000 over a four-year period of study. In order to qualify for the awards, Seafarers must have accumu­ lated a minimum of three years seatime on ships contracted to the SIU. Children of members who fulfill the requirements are eligible as well. Selection of scholarship winners, made by a panel of leading university educators and administrators, is determined on the basis of high school records and the score attained on College Entrance Examination Board tests. The first of this year's College Entrance Board tests will be given throughout the country on November 4, 1967. They are scheduled again on pecember 2, 1967 and January 13, 1968. A final opportunity for testing will be offered on March 2, 1968. Arrangements to take the CEEB test should be made promptly. To do this, Seafarers or their children who are interested in apply­ ing for the SIU Scholarships should write as soon as possible to: College Entrance Examination Board, Box 592, at Princeton, New Jersey or at Box 1025, Berkeley, California. Application for the SIU College Scholarships must then be made to: SIU Scholarships, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232, or at any SIU Hall. Winners of SIU scholarship awards may pursue any course of study they choose and attend any accredited college. Ilie selection of winners for 1968 will be made in May. Since the inception of the SIU Scholarship program in 1952, awards have been made to 24 Seafarers and to the children of 49 Seafarers. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 15, 1967 Description An account of the resource Headlines: U.S. FLEET UPGRADING BEST SOLUTION TO BALANCE OF PAYMENTS DEFICIT MTD BOARD PLANS DRIVE TO WIN SOUND U.S. POLICY ON MARITIME MEANY URGES NATION TO FACE UP TO PROBLEMS OF CITIES’ GHETTOS EFFECTIVE MEMBER EDUCATION PROGRAM CITED AS ESSENTIAL TO UNION GROWTH N.L.R.B. AGAIN RAPS J.P. STEVENS FOR VIOLATING EMPLOYEES’ RIGHTS AFL-CIO FULLY BEHIND U.S. EFFORT IN VIETNAM, WURF TELLS BRITISH TUC ‘RIVIERA EAST’ UNTOUVHED BY WAR, SIU VETERAN OF VIETNAM RUN REPORTS VIET RUN GIVES SEAFARER OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT SON SERVING IN U.S. ARMY Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/15/1967 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXIX, No. 19 1967 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/47d32801eac1e3767bb7b308d503dbe7.PDF 3a11a6b03611fccb85fae6fe60d31472 PDF Text Text ^ LOG' • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THI SiAfAKlRS INTHNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL • SIXTY SEAMENNOW Nine Men Approved This Month Story on Page 3 ii M |.i* •- ! '"i-, »>>r' vig 4 • ".-I fl MAW f A graduate of the SlU-operated fwCWr fcffl60Oaf fllCIfla training ischool, John "Red" Burke (left), veteran SIU stewardrshows instructor Jack Parker his new lifeV boatman's endorsement. Training school in Mobile helps many Seafai> upgrade and get lifeboat.tickets. (Additional photo on Page 3.) V sew Seafarer Jesse Parrish, FOW, catches up on one of 450 books that have been put aboard all SIXJ ships since SEAFARERS LOG started their distribution two years ago. Libraries go.aboard in 50-book lots every three months and con­ tain wide variety of reading matter. Sfory Time. �Mvfibtr IB, 19SS SEAFARERS laG Fare Tiro SUP, Marks Labor Day, Opens New Hall In Portland SlU Sifts New Korea Leave Beef The restriction to.ship for the SIU crew of the SS Marie Hamill in Inchon, Korea, while crewraembers of another vessel passed them regularly on their way ashore, is being investigated by SIU representatives in Wash­ ington. Lasting several days, the restric­ tion on the Hamill appeared par­ ticularly unreasonable to Seafarercrewmembers, who could watch members of the SIU crew on the Sea Comet II go ashore almost at will. This situation also didn't help create any warm feeling toward the Army on the part of the Hamill crew, which figured itself entitled to the time off but couldn't get to first base. As explained by the Army, and later cited by the Bloomfield Dedication of new Sailors Union of the Pacific hail in Portland, Ore., on Labor Day, provided occasion for combination affair Steamship Company, the restric­ marking formal opening of the new building a> well as labor's national holiday. Two-story Portland hall houses dispatching tion was due principally to the facilities, offices and recreation rooms on first floor and housing for SUP oldtimers and pensioners above. At right, Portland general uprisings in Korea involv­ Agent "Whitey" Benz leads inspection tour of new branch, followed by SIU Secretary-Treasurer Paul Hall, who represented ing American guards serving the SlU-A&G District at the opening, SUP New York agent Morris Weisberger, and Seattle agent Max Weisbart. On balcony is Communist - nation truce team 'Tom Hookey, SUP building fund trustee. SUP now has modern halls in all west coast ports. which is seeking to police the Korean armistice. 'Thumbs Down' Inequities about the restriction are the still unexplained approval of shore leave for the crew of the Regular membership meet­ Sea Comet, a tanker, while the ings in SIU headquarters and Hamill, with light cargo aboard, at all branches are held every got the "thumbs-down" signal. second Wedneeday night at Last May, a Defense Department 7 PM. The schedule for the order ending shore leave bans by next few meetings is as follows: SAN FRANCISCO—Just six months-after they furiously attacked SIU of NA president Sept. 21, Oct. 5, Oct. 19. local military commanders, gave Seafarers for the first time a clear- Harry Lundeherg for signing-a special hulk cargo agreement, representatives of the West cut policy to |p by, and it was as­ Coast mates, engineers and radio operators' unions were clearing the decks for a similar sumed that the method used would agreement with American Lundeherg was echoed by Harry transmitted to all US ships by the follow the pattern established. The Bulk Cargo Inc. CIO operators. new case of the Hamill, however, The West Coast Masters, Bridges as well. However, AFL maritime unions, Heavy pressure was brought to Mates and Pilots have already ap­ leaves everyone wondering. Accordingly, Union representa­ proved the agreement patterned bear by the CIO unions, with the including the SIU and the national tives are checking the beef. after the now-famous Tonsina con­ radio operators threatening to MM&P, rallied to Lundeberg's tract originally signed by the Sail­ strike all ships if the Tonsina's support. The AFL unions were ors iJnion of the Pacific In March. charter was not cancelled by Pa­ convinced that the real reason for The two CIO unions, the Marine cific Far East Lines, and a barrage Curran's blast at Lundeberg was Engineers and Radio Operators, of anti-Lundeberg propaganda was an attempt to cover up his abject surrender on the hiring hall, also indicated they would approve which led to the opening of NMU's the contract. Ship's delegates are urged to membership books and hiring halls The Tonsina agreement was WASHINGTON—An inves­ notify the Union immediately signed as an experimental contract to all comers. tigation of officers' training when a shipmate is taken off for bulk carriers only. It was de­ Curran Lost Hiring Hall pro^ams at Federal and Stato the vessel in any port because signed to revive American partici­ Under pressure from the Na­ maritime academies has been of illness or injury. Delegates pation in the bulk ore trade be­ tional Labor Relations Board, the scheduled by the Senate Com­ should not wait until they send tween the West Coast and the Far NMU had caved in on the hiring merce Committee. Senator Fred­ in the ship's minutes but should East. Up until then the trade was hall, with Curran carrying the erick iPayne (Rep.-Maine), chair­ handle the matter in a separate monopolized by runaway - fiag ball despite strong opposition man of the subcommittee conduct­ communication, so that the un­ ships. from NMU treasurer M. Hedley ing the hearings, said that the ion can determine in what man­ The basis of the agreement was Stone and others in the union. study would begin October 4. ner it can aid the brohter. a sizable increase in base pay for Curran also forced through the The four academies Involved are It would also be helpful if all hands through incorporation of WASHINGTON—One Con­ opening of membership books to Maine State Maritime Academy, the full name, rating and book penalty pay in base wages, and a gressional committee, the number was sent in. Address slight reduction in the West Coast House Merchant Marine Com­ all comers without giving the Castine, Maine; Massachusetts these notifications to Welfare manning scale, the highest in the mittee, has already given Indica­ membership a chance to vote on Maritime Academy, Boston; New the issue. York State Maritime Academy, Services at headquarters. country. Lundeherg signed it on tion that it expects to have a busy Just a few months before Cur­ Fort Schuyler, New York; and a one-ship basis in the hope that season next year when Congress ran had told a "World-Telegram Kings Point Academy, Kings Point, the experiment would prove of reconvenes in January. and Sun" reporter that opening New York. The first three schools value in opening up many more Thus, 1956 is likely to be a big books to all comers in maritime are run by the respective, states job opportunities for American year once again for maritime in­ was "just plain racketeering." but mostr of the funds for all Sept. 16, 1955 Vol. XVII, No. 19 seamen. vestigations, with a possible probe Curran was also disappointed schools come from the Federal into the way the Maritime Admin­ that he had been unable to "de­ government. Develops Trade PAUL HALL, SecreTary Treasurer HERBERT BRANB, Editor; RAY DENISON, With additional operators, now istration has, administeiPed the sub­ liver" Lundeberg to the "Mari­ Managing Editor; BERNARB SEAMAN, Art planning to enter the bulk cargo sidy program heading the list. •Unnecessary Expense' time Labor-Management Commit­ Editor; HERMAN ARTHUR, IRWIN SPIVACK, The committee chairman. Rep. The SIU tfid other maritime field, it appears that the Lunde­ tee," a combine of subsidized ship­ Staff Writers; BILL MOOBY, Gulf Area Representative. herg move has been successful in Herbert C. Bonner (D-NC) has al­ owners and the CIO unions. unions have maintained for many ready committed himself to find Editorial Cartoon Page 11 developing an area of trade which out whether the subsidized lines Lundeberg flatly rejected Curran's years that the academies were not had been closed to US-flag ship­ invitation to join what Lundeberg needed since all of the merchant Editorial Page 11 are getting too much from the MA called a "phony set up.!' marine's officer needs could be Final Dispatch Page 1.5 ping up until now. staff in the way of benefits. The met by men coming up "out of the No sooner had the agreement With dissension rising on all Labor Roundup Page 11 subsidy program was also under Letters Pages 12, 14 been reached than Lundeherg was fire late this year in the midst of sides in the NMU and his plans foe'sles." The net effect of the Curran -turned on schools, the unions argue, has been Meet The Seafarers Page 11 the target of a savage, vituperative hearings on a controversial con­ thwarted, personal barrage led by National Lundeberg and the Tonsina issue to overload the industry with a Personals Page 15 trols bill governing merchant sea­ as a convenient target to distract surplus of unneeded marine offi­ Maritime Union President Joseph Recent Arrivals Page 15 men. his membership. He also was cers at considerable expense to the Seafarer In Action Page 9 Curran and enthusiastically sec­ •50-50' Warm-up onded by the MEBA, the CIO Ra­ hopeful of isolating Lundeberg on Government. Shipping Figures Page 4 dio Operators and the West Coast this issue "so that he could act as One result is that a very large Another matter standing high on Your Dollar's Worth Page 6 MM&P. The agreement was de­ the committee's agenda is the fight the spokesman for all of maritime number of academy graduates Published biweeMy uf the headquarters •t the Seafarers International Union, At­ nounced as a "sellout" which to keep the "50-50" shipping law in the coming AFL-CIO merger. spend little or no time serving at lantic & Gulf District, AFL, 675 Fourth would , "destroy" US maritime from being knocked off the books Since the other CIO unions have sea after being educated for that Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel. HYacinth V-6600. Entered as second class matter unions—Curran conveniently over­ by foreign lobbyists and US farm now approved the Tonsina-type purpose at Government expense. at the Post Office In Brooklyn, NY, under looking all the while that he had interests. The anti-"50-50" drive is agreement they have, in effect, the Act of Aug. 24, 1912. Union spokesmen will have a called for special concessions for being fever^hly whipped,: injtp, fplly vindicated Lundeberg's ac-, chanpfi to ait their views on thw »12«' the bulk cargo trade, some months shapp fojr t^p , opening, pT ,yon left .Qu^fan, .sittipig ,qut ,9n subject I .when.; the. hearingsA can* before. The denunciation of year's % aR4:%* llmlj,,,, .r.V'r.n;,'.' .-wu WC Officers f//p-F/op, Okay Tonsina-Type Pact Notify Union About Sick Men Congress Warms Up Sea Probes SEAFARERS LOG • • •' \- Meeting Night Every 2 Weeks Senate Sea Schooi Quiz Opens Soon �Sei»tember K, USif' SEAFARERS SEAFARERS LOG AWARD There are still seven issues of the SEAFARERS LOG left for the year 1955 in'which Seafarers can qualify for One of the annua! LOG awards for distinguished member­ ship contributions to the Union newspaper. The flT.J/. award program, announced " early this year, will cover four categories /— letters, photo­ graphs, poetry and drawings— submitted by any Seafarer to the newspaper and, appearing In the calendar year 1955. / The awards will consist of medallions, suitably inscribed: No particular entry form is needed. As long as the Sea­ farer's "material appears in the LOG it automatically qualifies for the prizes. Standards that will govern se­ lection of winners in the four categories are: for letters—one offering a constructive proposal or best expressing a Seafarer's feeling on any given- issue; photography—for the best pho­ tograph, or photographs of Sea­ farers at work or play or other material of strong Interest to Seafarers; poetry—^literary mer­ it and subject matter in •the tradition of the sea; drawings— quality and originality plus sub­ ject matter based on maritime or related experience. LOG Pagre Thre* Sixty 51U Members Now Receiving $1S0-Mo. Pensions The number of Seafarers, receiving the $150 per month SIU pension* disability benefit rose to 60 last week with the approval of nine more disabled brothers by the SIU Welfare Plan. The 60 Seafarers now on the list are the great­ est number since the benefit was first established in May, 1952. The SIU benefit is among the largest of any non-contributory system in the country, amounting to^ butions negotiated by the vised the qualifications on June 1 $1,820 a year for each of Union, no Seafarer has to make and also increased the benefit from $25 to $35 a week, as well as addr the 60 Seafarers, far more any payments into the fund. ing the new hospital-surgical plan than many of them earned for years while going to sea in pre-union days. Since the Welfare Plan's benefits are fi­ nanced by shipowner contri- Most of the 60 Seafarers on the benefits list are over '65, which en­ titles them to Social Security old age benefits over and above the Welfare Plan payments. However, the disability-pension is not based New Llfeboatmen—Via SIU Training School Nelson Fiynn on age, but on inability to work be­ cause of illness or injury, so that .a number of Seafarers who would not be covered by Social Security are protected by the SIU Plan. All of the nine men approved at the last Welfare Plan trustees meeting had applied under the old seven-year seatime provision. Their applications were either incom­ plete or were being processed when the trustees of the Plan re- for Seafarers' families.' It was the feeling of the Union that since the applications were pending they should be judged on the basis of the old seven-year sea time rule. The trustees agreed that it would be an injustice to the nine men if they were caught in the middle of the change-over. flexible Plan This action by the trustees, like other decisions in the past, points up the flexibility of the Union-ad­ ministered Plan. The board of trustees, consisting of Union and employer representatives, is able to make interpretations and rul­ ings tff this kind in short order, without getting involved in com­ plicated rewriting of an insurance contract. The SIU disability-pension was first put into effect at the rate of $15 weekly as of May, 1952. It was increased to $25 weekly in March, 1953, and to $35 a week this past spring. In changing the seatime qualifications from seven to 12 years, the trustees extended the Halt Alcoa's Late Payoffs Ready to ship after completing lifeboatman's courses at the SlU's Apdrew Furuseth Training Schooj in Mobile, Seafarers Tony Pisano, George W. Trippe, Jr., and E. B. Neeley (l-r) re­ ceive |ob assignments from Robert Jordan, dispatcher. Looking on (in background) is vet­ eran SIU bosun Jack Parker, a member of the staff of the school operated by the SIU Welfare Plan to train new men and to aid experienced seamen in upgrading their ratings. Action by SIU headquarters has halted the practice of Alcoa ships paying off in New York about one. hour before sailing time. The delayed payoffs left little time . for settlement of beefs and repair lists, to say nothing of the unnecessary hardships they placed on family men. As a result of talks with com­ pany representatives from Mo­ bile the practice has been dis­ continued. I LA EndsTie-Up; Dock Vote Ahead Active planning for a new waterfront election in the Port of New York is underway, the AFL International,Brother­ hood of Longshoremen announced, as the harbor was again thrown into turmoil by an-*^ ^ ILA shutdown which lasted working longshoremen and con­ one week. trolled them by reign of terror The ILA strike was not a bread methods. The,Commission then, is and butter issue against the em­ the child of ILA manipulations in ployers, but was seen as a political the harbor. squeeze play on the New YorkSubsequently, the AFL acted to New Jersey vy;aterfront Commis­ oust the ILA and to charter a new sion. The AFL-IBL is convinced union, the IBL, to bring trade that the only way to get rid of the unionism to longshore workers. commission is by establishment of Dissatisfaction Grows a clean, democratic longshore union. In announcing its intention to The Waterfront Commission it­ go for a new election, the IB]^ self is the product of years of ILA pointed to growing dissatisfaction racketeering in the harbor. It was among longshoremen as a result of established after public hearings constantly-worsening working con-' showed the extent to .^which ILA ditions and denial of. trade union > leaders throughout the harbor pat^ rights to .the men. , ticipated i'i, in .extortion, ••''•usary,- jT^e -b'olimfirel -of; iQngsljojioirteh'^ shakedowns and kiCkbitckV flroth' ^ddmplaints ha^'^feeeh''^h' tfti'' riyfe' because of speed-up^, overloaded slings, unsafe conditions on the piers, lack of any kind of job se­ curity and complet#lack of repre­ sentation on grievances. Since the ILA squeaked through to victory in a National Labor ReAn example of union democracy men is shown In pearing on page issue. the denial of to longshore­ the story ap­ seven of this lations Board election in May, 1954, ILA supporters have been waiting for the leadership to make good on promises of better condi­ tions on the piers, an end to racketeering and establishment of ipiiqh democracy in ILA locals, tr^leaii, conditibni^ hav^ reverted db'what they were/befof^ the IBL . •• Guilford Larsen eliglhility period back to January 1, 1934, allowing a wider range of seatime than before. Nine Passed Away Beside the 60 Seafarers on the list at present, nine men who were receiving the benefit have since died. Seafarers added to the list by last week's action of the trustees are: Charles A. McComisky, Bos­ ton, Mass.; Buster S. Carlson, Texas City, Texas; Arthur F. Nel- was chartered, and in many areas have grown worse. - ILA president William Bradley admitted on a television program that conditions in the harbor were the worst in 30 years. Petition Next Summer Under the terms of the TaftHartley law, the IBL cannot pe­ tition for a new election until 90 days before the ILA contract ex­ pires at the end. of next, summer. However, preparations for a new election would get underway well before the time came to petition for a vote, sometime in June, 1956. The IBL Is assured the full sup­ port of the AFL Maritime Trades Department, representing both seagoing and shoreside unions in the industry. The SIU is a mem­ ber of th'e department. k - * % Ellis '• Gillot son, Foley, Ala.f-William Fiynn, Wollinger's Island, Ala.; William Guilford, Pritchanl. Ala'.; Bernard M. Larsen. Miami. Fia.; Robert M. Eliis, Brooklyn, NY; Henry L. Gillot, Long Island City, NY; Deward. G. Robinson, Hamilton. Ala. Two of the men. McComisky and Robinson, are entitled to retroac­ tive benefits because their applica­ tions were conipleted at an earlier date. " : •41 -1 �SKAtAMERS PMe Foiif •spfaoAer IC i«5l L0€ 8IU Welfare Speeds Recovery 'Districts' Report Shows Ship Inspection Loopholes V A casual scanning of the recent Coast Guard report on the Southern Districts disaster and the Coast Guard's inspection regulations would give the impression that a US flag ship is the most inspected collection of equipment on the face 6f the earth. Closer examination, how­ ever, reveals two startling dis- -• ^ human beings can make mistakes?". crepancies between inspec­ accepted as infallible with nary "Not. In the examination of tions as they exist on paper second look. • The hearings further revealed the ships," was the reply. and actual practice. existence of an agreement between The presiding Coast Guard opFor one thing, as testimony showed at the hearing in the ABS and the Southern Steamship cer again intervened to stop the Southern Districts disaster, it Company permitting the company questioning as reflecting on the seems to be permissible for an in­ to get by with patched bottom "integi'ity of the Bureau." spector to give the engine room plating on the ship instead of un­ Subsequently other witnesses an okay without even going down dergoing expensive repairs.. The from the Coast Guard itself agreed the ladder. The hearings also agreement was. approved by the that the Coast Guard accepts ABS showed the trust placed by the Coast Guard in violation of its own certificate 'without question as evi­ Coast Guard in the American Bu­ orders, apparently on the grounds dence of a vessel's seaworthiness. reau of Shipping, a private ship­ that "if it's okay with ABS it's okay Other testimony revealed more owner-supported agency which has with us." of the divided responsibility and no official Government status. As Held In Reverence authority in the present inspection No one in the maritime industry set-up. ^veral inspectors from in­ far as the Coast Guard is con­ cerned, ABS surveyor's reports are denies the value of work done by surance agencies and other sources ABS in setting safety standards were in direct contradiction with for US ships. But the almost each other as to the condition of reverential attitude of the Coast the hull, weather conditions at time Guard toward any report with an of loading and other items. When Home from a 15-day stay in a Mobile hospital that followed ABS stamp on it ^n effect buck- the shi^ loaded at Port Sulphur, major surqdry, Mrs. M. J. Oswald, wife of Seafarer "Dutch" passes the responsibility for La., an inspector spent an hour Oswald,appears to be on the way to complete recovery proper inspections from the Coast on the ship at night. Part of the and happy to be reunited with her husband. Oswald was Guard to a private shipowner-sup­ time was spent eating dinner with one of the first in Mobile to receive cash assistance under ported agency. the captain and the remainder in­ Several exchanges in the Coast specting the holds with the aid of the new schedules of hospital and surgical benefits provided SAN FRANCISCO — T h e by the Welfare Plan. boom is definitely on the Guard hearing were revealing on a cluster of lights held by the this score. When an attorney repre­ mates. jDn the basis of this once­ wane out here as for the sec­ be maintained the ship was ond two week period in a row the senting the family of a deceased over Seafarer attempted to question an seaworthy. port has had slow shipping and ABS representative as to the thor­ Another inspector, this one more of the same is expected in a Coast Guard representative oughness of that organization's in­ the future. Activity was limited to checked" the engine room by ask­ SEATTLE—The "bottom" fell out of shipping here during one payoff and sign-on plus seven spection of Southern Districts, the presiding Coast Guard officer was ing the chief engineer over a cup the last two weeks, but they're going to glue it back on in In-transits. shocked, and intervened on the of coffee how things were below. proper fashion in the current period. Further, port agent Leon "Blon- grounds that the questioning was Between the Coast Guard, the Slumped to the lowest point"*_ .. ... die" Johnson warned, there are improper. "Are you attacking the Federal Communications Commis­ L J . 1 ii. run of ships that call there reguno payoffs in sight for the next two American Bureau of Shipping," he sion, the ABS, the National Cargo it's reached in several months, larly. weeks, although on the West Coast asked in a tone indicating the at­ Bureau, the insurance companies shipping took an unexpected This pleasant prospect is due to ships have a habit of popping up torney was being presumptuous. and other agencies one would think nosedive for two weeks with only be provided by an array including when least expected. 'Bureau Doesn't Err' ship would get a thorough in­ one payoff and sign-on, the Bar­ the Jean LaFitte, Young American San Francisco has been a hot Another attorney then asked the spection. But this division of func­ bara Frietchie (Liberty Naviga­ and Kyska (Waterman); Longview port for so many months now that ABS man if it accepts the certi­ tion and the abandonment of pri­ tion, plus five assorted in-transits. Victory and Coeur d'Alene Victory a downturn was bound to come fications of its surveyors at face mary responsibility by the Coast The present two-week period, (Victory Carriers); ..^Marie Hamil along. However, there are still not value. Guard would seem to nullify the however, is expected to see the (Bloomfield); George A. Lawson too many men with A and B sen­ "Yes," the ABS man replied. very purpose of an Inspection sys­ port rebound quickly, with eight (Pan Oceanic), and Ocean Joyce iority here. "Then you don't recognize that tem; to maintain a seaworthy ship. payoffs scheduled plus the usual (Ocean Trans). Frisco Job Boom Dips Seattle Boom Stumbles August 24 Through Sept. 6 Registered „ ^ Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Noriolk Savannah Miami Tampa Mobile New Orleans Lake Charles Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Deck Deck Eng. ABA 10 83 31 51 18 13 5 7 36 55 13 12 9 14 15 Deck TOTALS 372 5 29 9 30 22 3 6 0 6 7 8 5 2 g 9 Deck 147 4 68 22 50 10 13 3 0 23 36 4 8 2 11 n Eng. 265 The overall picture of shipping in the Atlantic and Gulf District showed another general decline during the past two weeks, as the number of men registered remained pegged about the same as the previous period, but shipping itself dipped a little further. Total number of men dispatched to jobs was 1187; registration was 1358. The shipping barometer, however, indicated a probable rise soon with some braiT/:hes reporting increased activity due in the coming two weeks. Thusj the present situation appears to' be only temporary, as business continues to level off from the hea"vy shipping brought on by the summer vacation period just ended. Statistically, class A and class B resumed their near-two to one relationship, as a "slump" showed up in class C this time. The decline in class C shipping remains in direct proportion to the gen­ eral dip in shipping for all seniority groups. The Eng. B 1 25 14 27 13 6 1 4 11 18 9 9 4 8 6 Eng. B Stew. A 5 72 16 48 15 4 41 5 11 42 3 8 4 7 8 Stew. A stew. ®2 21 5 14 9 9 15 4 6 8 2 9 1 9 15 Stew. B 129 Total Total Total A B «2^- 19 223, 69 149 43 30 49 12 70 133 20 28 15 32 34 8 75 28 71 44 10 22 8 23 33 19 23 7 33 30 298 97 220 87 48 71 20 93 166 39 51 22 55 64 Total Total Total A m Deck Deck Deck A B C 1 71 32 64 14(1 15 3 3 24 45 11 9 6 14 3 Deck A 1. 16 15 22 11 3 2 0 3 15 13 4 3 5 2 1 6 3 1 16 3 0 0 1 9 1 0 0 4 0 Deck Deck B C 117 45 Eng. ^2 56 18 43 11 11 2 2 14 23 4 7 2 17 5 Eng. Shipped Stew. Stew, Eng. Eng^ stew. A B C 0 3 2 11 35 10 43 10 7 13 14 4 7 5 28 5 17 0 44 7 10 412 9 6 4 1 3 2 5 0 1 1 4 0 0 2 1 1 7 5 9 4 2 5 20 25 21 5 3 6 2 5 1 5 1 3 0 1 3 2 0 2 1 7 1 12 8 1 0 2 3 3 0 Eng. Eng^ Stew. Stew. stew, -c A B 143 49 173 96 36 Total Total B 6 61 36 67 22 15 7 3 14 56 24 10 8 20 7 Total Tota^ A 701 356 3 170 63 151 34 25 10 6 47 93 17 19 9 43 11 Total 3 23 72 6 38 0 1 0 8 19 5 1 2 6 0 254 111 224 94 46 18 9 69 168 46 30 19 69 18 m Total Total C 2f7 130 926 45| presence of available manpowtr in classes A and long overdue. . . . NEW YORK: Boom appears PHILADELPHIA: Very B, in ports where they^were needed, spelled out to be ended as of now the drop for class C, which has no seniority in good one week; slow the next. . . . BALTIMORE: the SIU. Of the total, class A remained the same Pepped up again after a slight dip.... NORFOLK: as the last period, at 60 percent, and class B Good now and will continue. Blue Jay run may climbed again to nearly 30 percent. The rest was be over, but coal is no"w moving out. .. . SAVAN­ accounted for by class C, which experienced the NAH: About the same as before; very little change. . . . MIAMI: Florida's transfer puts whole crew only drop. Port by port, the figures showed a shipping rise on beach; Registration up, particularly in steward in four ports, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk department.... TAMPA: Still slow; little in sight. and Savannah, a dip in six others and five re­ . .. MOBILE: Slow and should decline a bit more maining the ^ame. West Coast shipping continued yet.... NEW ORLEANS: Shipping stays the same. to shrivel up, as Seattle, which has been really . . . LAKE CHARLES: Keeps shipping same kept jumping for many months, reported 'almost amount steadily. . . . HOUSTON: Still nothing no activity worth mentioning. Wilmington had in sight for this port, . . WILMINGTON: Has already gone from bad to worse and San Fran­ quieted down completely, . . . SAN FRANCISCO: Feels same decline as other West Coast ports. . . . cisco stayed about the same. SEATTLE: Slowest .it'^, been. in. several months. The following isdhe forecast, port by port: ^ ' iNext'pqqpd,phQviilld|tbrl^^ way/j«ri^h\§i,|ht • BOSTON: ^P8y<3 156 297 311 H' - • �Mmihm 19, nu SEAFjtkEKS toe Prototypes In Gov't Now Ship Design Program mmrnrnMSsmMmiSi^^ i ''''•' /r "TSitsr^A;* Designed to replace outmoded C-type ships with vessels of greater speed, more stowage space and easy cargo-handling, Maritime Administration's new cargo cai'riers include Sea­ farer Class of 13,400 tons and IS-knot speed, which would replace existing C-3s and C-4s. "Clipper" class ships would replace present C-2s with vessels of 10,800 tons and 18-lcnot speed. Vessels wou d be 460' long, with 28' draft and would be suitable for same general service now operated by US-flag C-2s in foreign and domestic trades. Third type of several proposed modern sKfpi of the future Is Freedom Class of approximately 8,500 deadweight tons. These ships would be designed to do 16-18 knots and would replace present C-IBs. They would be 4L7* long and have draft of 26,5'. NY still Has Plenty Of Jobs NEW YORK—Shipping has finally slacked off here, following a summer of record activity in which same-day shipping ceased being a novelty. The lull will give harried headquarters dispatchers a chance to catch their breath for the first time since the end of June. Bated men, however, can still ship out in a few days, pinch would be considerably more Claude Simmons, SIU assist­ severe if the Union had not been ant secretary-treasurer, reported. able to sign up several new compa­ He cited the case of a wiper on nies in recent months to swell the the Chickasaw who came in a few number of available jobs. The or­ days ago, registered and then ship­ ganization of new companies under ped back aboard as a fireman the SIU contract still remains a pri­ TAMPA,—Several Seafarers in same day. mary target for headquarters of­ this port have collected benehis Thus, Seafarers who are looking ficials and the SIU Organizing De­ under the SIU's family medical and to ship right away can still make partment. surgical plan. All reports are that their way without too much In connection with the new com­ the plan has been of considerable trouble, he said. panies, Simmons pointed to the help and is welcomed by the mem­ The drop in shipping was not added importance of avoiding all bership accordingly. attributed to any special cause, performing on SlU-contracted ves­ The shipping picture was not too Simmons explained, but could sels at all times. Jhe presence of exciting for the past two weeks with likely be due in part to the end performers on a vessel will never eight in-transits supplying all of of the vacation season when less contribute to a satisfactory rela­ the business. But port agent Tom men are coming oft ships for a tionship for all parties, and keeps Banning is optimistic about the stay ashore with their families operations from running as future with more action expected or friends. smoothly as they should, he de­ in the coming period. Lay-^p clared. Adding to the clouded future The performers themselves only shipping picture is the lay-up of wind up losing their papers and one tanker, the Queenston Heights, their right to continue sailing and for a few weeks, and the sale of earning their livelihood, he added, Another, the Julesburg, to a n,pnr, cHing, the stappedrup: practice of •S'rU'-coinbarfy.! close Ipg book inspections followed He noted that the fdihpdrary by' the Coast Guard tliesi^ days. Tampa Lauds Hospital Plan K*lOW I. Pw« Fiwi Stewards, SIU Meet To Prepare Master Rulebook Formal meetings between SIU stewards and headquarters officals designed to hammer out a master set of working rules for galley and messroom operations got underway this week. The first such gathering, ^ which convened this past dividual "to order" -food preparaWednesday, Sept. 14, provided tion and service for making meals the occasion for some 30 SIU chief more attractive and eliminating stewards^and chief cooks to match waste. The Union and representative experiences and air mutual prob­ lems regarding shipboard feeding cooks and stewards consulted on and storing. Details of the meeting the program jointly agree that al­ were set in motion by SIU Assist­ though SIU ships have always been ant Secretary-Treasurer Ed Moon- good feeders, a new approach to ey, representing the steward de­ «hipboard meals could make that impression even more emphatic. partment. Principal aim of the meetings is Seafarers Cliff Wilson and Phil to sift the details of steward de­ Reyes, SIU stewards who have been partment operation and come up introducing the new program in with a uniform set of rules which the Alcoa and Waterman fleets, can serve as a gqidebook for all were on. hand to report on the results. Louis Gellnitz, who pio­ galley personnel. neered the program on Bull Line In this way, storing, cooking and ships, was unable to attend due to serving can be standardized illness. throughout the SlU-contracted Customs And Practices fleet in line with "new" feeding The first meeting of stewards, program instituted by the Union for the first time on Bull Line both oldtimers and newcomers, es­ tablished the fact that there is al­ vessels last year. ways for improvement in The new method of feeding and feedingroom aboard ship and making it serving has since been extended more palatable. to Alcoa and Waterman ships, Discussion emphasized the point under the supervision of veteran that although food preparation and SIU stewards who circulate each storing of ships is a primary re­ company's ships to introduce and sponsibility of the steward aboard explain the system. the ship, he cannot go it alone quite Well Received often because company practices Well-received on virtually all and feeding customs vary from ships operating under the new sys­ ship to ship. tem, the Union-sponsored revised Subjects dealt with also con­ feeding program is based on in- cerned revision of some steward department working rules as well as the still-present need aboard some ships for efficient "deep freeze" equipment to permit more extensive use of frozen fruits and vegetables, and the question of what constitutes minimum or nec­ essary stores for a given ship. Also considered were ways and means for drawing up lists of reputable ship chandlers and food supply houses in offshore ports, so that missing stores can be ordered with­ out delay in those areas. MIAMI—A few hours after The meetings, which are being it had paid off the SIU crew, held both mornings and afternoons, the P&O Steamship Company were due to continue today. transferred the passenger ship Florida and her sister ship, the Cuba, to the Liberian flag. As a result of the free-wheeling policy permitted by the Maritime Ad­ ministration, not a single cruise ship operating out of Florida re­ mains under- the American flag. The Florida had operated for many years on the Miami to Ha­ vana run and P&O was one of the first companies organized by the SIU when it was founded. Many of the crewmembers had been SAN DIEGO—Delegates to with the SIU since its earliest days. the California State Federa­ In recent years, the passenger tion of Labor last week whole­ ship run from Florida to Cuba and heartedly approved a resolution other Caribbean islands has been assailing proposals for Government Invaded by an increasing number regulation of collective bargaining of runaway-flag operators under in maritime. The delegates adopted the benevolent eye of the Maritime a proposal submitted by the Sailors Administration. Ships put on this Union of the Pacific severely run included the former SIU- critical of any limitations on the manned Yarmouth of Eastern rights of sea unions to strike and Steamship Company. freely negotiate their own con­ Gov't Says Okay tracts. With everyone else turning Li­ The resolution was aimed at the berian, P&O said "me too" and controversial Bonner proposals, won approval of the Maritime put forth by Rep. Herbert Bonner, Administration to complete the chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee. The proposals transfer of its two ships. The Cuba, formerly the Denali would 'establish a new Federal of the Alaska Steamship Company, agency with broad powers to in­ had been placed on a Tampa-Key terfere with collective bargaining West-Havana run just this past in maritime and to pass on contract provisions. , winter. P&O Cruise Ships Dump US Registry Calif. AFL Backs SUP On Bonner •v' •- • "vl �..-;^^V-v?:r SEAFARERS L06 Pare Six Mobile 'Rec' Lounge Due For Completion Sevtcmber if. 1955 Plan New Growth For Booming NO NEW ORLEANSr—Continued development of New Orleans as a leading world port is be­ ing reflected here by a steady brisk rate of shipping on SlU-contracted vessels, Government agency reports of increased cargo volume and announcement of a long-range program of har­ MOBILE—The last step in the renovation of the Mobile bor improvements. • —— —• ' hall is nearing completion here as work is going ahead rapidly Job opportunities for SIU crease of 2.2 percent over tonnage on a lounge in the lowest deck of the hall. Members here are men shipping through this for 1953. looking forward eagerly tow-'^ ^ port are holding steady at a high The Army report also showed ard the wind-up of the job as ones have been reissued by the level and prospects for the imme­ the Mississippi River carried mote the lounge will have televi­ Seafarers Vacation Plan. diate future are good, said SIU commerce than in any previous Shipping has not been • exciting Port Ag^nt Lindsey J. Williams, sion, i-ecreational facilities and year, a total of 82.4 million tons service facilities for meals and in the port over the past two-week From a long-range point pf view, between Minneapolis and the Gulf. soft drinks. It will also have period, Tanner said, but men are the economic future of the port Between Baton Rouge and New plenty of comfortable chairs and still shipping without any trouble also appears sounds. Good labor Orleans, 37 million tons Were car­ sofas and is expected to become a as testified by the fact that several relations have been cited as ried on the river, and 54 -million social center for Seafarers and C seniority ratings got out in the major factor in the sound posi­ tons between New Orleans and the past two week period. Six payoffs tion enjoyed by the port with no Gulf. their families here. and sign ons, and one in transit sudden upsets to harass shippers. Number Two Port Also being installed in the hall LAKE CHARLES — Jobs Is a complete burglar alarm system. ship summed up the port's busi­ In dollar value of all foreign are still going begging down, Tonnage Grows Port agent Cal Tanner expects the ness. As usual, relief jobs around trade, the port continued to rank Statistics recently announced by second in the US, according to in this hot corner of the Gulf, alarm system to prevent repeti­ the harbor helped pick up the the Army Engineers showed that the New Orleans Board of Port which has continued to ride along tion of a recent burglary of the slack. at the same confortable level of Tanner expects the next two waterborne tonnage handled Commissioners. During 1954, ex­ shipping all summer. hall in which 40 vacation checks through the port in 1954 exceeded were stolen. Most of the checks weeks to be considerably improved ports and imports were valued at Seafarers can ship out of here 40.5 million tons. This was an in- $1.5 billion, up seven percent from almost have been recovered and the lost with a dozen ships scheduled. any time tliey want, espe­ 1953. New York and New Orleans cially when they're -not dead set are the only US ports in the bil­ on a particular berth aboard the lion dollar class. "one and only" ship. Those who New Orleans moved from second aren't too choosy will have no to first among US ports in exports trouble getting out. of cotton and agricultural machin­ There are, however, enough men ery and in banana imports. The on the beach to handle anything port continued to rank first in im­ that comes along in the normal Two NMU officials have been assigned the embarrassing task of explaining to the Interna­ ports of sugar, molasses, burlap turn of events, so a mass invasion tional Transport workers Federation just why NMU president Joseph Curran wholeheart­ and sisal and in exports of wheat, of this area won't do anybody any good, Leroy Clarke, port agent, edly endorsed the ILA's phony seamen's union a short time" ago. The NMU was recently ad­ flour and soybeans. "Favorable freight rates and commented. mitted to ITF and will send its * Weather Good Curran's endorsement of the good labor relations, may be the delegation of two to a confer­ work on runaway flag ships operat­ The good weather of the past two "United International Seamen's cause of an expected increase in ence of the ITF Seafarers Sec­ ing out of New York. ILA opera­ tion in Ostend, Belgium, October tions in this field ran directly Union, Local 1824," came after the the shipment of motor vehicles weeks helped assure a coinfortablt counter to the efforts of the ITF SEAFARERS LOG exposed the so- through the port," the Board of stay for the crew of the Chiwawa, 3 and 4. which spent five daj^s here because By giving its approval to the Special Seafarer's Section, and the called "union" as a crimp opera­ Port Commissioners reported. Automobile shipments were the refineryx couldn't turn out the ILA crimp "rig, the NMU put itself ITF office in New York reported tion whose top officer boasted that In tlie position of endorsing an out­ many complaints from seamen who he would raid ships of all nations stimulated recently by the diver­ cargo she required. None of the sion of Kaiser-Willys vehicles from crew seemed to mind the "incon­ fit which was exploiting foreign had been shakendown for dues and with the help of the ILA, Curran immediately came to the the Port of New York to New Or­ venience." The Chiwawat was One seamen of many countries who assessments on the promise of ac­ of the eight Cities Service oil defense of the ILA's operations, leans for foreign shipment. tion that was never forthcoming. Not content to rest on its laurels, wagons which made an appearance giving prominence to a friendly ex­ ITF Expands Drive This past June, the ITF an­ change of correspondence between the Board of Port Commissioners in the port during the past period. Other visitors included that nounced it was expanding its activ­ him and tug captain William Brad­ •is going ahead with plans for con­ ity in the runaway-flag field and ley, ILA president, in which Brad­ tinuing expansion and improve­ regular caller in Orange, Texas, the Val Chem (Valentine), and was opening an organizing office ley denied everything that the ment of harbor facilities. On the planning boards is a $65 right here, the'Ocean Nora (Ocean for that purpose. The ITF cam­ Local 1824 spokesman had said. paign received the full support of The net effect of the exchange was million construction and rehabili­ Trans), which loaded rice for Ja­ the last SIU of NA convention to convey the impression that the tation program to enhance the pan, as well as the Del Oxo' and which denounced the ILA's activi­ ILA would perform a service for port's position in world trade. Port Del Mundo, both for Mississippi. Aside from the healthy shipping, ties as hampering ITF progress. foreign fiag seamen, igrforing ITF's Director Walter J. Amoss said. all else is quiet in the port right Eleven years' will be required to Jurisdiction and activity in this The SIU has been a member of ITF now, Clarke noted. complete this program. area. for many years. Jobs Come Steadily In Lake Chas. Curran Support To ILA's Phony Seamen's Union Faces ITF Quiz YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH |r I'' 1^-. Beware The Merchants Of Debt One shake of the economic tree and a lot of families now carrying a record-high load of installment debt are going to be in trouble. In fact, business-commentator Elmer Roessner reports that the American Collectors As­ sociation finds the number of bills turned over to its members for collection has jumped ten per cent this year, and that bills ai'e getting harder to collect. Consei'vative bankers consider it risky for a family to assume a total installment of more than ten per cent of its income. But one survey indicates that over 13 million families now are paying out more than ten per cent of their income in installment payments, and over half of these (about IV2 million) are making payments totaling . 20 to 40 per cent of income. A leading debt pooling service repox'ts that 90 per cent of its aecounts, who are people in sei-ious financial trouble, are paying on cars and TV sets. Look For Assistance Often the man or family that has gotten over its head In debt needs some outside help in fending off its eredItors, or at least it is often panieked into thinking it does. Thats why debt-pooling services have gotten numerous recently. This department previously reported that such services operate under such titles as "budget consultants," "debt liquidators," "pro-ratal's," etc. They charge a fee of ten percent or more of your total debt, and try to solve your financial problems by arranging regular small pay­ ments with your creditors. That is, the more honest debt pooling services try to do this. There have been cases in which debt poolers collected fees with little result in re­ ducing the clients debt load or staving off creditors' demands. , With so many families heavily In debt, debt-pooliog services are spreading fast. Now one of the'largest of Written for pe Seafarers Los Margolius, ^ leading expert on biying such outfits, operating out of New York, has announced ' Most of the people in debt to the point where they it is opening 18 additional offices in various large indus­ seek a debt-pooling service are buying cars or television trial cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Troy, sets. In some cases the debt pooler tries to retui-n this merchandise to the creditor, with the debtor agreeing to NY, Passaic and Paterson, NJ, and others. pay an additional sum if the creditor suffers any loss on Resist Barrage Of Ads the returned merchandise. This way a deficiency judgment This department previously advised that families In against the debtor is avoided. But if a debtor must give debt avoid the debt-pooling sexwices heavily advertised up his car or other merchandise, he should first see what over the air and in newspapers, and instead make their he can get for it on a private sale or turn the car over own arrangements to quiet the threats of creditors, and to someone else who will assume the rest of the debt, if necessary, use the help of the bankruptcy courts to rather than return it and pay an additional sum to the compel creditors to accept extended payments. dealer. One of the older and apparently more reputable debt Mr. Neal's company says It avoids asking small-loan poolers has challenged these recommendations, and states companies to reduce interest fees except when they were that his firm has been able to help some 1500 families in taking too much of the debtor's income due to the lax-ge its four years of existence. C. V. Neal, Jr., of the Credit number of loans. ."Loan companies are entitled to their Management Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, charges that much profit as much as any other merchant." Well, that's just of the criticism of the debt poolers is inspired by small where an aggressive credit-union committee or welfare or loan companies (who • themselves promote "consolidation other community organization would make its first attempt loans" to pay off debtors at higher rates than even the to get a family out of trouble. Melvin Shex-man, a long­ debt poolers charge. Mr. Neal further declares that a time worker in Eastern credit unions, says that many debt poolers' fee of ten per cent" of the total debts is times a committee would go to the loan coihpanies and cheaper than a credit union's Interest charge of 10 or 12 Installment dealers—the merchants of debt—and induce per cent a year. them to recfuce the amount of a debt by arguing that the Even though Mr. Neal may sincerely try to extricate lender or merchant was initially responsible because It debtors by putting them txn a minimum budget and de­ overloaded the fanxily with debt. voting their remaining income to paying the creditors, You'll buy more cars and TV sets In the long run by this department again says stay away from debt poolex'S getting on a cash basis in your buying, and avoiding the as well as loan companies promoting a debt consolidation 18-42 per cent interest rates of loan companies and some loan. Installment dealex-s, and the debt poolers' fees. But if Here's why: you're already mired in debt, set up your own budget of —Credit union rates are not higher than the ^ebt pooling minimum living expenses, as the debt poolers do, pay fees. They're lower. A debt pooler's ten percent fee on off your creditors with the remaining income, and call on a total debt of $1000 is $100. Most cr,edit .unions charge > your,own community organizations for help if necessary. $50 or $60 inteteit''''trh ''k'flbbb/lqan; £e:^aid ••w4thi«''42'' ' months, and some |j , • ..assistance. v; ^ ' - ^ �September 18, 18S5 COIUR D'ALBNf -VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carrlort), July 4—Chairman, W. Zaiaikl; Soeratary, H. Ia|ak. Dlacusalon on keeplnc all Korean checker! from doing their paper work in tha midship house. A vote of thanks went ta the negoUating committee for tha progreia gained for seafarers and their families. A fan siiould ba in­ stalled in the laundry room. Tha steward recommended that all per­ sonal laundry be given to him so that a reliable laundry can take care of cleaning same. SEAFARERS W. Las. Ship's fund $12.89. Motion made and carried to accept recent communication. Ship's delegate elect­ ed. Poor mail delivery In Far East, JOHN C (Atlantis Carriers), July 11 —Chairman, L. Psradlts; Secretary, W. Clegg. All repairs taken care of at sea. motion made and carried to accept headquarter communications. Ail hands to leave foc'sle clean. Cap­ tain and Chief Mate are two good guys to sail with. ROBIN KETTERINO (Seas Ship­ OCEAN ULLA (Maritime OverMst), ping), May 22—Chairman, H. HerklnJuly 4—Chairman, D. Plecerllll; Secre­ heins; Secretary, R. Whitley. Men tary, J. V. Dolan. Discussion by the asked to wear .at least a T-shirt In ship's delegate about the unsafe con­ 'messhall during meal hours. Messmen ditions out on deck. The gear is fairly will wear Jackets at all times. All rotten and there Is no catwalk across repairs have been made except paint­ lumber fore and aft. There Is noth­ ing and that wiU be done thU trip. ing la the slop chest but cigarettes. Treasurer reported S32.64 on hand in The captain said no fresh ,milk in the ship's fund. June 19—Chairman, O. Schmidt; Secretary, R. Whitley. Discussion on food coming from the galley. Now that the ship has left the States the food is not prepared very well. Mem­ bers asked to fill out welfare enroll­ ment cards and turn same in to delegates: D^est of ships' Meetings Panama; will check with patrolman on same. DEL SUD (Mississippi), June 25— Chairman, T. Matting; Secretary, W. Perkins. Brother Joe Collins reported everything running smoothly and asked for full cooperation in making a good impression on the ministers aboard that are attending the Catho­ lic Congress in Rio de Janeiro. Broth­ er Perkins asked that snore effort be made to increase the Del Sud picnic fund in order to have a bigger and "better picnic this year. Motion made and carried to commend headquarters for the fine Job they are doing in protecting our Union. All members are requested to stay out of the crew pantry during meal hours. DEL MAR (Mississippi), July 4— Chairman, E. Caudlll; Secretary, H. Rills. At deck department meeting a vote of thanks was given to the deck' messman. Requested that ship's delegate see the patrolman in New Orleans about passing doctor and signing on the same day. All men were asked to fill out welfare cards and send same to headquarters. All voted' to give $40 for the ship's library. DEL' MUNOO (MIstlttlppI), June 2S v-rChalrman, I. Brown; Secretary, J. PIcou. Brother Joseph Casem was eldc^ed stdp's delegate by acclama­ tion. Treasurer reported $40 in the ship's fund. Suggestion made to go into the recreation hall for bull ses­ sions. Brother Bailey said that ho would repair washing machine for the good of the crew. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmian), July 3—Chairman, W, Makin; Secre­ tary, W.. Knapp. Crew donated money and had flowers sent as one of our Union brothers on the ship lost his father whiie on this voyage. Mem­ bers were requested to turn in all keys at the end of this trip. The stew­ ard department was given a vote of thanks for a flno Job done. The cap­ tain and offlcers were also given a vote of thanks for their cooperation. SUNION (Kea), Juno 19—Chairman, •. Sims; Secretary, E. Taylor. A new ship's delegate was elected. All the latest reports and communications were read and accepted by crew. General topics discussed. ROBIN COODFELLOW (Seas Ship­ ping), June 19—Chairman, J, LIpplncott; Secretary, W. Backley. Ship's delegate' asked for repair lists to be given to the department delegates as soon as possible. All hands were asked to tui'n in all linen and cots, before arriving in states. MOBILIAN (Waterman), June 29— Chairman, Roberto Hannibal; Secre­ tary, M. Eayers. Beef reported con­ cerning fresh stores and milk. • Stew­ ard said in some ports vegetables are unsanitary, and he will get fresh stores when he can. Ship's delegate will collect money from crew for ex­ penses for mail during this trip. VAL CHEM (Valentino), June 29— Chairman, J. Cheshire; Secretary, J. Jellette. Discussion with the steward about salads and water to be served at meals, whereby the steward prom­ ised his cooperation in the matter. Members were asked to be quiet be­ low deck as men are sleeping. ANGELINA (Bull), Juns 30—Chair­ man, J. Kain; Secretary, Warren Reed. Suggestion made that each delegate make a volunteer collection at payoff and turn in money to treas­ urer who will mail the balance due, on TV to N. y. Sea Chest. A lengthly discussion follows concerning the reqiUrements for eligibility under the new and/or revised welfare program. Each delegate requested to turn in a repair list as soon as possible. HASTINGS (Waterman), July 10— Chairman, G. Hansen; Secretary. R, Callahan. Motion made and carried to accept and concur with headquarters communications. Discussion held about moving hospital midships, to see pa­ trolman. Messhall to be painted. IBERVILLI (Pan Atlantic), No data .—Chairmen, Taylor; Sacratery, R. Eckerl. Motion made and carried that recent headquarters communication be accepted and concurred. MAOAKET (Waterman), May Chairman, J. Rose; Secretary, W. Busch. Ship's fund agreed to be taken up on 1st draw. A little more, cooperation was asked for in- keeping showers and passageways clean. All headquarters information posted. Re­ pair list being taken care of satis­ factorily. BARBARA FRIETCHIE (Liberty Nav­ igation), June 12—Chairman, C. DeMarco; Secretary, O. Payne. Much dis­ cussion about draws in foreign ports. The ship's delegate will ask the cap­ tain to give US currency where pos­ sible and the crew will accept trav­ elers checks elsewhere. All hands asked to remove clothes from line below as soon as they are dry. En­ gine and deck departments to take turns cleaning laundry. Steward de­ partment will clean recreation room. VENORE (Ore), July 3—Chairman, Nelson Norwood; Secretary, C. RawlIngs. Request has been made at sev­ eral meetings for a toaster for crews mess. The membership feels this should be brought to the attention of headquarters. New secretary re­ porter elected. ALCOA CAVALIER (Alcoa), July 2$ —Chalrmj.n, E. Moyd; Secretary, G. Scett. Motion made and carried to ac­ cept and concur with headquarters communications. Discussion held on donations for sick brothers. ALCOA PENNANT (Alcoa), July 24 -—Chairman, E. Kellyj Secretary, J. Olsen. One man miss ship in Mobile and one went to the hospital in San Juan. Few be^s. Steward and his de­ partment cooperating 100 percent. En­ gineers to pump water from domestic tanks to after peak in order to have cold water for showers. In order to eliminate too much heat in crews quarters starboard passageways con­ nection and valves to be insulated. Chief cook and steward to work to­ gether to get meats to cook longer and cooperation requested from crew for messman while being served. Motion had been made to post all bulletins from headquarters. They were accepted and concurred. Dis­ cussion held on getting boiled ham aboard. ALCOA PILGRIM (Alcoa), July 10 —Chairman, none; Secretary, A. Scott. No. beefs. Communications from headquarters read and accept­ ed unanimously. Motion made and carried to get new washing machine and all repair lists to be turned into the patrolman. Poor grade of soap powder aboard. Vote of thanks to Steward. ALCOA RANGER (Alcoa), July 23 —Chairman, R. Stahl; Secretary, C. Scott. Ship to be fumigated again. Crew was urged to keep messhall clean. Motion made and carried to accept and concur communications from headquarters. AMPAC NEVADA (Trans Oceanic Marine), July 13—Chairman, A. Brown; Secretary, D. Mease. No beefs. Mo­ tion made and carried to accept and concur with communications from headquarters. Ship's delegate elected. Ship's delegate to see captain about draws. Repair lists to be taken up by delegates and turned into department heads. ARCHERS HOPE (Cities Service), July 17—Chairman, R. Kehrly; Secre­ tary, C. Connors. Ship's delegate elect­ ed. Discussion on ships fund and new TV set to be purchased and new li-on. Some small..beefs. Communications from beadquaAers accepted and con­ curred. Crew mess refrigerator has been out of order and ship's delegate was Instructed to see captain about it. ARLYN (Bull), July 17—Chairman, A. Sacco; Secretary, M. Randon. One brother was U1 and missed ship in Puerto Rico. Ship's delegate elected. Crew asked steward to prepare vege­ tables a little better and to swUch night lunch. B. BALTORI (Ore), July 21—Chelrman, Lemb; Secretary, G. Williams. Ship's fund—$13.11. Motion made and carried to accept and concur with communications from headquarters. Crew discussed keeping laundry clean. DEL VALLI (Mississippi), July 9— Chairman, C. Murree; Secretary, H. HIgglnbotham. Ship's fund—$29.65 in cash. No beefs. New washing mach­ ine needed, repair list to be tmned in, suggested that ship's reporter •srrlte letter about library, and sug- Paee Sereo LOG' Farm Croup Wars On '50-50' Renewal of the farm bloc attack on the "50-50" shipping law has been signaled by the powerful American Farm Bureau Federation in its publication "The Nation's Agriculture." An article in the magazine denounces "50-50" as causing the loss of foreign sales of agricul­ tural surplus on the grounds-* that US flag shipping costs the foreign shipowners' lobby was they could make big sales abroad more than foreign shipping. a threat by their home countries if "50-50" was to vanish. Supporters of "50-50" have pointed out several times that most agricultural surplus Is being car­ ried on regularly-scheduled liners operating under steamship confer­ ence rates, so that the only differ­ ence in costs would be In the small percentage carried by US tramp ships. Foreign aid cargoes are im­ portant to maintaining tramp ships in operation and American seamen working. Since the Farm Bureau Federa­ tion is one of the most powerful of all farm organization^, its attack indicates that farm bloc Senators and Representatives will again team up with foreign shipping lob­ byists and the State and Agriculture Departments in an attempt to re.peal "50-50" as far as agricultural surplus is concerned. Bills to that effect have already been Introduced by Senators Clin­ ton Anderson (Dem.-New Mexico) and Francis Case (Rep.-So. Dakota). Defeated Before Last July maritime unions and the industry crushed the farm blocforeign shipper combine by a 181 to 51 vote In the House of Repre­ sentatives against a repeal meas­ ure. At that time Department of Agriculture spokesmen admitted in testimony before Congressional hearings that "50-50" would not add to the cost of surplus disposal to any great degree. It was esti­ mated that the total additional cargo cost of this valuable assist to American shipping would run about $2 million in a surplus dis­ posal program involving hundreds of millions. The major tactic employed by to boycott sales of US farm prod­ In actual fact trade authorities ucts if "50-50" was not repealed. have pointed out that there will This threat has been used to con­ always be strong opposition abroad vince farm bloc spokesmen that to sales of low-cost US surpluses. Digging In At Ciipper Party Sampling some of -the plentiful supply of food at a beach party for the passengers given by the SlU crew of the Alcoa Clipper in Porto Cabello, Venezuela, are (l-r) Capt. O'Keefe, skipper of the Alcoa Pegasus^ Jimmy Monroe, Alcoa agent; Sea-farer Cliff Wilson, SlU steward department representa­ tive, and Seafarer R. M. Roberts, Clipper steward. -^^•1 ILA On Union Demoeracy The active role played by Seafarers in aiding the AFL drive fdr a clean, democratic longshore union is a record of which the SIU is proud. A recent incident in the course of the ILA's latest political demonstration in New York harbor illustrates that the long­ shoremen's need for a demo­ cratic union is just a^ great as Tn] ever, (See cut.) ark—pres­ Since the ILA's narrow victory in the waterfront election of May, ence of cTOnnission *'^es." Th^ 1954, spokesmen for the ILA, ship­ meeting in Newark was the scene ping industry representatives of the port's only violence. When friendly to it and paid publicists have attempted to create the im­ the stop work order was an­ in| pression that the ILA was reform­ nounced there a longshoreman ing. stood up and asked "What are The- illusion was carefully cultivated by ILA president Brad­ the principles for which we are ley and given substance by promi­ going out." nent individuals who associated with the ILA in an effort to give A beefy man in the back of it a gloss of respectability. the room, in Newark's Amvets ,True Nature Shown Hall on Walnut Street, walked However, the true nature and meaning of ILA was shown by up to the speaker and punched Teddy Gleason, ILA general or­ him in the nose. ganizer, at a Newark meeting. The Thomas (Teddy) Gleason, the incident is fully described in the iis I. L. A.'s general organizer from adjoining reproduction from the "New York Times." Gleason is not New York, was presiding at this just another small fry ILA offi­ session, and he waited for the cial, but one of the ILA's big three. No matter how many showers of nose punching. perfumed publicity the ILA dis­ "Now I'll answer the ques­ penses, the fact remains that the tion," he said. "The principles ILA governs longshoremen by raw force and has not the slightest inare these: you go home and you teution of loosening its dictatorial don't work. We don't want you grip on dockworkers. In the light guys asking questions." of that fact, it is a lot easier to understand the true nature of ILANewspaper ^^jorters at the sponsored demonstrations and "vol­ were rough untary walkouts." On several occasions Seafarers have voted in membership meet­ ings to continue the SIU's support of efforts by the International Brotherhood of , Longshoremen, '^Fh, to bi-lPg gen^e,tj:ad^ unionisni to longshoi:^^,..; , i Aiew yo/?Kr/M0S i L J - .mI • •%)* I �Face Elcht SEAFARERi' 100 :v:-. i«ptemb(tt 1«,' 1955 rn^i4 _ • V . Saturday is a day off for most workers ashore, but at sea or in port, even with a 40-hour week, ship's work goes on. Here, aboard Bull Line's Dorothy in port in Savannah, Seafarer Alex Benzuk, FWT, prepares to change a burner down in the engine room. Taking a breather on deck, after doing a bit of sougeeing, Allan Lake, BR and ship's delegate, comes up for air be­ fore turning to again. Catching up on the latest news via a recent copy of the SEAFARERS LOG, Ray Velasquez, FWT, concentrates hard on reading an item of interest. In the galley, Raphael Padilla, chief cook, tastes his lat­ est creation for the hard-working Dorothy crew before proceeding further. He's a serious student of "gastrology," according to crewmembers. Busy on repair work, Fernando Vargas, deck engineer (right), and A. Malcolm, 2nd engineer, try to bring the cargo winch for No. 5 hold back up to snuff. The winch was damaged by longshoremen during loading operations. Repair and maintenance work goes on aboard ship all the time. The deck delegate aboard the ship, Luis F. Rivera, AB, takes advantage of a little lull in activity on deck to re­ lax at the gangway and try to stir up some cooling breezes to get his mind off the heat. Just about to take over the 4 to 12 watch, Ralph Ramos, FWT, checks up on all the auxliaries in the engine room before going to work. He's tightening up the steam gland , on the generator engine here. It can get to be mighty hot down in that engjuiq>oop», as every black gang veteran \ "Creamed carrots" is one of the vegetables of the day iiS( •'yi' �-' September It. 1181 .- „-.:-.;..,y,. SEAFARJSRS LOG Face Nla* SlU Wile 'Pioneers' In R1 MAW Widens Drive In Chesapeake Bay u — BALTIMORE—Organizers for the SlU-affiliatcd Marine Allied Workers here are meeting edntinued success in a cam­ paign to bring excursion boats and other Chesapeake Bay craft uilder the MAW banner.*• Following on their earlier triumphs in the Wilson Line and another_smaller company^-the MAW- organizers are now prepar­ ing for probable National Labor Relations Board elections on ships operated by several mo/e outfits. Petitions have already been filed with the Labor Board for elections NEW ORLEANS—The an­ on these vessels, none of which nual SS Dei Sud picnic, given are expected to provide too much here every year by crewopposition. members of the Mississippi pas­ The MAW activity in this port senger ship for SIU men, their is linked with the similar action families and friends, will be' held taken in Philadelphia, where the September 24. union also won a contract covering As usual, the picnic will be ah the Wilson Line boats there. all-day affair. Site of the big cele­ bration will be shelier house No.' Improved Shipping On deep-sea matters,' SIU Port 10 in Audubon Park. ; Agent Earl Sheppard reported im­ The Del Sud at present is home­ proved shipping during the last ward bound from one of her regu­ two weeks and forecast more of lar cruises to Buenos Aires and the same for the immediate future. intermediale South American ports. Arrangements for the pic­ Both the Liberty Flag (Tramp nic were carried on, however, Cargo) and the Flomar (Calmar) through-a series of messages from were due to crew up this week. a committee on board to SIU Together with the regular callers shoreside representatives in this at the port, they were expected to hold shipping near its present high port. Members of the Del Sud com­ level. The statistics of the past two mittee, including Steward Emil weeks totalled 12 payoffs, nine Herek, Bosun Louis O'Leary and sign-ohs and 19, ships in transit. Joseph Lae have sent word ahead They provided only routine beefs of the ship that the crew intends that were handled right on the to spare no expense to make this year's affair "bigger and better ships with no trouble. All is quiet on other fronts also. thdn ever." Already more than The political pot hasn't started to $1,000 has been accumulated in boil just yet and the labor front is the ship's fund. Dancing And Contests quiet, with no major beefs for any The picnic plans call for music local unions in sight. for dancing to be provided by Val" Barbara's band. Athletic contests, games and free rides in the big Union Has municipal park's amusement cen­ ter are being arranged for th^ Cable Address children of Seafarers. Seafarers overseas who.want Mounds of fried chicken, baked to get in-touch with headquar­ beans, potato hot dogs and ters in a hurry can do so by cookies will besalad, pi'ovided cabling the Union at its cable certain that picnic-goers toofmake all address, SEAFARERS NEW .ages will be well-fed. YORK. Ice cream and soft drinks in Use of this address will as­ generous quantities will be handed sure speedy transmission on out to the children and kegs of all messages and faster serv­ cold beer will be tapped to quench ice for the men involved. the thirst of the grownups. Best Ever' Picnic Set By Del Sud On visit to SlU headquarters in Brooklyn, Seafarer Newton Paine and his wife illustrate plans they've made for remodeling 230-year-old house (right) they own near Woonsockett, Rl. Mrs. Paine ha« been rebuilding and remaking house from plumbing up during the past two years. With the aid of an elderly handyman and an occasional boost from her Seafarer-husband when he is ashore, Mrs. Newton Faine of North Smithfield, Rhode Island, is completely re­ modeling their 230-year-old home. In a year and a half of rugged labor Mrs. Paine has re­ paired and re-furnished the with hand-whittled wooden pegs. second floor of the 14-room ditches was a common way of pass­ The oak is so hard that ordinary building, installed modern ing the day. drill bits make no dents in its plumbing and wiring and even re­ The couple was married in Jeru­ surface and it is almost impossible placed some of the original pon­ salem and then came to the States. to drive nails. Sawing the wood derous white oak beams. When they got back to the is also out of the quesyon and The old house was originally the States, Paine brought his bride to much of the work has to done Stage Coach Inn, a major stop iiis Rhode Island home. "My aunt with, hand punches, chisels and for travelers enroute from Provi­ had picked up the place about 30 hardened drill bits. dence to Worcester, Massachusetts, years ago," he said, "and my father "You have to nave a world of and Boston. It is located, fittingly had been living in it for the past patience to work with that stuff," enough, on the Providence Pike 15 years. But he never felt like Paine said. "It's easy to get exas­ yhich was a main highroad in putting any money Into the place perated because it is very difficult colonial times, and the . cement because it was so old." to penetrate the wood with any­ hitching ^osts in front of the house Mrs. Paine had different ideas. thing." are reminders of the days -when "When I was in the house the first One of their biggest prob­ stagecoaches stopped at Us door. day, I asked my father-in-law lems was replacement of five At a casual glance, the slight- where the bathroom was. He said, beams, approximately eight-bylooking Sedfarer's wife would ap­ 'outside'. The first thing that en­ eights, which were supporting a pear to be more at home with knit­ tered my mind was 'these crazy corner of the ground floor. A leaky ting needles than two-by-fours. But Americans!" old hand water-pump had rotted she qualified for her unusual job 'The old outhouse subsequently the beams through the years, and After a rugged apprenticeship as went up in a bonfire to celebrate when they were pulled out the an Israeli frontiersman. the completion of Mrs. Paine's old house sagged ten inches. The Paine, who has been sailing SIU plumbing project, and installation Paines had to jack the house up for many years, met his wife-to-be of an inside bathroom. with 20-ton jacks and salvage re­ J.n Haifa three years ago. She had The inn, built in colonial days, placement beams from the renlains been bom in Poland but lived 15 presented quite a rebuilding prob­ of another old building, since years in Israel, a good deal of the lem. All the beams, floor-boards lumberyards could not supply them time on wilderness fanii settle­ and other fittings had been hand- with hardwood beams of the ments where digging irrigation hewn in odd sizes and fastened proper dimensions. Despite the sag, Mrs. Paine's plaster job on the second floor walls held up. The second floor of the house has nowAieen completed and fullyfurnished with carpets, curtains Those who read in the SEA­ has the full support of his ship­ and all the fixings. Right now Mrs. Paine is ripping off the old shingles FARERS LOG how Tommy Moore mates on this issue. on the outside and replacing them Colder, who sails regularly as worked off 280 pounds from 427 steward, has been an SIU member with new clapboard. down to 160, in the course of a since 1943, Joining in Norfolk. He long hospital siege, will be pleased comes from Iowa originally. CeSeafarers Pay Respects To A Shipmate to hear that he has successfully mashko is a New Yorker who completed his first trip. Moore, joined the SIU in New York. He who was in the Savannah hospital sails in the engine department. t i;. for four years, on and off, took Two Alcoa ships' crews swung the Southport as crew messnaan, and everything worked out fine. into action in short order when Tommy thanked the gang for the shipmates of theirs ran into diffi­ kindness and consideration they culties. On the Alcoa Corsair, one of the crewmemshowed him on his return to sea. bers was flown 4" t 4 home sick from The dredge Sandcaptaln, hard at Cuba, and ship's it dowi) in Venezuela, -finds a big delegate James morale-booster in the excellent Prestwood report­ chow put out by chief steward Jim­ ed that $141 was my Colder and his department. collected on be­ With many months still to go on half of the sick its 18-month sign on and nothing crewmember and but the same Venezuelan scenery sent to his wife Prestwood day after day, food looms as an to help soften the important item. impact of his illness. Other dele­ JThe Sandcaptaln also reports gates on this Alcoa passenger ship that three of the crew have donat­ are George Clarke, deck; Robert ed blood to Kelley, engine, and Ed Kukar and Brother Joe Bar­ Edison Walker, steward delegates. ron who is ill The Alcoa Clipper, faced with a and hospitalized, similar problem when an oldtimer with more Sea­ was hospitalized for some time, farers expected to collected $431 for him and passed help out. On the it on to help out, J. A. Rusheed, grievance side, ship's secretary-reporter said. ship's delegate Of course, all this is in addition Pete Cemashko to the regular SIU hospital and Part of the delegation of Seafarers who came from Manhattan Beach USPHS hospital to attend is putting up a other welfare benefits. But even Cemashko final rites for Seafarer James Lewis, a fellow TB patient, stand at graveside at Cypress Hills beef on behalf of though the Welfare Plan takes Cemetery, Brooklyn, to pay last respects. Pictured ll-r) are Claude Banks, John Driscoll, the black gang to get proper ven­ care of cases such as these. Sea-, Frederick Landry, SIU We fare Service R^p. Toby Flynn, Frank D. McGraw and Anthony Pintilation in the engine room. Lack fapersdn these two ships and others chook. Brother Lewis had been suffering from IB for many years and received SIU Welfare of adequate ventilation in the still put out on their own ^tQ pro­ tropic heat has -been a caiise-of vide additional ' help f OrHUpihates '.'hospital benefit during his hos)iiitalizjation. Unidn-fconducted service'Was One df brother Lewis' extreme discomfptt, apd Cemashkp last requests. • - Seafarers In Action 1 •- . 'fi: f 'i • " ("ir •" .. .J 1- �ravtita SEAFAnSRS toe Seirtemlte^ If, Itss Ship Mysteries Royal Oak Boasfs Solid Ctew Stiii Puzzle To Sea Historians Th« sea has inspired many strange tales ... and all of them true. Tales like that of the Marie Celeste, the ship that sailed without a crew; and the schooner Fannie Wolston, which traveled 7,000 miles without a soul on board! Many other stories, equally* ^ true, come to light from time serted section of the South Ameri­ to time as marine historians can coast.. Ir:., S"iKa-;swi;: •«1 Upon boarding, crewmen from pore through old shipping records the Johnston discovered that it was or faded logs of long-past voyages One of the strangest tales of the the schooner Marlborough, regis­ sea happened along the British tered in New Zealand. Down be­ low, they found 20 skeletons. east coast in 1915. A subsequent investigation re­ Soldiers patroling a section of the coast could hardly believe their vealed that a schooner called the eyes when they saw a submarine, Marlborough had sailed from the with the "U" mark of a German port of Lyttleton, NZ, in January, raider on her conning tower, high 1890—almost 24 years before! She had more than 30 people on board and dry on the shore. at the time. A team of submarine experts It was. .assumed this was the were summoned and when they opened the sealed hatches of the same vessel, })ut what had brought U-boat, they discovered an awe­ her to the coast of South America some sight. The entire crew lay and what had happened to her pas­ dead in their bunks or at their sengers and crew was never dis­ stations in the various compart­ covered. t * ments! A more modem mystery of the Investigators concluded that the sub had been spotted and depth sea occurred as recently as Feb­ charged in the English channel. It ruary, 1948, off the coast of Swed­ had probably gone to the bottom en when the auxiliary .ketch Kinand shut off its engine to elude nekulle was found abandoned with the hunters; or there was a possi­ a load of coal under hatches and bility it had become ensnared in a capsized lifeboat being towed an anti-submarine net and had astern. The vessel was coated with ice been kept on the bottom for days and part of the after accomoda­ —perhaps weeks. While on the bottom, they coh- tions had been gutted by fire. cluded, the crew died from lack There was no sign of the crew and of oxygen or from gases that an aerial search by Danish and formed when water leaked into the Swedish planes disclosed no trace of them. batteries. Investigators concluded that fire Eventually, the submarine came to the surface and drifted ashore, had broken out in the crew's quar­ ters and spread so quickly that the it 4 crew thought the flames would Another strange but triie tale of soon reach the oil tanks. To escape the sea is that of the British iron this anticipated explosion, it is sailing ship Rodee, which caught thought, they launched the ship's fire and sank in Manila harbor boat but kept fast to a painter . about 50 years ago. Because she trailing astern, hoping to re-board was 60 feet under water, the un­ their ship if possible. derwriters didn't think there was A heavy wave very likely came much possibility of salvage and along and capsized the boat, either sold the ship for less than $100. drowning the men or tumbling A few years later there was an them into the water so that they earthquake and the bottom of soon froze to death in the frigid Manila Bay was considerably al­ weather. tered. Sometime later it was dis­ i 4. i covered that the spot where the One of the strangest tales of the Rodee sank had been raised con­ sea is that of the Gloucester fish­ siderably and divers found the old ing schooner Columbia which be­ windjammer's hull resting only a came famous as a contender in few fathoms under the surface! the International Fishermen's ^ Races under Captain Ben Pine. When launched in 1857 the A beautiful little windjammer, steamship Great Eastern was she was fis'hing near Sable Island among the wonders of the world. when a terrific storm hit the area It was the largest vessel built up in August of 1927. to that time. The Columbia never came home Unsuccessful as a trans-Atlantic and was posted as missing with all liner and a great hog of fuel, the hands. big ship later gained fame for lay­ About a year later the beam ing a North Atlan'.c cable. trawler^ Venosta was dragging her Unable to find a profitable use trawl over the bottom near Sable for her, the owners eventually sent Island when the net and cables the huge ship to the scrap yard "hung up" on a heavy object on where a strange sight came to the ocean floor. light. Not wanting to lose his expen­ On breaking through a section sive net and gear, the Venosta's of the double bottoms, the wreck­ skipper put all the power he dared ers found a bag of worker's tools on the trawl winch and the cables and, a few compartments away, came slowly up from the bottom. the bones of a workman, with Waiting to cut the net free.from rags of clothing still around him. its encumbrance, whatever it might The man had probably been a be, the Venosta's fishermen were "bucker" for a riveting gang and amazed to see the topmasts of a had been sealed up inside the ship break the surface and, soon double bottoms when the last after, a weed covered deck and plate was put on. Not realizing he hull. was trapped, the man was probably It was dark and In the light of not able to attract attention before the fishing lamps they could onlyhis fellow workmen left the yard. see the hulk dimly for a few mo­ $> ments before the cables broke and The strange report of a derelict the ghostly vessel dropped back and her lifeless complement en­ to the bottom. tered the shipping records in 1913 In those few moments, they saw when a weather-worn and delapi- her well enough to claim she was dated hulk of a ^phoq^er wa^ found tjhe, l9?t , CQlumbla, ,clraggq^ back ashore by the British ship Johnston lo to the tne sumce surface for one oue more breatti, In the lee of aiii'tslahd'^n .a 'de­ sslt -G? .•roivjn No Ae would have nerve enough to cro$| this crew," says Seafarer J. W. Henry, oiler and en­ gine delegate, of his shipmates on the Royal Oalc. Here s part of the gang photographed by Henry at coffee and doughnut time on the fantail. (Left to right, standing) Wiggins. Olvl| Wirtz, ch. coolc; H. E. )\^orris. AB; Sino Lee, OS; Hunt, baker; Arnett, machinist; Filosa, AS; Johnson, OS; Whitey Kliamol. Seated, Hatch, OS; Ramsey, AB and ship's delegate; Tregembo, AB and deck delegate. Palmer, AB. Oiler R. E.' Jones (above)' starts routine inspection of the plant at the throttleboard. Above right, en­ gine delegate and photog­ rapher Henry, is shot in his foc'sle with own camera while catching up on news. Henry was oiler on th'e ship. At right, 3rd cook S. Rothschild (1.) and ch. cook Wirtz get the ball rolling for some more of the good food that's kept the crew well-fed and happy. Photos were taken while Royal Oak was on coastwise run headed for Baltimore. /. , , •!«.;. 8j..:;?4a! �J^feiibwlVlMS •- ' ' 8BAPARER8 LOG ^ -" " -- Fafe;EieTg« "" •Wait!^ Until You're 65/' NORMAN OKRAY, AB Seafarers who shipped during World Wqr II will remember a poster showing a rugged-looking iiombre weajing a watch cap and toting a sea' bag saying, "You bet I'm going back to sea." The poster was one of those dreamed up by the Maritime Commission to "glam­ orize" life in U-ijoat alley. In this one case though, it proved the turning point in Seafarer Norman ' Okray's life, , Okray was a shoreside worker at the time (mid-1943) punching the clock in a Michi­ gan plant. The poster was across the street from the tavern where he stopped off for a beer after work, and it got .under his skin. Finally Ae took off for New York Okray and signed aboard the Joseph Wheeler, an SIUmahned Liberty run by South At­ lantic headed for Liverpool. From then on, despite numerous air raid scares, he was a confirmed Sea­ farer. Subsequently Okray married and settled down in Baltimore which is his regular shipping port. Now the proud father of two little girls, he finds going to sea the best way of giving his family the advantages which money can buy. 'Gimme A Good Ship' Although some family men like to stick to the coastwise or nearby foreign runs, Okray isn't that par­ ticular as long as he is on a good SIU ship. His longest voyage was lOVi months on the Holystar which went down to Chile. As favorite ports he will take Yokohama, Antwerp or Hamburg. "These are seaman's ports," he says, "because nobody is trying to take you for a buck and seamen are welcomed as old friends and treated that way." STEVE J. FOOLE, AB The SIU contains a good number of men who served in Uncle Sam's Navy before becoming merchant seamen. One of them is Seafarer Steve J. Poole "of Nashville, Georgia. Poole didn't go straight from the Navy to seafaring life. In between he spent a long hitch ashore, a good deal of the time as the oper­ ator of a barbershop in Jackson­ ville, Florida. It was in 1920 that Poole signed up for a four year Navy hitch. He was aboard the USS Mississippi in June, 1924, as quartermaster, when one of the ship's 14-inch guns blew up, killing 48 of t|je crew. Shortly afterward Poole said goodbye to the Navy and headed shoreside. Likes SIU In 1947, Poole first hitched up with the SIU and liked what he saw in the way of shipboard wages and conditions. He has been sail­ ing steadily with the Union ever s i n c e.^ Through the years he has participated in a number of local b^efs including the recent tele­ phone strike and other SIU actions on behalf of Poole shoreside unions in Savannah and other ports. Poole prefers to ride the Seatrain Line ships on the coastwise run, but they have one disad­ vantage in that they do not run to his favorite foreign port, Manila. As a married man Poole is par­ ticularly pleased with the new SIU welfare benefits for Seafarers wives, which he feels are the best in any industry. "Getting into the SIU was the best thing I ever did," he said, "because you get I'enl representa­ tion and the best of shipboard con­ ditions." AFL Meatcutters Union officials say that Communist and Commu­ nist-line officials of the former Fur and Leather Workers Union are being removed in the process of merging the two organizations. The AFL Executive Council has withheld approval of . the merger thus far but Moatcutter Union spokesmen expressed confidence that the clean-up in the fur union will^win AFL approval. pay poll taxes. Participation of the independent rail brotherhoods In­ dicates close collaboration between them and the merged AFL-CIO. t t 3^ Long-term peace was in sight on the New York City transit sys­ tem as the CIO Transport Workers Union agreed to a 2'/^ year con­ tract package providing over-all wage increases of 27 cents an hour. The contract with the Transit Au­ 4« 4> thority affects approximately Seven air-conditioned Pullman 28,000 subway and bus workers in cars, complete with a diner, are the city. being used to house strikebreakers t 4. 1. at the Colonial Sugars plant in A brand-new one-year contract Gramercy, Louisiana. Meanwhile a covering installers of office equip­ series of court injunctions and jail ment in Bell Telephone buildings sentences has eliminated all union in 44 states has been reached be­ picketlineS from the plant. tween the Western Electric Com­ pany and the CIO Communications The National Labor Relations Workers. The signing provides Board turned down a bid from the general wage increases of 7 to 12 AFL Hotel Employees Union to cents an hour for the installers. take jurisdiction over struck hotels 3^ 4" 4" at Miami Beach. The NLRB said that hotels are under state juris-, The AFL iintemational Typo­ diction. Florida has no state labor graphical Union has voted to con­ relations law which would provide tinue the operation of its ownmachinery for a collective bargain­ newspapers in cities and towns which have newspaper strikes. The ing election. union's 97th annual convention in t t t In anticipation of the merger, Boston said the newspapers would . AFL, CIO and Rail Brotherhood be continued because they are "the unions in Texas participated in a most effective and cheapest means United Labor Assembly in Dallas. of defense in monopoly situations." Approximately 450 union represen­ ITU and CIO Newspaper Guild tatives who participated ;• madtt strikers haye often combined in in i vplans for a political ofg^^hg the di^iye including getti^j^^^il^.;^' - The great difference in attitude toward disabled men between a union of seamen like the SIU and a union of doctors like the American Medical Associa­ tion has been pointed up by a recent AHA panel on Social Security. The AMA used the panel as occasion to launch a nationwide drive against a proposal to pay Social Security benefits to all permanently and totally disabled tvorkers over 50 years of age. By contrast, the SIU has pioneered in payment of disability benefits to Sea­ farers of any age who cannot work. The result is that 60 Seafarers, some of them in the 30's and 40's, are receiving $35 a week from the SIU Welfare Plan to take care of their needs. Ordinarily you would think that the doctor's union would have no objections to a proposal which would provide funds whereby disabled workers yvould be able to pay their living expenses and part of the cost of medical care without subsist­ ing on charity. But to the AM A, this is "socialized medicine" even though the Federal Government would not offer medical care but cash, so that disabled workers could pay their doctor's bills. The AMA has no objections when the Governmeiit subsidizes farmers, railroads, steamship companies and aluminum plants, but "not one penny for the disabled." Protecting Insurance Companies The real reason for the AMA's opposition was tipped off in a statement issued by its chairman. The proposal, he said, was "unnecessary Federal in­ vasion of a rapidiy-developing area of private enterprise," the private health in­ surance companies. In other words, the AMA is stooging for the health insurance outfits, many of which are little more than frauds. As previously reported in the SEA­ FARERS LOG, it is the common practice of these companies to cancel the policy just as soon as the unfortunate policyholder becomes disabled, no mat­ ter how much he has paid for protection. When the doctor's union is more concerned with protecting these phony operations than with the state of the nation's health, it is no surprise that this country^ has an astonishingly low level of physical fitness. The rate of draft rejections by the Armed Forces Is one sign that the nation's health is far poorer than it should lems is in direct contrj -Mi S2-. -mm �SEAFARSmii Pac* Tmihr* High Prices^ Skipper Liven Nat'l Liberty Trip High prices on all items seem to be the order of the day in Mersin, Turkey, where the SIU crew of the SS National Lib­ erty is currently holding sway. According to ship's delegate ' Frank Caspar, "if and when of the island of Cyprus. The Na­ tional Liberty is due to pick up a any of our brothers come this load of ore in Mersin and then way, they should be prepared to offer one when asked three on everything. This is the regular way to do business on this side of the world." The ship arrived there recently with a load of barley from New Orleans. Mersin is on the Turkish mainland, about 100 miles north Sneeze Didn't Keep Him In Stitches Long NEW ORLEANS—A kingsize sneeze was blamed by vet­ eran Seafarer Thomas A. Scan- ion for delaying his departure from the USPHS hospital here by more than two weeks. In mid-August, Scanlon under­ went surgery to remove an intesti­ nal obstruction and following that was convalescing in fine style. "Then, I woke up one morning— sneezing. I never was one to let go with a nice gentle sneeze. I had to blast out with both bar­ rels." he commented. Unfortunately, he also blasted his way out of his abdominal stitches and had to be laced up from top to bottom with silver wire. He predicts now that he'll be ready to ship again by the end of October—"if I don't sneeze again!" head for Baltimore "and a good cool glass of good American beer.' The native brew of the hops ap­ parently doesn't have many dev­ otees aboard this ship. Gasijar said the trip over was routine: "we haven't anything to make big headlines with and we don't expect any," he stated. Captain Vs. Agreement "Although he's doing better all the time, our captain is still Jiaving a hard time learning the SIU agreement. He can't seem to un­ derstand things like buying fresh stores abroad, putting out draws in US cur­ rency or travel­ ers checks, okay­ ing inside clean­ ing and painting, and especially paying portime overtime to the steward depart­ Gaspar ment. This clause he just don't savvy at all. "At our'Jast payoffs, in Mobile and New Orleans, the patrolmen who met the ship explained lot of things to him and collected on everything. So, everything ran smooth for a while—a little while —after that. "But the old man is the kind who forgets easy. He'll probably get a good memory course when we get back to the States, courtesy of the boarding patrolman. Seafarers In The Hospitals USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON. MASS. E. F. Broussard Theodore Katroi USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS Carl E. Forrest Fred Miller James E. Hodges Jeff M. Skinner J. E. Markopoio John E. Tillman USPHS HOSPITAL DETROIT, MICH. Tim Burke Wiliiam Mitchell USPHS HOSPITAL MEMPHIS. TENN. Charles Burton USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH, TEXAS B. F. Deibler Jose Santiago Albert W. Kozina Rosendo Serrano r. - •f... - Is-"' SAILOR SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND, NY. Joseph Koslusky USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE. MD. Manuel Antonana Albert Hawkins John Banaschiewicz John C. Henriksen Francis Burley Edward F. Lamb James Cardell Robert G. McKnew Carl E. Chandler Robert Michael Cliarles Coburn Fred Morris Philip Cogley Thomas F. Mungo Victor B. Cooper Fred Pittman Thomas L. Dugan Joseph Rudolph George Fuciu Harry L. Schuier Gorman T. Glaze USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WASH. L. Bosley J. H. Maxey Thomas Finnegan Henry R. Sojak Sverre Johannessen William K. Wung Meletios John USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. Marcelo B. Belan John F. Murphy Clyde C. Brown Walter J. Oaks Charles Dwyer M. E. Pappadakis A. M. Milefski USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH. GA. Walter I. Beck Jr. C, C. Martinez C. E. Foster James T. Moore Jay C. Harris Janne F. Pierson William Lieberman Ernest H. Webb Jimmie Littleton USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LA. Ralph Armstrong Duska Korolia T. P. Barbour Leo H. Lang Julian B. Barrett Rene LeBlanc Carrol J. Bauiuan Tlieo E. Lee Merton Baxter Tinerman J. Lee Charles P. Breaux Calvin McManus J. L. Buckelew John R. Mina John L. Caldwell C. R. Nicholson USPHS HOSPITAL Lloyd T. Callaway William Odum M.ANHATTAN BEACH James M. Davis Alfonso Olaguibel BROOKLYN. NY. Calvin DeSilva R. A. Ratcliff Kaarel Leetmaa Edmund Abualy Peter DeVries M. J. Rodrig^uez Fortunato Bacomo Leonard Leidig Marcel Dumestre Thomas A. Scanlon Frank W. Bemrick Arthur LomaS George Foley Benjamin C. Seal Claude F. Blanks Mike Lubas Leo Fontenot Woodrow A. Snead Joseph D. McGraw Robert L. Booker Louis Guarino Joseph G. Carr Archibald McGuigan Earl T. Hardeman Henry S. Sosa Lonnie R. Tickle H. F. MacDonald Gabriel Coloni Homer G. Harris Dirk Visser Michael Machusky Mariano Cortez Robert Hommel James E. Ward Vic Milazzo Walter L. Davis Newton A. Huff David A. Wright Melvin O. Moore Waiter W. Denley Theodore James John E. Ziegler Eugene T. Nelson John J. Driscoll E. G. Knapp Joseph Neubauer Bart E. Guranick USPHS HOSPITAL James O'Hare Taib Hassen NORFOLK. VA. Ralph J. Palmer Joseph Ifsits D. F. Ruggiano E. A. Ainsworth Irwin R. Price Thomas Isaksen G. E. Shumaker John W. Keenan Benjamin K., Baugh David G. Proctor .Fraijcis J. BdngY, Etahfc -A.. R<^V» A - John R. Klemowicz, IJenry £. Smith Franlj T.' guttle,,, Ludwig KristiaifsetiL' JuliiH R.rC**iSSe^.»5^^^ Frederick Landr^.V^^j] iry. r. James J. USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND. NY. Hassen .All Jose M. Lucas John Bednar John McWilliams K. M. Bymaster Wm. P. Malcewicz George Carlson John Michlek John Castro Paige A. Mitchell Pedro Reyes Thomas D. DaUey Perry Roberts D. Elderniire Daniel Fegan George H. Robinson Alvin C. Rockwell Gerald Fitzjames Estell Godfrey Matti Ruusukallio W. Kolodziejek Albert Williams Frank Wohlfarth John Laughlin Joseph Wohletz Jesse Lockler William Logan \ 'Good Old Days' Weren't So Rosy TO Editor: I have been sailing since 1927, and when I hear some of th# careless talk about our Union, it makes me sick. < - I remember times when the crew went hungry all the time, wh^ there was never enough provisions and most of the stuff that there was wasn't any good. That was with seven or eight different companies, and they Letters to the Editor were all the same. Things have changed a lot since then. That's why when you hear these people who are making their first or second trip talk about conditions, you have to laugh. To hear them tell it, since they don't know from ex­ perience, the conditions we have now were always there, and just grew better by themselves. Always Had To Fight Well, all I have to say 11 these boys is that the seaman has al­ ways had to fight for everything he got, and we are still in the fight today. And a word or two for our Union officials, who are tops for my money and have done a damn good fighting job for all of us and with us. I know, be­ cause I was there. Another thing, the only breaks we ever got from Wash­ ington were those we fought for down the line. So when you see these senators and represen­ tatives running for office or for reelection, make sure- they are on our side before you vote for them. Also get your friends and family to do likewise. It's tlie only way we can ever get a square deal. In fact. I think the Union should put up men in our own Union to run for those jobs. They could certainly do a bet­ ter job than some of the people in office now. L. J. Fuselier 4" 4" SavlMBW 1«, ItSS LOG 4* Meal Plans Okay, Says Chickasaw To the Editor: I have just read the letter from the steward and ship's delegate of the Maiden Creek complimenting our Union offi­ cials and Brother Phil Reyes upon introducing thp new SIU feeding system aboard our con­ tracted ships. I fully agree with the opinions expressed by the two brothers as I believe this new system of feeding, along with the set of instruc­ tion, to the stewards in con­ nection with the program, will be an excellent stabilizing fac­ tor in the efficient operation of the steward department. The Union, by officially spon­ soring this system, will mini­ mize if not entirely eliminate the biggest source of our ship­ board gripes. Many will agree with me that despite the many votes of thanks received by the steward department on many ships, ample room for- improvement still exists. I have noted with profound interest in the ship minutes printed ii( the LOG how on one trip the crew of a particular ship praises the food to high, heaven and the follow:ondemns it .,-*0 hell. Somewhere, I am sure, there is something wrong. Whatever it is, the absence of a uniform sys­ tem of feeding in the steward department is a contributory factor. Members of the steward de­ partment who follow this new system will find it gratifying to listen to continous compliments, and I also hope the presence of personnel from headquarters aboard ships in connection with our new program will be £ per­ manent part of the system. As a steward of wichf experience, I can truthfully say that this new feeding system is, so far, the most practical system we can devise to insure good shipboard feeding. Having experienced difficult times in the past at the hands of both company and crew, I can state with some de­ gree of Authority that this sys­ tem will help the steward's lot aboard ships. To my Union of­ ficials who have the vision to institute this new feeding sys­ tem, I say, "thanks a million." To insure the efficient opera­ tion of this new system I would suggest here that members of the steward department who wish to advance their rating should pass a test given by a Union Committee; that any rated man in the steward de­ partment found wanting in ef­ ficiency or ability by ship's crews or Union officials on two occasions should not be allowed to sail in that particular rating for at least a year, after which he should pass another examina­ tion. Lastly, lef me say a word or two about Brother Phil Reyes who just rode the Chickasaw to introduce the new feeding sys­ tem. The steward department can truthfully say that we gained many good points in the preparation and serving of food as proven by the compliments we received from the crew, of­ ficers and passengers. It was a pleasure on my part as the steward to have him aboard and discuss with him the problems which commonly beset stewards. To him and our Union officals I would say, "keep up the good work." William E. Morse 4> 4 4 Seeks Assist On Stamp Hobby To the Editor: I am sort of bottlenecked around here in Manhattan Beach and since I am confined to the hospital, I am in a way handicapped in keeping up with my stamps, which occupy me plenty in passing the time. I was wondering if it would be possible to pass the word to those boys who discard their stamps to either give them to Brother Toby Flynn, who comes here regularly, or perhaps mail them to me at the hospital. I would be more than glad to ex­ change with those who have the same hobby. E. Abualy 4> 4 4 Fishing's Good On Blue Jay Run To the Editor: Greetings from the Jefferson City Victory. This ship is now on the "Blue Jay" run. We hd five ports on this voyage in Newfoundland and Greenland, and some of them have very good fishing. The crew had a fine time with a big fish fry one night, with the captain furnishing the beer. But if you are looking for romance, this is a good run to steer clear of. There is no shore leave in most of the ports. J. L. Hodges Shijp's secretary Gl Can't Walt To Return To Sea To the Editor: ^ I'd like the next four months and 27 days to go flying by. That troopship that takes me out of Japan will sure look as good as a Delta passenger liner to me. No Saluting Here Boy, it sure will be fine to have some of that good SIU contract chow and not have to stand in line for it besides. I won't be sorry either when pay­ day comes along, and I won't have to stand at attention and salute for a few measly bucks. There won't be anymore of this '24-hour duty nonsense either. Eight hours a day under an SIU contract, and' nobody to hand you any baloney as long as you do your job right, is the way I want things to be for me. Yes, it will be great. No one can really appreciate belonging to a good Union until they have to put in some time in the Army or work in some fink set-up. Japan isn't too bad a place, but after you've been here for a year the rice paddies and wooden shacks begin to look worse and worse every day. I read in a recent LOG how the boys really go for Yokohama. Well, I can't say I blame them as I spent quite a bit of my time there too. But I'll take Ham­ burg anytime, and will be look­ ing for a trip back there when I get back. Thanks for sending the LOG regularly. It's like a day's leave everytime I get a new copy. Best of luck to all the brothers and my old shipmates whom I hope to be seeing again in a few months. Henry J. Kowalski 4 4 4 Likes Idea On Ship Safety To tiie Editor: Here on the Alcoa Ranger, Josep Bulla, master, holds a safety meeting once every monUi, and a very formal and "meaty" meeting it is. He came' out - with something that I thought was a ten-strike at the first meeting I attended. He would like all Alcoa ships to print a history of the acci­ dents they have had aboard, bind them and put them in the recreation room for all crewmembers to use as educational reading matter, and maybe, who knows, save a life or leg or something in the process. I couldn't help but think of "Jim," one of the finest ship­ mates a fellow ever had, who lost both his legs and is just about now getting ready to try and walk on,man-made ones.* The companies are running these safety meetings on our be­ half, but of course they have an axe to grind, although a coin-. paVativcly small one considering the. good they are doing or try­ ing damn hard to do. I think it's good enough to ride in the same boat with, anyhow. Harry L. Franklin ^ 4 4^ 4 Calls LGG Poem 'One Of Finest' To the Editor: The poem by E. A. King on the profound sea, in your sec­ ond edition of August, is one of the finest sea poems I have ever read. It has substance and makes a guy think — just as the sea —and it has carefully conceived form to make it a finished poem." Furthermore, it is timelessas good one hundred years hence as today. ' . Roy Fleischer rnm-lStm iiSkSli- �Pace Thirteen SEAFAREM9 LOG SOptomlMr Mt UW A trip Around The World 'The Hammer And The Wrench' ("Every Seafarer remembers his first trip and his first ship. Many made their debut on the high seas during World War II," says Seafarer Thurston Lewis. This is the Brother Lewis' story of one first tripper.) Jimmy Green was over-anxious to do his job, to please everybody and to serve his coun­ try, even if it was in the lowly capacity of ordinary seaman on a slow-moving Liberty ship to Le Havre. Jimmy asked questions, did"* *" and the kid shears he did." what he was told and was ab­ captain's office. solutely honest. He asked so "Please, Sir the carpenter wants The Old Man swore as he threw INDIA—Coffeetime aboard the Cecil N. Bean means a wel­ come lull for dec department n)en Nancarrow, DM (left), and H. J. Stanley, AB. Enroute to Bombay, the Liberty pro­ vided a good backdrop for the camera work of Seafarer Sten T. Zetterman. The two opposite expressions of these men on a coffee break makes for an interesting photo. TURKEY — Wild Ranger's Joe Trawick, deck delegate (above), pauses in work to study the mountains. LEGHORN—M. K. Morton, fireman (left), and Dexter Worell, bosun, on Ranger, have "grim" mission ahead. KOREA—Trio of steward department men on the Barbara Frietchie, on Korean shuttle run, shares in praise of crew for goooT food at all times. Pictured (l-r) are Ed Odum, chief cook; Carl De Marco, baker, and BilhDavis, 3rd cook. The work of these Seafarers and other members of the galley gang drew crew's vote of thanks. Burly \ many questions — "What do you want me to do now, bosun? — Where do you put this?—What do you call that thing?—^When do we get to France?"—that he had be­ gun to get on his shipmates' nerves. Yet nobody could get really mad at him because he was so sincere and well-meaning. The convoy had broken up at Land's End. Jimmy's ship was at last preparing to come alongside the war-torn docks in Le Havre. The bosun, with a sigh of re­ lief, had given him to the carpen­ ter to help imsecure vessel for discharging cargo. Tools for this work are a small wrecking bar, a hammer and a crescent wrench. "Whatever you do, don't lo^e these tools," said the mate as he handed Jimmy a new wrench and a new machinist's hammer. The friendly French pilot had brought a bottle of Cognac and a bottle of Calvados to the Captain. The harried American skipper could hardly get his shore-going clothes on fast enough, but did take time to drink first the Cognac and then the Calvados. With shaking hands he took some money from the safe in his office, downed the last of the Cal­ vados and went ashore. Chips and Jimmy were sweating out number five hatch; both were anxious to get ashore. Finally the last of the work was finished and the old carpenter handed the tools to the eager lad and said, "Put 'em away." "Where do you want me to put them?" Jimmy asked. Chips, exasperated, said, "Clean 'em up. Wrap 'em in rags, and— put em in the old man's safe." He ambled off toward the shower. Made Neat Package Jimmy wiped the grease off the tools, wrapped them neatly in clean rags and took them to the Old Man's office. He knocked po­ litely at the door. There was no answer so he tip-toed in and no­ ticed that the safe door was open just a crack. He saw stacks ot American greenbacks on a shelf within but he put the tools back In the corner without touching the money. Then he took a long look at those riches. He stretched a trembling hand out toward the stack of bills. The door shut with a click and Jimmy went to his foc'sle with beating heart in anticipation of his first leave on foreign soil. Several days later the ship was riding high in the water alongside the dock. "Get the hammer and the cres­ cent wrench,"-Chips toW the or­ dinary. Jimmy bounded "off to the Chivalry SMI Lives the hammer and crescent wrench out of your safe." The Captain laughed. "They're pulling your leg, son. You'd better look in the carpenter shop." "But, Sir—" Jimmy went slowly to the carpenter shop with a bit­ ter sense of futility. Work Complicated The wedges had to be driven with a toppin' maul much too large •for the job. The bolts on the storm battens were laboriously secured with a monkey wrench. "Where the hell's that new ham­ mer and crescent wrench?" the mate asked Chips. "I don't know, chief. The ordinary had them last." They looked at Jimmy who low­ ered his eyes. "They're in the Cap­ tain's safe, sir." Shaking his head the mate strode to the bridge. "Cap'n, somethin' funny has happened. The carpenter was pull­ ing Green's leg and told him to put a new hammer and crescent wrench in your safe. That damn wreckin' bar may be in there, too. All I know is nobody can find 'em LOG-A-RHYTHM; Fan-Tan By "Saki Jack" One breezy salty afternoon In Yokohama Bay, We made a draw and went ashore To have a little play. Need be ye neither young or spry Nor frothing at the bit, Just have ten thousand million yen And flojih a little bit. Bar to bar and up and dotvn We roamed* around the town. Then finally found a likely place And ordered up a round. I latched onto a goldenrod A little thing called "Toy," "You're just the one for me," She said, "C'mon along, big boy." Round and round we did the town And never missed a spot. My bankroll slowly dwindling My future not so hot. She said; "Don't worry, honey, "For yours I'll always be, "No matter if no yens you've got, ''You come on home with~me." I did, of course, but had to leave That lovely paradise. Where all the girls are little pearls And feed on fish and rice. Farewell, sweetheart, for I must go And slowly sail away. To dream about this Shangri-La —And gettin' back some day! up his hands. "Impossible! I told that kid to look in the carpenter shop." "Well—^they ain't there." The captain stalked into his office and slammed the door. Tlmee days later, after all ef­ forts to find the missing tools had failed, "the mate approached the captain again. "Now about them tools—' "I don't want to hear any more about it." Back To Office But back in his office he began to wonder. The Cognac . . . damn Frenchmen anyway ... his natural haste to ready himself for shore leave ... he had gone to the safe to get the money. He looked at some figures on his desk. There should be $11,472 in that safe. He went to the door. "Mr. Mate! Get the ordinary up here!" "Green, sir?" "Yes, Green—on the double." The mate took the wheel and send the able-bodied seaman down below, to call the ordinary. When Jimmy appeared the Cap­ tain glared at him. "Mr. Mate!" he called, not taking his piercing eyes off the frightened lad. "Yes, sir?". "I'm going to open that safe, Mr. Mate." He spoke each word distinctly. "Im going to hand you some money. You will count it. If there is one dollar less than $11,742 — I'm going to put yoii in irons!" He pointed at Green with a gnarled and shaking finger. The lad put his hands to his face but the tears streamed out from between his fingers. The mate was opening and closing his mouth like a toad frog catching mosquitoes. Opens Safe The skipper twisted the dial around on the safe—around and back, around" and "back again and then a few touches in opposite di­ rections. He opened the door and solemnly handed the mate all the money. About half-way through the count the mate made a mistake and had to start over again. "11,735—39—41, 52!" It's all here, captain,' he breathed. Silence. Jimmy's tears dried on his face. The captain reached into the safe and drew out the tools. Hand­ ing them to the mate, he took the money and peeled off a fifty-dollar bill. He gave it to Jimmy Green and motioned toward the door with his hand. The boy looked at the bill and opened his mouth to speak but the mate gently pushed him toward the door. As 1 say, the AB at the wheel was all ears. That's how 1 know this happened. Bir Bernard Seaman "•ST/ I. •^1 •fSj i m �5^1 > SEAFdRERS Fare FoiiHeca LOG SIU Welfare Services Quick To Provide Aid Eugenie Arrives Many items fall within the province of the SIU Welfare Services Department.- Sometimes all thatls needed to smooth out a Seafarer's problem^ is the knack of knowing whom to call or contact in order to-*^ ^ straighten things out with the acted promptly to get the man his vacation earnings. least amount of trouble. :rT' On other occasions, Union wel­ fare representatives have to ' pull out a winner from a bag of tricks developed to handle similar cir­ cumstances in the past. Smoothing The Way The department prides itself on its record of accomplishments, however, whether the problem be big or small. It is on the job at all times to ease the path of Sea­ farers while they're ashore and to minimize their worries when they're out at sea. In a typical case of the routine variety, wherein a Seafarer had vacation dough coming but was hundreds of miles from a Union hall and didn't know how to ap­ ply by mall, Welfare Services Arriving in Algeria aboard fhe Eugeniei Vance A. Reid, deck engineer and ihip's delegate (left), and Albert De Forest, steward, are all set for a few cold ones. De Forest apparently has his destination all picked out with the binoculars. Never Left Home Obtaining his discharges, a rep­ resentative filed Seafarer Fred D. Bentley's application, picked up his check and mailed it right back to him. Bentley didn't have to stir from his home in Granite Falls, NC, once. Appreciating the quick'iservice, the Seafarer wrote again to ex­ press his gratitude and enclosed a picture of his family and himself standing in front of their home. "My good SIU earnings have paid for all.thls," he asserted, "and now this vacation gives me a chance to spend some time with my -family. Thank you for help­ ing to make all this possible." Owner Denies Bar ^Scandal' "Scandals" circulated by his competitors have been empha­ tically denied by the owner of the "John Bull Bar" in Piraeus, Greece, in an appeal for continued patronage by Seafarers. Anthony Katsouros, proprietor of the "John Bull," said recent unfavorable newspaper publicity given his bar was, in fact, a pri­ vate matter involving one of his waiters, and not himself as re­ ported in the local Greek press. Katsouros wrote the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG that he wanted it plainly understood that he was not the person involved in the incident. The publicity concerned the "tor,turing" of a young serving girl by a man identified as the owner of the "John Bull Bar." The man was one of Katsouros' waiters, who was filed soon after. SIU, A&G District X4w BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. Earl Sheppard, Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St. James Sheeban, Agent Richmond 2-0140 HOUSTON 4202 Canal St. C. Tannehill, Acting Agent Capital 7-6558 LAKE CHARLES. La 1419 Ryan St. Leroy Clarke. Agent HEmlock 6-3744 MOBILE . 1 South Lawrence St. Cal Tanner, Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 623 Bienville St. Llndsey Williams, Agent Magnolia 6112-6113 NEW YORK 675 4tb Ave., Brookl'yn HYaclnth 9-CGOO NORFOLK .127-129 Bank St. Ben Rees, Agent MAdlson 2-9834 Union gains and benefits have paid for all this, says Seafarer Fred D. Bentley, as he poses in front of home in Granite Falls, NC, with his wife and daughter. Bentley sent photo to SIU Welfare Services Department along with letter of thanks for aid. Vacation benefit made it easier for him to spend more time at home. PHILADELPHIA ..337 Market St. S. CarduUo. Agent Market 7-1635 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St Leon Johnson. Agent Douglas 2-5475 Marty BruithoR. West Coast Represenlativ* PUERTA de TIERRA, PR. Pelayo 51—La f Sal Colls, Agent Phone 2-599P SAVANNAH 9 Abercorn St E. B. iMcAuley, Acting Agent Phone 3-1728 SE.ATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Jeff GUlette, Agent Elliott 4334 TAMPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. Tom Banning, Agent Phone 2-1323 WILMINGTON, Calif 505 Marine Ave. Ernest TUley, Agent Terminal 4-2874 HEADQUARTERS . 675 4tb Ave., Bklyn SECRETARY-TREASURER Paul HaU ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS J. Algina, Deck C. Simmons, Joint J. Volpian, Eng. W. Hall, Joint E. Mooney, Std. R. Matthews, Joint Ir':-.'. I ;•{»;!•,;• .; NAME [|3& m I '. *- . '• ^V'. •^" . 'i-v*..,'" •'• • STREET ADDRESS CITY ZONE STATE CITY ....... .V .ZONE u j,;,„,^;.,;j;.STATi ' To the Editor: On our recent trip to India the majority of the crewmembers on the Frederic C. Collin were gypped out of considerable amounts of money due to the unscrupulous practices of the merchants. The practice of "highway robbery" predominated partic­ ularly in the city of Vlzagapatam, where the facilities are limited to one bank where we could cash our checks after a 43-minute wait. Since the openhours of the bank were from 10 to 2, they posed a problem for us and created an opportu­ nity for some extra "bakshish" Letters to the Editor for the opportunists—the local merchants. From one of them we got $16 for our $20, but thcre'was one merchant, M. p. Mohandas at the American Silk Stores, oh Main Road, who had an eye to the future. ' One Merchant Helpful He went to considerable pains to see that we received what we rightfully had coming and, be­ lieve me, he made us feel as though we were dealing with a fellow American. There was al­ ways a .welcome for 'us at his shop even if we didn't buy any­ thing. Sometimes he even took us to the bank himself to speed up the tedious job of cashing a traveler's cheek. Across the street from the American Silk Stores is one Boolchand and Sons, which really gave us. a rooking. The crew on here is really down on that outfit. So the purpose of this letter is to show Mr. Mohandas our appreciation for his kindness in our predicament, and also to warn unsuspecting seamen who may visit Vizagapatam to get the legal rate for their money, 16 Merchant St. Phone 5-8777 PORTLAND .822 N. W. Everett St. Beacon 4336 llKiHMONO, CAUr,257 5th St Phone 2599 SAbf FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Douglas 2-8363 SEATTLE ^.2505 1st Ave. Main 0290 WmHUNGTON 805 Marine Ave. Terminal 4-3131 NEW YORK 078 4tb Ave., Brooklyn HYaclnth 9-6600 P. J, St. Marie Ship's delegate HONOLULU Canadian District HALIFAX, N.S 12814 HolUs St. Phone- 3-8911 924 St. James St. West PLateau 8161 FORT WILLIAM....118V4 Syndicate Ave. Ontario Phone: 3-3221 PORT COLBORNB 103 Durham St. Ontario Phone: 5591 TORONTO, Ontario 272 King St. E. EMpire 4-5719 VICTORIA, BC 81714 Cormorant St. Empire 4531 VANCOUVER. BC 298 Main St. Pacific 7824 SYDNEY. NS 304 Charlotte St, Phone 6346 BAGOTVILLE, Quebec 20 Elgin St. Phone: 545 THOROLD, Ontario 82 St. Davids St. CAnal 7-3202 QUEBEC 113 Cote De La Montague Quebec Phone: 2-7078 SAINT JOHN 177 Prince William St. NB Phone: 2-5232 Great Lakes District 133 W. Fletcher Phone: 1238W BUFFALO, NY 180 Main St. Phone: Main 1-0147 TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are an old lubicriber end have a change CLEVELAND 734 Lakeside Ave.. NE of address, please give your former address below: Phone: Cleveland 7391 DETROIT 1038 3rd St. Headquarter* Phone: Woodward 1-6857 ADDRESS "ft""." DULUTH.,,.:,:,, ,531 W. Michigan St. , •,!,"¥ I . . i .^hqne: iMelrose . 8T4110 ,Vii ilO ' T.' ' ,I.• I. 'I '• r' I*. Signed Collin Crew iTas Money Gyp Beef SUP MONTREAL Editor, SEAFARERS LOG. 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY I wouici like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) Sepiember Ifii lSlKi"' ALPENA j^UUTH emCAG®. ., 13261 E. tend St Pbon«k'Basex.'i5-241IK.i 4- 4- 4- _ Finds Hq. Service A Real Pleasure To the Editor: This is from one old sea-dog who keeps finding out time and time again that he never had it so good until he joined the SIU. My last trip on the Coe Vic­ tory, on which I served as deck delegate, was a prime example, I haven't been getting «p to headquarters too much in last two years, so the type of service available there was a real pleas­ ant surprise for me. Our payoff was not an easy one, particularly because of beefs in the deck department, but the headquarters patrolmen who met the ship on her return from Germany handled every­ thing as smooth as silk. They know the Union agreement and wouldn't budge from it. Was A Pleasure They answered all our ques­ tions, explained everything in quick order and made what might have been a^mess into a pleasure. You can judge the state of things on the ship by the fact that eight men in fhe deck department got off when we got to New Tbrk^ although. this ship is a popular one on a much-sought-after run. The same gqod service was extended to me when I got to the hall with some questions about the Welfare Plan bene­ fits. The officials took time out to explain the whole works to me and made me feel as if they were concerned with my wel­ fare at that moment as just as If I were the only man _ in the Union. This is a good feeling after the runaround you have to take elsewhere. AH in all, my visit to New York was an eye-opener and shows why our Union is con­ sidered "tops" in every man's book. FSed Ryder 4 4 4 Hails Clipper Crew For Aid To the Editor: I would lik; to take this op­ portunity to thank the officers and ^crew of the Alcoa Clipper for the purse that was given to me during my illness. It was very nice for those brothers to show such genorosity as they did, as I was a stranger to most of the crew. I hope to be up and around in a week or two, when I would Hike to have the pleasure of meeting the Clipper crew again. Their generous action was deeply appreciated by my fam­ ily and me. C. L. Stringfellow 4< 4 ' 4" She's Thankful For All- Benefits To the Edtor: My husband, who holds SIU, book number D-513, is away at sea right now. I can hardly express my ap­ preciation of the wonderful benefits that the Union has made possible for each and every member of the SIU. Many many thanks to you who have fought to protect SIU. members and their families. 1 thank you from the bottom of my heart for the good deeds you have done. Mrs. Rae Dacanay 4 4 4 Cheers Forward Progress Of SIU To the Editor: I look forward to each issue of the LOG and certainly con­ cur with the many persons both in labor and management who hold the opinion that our Union is a fine example of a constitu­ tionally sound and democratic balance between workers and their employers. I am especially proud of our SIU scholarship program, which offers one of the finest gifts a deserving person can receive: the opportunity for education. Lets always continue to grow in this manner with increasing strength and integrity. C. Lee Freeman 4 4 4 Hospital Help Is Applauded To the Editor: I want to express my appre­ ciation and thanks to the SIU for helping to provide such wonderful hospital care as I have just had in the Galveston marine hospital. It jis a great comfort to know that our families pan also have wonderful care such as the Wel­ fare Plan provides? It offers more than money can buy fro^n any Insurance plan. .. , Thomas L. Crosby �Sevtemlicr K. 1958 ••THCOASTIR (Calmar), July Chairman^ R. Sanff; Sacrafary, R. Tyral. Everythlny running amootnly. Chief Steward miseed ahlp la Blzabath. Motion made and carried to ac­ cept and concur with communicatlena from headquarters. BRADFORD ISLAND Service) July ii—Chairman; j. Farkar; Sacratary, M. Hummel. Ship's delegate elected. Discussion held on repairs in deck department. CHIWAWA (CItlat Service) July 27 —Chairman, D. Downing; Secretary, J. Christy. Ne beefs. Ship sailed shert from Wilmington, N. 0. Deck delegate to see mate about cleaning showers. Garbage shoot to be washed down every so often. Beef about food and cooking. CLAIBORNE (Waterman), July 22— Chairman, C. Odem; Secretary, C. Turner. Everything in order, no major beefs. Suggested that everyone take their cups back to pantry and help out with keeping everything clean. COUNCIL CROVE (Cities Service), July 2t—Chairman, R. Campbell; Sec­ retary, A. Wasstrom. No beefs. Mem­ bers to complete new welfare enroll­ ment cards and turn them in. Discus- Digest of ships* Meetit^{S sion held regarding local cab compa­ nies operating as strikebreakers dur­ ing telephone strike. DEL NORTE (Mississippi), Juno 12— Chairman, J.. Noonan;- Secrotary, J. ZImmer. Ship's delegate of previous voyage commented on how smoothly everything ran. Enrollment cards to be turned in. Ship's treasury—$79.52. Ship's deiegate pointed out that ail beefs should be aired out at meeting not with company oSicials. Discussion held on the menace of using oxalicacid aboard and request that it be barred from use aboard ship. JULY .17—Chairman, J. Noonan; Secrqtary, J. Zimmer. Several broth­ ers were logged for misconduct and some overtime beefs. Ship's treasury —$178.52. Discussion held on port-time discharges. Ship's deiegate will bring this to the attention of patrolman. DEL SANTOS (Mississippi), July 3— Chairman, F. Carpenter; Secretary, L. Fusollor. Balance in ship's fund is 848. Ship's delegate elected. Steward department quarters to be painted.Shrimp Boil was explained to new members and it was decided to buy the shrimp in first port—jumbo type; Ship's committee are to decide in emergencies when and bow to use ship's fund. STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), Juno 12—Chairman, J. Selby; Secretary, H. Arnold. Six new fans will be ordered for the next voyage. Ship's commit­ tee had a meeting to increase stew­ ard department efficiency, and to get better organization within the depart"^ment. Improvement noticed since meeting. May 15—Chairman, Joe Solby; Sec­ retary, J. Quigley. Five mattresses are still to be delivered on an order for six which was placed at the end of last voyage. There is no awning on board. Decision made to keep foreign stevedores away from crew's quarters as much as possible. June 28—Chairman, K. Sivertsant Secretary, A. Espino. Motion made that the assistant secretary-treasurer be notified of the action taken on the ship regarding the high cost and waste of food on board. SANDCAPTAIN (Construction Ag­ gregates), no date—Chairman, J. Bar­ ren; Secretary, Harry Mooney. A telegram was sent to headquarters re­ garding number of cartons of cigar­ ettes assigned to our ship. Steward reported that he is having difficulties with port steward on the score of weekly stores. The chief cook re­ quested that the meat box be no longer used for cooling beer. ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Saas Shipping), July 8—Chairman, W. Bunker; Secratsry, J. Genello. Crew was asked to clean up laundry after using same. Treasurer reported no money in the ship's fund as yet. BRADFORD ISLAND (Cities Serv­ ice), June 21—Chairman, I. Toore; Sacretary, G. Fava, Jr. Treasurer re­ ported $59.21 in the ship's fund. If a crewmember performs in port and a replacement can be' secured the man performing will be fired on the spot. Linen wUl be changed every Monday. Suggestion made to extend to permitmen 90 days on a ship or to make vacation plan payable at 60 days if possible. July 5—ChalrmSn, J. Parker; Secre­ tary, M. Hummel. Some of the re­ pairs have not been taken care of but will be looked into. Three men will be getting off ship in Boston. Talked about building a rack in crew messroom. for the ship's iron. SEAFARERS fsri, leqiiested the erew tu tahe care ef night lunches and leenre cups and plates In the sink. AU hands were asked to cooperate In keeping messhall and pantry clean. Motion made and carried'that the ahlp'a dele­ gate contact the chief engineer about repairing the washlBg machine. DB SOTO (Waterman), July 17— Chairman, R. Varn; Secretary, J. Chermeslne. Two swings for crew were purchased from ship's fund In the amount ef S35. No beefs. Soap pewdec te be changed. Brand name te be put aboard. Motion made and carried te accept and concur with communications from headquarters. ELIZABETH (Bull), Ne date—Chair­ man, J. Murphy; Secretary, R Velllnga. Chief Engineer requested that too much soap not be used in washing machine, because it will plug it up. No beefs. To see patrolman about keeping longshoremen out ef messhall. Cups to be returned te pantry. All of the following SIU families will collect the $200 maternity benefit plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name: IBERVILLE (Pan Atlantic), July 24 —Chairman, F. Hartshorn; Sacretary, C. Krclss. Ship's fund—Sie.W. Ship's delegate elected. Steward requested to obtain better grade of Ice cream and a variety of flavors. Cups to be put in sink after use. New radio to ha bought, old one to be raflled oK. Messhall to be painted. JULESBURO (Mathlasan), July 24— Chairman, Swlderskl; Secretary, G. Thornhill. Captain promises to have ship fumigated shortly, in New York, and captain will also arrange to have repairs done. One brother was taken off ship ill. Steward promised that he will order enough vegetables in the future. Members promised to cooper­ ate and keep messhall clean. MOJAVE (Trans Oceanic), July 24— Chairman, J. Sullivan; Secrotary, D. Mulvrana. All beefs squared away and -all repairs to be turned in. Vote of thanks given to steward and depart­ ment. Chief Mate said that all painting may be done after beginning of voy­ age, but did not offer the work to the dayman and bosun until the last few days of the trip and they thought it was unfair of the mate to expect them to work day and night to get this done. OCEAN DINNY (Maritime Overseas), July 25—Chairman, R. Coote; Secro­ tary, C. Murray. Discussion held on fans, to be taken up on arrival in New Orleans. Cash on hand—$4.25. New pump needed for washing mach­ ine and a new porthole glass need­ ed in steward's room. OCEAN EVA (Maritime Ovarsaat), July 25—Chairman, R: House; Secre­ tary, C.'Garriz. Quite a bit of disput­ ed overtime in deck department to be straightened nut at payoff. Repair lists to be handed in. Vote of thanks to steward department. Since the chief engineer stopped ice pulling on weekends we aren't getting any cold drinks. Washing machine to be repair­ ed. June 24—Chairman, R. House; Sac­ retary, C. Garrii. Ship to be cleaned and properly secured for sea. Ship's delegate elected. Cigarettes are to be soid another time before we get into next port. Soap and matches to ba Issued as soon as possible. OCEAN BETTY (Maritime Ovarsaas), July 24—Chairman, M. Hitchcock; Secretary, S. Alpedo. Repairs to be made in West Coast. Motion made and seconded to have company pur­ chase new washing machine and re­ frigerator for crew. ROYAL OAK (Cities Service), July 24—Chairman, W. Palmer; Secretary, D. Beard. Wipers sink to be replaced. Ship's fund contains $12. Discussion on poor food. Mattresses are needed, crew to keep strainer clean in wash­ ing machine. SANTA VENETIA (Elami, July 17— Chairman, C. HosteHsr; Secretary, A. Burke. Motion to notify headquarters about condition of working ger on deck. It is unsafe to work with buom. Lifeboats are unsafe. SANTORE (Ore), July 19—Chairman, M. Chstrom; Secretary, R. Mason. One man missed ship in Baltimore. Motion made and carried to have deck department's overtime equalized, and to have ship's delegate write headquarters concerning overtime. Ship's secretary-reporter elected. SEAMONITOR (Excelsior), July 23 —Chairman, F. Sullins; Sacretary, F. Ballard. Discussion held on shoreleave in Greenland. Ship's delegate reouested that crew keep pantry clean at night. Enrollment cards for welfare to be completed. No foul weather gear was iiuiiued. Discussion held on insuffcient hot water supply for show­ ers. Steward thanked deck and en­ gine departments for helping to make It a trip. STEEL AGE (Isthmian), July 24— NATIONAL LIBERTY (National Chairman, J. Murphy; Secretary, C. Shipping & Trading), July 24—Chair­ Tobias. Ship's fund—$10.10. Brother man, F. Gaspar; Secretary, R. God­ Louis Johnson died. Discussion was win. Repairs taken care of. No beefs. held about his burial. Motion made and carried to ac­ cept and concur with communications . STEEL. NAVIGATOR (Isthmian), No from headquarters. date—Chairman, C. Bergagne; Secret/ry, H. McQuage. Ship is pretty STEEL DESIGNER (Isthmian), July clean. Some disputed overtime. Clarifi­ 2—Chairman, A. Aragones; Secretary, cation on watch foc'sles needed. Dis­ Kllngvall. Steward department cussion on welfare'benefits hMd. ' SIU Aids Union Drive On Radar 'Texas Towers' '-I'll BOSTON—The SIU and repreBentatives of the AFL Cooks and Bakers Unions in this port are going all-out in efforts to put union cooks and messmdn aboard the "Texas Tower" ra­ Bruce Michael Baxter, bom Au­ dar station now anchored 110-^ gust 26, 1955. Parents, Mr. and miles out at sea off Cape Cod. offshore rigs used for drilling oil Mrs. Merton Baxter, New Orleans, Although • everybody else beneath the waters of the Gulf of La. ^ » William Charles HemmlB, bom July 23, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Charles Hemmis, Cumberland, Md. 4" EUGENIE (Ore), July 17—Chairman, B. Hayes; Secretary, J. Easterllng. Two beefs with captain to be turned into patrolman regarding draws and souvenirs. Crew to go on record as being opposed to Gov't freezing wages. New library to he put aboard. Motor for galley range to be repaired and new fans be put aboard. Vote of thanks to steward for good food and vote of thanks to messman. for having speaker hooked up to radio. Pace irtfMca, LOG 4" • manning the Government radar post, aside from service personnel, is union, the cooks are not and are being shipped aboard through shoreside employment offices. The "Texas Tower" is a manmade island patterned after the James Arnold Santiago, bom July 21, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Santiago, Los Angeles, Calif. ^ ^ i4 4> Benjamin Erie Oschitzkl, bom August 5, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Eric Oschitzki, New Orleans, La. DISPATCH The deaths of the following Sea­ farers have been reported to the Barry Joe Moss, bom July 14, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Seafarers Welfare Plan and the SIU death benefit is being paid Charles Moss, Fulton, Ky. to their beneficiaries: 4" 4 4 Kathleen Dolores Phelps, born John C. Smith, 72: Natural August 8, 1955. Parents, Mr. and causes led to the death of Brother Mrs. Milton Phelps, New Orleans, Smith at the La. Staten Island , • t 4 ^ 4-4 Mark Bland Lincoln, born April 17, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lincoln, New York, NY. 4 4 4 Pamela Beth- Granger, bom Au­ gust 22, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Granger, Sulphur, La. 4 4 4 Margaret Elizabeth Brown, bom June 18, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Aycock Brown, Manteo, NO. 4 4 4 USPHS hospital on June 30, 1955. One of the vet­ eran members of the Union, Brother Smith joined in New York on Decem­ ber 24, 1938, and sailed in the engine department. Burial took place at the Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, Mass. He is survived by a niece, Lillian Montague, of Medford. Adella Susan Castro, born Au­ 4 4 4 gust 26, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Salvador Bennett, -35: Stab Mrs. Arturo Castro, Houston, wounds suffered in Ponce, Puerto Texas. Rico, caused the death of Brother 4 4 4 James Vardeman Warren, bora Bennett on July September 6, 1955. Parents, Mr. 30, 1955. A deck and Mrs. James Warren, Kenner, department man. Brother Bennett La. joined the Union "4 4 4 Serena Margaret Kleiber, bom in its early days, August 15, 1955. Parents, Mr. and on April 29,1939, Mrs. Melvin Kleiber, Newport, Ore. 1 n Philadelphia. The place of 4 4 4 Lourdes Milagro Lopez, bom burial was the Civil Cemetery in May 12, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Ponce. His wife, Monserrate Ben­ Mrs. Pablo R. Lopez, Brooklyn, nett, of Ponce, survives bjm. NY. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Foster W. Grant, 61: Brother Ruby Patricia Gallo, bom May Grant died of unknown causes, 30, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. apparently Luigi Gallo, Mobile, Ala. a heart attack, at the Erianger Hospital in Chat­ tanooga, Tenn. A resident of Chattanooga, he joined the SIU The following men are asked to in New Orleans contact SIU headquarters or the on May 4, 1946, nearest SIU hall as lOon as pos­ sailing in the sible on a matter of importance steward department. Burial took to them: B. L. Bone. Allen L. Boone, J. T. place at the Burning Bush Ceme­ BlUot. John W. Butler. Fi-ank N. Bachot. His T. L. Blackledge, G. W. Bertbold. C. tery in Ringgold, Georgia. Burns, J. T. Bowman, Robert J. Cole­ son, Clyde Grant of Chattanooga, man. Jose Cubano. Frank F. Cacioppo. survives him.. S. C. Carregal, Elda R. Crawford, T. W. NOTICES Cassldy. J. C. Clevenger, W. C. Dawley, G. Del Signore, William G. Dyal, Marion P. Edge, B. Eerman, Frederick Engle: D. B. Fields. John P. Forget. A. R. Fetcbko, K. M. Fletcher. T. J. Gray. Peter Garvin, L. E. Gregory, W. Hughes. F. Hauser. John J. Harty. V. A. Herbert. P. J. Harayo. M. V. Howton. F. R. Hattaway. E. K. Iverson. W. J. Jackson, S. Jackson. J. S. Kornek. 0. Kinnke. Joseph Kissel. Stephen B. Kutzer. 0. J. Kerrigan. M. R. Knickman; T. L. Laningham. F. A. Lord. Horace LedweU. Robert Lipscomb. James A. LaCoste. P. V. Marsh. Coy L. Morrow. J. H. Mones. G. Merola. T. Merosa. A. D. Nash. Martin T. O'Toole. F. E. Perkins. Leroy D. Pierson. K. F. Parks. B. J. Paniccio. E. Pappel. J. E. Roberts. D. N. Roditas. R. R. Rice; W. Sloberman. W. M. Stanley. K. G. Sanford. H. SI. Clair. Albert E. Stout. S. P. SchlelTler. Warren E. St'-cw. William K. Sutberlin. Frank Semele. J. R. Scbultz. E. J. Swatskl. H. S. Sosa. William J. Smith. Hi ' S. Thomqs, WUUam D. Iiienioilge;' T'.? -L. 'Thompson, Walter fobUlBOnrwy. cE. JHrilllams. Z.^<C..^5bamaui'..IP.cZetterfnas.''.. Mexico. This one Is the first of a chain of radar warning posts which will be anchored offshore from Newfoundland south to Nor­ folk, Va,. Helicopter Field The weather deck of the plat­ form is about half the area of a football field and provides a place for helicopters to land. SmaU boats that come alongside are raised and lowered by cranes, and supplies come aboard in cargo nets. The problem of the non-union galley force is emphasized by the fact that the waiters on, the tower get only $?00 per month and, un­ der their contract, can be worked any hours with no overtime. All other civilian personnel on the tower are union men from several shoreside unions. Boston SIU Port Agent James Sheehan and the officials of the Cooks and Bakers are trying to have a provision put into the con­ tractor's agreement that will re­ quire the sub-contractor to supply union help. In a matter closer to home, Sheehan is also negotiating to have an extra man added to the crew of the tugboat El Sol (Port­ land Barge) to take care of pas­ sengers. The El Sol runs into Bos­ ton regularly. 'PERSiii^ John-Diakakis George Stambilis Get in touch with Bob Welker, ex-chief electrician, Steel Appren­ tice, at 219 - 48th St., Union City, NJ, phone Union 4-8627. Eddie Smith Please 'write G. W. "BiU" Champlin, Draga "Sandcaptain," Construction Aggregates de Vene­ zuela, C. Af, Apartado 77, Maracaibo, Venezuela. Russell E. Lund Contact your brother, Bill, at 2082 Golden Gate Ave., San Fran­ cisco. John Kucharski Ex-SS Winter HiU Get in touch with your mother. Paul Petak Please get in touch with Manny at his home. Alfred Sears Please contact your sister, Mary, immediately. She has urgent news for you. Theodore Emanuel Get in touch with Mrs. Marie Ramsey, Baltimore, regarding your extra clothing stored at her home, or it will be disposed of. Thomas M. Parks Get in touch with T. M. Breen, 220 Broadway, New York, NY. Arthur Collier 4 4 4 C(mtact Jacob Zukerman at 31 John L. Bolden, 51: .An attack Union Square West, New York, of coronary thrombosis caused the NY. death of Brother Charles Rafuse Bolden aboard Johnny Elliot the Robin GoodAbove men are asked to send fellow 1 n the their addresses to James Johnston, port of Cape93 South Main Street, Warehouse town. South Point, Conn. Africa, on Au­ James C. McCoy gust 19, 1955. He Get in touch with Lucille Thomp­ was buried at son, 719 Almoraster Avenue, New sea off the GoodOrleans, La. fellow. Brother T. F. Galvin Bolden was a longtime member of ^ SIU Book G-335 the SIU, joining the Union in Bos­ Your Union book, discharge, ton on December 10, 1938, a few dues receipts and seamen's papers weeks after it was chartered. He were found in Seattle and are be­ is, survived by his sister, Leah ing held for you at SIU headquarKyd4a,.«C.Neiii'. Bfitl{ord,.Mas8iiC.', ,ters.in. Brooklyn.. "Vis's v.?; •"ii �Vol. XVil No. 19 SEAFARERS^ LOG • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFAKERS INTE R N AT IO N AI UNION • ATLANTIC AND CULF DISTRICT • AFl • JL • •• X. • i.. .: - .• -*11.- •'••'- - —• -- -•• •'-^r Vour Family's ••: •• A r- •;-•"• s»'' • •. "" ..• i , >'" Kiy:-'L W.: --V;'.' .-•.;• .-••'A-'' ".r^v •. • v- •.-.* ' ;• -^ ••• •;- • '•: • •' ••••••'.'i'•"• • "s--'." •• .-•/-.'•'••-v., ;r-"'-:. . •' ,." : i*. - V.:-'• "1 • . ' ..'ft, • • i 'V j"-'/ •••>•'•";'. • T :",• ' ' •• r—i'i:. • ".vri- •': • • • '. ^^r.7.:•*•"-V// •• I •-.• ' • *•••; V-KLZ'.-• •• '•• I liospltai and Surpical Benefit ; - 4 1 » "i \ •(' To insure your family the maximum protection at all times under the Seafarers Hospital and Surgical pro­ visions of the SW 'Welfare Plan, every Seafarer is urged tot Fill out in full an SlU Welfare enrollment card, listing alH your dependents and drop it off or mail it to any SlU hall. Cards can be gotten aboard ship or at any SlU hall. l( • I• ; V Send to SlU headquarters a photostatic copy of your 2 marriage license and of the birth certificates of your chil­ dren. These documents will enable the Plan to speedily make payment when a claim is niade; they will be kept confidential as part of your Union record. Iv--. tiv:; 3 Should anyone in your family require hospitalization or surgery you can save yourself much delay and possible expense by first telephoning or writing the SlU agent nearest you. > . |r"-I--«: -• fe 1 "-T-r'r.' K' • i-i'- ' . Seafarers International Union Atlantic & Gulf District • AFL •'••'• •••-•-•, ::.f: • 7,S„; 7j 7 •• ^ I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 16, 1955 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XVII, No. 19 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU SIFTS NEW KOREA LEAVE BEEF WC OFFICERS FLIP-FLOP, OKAY TONSINA-TYPE PACT SENATE SEA SCHOOL QUIZ OPENS SOON CONGRESS WARMS UP SEA PROBES SIXTY SIU MEMBERS NOW RECEIVING $150-MO. PENSIONS ILA ENDS TIE-UPL; DOCK VOTE AHEAD 'DISTRICTS' REPORT SHOWS SHIP INSPECTION LOOPHOLES FIRSCO JOB BOOM DIPS SEATTLE BOOM STUMBLES STEWARDS, SIU MEET TO PREPARE MASTER RULEBOOK P&O CRUISE SHIPS DUMP US REGISTRY NY STILL HAS PLENTY OF JOBS TAMPA LUAIDS HOSPITAL PLAN CALIF. AFL BACKS SUP ON BONNER MOBILE 'REC' LOUNGE DUE FOR COMPLETION PLAN NEW GROWTH FOR BOOMING NO JOBS COME STEADILY IN LAKE CHAS. CURRAN SUPPORT TO ILA'S PHONY SEAMEN'S UNION FACES ITF QUIZ FARM GROUP WARS ON '50-50' DIGGING IN AT CLIPPER PARTY ILA ON UNION DEMOCRACY A DAY'S WORK: S.S. DOROTHY SIU WIFE 'PIONEERS' IN RI MAW WIDENS DRIVE IN CHESAPEAKE BAY 'BEST EVER' PICNIC SET BY DEL SUD SHIP MYSTERIES STILL PUZZLE TO SEA HISTORIANS ROYAL OAK BOASTS SOLID CREW HIGH PRICES,S KIPPER LIVEN NAT'L LIBERTY TRIP SNEEZE DIDN'T KEEP HIM IN STITCHES LONG 'THE HAMMER AND THE WRENCH' SIU WELFARE SERVICES QUICK TO PROVIDE AID OWNER DENIES BAR 'SCANDAL' SIU AIDS UNION DRIVE ON RADAR 'TEXAS TOWERS' Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/16/1955 1955 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/721b67f1cf4641071a83732d0983e5bd.PDF 4ee1c1e5a088a3d159afc2eb692cc22e PDF Text Text 11 • -rt' r< J41 < -TO^Bwcanwa Vol. XXVili NO. 19 SEAFARERSVLOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF. LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO REGISTER TO VOTE �SEAFARERS Page Two LOG September 16, 19^6 1 AFL'dO Farm Workers Union Wins Representation Flection atDiCiorgio SAN FRANCISCO—America's farm workers took a giant step last week toward ending the exploitation and poverty which has traditionally been their lot in the United States. Official returns have confirmed the victory of the AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing Committee in the historic farm labor representa­ tion election at two farms of the giant DiGiorgio Corporation, Election officials announced that the UFWOC — representing the former National Farm Workers Association and the AFL-CIO Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee — polled 530 votes to 331 for the ousted Teamsters and 12 votes for no union in balloting for the unit made up of DiGiorgio field workers. Arbitrators Sam Kagel and Ron­ ald Haughton announced that all but 79 of 332 challenged votes were found to have been cast by ineligible voters. The remaining 79 were too few to affect the outcome and were not counted. STU MUTiS /A'AWOC •i-rio u p. *.-•: rPOK!T.S (VFVyA-AWOC Sapoerll mcio f*'* W0«(t5 AfL-CIO At rally in Delano, Calif, SlU West Coast Representative Frank Drozak (left) presents check for $5,000 to AFL-CIO Organizing Director William Kircher as SlU contribution to assist the UFWOC in campaign to organize the DiGiorgio and other farm workers. Seafarers Raleigh Minnix (left) and Bill Rogers hand out AFL-CIO literature to DiGiorgio workers. The farm labor vote, almost without precedent in recent agri­ cultural unionism, capped the first year of a strike of grape pickers at DiGiorgio's Delano farm and other farm workers at its Borrego Springs operation. The two striking unions merged and had recently been chartered by the AFL-CIO after cooperating closely through the long year of their strike. They joined forces in the contest against the Teamsters SEAFARERSyLOG Sept. 16, 1966 • Vol. XXV1I1, No. 19 Official Publication of the SIUNA Atlantic. Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board PAUL HALL, President CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President AL KERR LINDSEY WILLIAMS Sec.-Treas. Vice-President ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Vice-President HERBERT BRAND Director of Organizing and Publications Managing Editor MIKE POLLACK Art Editor Assistant Editor BERNARD SEAMAN NATHAN SKYER for the right to represent DiGior­ gio workers. ^ AFL-CIO Pres. George Meany wired the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, Cesar Cha­ vez and Larry Itliong, its leaders: "Warmest congratulations on a great victory. The road is now open to a new era for farm work­ ers, not only in California but all across the nation. "But let us now move forward. As you know this triumph is not an end in itself but only a begin­ ning. I again assure you that the whole AFL-CIO will be enlisted in the battles ahead, as it was in the battle just won." AFL-CIO Organization Direc­ tor William L. Kircher, who head­ ed the election campaign, said in Delano: "The DiGiorgio victory has a message for avery farni worker in America—it can be done. Farm workers can unionize, they can use collective bargaining as a base for building a better life and a greater share of America's abundance, for themselves and their families, even when powerful forces enter into a conspiracy to defeat them. "What happened in Delano has a message for every AFL-CIO member also. It is a timely re­ minder that the unity and solid­ arity of all union workers still pro­ vides the best pavement for the road to a better way of life for those who have long been denied." The crucial, pathfinding vote had few precedents in farm labor history and none of the legal pro­ cedures that surround the usual National Labor Relations Board representation elections. It involved, too, one of the state's largest and most infiuential farm corporations, as well as a head-on contest between the AFLCIO and the Teamsters, the latter a late entry in the effort to win bargaining rights for DiGiorgio farm workers. St/i .'i.r AfLj/lO / r. Staff Writers DON BEVONA PETER WEISS ia Pibllihed biweekly at 810 Rhsde liland Annie N.E„ Wasblniton, D. C, 20018 by the Seifirere International Union, Atlantic, Gilf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Foarth Annas, Brooklyn, N. Y. 12232. Tel. HVaclnth 9-6600, Second elms postaia paid at Washlnitaa, D. C. POSTIIASTErS ATTENTION: Form 3579 cards sbaaM ta sent to Seafarers Internatiful Unian, Atlantis, Calf, Lakes and InlaMl Watan District, AFL-CIO, 675 Faaith Aasam, NraaUyn, N. V. U232. Shown here are Seafarers from East and West Coasts who par­ ticipated in the successful campaign of the AFL-CIO farm workers union to win representation rights in the DiGiorgio Corporation. For many years now the American farm worker has been a source of cheap labor for growers who demanded a long day's work in the fields in return for short pay and inhuman living conditions. Protection under state and federal labor statutes was denied them and they were left to fend for themselves in a labor market controlled by unscrupulous employers. The recent vote by vineyard workers at the DiGiorgio Fruit Corp, in which they chose representation by the AFL-CIO Farm Workers Union, has put the American farm worker firmly on the road toward a better future for himself and his children. Their long uphill struggle to gain the wages and working conditions they are entitled to as members of the American working force, can be paralleled with the privations previously endured by other segments of American workers who took the only road left open to them— organization into strong unions wielding bargaining power. The success of the vineyard workers at DiGiorgio has produced the spearhead necessary to organize farm workers into a strong union possessing strength and influence at the bargaining table. Farm workers in other states are now on the march. In Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Arizona and many other states, farm workers are now demanding the right of union representation. Although a significant battle has been won in California, the struggle of the farm worker is far from over. The vast majority of growers are determined to fight every inch of the way to deny the farm worker a decent return for his labor. They will continue and even increase their anti-labor propagandizing. They will hire scab labor whenever they can to break strikes. They will exert pressure on the local and state level in order to undermine the union's efforts. However, the American farm worker is not alone in his struggle for a fair return for his labors. The AFL-CIO is determined to go right down the line with all American farm workers until they have won the right to have their own union representing them at the bar­ gaining table. The organized labor movement threw its full support behind the vineyard workers at DiGiorgio. They were active botlh at local and nationwide levels and sponsored a nationwide boycott of products grown and marketed by the DiGiorgio Corporation. The AFL-CIO has also been active on the legislative front, and actively campaigned to win passage of anti-bracero legislation which cut off the growers huge supply of cheap foreign labor. Passage of this bill made it possible for American farm workers to begin their fight for a union and a place at the bargaining table. The fight to win collective bargaining rights for the American farm worker will not be an easy one. However, the American labor move­ ment stands shoulder to shoulder with the farm worker. Their fight is the fight of all workers. Government Rejects iMARAD Bid To Declare U.S. Shipping 'Essential' The Maritime Administration's attempt to have the merchant marine designated as an essential activity and critical occupation in light of its important role in the Viet Nana war has been turned down by the Federal Govern-'^ ment. The decision was con­ imum fulfillment of the maritime curred in by Secretary of Com­ industry's vital role in support of the Viet Nam military effort. The merce John Connor. government position is completely Rep. Edward A. Garmatz (D.- inconsistent with its expressed de­ Md.), chairman of the House Mer­ sire and concern to reactivate ships chant Marine and Fisheries Com­ for the military sealift as quickly mittee, informed SIU President as possible and to have sufficient Paul Hall last week "that this im­ seagoing personnel available to portant matter will be investi­ meet all manning requirements gated." arising out of the demands created Rep. Garmatz informed Hall of by the nation's military supply the government's attitude in a needs. communication sent to the SIU While the SIU has been meeting president on Sept. 7. its manning commitments and its "This is to advise," the Garmatz upgrading and training programs message said, "that the Maritime have been providing additional Administration's petition of April rated men to keep up with the 29, 1966, to include the Merchant increased personnel requirements, Marine in the list of currently es­ 'the situation is complicated by the sential activities and critical occu­ fact that seamen are being drafted pations has been denied by the re­ from the ships for induction in the sponsible officials concerned and military. The feeling is prevalent in many the denial has been concurred in quarters that the Government's re­ by the Secretary of Commerce. "Be assured," Garmatz contin­ jection of the MARAD request ued, "that this important matter points up the absolute necessity, in the national interest, that the Mar­ will be investigated." The government refusal to ap­ itime Administration must be made prove the Maritime Administra­ a fully independent agency and tion request for designation of the not subject to the rulings of units Merchant Marine as an essential like the Department of Commerce, activity came as a surprise to leg­ which have little or no understand­ islators, government agencies and ing of the merchant marine and its maritime labor and industry peo­ essential role and relationship to ple concerned with achieving max­ the nation's best interests. �September 16, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG How House Voted on MARAD The maritime labor and industry backed amendment to keep the Mari­ time Administration out of the proposed new Department of Transportation was passed by the House of Representatives on Aug. 30 by a vote of 260 to 117. Here is how the House voted: VOTING FOR THE AMENDMENT-260 Abbitt (D.-Va.) Abemethy (D.-Miss.) Adams (D.-Wash.) Addabbo (D.-N. Y.) Anderson (R.-Ill.) Anderson (D.-Tenn.) Andrews (D.-Ala.) Andrews (R.-Ala.) Andrews {R.-N. D.) Arends (R.-III.) Ashbrook (R.-Ohio) Aspinall (D.-Colo.) Ayres (R.-Ohio) Barrett (D.-Pa.) Bates (R.-Mass.) Belcher (R.-Okla.) Bell (R.-Calif.) Bennett (D.-FIa.) Berry (R.-S. D.) Betts (R.-Ohio) Boggs (D.-La.) Bofand (D.-Mass.) Bolton (R.-Ohio) Bow (R.-Ohio) Broomfield (R.-Mich.) Brown (R.-Ohio) Broyhill (R.-Va.) Buchanan (R.-Ala.) Burke (D.-Mass.) Burton (D.-Calif.) Byrne (D.-Pa.) Byrnes (R.-Wisc.) Cahill (R.-N. J.) Carey (D.-N. Y.) Carter R.-Ky.) Casey (D.-Texas) Cederberg (R.-Mich.) Celler (D.-N. Y.) Chamberlain (R.-Mich.) Chelf (D.-Ky.) Clancy (R.-Ohio) Clausen (R.-Calif.) Clawson (R.-Calif.) Clevenger (D.-Mich.) Colmer (D.-Miss.) Conable (R.-N. Y.) Conte (R.-Mass.) Cooley (D.-N. C.) Corbett (R.-Pa.) Cramer (R.-Fla.) Curtin (R.-Pa.) Curtis (R.-MO.) Daddario (D.-Conn.) Dague (R.-Pa.) Daniels (D.-N. J.) Davis (D.-Ga.) Davis (R.-Wisc.) Delaney (D.-N. Y.) Dent (D.-Pa.) Derwinski (R.-Ill.) Devine (R.-Ohio) Dickinson (R.-Ala.) Dingell (D.-Mich.) Dole (R.-Kan.) Donohue (D.-Mass.) Dorn (D.-S. C.) Downing (D.-Va.) Dulski (D-L.-N. Y.) Duncan (D.-Ore.) Duncan (R.-Tenn.) Dwyer (R.-N. J.) Edmondson (D.-Okla.) Edwards (R.-Ala.) Edwards (D.-La.) EUsworth (R.-Kan.) Erlenbom (R.-I11.) Fallon (D.-Md.) Farbstein (D.-N. Y.) Famsley (D.-Ky.) Feighan (D.-Ohio) Findley (R.-Ill.) Fino (R.-N. Y.) Flynt (D.-Ga.) Fogarty (D.-R. I.) Foley (D.-Wash.) Ford (R.-Mich.) Ford (D.-Mich.) Fountain (D.-N. C.) Frelinghuysen (R.-N. J.) Friedel (D.-Md.) Fulton (R.-Pa.) Garmatz (D.-Md.) Gettys (D-S. C.) Giaimo (D.-Conn.) Gibbons (D.-Fla.) Gilbert (D.-N. Y.) Gilligan (D.-Ohio) Gonzalez (D.-Texas) Goodell (R.-N. Y.) GrabowsW (D.-Conn.) Gray (D.-Ill.) Green (D.-Ore.) Green (D.-Pa.) Grider (D.-Tenn.) Griffiths (D.-Mich.) Gross (R.-Iowa) Gubser (R.-Calif.) Gurney (R.-Fla.) Hagen (D.-Calif.) Haley (D.-Fla.) Hall (R.-MO.) Halpern (R.-N. Y.) Hanley (D.-N. Y.) Hansen (R.-Idaho) Harsha (R.-Ohio) Harvey (R.-Mich.) Harvey (R.-Ind.) Hathaway (D.-Maine) Hawkins (D.-Calif.) 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Paired againat: Rcanick (D.-N.Y.), Annonaio (D.-Iii.), Ottinger (D.-N.Y.), Cnnningham (R.-Iowa), Burton (R.-Utah), Sieott (D.-N.C.), Weltner (D.-Ga.), Murray (I>.-Tenn.)... . . . .. . .. , ..J .1.. , ^.i., . «;_i, iii.vV Page Three •7 Report Reveals Alarming Facts on U.S. Shipping l/S Tanker Constru€tion Is Down To One Ship; Russia BuiUing 116 Although the United States is the worid's largest user of petroleum, its ocean tanker fleet con­ tinues to decline at an alarming rate. While more American tankers were scrapped last year than those of any other nation in the world and new U. S. tanker construction was down to a single ship, the Soviet Union was accelerating the buildup of its tankships, with 116 such vessels under construction—all intended for operation under the U.S.S.R. registry. These disturbing facts were revealed in the 24th annual tanker survey made by the Sun Oil Com­ pany which is regarded as the ^ by the fact that more than 50 per 28, Liberia 29, the U. S. S. R. 116, authoritative analysis of the cent of its present carrying ca­ the United Kingdom 19, France world tanker fleet. Ironically, the pacity was built in the last three 12, Italy 11, Sweden eight, Den­ reports were first undertaken in years. Only a little more than five mark nine and West Germany the mid-1940's to aid in national per cent of the United States tank­ seven. defense planning. The Sun Oil report showed that er tonnage was built in the same In 1957 the United States led period. the Standard Oil (Company of New the world in numbers and ton­ The critical state of U. S. ship­ Jersey had 142 ships flying the nages of tankers, but it has been ping was emphasized by the gap flags of 16 nations. The bulk of in decline ever since. It dropped in age between the American tank­ Standard's runaway operations was to fourth place in 1961, a position er fleet and those of the other under Panamanian registry — 43 it held in 1965, although its rela­ maritime nations. The U. S. tank­ ships. Only 19 of its ships fly the tive position with other tanker er fleet's average age is the oldest U. S. flag. fleets is still slipping, the report among the major maritime nations It is interesting to note that shows. of the world. The average age of Joseph D'Andrea, a Standard Oil At the end of 1965, the run­ the American fleet is 14 years and executive and an industry mem­ away registry of Liberia was in 9 months — approximately twice ber of the President's Maritime first place. Norway was in second the average of seven years and Advisory Committee, voted against place, the United Kingdom third, seven months of the world tanker the (Committee's majority report and the United States fourth. But fleet. which recommended a program to the Soviet Union moved up to Indicating a still further decline strengthen American-flag ships in­ eight place in 1965 from the 11th in the U. S. tanker fleet, new ves­ cluding the tanker" segment. place it held the year earlier. In terms of deadweight ton­ sel construction on order or under nage, the Standard'fleet makes it Most significant, as the report way at the end of 1965 showed the largest operator of tankers in shows, the increase in Russian the U. S. with but one tanker the world. while Norway had 68 ships, Japan tanker construction is highlighted 85 Seafarers Licensed As Engineers; Nine More Complete Union Training Engineer officer licenses have gone to nine more Seafarers who have passed the U.S. Coast Guard examination after preparing at the Engineers Training School, jointly sponsored by the SIU and District 2 of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association. A total of 85 Seafarers have now received their engineer's Donald Bowtell, 35, who sailed District 2 of the Marine Engineers license from the school as a re­ as a pumpman, deck engineer, and Beneficial Association. Seafarers sult of the upgrading program. F'WT has been in the SIU for who enroll in the program obtain meals, hotel lodgings and subsis­ Of the nine newly licensed SIU seven years; tence payments of $110 a week men, three received licenses as Wallace Purdue, 40, who ship­ Third Assistant Engineer and six ped out in all engine room ratings while in training for their licenses. Engine Department Seafarers Seafarers obtained licenses as Sec­ are eligible to apply for any of the ond Assistant Engineers. upgrading courses offered by the Seafarers who received their li­ school if they are 19 years of age censes as Third Assistant engin­ or older and have 18 months of eers were: Q.M.E.D. watch standing time in Fritz Rethemeyer, 41, who sailed as a fireman-water tender and has been a Seafarer for eight years; Sam Telech, 43, who shipped Parsons Fleishman out as a fireman, oiler and fire­ man-water tender, and has been and has been an SIU member Sea­ farer for 22 years; an SIU member for 23 years; Lawrence Keneker, 43, who shipped as a FWT and has been Bowtell Palmer sailing SIU since 1947; Gordon Owen, 43, who has the engine department plus six sailed as a FWT and deck engineer months' experience as a wiper or and has been an equivalent. Seafarers in the engine depart­ SIU member for ment who are interested in the 11 years. The joint SIU- program should obtain additional MEBA District 2 information and apply for the Rethemeyer Telech upgrading school course at any SIU hall or write is the first train­ Hilmer Parsons, 48, who has ing program of its sailed as fireman-water tender, kind in American junior engineer, pumpman, deck maritime history. engineer, refrigerator engineer and Owen The school offers electrician. He has held his book Seafarers and Engineers qualified since 1945. instruction in preparing for their The newly licensed Second As- third assistant engineers licenses, istant engineers are: temporary third assistant engi­ Walter Fleishman, 43, who has neers licenses or original second Keneker Purdue been with the SIU for 22 years engineer licenses in either steam and sailed as a fireman and oiler; or motor vessel classifications. directly to SIU headquarters at Charles Palmer, 45, who sailed The school is operated under a 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, as a pumpman and FWT and has reciprocal agreement between the New York, 11232. The telephone Seafarers International Union and number is HYacinth 9-6600. had his bo<3k for_21 years; .K •V t-'- • W: �Page Four September 16, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG light Additional Veteran Seafarers Join Growing SlU Pension Roster The Atlantic Coast by Earl (Bull) Shepard, Vice-President, Atlantic Coast Area Seafarers are again living up to the tradition of carrying cargoes wherever they are needed by their country without regard to personal dangers or hardships involved. In spite of Viet Cong harassments and other dangers involved in delivering military cargoes to Viet Nam, we are having little difficulty in crewing ships for the Viet Nam mn. <SyAs they did in World War II 13 others in transit over the last and Korea, Seafarers are again period. living up to their reputation as a James Smith, who has been sail­ Qiilnn BatenM Bauers Rayfuse Ward Sheber fourth arm of the nation's defense. ing as a Seafarer for 17 years just Those who would write off the Eight more Seafarers have joined the growing list of men who are receiving regular monthly $150 got off the Mount Vernon Victory American merchant marine as SIU pension benefits. The latest group of Seafarers on pension includes Benedicto Baterno, Claude after a 14 month tour. He will having been superseded in im­ Rayfuse, Clyde Ward, Frank Quinn, Jacob Sheber, Stanley Bauers, Frank Vivero and Chislaen Van take a well-earned vacation before portance by other means of trans­ Raemdonck. he even starts to think of shipping Batemo sailed in the deck de­ blackgang ratings. Born in Nova Fla., he was, born in Virginia. portation should simply take a out again. He said the officers partment as AB after joining the Scotia, he now makes his home Ward was a member of,the en­ look at the huge volume of car­ and crew aboard the Mount Ver­ Union in New York. Bom in the in St. Petersburg, Fla. with his gine department who sailed as an goes flowing into Viet Nam aboard non Victory were a nice bunch American-flag vessels. The huge Phillipines, he now resides in New wife, Ruth. He joined the Union oiler and FWT. tonnages and the dedication of of guys. in New Orleans and last shipped Quinn, who sailed as a bridgeYork with his daughter, Teresa. Norman H. Peppier, who has man, joined the Union in the port the men who are delivering them His last ship was the Overseas on the Steel Fabricator. been sailing in the deck depart­ are the best possible proof that of New York. Bom in Jersey Ward, who joined the SIU in Joyce. ment for 20 years, was recently in peace and war, the American City, he lives with his wife, Mar­ Rayfuse was a member of the Norfolk, last sailed aboard the paid off the Losmar and got set garet in Elizabeth, N. J. Quinn's merchant marine remains as im­ engine department, sailing in all Madaket. A resident of Tampa, last employer was the Pennsyl­ portant today as it has been in for a little vacation. He ran into some bad luck and ended in the vania RR. the past. hospital for an operation instead. Sheber became an SIU member New York He is now more fit for duty but in the port of Detroit. He was bom in Mich, and makes his home Shipping is very will rest before shipping out again. now in St. Ignace, Mich, with his good here and Philadelphia wife, Isobel. A cook in the ste­ most Seafarers Shipping has been good this ward department, his last vessel are having no month. James Winters, who sails was the Mackinac Transporter. by Frank Drozak, West Coast Representative trouble finding in the steward's department and Bauers sailed in the deck de­ good berths. Lion­ has been a Seafarer for 19-years, The Seafarers International Union has been warmly thanked by partment since joining the Union el Barnes stopped is about ready to go to sea again new AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing Committee for the in Detroit. Bom in St. Louis, by to tell us that after spending the summer months strong help the SIU gave in the UFWO's successful stmggle against Mo., he and his wife, Elmira live he is now attend­ at home. Jim's last ship was the the Teamsters and the giant Di Giorgio farm complexes. The AFL- in Mackinaw City, Mich. His last ing the FWT-oiler Spitfire. Raymond "Jack" Riemer Bames CIO farm workers unit recently won bargaining rights to represent ship was the Mackinac Trans­ upgrading school. is on the beach and raring to go porter. the farm workers as the cuhnina- fB. T. Hanback, who just came out again. Jack, who sails in tion of a long uphill struggle Seattle from a run to Viet Nam stopped the engine department, was last against the teamsters and the Di by the Hall to say hello and regis­ aboard the Commander. Shipping has been excellent in Giorgio Corporation. William this port and any man who wants ter. Nick Gaylord has just stepped William Underwood, who sails Kircher, AFL-CIO director of or­ to ship out in a hurry should come off the Sea-Land Services ship in the steward department, just ganization and Cesar Chavez, to Seattle. Vessels paying off and Bienville after a tour as chief stew­ got off the Jefferson City Victory leader of the new AFL-CIO union, signing on during the last ship­ ard and says he is going to take a and expects to be ready to sail warmly thanked the Seafarers In­ ping period were the Express little vacation before sailing again. out again in a few weeks. ternational Union for its hard Baltimore, Council Grove, An­ A. H. Ahmed, who got off the work and help in the final days of chorage, Fairide, Seatrain Victory, Alcoa Marketer in Houston has Norfolk Vivero Raemdonck the organizing drive. just come back from a run to Carrol Victmy, Seattle and the Shipping has been very good The Washington State AFL- Mankato Victory. The Betbflor Vivero, a member of the stew­ Saigon. here with future prospects looking CIO Convention in Tacoma has was in transit. ard department, last sailed on the even brighter. Roswell Sanderlin, Baltimore strongly backed Representative Topa Topa. He was born in Spain a Seafarer for 18 years, just got Harry E. O'Brien, who sails in Thomas Pelly, (R-Washington) for Shipping has been good from and now lives in New Orleans with off the Rubin Hood where he the deck department, has been on re-election to the First District. his wife, Rita. Vivero joined the this port and prospects for the served as bosun. He is going to the beach for a couple of months. Congressman Pelly is a friend of near future look excellent. We now SIU in New York. grab the first ship out after enjoy­ the United States merchant marine His last vessel was the Brigham Chislaen Van Raemdonck was have the Alamar, Losmar and ing a nice vacation at Nags Head, Victory and his is ready for a and Maritime Unions and has bom in Belgium and joined the Trusco laid-up and waiting for gone on record for establishing an grain run on the next ship going SIU in the port of Philadelphia. orders out. No report as yet as North Carolina. Loe Llewallen, a 21-year union independent Maritime Administra­ out. John J. Pietrzak has just He resides in that city with his to when these vessels will start tion in order to foster a strong stepped off the Robin Hood which wife, Mamie. The Seaforer sailed crewing. We have paid off four man, has been on the beach for American merchant marine. ships, signed on five and have had some time and is ready to ship out in the deck department. as an AB on any vessel that comes San Francisco along. Shipping here in the Port of Boston San Francisco is still very good Shipping has and there are many berths open picked up in this for AB's, oilers, FWT's, electri­ port over the last cians, cooks and bakers. ' Playing off over the last period period and is ex­ WASHINGTON—^The Federal Government has set the partial were the Pan Oceanic Faith, Ex­ pected to be even cost of the damage claims resulting from the disastrous fire and Pietrzak Ward press of Virginia, Ocean Joyce, better during the sinking of the run-away-flag cruise liner Yarmouth Castle at more Rachel V., Steel Traveler, Jeffer­ next few weeks. than $59 million. son City Victory, Express Buffalo was on the South African run. He Robert Frazer, The figure was announced by legislators felt that the compen­ sails in the steward department Federal Court Judge David W. sation clause as it now stands and the San Francisco. who is now spend­ Crews are signing on aboard and has been in the SIU for 20- Dyer as a battery of lawyers would not properly protect pas­ ing a little time Frazer the CouM* De Alene, Express Buf­ years. Pietrzak is ready for a ship worked on the preliminaries for sengers fiscally. with his family, falo, Pan Oceanic Faith, Rachel going anywhere. John Ward, who the trial of the suits. The judge has been a Seafarer for 20 years. A spokesman for the Senate His last ship was the Gateway v.. Express Virginia, Steel Work­ was last at sea aboard the An­ noted that the figure represented er, Ocean Joyce and the San Fran­ chorage as a messman, plans to only 440 claimants who requested Commerce Committee said that City and he will be ready to ship cisco. Ships in transit were the take it easy for a while before a specific sum. It does not include the liability clause has been set again in the near future. Free Ammca, Young America, shipping out again. the many additional suits whose aside for further study. The new Puerto Rico Santa Emilia, Portmar and Keva costs are being left up to the special liabity measure is expected Wilmington Ideal. Albert Santiago and Tony San­ courts to decide. The suits are to be designed to eliminate an old M. T. Doberty, in from Detroit, Shipping here has been running being filed against the Chadade law that limits shipowners to only tiago both grabbed deck mainten­ is looking for a bosun's job on any a little slower than last period but Steamship Company and its sub­ $60 a ship ton in compensation in ance jobs on the Seatrain Louisi­ ship going out. Brother Doherty Emil G. Glaser dropped by the sidiaries, Yarmouth Cruise Lines case any passenger was injured or ana which is now on the New lost his life in a shipboard acci­ York-Puerto Rico run. After sev­ has spent most of his shipping Hall to let us know that he is now and Yarmouth Cruises Inc. dent at sea. The liability measure eral runs to the Viet Nam war days in the Great Lakes area and a very happy man. He said that The high money cost of the is a 22-year member of the SIU. thanks to the SIU'Engineer Train­ disaster has moved the United is also expected to cover any fiscal zone Tony Caldera is holding L. Rlnber just got off the Express ing School he is now a second as­ States Senate not to include a gaps left over by the ship safey down the bosun's job on the Sea­ Buffalo after ending two months sistant engineer aboard the Steel provision in the recently-passed bill. train New York. Walter Stovall, going to the Far East. He is now Architecti Bill Hart dropped in cruise ship safety bill that will The ship safety bill has been AB .on the Seatrain New York, on the beach waiting for the next to register and was shipped right compensate the relatives of Amer­ passed by the Senate after repeated never fails to drop by the hall and SlU-manned vessel going to Viet out as a deck engineer aboard the ican passengers who might lose calls for such a measure from the say hello when the ship is in San Penmar. their lives in future diasters. Many SIU and other maritime unions. Juan. Nam. The Pacific Coast nr Yarmouth Castle Fire Victims File Lawsuits Totaling Over $59 Million if �September 16, 1966 The Gulf Coast by Lindsey Williams, Vice-President, GuH Area SEAFAyRERS LOG Fmge Fire Moony Stresses US Lobor's Rote In Supporting Free-Worid's Unions The AFL-CIO plays a "very important leadership role" in supporting free trade unions and exposing Com­ A very good friend of the SfU and Labor, James H. "Jimmy" Mor­ munist unions as government fronts. Federation Pres. George Meany and other panelists agreed on the rison is in a Democratic primary run-off for Louisiana's sixth Congres­ Georgetown Forum, broadcast from Washington, D. C., with tapes of the interview made available to some sional District. Morrison was top man in a field of six and missed 300 radio stations around the winning the first primary by about 500 votes with approximately 143,Asia and Europe. The joint ob­ Strategy, and program Moderator country. 000 votes being cast. All SIU members are urged to give their full jective, he said, is "to maintain Wallace Fanning. A second discussion along the worker freedom" and encourage support to Morrison. Atkinson said he agreed with same lines was televised for show­ workers to "develop unions by in any hurry to ship out again. He The Greater New Orleans AFLMeany that Communist lands say CIO Council is supporting the said he likes India and would like ing over NBC Channel 4 and edu­ which they can improve their own they have unions but "actually . . . Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Em­ to go to Bombay when he retires. cational TV Channel 26 in Wash­ lot" and at the same time help their unions are used primarily to John Sansone, who last sailed ington. ployees and Bartender's Interna­ develop "a good type of society in control the workers." Meany said American trade un­ their own countries." on the Del Sud, was forced to get tional Union in its drive to or­ Inside the Soviet Unoin, Castro's ganize some 30-40,000 unorgan­ off after two trips because of ions work with the Intl. Confed­ Cuba and Red China, Dr. Atkin­ Communist propagandists try to ized hotel and bar workers in the stomach trouble. He now has a eration of Free Trade Unions, the confuse workers, Meany reported, son commented, "there is no such New Orleans area. The organiz­ not-fit-for-duty rating. When he American Institute for Free Labor by giving words like "trade union" thing-as a right to strike. This ing drive is aimed at raising the is well enough Sansone hopes to Development and labor move­ and "people's democracy" a totally simply doesn't exist." substandard wages of hotel and ship out again on another Delta ments in Latin America, Africa, different meaning than in free Meany gave this summary of Line ship. John (Basco) Pennlno, bar workers here. the AIFLD programs as an exam­ lands. The New Orleans AFL-CIO also on the beach with a not-fit"What they term a trade union," ple of the federation's work with and the Maritime Council of New for-duty rating after two trips he observed, "does not represent unionists of other countries; Orleans and vicinity celebrated aboard the Del Sud as 2nd pantry­ "We bring to this country an the workers, it represents govern­ Labor Day with a pre-Labor Day man, will also wait for a Delta average of 100 to 150 students ment." celebration at the Seafarers' Hall Line passenger ship when he's well each year who are trade unionists Meany recalled a story in the . . . and we give them a threeon September 1. More than 500 enough to sail. Soviet newspaper Trud which in month course in the rudiments of persons attended the celebration MobUe 1964 accused union officials of basic trade unionism. At the same and House majority whip Hale A meeting between SIU Safety Shipping is good from this port deviationism for wanting unions to time they get a look at the type of Boggs (D-La.) was the principal Director Joe Algina and Captain at present with the beach small have a voice in setting wages and society that we have here. Then speaker. Jack O'Brien, Sea-Land Safety and no laid-up ships. production quotas. we send them back to their own Representative, has formulated New Orleans Frank E. Edmonds, who sails strict safety regulations aimed at "Production norms and wages, countries and support them" for Jack (Gator Mouth) Bates is in the deck department, has just the article went on to say, are the back on the beach after a pleasant come back from a fast trip to Eu­ preventing injuries to Seafarers province of the party and nobody nine months while they act as class two-month trip to Greece as a rope aboard the John B. Water­ caused by toxic fumes from leaky else. In other words, the Commu­ instructors in organizing, collective steward on the Penn Challenger. man. Edmonds, who' is married containers, which has been a prob­ nist Party decides what the wages bargaining, grievances, and free Gator Mouth hated to leave the and makes his home here, has lem of growing concern in recent are, what production they expect trade unionism. AIFLD has a social projects ship because he said it was a been shipping out from Gulf ports years. from each worker," Meany com­ division which, under contracts In July of this year, for in­ very good vessel with a top-notch for the last 25-years in various mented. with the Agency for Intl. Develop­ crew from top to bottom. It has deck ratings. One A. Wilson, who stance, crew members of the Seament, builds housing for workers "The so-called union is con­ been six weeks since he last last shipped out aboard the Free Land vessel Fairland were hos­ with U.S. unions guaranteeing the cerned with absenteeism, and re­ America, has been sailing from pitalized, victims of a leakage of warding workers for keeping up loan, Meany said. this port for the last 20-years. one of the tank containers aboard. production by perhaps allowing Fanning reported that the World Married with two children, Wilson The containers were filled with them to go to a state-owned vaca­ Marxist Review for March 1966 is on the beach waiting for the tolylene diisocyanate. The leak tion spot for a week." made a "bitter attack" on the was discovered after one day at birth of a third child. Meany appeared on the pro­ AIFLD as an "imperialist" tool sea. Louis E. Hartley, who sailed in and demanded that Latin labor Contact with this liquid, or its gram after returning from an the engine department aboard the "combine legal and illegal work" ICFTU executive board meeting fumes, can cause severe lung dam­ Free America, has been shipping and prepare instead for mass strug­ age, serious skin bums and harm­ in Brussels, Belgium. Also present out of the Gulf Area for 26 years gle. to discuss the subject "How Amer­ Wood Bates and has now chalked up two trips ful eye irritations. Tolylene di­ ican Unions Help Labor Abroad" Meany said American labor is worked on the Penn Challenger as an oiler on vessels that went to isocyanate and toxic materials were Dr. James D. Atkinson, interested in seeing that workers and is now ready to take the first Viet Nam. Leroy EckhoiF was like it pose a modern safety haz­ Georgetwon University professor remain free to raise their standards steward's job that he can find on chief electrician aboard his last ard to seamen. of government; John Fisher, presi­ of living and to maintain "our own The meeting resulted in the de­ dent of the Institute of American freedom here at home." any ship, any run. Jack B. Wood, ship, the Claiborne, for several chief cook on the York for 19 trips on the Puerto Rican run. He velopment of a strigent set of months, dropped by the Hall to has been a SIU member since the regulations for checking tank con­ tainers prior to their being loaded, pick up his $1,162.24 vacation start of the Union. and provides for checking them check. He has made six trips to Houston aboard ship prior to sailing. An India aboard the York and is not Johnny Chestnut, an old deck elaborate and specific control tag department hand is on the beach will keep tabs on each individual and studying hard to upgrade container so that inspection re­ WASHINGTON—^Trans-World Corporation, agents for the SIUhimself to an AB rating at the sponsibilities may be accurately AB's school. Another deck de­ policed. It is anticipated that in contracted Oceanic Ore Carriers and American Oceanic Corporation, partment old-timer, Charles Saw­ this way leakage may be discov­ has announced that it is willing to pay the cost of reactivating five PORT ARTHUR, Texas—Pre­ yer, is also seeking to upgrade ered before it becomes a safety Government-owned Reserve Fleet ^ serve fleets for MSTS use under dictions that Port Arthur would himself at the school. hazard at sea. Victory ships provided it is allow­ General Agency Agreements. become one of America's major ed to bareboat charter them. ocean ports were voiced recently The use of General Agency A bareboat charter is a hiring by port director Dow Wynn. Agreements to reactivate vessels, Retirement Bound arrangement under which the the company said, is not really The reason for such enthusiasm shipping line takes over a vessel beneficial to the Government. is the recent approval of an ex­ completely except for outright Under a General Agency Agree­ pansion program that will cost ownership. Under this charter the ment, the Government has to bear $9.5 million. Upon completion company keeps the ship in repair, the port's present complex under hires the crews, operates the vessel the "entire cost of vessel break­ Port Authority control will be and even hires it out, but returns out. In addition, the Government doubled. This is the second $9.5 it to its original owner at the end assumes the risk of having to amortize the breakout cost over million expansion program ap­ of the bareboat charter. a short period of time if the Gov­ proved. Trans-World said that it wanted ernment's need for the operating Port Arthur is currently a major the Victorys for a four-year period vessel is short-lived." petroleum port, but the new ex­ and during that time wished to The company said that it esti­ pansion program has as its inten­ re-charter them on a time-charter mated the breakout costs to run tion the turning of Port Arthur basis to the Military Sea Trans­ "somewhere between $350,000 into an all-commodity port to serv­ portation Service. ice the Gulf area. To do this the Bareboat chartering of the re­ and $500,000 per vessel. In addi­ upstream area around the port cently broken-out Victory ships, tion, the bareboat charterer as­ would be used as the site for the company said, "clearly meets sumes the risk of amortizing devdopment of a three million the public interest." It noted that breakout cost in the event that bushel grain elevator.' the United States, Merchant Ma­ due to circumstances beyond his rine is suffering from-a lack of control the bareboat charter is The terminal will be operated, merchant vessels and said the terminated by the Government." iihder lease, by the Manhattan Trans-World requested a speedy "proof that the trades in ques­ Gfain Terminal Corporation who SIU oldtimer Frank Waiter (right) picks up his first regular monthly decision from the Maritime Ad­ tion are not adequately served is ue affiliated \tvith Transeastem Associates, owners of the SIU- pension check from SIU rep.-Joe DiGiorgio at New York head­ furnished by the Government's ministration so that it could act jnafined Manhattan, &e world's quarters. A former member of the deck.department, Walter joined continuing and increasing with­ :quickly and get to work operating the Union in Baltimore; where he how lives with his wife Virginia.^ drawal of vessels from the Re­ the Victorys. largest cargo carrier.' New Sofety Ruies To Protect Seuforers From Toxic Fumes Port Arthur To Add Huge Groin Bevutor SIU Company Seeks 5 Victory Ships Under Bareboat Charter Agreement �September 16, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG Pace Six DiSPATCll The Great Lakes From Aug. 26 to Sept. 8, 1966 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 0 3 4 40 34 73 2 4 3 3 13 21 2 5 7 0 1 3 3 7 2 10 9 23 12 9 44 12 19 47 12 1 7 37 22 32 26 15 16 160 141 282 TOTAL REGISTERED by Al Tanner, Vice-President and Fred Farnen,Secretary-Treasurer.Great Lakes The month of August was a busy one here in the Great Lakes District. Besides electing union officers for the 1966-68 term final negotiations were settled on an industry-wide vacation plan which will become effective January 1, 1967. On that date all companies under contract to the Seafarers International Union, Great Lakes District will contribute to the plan, which<5> —— — : will be known as the Sea'farers f^ Vacation Fund, Great Lakes Dis­ Beach, Florida. Bill had shipped out for many years as wheelsman trict. on the South American and he The vacation plan, unlike earlier sends his very best wishes to all ones, covers all members of the former shipmates. Union, both permanent men and Foreign-flag ships are still dom­ relief men. Under the old com­ inating the grain trade here and pany plan relief men did not re­ the figures up to July 31, 1966 re­ ceive credit for accumulated days. flect that American-flag vessels Now, with this additional cover­ are only carrying IIV2 per cent of age, we believe the relief man will the grain cargoes. Canada is still be able to ship out more often. the number one grain shipper hav­ The qualifying period is 120-days ing carried 587 cargoes or 60 per for full benefits and 90-days for cent of the grain shipped out up reduced benefits. to that period. Deep &a foreignAn SIU clinic is now operating flag vessels carried 282 cargoes or in Cleveland for Union members 28 V2 per cent of the trade. Ameri­ and their families. The Cleveland can ships carried 114 cargoes. clinic is located at Dr. Castle and Shipping is still good and with Associates, 200 Republic Build­ the recent lay-up of the Bob-Lo ing, Cleveland, Ohio 44115. We boats, we expect to fill berths urge all Seafarers living in the aboard other vessels with these area to take full advantage of the crews. The Milwaukee Clipper and many facilities offered by this the South American will also end clinic. All members will be re­ their season shortly and the men quired to have physical examina­ from the.se vessels should have no tions and possess clinic cards prior trouble finding jobs on other SIU to fit-out in 1967. We now are Lakes vessels. operating clinics in Duluth, Al­ Labor Day in Detroit was high­ pena, Detroit and Buffalo, as well lighted by President Johnson's as Cleveland. Two more clinics visit. The Chief Executive was are expected to get into operation given an enthusiastic welcome by in the near future. organized labor. His Detroit ap­ An old friend and former SIU pearance was sponsored by the port agent Bill Stevenson was in AFL-CIO in memory of Senator town last week. Bill is now receiv­ Patrick V. McNamara, Etemocrat ing his monthly pension check from Michigan. Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco .... Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 5 8 33 90 3 11 20 16 8 7 2 11 3 2 6 18 68 31 31 45 10 2 21 63 17 36 192 385 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 26 4 319 83 35 15 110 33 32 14 19 5 9 3 70 12 165 81 164 52 30 1 66 1 52 5 1,097 309 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco .... Seattle Totals Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Totals Class A Class B 4 1 40 81 9 8 8 21 7 4 6 3 3 5 19 12 30 21 36 25 7 12 22 24 20 11 253 186 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups TOTAL SHIPPED Class A Class B Class C 3 2 4 34 30 59 7 2 4 3 15 22 3 2 2 4 4 4 1 4 4 10 4 15 25 22 22 8 18 32 11 5 5 7 35 19 9 23 17 152 209 139 STEW,ARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups All Groups Class A Class B Class C Class A Class B 3 3 3 3 6 13 47 54 64 11 6 5 1 5 5 5 8 21 12 15 1 7 7 2 11 0 0 0 3 3 6 1 1 2 4 7 17 15 2 5 29 31 53 21 14 19 13 23 11 11 9 9 10 4 4 40 38 5 22 4 6 9 14 12 21 193 256 100 105 161 Class A Class B 7 1 313 79 20 14 65 26 25 16 6 6 . 10 6 36 7 101 61 165 45 13 1 30 2 24 5 815 269 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 11 5 36 164 8 21 72 24 31 12 9 1 1 12 49 6 70 145 38 72 17 1 36 1 13 3 633 225 ICC Approves 'Unit Train' Rate Reductions QUESTION: What is the best nickname you ever heard at sea and how do you think the fellow got that name? "Red" Piiolo: I knew a fellow once who was the spitting image of "Popeye" the sailor-man, the cartoon character. He had no teeth and a drawn-in mouth and his expressions and mannerisms where exactly like Popeye's He even sounded like him. He liked the nickname. A. Romero: "Flat-Top" is a nickname that sticks in my mind. This Seafarer I knew was a dead ringer for the character in the Dick Tracy comic strip. The cut of his hair and the shape of his head earned him the nickname. After a while, he felt you didn't know him if you called him by his name instead of the nickname. FVans De Keyzen I remembtf a chap I sailed with on a Steel ship a number of years ago. We used to call him"Mousey" because he looked like a mouse. Al­ though he wasn't in the least way meek as a mouse he never seemed to mind that he got labeled with that particular nickname. v|> Pedro Vega: I sailed with a man once who loved to talk. It seemed that he was al­ ways talking, so the crew called h i m "Victrola." He was just like a record and it seemed there was never a moment when he wasn't talking, although he was a pretty good guy other­ wise. <I> S. While: I knew a guy once, who actually changed his name to the nickname he got. He collected so many cars that instead of John Smith, he was called "John Car." He bought a number of heaps second hand, some of which he drove himself, others he gave to his wife. Jifew Railroad Rate Cats Threaten Gt Lakes Waterborne Coal Traffk TOLEDO—^The Lake Carriers Association has accused the New York Central Railroad of a "calculated program to wipe out vessel carriage of coal off the Great Lakes" and the use of "monopoly control" over the rates from Sunnyhill, Ohio to Toledo following an ICC refusal to suspend railroad rate reductions. At issue is a New York Central ^ Railroad reduction of rates for tive rate cutting is used by the new move to stop the discrimina­ the transport of coal from Sunny- railroads to force competing water tory rates it will have to file a hill to Essexville, Michigan when carriers out of business, after formal complaint with the ICC unit trains are used. This reduc­ which the railroads can hike prices against the New York Central's all-rail rates from Sunnyhill to tion will help unit trains take over as high as they wish. The Toledo authorities said that Essexville. In this type of com­ the coal trade that was formerly carried on a rail-water route via despite the fact that the distance plaint the burden of proof that the port of Toledo. This would from Sunnyhill to Toledo is half the rates violate any Federal law be the third largest piece of regu­ that from Sunnyhill to Essexville, would rest upon the port, and lar Great Lakes coal traffic lost to the rail rate to Toledo is $2.35 a would therefore put the port at a ton while the unit train rate to disadvantage in fighting its case. unit trains. Another try by railroads to take Essexville is $2.20 a ton. The railroad weapon, unit The Port of Toledo is parti­ away Great Lakes coal traffic from trains, operate only between two points so they can rush back cularly affected because the Inter­ inland waterway operators is be­ empty to their point of origin and state Commerce Commission has ing made by the Norfolk and refused to suspend the reduction Western Railway whose unit train refill. A spokesman for the Lake Car­ on the railroad rate for the trans­ rates are expected to affect the riers Association said that his port of bituminous coal in unit Lake Erie movement of coal. group does not fear "mere hard trains from Sunnyhill to Essex­ competition" from the railroads ville. The movement of coal in but is disturbed over the mono­ this manner will bypass Toledo polistic trend of unit trains. If which normally handles one mil­ the rail rates to Essexville had lion to 1.5 million tons of coal been accompanied by a similar annually. This coal is moved there reduction in the rate to the Toledo in trains and then shipped to Docks, "the situation would be Detroit by water. The ICC action is expected to different" and the waterway opera­ tors could compete more effec­ encourage further railroad incur­ sions into the waterway traffic in tively, he said. Both the Lake Carriers group coal. Traditionally in rate deci­ and the Port of Toledo rapped the sions affecting both railroads and Sunnyhill-Essexville rate on the inland waterway operators the grounds that the Central did not ICC has consistently favored the make proportional reductions for railroads. the rail-water route. Such selec­ If the Port of Toledo plans a 6£4FARF/ZSAND •mm FAMILIES: [31 �'September 16, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG Industrial Bond Financing Rapped As Anti-Labor Aid Assistant Director Frank Fernbach of the AFL-CIO's Department of Research recently urged Congress to put an end to state and local industrial bond financing, charging that the practice has been used by unscrupulous public officians in certain states to lure "runaway shops" to their areas with promises of cheap non-union labor and other inducements. Organized labor has long been concerned about the runaway shop. Now, with this idea of industrial piracy growing and spreading, the trade union movement is more concerned than ever before and is taking vigorous steps to combat this spreading menace. The plot of industrial bond financing is one of the most vicious of all devices used to induce a plant to forsake its Community and employees and become a runaway. The intent of Congress in giving state and local governments authority to issue tax-free bonds was that it be used exclusively for public purposes such as schools, highways, hospitals and the like. However, the AFL-CIO pointed out to Congress, a growing number of communities are using tax-free bond revenues in building indus­ trial sites to lure business from other areas. When these community-financed plants and factories are leased to employers, no capital outlay is required and rentals can be charged off as production costs, giving such employers a special tax advantage. Worse yet, these prospective companies are often permitted to buy the bonds issued to finance their own plants, thereby realizing added income in the form of tax-free interest payments. In inducing businesses to relocate in their areas, such state and local officials normally prey upon the fact that their citizenry suffers under the burden of unemployment, job insecurity and low wages. The fact is advertised that in such locations the prospective runaway employer will not be bothered by labor unions, stressing the fact that there is a vast supply of cheap non-union labor available to be un­ justly exploited. The problem of these runaway shops has been growing at an alarming rate in recent years. Hundreds of thousands of American workers have been victimized by plant piracy spurred by sweatshop wages, sub-standard state labor and welfare laws, and the induce­ ment of governmentally subsidized industrial bond financing. Even without government action there is something that can be done to help alleviate the problem. These runaway plants, taking unfair advantage of a cheap non-union labor supply and unfair tax exemption, cannot hope to sell all their products to the low-paid workers in the areas where they relocate. By looking for the Union Label before purchasing any product the American consumer can make it impossible for these runaways to exist. All the illegal and im­ moral advantages in the world won't help them if nobody buys their products. The Sheet Metal Workers In­ ternational has won its third straight representation election as part of a joint AFL-CIO orga­ nizing drive in Columbus, Ohio. The union beat a 21-year old company union in an election at the Lennox Industries, 291-253. There was 583 eligible to vote. — 4/ — The Retail, Wholesale, Depart­ ment Store Union has continued its successes in Alabama, orga­ nizing more than 200 workers in three separate representation elec­ tions. The three new union plants are the A. R. Taylor Veneer Co., the Griffith Packing Company and the Centralio Farmers' Co-op. A majority of workers in each of the plants are Negro. ^ The AFL-CIO has called on all affiliates to cease utilizing the services or subscribing to the products of the Bureau of Na­ tional Affairs, a Washington-based reporting service, -until the com­ pany reaches an honorable con­ tract and strike settlement with the Washington-Baltimore News­ paper Guild. The AFL-CIO Coun­ cil declared the strike was made necessary "because of the adament refusal of BNA to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement satisfactory to Guild member em­ ployees." BNA management has taken an '*dbstinate position," the Council said, and until it offers conditions leading to an honor­ able termination of" the strike, unions should not use its services. The Textile Workers Union of America has won a major orga­ nizing victory at the Pepperell Mills at Lindale, Georgia, its third southern success in recent weeks. The vote in the NLRB represen­ tation election was 1,139,-917 for the TWUA. Earlier the union had won bargaining elections among more than 600 workers at Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., North Charleston, South Carolina, and in a 300-worker linit at Spofford Mills in Wilmington, North Caro­ lina. 4^ President Johnson has an­ nounced that he will reappoint Gerald A. Brown, a career civil servant, to a second five-year term as a member of the Na­ tional Labor Relations Board. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce strongly opposed Brown's reap­ pointment, accusing him of being improperly pro-union but not sub­ mitting evidence to back the charge. Several businessmen wrote Johnson opposing Brown, and the C of C was reported to have sug­ gested five other candidates to the President. Brown joined the NLRB staff in February 1942. He served as a field examiner in the Chicago, Atlanta and Memphis offices and from 1947 until his first appointment to the Board by the late President Kennedy in 1961 he served as San Fran­ cisco regional director. Page Seven "It's Me Poor Mother I'm Thinking Of!" /I i •I [ The High Cost of Profits "Profits Boom—Economy Soars—Produc­ tivity Breaks All Records." Newspapers across the country have been blaring these headlines across their front pages for some time now and from a casual glance it would appear that all is well within the American economy. With profits and productivity surpassing all existing records it could be assumed by the reader of these headlines that the well-heeled American businessman is sharing the wealth with the American consumer by lowering the price of his goods to coincide with his good fortune. However, the American businessman has developed his own peculiar brand of mathe­ matics. Instead of lowering or at least stabiliz­ ing his prices he raises them. To justify the increases he then claims that the high wages won by unions are the reason for his price in­ crease and that any effort on his part in lower­ ing the cost of his product would surely result in economic disaster. A person would not have to be an econo­ mist to discover the illogic and deception which this explanation represents. Profits are com­ puted after all fixed costs of production—in­ cluding wages—are added on the balance sheets of a corporation. It is obviously not "union wages" which are responsible for the price increases. The rea­ son behind the big increases can be defined very simply as "greed." As always, it is the American consumer who is penalized for this profit greed through a re­ duction in his purchasing power at the market­ place. He is viewed by American business solely as a contributor to profits—never as one who shares through a reduction in the price of goods. The unions, cast in the role of whipping boy by management and many newspapers throughout the country, is a convenient ex­ planation for the continuing rise in the prices in consumer goods. However, it is clear that upon examination this explanation is inaccu­ rate and if a finger is to be pointed it can only be at a profit-hungry American business com­ munity. The Elections: What They Are All About All American workers have an important stake in the politics of our nation. The way in which tney participate in the national poli­ tics is by voting in, all city, state and federal elections. The laws and policies which are effected by the legislative and executive branches of our government affect the welfare and security of everyone and the people who are entrusted with the responsibility of government must be of direct concern to all of us. Important elections are coming up in No­ vember. Their importance should not be un­ derestimated. They involve more than the personalities of candidates. As the Committee on Political Education (COPE) of the AFL-CIO points out, the 1966 election involves a lot of things which American workers are concerned with. Like health care and doing something about our strangled cities. And providing the means for a better edu­ cation for all children. And doing something about the problems of the poor—and the children of the poor. And making sure that there is equality for all. And ridding our communities of slums and making jobs available for all employables. And we in the vital maritime industry have a special concern in the elections because it is so subject to laws and regulations that can spell the difference between its survival and its extinction. As workers, and as Seafarers, we must elect those candidates who will best protect, our in­ terests and welfare. Make sure you, and the other eligible mem­ bers of your family, register and vote this year. f I I �Page Eight September 16, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG ' yauttepSan^^Kpn^^Crain w6ri0^^n^^ of the Fairland which doclcedrecehfly in Port Eliza^^ With a container cargo after the Sealand-owned ship completed a coastwise trip. ^^upei^Vsaijed iilk^e Stevi^^ while Ronnie sailed In the Deck department^ • ill' Rupei^ i^utiet, df^ t^ depatfrhenb is> V Ramon Agum chief cook, Tielped keep Seafarers shown squaring away some tidbits in the ship's v well fed during the voyage. Ramon fakes time out pantry after Seafarers had enjoyed late snack. to grab a cigarette while waiting for his payoff. Tony Rabagb; BR, Is packing the crewmen's laundry while he and felloW crewmembers await payoff. The ship arrived in port several hours jate^aifter: it was caught in a stormi Seafarer Rrchard Rodgers provides musical entertainment for two of his shipmates, Herb Buchbinder and Bob Scotti. Brother Rodgers is a great fan of Al Hirt in New Orleans. ff the payoff in messroom are, left to right, Seafarers Leon Kermarec, M. Osman,Tony Rabago, and H; Buchbinder. They agreed it was good trip. The engine department's Ed Madeira, who sailed as an oiler aboard the Fairland, checks the gauges in the engine room before going up to the payoff. Ed Mad^rat cenfeW SlU iredresen^^^ Crain :r-_- i-/-',-'- mm over necessary payoff details with Matthews, left, as shipmate Ron �"r 'ill H- r -• September 16, 1966 ^^Ine departrnen G: Ortiz takes ' coffee. " for a 'hot• cup of SEAFARERS Jimmy Elliot of deck . department checks out •• «• LOG Page Nine Grouped around dinner table on SS Lohg Beach to enjoy hearty lunch are A, Guillen, Bill Rodgers, Gus Cetrakis, and Charles Misck, Jr. Long Beach was recent visitor to eastern coast and had a payoff in Port Elizabeth. The Sealand-owned ship was reported to have had a good voyage to West Coast ports and return, thanks to a good crew. •H • I •, >• )• 1; H ^ fSeveral crewmembers of the Isthmian ship Steel Sun^r are .seen on deck v^e the vessel - was tied up in Bayonne, New Jersey, awaiting a payoff for its SlU-manned crew.^The vesseUomplefed a gwiirrun to the Far East and the Seafarers reported a smooth voyage with no ma|or beefsv ,r-. K 1.1.1, u u 1.1.1.1.1.'t '"'iVv'."- Bill Hall, chief electrician aboard the Steel Surveyor, really isn't nude while he reads the LOS, It's just the angle that he was_ caught by the phptographeri Bill is a 19-year veteran of the SlU.' �Page Ten WghMo-Work'laws. Low Wages Still Go Together, Govt. Study Shows WASHINGTON—Statistics recently released by the Department of Labor once more show how closely low wages and state "right-to-work" laws go together. During the past five years, the report says the South has built up industry at a faster pace than most of the rest of the nation— variations in earnings between the state, Louisiana, has no "right-tobut at a price. Southern work­ North and South to differences in work" law affecting industrial ers are still the lowest paid in the the type of manufacturing—auto­ workers although it does have nation, with southern factory pro­ mobiles, aircraft and machinery one that affects agricultural work­ duction workers earning an aver­ in the North and textiles and ers. Hardly by chance, Louisiana age of $84.18 as compared with other soft goods in the South. has the highest weekly wage level an average of $125.05 in 10 It failed to draw conclusions in the South—$107.44 as com­ heavily organized Northern States. that are much more familiar to pared with Mississippi which is As a rule low Southern wages the American labor movement— the low man on the totem pole are generally blamed on the fact runaway plants that have been at­ with a weekly average of $74.98. that the South has been largely tracted to the South because of Alaska with $159.47 was high agricultural with a corresponding its low wage promises and the man in the North. Top wages in the United States low wage farm worker level. Most existence of "right-to-work" laws Southern farm workers are Ne­ that have been tailored to main­ were registered in Flint, Michigan, groes. The Labor Dept.'s statis­ tain this same low-wage scale and where they reached $166.26. Lowest, $69.38, were registered in tics, however, are limited to non- to keep out the union shop. farm jobs so that the wage com­ Of the 10 Southern states that Fall River, Massachusetts, victim parison with the industrialized have shown industrial growth dur­ of the textile flight to the South. North is relevant. ing the past five years, all but one The Labor Dept. attributed the is a "right-to-work" state. That Here is a weekly wage comparison between the 10 Southern states which have shown considerable industrial development and the 10 Northern states where labor organizations are generally strong. WEEKLY EARNINGS South Mississippi Arkansas No. Carolina So. Carolina Georgia Tennessee Virginia Florida Alabama Louisiana North $74.98 75.03 75.17 78.77 82.61 85.27 87.56 91.37 93.64 107.44 New Jersey Connecticut Oregon Illinois Indiana Washington California Ohio Michigan Alaska $112.34 113.25 117.01 117.28 121.66 122.06 123.83 r.... 127.02 143.79 159.47 SlU-Manned Vessel Aids In Rescue Of Solo Sailor, 72, In Mid-Atlantic •#m- M.' September 16, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG The SlU-manned Sapphire Gladys played an important role in the rescue of Capt. William Willis, a 72-year-old sailor, who was stricken ill in mid-ocean during a lone voyage to Europe. Sapphire Gladys crew members spotted ^ Willis' distress and radioed the hospitalized briefly, Willis said Coast Guard, which dispatched - that there were times he despaired a cutter to pick him up and rush of ever being picked up. When he needed aid, he said, he saw "a few him to a hospital. ships in the distance, but they The Sapphire Gladys and Willis' didn't stop." eleven-foot boat, the Little One, It was a magnificent moment, met 850 miles out of New York he related, when he saw the Sap­ on the North Atlantic. Willis had phire Gladys. "By luck, the Sap­ set sail on June 22 in his small phire Gladys came straight out of craft on a lone voyage to England. the mists, right at me, and still The Sapphire Gladys was bound she passed by. I'd been waiting for Holland. for weeks and I knew that I was After flying to New York from really cooked—then she swung New Foundland where he was around." Skipper Willis told the crew­ men of the Sapphire Gladys that he thought he was suffering from a strangulated hernia. The" mes­ sage was related to Coast Guard headquarters in New York. The cutter Ingham was immediately dispatched to assist him. Solo voyages are not new to William Willis. He has crossed the Pacific in 115 days and has also navigated a 204-day trip from South America to Australia. Willis had been given honorary masters papers by the Coast Guard prior to leaving New York on his Atlantic adventure, mak­ ing his cairtain's title official. Cap­ tain Willis first went to sea aboard a square-rigger out of Hamburg. Before setting sail across the Atlantic Captain Willis addressed himself to today's world: "Now Capt William Willis waves from there are fewer and fewer things II-foot craft In which he at­ that are not easy for a man to do. tempted Atlantic crossing. He To do something easy would be to became III 850 miles out of New submit to old age. That I will Ypckandwas-spottedijy-SIU^hip. never do." Semrte OKs t2-Mile U. S. Ushing limit WASHINGTON — The Senate has passed a bill setting up a 12mile exclusive U.S. fishery zone. The measure is aimed chiefly at keeping Russian and Japanese fish­ ing fleets away from the Ameri­ can coast. The bill will add about 120,000 square miles to the 38,000 square miles set aside for U.S. fishermen within the present three-mile zone. The measure, cleared by voice vote without opposition, has been sent to the House. Once the bill becomes law, the Coast Guard would enforce it just as it does the three-mile zone. The Soviet Union had previous­ ly entered into a tentative agree­ ment with the U.S. to observe a 12-mile zone along the U.S. West Coast in which Russian vessels would not engage in fishing. The tentative agreement was reached through efforts of the SIUNA-affiliated West Coast fisherman's un­ ions and California Governor Ed­ mund G. Brown. The measure would, in effect, put the United States in the same position as 50 other countries, in­ cluding Canada, which have adopt­ ed the 12-mile zone. Only 15 nations still observe the three-mile zone. The 12-mile bill has been intro­ duced in the House by Rep. Hast­ ings Keith (R-Mass.), who said that the longer we allow other coun­ tries to operate within our waters, the more "customary" will their presence become until, through in­ ternational usage, we are forced to consider their presence as "tradi­ tional." YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH Se a f a r e r' s G u i d e t o B e 11 e r B u y i n g . By Sidney Margolius Keenly aware that in an age of advancing technology it's getting harder to sell just labor, U. S. unions are making a determined effort to see that labor's children get their chance for advanced education too. In recent weeks, conferences sponsored by state and city labor councils in Ohio, New York City and other areas have spotlighted both the need for more public colleges, and for helping working families learn about financial aids. George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO, has said that we need a national educational policy, "that will finally eliminate financial barriers to higher education," and that "the heart of such a program should be tuition-free publicly-supported institutions." To achieve that goal of eliminating the financial barriers to higher education Lawrence Rogin, AFL-CIO Director of Education, has warned that we really need more and better low-cost junior colleges and four-year colleges in the home community of the students. Proxim­ ity always means more attendance, and also lower costs. It is possible to attend a junior college or other public college near home as a total cost of $500 to $1000 a year for everything but cloth­ ing. At state universities and colleges, if you live on campus, costs now average about $1700-$1800 a year. At most private colleges total costs now range from $3000 to $3500. Families also need realistic, detailed information on all available financial aids. In addition to parents' contribution and students' term-time and vaca­ tion earnings the major sources of money for college are scholarships and loans. Some unions, including the SIU, offer annual scholarship awards to children of union members. The SIU Scholarship program provides five $6,000 scholarships annually to Seafarers and their dependents. While most scholarships still are provided by the colleges themselves, a number of new Federal programs will be of help to moderate and low-income families. But be warned that these new programs may be more available in some areas than others, and that they are still limited in the number of students they can help. Actually, the best-informed families, who act earliest, may get the most benefit from -the new Fed­ eral aids. One new Federal program in the "work-study" awards for students from families who can contribute little or nothing towards college costs. The jobs are provided through the college. Eligible are students from three-person families with incomes of $3200 or less; four-person, with $4000 or less, and up to $6200 for families of eight. Students can earn about $275 a term under this program. Another new Federal aid program is the "Educational Opportunity Grants." Preference is given to students whose parents can contribute less than about $600 a year towards college. These grants range from $200 to $800 a year. A student in the upper half of his class may be awarded an additional $200. But no award may exceed 50 per cent of the college's estimate of the student's need. The balance must come from other specified sources such as scholarship, loans, or earnings. The actual amount awarded is based on the family's income and size. For example, a student who is one of three children from a family with a little over $6000 a year income, can receive $400 a year. Both the work-study and educational-opportunity programs are ad­ ministered by the participating colleges, and application is made to them whether your child is planning to go or already enrolled. One feature that parents, and their unions and other community organiza­ tions should know about, is that the colleges have agreed to work with high schools in identifying needy promising students, and are permitted to make conditional commitments to students while still in high school. Also, and very fortunately, the law specifically says that students merely need to be admissible or in good standing. They do not have to show superior achievement, as they must for many other scholar­ ships. Another growing method of assembling money for college is through loans. We would recommend them only as a last resort. In working families, the student usually has to repay himself, and begins life with what can be a heavy debt. However, a loan often can make the difference between finishing college and not. The lowest-cost loans are the National Defense Education Act loans. The interest rate is just 3 per cent and does not start accruing until a year after graduation. If a student goes into teaching, ten per pent of the loan is cancelled for each year, up to a total of 50 per cent. You apply for an NDEA loan to the college itself. Most Advantageous The NDEA loans are the most advantageous. Unfortunately, the Ad­ ministration has been trying to kill them off, and substitute a new pro­ gram of Federally-guaranteed loans made through banks but with the interest partly paid by the Federal government if the family's adjusted income is under $15,000. Congress, however, enacted the new loan program but refused to eliminate the NDEA loans. This is fortunate because the NDEA loans are more likely to go to students who really need them, and also will be less costly to the Govermnent. One authority estimates that it wiU cost the Government about 50 per cent more to make the new guaran­ teed loans through banks than through the colleges. Moreover, not all banks may be willing to provide the new subsidized loans. Because of generally high interest rates and "tight money" this year, the banks may be able to get more interest for their funds from other types of loans. For example, THE WASHINGTON STAR recently reported that Virginia banks were found to be either refusing to make the new loans i. �September 16, 1966 Anger Seaiarer ToTbeEditon Reading about tbe Republi[ Jeans who are going to represent jtbeir party In the fall election Ips like rcgding a sad story in an |old history book in wiiich you jknow what the outcome will be. [ley are going to lose. The people are tired of the iright-wing nuts, with the little old ladies in sneakers, with the cigar chomping fat cats, who are trying to save us from unAmerican plots that just do not exist. While they holler wolf to get our attention off in one direc­ tion, they arc busy stabbing us in the back with their attempts to do in the labor movement and anything that represents the little guy. It happened in Germany, but it ain't gonna happen here. Every little guy will be out in November voting against the right-wing nuts. I know I'll be there. Pan! Black LETTERS To The Editor Seafarer Enjoys Heading LOG To iBe Editor: The LOG is a fine publication and I look forward to reading it every time I can. It gives us a 'good idea of just what is really coming off in the world of mari­ time and I for ope, find it very interesting. It was particularly interesting to find QUt just how the SIU is handling the manning situation aboard the ships going to Viet Nam, Thanks for printing the guide in the LOG as to where we can get a copy of the newspaper in the. various, ports we visit. It is a very handy thing .to have. Ke^p up thd good work. • Art'loaes ^ Mrdther \; ^TbeEdtttNr: I think that Seafarer William Calefato is doing a heck of a good job in telling us just what is what in the ports he goes to. I faaye been following him for many years in the LOG and he always gets some piece of in­ formation across to us that is a big help when we go ashore. The way the Indian merchants operate is just one of the many interesting things that Seafarer Calefato has let us in on. I would like to take this opportunity to; •thank •him,.• ' ,TO:Thie:':E^ I think the recent bombing of the Baton Rouge Victory in Viet Nant, has impressed on people the ihart played in the war cft by the merchant marine, .don't believe Our industry getting it's fair share credit but witbqiut the efforts of U.S. seamen, our fighting men WoiiM not be get - Pmge Eleven SEAFARERS LOG that imtead of encotirapig ftie"^ merchant marine, many people, including Govemraeot leaders, are doing their best to scuttle us. I hope it does not take any more seamen's lives to show people that the merchant rharine is doing its part in Viet Nam. lack SalKvan SIU Member Pub Aside Easy Living in Visit With Ethiopinu Tribesmen In his many years of sailing, veteran SIU member Philip Frank has been to most of the ports of the world and seen enough of its inhabitants and their customs to satisfy ordinary curiosity. Phil Frank has more than ordinary curiosity and for a long time he was bugged by a desire to SIU Solves Brother's visitButa little-known group of peo­ Hearing Problem ple living in the heart of the To the EditoR Ethiopian wilds. Brother Frank planned his trip I was greatly pleased and hap­ py recently when I received for years. And he made it. Back in the SIU hall in New York notice that the SIU welfare plan was granting me $275 for a hear­ waiting to ship out again, Frank described to the SEAFARERS ing aid here in Wilmington. LOG last week his recent sixI went to the medical center month vacation trip during which and received my hearing aid he realized his long-time dream. which is an advance model and "I went from New York to perfect for me. I do hot have Southampton, England, to visit sufficient words to express my relatives and then embarked for thanks and gratitude to the South Africa on the passenger Union and the welfare plan for ship Windsor Castle. I got off at their generous grants to me and Cape Town, flew to Johannesburg my wife over the past years. to visit more relatives and then Therefore, I will say very hum­ made my way to Ethiopia," he bly, "God bless you all.^' said. Best of everything to the SIU. Seafarer Frank said that he did BfllHjirt all his traveling on the trip— — which was to take him also to Switzerland, Germany, Seafarer Philip Frank, right, tells LOG reporter about his many Back Merchant Fleet,^ Israel, Denmark and Sweden—on a shoe­ adventures during the six-month trip he took, in which he toured SIU Wife Urges Africa, explored Ethiopian wilds and visited Europe and Israel. string budget. "No fancy hotels for me," he ToTheEiUtoR said, "I always stayed at a rea­ peppers. The spicy Abyssinian in Gondar was a simple building My husband and I want to sonable spot and walked every­ food was more than his stomach with only a Star of David adorn­ ffiank you sincerely for the help where I went instead of taking could take. But he didn't want ing the facade. But the friend­ we have received from the SIU cabs or buses. I had plenty of to offend the hospitable Ethio­ liness of the people was almost Welfare Plan. We couldn't have time." managed a big hospital hill with­ pians by refusing to eat with overwhelming. One Falasa by the The main purpose of his ex­ name of Samuel accompanied out it. It certainly helped by pay­ them. pedition was to satisfy a five-yearSeafarer Frank as he went about ing the greatM- amount of the "I told a small untruth," he old desire to see the "Falasy" said, "which made them feel Gondar "as a kindness, not as a hospital hill. people, who are an ancient group better about my not eating. I guide but a friend." I would also like to urge other of Ethiopian Jews who have been said that my doctor ordered me The Falasy, he discovered, are wives of seamen to get bdbind living in the land of the Queen an agricultural people who in­ their husbands and write a letter not to eat any hot, spicy foods of Sheba almost beyond recorded habit one-room huts and work to President Johnson to plead for and they were never offended history. their fields in the most primitive the future of the Merchant Ma­ when I refused to eat." When Frank arrived at Addis manner. They also are cowherds rine. I've already written my Once in Gondar, Seafarer Frank who managed to "keep up a few Ababa he almost turned back in­ letter.. [,-•••• • had another two-day trip in front herds of skinny cows," Frank I hope wiv^ of seamen under­ stead of continuing because the of him to visit the Falasy village said. $185 price quoted to him by an stand the problems caused by the of Ambober. He was taken there Ethiopian travel agency was too Every Thursday was market decline in American-flag ships; by an Israeli official. Dr. Felzer, day in Gondar for the Falasy. high. But luck was with him. At Perhaps many of your husbands his hotel Frank met some mem­ who was sent to treat the Falasy. They traveled by cart and on have the same problem as mine. bers of the Peace Corps who man­ Other Israelis in the area taught foot from their villages carrying The sea is his lif^ the only liveli­ aged to set him straight on the the Ethiopian Jews to speak He­ the simple goods and clay objects hood he knows. So lets get be­ price for overland travel in Ethi­ brew and better their condition to be bartered or sold in the city, hind them and write. The situa­ opia. They helped Frank get a bus in many ways. he said. tion Is desperate. At his first meeting with the ticket to Gondar, the ancient Legend has it, Frank noted, Ethiopian capital. It cost only Falasy, Frank found that they that King Solomon, who had a acted and looked like any other son by the Queen of Sheba, sent $12. The two-day trip to Gondar Ethiopians. They ate the same the original altar of the old Tem­ S^fdmF Thinks was pretty bad for Frank. He had hot, peppery foods, except for ple in Jerusalem to Ethiopia and Abaut Metire^ to bring his own water and live raw flesh. They followed certain that it was near Gondar. To the Editor: ^ . on bananas. The Ethiopians, he traditional dietary laws and a "But I didn't see it," he said Having already reached thO^ explained, are fond of raw meat rudimentary form of Judaism. sadly. Very few things have been They wore no skull caps, Frank of 60,^ after many years i and all their national dishes were preserved by the Falasy except explained, and their Synagogue ^^ming my living as a seamanj | made, it seemed, with fiery-hot their tradition of religion. Even T am starting to think about hOvy the real number of Falasy is I am going to spend my time doubtful. Some say there are SIU Pensioner when r retire. ' 300,000 Falasy while others esti­ I don't think that it is too early mate 50,000." to give this matter some serious f Seafarer Frank was, despite thought as I have seen far toO;J his interesting time, pretty happy many men enter their retirement . to be home again and telling totally unprepared, and all they brother Seafarers in the New seem to dp is complain abpuf J York hall about his adventures. how bored they are. It seems to.. . "But," he said, "after all that m'e that boredoifi is the ailment time traveling about I had better of those who retire. WO.se^eiJ I ship out again. Vacation is over." have a decent pension plan that When he asked what sort of ship holds money worries to a mini- i he would like to get on, he said, mum so that leaves us with : "one going to any foreign port. plenty of time on our hands. You can see a lot more that way." T do not think that retirement need be a retirement from Ufe. I. think that there are many hob­ bies and ihtefest? that veloped so that retirement comes a blessing instead of some-J thing that is dreaded. It is also important for a re­ tiree to maintain an interest Seafarer oldtimer Johannes Karl receives his first regular monthly issues 'MO&BTTHB pension from SIU rep. Ed Mooney at New York headquarters. Karl MBMBgffSOP _ was born tm; Estonia and sailed in the deck gang. He joined the Ya/v FAMILY TO oo eo,TCvl — 4> — muSTEi SIU in New York City whye^he ^ow makes his home with hi? wife., A- r i i I,. 1 �rPage Twehre September 16, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG 51(1 Lifeboat Class No. 159 Graduates f ' iV^ HARRY LUNDEBER6 SCHOOL-/SEAMANSHIP tf^BOAT CLASS 15Q 0/i4DiJ4T7A/G4i/G.9./9L>L> SlU Lifeboat Class No. 159 assembled for graduation photo after successfully completing lifeboat training course at Harry Lundeburg School of Seamanship in New York. Newest additions to the ranks of SlU lifeboat ticket holders are (l-r, kneeling): Tommy Noeth, Frank D'Andrea, Doug Gregory, and Doug Hastings. Seated, l-r, are: Lauro Rimbalado, John Doran, Mansjor Silalahi, and Oscar Womack. Standing, l-r: Jose Basilio, Stan Kalasa, John Spahr, Terrance Fox and lifeboat class instructor. Ami Bjornsson. J Ruthann Renee Tingle, born May 26, 1966, to the Oliver Tin­ gles, Newark, Delaware. ^ ^ Randall Broadus, bom August 4, 1966, to the Henry Broadus, Mobile,. Alabama. ^ James Gregory Dicus, born April 25, 1966, to the James Dicus', Clifton, Tenn. Michele Elaine Mayo, born Au­ gust 15, 1966, to the John Mayos, Ridgefield, New Jersey. i Frank Perez, born July 6, 1966, to the Laureano C. Perezs, Balti­ more, Maryland. ^ Robert Earl Goss, born August 12, 1966, to the Robert E. Goss', Natchez, Mississippi. f 1 i Al , J' , i Sandra Daniels, born August 5, 1966, to the John J. Daniels', Toms River, New Jersey. — Brenda Kay Ross, bom July 17, 1966, to the Ernest J. Ross', Al­ pena, Mich. Michael Kelly WniUiez, born August 11, 1966, to the IMward Wuilliezs, Kent, Washington. II •« I?' Elsa Gonzales, born July 4, 1966, to the Ramiro Gonzales', Houston, Texas. ^ Joseph A. Bethez, born August 2, 1966, to the Edward Bethezs, Philadelphia, Penna. Lorine F. Wolff, born June 24, 1966, to the Justin T. Wolffs, New Orleans, La. <1> John Marano, born August 16, 1966, to the Anthony Maranos, New Orleans, La. Avery Wade Henry, born July 28, 1966, to the George Henrys, Bridge City, Texas. <|> Esther Marie Gnillard, bom May 4, 1966 to the Anthony Guillards, Sault St. Marie, Mich. ^ Ruhen Rocha, bom August 19, 1966, to the C. Rochas, San An­ tonio Texas. Rene Lee Campbell, born June 21, 1966, to the A. C. Campbells New Orleans, La. William Thomas Harrington, born February 14, 1966, to the James P. Harringtons, Corona, New York. Ship's delegate on the Steel Scientist (Isthmian), Jack Farrand, took advantage of a recent regular ship's meeting to call his fellow crewmembers' attention to the importance of contributing to the ship's fund as often as possible. The amount collected, Farrand pointed out, could be utilized in the future for such things as sending telegrams to the Union on behalf of crewmembers The projector cost $250, meeting delegate on the Del Aire (Delta), told his fellow hospitalized in a secretary Angel Seda stated. A Seafarers, he foreign port, or vote of thanks was extended to would only take for any number Palmer from the entire crew for the job on the f of other emergen­ the fine job he did. Byron Barnes was elected to serve as new dele­ condition all beefs cies that arise. come through the Meeting Secretary gate. department heads. F. S. Omega Some painting will writes that the When good chow is served on be done soon on steam connected a ship everyone is happy and the the crew passage­ to the crew's cof­ Chameco Farrand crew of the Bel­ way, meeting sec­ fee um is not gium Victory (Is­ retary F. R. Chameco writes. No working properly and the ship's thmian) is no ex­ beefs were reported. The steward delegate will see the chief engineer ception. Meeting department extended a vote of about the problem as soon as pos­ chairman V. Tar- thanks to deck department men sible. Coffee-loving Seafarers are allo reports the for keeping the pantry clean. watching the situation carefully. steward depart­ Omega writes that the trip has ment did a good been a smooth one with no beefs job on the Viet and a good crew. R. Hunt, meeting chairman on Nam run. Tarallo the San Francisco (Sea Land), re­ Tarallo was elected new ported the captain Things are falling into place on ship's delegate and told crewmem­ gave crewmem­ Our Lady of Peace (Liberty), ac­ bers he would not listen to any bers draw pay for cording to Gibson phony beefs. The ship has a new shore leave in Coker, meeting washing machine, meeting clerk Oakland. Seafar­ chairman, and J. Storer reports. Storer said Sea­ ers were in port there have been farers were reminded to turn in five days with the no beefs brought their soiled linen promptly. payoff coming in to the attention of San Francisco. the ship's dele­ Bill Starke, meet­ Staike gate. H. CarmiRecording Secretary M. Dunn ing secretary, said chael, meeting reports that the Del Sud (Delta) a vote of thanks was extended to secretary, writes has had a good the steward department. There Coker that the crew is voyage. The Sea­ were no beefs and it was a good looking forward to receiving mail farers were re­ voyage. when they reach their next port. minded, however, Everything is going smoothly with to try and avoid RECORDER (Tsthmian), June no beefs and no disputed overtime. ?6—Chaiman, . Charlea . W. Palmer ; the breakage of Secretory, Angel Seda. Ship's delegate glasses and dishes. reported that everything is running ^1> $260.00 in ship's fund went for W. Folse, the new smoothly. new 16 nun soitpd projector. Brother A vote of thanks was extended Byron C. Barnes was elected to serve treasurer, reports as new ship's to the deck department by the delegate. Vote of thanks $18 in the ship's was given to Brother Charles W. Palmer steward of the Guerrero from all the crew a job well done as fund and $26 in ship's delegate lastforvoyage. Hattieshurg Victory (Alcoa) for the movie fund. Engine delegate their cooperation O. Guerrero reports one man was EAGLE VOYAGER (United Maritime), in keeping the hospitalized in Santos. A few August 20—Chairman, J, C. Hunt; Secretary. C. Craven, Jr. Elverything messhall and pan­ minor beefs were settled at the is runningW.smoothly. 3 men in deck dgsartment getting off ship. Plenty of try clean during payoff in New Orleans, according OT and no beefs in engine department. watches at night, to recording secretary James Steward requested to order more milk when in .port. Tucker. meeting chairman Jim Bartlett re­ Stirk ports. Robert James Ahem, ship's delegate on Byrnes was elected ship's dele­ the Columbia (Columbia), reports gate. F. S. Stirk, Jr., meeting sec­ some bad luck hit retary, reported a smooth trip to the crew on a re­ Viet Nam, ending with a payoff cent voyage. Two in Seattle. men were taken ill and had to be left in Morocco in a Crewmembers aboard the Steel doctor's care as Recorder (Isthmian) will have the ship headed movies to keep for Korea. Boots them happy on r JIHLWAUKEE CLIPPER (Wtectmste-i Smith, AB, was .Michigan). future trips, meet­ Ahem August 20—Chairman, Wil-i recovering from i Jjam L. Warcnton: Secretory, Leon! ing chairman I Striler. Motion was made that crew be' Charles Palmer illness and the night cook and i P5>4 .?2.00 subsistence for being reused steak for supper. Crewmembers reports. A 16mm baker, L. L. Ortego, suffered two ;f additional request something besides watermelon sound projector broken ribs in an accident. For­ |for dessert, and home-made soup to be ij served hot, • was purchased in tunately, the broken bones are New York from healing nicely, Ahern writes. the ship's fund ; (Delta), August 22—Chait> Palmer man, M. R. Johnson; Secretary, B, C. and $10 was spent Blodgett. $26.10 in ship's fund. No dis­ puted OT and no beefs feiported by d«in San Francisco for renting films. ^rtment delekotes. <1/ �eptember 16, 1966 FINAL DEPARTURES ChariM McMuIIin, 61: Brother [McMullin, a tugboat captain and member of the IBU, died in Jack­ sonville, Florida, June 28, after an illness, in St. Luke's Hospital, 'j McMullin was last employed by the C. G. Willis Com­ pany, Orange Park, Fla. A pensioner at the time of death, McMullin is sur­ vived by his wife, Ethel. A resi­ dent of Jacksonville, he was born in Florida. He joined the IBU in the port of. Philadelphia. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery, Jack­ sonville. of Lindenhurst, N. Y. Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery, Bay Shore, Lf T* Manuel Fernandez, 67: Seafarer Fernandez died Aug. 17, in Balti­ more, Md., after an illness. Brother Fernandez was re­ tired after sailing in the engine de­ partment. He was born in Spain and joined the SIU in the port of Phila­ delphia. A pen­ sioner, the Seafarer had sailed over 30 years on American-flag vessels. Burial was in Oak Lawn cemetery, Baltimore. Robert Quinn, 28; Brother Quinn died Feb. 14, after a coro­ nary occlusion, on a ship at sea near Morehead, N. C. He joined the Un­ ion in the port of New York. Quinn resided in Cherry Valley, N. Y., with his mother, Mrs. Katherine Quinn. An OS in the deck depart­ ment, his last vessel was the Choc­ taw. Burial was at Fort Plain, N. Y. George Zellinger, 64: Heart fail­ ure took the life of Brother Zellinger, Aug. 13, in St. Joseph Hospi­ tal, Baltimore, Md. Born in Balt­ imore, where he also joined the Union, Brother Zellinger was a member of the United Industrial Workers of North America. A warehouseman, he was employed by the Hill-Chase Steel Co. He is survived by his wife, Catherine. Burial was in Oaklawn Cemetery, Baltimore. Stephen J. Bruce, 58: A heart ailment claimed the life of Brother Bruce, Aug. 1, at the Beekman Hos­ pital, Manhattan. Brother Bruce sailed in the deck department and joined the Union in the port of New York. A resident I of Ramsey , N. J., he lived with his wife, Jennie. Bruce was employed by the ErieLackawanna R. R. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Ar­ lington, N. J. Donald DeMarco, 36: Seafarer DeMarco died May 19, in Doc­ tor's Hospital, Se­ attle, Wash., fol­ lowing an illness. He was born in Seattle and joined the Union in that port. DeMarco sailed in the deck department. His last vessel was the Loma Victory. Surviving is his mother, Mrs. Dorothea DeMarco of battle. Burial was in Washington Memorial Cemetery, Seattle. John Van Dyk, 70: A heart attack claimed the life of Brother Van Dyk, August 26. Van Dyk re­ tired in 1964 after 55 years at sea. He sailed in the deck department and had sailed on square riggers in his youth. Born in Amsterdam, Hol­ land, he got his first job as a cabin boy at 14. A member of the SIU for many years, his last vessel was the Geneva. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Janet M. Schwizer Earl Savoy, 51: Brother Savoy died on Aug. 19, aboard the Steel Chemist of heart disease. He had previously sailed on the Hastings. Savoy joined SIU in Norfolk. Born in Milton, Ver­ mont, he lived in Portsmouth, Va., with his wife, Eth­ el. The Seafarer sailed as an AB in the deck department. He was a veteran of World War II. Burial was in Hampton National Ceme­ tery, Hampton, Va. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., J Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 t Page Thirteen SEAFARERS LOG • . I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG-please put my narnoph your mailing . Door-to-Door Selling In the Far East Goes ShIp-to-ShIp With Bum Boats In Asia, if the customer won't if the customer happens to be far shopkeeper takes to the water. Seafarers often come upon such curious sea-borne shop­ keepers in a number of the Ori­ ental ports sailing little sampantype craft known as "bum ships" or "bum boats," which carry just about anything from cheap trin­ kets to the most modern radios, cameras and other electrical appli­ ances. "Skip" Wilcox, Wilcox who sails in the deck department, told the LOG that Singapore is one port where many of these bum boats operate. "I've seen them many times coming to a ship in Singapore Harbor. They generally sell good stuff and are comparatively hon­ est tradesmen. Most of the equip­ ment they sell is Japanese-made, but of good quality," he stated. Wilcox said that the floating shopkeepers don't have to rely on gimmicks to make a sale. "Seafarers are ready to buy," he said, "and look forward to these people coming aboard. It's a real interesting thing to watch how a whole bunch of bum boat peddlers operate. They all come to the ship, climb aboard with their goods by tossing up lines and pulling their merchandise after them or carrying it on their backs. Pretty soon the deck is an out­ door marketplace. They get dressed up in fancy western clothes, probably figuring it will entice the seaman and about thirty or forty usually come aboard and set up shop—even women and sometimes children. James A. Esson Please contact John E. Axtell, St. Louis County, Minnesota, as soon as possible in regard to a very important matter. A bum boat operator in Bombay, India, pulls up alongside SlU-man-' ned ship in an effort to sell his goods to the crew. The suitcases visible in the boat contain the merchant's varied goods. The women frequently peddle beer, Wilcox said. They have some good buys and a Seafarer can save money by buying a camera or radio from these people. The age-old oriental method of buying goods by haggling over the price must always be observed, Wilcox warned. "You have to bargain with them," he explained. "They start with one figure, usually way above the value of the article and you ask for less, then you both neg­ otiate until an agreeable figure is reached. It's fun." As a matter of strict propriety, Wilcox noted, a United States-flag merchant ship should not be a floating open air-market once you get to port. But he added, even if the captain wanted to keep them off, he would have a hard time. The bum boat operators are per­ sistent salesmen who even make Fuller Brush salesmen look like pikers. Captains often are steady bum boat customers and they like the idea. The port authorities don't make much of an attempt at stopping these people because many of them just make enough to live on. But bum boat operators don't seem as numerous as they once did, most seamen agree. One Seafarer notes that he was told by several people that these merchants were dishonest and should be avoided. But from his own observation he has since de­ cided that the men who operate the bum ships are not beggars or crooks but simply tradesmen who are working for a living. Like other business men, some of the merchants are reliable and others are not, and the Seafarer soon learns to spot which is which. One big drawback to buying items from these bum boat mer­ chants is that there's no guarantee you will be satisfied with what you get. If an article is damaged or ever needs repair work, it might be extremely difficult to find the chap who sold it to you. This is not necessarily the case however. In many places in the world some of the most reputable businessmen will go down to the docks to meet ships in hopes of selling their wares. In Rotterdam, for instance, there is a jewelry dealer working the dock areas who many Seafarers claim you could trust with your life. He hands out regular business cards and is always available in case there is a complaint about mer­ chandise or an adjustment to make. SIU Tugmen Heinrick Viik Please contact your wife, Lu­ cille, at 4230 Union St., Flushing, New York, as soon as you can. ^ BUI Dzelak Please contact your daughter as soon as possible, at the following address: 2527 Salmon St., Phila­ delphia, Pa. Haik J. Alexanderian Please contact your brother, S. A. Alexanderian, 165-14 65th Avenue, Flushing 65, New York, as soon as you can. — TO AVOID DUPUCAJI^NS ff yoy ara an old subscriber and have a^chan^ei ofaddreM, please fllvsr ¥6<«r former address below: go to the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper will go to the customer—and out in the harbor and willing to spend a little money, well then, the — Jack N. Dews Jack N. Dows is a patient in the Plantation Nursing Home, 7300 Chef Menteur Highway, New Or­ leans, La., and would appreciate hearing from his old friends in the SIU. Joe Gavin, John Maggie, and Captain C. Silchrest of SlU-IBU, relax awhile on deck of tag, Barbara George (G & H Towing). They helped move oil rig to new location in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo was taken by a veteran Seafarer J. W. Parker. Parker found that sailing a tug "sure is different from sailing deep sea." Parker said the G & H IBU men voted 95 percent SIU during attempted takeover by Teamsters. > <0 «' « �Page Fourteen SEAFARERS LOG September 16, 1966 _ SCIENTIBT (UthmiBn), August '27—Chnirmaii, John Farrand; Secretary, •P. S. Omega. No beefs and eveTytblng Is running smoothly. Ship's delegate sug­ gested that each crewmembcr make donation to the ship's fund. Ship should be fumigated for roaches. Suggestion made that sanitation must be observed in the crew's meeshall. DO NOT BUY SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New York . . Oct. 3—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia . Oct. 4—2:30 p.m. Baltimore ... Oct. 5—2:30 p.m. Detroit Oct. 14—2:30 p.m. Houston .... Oct. 10—2:30 p.m. New Orleans. Oct. 11—2:30 p.m. Mobile Oct. 12—2:30 p.m. Wilmington . Oct. 17—2 p.m. San Francisco Oct. 19—2 p.m. H. I. Siegel Seattle Oct 21—2 p.m. "HIS" brand men's clothes Great Lakes SlU Meetings (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) Detroit Oct. 3—2 p.m. Alpena Oct. 3—7 p.m. Buffalo Oct. 3—7 p.m. Chicago Oct. 3—7 p.m. Sears, Roebuck Company Cleveland Oct. 3—7 p.m. Retail stores & products Duluth Oct. 3—7 p.m. (Retail Clerks) Frankfort Oct. 3—7 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and — Dredge Region Detroit Oct. 10—^7:30 p.m. Stitzel-Weller DistiUeries Milwaukee .. Oct. 10—7:30 p.m. "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" Chicago ... .Oct. 11—7:30 p.m. "Cabin StiU," W. L, Weller tSauIt Ste. Marie Bourbon whi^eys Oct. 13—7:30 p.m. (Distillery Workers) Buffalo Oct. 12—7:30 p.m. Duluth Oct. 14—^7:30 p.m. Cleveland . .. Oct. 14—7:30 p.m. Toledo Oct. 14—^7:30 p.m. J. R. Simplot Potato Co. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union Frozen potato products Philadelphia ... Oct. 4—5 p.m. (Grain Millers) Baltimore (licensed and unlicensed) .. Oct. 5—5 p.m. Norfolk Oct^ frr-S p.m. Houston Oct. 10—5 p.m. Kingsport Press New Orleans .. .Oct. 11—5 p.m. "World Book," "Cbildcraft" Mobile Oct. 12—5 p.m. (Printing Pressmen) Railway Marine Region (Typographers, Bookbinders) Jersey Oty (Machinists, Stereotypers) Oct. 10—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Philadelphia — — Oct. 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Jamestown Sterling Cmp. Oct. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. (United Furniture Workers) •Norfolk Oct. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) <I> ^l> Empire State Bedding Co. "Sealy Mattresses" (Textile Workers) White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes ... Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) Di Giorgio Fruit Corp. S and W Fine Foods Treesweet (National Farm Workers Association) h i •\ I I ' L ' For obvious reasons the sannot pirint any letters or AW -AMD&BnU£\ MEMBSffSOF _ '^oue FAMILY TODCSO,TCO! United Industrial Workers New York Oct. 3—7 p.m. Philadelphia . .. Oct. 4—7 p.m. Baltimore Oct 5—7 p.m. ^Houston Oct. 10—7 p.m. New Orleans . . .Oct. 11—7 p.m. Mobile Oct.l2—7 p.m. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sanlt Ste. Marie. Mich. • Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News, t Meeting held at Galeeaton ^harrea. DIRECTOttYbf IINION HALLS HI • -I SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall GLOBE TRAVELER (Maritime Overseas), Auguet 31 — Chairman, Eddie Sylvester: Secretary, Joe Saxon. Broth­ er Tucker was elected to serve as .ship's delegate. Beck delegate reported that mew men on deck doing very well for tirst trip to sea. Btscussion with the Captain to try and get an awning around cook's rooms. Captain said that the Company will put two ice machines on ship. DEL -aOL (DelU), August 7—Chair­ man, L. J. Bollinger; Secretary, R. E. .Stough, Jr. Ship sailed short one O.S. in deck department, otherwise everything is running smoothly. $66.30 in ship's fund. Brother Fred Fagan was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Crew requested ,lo keep natives out of crew's quarters '^ GENEVA (U.S. Steel), August' 20— .'Chairman, V. L. Stankiewiez; Secretary, Larry Frost. Galley work to be done In shipyard. $8.00 in ship's fund. No beefs reimrted by department delegates. KENT (American Bulk Carriers), Au­ gust 14—Chairman, E. P. Covert; Sec­ retary, Ralph Collier. $2.44 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine de­ partment, otherwise everything is run­ ning smoothly with no beefs. Brother p. P. Covert was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Pood is very good and the steward department was given a vote of thanks. In return the steward depart­ ment thanked the crew for helping to keep the messroom clean. COTTONWOOD CREEK (Bulk Trans­ port), August 14—Chairman, M. D. Brightwell; Secretary. R, Hebert. No beefs and no disputed OT reported. Brother F. Dickerson was re-elected to serve as ship's delegate and was given a vote of thanks for a Job well done. Vote of thanks to the steward department. EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Gal Tanner Earl Shapard Al Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Lindsay Williams Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS ALPENA. Mich BALTIMORE, MD BOSTON, Mass BUFFALO, N.Y CHICAGO, III CLEVELAND. Ohio 675 Ave., Bklyn. HY 9-6600 127 River St. EL 4-3616 1216 E. Baltimore St. EA 7-4900 177 State St. Rl 2-0140 735 Washington St. TL 3-9259 93B3 Ewing Ave. SA 1-0733 1420 W. 25th St. DIGEST of SIU 4th MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich. .. 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. VI 3-474! DULUTH, Minn 312 W. 2nd St. RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich P.O. Box 287 415 Main St. EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Tex 5804 Canal St. WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla 2608 Pearl St. EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J 99 Montgomery St. HE 3-0104 MOBILE, Ala I South Lawrence St. HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, La 630 Jackson Ave. Tel. 529-7546 NORFOLK. Va 115 3rd St. Tel. 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA. Pa 2604 S. 4th St. DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 1348 Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. 350 Freemont St. DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R. ...1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 Tel. 723-8594 SEATTLE, Wash 2505 First Avenue MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 805 Del Mar CE-l-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. • Tel. 229-2788 WILMINGTON. Calif. ...505 N. Marine Ave. TE 4-2523 MEETINGS DEL MONTE (Delta), August id— IChairman, Howard Menz; Secretary, Aicbert Espeneda. All repairs were comipleted in New Orleans; Ail disputed OT I was settled by patrolman. Vote of thanks ^WBs extended to the boarding patrolman iat New Orleans. $2.00 in ship's fund. ^Brother Howard Menz was re-elected to jaerve as ship's delegate and was given a ^jvote of thanks for a job well done. .'Biscuasion on Safety aboard ship while i-working on deck and in engine room for the benefit of the new crewmembers who are sailing for the first time. -V STEEL AGE (Isthmian), August 7— 'Chairman, Juan Patino; Secretary. Jim>haie Arnold. $19.00 in ship's fund. No ii^fs reported by department delegated, i^lecttician complimented for mainten-' ance of washing machine. Ship to be vfumigated for roaches. DEL SUB (Delta), July 17—CMSirmaa, , -jM, Bunn; Secretary, J. Tucker. $18.00 in /ehip's fund and $26.00 in movie fund Deck department members spoke on the .need of baffle plates in tanks on aft ,;deck when tanks are not fully loaded, iCrewicembers requested to dump garbdie )a,ft in chute instead of on deck. ® 'DEL SUB (Belta), August 21—Chairlan, M. Bunn; Secretary, James Tucker, ne man left in hospital in Santos. Some isputed OT in engine and steward lepartment. Ship's delegate and patrollan should contact Company Saf^ Bii-ector and see about having tanks fitted Siith baffi«ij7]ate» aa_th(^. are.-conaidered ly when they ore only partly VENORE (Venore), August B-Choirman. W. W. Roid; Secretary, H. C. Bennett. Some disputed OT jn engine department. Brother Henry Karpowicz was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Motion made that the President make a report about the retirement plan. CARROLL VICTORY (Belta), August 24—Chairman, T. J. White; Secretary, J. Shields. $16.05 in ship's fund. Some dis­ puted OT in engine department Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. TOPA TOPA (Waterman), August 13—Chairman. R. K. Paschal; Secretary, Borwin L. Coy, $0.00 In ship's fund. It was requested that men dress appropriate­ ly in messhall. No beefs and no disputed OT reported by department delegates. Motion made that the deck department receive penalty pay for docking, undocking and securing while vessel is carrying deck cargo. Motion made that the Imarding patrolman explain the pension plan to crew a.s many are under the impression that the existing plan pro­ vides only for those perrnaiienlly disabled. It was requested that an investigation be made of the doctor in Wilmington as several men have been getting severe reactions from shots administered by him. HENRY STEINBRENNBR (Kinsman Marine), August 30—Chairman, Claire Otis; Secretary, Charles Qttelin. No beefs reported—everything is running smoothly. Vacation and bonus was brought up by one crewmember. Crew would like to have, more details on these two matters. - w OCEAN ANNA (Maritime Overseas)|' August 27—Chairman, C. A. Hall; Seek; retary, W. E. Oliver. One man missed ship in Yokohama. The voyage is good so far and the ship Is in good order. Vote of thanks extended to the steward department. • MISSOURI (Meadowbrook" Transport)® August 28—Chairman, Charles Jam» j; Secretary, Wilfred J. Moore. Brothefl James Abrams was elected to serve aai ship's delegate. $11.00 in ship's fund. No' disputed OT or beefs reported. DiBcussioif about air-conditioners. Request for eol^' drinks along with fresh milk in ho$f weather. : 8 BANGOB (Bermuda), September . Chairman, Wm. Robinson; Secretary! Ernest Harris. Some disputed OT in decK and engine departments. BIsciusion abous getting new washing machine. No maif is being received in foreign ports. MONTICELLO^ VICTORY (Vic Carriers), July 10—Chairman, 0. 'Wilson Secretary. N. Matthey, Ship's delegate ported that everything is running smooth ly. Brother C. Wilson was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Some dis­ puted OT in engine departmentMONTIGELLO VICTORY (Victory Carriers).-August 20—Chairman. FVank Natale; Secretary. Philip F. Kohl. $6.00 in ship's fund. Motion made to write letter to ball In,. Seattle In regards to monies due for subsistence and lodging. BELGIUM VICTORY (Isthmian), Au gust 14—Chairman, V. L, Taralle; Secretarv.'.Tohn E, Storer. No beefs reported by department delegates. Brother Vincent L, Taralle was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Crew requested to keep all shore gangs outside while in foreign ports. Crew commented on good chow served on ship. Everyone Is happy. OCEANIC TIDE (TrohsrWorld Ma­ rine) . August 8T—Chairman, E. Howell: Secretary. F. Prendergast, Brother E. Anderson was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. Motion made that Captain be contacted about meat box temoeratnres. Fire extinguisher in engine room nbould be checked. Request for TV set In crew meSBrtom. J. C. MILLER (Gartland), August lO-r-Chairman, Charles Pischner; Secre­ tary, Roger Skold. $5.00 in ship's fund. Brother James Roebuck resigned as steward delegate.. Brother Henry Tainor elected. Motion to try and get better pension, 10-15 years regardless of age, $800.00 a month and year-around medi­ cal doctor. Every 200 days give you one year sailing time. Suggestion made that oil leak on deck crane be fixed; Want non-skid to be put. around; Pilot; house sand after eab|pq/<| A T f'NANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Diatrict makes specific provision for safe^ardinfir the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditinsr committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All tiust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are adn^nistered in accordance with the provisions of*various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust fun^ are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you fwl there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in we contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the S«ifarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU balls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ehlp. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union ofllclal, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has trodltionaUy refrained from pnbliihing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective memberahip. This eatahlished policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitu­ tional porta. Tha responalhillty for LOG policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Bzecnthre Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this n •ibUtty. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be jmid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an officUl Union receipt ia given for same. Under no circumatancea should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months In the S^F^E^ a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer ia attempting tc deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other deUila, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarten. RNIEED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimets cannot take shipboard emplo^nt, the membership has reaffirmed the long-aUnding Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All S^areia we guaranty equal rights in employment and aa members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU- constitution and in the contracts which the Union haa negotiated with the employers. Consequratly, no Seafarer msiy be dUcrlminated against because of race, creed, color national OT geographic origin. If any member feels that he te denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquartera. SEAFARERS FOLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic righta of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and politleal objectives which wlU serve the beat interests of themaelves, their famaies and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers FolHical Activity Donation was established. Donations to SFAD are entirely voluntary and conatitqte the funds through whieh legiaiative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feda that any of the above righta have been violatad er that he has been denied his eenetitntlenal right of acceee to Union recorde or Inforatatlen, he ehonld Immediately notify SIU Freeldent Fanl Hall at hcadqnartere by emtWed mail# retnm receipt regneited. •r •i A A r f a. f- �eptember 16, 1966 Page Fifteen SEAFARERS LOG fthe orld NTWERP, Belgium's leading seaport, is a citjjjl^ which a visiting Seafarer can step off a modem cargo ship into the antiquity and fantasy of the Flemish Rennaissance world. This important port, fifth-largest in the world, is a curious blend of hectic commercial activity and the tranquil beauty of the Middle Ages and Ren­ naissance. It is a generally peaceful city geared to the stroller rather than the automobile and is well worth exploring. The main avenue is a series of streets which run from the Central Station to the Torengebow sky­ scraper, the largest in all Belgium. Movie houses, cafe-restaurants and shops are found on these av­ enues which take in the De Keyser Lei, Leystraat and the Meir. When Seafarers walk along the Meir in the direc­ tion of the River Scheldt, they will pass by the house of the famous Flemish painter, Peter-Paul Rubens. Antwerp is the home of Rubens who lived on what is now called Rubenstraase in his honor. The home of the master painter is a mag­ nificent mansion preserved as a museum. Rubens was one of the few painters who managed to make a very good living with his brush and was able to live in the grand manner. At the end of the Meir one can bear right along the Eiermarkt to reach the famous cathedral of Notre Dame. Behind the Cathedral is the 900year old Steen Castle, once part of the port's forti­ fications but now housing the world famous Na­ tional Maritime Museum. Both Ruben's House and the Steen Castle are open 10 am to 5 pm daily except Wednesdays. Some of the places where copies of the LOG are available in Antwerp, exclusive of the Ameri­ can Consulate, are the Cafe Neptune, Kaai 10-B; the Marcel Cbnvent, Houwerstrat 17, VKOS; Schipper Straat Cafe; Flying Angel, 13 PI. Van Schoonbek; Gaarkeuken, 113 Albertook and Charlie's Bar, Norderlaan 1000. A ,I The graceful spires of the Cathedral of Notre Dame reflect the Gothic and Renaissance beauty of this busy Flemish port. Sunday strollers promenading before the 900-year old Steen Cajtle, once an important part of the port's fine defense system and now the National Maritime Museum. The long line of freighters in busy Antwerp harbor reflects the bustling activity of the world's fifth largest port. This hectic pace of modern commercial life is accentuated by the old-world charm of the traditional Flemish architecture found in quaint houses ringing the River Scheldt's shore. v.. . " .. -.it ."I" f L,*si. Li[#J -v'\ The SlU-manned freighter Steel Voyager Is one of the many SlU-contracted cargo ships that pay per­ iodic visits to the world famous port of Antwerp. A sweeping panorama of Antwerp, showing the calm and tranquillity of a summer's afternoon. Beyond the River Scheldt in the back ground are the broad plains of the city's suburbs. The large tree-lined square in the foreground is the famous Sroenplaats Plaza where concerts are held in the Gazebo-like bandmall. �Vol. XXViii NO. 19 SEAFARERSlfe^LOG Soptomber 16, 1966 Jt i OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO SEAFARERS Now is the time to make application for the five, four-year $6,000 SIU College Scholarships that will be awarded in 1967. The scholarship awards are open to qualified Seafarers who have accumulated a minimum of three years of seatime on SlU-contracted ships and to children of Seafarers whose fathers meet the seatime requirements. l^e scholarship winners are selected by a panel of leading uni­ versity educators and administrators on the basis of their high school records and scores on the College Entrance Examination Board tests. The first of the College Entrwce Examination Board tests will be given throughout the country on December 3, 1966. They will LARSHIPS be given again on January 14, 1967, and again on March 4, 1967. Seafarers and the childrei of Seafarers interested in applying for the SIU College Scholarships should arrange to take the CEEB tests as soon as possible, by writing to College Entrance Examina­ tion Board, Box 592, Princeton, N. J., or at Box 1025, Berkeley, Calif. To apply for the SIU College Scholarships, write to SIU Schol­ arships, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232, or to any SIU hall. Winners of the SIU scholarship awards can attend any college and pursue any field of study they choose. Selection of the 1967 winners will be made in May. Since the SIU scholarship program was instituted in 1952, 24 awards have been made to Seafarers and 44 to the children of Seafarers. \ ' ( •' � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 16, 1966 Description An account of the resource Headlines: AFL-CIO FARM WORKERS UNION WINS REPRESENTATION ELECTION AT DIGIORGIO GOVERNMENT REJECTS MARAD BID TO DECLARE U.S. SHIPPING ‘ESSENTIAL’ U.S. TANKER CONSTRUCTION IS DOWN TO ONE SHIP; RUSSIA BUILDING 116 YARMOUTH CASTLE FIRE VICTIMS FILE LAWSUITS TOTALING OVER $59 MILLION MEANY STRESSES U.S. LABOR’S ROLE IN SUPPORTING FREE-WORLD’S UNIONS NEW RAILROAD RATE CUTS THREATEN GT. LAKES WATERBORNE COAL TRAFFIC INDUSTRIAL BOND FINANCING RAPPED AS ANTI-LABOR AID ON SIU SHIPS – SS FAIRLAND, SS LONG BEACH, SS STEEL SURVEYOR ‘RIGHT-TO-WORK’ LAWS, LOW WAGES STILL GO TOGETHER, GOVT. STUDY SHOWS SIU MEMBER PUTS ASIDE EASY LIVING IN VISIT WITH ETHIOPIAN TRIBESMEN DOOR-TO-DOOR SELLING IN THE FAR EAST GOES SHIP-TO-SHIP WITH BUM BOATS PORTS OF THE WORLD – ANTWERP 1967 SEAFARERS SCHOLARSHIPS Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/16/1966 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXVIII, No. 19 1966 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/816b27b7124167db1698c3e0d00acb21.PDF 3757ce727c08f1f83d13d32cf5e76f12 PDF Text Text • "4'C%"-' OFFICIAL OROAN OF THE ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT, SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA VOL. IV. ' 280 Longshoremen Ask Wage Boosts ' Demands for a H-cent an hour increase in present wage scales and a substantial increase in over­ time rates for longshormen were presented fo deep sea ship opera­ tors by the International Longshoremens Association at a meet­ ing in the offices of the New York Shipping Association, 80 Broad St. The present working agreement - between the shipowners and the union does not expire until Sept. 30, 1943, but contains a provision that it may be opened at this time to discuss possible wage adjust­ ments. According to Joseph P. Ryan, president of the I. L. A., the contract covers 43,000 dock work­ ers in North Atlantic ports from Portland, Me., to Hampton Roads, Ya. The union is asking an increase in the present daily rate from $1.20 an hour to $1.35 an hour and in the overtime scale from $1.80 to $2.05, to meet higher living costs, Mr. Ryan said after the meeting. The shipowners' conference group, of wliich John Lyon is chairman? is expected to meet some time tomorrow and give the union an answer on Friday. Mr. Ryan said the union wanted to continue doing business with the employers through collective bar­ gaining, if possible, without resort­ ing to outside arbitration. Florida Shipyards ' Under AFL Union NEW YORK, N. Y., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1942 United Seamen Service To Raise $5,000,000 For Homes And Clubs - aware of their services to society. An organization known After several months of research into the entire prob­ lem of safety at sea, the United States Coast Guard has is­ sued eight new regulations aimed at increasing the seamen's chances of survival in case of a torpedoing. The Coast Guard's safety directives are binding upon the shipowners and the equipment will be placed aboard the ships as rapidly as the material is available. Many of the new rules were orig­ inally submitted by the seamen themselves, and the Coast Guard has announced that it will give serious consideration to any furth­ er suggestion sent in by the men. It is felt that the men that actual­ ly go to sea are in the best position to know the score, and should take time out to write to Washington to present-their ideas. When writing to Washington, the letter should be addressed to the Merchant Marine Council, U. S. Coast Guard, Commerce Build­ ing, Washington, D. C. It would be a good idea to send a copy of any submitted suggestions to Mat­ thew Dushane, the SIU Washing­ ton Representative. He is at Hotel Harrington, Washington, D. C. The following are the new Coast Guard regulations: 1. New sea anchors shall have No. 2 Canvass. {Continued on Page 2) Navy Disclosures Boost Atlantic Ship Toll to 459 Navy disclosures of the loss of an American freighter in the the North Atlantic and a British ship in the Caribbean — boosted to 459 the count of losses in the Western Atlantic since Dec. 7. Seventy of the ships lost were manned by SIU crews. Two merchant sailors and two naval gunners were lost when Axis torpedoes blasted the me­ dium-sized American craft, b'ut forty-six survivors were rescued from rafts and a lifeboat by a British corvette and taken to a United Kingdom port. One of these men was hospitalized and the others have returned to the United. States. < All fifty-eight crewmen of the British vessel were rescued by a U.S. warship twenty minutes after their . boat went down. Survivors said they did not see their attacker. Chinese Seafarers Free By Authority NEW YORK, N. Y. —ITF — 13 5 Chinese seamen were released last week from Ellis Island where they had been detained by the United States immigration auth­ orities, and are free on parole with the understanding that they will ship out aboard United Nations vessels at an early opportunity. The Chinese seafarers were freed after successful negotiations be­ tween the immigration authorities and Chinese consular and labor representatives. According to the understanding, the men must try to find jobs aboard United Nations vessels within two months after their release. If they have not left the country within the specified ! period they must apply for an ex­ tension of their shore leave and furnish an explanation for the de­ lay. Chinese labor spokesmen also re­ ported the establishment of a branch of the Chinese Seamen's Union in Liverpool, England, un­ der the auspices of the Internation(Continued on Page 2) One hundred per cent union shops and top-notch working con­ ditions were won by A. F. of L. Metal Trades unions in agreements negotiated this week with the Wainwright shipyard of the J. A. Jones Construction Company at Panama City, Fla., and the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company at Jacksonville, Fla. Vice Presidents J. N. Davis and W. A. Calvin of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers play­ ed a leading part in the bargaining conferences. Davis supervised the negotiations in Panama City and Calvin in Jacksonville. The Wainwright yard is being expanded to six ways and will ' have 8,000 employes at its peak. The St. Johns yard will have 9,000. The keel of a 10,000 Liberty freighter was laid at the yard on Labor Day, with Davis as the chief speaker at the ceremonies. Calvin was principal speaker the same day at a ' celebration marking the launching of a minesweeper at the shipyard of the Savannah (Ga.) Machine and Foundry Company. '5 seamen, long despised by the public and US Coast Guard Issues chiseledThe bymerchant the shipowner, seem to have come into their own. Not only are they lauded as "heroes," but now they Safety Regulations receive some tangible benefits from a public suddenly THE FOCS'L WAS NEVER LIKE THIS I No. 32 One of the first of tha USS'conv«le8cent homes is. opened at the estate of Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt. She is shown, along with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, talking to merchant seamen who have been tor­ pedoed. Harry Lundeberg is Vice-President of the United Seamen's Service. as the United Seamen's Service has been formed and will established rest homes and club house facilit­ ies for the men of the merchant marine. United .Seamen's Service, which will be known as "USS", has al­ ready established its central appar­ atus and is in the process of setting up branches in each port. The charter members of the organiza­ tion are Admiral Emory S. Land, Captain Edward Macauley, Harry Lundeberg, Basil Harris and Joseph Curran. These same men are on the Executive Board and will con­ trol the policies of the organiza­ tion. The services contemplated by the USS will require a great deal of money and a high pressure public­ ity committee has been established to raise funds from the general public. Douglas P. Falconer, for­ mer executive director of the Greater New York Fund, has be­ come administrative head of the USS, and will be located at 39 Broadway, New York City. Mr. Falconer said that an immediate fund of $5,000,000 would be raised to "finance the aims" of the organization. One of the largest contributions came from Henry J. Kaiser, West Coast shipbuilder who constructed the S. S. Andrew Furuseth, who promised $3,000 for each ship building way. "Now that the nation recognizes the personnel of the merchant ma­ rine as the major heroes of this war we are moving without delay to put sustance behind the recogni­ tion," Mr. Falconer declared. "Plans will be completed within the next 10 days to take over es­ tates and other suitable places in New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl­ vania, Maryland and in sea coast cities in the Gulf and West Coast states," he said. A representative is already on the way to England, he added, and others will leave soon.for Russian ports. "It is not the purpose of the USS merely to entertain our mer­ chant mariners between ships," Mr. Falconer declared. "We will sec that their dependents ashore do not suffer from want, fear or ne­ glect and we will operate many services that do not occur as nec­ essary to the average man in the. street." Tllesc- will include keeping du­ plicate sets of seamen's papers to replace those lost at sea, and pro(Continued on Page 2) '1. �Page Two THE SEAFARERS' LOG Thursday, September 17, 1942 K Pul>H»h4d tv th» ,• V SERFMBEBS' I!5TERNATIONAL. UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and GuU District " 4- AfHlMtd %ot(h th4 Am^ficon FtCtraUon »f Labor ' ' ' ' > >" >m ^ HAHRY LUNDEBERG. Int»mcrtlonal Pr««ldwJt 110 Morkat Streat, Room 402, Son Francisco, CoUL 1'/ ADDREIBB ALL OORRESPONDENCB OONOEBNINa THiB PVBUOATION TO; "THE SEAFARERS' LOG P. O. 25, Station P. New York. N. Y. Phone: BOwling Green 9-8346 US Coast Guardlssues Safety Regulations {Contiwicd frout-Page 1) 2. Fishing kit shall be supplied in each life boat. 3. At present time all vessels are required to have enough life boats with capacity per man for 10 cubic feet. TTiey are working on a proposal where by each man shall have 15 cubic feet. That means that on an average size ship where they previously carried two life boats, they shall be required to carry four life boats. 4. At the present time ships are required to carry one portable radio set. They intend that the av­ erage ship shall carry two of these sets. These radio sets are to be cast overboard when their vessel has been torpedoed. 5. All life boats were previous­ ly required to carry 3 quarts of water per certified persons to a boat. TTiey will now be required to carry ten quarts of water per certified persons per boat. 6. All ships shall be required to carry a medical kit and men will be detailed to put them in a life boat when they are torpedoed. These kits shall have Supha Drugs, Mor­ phine and other drugs in them to render treatment to injured sea­ men. 7. Skids and skates shall be re­ quired on ships with Gravity Da­ vits. 8. Smoke buoys. Iron mirrors, and several other signaling appar­ atus are being given favorable con­ sideration by the Coast Guard and several other proposals submitted by our members are also being given favorable consideration. USS Opens Homes Chinese Seafarers And Clubhouses Free By Authority {Continued from Page 1) {Continued from Page 1) viding a fund to take care of de­ al Transport Workers' Federation pendents until insurance can be with which the Chinese transport collected. The Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt workers movement is affiliated. It President of the United States of America ^ Progress has already been made was also reported by Mr. Chu White House t_ in the establishment of rest homes Hsueh-fan, president of the Chin­ Washington, D. C. for victims of torpedoings. Two ese A.ssociation of Labor and at weeks ago the 20 room Kermit present in the United States, that Dear Sir: Roosevelt estate at Oyster Bay was plans are under way to establish 20,000 American Federation of Labor seamen, members of the turned over to the USS and was similar branches of the Chinese Seafarers International Union of North America, appeal to yoUi immediately filled with convales­ seamen's movement in New York for aid in protecting union wages, hours and conditions previously cing seamen. The estate will be and other ports of the Western guaranteed American seamen by the War Shipping Administra­ tion on May 4, 1942. under the supervision of medical Hemisphere. A Chinese seamen's men who specialize in shell shock welfare center in New York is also These conditions are being undermined by the wholesale transfer and war neuroses. of ships from the jurisdiction of the. Wan Shipping Administration under consideration and substan­ This week the USS received the tial progress has been made to as­ to the Army Transport- Service. The Army -. Transport Servicei has iq the past refused to recognize our collective bargaining use of the C. S. Cutting estate in sure the support of the Britisj) contracts and is underminding the standard of living won by the Morristown, N. J. This home will seamen's welfare boards for that seamen after years of struggle. accommodate up to 150 men. It enterprise, it was stated. has IftiOOO acres of land, an out­ Our conviction is that Democracy. must be maintained at home while it is being fought for abroad. The. smashing of maritime door swimming pool, the only pri­ unions would ill serve the struggle in which we are engaged. vate indoor tennis court in the This union strongly;urges that the ships of the U. 8. mecphant country, and a fully equipped dis­ fleet remain under the jurisdiction of, the-War Shipping Admin­ pensary. istration. We feel it a necessity that the - May. 4th agreement Of equal interest to the seamen between the Unions and the Government (signed in good faith is a plan to open and maintain by labor when it surrendered the right to strike) be respected club houses in all the principle for the duration of the war. KANSAS CITY, Kas., Sept. 11. ports so that the men may have Respectfully yours, recreation facilities open to them Women, it developed today, will John Hawk,. Sec.-Treas. at no cost. It is planned to sell be admitted to membership in the beer at all club houses at a nom­ A. F. L. Brotherhood of Boiler­ Seafarers International Union inal fee. SIU Agents in .each port makers and Shipbuilders. Atlantic and Gulf District. will become members of the local The executive council of the committees and have a voice in the International Brotherhood of the policies of the clubs. Present plans Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders ON CLOTHES ! call for the< establishment of club and helpers, acted by edict after a houses in Iceland and Eritrea. referendum on the subject failed LLOYD AUGUST The USS Executives have em­ to muster the necessary, number of If you are not claim'' FRANCIS DUPER GONSOULIN phasized that the entire program votes. ing more than $ 150 for GEORGE BRYANT NARRETTO= is aimed at meeting the needs and Get in touch with your local draft J. A. Franklin, union president, loss of personal ef" desires of the seamen themselves, boarda in Nevy Orleans,, and that any suggestions or criti­ said the executive action was taken fects, you do not have JAMES WELDON CHAMBLESS cisms they may have should be pre­ because, of the urgent need for to bother making out Contact tHe New Orleans Post­ workers in the huge shipbuilding sented through their Union repre­ master. an itemized list. sentatives. ,;,. .J jfci aiatiJL. program. i Bjoilermakers' Unioiii Orders Women Welders Membership Admission (• rt A Letter Of Protest To The President Of The United States Shipbuilding Time Cut 25 Days in Month American shipyards continued to turn out completed merchant ships at a rate of better than two a day during the month of August, the Maritime Commission an­ nounced last week. A total of 68 new cargo car­ riers and large tankers were piit' into service and joined the victoryfleet carrying supplies to every fighting front and vital raw mat­ erials to this country's war in­ dustries. The August deliveries represent 753,600 deadweight tons. Included in the total were 57 liberty ships, 4 large tankers, 3, C-2 vessels of the Commission's standard design, 2 cargo ships for the British, 1 large combinatioa . passenger-cargo ship and 1 large Great Lakes ore carrier. INFORMATION ON INSURANCE PAYMENTS After you have designated your benefigiary, inform that person. In the event tliat you are one of the unfortunate seaman who does not return, from sea, it is not necessary for your beneficiary to retain a lawyer to collect the $5,000 in­ surance benefit. Tell your beneficiary to contact your union hall for full informa­ tion. This money could be collect­ ed without a lawyer and at no cost to the beneficiary. Some attorneys are charging as high as $1,000. to collect the insurance. h v:I • '.v. ;i �Thursday, -September 17, 1942 THE SEAFARERS' LOG Page Three SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONA!; UNION -er NORTH AKERIGA ATUIIITIC and aULT D18TBICT The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations levelled some big guns last week on the argument that wage increases necessarily lead to inflation. The AFL arguments were marshalled-by Boris Shishkin, economist, and member of the executive committee of the CPA Labor Policy Committee, in the American Out of the Focs^l ^^Federationist, official organ of the AFL. The CIO case was presented in Economic Outlook, monthly economic survey of the CIO. by X. Recently there appeared a letter in the local press by a woman known as Mrs. E., berating the men of the Merchant Marine., It cer­ tainly got the boys stirred-up on the Sixth Floor. They immediately began to write letters and poems in reply to straighten-out this poor unfortunate woman. To us it seemed like a personal grudge that she probably had against some bosu'n (as Whitey says) who turned her down. With the rest of the world giving recognition to the men of the Merchant Marine, for their valor and bravery,. ,w.e didn't think there would be anyone who would write such an asinine letter. To further educate Mrs. E., we would suggest that she walk around to the Custom House and on that building she would see a placque dedicated to the men of the Merchant Marine, who gave their lives in the World War that Liberty should perpetually endure. - "THESE MEN RENDERED THE GREATEST SERVICES THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE FOR NATION AND CIVILIZA­ TION'S CAUSE. HUNDREDS OF PRECIOUS LIVES WERE LOST. A LOSS THAT NEVER CAN BE MADE UP BY THIS COUNTRY." WARREN G. HARDING. AAA In this week's issue appears a list of the Brothers lost up to Sep­ tember 1st. Over 400 Brothers are listed. Last week, another of our ships was lost of wliich 17 Brothers arc missing. Most of the Brothers were on torpedoed ships before, and caught it on their second effort. Telling argument in the AFL arsenal was the statement that workers now making 68c an hour are actually getting only 40c an hour according to last year's standards. Shishkin's argument put it this way: The worker gets 68c an hour which is equivalent to J 8c at last year's prices because the cost of living has gone up about 16%. Take - 10% off for war bonds, and he gets about lie an hour. Take payment of additional taxes off and his purchasing power goes down to about 45c an hour. When you take into considera­ tion that curtailment of install­ ment purchases has prevented workers from buying many things and that some families have a smaller income because a son or father left for the front, the "com­ bined effect is to bring the real wage currently received by the worker for consumer spending well below 40c per hour, even though his money wage is at the rate of 68c an hour." PICKETING AREA IS NOT SUBJECT TO COP RULE Picketing cannot be subjected , USrothers Charles E. Lewis, Tim O'Donoghue, John J. Dunn, and Ed­ to the caprice of arbitrary ruling ward Cebula were among the missing. We've lost another group of of any police officers. Magistrate J. Roland Sala has declared in a de­ good Union men. , cision in Brooklyn Municipal Term AAA Court. He dismissed disorderly conduct Ray Trumbauer and D. C. Joralemon are to enter the officers charges against two pickets who training school at the end of this month. Paul Malecot has retired and had refused to remain within five 'joined the MEBA . . . Stephen Silkotch is stationed at Pine Camp, JM. Y. feet of the curb while demonstra­ ting in front of Nathan's Famous D. J. Curtis is a member of a Commandos Division. Inc., a restaurant at 1316 Surf O-..,-. — —— Avenue, Brooklyn, where a strike has been in progress since April 7. Magistrate Sala said: "It must be borne in mind that picketing is engaged in by people seeking to improve their working conditions and standards of living. "Picketing is an integral part of CREW 8. S. NORWALK ? 30.00 the constitutional right of freedom CREW S. S. KOFRESI of speech. Deck Phonograph "Assuming, as we must, the con­ Stewards '. 15.00 stitutional right to picket peace­ Engine 16-00 fully, the question which follows CREW S. S. JOHN-MARSHALL : 12.00 is; 'May the Police Dept. limit and CREW 8. S. ROBIN SHERWOOD " 20.00 circumscribe picketing to a par­ Vv'lLBUR DIGKEY 6.00 ticular place or area without show­ ing any justification therefor, and $98.00 thus, in effect, prevent efficacious exercise of the right of freedom of speech as provided by the Consti­ tution of the United States and the State of New York?' "Phrased differently, the ques­ Holding Its first election since the reorganization of the Dist­ tion is: 'Of what value is the con­ rict, the Great Lakes SlU last stitutional right to picket when week chose a Secretary-Treas­ the pickets may be arbitrarily urer and six port Agents. Mardy relegated by the Police Dept. to a Polaner, for the past year the geographical location where it is SlU administrator in the Dist­ difficult for them to publicize the rict, was elected to the post of facts concerning the dispute in Secretary-Treasurer. The Port Agents elected were: which they are engaged?' "The order of the Police Dept. Buffalo — Wickard. Cleveland limiting the picketing to five feet —- Ware8.< Chicago — Jensen. Detroit — Dwyer. Milwaukee — from the curb was arbitrary, un­ Sullivan. Duluth — Stevenson. reasonable and capricious. Seafarers' Log- HONOR ROLL ATTENTION ALL AGENTS On page four is a com­ plete listing of Atlantic and Gulf casualties. Clip this page and put it on Jie bulletin board so the IBrothers may< look for shipmates' names. • GREAT LAKES; DIST. ELECTS OFFICERS Secrotccnr-Treasurer's Office Boom US —. 2 Btoon Btroot Row York Citr K e. Bos flL Stoflott V PhMM* BOwling Qt—n EKECTORY OF BRANOffiS BBARCH HBW YOBZ BOSTOR PHDVIDERCI BALTMOBE PHILAJDELPHIA . NOHFOLB NEW OBUEANS SAVANNAH TAMPA MOBILE PUERTO RICO GALVESTON ADDBESS PHONE ^1 Btano St , „BOwllng Grera MEMB Dlcpat^MT't Offlco .BOwling Green Agent ; .BQ-wling Green 9-3437 J80 Atlcmtle Avo. ..Ubarty 4P57 .._4S5 South Main St ••Manning 3572 -».14 North G€I7 St .Calvert 4539 «_8 North 6th St ..Lombard 7651 ^_25 ConunerdoJ ..Norfolk 44083 .—309 ChcBlfes St ...... ..Canal 3336 —..218 East Bar St ..Savannah S-I728 206 S©. Fromklin St ... ..Ttaipa MM-1323 So. Conception St. ..Dsder 1449 .45 Ponce de Leon ..Puerto de Tiemi 2014 Market Street ..Galveston 2-8043 A\ Around The Ports SAVANNAH BOSTON Have been busy here the last couple of weeks getting men to­ gether to send over to Charleston, S.- C. Had ships belonging to the Moore McCormick Line, the Bull Line, and the South Atlantic Mail Line in there and sent them a total of 17 men, mostly AB's, Oilers and Watertenders. Am still having jobs for men with these ratings coming in just about every week that passes. Had one of the new Liberty type ships in here this week. She was just back from a long trip and the whole crew paid off her. Final­ ly had to get some replacements from Norfolk and Mobile to finish filling out the crew. Shipping is still fairly good here in this port. Have two or three calls come in just about every week, mostly from out of town, but they are still jobs and they pay the wages. Steady as she goes. Wm. J. Lafferty, A 4324 will find his Union book, discharges, Certificates of Ind. and Qual. and I other papers at this branch. If any reader sees the brother, please pass the word. Things have been quiet up here the past week. Our Agent, Johnnie Mogan, has started his vacation and what a start, rain now for three days with no signs of good weath­ er. With the passing of Labor Day the weather will be getting chilly up this way so we'll be able to hold our meetings again. It seems like at meeting time; Quor­ um necessary has disappeared, due to the summer weather, I guess. The members should show more interest and not shove off at meet­ ing time. Paid off the "KOFRESI" last week and got very good co­ operation from the gang, the boys didn't forget the Log, the St. dept. and Eng. dept, threw in 31 dollars CHARLES WAID, Agent and the Deck dept. donated a phonograph. It wasn't such a long GEORGE FRANCIS trip cither. The gang went big for the S. I. F. fund when it was ex­ Anyone having information as plained to them. to the whereabouts of George C. So long for now. Francis, communicate with Rich­ ard M.' Cantor, 51 Chamber Street, J. E. SWEENEY. New York City. ' Patrolman, RESOLUTION TO APPEAR ON 1943 BALLOT Whereas: At the present time the seamen ef America are making ^ more money than ever before in the.history of the seamen; Whereas: When the present war is over the seamen will again bo engaged in a figtit for existence with the shipowner who at the present time is filling his war chest in preparation for the coming struggle, and Whereas: The history of the seamen's labor movement proves concltisively that after such an upheavel as at present is going on in the world, they are always throttled and browbeaten— as for Instance 1921 and the Lake Carriers set up, and Whereas: The 1934 and 36 and 37 strikes proved the need of ample funds when engaged in a major strike, therefore BE IT RESOLVED: That the Constitution shall be amended by adding a section to Article No. 26, this section to be known as Section No. 8. A strike fund shall be maintained, the strike fund to be kept seperate and apart from any or all other funds in the Union. An annual assessment of $3 shall be levied for this fund. And further, BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED: That if tha members accept this resolution, it be published from time to time, as space permits, in the Seafarers' Log before the time of the election. This is to acquaint all members with the intent of the Resolution. And further, that the resolution shall be placed on the annual election ballot. (signed) Alfred Stewart No. 764 Adalbert Gawronski No. 21265 William Hamilton No. 3400 Harry J. Collins No. 496 V ArtImr Thompson No. 2888 I �Page Four A •4' l:i Thursday, September 17, 1942 THE SEAFARERS' LOG ACKERMAN, KURT Oilsr AGERO. FELIPE Fireman HL IG, TH EGBERT, Fire«an| AIKENS, C. V Messboy, ANDERSON, ARNOLD K Ab ANDERSON, THOMAS Ab ANDUZE, I8A,IAS Ab ARCAY, EMILIANO Ab ARENAS, EVARISTO ........ Ae Fireman ASH, JOHN J. . Ab ASP, ANDREW . Ab AVELLAR, JOHN R. Few AVERETT, ERNEST B Ab Ch. Elect .... Oiler BARNUM, CARLOS Waiter BARROW, ALLEN, W. .. Os BARTON, WILLIAM .... ""Bos'n BATULES STANLEY J. Fireman BAYLIS, ROBERT MessmanI BELL, JAMES Messman' BELL, MATTHEW BAGLEY, JOHN BARBER, ELMER, D. •PECOT, RODERICK Oiler , I PEN EDA. JOAO E Oiler i • PEREZ( GERMAN Oe PERKINS, JOHN .... Waterten;ler PERRY, KASTON F., Deck Enfl. PERRY, RICHARD .... Carpenter PETERSON, GILBERT E., Fireman PIEDRA, CHARLES A. .. Steward PIERCE, JOHN Ab POEDING, B. D Oa • ®Mr lriitlfrr0 Bnat At #pa BB R 20,000 members of the Atlantic and Gulf District of the SIU, un­ daunted and still sailing their 6hips, pay tribute to these Brothers lost in the performance of their duty. E Os EADY, WILLIAM K. F. EARNHARDT, ROBERT ..... Oa Ab ECK, OLAN H ...... Ab ELSHICK, JESSE J. 2nd Cook EMERY, CECIL J. .. ., Waiter ERAZO, FRANK 2nd Cook Lsun' ERWIN, THOMAS A. K MASON, CHARLES Ab MASON, E. G Fireman KEARNS, JAMES D Oiler Ab KEITH, FRED Utility MAYER, ALFRED E KELLY, HERBERT N. .. Messman MAYO, OSCAR K. .. Watertender KICKLIGHTER, JOSEPH .... Ab MCGILLICUDDY, J. .... Messman KIMBRO, MARY MRS., Stewardess MCLAREN, JOSEPH .... Steward Chief Steward KING, FORREST R. .. Chief Cook MEADOWS, F. MELL, WILLIAM Oiler KINKOWSKI, STANLEY ., Utility Watertender KLEMM, CHAS. H., 2nd Steward MILLAY, A. W MILLER, CHARLES Wiper KLINE, ROBERT ... ... O MILLER, F. J Boatswain KOBE, KARL G. M. Wiper MILLS, ROBERT E Wiper KON, WALTER J. Oa !>.,j MITCHAM, FILLMORE Oiler KOOL, JOHN 2nd Cool^ MORAN, A. C Oiler BELVIN, ROBERT Oiler |« BENN, H. G ... (Bosun " BENNETTE, CARL Messman ..... Os FAHY, HENRY C. ... BENNETT, JOHN ... Oiler BERCHEN, CHARLES ."... Oilerl FAIRMAN, WILLIAM Steward , Ab FENTY, CLARENCE BJORNSON, CHRISTIAN . Ab FERGUSON, FRANK P Ab MORGAN, THEO., 2nd Pantryman BIRD, A . Ab FIGUERAS, CLAUDIO, Deck Eng BLANTON, JOHN MULLIGAN, JOHN Bosun . Ab FILOMENO, ISMAEL ... Messman LABIANO, LOUIS .. BLOMGREN, JOSEPH E. • Ab MUNGINS, HERBERT .. Fireman Chief Steward, LA BOY, DAVID .... . Os' FINDLAY, WM. . Messman MURPHY, K. W BLOCK, SAMMIE Watertender Oiler LA CASSE, FRANK Messman FINN, JOHN J. Os BOND, J Coalpasser BONGCAK FRANcisCO, Fireman' FLANDERS, STANLEY, Deck Eng.' LANE H. Ab LANG, ROBERT E Messman ISRDON WM A. 2nd Cook FORSSMAN, AKSEL ., Ab Messman' LANTZ, CHRISTIAN S., Fireman McCARLEY, JOHN L BORREGARD, N. L., Watertender FORSYTHE, PERCY .. r.roman McCLELLAND, WILLIAM .... Oa Ab LAURIANO, PEDRO .... BOSH, ANTOINE ..... Steward, FOX, WILMER Fi'rVma!l MCGEE FRED Ab 2nd Cook LAWMAN, A ioYLE, JOSEPH B OilerJ FRANKLIN, FORNEY MessmanIWILLIAM Ab .... Oiler LAWSON, GEORGE .... BOYLSTON, EDWARD S. .. Oiler, FREE, NELSON ...... C^ok MCWILLIAMS, JOHN G., Messman Oa LAWSON, ISAIAH BOYNTON, WYONE FiremanI FREITAG, ADAM A. .. .. Waiter. LEBRON, E- T IPADLEY EDWARD J.. Messman FUENTER, ANTONIO .... Os Wiper LECTORA, ANGIE Firemai BRAEMERT, MICHAEL Ab FUNK, RUSSELL C. . LEE, HORACE Messmay' NEVETTE, ST. JULIAN, Messboy BRAND, C. J O'"®'' Crew"Mew' NICH, ANTHONY Ab LEGURO, VINCENT G BRILL, VAY Fireman Messman NICKERSON, ROY M. .. Fireman Fireman LESTER, OTIS BRITT, JOHN Fireman GADSON, WILLIAM . Oiler NIELSEN, ALFRED K., Watertend. BROUGHTON, P. J. .. Chief Cook .GALBRAITH, PETER . Steward LEWIS, RICHARD F. Mc rt N RROUSSARD OTHO Oiler GALLWITZER, KASPER, Fireman LINDBERG, THOR A. Chief Cook'CHARLES .. Chief Cook . 2nd Cook MANUEL .. Chief Cook BROWN FRANK S Messman GALLAGHER, LAURENCE ... Ab L'TCH. WALTER BRnWN' HAROLD H Os GANEY, RILEY Ab LIVELY, THOMAS J Fireman BROWN' RALPH Utility GARDINER, L. A Steward LCCKETT, W. E. Firemat NORWuOD, ISAAC B Ab BROYLES VERDO D AbjGEARIN, JOHN F. .. Watertender;GROVER C Fireman ^ BRUCE 8 Coalpasseri GERGUSON, LIONEL .. Messmay LOVITT, JESSIE Firemani ^ BUSAN'ET MIGUEL A. . Messman GEZAK, RICHARD .... Messman' LOWERY, CLARENCE C. Messman O'BERRY ALTON Ab Fireman GLEMBY, MAURICE M., Fireman LUDWICK, MARTIN J., Fireman O'BRIEN, THOMAS P., Deck Eng. BYERS, E Os OGLE, CYRIL Steward* GOLDSTEIN, BENJAMIN Os LUPTON, BRUCE Os'OLIVERO, RAFAEL Ab GORING, CHARLES E. . Messman LUSSIER, JOSEPH LYNCH, JULIUS Bosun' ORAM, WILLIAM Qm Fireman GOTT, ALBERT R Ab CAESPO, FANCISCO 'i,i If It I* ^ RADIGAN, J. Ab RAMIREZ, ROBERT Og' RAMSEY, EDWARD .. Coalpasser RAPCHAK, STEVE M. Messman REAGAN, WREN Ab REIO, W. M Q. M. REILLY, FRANK Firemgn REIP, CHARLES Os ANTONIO .Fireman RICHARDSON, ELMER, Messman RIDDLE, WILLIAM J. .. Fireman RILEY, FRANK Oiler RIVERA, JOAQUIN .... Fireman.RIVET, HOWARD 8 Oiler ' ROBERTS, HAARY, 1st Pumpman' ROBINSON, HENRY .... Fireman RODGERS, BURTON Messman RODRIGUEZ, ANGEL M FoW RODRIGUEZ, F. D. .Wiper ROGERS, JOHN Ab ROJAS, CANDELAIRO .. Printer ROLY. GEORGE C Wiper ROSARIO, VIRGILIO, Night Waiter ROSE, ARTHUR Messman ROSE, JAMES E. L Fow ROUNDTREE, ARANT .... Q. M. RYAN, THOMAS PATRICK .. Ab s SALAMO, JUAN Oiler SAMILLANO. NICOLAS .Ab SANTIAGO, MATIAS .. Fireman SANTiAGO, NICK Fireman SAUNDERS, DEWEY Oiler SAUNDERS, ROY Wiper SCHERMER, DOUGLAS .. Wiper SCHULER, EMIL Os SEARLESS, KENDRICK Ab SELLERS, SAM Q. M. SHAW, CECIL Oiler SHEPHER, R. C Utility SHERRIS, ELLIOT IVAN .... Os SHERROD, J. H Messmart SMITH, JIM Steward SPENCER, FRANK E., Crew Mess ! SQUIRES, P. A. Utlityman STANLEY, JAMES 3rd Cook STARNS, WILMER Oiler STEVENS, JAMES Ab STEWART, CHARLES Ab STEWART, JOHN B. .. Chief Cook SULLIVAN, DENNIS J. ...r.. Ab SULLIVAN KOKOMO Fow SURLES, HENRY Fireman SUTHERLAND, WILLIAM, Bosun "Fow OSTERMAN, FRANK .. Carpenter Ab LYON, ARTHUR Ab Oiler P, SJllLrHAN' STANL'^EVV FiVema:; G^EIK; SSSlll^E E! " Wip.- OREEN^ WILL.AM C. . . Butcher MACCASKILL, CHARLES M. .. Oa PABON, JUAN 2nd Cook Stewardess MACK, HARRY Ah PAGAN, CARLOS Fireman ilAMACHO, SANTOS ...... Oiler GREY. WINIFRED MACKENZIE, CAYTANO .... Ab PAINTER, THOMAS Oilefl CAMP, WILLIS E Oilerj „ MAHONEY, JOSEPH E Os' PAPATHAMAS, VASIL .. Fireman CANNON, WILLIAM Oiler| tl Utility'PARKER, MOSE Fow CARNEY, PETER J. ........ Oiler HALBIG, ALBERT Oiler MALONE, WILLIAM Utilityl PARKS, MACK Messman CARONIA, PAUL Oiler HALL, ELMO 2nd Cook MANN, JOSEPH P Chief Cook Messma.t PATROLA, VICTOR J Os TATE, JAMES CARNEY, GEORGE Oiler, HALL, H. M. Fireman MANUEL, W. E Ab' Cook TAYLOR, ALFRED CARTER, WIL.MON R, Chief Cook HALL, JOHN E 2nd Cook MARQUESS, MITCHEL .... Oiler PATTON, JAMES E Wiper . Wiper TAYLOR, JOSEPH CASQUECENTE, V Fireman| HALL, WILLIARD Os MARSHALL, LINWOOD W., Oiler. PECK, CLARENCE F TAYLOR, LESLIE Messman CASSEL, JOHN Wiper, HAMILTON, GEORGE .. Fireman TAYLOR, RICHARD .. Fireman. CASTILLO, BERNARD .... Bosun HAMILTON, JAMES .. Fireman TAYLOR, ROBERT Fireman CEBULA EDWARD. | HARDY, MAURICE P Ab TEAR8E, RONALD J, ...... Wipen CEDERHOLM, SVEN G Ab HARLEY, W Coalpasser TEREZA, JOHN Oiler CHADWICK, LEONARD, Messman HARRIS, JAMES R Fow THOMAS, D. H Steward CHARLEBOIS, EDMOND .. Oiler HARRISON, WHITLEY, 2nd Elec What will you give them, America, THORNTON, JOHN Oiler CHISHOLM, AMOS .... 2nd Cook HART, ROBERT S Ab —your masters of the sea? TINGLE, THOMAS S. .. 2nd Cook CHISHOLM, ELMO Messboy HARTLEY, JOHN W Ab Hardly a seaman among them TOMM, ALEXANDER Oiler CHISHOLM, WM. B. ,. 2nd Cook HAUGEN, ERNEST Ch. Cook TORRES. GREGORIO Oiler expects title and courtesy. CHRISTENSEN, EMIL Ab HAY, DANIEL Bosun TORRES, PEDRO Fireman. Watertender CHRISTIAN; ALEX. .. Messman HAYBYE, S. But they hold the sternest prefect TRALIE, JOSEPH Ytb * CHRISTOPHERSON, CH, .. Oiler HAYNIE. WARNER M Ab of any that yet may be. TRYMERS, LOUIS Ab , CHURCH, EMERSON W., Messboy' HEADINGTON, L, D. ,. Steward TUBENS, JULES ........... Oiler CLAGETT, OWEN L Fireman HEALEV, JOHN Fireman TURNER, GEO. 2nd Cook They have fed your construction workers CLARK, ROBERT ....'. Oiler, HELERA, OALMACIO Ab TYRRELL, THOMAS Ab CLEVELAND, HOWARD .... Ab HENDERSON, JAMES Ab in our new-acquired zones. ' TYSZKOWSKI, MICOZYSLAW, Bn CLIFTON, FRED Oiler HENDRICKS, WAR DELL, Steward CALAFATO. FILLIPO §SEES' H^^ifiSEV " • M THE UNDAUNTED I,;/ COLLINS, ALBERT Oiler| HERNANDEZ, RICARDO, 2nd Oook COLLIER, PERRY Carpenter HESTER, STEVE D., Watertender COOK, HAYWARD Fireman HESTER, WILLIAM G Ab CORBIN, CLARENCE ... Steward, HI ATT, CHESTI^R E. .. 2nd Cook COREY, ROBERT Os HICKMAN, A. J. Messman COSCARELLI, JOHN Os HIGBEE. HARRY Bosun COVINGTON, B Os HILLIARD, RABERT H., Fireman COX, CARL V Messman HINTON, EDWARD N Ab Fireman; HODGES, HARNERT Ab cox, WILLIAM Fireman HOFFMAN, CARL J Fireman CROSS, MILFORD A. CROUSE, CHARLES Fireman HOLDER, CHARLES Fireman CUARESMA, FORTUNATO, Oiler, HOLLAND, EUGENE, Watertender CUMMINGS, JAMES M., Messman HORTON, DAVID A Ab CUMMINGS, NESBETH . Fireman HOUSTON, P. J Ab CURRAN, JAMES A Ab HOWELL, WILLIAM T. .. Wiper CUSTER, ODE G Messman HUDGINS, SHELBROWN W., Os ' HUDSON, CARTER Bosun HUFFMASTER, JUDE .. Messman' DACHER, SAID Cook HUGHES, JOSEPH ... Watchman ... Oiler HUGHES, WM. L. ... Carpenter DANLEY, CARL .... Messman HUNTE, JAMES H. . .. Steward D'ARTOIS, R. J ... Oiler; HURD, MARION DAVID, GERONINO Crew Cook Fireman HURST, HARVEY L. . Messman DAVID, S .. Wiper! HUTSON, J. w Fireman DAVILLA, MANUEL Wiper. DAVIS, JAMES E. . Utilityman' J DAVIS, LEON DAVIS, WILLIAM L. Wiper JACKSON, JOSEPH Os Watertender JAFFE, EDWIN N. DE BOLLE, PAUL Os DEL CAMPO, ENRIQUE Os JANY, BISARI Ab DELEON, PERCIVAL .. Messman JENKINS, JOHN ... Chief Cook DERRICKS, VALENtIN Os JEREMIAS, CHAS. , ... Os DEUTCH, LEROY F. . Oiler JOHANSEN, HARSTEN .... Oiler DE VITO, MICHAEL . Oiler JOHNNENEE, RUSSELL J. .. Os Ab iOHNSON, FRANK DINGER, WARNER B. . ... Cook Wiper JOHNSON, JOHN ... DION, LEWIS J Steward 'DOHERTY, ALAN L, . ..... Os; JOHNSON, WILLIAM Ab FireniSii JONES, A D'OLIVE SCRIP Fireman Ab JONES, CHARLES ... DOMINQUEZ, EUGENE Fireman DOVER, OLIVER MessmanI JORDON, HAROLD S. ... Oiler DRUMWRIGHT, K, .. Coalpasser,'JOSATO, TONY E. ... Ab DUNNING, CLYDE A. Oiler JUDGE, JAMES J., Watertender, D 2^* .-...'•ili'. • 'vj--''' They have carried your troops to battle to far-off lands unknown. They look for no recognition,— master or fo'esle hand. u' UDELL, DAVID H V • . -• • VAN NAMEE, CHARLES .... Ab VELEZ: PEORO Oiler VERRETT, SPENCER G., Steward VILA, JOSEPH ...-. 1st Pumpman VINCENT, THOS. Oiler They go at the word of an Owner,— pruvidltig I'lB is fair and right. Down to the Horn that spares not, up to the deathly flow. There is never a sea that daunts them, a peril they do not know. Trained by the storms and breakers, while the scud is flying free; Drilled by a black-out night-watch, while aching hours flee; Rise at 5 to a stinking-hot galley And say, "Hell, we're on our way." Look to your bulwarks, America!. Look to Old Glory unfurled! Point with pride to our Navy,—. The best in all the world. But what of our Merchant Marine, _ : Across the oceans huried? Wiper ,. What will you give them, America,— The men who sailed and died? Nothing, not even a retaining fee, Neither position or credit. But they are the finest that yet may be. Book Atlantic, No. 7224 WALCOTT, J. A Messman WALSER, JAMES D. .. Deck Eng. WARD, J. S Fireman WARNER, BERTRAM .... Wiper WATTS, DONALD Fireman WATTS. GEORGE ....;. 2nd Cook WEIR, JOSEPH Messman WEST, GEORGE ............. Ab WHEELER, JAMES Os WHITE, HAROLD P Wiper WHITEHEAD. H. V Fireman WICKENHISER, G. M Ab WICKMAN, FRANK A. .. Fireman 4. WILLIAMS, A Coalpasser WILLIAMS. ASHLEY .. Messman WILLIAMS, EDWARD T... Wiper WILLIAMS, FRANK Utility , WILLIAMS, JAMES .... Steward WILLIAMS, JARVI8 .. Chief Cook WILLIS, GEO Ab • WILSON, WARREN L. ........ Ab WODARCZYK, WALTER J. ., Ab, V*'OOLF, KUFUS Messman , WRIGHT, NATHANIEL , Steward /WRIGHT, WM. W. ..., Chief Cook " ' z 2AYES, OSCAR utility � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 17, 1942 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Description An account of the resource Headlines: UNITED SEAMEN SERVICE TO RAISE $5,000,000 FOR HOMES AND CLUBS LONGSHOREMEN ASK WAGE BOOSTS US COAST GUARD ISSUES SAFETY REGULATIONS NAVY DISCLOSURES BOOST ATLANTIC SHIP TOLL TO 459 CHINESE SEAFARERS FREE BY AUTHORITY FLORIDA SHIPYARDS UNDER AFL UNION THE FOCS'L WAS NEVER LIKE THIS US COAST GUARD ISSUES SAFETY REGULATIONS A LETTER OF PROTEST TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SHIPBUILDING TIME CUT 25 DAYS IN MONTH INFORMATION ON INSURANCE BOILERMAKERS' UNION ORDER WOMEN WELDERS MEMBERSHIP ADMISSION DENY WAGE RISE MEANS INFLATION PICKETING AREA IS NOT SUBJECT TO COP RULE OUR BROTHERS LOST AT SEA Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. IV, No. 32 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/17/1942 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1942 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/9c82c43946241a4b2aadfd9eb75f4469.PDF 0fb2daae9ac77e16947e3aeca3809a16 PDF Text Text RAKERS JOQ OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT, SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA VOL. V. NEW YORK. N. Y., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1943 UT No. 25 $15 Boost Won For 'New England' Men; 5 Cent Off-line Work Increase Climaxing a full year of struggle with the New England Steamship Company, shipowner stooges and phoney War Labor Board Referees, the union won this week a monthly boost of $15 for all ratings on the New England ships, and an increase in off line service work of 5 cents per hour. This victory was established on September 10 when the Boston Regional WLB handed down a confirmation of a maritime panel report containing these gains. Not only will the $15 increase go far toward eliminating the Wage differential between New England jobs and similar work along the coast, but the union won a retroactive clause which *means that every man will*;directly with the owner. Al­ receive the increase as of De^ though New England wages were cember 9, 1042. This means patently "sub-standard," the ship­ HERE ARE HIGHLIGHTS OF NEW ENGLAND BEEF AS PRINTED IN THE LOG OVER THE • PAST FEW MONTHS. THE TWELVE MONTp OLD FIGHT WAS District WLB Upholds Phoney Decision On New Eni The Bojton Regional War Ub. c.nerated hy ththe I '141 FINALLY WON THIS WEEK WITH. PAY BOOSTS FOR 1 ALL. k-vWCYSO SE-J Strike 1..W Labor Board Set Straight I On *New, England' Provocations Screws Tightened On Labor Control Federal agencies this week turned the screws tighter on con­ trol of manpower, ordering a System of "rationing" of labor for the entire West Coast. James F. Brynes, director of the Office of War Mobilization, announced the plan and revealed it goes further than any of the "employment stabilization" pro­ grams now in effect in industrial areas. Under the setup, labor will have less freedom to pick and choose jobs, and will be under pressure to go where directed by manpower officials. Also, West Coast industries will be given priority ratings. Those with top priority will get "first crack" at available workers. Those'at the bottom of the list will get little or none. CART BEFORE H6RSE Propaganda campaigns will be started to attract more workers to the Coast, and if not enough are obtained contracts to some war plants will be cancelled and the work shifted elsewhere. Workers left behind will be induced to go into other war factories. • A. F. of L. leaders contended . - {Continued on Page 4) : the txxi reported In detail the plot of the New England line to foment a J ciws and thui ieopardize our case before the Regional War Labor t from aH indicatioiif the shipowner completely failed to real: part of t)tc Union the men back to woHi ^ud prcvcDtad any catlendad tl*up of the ships. The oreaa taiir faUertDed aa to the sUtai of their beef befe^ tho WtM ahdaatotheahlpovni 9 cmttng a etrl •. the W atory of tha t waa fpcead bp 1 aiembeia «t r Boiud. a Darttk " UWar well over $100 in the pocket of every New England man at once. Any man who either quit or was discharged since the retroactive date, shall re­ ceive the amount of the in­ crease up to the time he left the employ of the Company. These men mus£ mail their written application for re­ troactive pay to the Com­ pany within 60 days. The Regional War Labor Board failed to grant the men all that was asked by the union, but un­ der the circumstances the decis­ ion is acceptable. The history of this case is long and stormy, with the shipowner, and his allies using every legal and illegal dodge in the books in order to escape paying the men a living wage. It was in the fall of 1942 that the union first at­ tempted to negotiate an increase NMU AND "STABILIZATION 99 AN EDITORIAL The National Maritime Union is now phenalia used by the Stalinists to smother negotiating a new contract with the the class struggle, can not bring improv­ shipowners. The NMU's /demand is for ed working conditions to the workers— "stabilization." This word — stabiliza­ and the rank and file members of the tion— sounds good. It sounds as if it NMU are now beginning to understand . were on the side of law and order and this. motherhood and the eternal verities. It is because of this awakening on the Anyone who would be against stabiliza­ part of the NMU rank and file that the tion must, of course, be a disrupter. And (.leadership must now make desperate disrupters "do Hitler's work." moves to bring their contracts up to the level of those held by the SIU. But even Stripped of all these fancy implica­ tions, stabilization means to the NMU now they don't turn to real trade union the granting of wages and conditions struggle to achieve their ends, they don't threaten the shipowners with the eco­ comparable to those won by the SIU. nomic power of their union—rather do This may come as a shock to some they phenagle with their fellow-travelers NMU rank and filers who swallowed the through the back doors of Washington in Stalinist propaganda designed to convince the hope of winning by bureaucratic them that they enjoyed the best condi­ ukase that which they failed to earn tions on the waterfront. The cold facts through unionism. are—the NMU has never had wages and conditions comparable to those of the And, of course, this betrayal of the SIU. And there is a reason for this. members is dressed up by the leaders in In the final analysis, wages are won by Red, White and Blue. Vice President Myers says in the current issue of The the strength of picket lines. There is no substitute for this weappn when dealing Piloty "The NMU's struggle for a stab­ with the bosses. Labor - Management ilized national agreement is part of a Committees, stabilization conferences, larger fight which is already in progress unity moves, and all the rest of the para- {Continued from Page 2) -. owner hid behind the "Little Steel Formula" and refused to make any concessions. On December 9, 1942, the case was certified to the War Labor Board and A new series of run arounds began. WLB Referee Coit heard the union case, and ruled against us on every point. His ruling was then upheld by the Boston Regional Board. Goit's ruling, and his logic, so outraged the facts presented by the union, the case was immediately ap­ pealed to the National War La­ bor Board in Washington. Full proof that the Referee handed down a phoney decision was the fact that the National War Labor Board directed the Boston Re­ gional Board to reconsider the case. It was on July 23 that the Union appeared before a mari­ time panel appointed by the Re­ gional Board, and once again submitted briefs which contained overwhelming evidence of the " substandard nature of the New England wage scales. No sooner had this panel hearing adjourned than shipowner stooges went to work on the New England boats and within 24 hours had foment­ ed a strike. This was done to jeopardize the SIU case before the panel. Prompt action by the union got the ships sailing and placed the blame for the stoppage di­ rectly where it belonged—on the shipowner. On August 2 the Panel decision was handed down, and on Sept. 10 this decision was confirmed by the Regional Board. We reprint the panel's full re­ port and recommendations, all of which become binding (unless appealed by the shipowner) within 14 days. NATIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD REGION I August 2, 1943 In the Matter of: New England Steamship Co. and Seafarers International' Union of North America, AFL Case No. 3946-CS-D PANEL REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS THE COMPANY The New England Steamship Company is a subsidiary of the New York, New Haven and Hart­ ford Railroad Company. It is en{Continued on Page 3) �Friday, Sepletnber 17, 1943 ] ' Page Two •.i SEAFARERS LOG Published by the SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION; OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor HARRY LUNDEBERG ------ President 110 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. JOHN HAWK ------- Secy-Treas. P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - Washington Rep, 424 5 th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. • • y • (Continued from Page 1) in our country. Certain employer inter­ ests and craft officials in various indus-"" tries are now moving to scuttle the war effort and the labor movement at the same time." Myers' tortured logic attempts to show an Hentity between the war effort and his demand for SIU wages and condi­ tions. One who is against the latter must be against the former—simple as that. Our prediction is that the NMU lead­ ers are not going to get their stabilization agreement. In spite of their manifold ^ i..'ia services to the shipowners, they are noig going to be able to cash in — the cop never has respect for his stool and kicl^ him in the teeth every time he whines for more dough. 'Nor will the NMU win wages and conditions comparable to those of the SIU in the years to come. Unions don't win concessions from the bosses by fol­ lowing the NMU's phoney trade union line. It is by struggle on the waterfront that the shipowners are forced to shell out—and it is the SIU that has in the past, and will in the future, conduct such struggles. 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Lauderdale 1601 CAPITAL'S WAGE HAS ESCAPED FREEZING Editor's MaO Bag Evidence that wage "freezing" does not apply to the wages of capital can be found on the finan­ This brain-buster is too smart t(J CAN'T GET GAS cial page of any newspaper. be a plain sailor, and too dumb On a single day this week the Editor and Brother: for anything else, so like all fail­ record of disbursements of 1942 There seems to be a work or ures and misfits he makes a lot earnings showed these increases fight law in Mobile,, originated by of noise. in payments to stockholders: the Governor himself. Now the He beefs about our hard-work­ National Dairy Products, 25 draft board says 30 days on the PUBLICATION OFFICE; per cent; Beatrice Creamery, 40 beach but the CPA says "go to ing officials, seeing only treach­ ROOM 213, 2 STONE STREET ery and double dealing in theii; per cent;,Ward Baking Company, hell." New York Gty BOwling Green 9-8346 20 per cent; B. F. Goodrich, 100 In my case I asked for enough activities. He snorts about the per cent; Humble Oil and Refin­ gas to come to report to the hall way the bosun handles the job. ing, 40 per cent; American Agri­ twice a week. I live 24 miles out He criticizes the delegate; but cultural Chemical, 60 per cent; and need the gas to look for never goes delegate himself; it's Twentieth-Century Fox,, 100 per work. I was rejected flat. So, I too much responsibility and woi'k cent; McKesson & Robbins, 30 had to get in the best way I for the good of the Union, not his good! I per cent; National Enameling, 50 could—^by bus. per cent. I go to the CPA with tears in His latest battle station is taken Doubtless directors of these my eyes, I haven't slept, I can't up against the Maritilne Com­ The law would have made it companies were surprised at their get a room, I don't have any gas, mission trainee, against whom ha Organized labor won a major possible to put out of business moderation, since profits, after and I can't get a ship unless I sends his windy blasts as gov­ round this week in its battle to unions that failed to abide by the payment of taxes, were more report to the hall. But I get no­ ernment-trained potential finks. knock out state anti-labor laws as As a matter of fact these kids are than double those of the previous where. an unconstitutional infringement myriad of restrictions. coming into the industry with year. on the rights of workers. In the meantime a man comes BAD PROVISIONS UPHELD Its first taste of victory came in However, Judge Sackman up­ into the CPA and asks' for gas to basic training paid for by each' Colorado, where Judge Charles C. held several other bad provisions take friends on a fishing trip. He and every taxpayer. (Look at Sackman of Denver held invalid of the bill, including restrictions gets 100 gallons. A bus driver your deductions. Wise Guy!) In­ the most vicious sections of Col­ on picketing and a list of "unfair comes in and needs 4 tires, he stead of giving them a bad time, wouldn't it be wiser to welcome orado's labor-shackling law, mis­ labor practices" by employes All tankers and all tank barges gets them. them and educate them as sea­ called a "labor peace act." which, when committed, would of more than 100 gross tons in The seaman is just out of luck men to top off their "training?" Colorado's law is the worst subject the workers and their which crews are divided between because * he doesn't swing any Wouldn't it be wiser, Wise Guy, among nearly a dozen passed by unions to fine? and civil damage more than one watch for pur­ crooked votes in this neighbor­ to make them potential steady state legislatures during the past suits. Curbs on closed shop agree­ poses of„ steering must hence­ hood. union men, rather than probable year—aU of which are being ments and a ban on "secondary forth be equipped with alarm Who's twar is thiB—Democracy scabs? challenged in the courts. boycotts" were also sustained. bells, the Coast Giiard rule<j or Politicans? After aU, they do come out of Fraternally, Because these repressive fea­ yesterday in an order published SECTIONS TOSSED OUT the taxpayers' school with more J. M. TORCHICK, No. 13 G Judge Sackman threw out the tures are in the bill, the Ameri in the Federal Rogister. The orknowledge of seamansMp thsm' sections which call for compul­ can Federation of Labor and its 'der is divided into three sections, the draft or tourist type of sea­ WISE GUY sory incorporating of unions and affiliated unions in Colorado will affecting new tank ships upon man. i regulate in detail the legitimate appeal the decision to the state which construction is started no There's one in almost every crew. Have you noticed brother? Supreme Court, Joseph A. PadR.EJI.B» Bk. 5881. activities of unions. earlier than today,, existing tank­ These sections restrict the way, A. F. of L. general counsel, ers, whether afloat or under con­ FLANNEL MOUTH amount of dues and initiation declared. struction yesterday, and tank Pama Takes Union Post fees unions may charge; compel barges of more than 100 gross Johaimes Pama, formerly of The guy with a voice like 1' them to open their financial rec­ tons. thunder clap and an appetite Hke the Liverpool (England) office of ords to inspection; prohibit con­ The Coast Guard has ruled that tributions for political purposes, Extra meals money coming to all tankers of more than 100 the Dutch Central Transport Moby Dick the whale. He's usual­ require unions to elect officers following crew members of S. S. gross tdns, the construction of Workers, has assumed the post of ly first in the messroom, and pounds the table and yells at the annually; permit the state Indus­ Woodrldge Ferris; J. Davis, J which is begun on and after Sep­ assistant district secretary here, messman if his grub isn't served trial Commission to send agents Dedicatoria, Fred Williams, Harry tember 15, 1943, shall have all into union meetings for a check Harris, John Brown, and William sleeping accommodations and according to an announcement pronto. on proceedings, and allow mem­ Davis. machinery spaces equipped with made yesterday by P. J. Vanden- Stretching his flannel mouth' bers who do not like anything a Overtime is coming to follow a sufficient number of alarm^ berge, head of the union's Ameri­ like an old undershirt, he bolts union does to apply either to the ing crew members of 3. S. bells so located as to warn all can branch. Mr. Pama arrived in his. vituals and yells again for commission or the courts to over­ Charles Ayeock: Paul Huffer, Leo occupants. seconds before the man across this country last week. ride the majority decision of the Manaugh, J, M. Hughley and A, Mr. 'Vandenberge said Mr. the table has gotten his soup. union. Langly, Pama's transfer was one of sev­ Isn't it about time to put a shot eral moves made by his group, an across this double-bottom's bul­ affiliate of the International bous bow and blink the following KEEP CLEAR WITH YOUR DRAFT BOARD Transport Workers Federation, in message: the interest of general efficiency "See Preamble in Union Book, By observing the following simple instructions you will and in line with the steadily ex­ Paragraph Six—the right to be continue to receive deferment from military service. Fail panding part being played by treated in a decent and respect­ to observe these rule.s and you may wind up in the army. Dutch shipping in t^e war effort. ful manner by those in com­ Edward C. Brown WHEN SIGNING ON: Give the clerk or skipper all the He also disclosed that G. E. mand." Joe Kirk information necessary to fill out RMO Card No. 47 (Green Esveldt, veteran head of the The messman, as a workingH. Hamson Card). Dutch union's main office in man and seaman, is entitled to Chester Smith WHEN SIGNING OFF: See that Card No. 48-A is propLondon, is en route to Curacao, the same rights as the men he C. Qlde perly fidled out by skipper or clerk. • wljcre he wll take charge of serves. Let's give him a break D. H. Mathews that office's reorganization. He is and put a stopper on the brothers 11 Marvin West Ship out before your allotted time ashore has expired. being replaced in the London who yell at him as if he were a Eugene Kilasinski If you have not yet flUed out the Green Card, contact your branch by G. J. "Vandenwoesty- flea-bitten dog. F. Clark draft board and let them know that you are sailing.nen. Book A 5881, SIU. D. Sannit Labor Wins Victory In War On Anti-Union Laws TANKER ALARM BELL ^VSTEM ORDERED MONEY DUE �KiAv- 17, Itis tkia ifeHtiilt&lii ^<>G Pa^ Thrf For 'New England' " consecutive hours. It also deyear and because the cost of ployees working on dredging ees, however, maintain families sires that Quartermasters living has risen by more boats in the inland water ashore and get home as frequ­ work eight hours per day bas­ than 15% since the time of ways of New England are ently their work schedule will ed on the three watch system. the last increase. substantially higher than permit, The Stewardess Depart­ (2) The- wage rates paid by the rates paid for similar work ment employees work nine hours B. The Issues Company are considerably performed by employees of within a spread of twelve while 1. Increase in Monthly Base lower than rates paid for the Company. other employees are on a conse­ Rates similiar work on the Great (5) The wage rates paid by the cutive eight hour day. In the (a) Union Position Lakes and in the New York Company are so low that Deck Department, however. Sec­ The Union, at the hearing held area on passenger freight they constitute a substandard ond Mates, Boatswains and Deck­ by the Panel, argued in favor of boats, tow boats and dredges; level of wages. hands work eight hours within a a $40.00 increase in the monthly the differential between these (b) Company Position spread of ten except during the base rates of all classifications on rates has increased during At the hearing before the summer months. the following grounds^ the past few years. Panel the Company stated General wage increases grant­ (1) While the general increases (3) Work performed on two boats that its position was the same ed by the Company in 1941 clear­ granted to the employees and dredges is similiar to as it had taken before^, the ly exceed 15%. Within the during the summer and fall work, in the same classifica­ Referee of the Board in De­ Board's maladjustment policy the of 1941 amounted to an av­ tions, performed on the Comcember, T942; that it agreed consideration of the rise in cost erage of approximately 23%, p a n y' s "passenger - freight with the Referee's Report of living, therefore, cannot be these increases should be disboats. Comparison with two and Recommendations; and made a factor in the examination • regarded in the .computation boats rates and dredging that in its opinion the May 12 of the Union's demand for a wage of allowable maladjustment boat rates is, therefore, justi­ directive of the Economic increase. fied. increase because the in­ BACKGROUND Stabilization Director in no The Union has argued in be­ creases of 194% should have (4) Rates paid by the U. S. Army On August 31, 1942, the Union way effected the conclusions half of a comparison or rates paid been granted in the previous Engineers to civilian emgave notice to the Company that reached by the Referee. by the Company with rates paid it desired to reopen those sec­ The Company pointed out that in the Great Lakes and New tions of their agreement of Octo­ the employees had been given in­ York areas. The panel is of the ber 1, 1941 which related to wage creases in excess of 15% since opinion that a direction compari­ rates and overtime. During the January, 1941 and that no in­ son of rates in such widely sep­ negotiations which followed, the crease was therefore allowable arated areas is not justified under parties were unable to agree up­ under the maladjustment policy the Board's policy but that if pos­ on the disposition of the issues of the Board. It further present­ sible the procedure laid down the resources and labor of about GALVESTON raised. The ease was, thereupon, 400,000,000 people. Joe knows all ed the argument that no similar under the directive of The Eco­ certified to the National War La­ of this. Also he remembers how passenger freight operates at nomic Stabilization Director for Shipping and business is good Russia lost Finland, Lithunia present either in New England or determination of whether wage bor Board, on December 9, 1942. A^ Referee of the Board held around this neck of the woods Latvia, Estonia, and part of Po elsewhere in the country, and adjustments are justified, should hearings -on the case on Decem­ I have shipped everything that land. He knows who took them that, therefore, no comparison be followed. There are no directly compar­ ber 30, 1942, and issued his Re­ looks like a seaman. Have a new and why they did. He also re can be made with wage levels of members how Newton Baker, other boats. It argued that no able passenger-freight boats op­ port and Recommendations on ship out in a few days. February 9, 1943. He recommend­ Well, the sweater boys are out with Pres. Wilson's consent anc comparison can properly be made erated in the inland water ways ed denial of the demands of the in front of the Houston Press without the consent of Congress with other companies operating of New England. The work per­ as provided for in our Constitu in other areas. The Company also formed* by some classifications of Union. The Regional War Labor Newspaper plant in Houston, Board for the'First Region ap­ has no effect at aU on the news tion, made war on Russia in 1919 claimed that comparison with the workers employed by the Com­ proved the Referee's recommen­ paper, but it does give the pants He may also remember that we dredges operated by the U.S. pany is, however, admittedly dations on April 26, 1943. The pressors and the button hole would not recognize his govern­ Army Engineers would not con­ comparable to work performed by similar classifications on othef Union appealed the case to the sailors a little exercise out in the ment until the administration of stitute a fair comparison. Pres. Roostevelt. He may remem­ The Company acknowledged inland waterway boats. The National War Labor Board in hot sun. Washington. On June 9, 1943, the I had two ships to sign on, but ber a bitter statement made by that the work of firemen and oil­ Panel has, therefore, examined National War Labor Board re­ they would not go for anything Churchill when Joe was fighting ers on passenger freight boats is rates paid to these classifications ferred the case back to the Board but Rider 64. I had a talk the Hero Mannerheim a few years similar to that of firemen and by companies operating boats in in Region I for reconsideration in other day with a captain who ago. The Finns were destroying oilers on other island waterway the inland waterways of New the light of the May 12 directive just came over from New Or a division of Russians every day, boats; that the work of deck­ England. It has found that the of the Economic Stabilization-Di­ leans; he stated that he had gone and then surrendered. hands is not comparable in all wage rates paid by the Company to the USS Hotel in that city to The Finns came from the respects; and that the work of in these classifications is consid­ rector. The Panel was appointed to get a room, and to see just what Volga, were conquered by the other classifications cannot be erably lower than the lowest review the case, hold hearings it was like. The clerk at the Swedes in the 13th and 14th cen­ compared at all with that of rates paid by other companies examined. Since most of the and make recommendations to desk pulled out a form, waifiting turies, absorbed by Russia in other types of boats. other companies operate out of the Board. The Panel held a to know how long he had been 1806 and had the Russian langu­ (c) Discussion I-' hearing on July 24, 1943 in Nfew going to sea, where he was bom age imposed in 1811. In 1919 The following is the monthly Boston, the Panel considered the Bedfor(i, Massachusetts and af­ and why, his license number; Finland was taken from Russia wage rate now paid by the Com­ difference in labor market wage level between Boston and New forded fee parties full opportun­ wife's name and address, and al by the Whites-German soldiers pany: Bedford. Upon giving considera­ kinds of crap. The captain in­ under Hero Mannerheim. ity to be heard. PURSERS DEPARTMENT tion to both the industry differ­ formed them that he wanted Japan is a menace to Russia THE ISSUES $170.00 ential in the classifications com­ room nnd not charity, and what that Stalin would like to end, bun Pursers A. Summary of the Union pared and the area differential in was the idea of wanting to know he will get what he wants in the Ticket Collector and Demands Baggagemasters 115.00 wage levels, the Panel concludes all of this dope. Result, the gent West before he will give us the that these classifications should 1. That the monthly scale of walked out and went to another aid we need against Japan. Joe DECK DEPARTMENT be granted a $15.00 per month wages for each classification hotel. It can be understood why remembers how he aided the Re­ Second Mates 128.00 wage increase. they want all of this dope. One publicans in Spain while Eng be raised by $40-00. Boatswains 102.50 These are established differen­ 2. That an increase in the hourly copy of it is sent to the RMO and land, Franca and our State De- Quartermasters 97.50 tials among the various classifi­ rate of pay for all classifica­ they, have the finger right on you. pairtment helped Franco and our Watchmen 90.00 cations of employees working for tions be given for work done As I stated a few weeks ago in oil companies sold Franco gaso- Ablebodied Seamen 92.00 the Company. In order to main­ while boats, are not in Line the LOG, Duschare, the NMU ine. Ordinary Seamen tain the logic of the internal Service. The present scale is agept was in line for the secre­ (Utility Men) 82.50 wage structure of the Company Who would Stalin hurt if he tary's job of the USS when it 85e, 60c and 65c per hour. The regained those countries? Some ENGINE DEPARTMENT ' the Panel is of the opinion that Union desires that the rate be opens here. Has turned out to be andlords and other exploiters. set at a uniform level of $1.00 a true fact. There were two la­ England's army in Iran could Oilers $102.50 $15.00 per month increase be dies from the merchant marine 97.50 granted to each of the classifica­ per hour. have aided Russia in the Cauca­ Firemen 3. That an increase in the hourly auxiliary paid me a visit in the sus and some bases on the Black Wipers 77.50 tions-of employees employed by the Company. overtime rate for aU classifi­ hall last week, and they wanted Sea East of Turkey could be used STEWARDS DEPARTMENT The Panel is also of the opin­ cations be raised by ten cents me to let every one know of the to destroy the oil fields of Ru­ 'irst Cooks $122.50 ion that these wage adjustments good work that they are doing per hour. mania. Why doesn't Stalin ask 97.00 be made retroactive to the date 4. That eight hours should con­ for the boys who are in the hos that kind of aid along with the Second Cooks irirst Lunchmen 97.00 of the certification of the issue to stitute a day's work for the pital, and they also want it to be Komrades in the NMU who are Second Lunchmen 87.00 the National War Labor Board Deck Department throughout known that they ^e not connect­ shouting for a second front? 75.00 and that the retroactive pay be the year. Elimination from ed with the NMU, USS or any Could it be that Curran is being Head Porters Porters 70.00 distributed in accordance with other organization. They are out the Agreement of the provis­ pushed aside by his fellow trav­ Stewardess 70.00 the Board's general policy on this to help in any. Way they can, the ion that for other than the elers in the NMU and,^has gone Messmen 74.00 question. seamen in the hospital, and they time that the summer sched­ to Russia to see about starting a Employees are given two days ule is in effect the Second were doing that before the US3 purge, and getting all of the dope 2. Increase for Off-Line Service off each month and receive an Mates, Boatswains and Deck­ was ever heard of. Work of how it is ^one by Mustache hands may be placed on a What will Stalin do when Ger­ Joe. Your guess is as good as extra day's pay for work on Sun­ Bi Union Position schedule of eight hours with­ many is defeated? Your guess is mine. But Curran or Stalin will day. The employees receive, on Each of the two boats now in a period of ten hours. The as good as minfi^, but I think that never see the day that they can the average, two meals a day on operated by the Company is }oard the boats and sleeping Union desires that overtime he will trade hard. Our war with purge the SIU or the SUP. taken off its regular run for quarters are available for the be paid these employees for Japan will be a long one without £. R. WALLACE. Agent men. Practically aU the employ­ (Continued on Page 4) any time worked after eight the aid of .Russia. Japan now has (Continued from Page 1) gaged in passenger and freight transportation, operating a year round service from New Bedford and Woods Hole to the island of Martha's Vineyard and Nantuck­ et. -The Company employs ap­ proximately 75 employees on the two boats used by it. THE UNION The Seafarers International Union of North America is affili­ ated with the American Federa­ tion of Labor. It entered into its first agreement with the Com­ pany on July 18, 1939. The sec­ ond agreement was entered into on July 30, 1940, following an arbitration hearing. The last agreement became effective Octo­ ber 1, 1941. Around The Ports i'-fti,'. y- r "•J." yk'. • r: �Page Four II, THE SEAFARERS LOG $15 Boost Won For^New England' {Continued on Page 3) approximately six weeks each year to permit maintenance and overhauling work to be done on the boat. Employees in the Engine, Deck and Stew­ ards Departments are general­ ly employed on an hourly basis to perform some of this work. The Company also em­ ploys a separate group of maintenance workers. Fol­ lowing are the homdy rates paid to the regular crew for such work: in the tasks performed in the various departments. They should be maintained. RECOMMENDATIONS It is hereby recommended that Friday. September 17, 1943 Out of the Focsl by 1. Effective as of the payroll pe Rate of Overtime Pay riod immdeialely following The present arrangement on December 9, 1942, the date of We have visited the A^idrew Furuseth Club on 37th Street and overtime provides that any em­ certification of the issues to the American Theatre Wing on 43rd Street, and have been invited ployee regardless of classification the National War Labor to parties at the Cosmopolitan Club and the Women's Republican shall receive eighty cents per Board, the monthly base rate Club, but our last visit was jhe JANET ROPER CLUB on 3 East 67th hoxu- overtime pay. The union for all classifications of work Street, the best Seamen's Club in town. The property was formerly raised no objection to the pay­ be increased by $15.00. the home of Thomas Fortune Ryan. Now the seamen are having ment of the same overtime rate the pleasure of using this palatial spot for their own recreation. The to all employees, but argued that 2. Effective as of the payroll pe­ club is open every day except Sunday from 2 to 11 P.M. It would the rate should be raised to nine­ riod immediately following be worth your while to visit the place. / ty cents per hour. The Company December 9, 1943, the hourly AAA opposed the position of the Union rates of pay to employees Hubert Wyckoff's restriction on seamen bringing in souvenirs and argued that the present rate working on off-Line Service Stewards Department ....$ .55 from the war zones is evidence that he never was a boy. What harm is a^air one. work be increased by five Deck Department 6(i could be done by seamen bringing in iron crosses and helmets? cents (5c). Engine Department 65 The Panel can sec no justifica­ They want to show it to their friends and after tlie war will be The Union's request for in­ able to tell off these guys who will accuse them of not having dona The Union's position is these tion for changing the rate of overtime pay. The present rate . crease in overtime rate of pay anything during the war, by showing them these souvenirs. rates should be made uniform of eighty cents represents com­ ishereby denied. AAA and that $1.00 per hour should be paid to all employees. The pensation of more than time and Ted Crocker is now in the Army. When he last paid us a visit Union argued that the Referee one-half for most employees even 4. The Union's request for a we informed him that his di'aft board was looking for him. He change to a consecutive eight had mistakenly compared this under the wage scale recom­ hour scheduie ali year round failed to heeS our warning. He is no^^ doing harbor patrol duty. work with common labor mended by the Panel. for the Second Mates, Boat­ It is reported that Don'Ronan and six other A.B.'s are on the beach work performed in the New swains and Deckhands and an in the Persian Gulf. Carroll Quinnt's bag was shipped here from Bedford area. According to 4. Scheduling of the Eight Hours of Work eight hour pay day three Pennsylvania, and he may secure it in Room 213. We noticed that the Union the work performed The Union argued in favor of watch system for Quartermas­ Max Longfellow was back in New York again. is mainly painting and that extending the practice of paying ters is hereby denied. The the rates paid by the Com­ overtime for all time worked af­ Company is urged, however, pany are, therefore, too low. ter - eight consecutive hours to to met this scheduie whenever the Second Mates, Boatswains it is practicabie and to give Company Position and Deckhands. It also argued these employees their two The Company argued that hours off while the boats are the work performed is not of in behalf of an eight hour day for docked at New Bedford.. a skilled nature and should Quartermasters based on a three {Continued from Page 1) Respectfully submitted, properly be paid rates com­ watch system. What the Union that prime requisites to solution parable to unskilled labor. It desires to eliminate is the prac­ A pay rise _ of 5c an hour for of the manpower problem are DANIEL L. HOROWITZ pointed out that when these tice of working eight hours with­ approximately 15,000 longshore­ wages at decent levels, adequate Representing the Public employees did painting work in ten during nine months of the men in fifteen Gulf and South housing, payment of transporta­ it was rough painting and year. It present the eight conse­ THOMAS BOWE, Atlantic Coast ports from Char- tion costs to workers moving to could not be compared to that cutive hour schedule applies to Representing the Employees eston, S. C., to BrownsvUle, Tex., new jobs, and other safeguards. of a skilled painter. The these employees only during the lias been approved by the Na­ BRADFORD KENYON, Company does have" in its summer months. Labor members of the War tional War Labor Board. Representing the Employers employ painters whose job it The Company argued that the Manpower Commission's laborThe International Longshore­ is to do the more skilled summer sailing schedule makes management . policy committee men's Association, AFL, repre­ painting and to mix paints. possible the eight consecutiye tried to put over such a program sents the men covered by the Here is the Directive Order of The work done, according to hour work schedule for these some time ago. the Regional Board which ap­ WLB order. Thirteen maritime the Company, is comparable classifications. At other times in proved the foregoing recommen­ associations and individual ship­ LABOR SAFEGUARDS URGED at most to that of a painter's the year the sailing schedule is ping companies joined with the dations. helper, and the present rates such that unless the eight within union in separate applications to They demanded, too, that if are, in the opinion of the Com­ ten hour work schedule obtained, DIRECTIVE ORDER the board for approval of the workers are to be prodded to pany, adequate compensation the Company would regularly be general increase and of various shift to new jobs they should, be for this work. The Regional War Labor Board protected against being sent tQ required to pay for considerable ocal adjustments. s for the First Region, acting as the overtime. The two hours off is The board aproved the increase plants paying lower wages, ot Discussion djily authorized agent of the Na­ which have miserable working Since it appeeirs that work not given at one time, but is tional War Labor Board, and pur­ to compensate the Gulf and conditions, or which are in viola­ performed by. the employees broken up during the day. The suant to the powers vested in said South Atlantic longshoremen un­ tion of orders from the War La­ on the boats while the boats Union complained that the men Board by Executive Orders No. der the "Little Steel" formula bor Board or National Labor Re­ are off line service is made up may be called back to work at 9017 of January 12, 1942, and No. and to re-establish a differential lations Board. of a number of miscellaneous any time during their time off 9250 of October 3, 1942, the Act between rates in North and tasks which vary with the De­ and that they, therefore, frequ­ of Congress of October. 2, 1942, South Atlantic ports which has Industry members of the com­ existed since 1936. In November, mittee voted against the proposal, partment to which they are ently get their two hours off in and the War Labor Disputes Act 1942^ the board approved a 5c intwenty minute stretches. The attached, it appears inadequ­ of June 25, 1943, hereby directs crease for ILA longshoremen in however, and as things stand now Company acknowledged that men there are no national standards ate to describe their work as that: • ^ ' North Atlantic ports. to protect workers being trans­ rough painting. They do some sometimes get their two hours overhauling and general clear­ off in several smaller periods, but The recommendations of the The basic rate for longshore­ ferred, union chiefs said. ing up in their respective de­ claimed that whenever possible Panel dated August 2, 1943 are men in South Atlantic ports is These safeguards must be put partments. The work is not the time off is scheduled when approved and made the Directive 75c an hour with rates for cer­ into effect, they argued, before tain cargoes and warehousing workers will submit to any plan altogether that of painter's the boats dock at New Bedford Order of the Board. ranging from 48c to 65c an hour. for wholesale trahsfers drafted in and, since there is stop Over at helpers nor is it entirely com­ The procedure to be foUowed Basic wage rates in Gulf ports Washington. New Bedford of from one to two parable to common labor. in making the retroactive- pay­ range from 75c to $1.10 an hour. Some familiarity with the and three quarters hours, the ment of those employees who These rates compare with a men get most of their time off in work is a necessary requisite. have either quit or ben discharg­ North Atlantic basic rate of $1.25 one period. ed shall be in accordance with an hour. The Panel is of the opinion that the rates paid for this The Panel, believes that wher­ the annexed copy of the Board's The new rates in Gulf and South Atlantic ports are effective work should more properly be ever possible work should be Resolution,-of April 2, 1943. January 1, 1943.. compared with the general scheduled on a consecutive time WILLIAM ASKSON Unless a Petition for Reviews The board also approved a wage" structure of the com­ schedule. It does not feel justi­ is filed with the National War Your book and papers are be­ general increase of 5c an hour for pany than with jobs which at fied in eliminating the eight Labor Board withm 14 days of within ten hour work rule, how­ ing held for you by the Philadel­ clerks and checkers in Mobile, best are only partly compar­ the date of issue shown above, ever, since this practice would phia Shipping Commissioner. Ala., and elimination of wage able in the area. The Panel this Order will become final and rate differentials between dock appear to be a practical necessity therefore recommends that an binding as the Order of the Na­ Keep In Touch With and ship labor at Port Ever­ increase of five cents per hour for the efficient and. economical tional War Labor Board. operation of the boats during the glades, Fla. be granted for this work. This Your Local Draft Board, is approximately equivalent time that the winter schedule is SAUL WALLEN, Chairman to the $15.00 per month in­ in .effect. The Panel, therefore, CLARENCE G. McDAVITT crease recommended for the recommends that the Union's re>, ATLANTIC AND GULF SHIPPING FOR quest be denied, but that whem year round base rales. WALtE McGUINN ever possible the Company should WEEK OF AUG. 30th TO SEPT. 4th. There appears to be no cog­ attempt to arrange for a consecu­ C. LAWRENCE MUENCH DECK ENGINE STEWARD TOTAL ent reason for the elimination tive work schedule for the classi­ \ FRANK M. HEAVEY of the differentials among the fications involved and also at­ m SHIPPED 328 297 280 895 rates now paid to the various JEREMIAH A. LINEHAN departipents. The differentials tempt to arrange for time off REGISTERED 246 211 150 807 reflect the past evaluation by while the boats are in dock at EFECTIVE DATE: September 24, 1943. the parties of the differences New Bedford. 3. WLB Gives 15,000 Screws Tightened Longshoremen On Labor Control Pay Raise fe' I Wm j' s • •>g; \§l � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 17, 1943 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. V, No. 25 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Description An account of the resource Headlines: $15 BOOST WON FOR 'NEW ENGLAND' MEN; 5 CENT OFF-LINE WORK INCREASE SCREWS TIGHTENED ON LABOR CONTROL NMU AND "STABILIZATION" LABOR WINS VICTORY IN WAR ON ANTI-UNION LAWS CAPITAL'S WAGE HAS ESCAPED FREEZING TANKER ALARM BELL SYSTEM ORDERED PAMA TAKES UNION POST FLANNEL MOUTH WLB GIVES 15,000 LONGSHOREMEN PAY RAISE Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/17/1943 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1943 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/1775587fa9151b95fe96773583953f72.PDF 267d4059855f662d8e30867cc2d7bc32 PDF Text Text ••'•:••-:''•iff!'. ] SIU Signs 5 Tankers To Top Pay Levy Getting Members' OK The seriousness with which Seafarers view the need for the ten-dollar assessment for the Two-year contracts calling for General Fund has been demon­ Official Organ, Atlantic & Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of NA the highest wages in the tanker strated by the brisk rate at No. 38 field—with increases running as NEW YORK, N. Y.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1948 VOL. X which they have lined up at high as $40.50—have been signed voting booths in all ports to cast with five of the SIU's seventeen their ballots in the referendum now before the membership. contracted tanker companies. One From comments heard up and of the companies — Terminal down the coast the impression Tanker Industries — signed its is that the membership is back­ first SIU contract, the result of ing the proposed assessment by an intensive organizing cam­ a wide margin in the balloting paign. so far. Voting began on Septem­ Contracts covering the five ber 8 and will continue until companies were signed on Sep­ October 8. tember 9 and provide for wage The referendum on the ten- As the combined strike and MEBA and the MFOWW were owners originally set up the increases for all ratings, clarifi­ dollar assessment was authorized lockout on the West Coast deliberately locked out by the Taft-Hartley Act as a bar to the cation of the working and gen­ by an overwhelming member­ neared the end of the second operatoi-s who -broke off negotia­ kind of Hiring Hall that mari­ eral rules and, in line with the ship vote at regular meetings on week, the situation was compli­ tions with the two unions, with­ time unions must have to re­ SIU's freight ship policy, will August 25, in response to a cated by Army efforts to move drawing all offei-s after the strike tain their jobs and their con­ run for two years. began on September 3. Since ditions. Th( y also refused the resolution presented to all Army cargoes the Army away. The five companies to sign then, the MFOWW has declared ILWU's wage demands. Branches by 37 Brothers in the Meanwhile, the outlook for an with the Seafarers, and the ef­ itself to be on strike. Port of New Orleans. early settlement remained dim, The strike was first threatened fective dates of the contracts, as 'the, operators refused to deal The restdt is that the entire in June when the operators RUNNING STRUGGLE are Tanker Sag Harbor Corpora­ fui-ther with the CIO Longshore­ West Coast waterfront from the deadlocked all negotiations with The New Orleans resolution men and the CIO Marine Cooks Canadian border to Mexico is the longshoremen. The federal tion, effective September 9; Pet­ pointed out that the SIU's new and Stewards, until officials of idle, about 130 ships being tied government then asked and ob­ rol Tanker Industries, Inc., ef­ two-year contract had set -the those organizations sign anti- up. Some 12,000 longshoremen tained from a federal judge an fective September 9; The Cabins Tanker Industries, Inc., effective pace again for all of maritime, communist affidavits., are on the picketlines and 16,000 80-day injunction against the September 15; Arctic Tankers, but that in the face of the Taftstrike imder the Taft-Hartley seamen are locked out. Inc. (New London Tanker Com­ , Hartley Act and disastrous price Act. The 80 days were supposed As the .LOG went to press. The effect of the strike has pany), effective September 11; inflation ^the Union must Secretary of the Army Ken­ to be a "cooling off" period. been to lay off all SUP and and Terminal Tanker Industries, strengthen its financial condi­ neth C. Royal announced in The injunction ran out Sep­ Inc., effective September 18. The A&G men on the coast along tion. Washington that the Army with the rest. A number of tember 2 and the longshoremen Terminal Tanker outfit operates , Much of the Union's financial would use troops to load A&G ships are tied up in San struck the next day. the T-2 tanker SS Julesberg. assets arc in special funds — ships in West Coast ports. Francisco and elsewhere on the The operators immediately saw Incidentally, the signing of such as the Strike and Buildings The threat was admission on coast. Radio Operators, too, were a chance to wrap themselves in the Terminal Tankers Industries Funds—the resolution continued, the Army's part that its at­ laid off. the flag. They wouldn't deal with brings to seventeen the number and could not be used for day- tempt to hire "civil service" the longshoremen or the MCS, of tanker companies contracted Several issues in th^ beef are to-day operations. It was the longshoremen was an out­ they said, until their officials to the SIU, all of which have economic, a fact which the SIU General Fund with which the right flop. has recognized from the begin­ signed the non-c ommunist been brought imder the SIU running struggle with the ship­ ning. However, the pro-commie pledges. The SIU has fought the banner in little over a year. owners and other hostile forces officials of the longshoremen and communists at every turn Also directly involved are the Unlike the General Agree­ was carried on, it said, and that throughout its history, but that the MCS have managed, as CIO Marine Engineers Beneficial ment, which called for $12.50 fund must never be weakened. Association and the Marine Fire­ usual, to becloud the picture fact cannot be allowed to ob- across the board, except for Bos­ In order to maintain and inwith political baloney, giving the scui'e the economic facts of the uns who received $25, the tanker ciease the SIU's strength against men, Oilers and Watertenders, shipowners a chance to becloud current West Coast beef. although officials of both have wage rises correct the differen­ all possible enemies and ob­ Incidentally, what good the tials in previous contracts. the picture further with phony signed the affidavits. Indirectly, stacles, the 37 New Orleans Bro­ "cooling off period" accom­ patriotism. thers asked that a referendum but no less conclusively involved, To set things straight, the ship­ plished nobody can say. HIGH BOOSTS are the crews of all A&G and be held on a ten-dollar assess­ SUP ships on the Coast. Those receiving the greatest ment. This week the Army began increases are the OS Mainten­ The referendum ballot upon advertising for longshoremen and ance, who receives a $35 boost which the SIU membership is seamen to work cargoes and sail to $220, and the Engine Mainnow voting requires only "Yes" ships scheduled to carry supplies tenance-2nd Pumpman, who is Five more Atlantic & Gulf District contracted operators or "No" to the following ques­ to Japan and elsewhere across boosted $40.50 to" $305.50. fell into line this week and signed the General Agreement tion; the Pacific. .The unions immedi­ already agreed to by eleven major operators. In addition. (The new wage scales appear "Are you in favor of a $10.00 ately leveled a charge of strike­ on Page 15.) Calmar Steamship Company signed a supplemental agreement assessment to build the General breaking against the Army, and bringing the wage scale and overtime rate on its ships in line The overtime rate of pay in Fund?" moved to forestall the Army's with that of the General Agreement. The remainder of the the new contract calls for thf plap. Calmar agreement continues in effect until expiration on April payment of $1.15 per hour to The Army offered its jobs un­ 16, 1949. The wages on Calmar ships are retroactive to men earning under $228.23 per der finky civil service conditions. August 17. month and $1.45 to those earn­ Previously the unions had of­ The five companies to agree to the General Agreement— ing $220.23 or more per month. fered to work Army cargoes for first signed by Mississippi and the Atlantic & Gulf Steamship The SIU Negotiating Commit­ the companies under their old Operators Association, and now the pattern thr.oughout the tee, which hammered out the contract conditions, but the op­ maritime industry—are American Eastern, Atwacoal, Ponce industry-high wage boosts, has erators at this point refused to Cement Company, White Rwge and St. Lawrence Navigation. scheduled meetings with the re­ cooperate with either the Army Meanwhile, negotiations continue with Isthmian, and contracts maining tanker operators and or the unions.have been presented to the remaining SlU-contracted opera­ expects them to sign identical ARMY FAILS tors for study. contracts within the next few By ALEX MACDONALD According to the latest reports, weeks. MONTREAL—In a move des­ the Army was making no head­ tined to change the whole mari­ way at all. On Tuesday the time labor picture in Canada, Army advertised its jobs in San the Canadian District of the Francisco where six ships schedSIU took into its ranks the memfor Army cargoes were tied The SIU produced witness The exact composition of the Last Spring, the NLRB certi­ bership and contracted vessels. ^Pbargaining unit which will vote after witness to show that the fied the SIU as bargaining agent of the Canadian Lakes Seamen's " The Army had announced that the nine remaining Citie.s Serv­ company was raising a bogus on seven of CS's original ships Union, a union organized two it expected 250 job applicants a ice ships is now up to the Na­ issue. as the result of the Union's years ago to fight communist day. The first morning, there tional Labor Relations Board in smashing 5-to-l victoi-y in an FIRST PARLEY domination of Canadian mari­ were 30-odd applicants for all Washington, Lindsey Williams, election held last winter. Meanwhile, SIU negotiations jobs including other fields than Director of Organization, an­ time labor. But the NLRB refused to cer­ met with Cities Service repre­ As one of the conditions of maritime. Army spokesmen re­ nounced this week. sentatives in a preliminai-y step tify the Union on ships which fused to say whether they had accepting the Canadian union Extended hearings on the bar­ toward obtaining a conti'act for were not actually voted or were into the SIU's ranks, Pat Sul­ enough men for even one long­ gaining unit question ended the unlicensed personnel on the acquired after the voting began. livan, its president, resigned his shore gang of 14 to 18 workers. night of September 8. seven ships which were voted In a similar situation, the gov­ position. Sullivan, prior- to his The Army was expected to keep The company's efforts at the last winter. ernment board had certified the trying in San Francisco and in work in the CLSU, had been a Another meeting will be held Union for aU Isthmian ships. heai-ings were directed at ex­ Seattle. communist and official in the cluding Stewards, Bosuns, Ma­ .shortly, but no date has been set Nevertheless, the SIU now must communist - dominated Canadian The only imions actually on chinists and Pumpmen from the as yet. vote the eight new ships which strike are the CIO longshoremen, Seamen's Union. What has complicated the Cities Service has taken over led by Harry Bridges, and the unit because, the gompany said, The two unions carried on MCS, led by Hugh Bryson. Both men sailing in these ratings wei-e Cities Service case has been the plus one ship which failed to discussions and achieved Unity officials are notorious adherents supervisors within the meaning NLRB's reversal of the precedent touch an American port during it set in the Isthmian case. last winter's voting period. of the communist party line. The of the Taft-Hartley Act. (Continued on Page 4) ' Anuy Makes No Progress In Moving Coast Cargoes More Operators Sign CLSU Enters Ranks Of Sltf In Canada I NLRB To Decide Unit For New CS Election �Page Two THE SE AF AHEHS LOG Friday. Septeia)f9X 17, 184« SEAFARERS LOG published Weekly by the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affilialed wilh Ihe American Federation of Labor At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. HAnover 2-2784 Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. 267 Uniform Rules • Two weeks ago, the LOG published the recommen­ dations of the Committee on Uniform Registration Rules. These recommendations are repeated in this issue, and they shortly will appear in the LOG a third time. There is a good reason for printing the recommenda­ tions three times: If they are to be adopted for all ports, they must be approved by regular membership meetings which will authorize a referendum ballot on them. There­ fore, each member should have every reasonable chance to study them carefully before any action is taken. The proposal to draft uniform registration rules for all ports is part of the overall program to streamline the SIU's day-to-day operations for the benefit of every member. At present, each port has its own registration rules, a practice which worked well under the circumstances ofe the past, but which has become a source of annoyance, inconvenience and occasional unfairness in present times. The SIU is now nearing its tenth birthday. Ours is a mature Union, solidly established at the top of the maritime labor scene. The time has come to abolish the looser customs of the Union's infancy. Complaints on the variation in registration rules be­ gan piling up this year. Finally it was proposed that one set of rules suitable for all ports and fair to all members be^worked out. These recommendations are the end prod­ Hospital Patients uct of that proposal, and they were arrived at in tradi­ When entering the hospital tional, democratic SIU style. notify the delegates by post-' Port Committees were elected early this summer to card, giving your name and do the all-important spade work. The Port Committees the number of your ward. pondered the problem from all angles, listening to criti­ Mimeographed postcards cisms and suggestions from hundreds of rank-and-filers can be obtained free at the Social Service desk. of all ratings. The Port Committees made their own recommen­ Stateh Island Hospital dations which were sent to Headquarters. At Headquar­ You can contact your Hos­ ters, the Committee on Uniform Registration Rules sifted pital delegate at the Staten the recommendations from the ports, heard the" opinions These are the Union Brothers currently in the marine hospitals, Island Hospital at the follow­ of still more men and finally made its own report, the as reported'by the Port Agents. These Brothers find time hanging ing times: one reprinted on page 16. heavily on their hands. Do what you can to cheer them up hy Tuesday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. These final recommendations are believed to be com­ writing to them. (on 5th and 6th floors.) pletely fair to everybody. They eliminate the source of Thursday —- 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (on 3rd and 4th floors.) many beefs. No longer can a man with a high rating NEW OREANS MARINE HOSP. EDWIN D. JOHNSTON Saturday — 1:30 to 3:30 p,m. RUSSEL S. NEARY throw in for all jobs in his department, depriving a low J. DENNIS (on 1st and 2nd floors.) ^ % rated man of the chance to get out. Yet they are flexible EDWARD D. MILLER SAN JUAN HOSPITAL enough so that no man is frozen to one rating in which E. LIPARI R. SEIJG : OLES HOWELL jobs may be scarce. E. C. SHAFFER A. SILVESTRI L. D. RICKETTS M. EL MOUR This has- been accomplished by distributing ratings I. MONTANEZ WILLIAM A. MILLER into logical groups. To illustrate: Group one in the Deck 1^, a, a, H. C. MURPHY STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL MOBILE HOSPITAL Department includes Bosun, Bosun's Mate, Carpenter, V. P. BALLINGS A. EWING R. ARMSTRONG Deck Maintenance, Watchman—Day Work, and Store­ C. GREENE A. VANELZUELA PETE HENDERSON N. A. HUFF keeper. There is no conflict with AB, which is in the M. CASTRO F. T. REYNOLDS RALPH ARMSTRONG second group, or with OS which is in the third. Ratings J. McNEELY A. C. McALPIN SAMUEL PRICE . in other departnieqts are similarly distributed. A. JENSBY H. LOWMAN A. PISANI D. DeDUISEN It is believed that the membership will find that H. W. PETERS R. L. BARBER T. ZEMRZUSKI B. H. AMESBERRY .these rules are just what is needed to eliminate the con­ L. KAY W. H. NUNN , V. .. W. D. COVINGTON K. V. PITERSQN flicts and the injustices which sometimes have attended J. EOUYEA ft 4. 4^ O. Q. MOUMU 'Our present practices. Everybody should study them W. HUNT BALTIMORE MARINE HOSP. F. JACOBSEN carefully to be ready to act upon them. R. L. JOHNSTON E. G. T. FISHER B. HARRIS K. C: CR0V7E : F. B. SHEDD E. E. GROSS C. OPPENHEIMER A. AUGUSTIN GETTIS LIGHTFOOT W. H. PERRY E. P. BADON , B. HUNT T. MANDICK . I C-.T. MITCHELL C. NANGLE J, % f Voting is now under way in all ports on the refer­ R BECKER C. W. HALLA endum for the ten-dollar General Fund Assessment. The BOSTON MARINE HOSPITAL C. SIMMONS P. G. DAUGHERTY P. PASQUALI JOHN J. GEAGAN refe/endum ballot is the democratic, SIU way of deciding t t i H. KEHRLY EDWARD DUDEK questions of vital importance to the entire membership. ' SAN PEDRO HOSPITAL W. T. ROSS It is every member's Union duty to cast his vote, so that' CLARENCE G. CREVIER L. TICKLE C. B. VIKEN ^ ' GEORGE W. MEANEY the final result will be the full democratic expression of T. C. KELLY P. DAVASON , V. MILAZZO — the membership. Be sure you votel M. BYERS I ' P. M. KHEAUBER C. E. WILLIAMS Men Now In The Marine Hospitak Remember To Vote �Friday, September 17, 1948 THE SEAFARERS LOG SEAFARERS TO THE RESCUE Page Three How Registration Boles Committee Did It's Job By GEORGE W. CHAMPLIN Seafarers Gene Habe, AB, and his, watch mate, identified only as "Bill," stand at the foot of the Java's accommodation ladder loading faod'and water into the junk's boat. The junk's crew and passengers were fleeing to Shanghai from the 'communists in Takubar. The Java • Mail turned over enough supplies for several trips between those points, according''to Seafarer I. H. Pepper who sent story and pictures to ths LOG. Refugees From Reds Get Aid On High Seas It was seamen to the /escue again, when the SS Java Mail spotted a Chinese junk with her flag upside down off the coast between Takubar and Shanghai. It was one o'clock the after­ noon of August 15 that the dis­ tress signal was first seen. The Java Mail immediately altered her course to investigate, accord­ ing to Seafarer I. H. Pepper, who sent in the story with the pic­ tures appearing on this page. As the big ship bore down on the junk's position, the smaller craft put out a boat. The Java Mail dropped the accommodation ladder and the Chinese Captain came aboard. It was quite a story that he told. The Skipper, speaking perfect English, related that he had taken the junk -out of Takubar 34 days before, carrying a crew of 10 and 13 passengei-s. They were refugees from com­ munist uprisings and terrorism in Takubar, he said, and were ti-ying to get to Shanghai. But the junk had run out of gasoline for the motors, and so calm was the air that the sails were all but useless. To make mattex's worse, there was food while the Java's crew and pas­ and water for only one more sengers clicked their camei-as. day. I The junk still had a hazardous The jimk's crew and passen­ voyage ahead, however, because gers obviously were in a tough the Java Mail had no gasoline situation. They could not make to send and the little ship would Shanghai without water, food have to depend on its sails. Meanwhile, those seafai-ers on and they needed gasoline. Nor the Java could be proud that could they return to Takubar, which was not only too far, but they had properly carried out a dangerous spot for any of them the basic law of the sea by re­ lieving the junk's distress, and to be found in. They were lucky that the Java averting disaster. Mail had spotted their signal. I. H. Pepper, better known as The Java's Captain oi-dei-ed "Doc," is a LOG-conti-ibutor of enough water and food to cari*y long standing. He is always alert the junk for several tidps be­ to accounts of dramatic maritime tween Takubar and Shanghai, events such as this one. The LOG lowered to the junk's boat. is ever on the lookout for stories The Chinese Captain received of this kind, and all Seafarers the emei-gency supplies grate­ ai'e urged to send them in. Picfully and headed back to his tui-es ai-e not necessary, but they hungi*y passengers and crew, help. Get A Receipt Every member making a donation to the Union for any purpose should receive an official receipt bearing the amount of the contribu­ tion and the purpose for which it was made. If a Union official to whom contribution is given does not make out a receipt for the money, the matter should immediately be referred to Paul Hall, Secretary-Trea­ surer, SIU, 51 Beaver Street. New York 4, N. Y. In advising the SecretaryTreasurer of such transac­ tions, members should state the name of the official and the' port where the money was tendered. • The Committee on Registra- • a freighter Bosun would be via tion Rules for the Poil of New' a Watch AB's berth. No freighter York sat on Friday, June 18, Bosun should attempt a tanker 1948; and the Union Committee without first sailing one as AB, sat in New York on Monday, Quartermaster, or Deck-MaintenJuly 26, 1948. I was privileged anceman. One who has never to be a member, for the Deck been on a large passenger ship Department, of both Committees ought not to sail higher than and Chairman of the latter. Bosun's Mate on his first trip. The SEAFARER LOG of June Comparable conditions exist in 25 carried the i-eport of the first the other departments. Committee, together with editor­ Following discussion, .(Chairman Jack Greenhaw's excellent sug­ ial comment. The Union Committee's acti­ gestion that we recess and each vities were reported on July 30, department separately draw up its own recommendations, was and its recommendations first adopted. The resulting thrCe sets published September third. It is generally understood that of recommendations were, in the object of these activities is each case, accepted by the Com­ to achieve a workable set of mittee of the Whole. Copies of rules on job registration, uni­ these recommendations were formly applicable to all ports. sent to Headquarters, as were Referendum ballot will be those of such outport commit­ used to incorporate them into tees as submitted them. general body of the ShipTHE UNION COMMITTEE g Rules. Then all rules con­ The Union Committee was cerning our bread and butter elected to sit when the recom­ will be standardized, except Dis­ mendations of the several outpatchers' Rules. ports were in hand. All Halls Flexibility in this respect is except San Juan and New Or­ necessary, as both physical and leans submitted recommenda­ economic conditions vary from tions. Fortunately, the Commit­ port to port. Differences in top­ tee was able to hale before it ography and transportation must Earl (Bull) Sheppard, and Cal be considered. Tanner, Port Agents of New Or­ The object of this article is to leans and Mobile, respectively. acquaint the membership with Bull was able to enlighten us the aims these two -ommittees oh the New Orleans' attitude; and—insofar as we were able to and both were of much assist­ determine here in New York— ance to the Committee as Ag­ the other port committees, had ents of our two largest passen­ in mind. ger ship ports. NEW YORK COMMITTEE Other persons haled before us, by both Brother Greenhaw and The Port Committee members myself, on one or both occasions, each aired his particular views. were, as I remember it: Paul All the Union officials available Hall, Secretary-Treasurer; Lindwere haled before the Commit­ tee, in order that we might have ^ sey Williams, Director of Or­ Paul Gonsorchik, the benefit of their views and ganization; New York Dispatcher; Joe Alexpei'ience, and the use of data gina. New York Port Agent; Bob in Headquarter's files. Matthews, Assistant SecretaryThe factors stressed in the Treasurer; and various rank and discusions were: file oldtimers. 1. Protection of unrated jobs— In fact, the meetings were thus rated men were declared in­ never closed to any interested eligible for unrated jobs. 2. Protection of handicapped Brothers. During the period of men—thus, such jobs as Fire- discussion by the Committee of Watchmen and Banana-Watch­ the Whole, the objectives of the men are reserved for men over New York Committee were re­ 50 years old, in conformity with viewed and stressed. The recoinmendations of all Paragraph 23 of the present Shipping Rules; and Ordinai-ies ports were carefully considered, who, because of physical defects, and emphasis laid upon the fact caimot obtain, or have lost, AB that all rules must possess prac­ tickets, have had Day-Workers' tical workability, and be so jobs thrown open to them, pro­ framed as to satisfy the demands vided that they can qualify in of the majority of the member­ ship. other respects. Furthermore, these rules 3. Protection of the inherent American right to improve one's should better the position of the condition. Let me expatiate on Union, not weaken or embar­ rass it, and help toward achieve­ this last. Under the regrettable one- ment of the high ideals of our i-ating registration rule in force ancient profession. As finaUy amended, the recom­ in New York at the present mendations of each department time, it was stressed that there subcommittee was received and is little incentive for ^ young men to study for all ratings in concurred in by the Committee their departments, if, after hav­ of the Whole. ing cai-ned them, they will then be deprived of the opportunity to use them freelj', and at will. Furthermore, oldtimers stressed The membership has gone the fact that a good Seafarer on record to prefer charges never stops studying the details, against zill gashounds and both old and new, of his chosen performers as well as the profession. men who willfully destroy or To take some cases in the steal ships gear. The SIU has writer's own deck department: no place for men who ruin a Bosun who has never sailed a the good conditions the Seatrain, but would like to do Union wins for them. Take so to round out his experience, action in shipboard meetings would have to make at least against men guilty of these one trip as a Car-Deckman. things. The only route to the Bosun's job on a V-4 (Moran txig) for On Performers A traditional sign of distress at sea is an upside-down flag. When the SS Java Mall sighted this Chinese junk with its flag reversed, the big ship altered its course to rush to the rescue. The junk with 23 aboard was 34 days at sea. nearly out. of food and water and completely , out of gasoline for its engines. Its sails were useless in the calm air. �THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Four CLSU Enters Ranks Of SIO In Canada FrfeU^y. September 17, 194» WHAT tTWMIC. (Confinned from Page I) through talks arranged by Frank Hall, chairman of the negotiatuig committee for 18 internatioijal railway brotherhoods. CLEARS PICTURE In making the announcement of the absorbtion of the CLSU into the SIU, it was revealed that the CLSU does not retain AL. CARMOEGA. Messman: E. D. ODOM. Clttef Cook: , 'C its ident^, but simply comes '' '' As far as the Messmen are I am in favor of the report of into the ^U's Canadian District. liiKt the uniform registration Commit­ 5|his move makes clear the some­ concerned. I Ihink Ihe Committee, because it gives men in what rhuddled state of Canad­ iee's proposals are very good and every rating a chance.^ I sail as ian Lakes and deep sea mari­ fair. II is very wise to break down the jobs into two groups— Chief Cook. This proposed time labor. grouping of registration, will , The joining of the two unions rated and unrated—as they have mean tifkt I can ship Steward if was not greeted with applause done. Most of the Messmen who a job comes up, as well as Cook. from all quarters, however. The register as Messmen and Utilities At the same time it protects men CP-dominated CSU looked upon get beat out very often by men the move as a threat to its hold in the higher ratings under the sailing Messman from being on the Canadian seamen and present rules. Under the pro­ bumped by men with ratings, searched for reprisal weapons. posed rules, Messmen and Utili­ yho ought to sail in their ratr In Canada's highest labor un­ ties will have a much better ing. I like to feel that the regis­ it, the Trades And Labor Con­ chance of being shipped tration rules will be the same in gress, the president of which much sooner than they are now. what ever port I pay off in. This supports the CSU, fireworks are If the Committee's recommenda­ uniform registering system will expected when the group meets tions are adopted, men in these insure greater fairness for all un­ cLvssiiications will not have to der our present rotary shipping next month. compete with all other ratings. procedure. , LINES DRAWN yhe communist and anti-com­ ROQUE REMOS, UtUity: IRWIN MOEN; AB: munist camps will draw battle If- these proposals are accepted •I like this grouping of jobs lines and thrash out the matter. for registraticm, especially the It is felt that the new SIU in referendum vote, it will mean • strength will be the signal for allQw«mc« made lot OS unable protection for men—such as me a general house cleaning of com­ to get AB tickets becaitse of —who ship as Messman. It will physical disabilities. Allowing munists. enable us to take the jobs of them to ship as rated day work­ The CLSU gave several rea­ sons for joining ranks with the Messmen and Utility without ers gives them the incentive to SIU. Among them was the feel­ worrying about higher rated work for higher ratings. This ing that the SIU is a stronger men beating us out. The higher proviskm is a fair one and one organization and is reliable, re­ rated men can still ship out in I'm glad to see, even though I'm sponsible and strongly antiall ratinge except these two, so okay for watch standing. I see communist. Also, as an affiliate they're not penalized. It only that the group system is equal-' of the AFL, it is entitled to the keeps them from taking the un­ ly well set-up for the men of support of all Canadian labor. rated jobs and thus harming the other departments, so there This the CLSU did not have, as those of us who can choose should be no reason for the >« : it had been affiliated with the from only the two unrated Stew­ membership not to vote in favor Catholic Syndicate of Quebec. ards Department jobs. When of the change. I can't see where The CLSU's position in Can­ these proposals come up for a this holds any man back from adian maritime had been more vote, I'm going to vote in fav­ advancing. In fact, it protects of strategy than numbers, al­ the men all around. or of the change. though the outfit had contracts DIMAS CORTEZ, Deck Maint.: with four companies covering DUTCHY MOORE, Oh. Elec.: ninety ships. I think the way the Headquar­ One of the most discussed and Dave Joyce, Secretary-Treas­ controversial issues on registra­ ters Committee has sifted the urer of the SIU's Canadian Dis­ tion has been requirement for proposals of the port committees trict, signed the agreement be­ registering in one rating. There and presented a combined ver­ tween the two unions for the is no flexibility or choice for the SIU. sion is a good job. However, I men with higher ratings v under QUESTION: The Headiq^uarters CQmmittee's recommendations for a Union-wide, uniform system of rules for registration were report^ out two weeks ago, and was published in the LOG of September 3. What do you think of the proposals? (The Committee's recommen­ dations are reprinted on Page 16 of this issue to insure fullest membership knowledge of the proposed rules before they go to refei*endum vote.) <a, • iililii WFTU President Calls h Commie-Controlled MARGATE, England — The World Federation of Trade Un­ ions was denounced before the British Trades Union Congress here "by Arthur Deakin, British union leader, and president of the Soviet-dominated world labor body. In an addi-ess to the annual meeting of the BTUC, Deakin declared that the WFTU has been completely captured by the Communists and is being used as an agency to carry out the policies of the Cominform and as a platform for advancing So^ viet propaganda. He charged that WFTU agents are busy stirring up trouble in Malaya and other parts of Asia. Deakin's remarks coincided with the traditional position of the American Federation of Labor which has consistently lought the WFTU and exposed it a a "tool of the Kremlin." " Unlike the British labor move­ ment and the CIO, which have participated in the WFTU, the AFL refused to become affiliated with the organization. think we need further clarifica­ tion on the groupings, especially for the Deck Department. The recommendations say that when men are not available in one group, qualified men in the next lower group may throw in for a job. By this method the men in Group III would get preference if no men in Group II are around for a job. I don't think this is exactly fair. I think in this case the man available with the highest rating should get it. this method. On the ship I was aboard during the past two months this issue came up sev­ eral time at our meetings and letters were sent to Headquarters telling of our views. In my opinion the Committee's recom­ mendations seem to be quite fair to men of all ratings, with the possible exception of the Deck Engineer, who has high qualifi­ cations and should be allowed to register in Group I of the Deck. IVAN WHITNEY, FOW^ As far as Group II, Engine, is concerned I think the Deck- Engi­ neer should come under Group I, owing to ihe fact that his pay is much more than the rest of Group II, I am in favor of the general recommendations for i group registering, because it is a lot fairer to those men who ' ' have all ratings: and at the same , time protects men who have not gotten the top ratings from being , ' beaten out on a whim. I will be especially glad, if these recom­ mendations are ad<9ted, to know that the registration procedure will be the same in whatever port I may come into. JOSEPH DeCABO, Bosun; I like the proposals the Com­ mittee has shaped up. If they are adopted, we can be sure of qualified men in all ratings at all times in all ports. Also they are flexible enough so that you wouldn't be blocked out of a job the way you would be regis­ tering in just one rating. As a Bosun, I could be registered for five jobs in the first Deck group, which is okay. I wouldn't be cutting out any guy that's regis­ tered AB, and nobody registered AB would be cutting me out. You would always know right where you stood no matter what port you were in. We need some rules like these. �•afttottiMfi 17. am TME SE AE AKERS ElOe Page Five Shipping Slows F^r Port Mobile; Meiobership Okays AssessrooKt By GAL TANNER Ore Ships Largely Responsible For Good Shipping In Baltimore By WILLIAM (Curly) RENTZ BALTIMORE — Shipping is back on the downgrade, but we ;*io expect it to go up a bit in the week to come. We still have plenty of men on the beach, most of them having come in from other ports. They seem to think this is the best port for shipping, which perhaps it is. It certainly is as good a port as you can find if you count those Oie boats, and the membeiwho doesn't count them is mak­ ing a big mistake. Those ships are in every week, and some weelcs there's one to catch every day or sol Nevertheless a lot of men hate to take those ships. Just why, we "don't know. They are good ships and they make short trips. They are getting to be better feedei^ all the time. Most im­ portant of all, they represent a lot of jobs the Organizers worked hard to get. depriving the crew of a few things, notably milk. Quite a wise guy, wasn't he? He will hear more of the beef. We are voting on the 10-dollar assessment down here. Appar­ ently everybody knows what it's for and v/hat to do about it. The answer is to vote "Yes," in case you haven't heard. That is, vote "Yes" if we want to keep our strength. We could get caught short some day and be placed in a bad spot, if we don't have the assessment. Suppose we were lockd out! Think that one over. GIVES ANSWER This assessment could save the life of the SIU on a dark day. Don't forget: We are still in a fight, eve'n if we have a two-year •Bur IS IT For the protection of the crew's gear and the riiip's equipment, and for the proteeti<m of the SIU iagteement, men standing gangway watches should remain at their post, in the same man­ ner as the Fireman below must stand his watch. Gang­ ways cannot be covered from the messhall or foc'sle. The gangway watch is as much a part of our agree­ ment with the shipowners as the wage scale. The job is. easy and the overtime earn­ ed on the weekends fattens the final payoff bundle. Stick by that gangway when on watch. Port 5m Jum Still Malatalns Top Shlppa^ By SAL GOLLS EVERYBODY LOSES When the Union fails to de­ liver a crew, the company takes men off the dock. Each and every one of us is the loser when this happens, as it does on occasions. The company does not exactly love unions. Last week we had five payoffs. To give you an idea, three of them were Ore vessels. The bther two were a Calmar and an Alcoa. In the same stretch, we had seven sign-ons, of which three were Ore ships. The rest were two Isthmians, a Calmar and an Alcoa. What the Ore ships mean to this port is pretty obvious. Except for a Stewai'd on Al­ coa's J. W. Cullen who was a gashound, the payoffs and signons were clean ones. Thi.s Stewward, who caused a. little trouble, cut his stores to allow himself some whiskey aboard, thei>eby Gangway Watch conti-act. , You iiave to keep those companies up to the mark every day. If we let down our guard, they'll jump us—contract or no contract. We didn't win those contracts for nothing. And we can't keep them for nothing. "Yes" is the answer. "Yes" guarantees a strong Union. We have a touch of the West Coast lock-out in Baltimore. The MFOWW and MGS are picket­ ing one ship so far. "The boys in the hospital are doing fine. They are anxious to get out—and vote. Boston Seafarers Are Awaiting Weekly Educatienal Meetings By ERNEST B. TILLEY SAN JUAN — Shipping has been tops here for the last six weeks. We even have had to ship some men on emergency cards because of the shortage of members around these parts. The MV Ponce helped out last week by paying off and taking a full crew. In addition to the Ponce, which belongs to the Ponce Cement Company, we had six Bull Line vessels and a Wa­ terman in transit. The Bulls were the SS Jean, Aifiyn, Suzanne, Mae, Rosario and Elizabeth. The Waterman was the Monarch of the Seas. MOBILE—Shipping was dead slow last week in the Port-of Mobile, with approximately 67 bookmen and 17 permits shipped. We had a total of six payoffs and three sign-ons for the week. This week we lost two Liber­ ties to the boneyard fieet, the Lyman Stewart, and the Isaac Singer—both had been running for Alcoa on the bauxite tiade for a long time. Another Alcoa Liberty, the Henry Rice, is due in today and also is headed for the boneyard. Ships paying off this week were the Alawai, Daniel Huger, Lafayette, Waternian; the Ly­ man Stewart and Isaac Singer, Alcoa. The Wild Ranger, Water­ man, came in from the Puerto Rico run and paid off. ry, Malcolm Cieutat, Eugeitte Morgan, G. flaleel, B. Graham. GENERAL FUND The main topic of conversa­ tion around the Hall now is the $10 General Fund Assessment, and the good it is going to do the organization, if the mem­ bership votes it. In the talks around the Hall, everyone expressed their opin­ ion as being in favor of it. They all realize that, while we have the strongest maritime Un­ ion in the business today, we are losing jobs every day while the ships are being put in the boneyard with a consequent loss of revenue. All of the members know a Union is only as strong as its finances; and they are all anx­ ious to keep the SIU the strong­ est organization in the mai'itime industry. Another topic of conversation around the Hall is the recom­ mendation of the committee on registration. All of the members seem to be in favor of the re­ port. GOOD GREW All were in exceptionally good shape, with practically no beefs. The Wild Ranger, in particular, has a heads-up crew that doesn't tolerate any performing, and has a fine set of delegates. Ships signing on for the week were the Alawai, headed for Bremen, Hamburg, Rotterdam, NO BEEFS and Antwerp; the Lafayette, for Germany; the Daniel Huger for On the labor and organizing Japan and Korea; the Pegasus scene in Mobile, everything for the bauxite run, and the seems to be pretty quiet right Wild .Ranger on continuous ar­ now, with no beefs hanging fire. ticles for Puerto Rico. We seldom have anything in All sign-ons were accomplished this port that is not organized, with a minimum of trouble, with with the exception of foreign all slop chests checked prior to flag ships. signing on, and all necessary There is nothing new on the repairs made. unemployment insurance situa­ The Hospital Patrolman re­ tion right now. We are still ports he made the hospital and waiting for a Supreme Court found everything in good shape. decision to see which way things The following men are in the are going to go. Mobile Hospital: R. Armstrong, The bottom half of our build­ Pete Henderson, F. T. Reynolds, ing should be ' vacated by the A. C. McAlpin, H. Lowman, H. end of this month and, as soon W. Peters, B. H. Amesberry, W. as we can get started with the D. Covington. necessary renovations and re­ Some of the oldtimers sweat­ pairs, we will make it one of ing out the beach in Mobile now the finest Union Halls in the include E. Goodwin, Bennie Tur­ country. ner, B. Johnsen, L. Cheeseman, Members are again invited to W. Reynolds, L. F. Davis, Harold send in any suggestions before Westphal, James Moore, H. Cur­ we get started. WILFUL WIPER There were some minor over­ time beefs aboai-d the Ponce, which were settled to every­ body's satisfaction. The princi­ pal trouble was with a Wiper wliu was in arrears in dues for four months and all assessments for 1048. This Wiper was quite a char­ acter. He didii't want to pay his dues, he said. To make things look a little worse, ho apparently refused to do his work or cooperate with the rest of the crew in any 'way. SUNNY ISLE BOSTON — The members in and that in the contract, as the We had four days of rain and the IPort of Boston are still walk­ men don't go by it anyway. wind on the Island. However, We have started to vote on ing around with their chest we didn't get the hurricane, the General Fund Assessment pushed way but telling one and up here. When the time comes which headed for North Caro­ turned out to all that they are members of for the tally I think you will lina but finally sea. We're having sunshine the SIU, and add that they have find Boston solidly back of it. again, but this time of year you By the time you read this, we the besT Negotiating Committee will have laid up all of our have to be wary in this part in the maritime industry, which of the world. summer boats for the season. had just tied up contracts that As for shipping — there just Some of Ihe oldtimers around iare way out in front of the doesn't seem to be any payoffs are A. Gonzalez, F. Mateo, L. scheduled for this Port. We Jiave D. Mullis, F. P. Marquez, D. rest of the waterfront. There are plenty of men not had one in the last two Kenney and J. Tassin. D. Trefethen and L. A. "Vila around here who are looking weeks, and don't know of any are going back to sea after coming up. forward to our Tuesday educa­ But never let it be said that five years ashoi-e. J. Dean just tional program meetings. They realize that there is plenty to the men on the beach here are got off the Ponce to put in a not out to organize the unor­ little vacation time. learn—even for the oldtimers There are only four Seafarers jf we are to live up to our con- ganized! There is never a ship jtracts all the way. To prevdht in the area that is not'covered : in the Marine Hospital here now, ithe companies from saying that to see if there is a job to land and all of them look forward to 'getting out in a few days. there is no need of having thisi for the SIU. From The Sixth Deck By EDDIE BENDER The Union books are closed at the present time, and will re­ main closed until such time as the membership votes to open them again. Certain permitmen, however, who are helping the or­ ganizational drives by sailing the unorganized ships, are issued books from time to time through the recommendation of the Di­ rector of Organization. It is not an easy task doing this organizing work among a bunch of non-Union men on the unorganized ships. It entails loss of cabbage on one hand, and plenty of headaches on the other. Yet it hn.s its cnmpen.sations. The Union-minded permitman can be proud of a good job done in helping the Union to expand and obtain more ships, which will mean more jobs on the board in the days ahead. And the Union, in turn, sees to Jt that such men, get their books in a much shorter space of time than would otherwise be the case. It is a wise policy not jo pester the Patrolmen by continually asking if you can get a book. They have plenty to do without constantly going over this ex- planation. When the books are opened again the announcement will be printed in the LOG. Keep a close check on each issue. These fellows new holding permits who hope to obtain their books now should contact the Organizers for advice on how to go at a job on the unorganized ships—they will be " more than willing to give whatever advice or help they can. It is best for permitmen aspiring for membership in the organization to keep their permit in good standing at all times, as this is an excellent asset when applying for probationary iiionibership. Here are the qualification.s for membership, if and when the books are opened: First, a permitman must have 18 months paid-up time on his Permit. Second, a year's sea-time as d permitman. Third, a rating other than Messman, Ordinary Seaman, or Wiper. Fourth, strike clearances for all strikes. Fifth, be paid up in full for all monies due the Union. �Friday, Baptaubfr 17, 1948 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Michigan 'Little T-H' Law Ruled Invalid RESTING AND WORKING Strike Keeps . Frisco Shipping At Standstill LANSING, Mich.—The Michi­ gan State Supreme Court ruled that the anti-labor Bonine-Tripp law, know as the "little TaftHartley law," was invalid. The law, which has been un­ der bitter attack by organized labor in this industrial state, pro­ vided for compulsory arbitration of disputes in public utilities and hospitals. It also set" up a sys­ tem of pre-strike elections and bargaining procedui-e for nonutility disputes and prohibited mass picketing. The court held that the section providing to compulsory arbitra­ tion of utility strikes was "in­ separably involved in' the entire act" and that the whole 1947 law —the object of bitter attack by labor unions—was invalid. By A. S. CARDULLO SAN FRANCISCO —Are our faces red? After sending out an urgent SOS to all ports for rated men, the strike came along and really froze things from Seattle down to San Diego. The only things moving in the harbors are the fish and the current. We take everything back, fel­ lows—stay away from western shores, if you really want to ship. Stay away, there's nothing doing on the West Coast! LIT THE FIRE Here in the port of Frisco we started our stewpot the minute the strike hit. It's been kept up on a voluntary basis. The way things stand at the present moment, while the pockets ofj the boys who are strikebound' here may be empty, their stom­ achs are full of Michelet's cook­ ing. . Frenchy feels pretty good about the whole thing. The boys on the chowline are so broke they don't complain about the food. He really feels that his cook­ ing is the thing that's making them go back for seconds. For Sunday dinner he has a "Jake Shuler Vinegar Fie" featured. Here's hoping for the best! VOTING HEAVY Voting has been very heavy. The first few days we ran out of ballots. We asked the longshoremen to release three of our ships which are light, alongside the dock here in Frisco. They re­ fused, on the grounds that the raotJ's Qotso- »F HASTME STRENSTHI «- Norman Maffie, one of Ihe Seafarers' outstanding artists, sketched these two Brothers aboard the Santa Clara Vic­ tory. In the picture above. Brother Wilde, AB, curls up in his sack with a good book and seems to be having a pleasant time. On the other hand. Brother Whipple, below, is hard at work sewing reel covers. He apparently enjoys doing his job under SIU conditions. 3; 4. 4. New York Shipping Holds Steady Despite Trutking Tie-Up By JOE ALGINA NEW YORK—Shipping in this port for the past several weeks has been just idling along at a leisurely pace — no spurts, no dips, just a steady plod. That's the way it is again this week. As usual rated men in the deck and engine departments find it not too bad, but Stewards Depart­ ment men in all ratings are up against slow shipping. We expected shipping to be ship will go to some other port crimped by the trucking strike, and handle diverted cargo. which has been imderway in this We explained our position to city for the past two weeks but, the longshoremen. We are an for some unknown reason, ship­ East Coast outfit and not on ping hasn't been affected to any strike—yet our ships were be­ degree, as far as we can deter­ ing tied up here, while West mine. Coast ships were sailing on the In fact, the number of ships East Coast with crews from the hitting this port in transit has striking Unions, We felt this increased. The Teamsters are , was unfair to us. out for increases up to 25c an hour, plus fringe benefits. The NO DICE best the trucking concerns offer After the first refusal it was is a 15c boost with no extras. again referred to a West Coast Committee of strikers, who also On the payoff parade we handled the usual number of turned us down. neat ones. Waterman ships in H. Hoover, Wiper on the Steel i port were the Currier and City Inventor, had a furmy experi­ of Alma. The Stockton, a freight ence with the Chief Engineer. ^ip, was in for Carras, and the He sounded fuel tanks from ten Steel Maker was paid off for in the morning until eleven Isthmian. o'clock at night, at which time the Chief knocked him off stat­ Bull Line sent the Angelina, ing that he would buy him a Emilia and Cornelia. The last mentioned will be around beer and square things up. awhUe, until she gets cargo com­ The Chief felt so hurt when, mitments. Hoover turned in for overtime for doing the work, that he The week's payoffs were also wouldn't buy any beer. bolstered by the arrival of the Marine Star and Robin Hood for the Robin Line, and the Alger for South . Atlantic. Not a bad bunch of ships for the week, and all of those mentioned gave the Patrolmen easy times. ^ is the duty of all of us to live up to that contract. We can't scream "contract violation" to the company, if our hands are not clean. ALL WENT WELL In connection with this, the standing of gangway watch is a contractual obligation. It's not a concession to the shipowner—it is a shipboard job we won after a lot of wrangling. It is just as much a part of a deck man's job as that of the fireman, who must stand watch below. Gangway watches give the deck men a chance to increase their earnings a great deal, thanks to the weekend overtime. The same was true on the signon front, wherein all went well. Several "in transits" hit port and called for men, which ser^'es to boost the shipping figures. Now that the shipping picture is spotty and companies are lay­ ing off crews for lack of cargo, it is a good idea for crewmen to get a statement from the ship's Skipper attesting to the fact that they were laid' off and did not quit. This is especially true of Waterman ships. H a man is forced to leave a ship due to the company's de­ cision, a statement to that fact will expedite his application for unemployment pay. If the statement is not received, the company will claim he quit the ship. Pi-otect yourself and cut the red tape right on the ship before the payoff. Just a word or two on the new contracts and gangway watches: When the new agreements with the operators were submit­ ted to the membership for ratifi­ cation, the men voted to accept the new set-up. By this they didn't only agree to the new wage boosts, but they also agreed to abide by all the other clauses and provisions. It TOOSTS EARNINGS X'A^ <5AM<&WAY WATC+t./ watches are stood is right at the gangway proper. It's the watch's job to check all persons boarding the ship and protect the ship's property as well as his own personal ef­ fects. A crew can never feel its gear is secure if a gang of foulups are standing gangway watches. It's your job, so do it in SIU style. I'll sign off after a word on missing ship: I don't have to impress on anyone the importance of making a ship, once dispatched. It's no joke during these days of tough shipping to learn that a man has missed a ship and the ship has sailed short. Undoubtedly, several men wanted that job and would have stuck with it, but it wa» lost due to the antics of one char­ acter who didn't know what time it was. CHECK THE BOARD SO there is no reason for feeling put out when your time comes. On some ships it has been found that the men think gang­ way watch can be stood from a seat in the messroom or while flopped on their sacks. The only place I know of where gangway It is up to each man to check the sailing board before heading ashoi-e. No lame excuses about the ship leaving early will be listened to. If the rest of the crew made it in time, the blame is yours, not the sailing board's. Here's an afterthought, sug­ gested by the cool weather here in New York. If it is cold aboai'd your .ship and the heat is not on, notify the Union Hall as soon as possible. This was. the cause of many beefs last winter and we want to nip them in the bud this season. �t'tlday, 8»tfieittber 17, lUB T H E S'E A^ F A R E HS L O G Pa^d SeT«n * Minutes Of A&G Branch Meetings in Brief SAN JUAN — Chairman, S. Colls 21085; Recording Secretary, R. V. Ortis, 6141; Reading Clerk, A. P. Je'^sen, 21100. New business of other Branches read and accepted. The Agent reported that he had had the cooperation of the members in filling the shoregang jobs that had come in during the last four weeks. He pointed out that some 300 jobs had been involved, and that the ships' officers had been pleased with the showing of the Union. The SecretaryTreasurer's financial report was posted. The Resolution from New Orleans for a $10 General Fund Assessment was read and carried by a hand vote. Motion to send a letter to the SecretaryTreasurer explaining the need for a new Hall in Puerto Rico. Amended that when such a Hall is obtained that it be fixed up to the standard of other SIU Halls. CaiTied. One minute of silence was observed for de­ parted Brothers. _ Under Good and Welfare the membership ex­ pressed their pleasure with the way things were running in the Port. Meeting adjourned at 8:20 P. M. with 31 full books, and 14 permits present. t X t BALTIMORE ^ Chairman, A1 Stansbury, 4883; Recording Sec­ retary, Ben Lawson, 894; Read­ ing Clerk, Dolar Stone, 1986. A&6 Shipping From Aug. 24 To Sept 7 PORT Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Savannah Tampa Mobile New Orleans.T^...; Galveston San Juan San Francisco GRAND TOTAL .". , , REG. DECK REG. ENG. 35 166 37 116 142 20 14 208 174 62 28 23 154 25 101 85 7 19 244 128 47 25 28 86 168 -v 488 28 90 74 291 64 291 4 31 12 45 227 679 156 458 25 134 18 71 (No shipping due 10 10 168 132 43 44 125 116 25 22 15 9 9 9 66 62 145 116 66 62 36 20 to strike.) 1,002 858 804 708 Tampa building in top shape. Agent repoi-ted, and other unions were sending congratulations on its excellence. Photographers making official shots of building inside and out. Tampa financial report. accepted. Under Good and Welfare, several Brothers hit deck to express enthusiasm for proposed assessment now being voted upon. Suggested Agent go to Miami to vote members there. Minute of silence for de­ parted Brothers. 150 members present. ^ & GALVESTON — Chairman, Keith Alsbp, 78511; Recording Secretary. Jack Kelly, G-10; Reading Clerk, W. R. Brightwell. 7279. The following members Were Obligated: C. Mecum, W. Ragauski, W. Cally, L. Spivey, W. Nel­ Galveston minutes and finan­ son, S. Mills, George W. Martair, Roy W. Burkitt. The Baltimore cial report read, and approved. minutes and financial report of Secretary-Treasurer's report and Headquarters' report read and approved. Minutes of other Branches read and accepted. Agent, Patrolman and Dispatcher made reports Which were ap­ proved. Dispatcher said 134 men had registered in two-week period and that 171 had shipped. Communication from Headquar­ August 25 were read and a^ ters record regarding social reg­ cepted. The Secretary-Treasurer's ister read and accepted. Minute weekly financial report of August of silence for departed Brothers. 28 was accepted. New Business Meeting adjourned with 55 mem­ of Branch meetings was read bers present. and accepted. The Agent and XXX Patrolmen made their reports SAN FRANCISCO — Chair­ and were accepted. The Dis­ man, William McKay, 8; Reading patcher reported 291 registered, Clerk, C. W. Cothran, 50317; and 334 shipped. The meeting Recording Secretary, A1 Bern­ stood in silence for one minute stein, 21065. in memory of olir departed Brothers. Under Good and Wel­ fare, a number of Brothers spoke on the $10 General Fund Assessmentj pointing out that it was-a good thing for the Uiiion. Meet­ ing adjourned at 8:30 P. M. with 350 members present. S" J/ 4'. TAMPA — Chairman, J. L. Jones, 2898; Reading Clerk, A. J. Baker, 32313; Recording Secre­ tary, M. Franggos, 31884. Previous minutes read and ap­ proved. New business of other Branches Tead and accepted. Acropted communication from Ne­ gotiating Committee with vote of thanks and Confidence. Secre­ tary-Treasurer's report rea& and approved. Jde Wread, A. Swensott and N. Ellis elected to serve as a Balloting Committee. Dis­ patchers report, revealing slow state of shipping, accepted. Agent reported shipping to be poor for two weeks past with the "outlook not very bright. However, Agent said, three ships were due in and two of them already had asked for replace­ ments. There might be even more replacements, he added. I tugboats, and 5 standbys, for a grand total of 422 shipped. The Secretary-Treasurer's report was accepted. The following mem­ Obligated: W. B. SHIPPED TOTAL bers were STWDS. SHIPPED Gates, V. D. Bruhnell, A. R. Faclane, W. P. Hopkins, E. Cain, 8 ' 28 J. P. Shaughnessy, V. H. Sand­ 132 432 ers, J. B. Gunter, F. G. Hays. 31 118 The meeting stood one minute iv> 93 334 silence for departed Brothers 25 72 Meeting adjourned 8:50 P. M 6 30 with 340 present. 7 25 XXX 48 176 MOBILE — Chairman, J. "Mor­ 153 414 rison. 24213; Reading Clerk, H. 43 171 J. Fischer, 59; Recording Secre­ .25 81 tary, L. Lord, 192. REG. STWDS. TOTAL REG. SHIPPED PECK 2,664 getting us the best contract and highest wages in the industry. Under Good and Welfare several Brothers asked if it would be feasible to open an A&G Hall in Honolulu* Minute of silence was observed for departed Brothers. 4> 4> 4< SAVANNAH—Chairman, Billy Harrison, 36878; Recording Secre­ tary, S. J. Colcock, 38407. Branch minutes having New Business read and accepted, Agent Charles Starling reported that shipping was fair, and ex­ pected to pick up in the next SHIPPED ENG. 602 571 1,881 curred with. The Agent was in­ structed to see that the fine was « paid. A Balloting Committee for the General Fund Assessment was elected from the floor. Brother Antonio Collello was obligated. The membership ob­ served one minute's silence for departed Brothers. Under New Business a motion carried to raise the Hospital benefits from $3 to $5. Motion made to have the Agent purchase the rotary converter motor now on trial for the loudspeaker, at the price of $50. Carried. Motion carried to ask the Secretaiy-Treasurer to meet with the Alcoa SS Com­ pany in regard to men shipped from Boston to Canada not re­ ceiving subsistance money for the tt-ip. Meeting adjourned at 8:30 P. M. with 80 book men present. New Business of Branches read and accepted. The report froih Headquarters was read and ac­ cepted. The Resolution froih New Orleans on the $10 General Fund Assessment i-ead for the second time and accepted. The Agent's verbal report was made and accepted. A motion was made under New Business that the Secretary-Treasurer be asked to come to Mobile for the pur­ pose of helping plan the renova­ tion and alterations of the build­ ing, which the SIU owns, and which we are to take full posses­ sion of by the end of the month. Under discussion it was brought out that in the past he had .played a part in helping plan the renovations and alterations of SIU Halls in various ports and that his experience would be of great help to us in planning our Hall. Carried unanimously. Patrolmen Jordan, Morris, and Morrison made their reports, which were accepted. The Dis­ patcher reported 679 registered and 176 shipped. There was dis- two weeks. He paid off the Wil­ liam Carson, Alexander Clay, XXX Dorothy, and Cape Race with NEW ORLEANS — Chairman, only minor beefs. It was the Johnny Johnston, 53; Recording Dorothy's last run into this Port. Secretary, Herman Troxclair, The tanker New London took a 5743; Reading Clerk, Buck Ste­ few replacements in Jackson­ phens, 76. ville. The Secretai-y-Treasurer's report and his financial report The New Orleans financial re­ were accepted. Barry B. Tippins, ports of Aug. 28, and Sept. 4, and Marvin Oliver, James H. Manucy the Secretary-Treasurer's finan­ were obligated. Under Good cial report of Aug. 21 were read and Welfare there was discussion and accepted. The minutes of cussion under Good and Welfare on« placing a coca cola machine Branches holding New Business about the Doorman. Agent Tan­ in the new Hall when everything were read and accepted. The ner informed the members that is straightened out and hanging Agent reported the affairs of the all Doormen are to bo eliminated curtains. Meeting adjourned at Port were in good shape. There in all ports. Meeting adjourned were ten payoffs and four sign at 8:30 with 249 members 7:30, P. M. ons in the past two weeks. He present. XXX XXX BOSTON — Chairman, H. J. reported on the special Agents PHILADELPHIA — Chairman, Cashman, 40363; Reading Clerk, Conference. Over the weekend E. B. Tilley, 75; Recording Sec­ someone burglarized the Hall L. A. Gardner. 3697; Reading and stole money froni the ma­ Clerk, D. C, Hall, 43372; Record­ retary, L. N. Johnson, 108. New Business of Branches chines. It was recommended ing Secretary, G. H. Seeberger, holding meetings was read and New Business of Branch min­ that the tenants who are renting 6932. accepted. The Secretary-Treas­ utes read and accepted. The the old Hall be allowed to re­ New Business of Branches urer's report was accepted. The Agent took the deck to tell the pair the roof and deduct the Agent reported on the recent membership of the program costs from the rent. The Agent holding meetings was read and Agents Conference in New York drawn up at the Emergency recommended that a committee accepted. Special meetings min­ and the currCht West Coast Agents Conference in New York be elected right away to start utes from New Yoi-k, Baltimore, watei-fz-ont situation. Accepted. the preceeding week, and asked balloting on the $10 General New Orleans, Norfolk, and San The Branch financial report was that the Port of Boston go- all Fund Assessment, and he urged Fvancisco were read and ac­ accepted. A communication from out to see that this policy is the membership to vote yes in cepted. Great Lakes and SUP The Agent the Mayor of San Francisco re­ lived up to. He stated that the order to build up the Union for minutes w^ere filed. garding the status of seamen in educational program for the men the tough times ahead. It was reported that shipping had been the draft Was accepted and filed. on the beach would start Tues­ pointed out that employees of fair for the past two weeks. He A wire from the Twin Falls Vic­ day, September 14, and would the Crescent Towing and Wreck­ gave the membership a report on tory was filed until the 'ship re­ continue every Tuesday from ing Company are out on strike, the Agents Conference, which he turns. Under New Business a then on. All hands Were asked and the Agent asked the mem- attended in New York the pre­ vious week, and explained the tp be on hand. He asked the various subjects discussed. Also membership to Cooperate in try­ he gave the membership the new ing to land jobs on the unor­ SIU policy of economy and ex­ ganised ships. The Dispatcher plained that in line with this, reported 86 registered, and 28 the Port of Philadelphia was lay­ motion earned to ask the Secre­ shipped. The report from Head­ ing off one Patrolman, and one tary-Treasurer for financial as­ quarters to the membership, the bership to be ready, willing, and stenographer-secretary. There able to help these Brothers in Financial sistance in taking care of lodging Secretary-Treasurer's was no New Business. The Secfor strike-bound A&G men on Report for Weeks ending Aug. 21, the Marine Allied Division if retaiy-Treasurer's financial re­ they should have to call on us the beach in Frisco. Under dis­ and 28, and the SIU A&O Ne­ port, the Secretary-Treasurer's cussion it was .pointed out that gotiating Committee's Report for help. The Agent's report report to the membership, and self-supporting stewpot has were read and accepted. Com­ was concurred in unanimously. the membership, and the Patrol­ Deen going full blast since the munication from Brother N. The Dispatcher reported 458 reg­ man's report were all accepted. first of the week. Motion was Foster, regarding $50 fine put on istered, and 414 shipped. In The Dispatcher i-eported 90 regmade to give the Negotiation him for missing the SS Yar­ addition there were 22 men (Continucd on Page 15) ' Committee a vote of thanks for mouth was read and non-con- shipped on lay-up jobs, 25 on �Pag* Eight THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, September 17, 1948 SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS Fund Enables Sea Trader Stowaway Wins Support Crew-Officer Bishop To Reach III Mother Of Crew; Topside Takes Dim View Tlianks to the complete co- fund and offered their sympathy to Brother Bishop in his hour of When the crew of the SS Sea nia or somewhere ^else, Boyne 1933. Boyne was only 16 then, operation of the entire crow— grief. Trader found a stowaway on the offered to go bond for him to and things were tough every- both unlicensed and topside, less way back from Naples to New the time of $500 with the immi- where in 1933 which was just one—Seafarer Chiles J. Bishop NOT TYPICAL York, they opened their hearts gration people, but nothing came about the low point of the de- was able to leave his ship in The Third Mate reports in his to the scared, skinny kid who" of his proposition. Whether he pression. Georgetown, British Guiana and j letter, signed by the entire un­ just wanted to get somewhere has been s^nt back or not He was sitting on a Sydney fly to the bedside of his dying licensed crew, that the men re­ Boyne doesn't know. a kid might have a chance. dock watching a rusty British quest that the story be printed mother, so reports the ship's Third All the unlicensed men chip­ Talking freely through Sea­ tramp load grain. The way in the LOG so that it will be ped in to get the kid in good farer "Blackie" Mancino, whose things were, he had nothing to Mate in a letter to the LOG. shape as long as he was aboard knowledge of the Italian lang­ lose. He didn't know where the Bishop received word of his known that the Junior Third's and for the future, according to uage came in handy, the kid re­ bucket lyas going, but he stowed action does not typify that of vealed that this was his second away on her. The ship went to mother's critical condition while Frank Boyne, AB. .ship's officers in general and First the boys fed the young attempt to reach America. The Wales by way of South Africa the ship was anchored in -the Italian some of the good food first time he had stowed away jand Boyne was signed on as an British Guiana port and imme­ those of the Alcoa Pointer in that's found on SIU ships. Then aboard one of the American Ex­ OS in - Durban. diately was given permission to particular. they rigged him up SIU style port ships contracted to the pay off. Bishop, however, did In closing the Mate expres.sed Ho has seen a lot of blue wa­ from the slopchest. As a result, NMU, but was put off at Gibral­ not have enough wages due him the opinion of the entire crew the kid put on about 10 badly tar. On the NMU vessel he had ter since and he sailed under to make the trip, so a collection needed pounds and took great worked the ship, but been put several flags before coming was taken up among the ship's when Bishop departed. "It is with sincere regret that we part delight in wearing each change on rations. On the SIU ship he aboard SIU ships during the crew. war. He says that the memory of of his new clothes including his ate the regular meals. that English freighter really All men aboard, from the Cap­ with a good shipmate under such white Seafarer's cap. His grati­ DUCKED GUIDE sorrowful circumstance. Our tude was heartwarming, says The Sea Trader had come in­ makes him appreciate SIU con­ tain down—excepting the Junior Third Mate—conti-ibuted to the deepest sympathy goes to him." Boyne whose sympathy for the to Naples for orders after carry­ ditions. desperate lad was enhanced by ing a cargo of surplus Army an experience of his own 15 trucks, clothes and other sup­ years before. plies — but not arms —r to Tel The Skipper, however, failed Aviv in Palestine, now more to share the crew's feelings for properly caUed Israel. Tel Aviv's There's plenty of beer aboard the stowaway. First off, he tried modern character greatly im­ for the crew of the SS Alcoa to sign the lad on to work in pressed Boyne who never had Clipper, now sailing out of New Orleans, since the boys and competition with the SIU crew­ been there before. men and perhaps chisel a little At fii'st the Israelis refused to girls—bought an electric cold-box overtime. Naturally, the Seafar­ permit the Sea Trader's crew to to keep it in. ers refused to allow any such come ashore at all. But after a Previously the crew members goings-on as that, but they were couple of days, the authorities were allowed ,a little beer of happy to pay the kid to do their relented. However, they provid­ their own, but since they could laundry and similar services. ed the crew with a "guide" who use only a corner of the crew's ice-box, most of which had to FAT KITTY had a tough time. The night before they reached Taking care of two dozen Sea­ be reserved for food, there was New York, the unlicensed men farers proved to be too much a limit to what they could carry. tossed $150 into a kitty to take for one bewildered guide. First "Frenchy" Blanchard, who re­ care of the kid. However, Boyne Boyne and Mancino, and then ported the pmchase to the LOG, reports that, anticipating that the rest got away from him by wrote "Beer on this ship is here the immigration authorities ones and twos—and everybody to stay." He said that Brother v/ould send the youngster back had a most pleasant time. Many Vic Moriana, Storekeeper, had to Naples, the Seafarers with­ of the boys ended up at the been put in charge of dispensing held some of the cash to be sent beach for a dip in the Mediter­ the beer, and that Vic was doing directly to Italy. No donations ranean. fine job. Everybody got came from topside. Boyne's own sympathy for the enough, he said, but nobody got Believing that there might be Neapolitan stowaway was based too much. some chance-of sending the boy on the memory of stowing away What made the cold-box pos­ to work in the fields in Califor-' himself in Sydney, Australia, in sible was the "ship's treasury" Their faces wreathed in smiles, Frenchy Blanchard and maintained by the Clipper's Vic Moriana stand proudly by the beer box purchased by the crew. Sister Magge Greenberg, Alcoa Clipper crew to insure a steady supply of "cool ones." the Clipper's smiling Stewardess keeps the fund, and keeps it at $200 all the time. It was Magge who disbui-sed the dough for tlie box, but she makes no disburse­ ments that fail to qualify as Union welfare. Because they-have the box, the Clipper crew now can cany 100 cases of beer on each run to the Islands. The cool brown stuff comes in mighty handy after a day's work 'in the Caribbean. The cold-box for the crew'.s own beer is symbolic of the con­ stant improvement in conditions aboard SIU passenger ships. The crew of the Alcoa Cavalier has a record-player and a public ad­ dress system. Similar advances have been registered on other passenger ships, largely through ships' funds. Incidentally, Magge Greenberg, What the handshaking was all about wasn't mentioned in who administers the , Clipper the letter accompanying the pictures. Maybe it's just an fund with great efficiency, broke excuse'tor a picture. Anyway. Frenchy Blanchard says these into the LOG recently when an account appeared of the help she Seafarers aboard the Alcoa Clipper wanted to see their "mugs" "Blackie" Mancino (left) and Frank Boyne pose for a rendered the surgeon who re­ in the LOG. H'yar" they is! Lett to right—A1 Mautfray, 2nd picture at sea during the SS Sea Trader's recent trip to moved a crewman's appendix. Electrician: Frenchy Blanchard, Bosun's Mate; Baldie Ballinger, Palestine. These Brothers and their shipmates, through their Sister Greenberg is always Quartermaster, and O'Leary. Photos by Magge Greenberg, kindness, won the warm gratitude of a hungry young stow­ around when there's something away who came aboard in Naples. Stewardess. to be done. Crew's Cold Box Serves Suds To Cool Heads §• �Friday, September 17, 1948 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Nine Digested Minutes Of SIU Ship Meetings SIU. Motion carried to have all SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY. Delegates and Chief Cook F. June 28—Chairman J. ChermosiAvery. Ordinary Pitts, and Car no; Recording Secretary Bob Deckman J. J. Word who wit­ Burns. Minutes of previous' nessed the fight in which the meeting were read and accepted. Radio Operator Mendel Goldberg Stewards Delegate asked that put Ordinary Seaman George men remove their cots from deck Weldon in the hospital at Texas before getting in to port. He City on hand when an investi­ asked that men in Stewards De­ gation is made in New York. partment get their time-off There were motions on cleanli­ squared away. Motion carried ness of the ship, and the placing tmder New Business regarding of jacks on main deck to prevent cleanliness of toilets. Under falling. One minute of .silence Good and Welfare it was de­ for Brothers lost at sea. cided that the^card players clean the messhall after they finish, or XXX pay the Messman to do it. One what the score is. Under Good and Welfare, a vote of thanks ANNISTON CITY. June I— minute of silence for Brothers ^HIS WEEK, ONJ PAGE 16, THE LOS was given the Steward Depart­ Chairman William Doran; Re­ lost at sea. REPRINTS THE REPORT OF THE ment for preparing tops in food, cording Secretary Paul L. Good­ % % COMMITT6E ON UNIFORM giving good service, and keep­ man. The Delegates lepoited AMELIA — Chairman Rubio; ing things clean. One minute of the membership to be in good REOISTRATIOAI RULESRecording Secretary Fred Lewan. silence for departed Brothers. standing. The minutes of last AND WILL RUKJ IT ASAIN NEV^T WEEK — Steward Delegate reported just trip were posted. The meeting TO sive THE AAEAABERSHIP ENOUGH XXX one hour disputed. Deck Dele­ went into Good and Welfaie NOONDAY. July 11 — Chair­ TIME TO READ/ DiSEST, AND THORjOUSHtY gate reported one permitman in where a dispute among the messman J. (Red) Barbarbin; Record­ UNDERSTANP THE PROPOSED RULES BE­ bad standing but will pay up men about the division of duties dues on arrival. Motion imder ing Secretary E. B. Swank. .T. was settled. Small repairs were FORE THEY GO TO REFEREMDUM VOTE. New Business by Fred Lewan Dear was elected Ship's Delegate discussed and the Steward was REAP THEM CAREFULLY — IF PASSEP. to have Deck Delegate see Mate by acclamation." The Deck Dele­ warned not to give crew's mat­ THESE WILL BE THE RESISTRATIOM RULES about having low men turned to gate reported twenty hours over­ tresses to the officers. Under IN EVERY ASsG PORTon overtime. Bosun made mo­ time in dispute. Motion under Education, SIU pamphlets were tion to have Patrolman check New Business to have the Patrol­ distributed, and the Permitmeri all Deck Department overtime man get locks and keys for the were instructed to ask the bookat payoff. Under Good and Wel­ foc'sles. Motion to require each members to clear up any ques­ fare members asked for change man to put up a deposit for his tions that might come to their of brand of coffee and better key when issued to be sure he minds regarding Union procedure return it when leaving ship. night lunch.. By HANK Motion to have ice box put in and practices. It was decided to galley, and to check fans and hold regular Educational meet­ other repairs before hitting port. ings. One minute of silence for Brothers, when you sail from American ports don't throw Motion to have Ship's Delegate departed Brothers. away those LOGS aboard ship after you've read them thoroughly. and Patrolman check slopchest. Save them for those SIU ships you come across in foreign ports. One minute of silence for de­ Your other Brothers will certainly appreciate them... We have TALLULAH—Chairman "Pug" parted Brothers. always known that the best beer is brewed in Milwaukee. Now Harell: Recording Secretary P. we have been informed by a* brother that Connecticut taps out XXX Allgeier. Motion made tmder some real fine beer which is brewed in New Haven. Furthermore, BRET HARTE. July 11—Chair­ XXX New Business to elect Ship's man C. L. Davis; Recording Sec­ the stronger drinks are about fifty cents or more cheaper than SOUTHSTAR. July 18—Chair­ in other states... We've been asked to ask this question. Who Delegate. Brother Newby elected retary R. W. Tindell. The repair by popular vote. Motion carried list last trip was turned in but man R. A. Carter; Recording was the Seafarer who went around in the Bamboo Cafe asking to have Brother Newby see Cap­ only the Stewards Department Secretary Alex James. The Deck f anybody had a needle and thread? Wot hoppen? ... One of the tain about opening slopchest. was taken care of. The Depart­ Delegate reported one man with best dressed Brothers, Johnny Ward, sailed into town with his Cleanliness of ship was discussed ment Delegates reported dis­ two books. It was decided to mustache from Mobile. Johnny said that "Red" Whidden and imder Good and Welfare. One puted overtime which would be refer to Patrolman. The Engine some other oldtimers are on the beach down there... Brother F. minute of silence for Brothers turned over to Patrolman. Mo­ Delegate reported disputed over­ F. Smith and Brother E. F. Lessor have sent a postcard from lost at Sea. tion carried to impi-ove slop­ time to be settled at payoff. Mo­ New Orleans giving their best regards to us. Thanks, feUas—the chest. One minute of silence tion made by Gilbert, seconded best of everything to you in your trips—and don't forget to vote a. It X by Godwin that ship be fumi­ n favor of the ten-dollar General Fund Assessment for strength, COLOMBIA VICTORY. July for lost Brothers. gated before sign on. Carried. security and more jobs. 17—Recording Secretary Michael Motion by Godwin, second by J. Delaney. Deck Delegate re­ McCranie that a water line be ported the overtime was not run through the water cooler to Bosun Charlie Bush logged some real helpful informalion checked, and he was instructed the deck for longshoremen's use. for those Brothers hitting the ports of India. Prohibition is to have it checked by the Chief Motion that additional shelves be drying up India;—closing all bars on Sundays, Tuesdays and Mate at end of meeting. Steward put in recreation room for books, Thursdays. The government of India is determined to cover Delegate reported a little dis­ and that the Ship's Delegate ob­ the nation with complete prohibition in a year's time. From puted overtime. Under Good tain new libraiy. Motion by such dry news we go to something more cheerful. If your and Welfare Brother Don Wil­ McCranie. seconded by Ander­ ship ever hits Bombay, India—steer your legs to the British liams pointed out that water in son. that larger variety of meats Seamen's Club. They have movies (American, too) every night, the showers was hot only. The XXX sell beer, toothpaste, etc. and the price of admittance is at a Delegates declared that the NEW LONDON — Chairman be included in light lunch. Mo­ rock bottom level—twelve annas. Sounds okay. In fact, we'd showers in all Department were Tex Suit; Recording Secretary tion by Cliief Cook and seconded like to know of other good spots like this in* those foreign in the same condition, and it John McVey. The Ship's Dele­ by McDuffie that ice boxes be ports where ,a sailor needs a decent place to go to if he wants was decided to see the First As­ gate reported that one of the checked to be sure they are to avoid trouble. sistant to have them repaired. crewmembers left ship in Corpus down to regulation temperatures The Chairman asked Delegates Christi. Under New Business before leaving port. Pevmitmen to make up a complete repair Brother Ziggie moved that En­ Ted B. Lewis and Clem E. Moslist. Bosun asked that each De­ gine Delegate see Chief Engineer ley recommended for full books. Hospitalized again. Brother George Meaney writes from the partment rotate the job of keep­ about having blowers turned on One minute of silence for Broth­ Brighton Marine Hospital. He says that Clarence Crevier, Cecil ing Laundiy room clean. All in crew's" quarters. Motion car­ ers lost at sea. Williams and Henry Art Meats are a few of the Brothers up Departments were asked to co­ ried, that man leaving ship not there. George praises the doctors and nurses as being hard workers operate and worlc together. One be allowed to sail un-organized and very obliging and pleasant people. .. Here are most of the minute of silence for Brothers vessels, and that Delegates bring oldtimers who may still be anchored in our over-heated baseball lost at sea. him before trial Committee. town—John Rivera, R. Encarnacion, A. Dudde, Teddy "The Ter­ Brother Tex Suit gave a talk on rible" Babkowski, Charles- "Carioca Red"- Benway, Charles Fischer, the organizing and voting for Glen Renstrom, Wilber Fowler, Herbert Kreutz, J. C. Smith, the benefit of the non-union Vincent Meehan, Ed Szarythe, Harry Cronin, M. Schapiro. Roger members of the crew. Under Williams, Mitchell Reed, A. R. Guidry, Les Ames, William Wolfe Good and Welfare, the Chief and J. Masongsong. XXX Pumpman suggested that those JEAN. June 28 — Chairman S. 4^ staying on take up a collection George Ehmsen; Recording Sec­ NOONDAY. June 27 — Chair­ for a, washing machine. There retary Fitz Stephens, Brother Frank Devlin from Chicago is in town right now Motion man J. (Red) Barbarbin: Record­ was discussion on cleanliness of under New Business to refer re­ and talking about horses... The high cost of living is hitting ing Secretary E. B. Swank. Mo­ ship, and it was decided to make pair list to Patrolman and to the Brothers hard these days. They're waiting tor ships, waiting tion carried under New Business up repair list. for unemployment beneiils—and wailing to escape from the wait until i-epairs ai'e made aqd to have the ship's hospital high cost of borrowing and giving, too. One Brother said that ship fumigated before signing on. 4,1 $ checked at the home port to see if he hadn't got a ship he would have had to sleep in Battery Under Good and Welfare it was SEATRAIN HAVANA. July 18 that sufficient medical supplies Park. Nowadays the SIU's organizing program operating in suggested that if only one light —Chairman H. R. Hutchins: Re­ are put aboard for the next voy­ all ports is the biggest weapon we have to bring in more age. Motion to have the slop cording Secretary John Word. was left burning in the messhall companies and jobs. The cooperation every Brother gives chest checked to see that aver­ John Word elected Ship's Dele­ after hours there would be less towards ailing unorganized ships to bring them into the SIU age range of sizes in clothing is gate. The ''meeting moved to noise and the Cooks and others is of the greatest importance at all times. The hard-hitting would not be disturbed while available. Motion-carried to turn recommend messman Paul Cov­ efforts of all hands in these times will shape a greater and sleeping. One minute of silence the ship's minutes ovpr to the ington for a transfer from the stronger SIU tomorrow. for lost Brothers. oncoming crew so they will know AFL Fisherman's Union to the ^am CUT and RUN �I' THE SE A E d» E R S IOC Pttfe Ttaa ^r»d4y. 17/1M8 SPEAKS PiiiiiiilKlilittiiii^ Member's Sick Wife Thanks Alcoa Men, Offers Counsel I To Ihe Eklitor: 1.^ li ( , / I j . i Gadsden's Galleynten; Religious Rite cancers eating at the very vitals of a Union which works unceas­ ingly to better the working con­ ditions of its members on board ships as well as a decent living wage. Long before this date it had been my intention to write and express my heartfelt appreciation to the crewmembers of the SS Alcoa Cavalier, who were so Having read several times in solicitous about the two opera- the LOG your request for a human interest story—here goes: tions I had for cataracts on my In 1946, pry husband was Chief eyes last summer in New Jersey. Steward on the SS Roy K. John­ The reason I delayed was that son. On board was a cat who two more operations had to be was about to become a mother. performed in Miami last October. One morning while my husband Today I have fair sight in the was on his way from his room right eye with the aid of a very to the galley; he noticed a lai-ge thick lense. However, I thank printed sign on the door of the God that this much has been recreation room. It read, given me. "Maternity Ward—Quiet Please!" In this expression of gratitude He obeyed orders and quietly I also wish to include Brothers opened the door, and there lay Hall, Gonzales, and Algina and the mother cat and her babies in last but not least, the Editor an improvised bed—which was a of the SEAFARERS LOG, whom large carton fixed up for the I had the pleasure of meeting occasion. I got a big kick out of when my husband, John Heitzcn- this, as have those to whom I roeder, took me to the Union have told it. What a kind and Hall last September 2. thoughtful gestm-e and • so hu­ The great feats of success that mane! have been won by the Seafarers I wish the Seafarers Interna­ International Union —^the finest tional Union continued success and fairest Union in the world— in all its great undertakings. which the LOG has kept us fully Harrletle S. Heiienroeder informed of, proves beyond a question of doubt what solidarity and fighting for what is right and just will accomplish. It also proves what planning a course of action and keeping at it until it's ultimate goal has been reached will do for an organization. To the Editor BLASTS GASSERS Following Ihe completion of the first voyage of the MV Gadsden under its new 18-months charter to carry locomotives to Turkey. Steward Frank Gardner came up with the two pictures shown. Above are sh6wn Frank and his department. "A tine bUnch of fellows," he stated. Back row, left to right—Aroya, BR: Remosa, Chief Cook; Gardner, Steward; Basmexiie, 2nd CookBaker; Craig, Crew Messman. The two men kneeling are C. Smiih, Saloon Messman and Stewards Delegate; Miller, Utilityman. Directly in front is Negron, Galley UtUityman. — ft Bauxiter, Employing Rhyme, Notes Of Men And Vessels This brings a thought to my mind as to how any member of so fine an organization can will­ fully bring discredit to his Union. I am referring to the nogood performers and gas-hounds who should be eliminated from this Union as quickly as possible. They not only harm the good name' of the Union in the eyes of the world, but by holding down their jobs, keep a worthy man on the beach. They are Open your envelope, and read your mail. This scribe comes from the Bauxite Trail. Gather round me. SIU men, while I preach some; I'm shooting the breeze, so here I come. {^UMDMon To the Editor: . (Ed. Note: Back issues of the LOG are now available in handsomely bound editions. TVenty-six weekly issues . of the LOG are bound together in each v<dume, running from Jaauary to June, and July to Efecember—at $2.80 each. The new book, Jwuary to June, 1948 is ready now^ so send in your order to the LOG Office, 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, New York.) I "Vernon "Dago Red" Brew, Chief Cook on the Pilgrim, has •sure changed since the days we rode the Cape Henlopen. SAW THE BOYS Tell Winston Battles that the Holmes also made Trinidad (this from Sonny Rankin). Saw the Alcoa Polaris in Barbados. Rob­ bie is on there as Steward; Oliver Thompson, Chief Cook; "Big Mack" is Night Cook and Baker; Frank Nunn is Second Cook, and quite a few others out of New York. ORDiERS BOUND LOGS FOR 1947; 1948 READY YET? I am sending you a $5.00 check for the two volumes of the SEA­ FARERS LOG—January to June, and July to December, 1947. Please let me know when you wUl put on sale the volume Janf uary to June, 1948. I want my library to be complete. I. H. Pepper Portland, Oregon It more than pains my heart to see the Alcoa Pilgrim steam­ ing in through the Dragon's Mouth to Port of Spain with u.s heading out—Puerto la Cruz bound. One day is all we get in Trinidad. We're sweating it out under Caribbean sun. And pitching a ball on the Alcoa run. The Oliver W» Holmes- ran into Port of Spain. And the Girls ran out through a driving rain. And why was the female population so entheUsed? Because the Great Aubrey (Sonny) Ran­ kin was on board! Sonny has been on the Bauxite run for the last seven years and has also done a couple of beach-combing hitches down there—so he's in. The Brooklyn Kid is now forced to play second fiddle. It made me homesick to see the guys, but what else can I do except .stay south when it's the only way I'll get to Bauxite Country regularly. Ellis "Coffee-Joe" Gaines is shuttling down here on the Span Splice. Peloco is ' still Chief Belly Robber on the Holmes, and LaMont Scott is his assistant. Jimmy "Begging and Blind" Crook; Brother Red from Cedar Street; and Joe "Rummy" Brown are all on the Mooring Hitch. (This bit of information comes from Sonny Rankin.) > Dennis Saunders SS Oliver W. Holmes As is the religious custom, a ram was slain as the first loco­ motive was lifted over the side. This expressed thanks to AUah for the ship's safe arrival. In the picture a townsman is shown dolivertng the coup de grace to the ram. Oldtimer Enjoys Wunderlich Tales To the Editor: The boy is all right. I appre­ I wonder if it would be pos­ ciated his article very much. sible to get Brother Wunderlich, That glove fits a lot of us oldJr., to smoke a couple of weeds timers! and write us another story of O. Jones facts, such as "Thoughts. Of A JEd. Note: How -about it. Lonely Sailor In His Darkened John?) Bunk" (July 30 LQG)? �Kirr'tr-' TxUky. S«plMiib«r 17. 1948 TEE SBAPARERS LOG BEFORE THE BISTRO THEY PRAISE Seamen's Wives 'Heroines/ Due Credit, Says Brother To the Editor: By ROCKY BENSON How is your IQ, Seafarers? See if you can answer these 10 questions. Score Yourself: six -—fair; eight—very good; and 10 —tops. One point is allowed for each question. 1. What doorman is called the Bing Crosby of the SIU? 1. 2. 3. 4. Johnny Bananas Moon Koons "Make a motion" Charlie Polack of Brooklyn Page Eleven Johnson had been mariied for four years to the most beautiful woman a man could desire. She was helpful and understanding, even though to wait for him dur­ ing the long trips down South was very hard for her to en­ dure. They had a daughter, three years old, with light golden curls that swished around her head a.s she danced on the terrace facing the valley below. She was the first one to notice the car climb­ ing up the steep hill toward their little cottage on the mountain­ side. mothers and sisters of service­ men dui ing the v/ar. How brave they were waiting anxiously at home for their dear ones to re­ turn, wondering when, if, and how they were coming back. Quite a few broke under the" strain of restless wonderingSome stepped out with other men. Others became neurotic wrecks through suffering from lack of male companionship— but they were few. STAYED TRUE The majority fought tempta­ tion and i-emained true Ameri­ can women—thank God! They 2. How many degrees to a rud­ did it once, can they do it again? der on the port side? IS IT HIM? Do they have the willpower and 1. 20 Mrs. Johnson was having courage for a repeat perfor­ 2. 25. breakfast under the awning at mance? 3. 30* the entrance to the dining room,. The seamen's wives have. They 4.35 She looked up from the garden do it day after day, weeks into 8. What is the biggest' block on page of the daily newspaper, a months—even years on years. a ship? tender smile playing at the cor­ They will always be there doing ners of her sensual lips, as her their utmost to give when 1. Jumbo Block glance fell on her daughter who needed, and take the few mo­ 2. Heel Block came running towards her shout­ ments happiness when they cati. 3. Butcher's Block » A few of the Marquette Victory crewmen line up before ing: "A car. Mom, coming up 4. Snatch Block the Victory Bar with its proprietor. Front row. left to right— Kissing him good-bye when his the hill! Maybe it is Daddy!" Artine Radigkian, the owner; C. Banden, Deck Maintenance: 4. Who is known as "Sparks" on Her mother did not answer for ship leaves, with tears in her R. Mills. BR. and E. Albinski. AB. Standing in the rear are the ship? a moment. Then she said with eyes, she waits in misery and F. Bake. Bosun; C. Dispoto. Wiper. 1. Radio Operator a wistful, yet sad expression, loneliness until his return. Then his strong arms around her, and 2. Chief Electrician' To the Editor: right, and makes him feel at "No, Joyce. I do not think it his caresses and loving words 3. Chief Engineer home. He will obtain any kind will be him. It is still three reassure her of his love. But it The members of the crew of 4. Captain of souvenirs or merchandise that months to spring and his home­ is shortlived happiness — and the Marquette Victory wish to you may like to have—and at a coming." 5. What is a scuttlebutt? inform all Brothers who may go That was the mother of little again good-bye. minimum cost. to Beirut, Lebanon, Syria that 1. A rumor He serves the best American Joyce, and the wife of Johnson— FEW ADMIT the Victory Bar is the place. Yes and Canadian liquors at a nor­ a Seafarer who was away from 2. Drinking Fountain sir! It's A-I. Spend your time mal price. We found Bierut, in home the major part of his life. 3. Foc'sle Does any one pi'oclaim those there while in port. 4. Galley Sink women as heroines? Not many general, a veiy good port, with WAITED — WAITED Art Radigkian, the owner of plenty of everything. realize or will admit the cour­ 6. If a ship is heading 135 de­ A lot has been said and writ­ age and fortitude shown by sea­ The Crew of the grees on the compass, in what the place, is an honest man. He ten about the wives and girls. Marquette Victory treats the American seaman direction is it heading? men's wives, sweethearts or 1. South mothers waiting there at home 2. South East and raising the kids as true 3. North North East steadfast Americans, and be­ 4. West at the same time, without Water­ j Ranger—a Navy type C-2—that lievers in freedom. To the Edilor: 7. What is the longest line on a man doing anything to i-emedy jhas the nickname, "Alcoholic I intended to write my fii'st it, we Cooks just couldn't figure Stranger." Things run smoothly. I Though they appear forgotten shiiJ? article in the LOG, last June out. But finally the three-in-one jWe just received roasting pans by most, 1 say, and 1 will say 1. Heaving line and July, after paying off the box set-up was fixed. j this morning, all repairs are it again and again, if a monu­ 2. Hawser SS City of Alma. , fixed, and our requests for wa­ Then, too, what could we of 3. Spx-ing line Having one and a half year's the Stewards Department do termelons and other perishables ment were to be created for 4. Water line employment, I keep up on Wa­ when the decks kept cracking were promptly filled. So it looks brave women it should be dedi8. How many navigation lights terman's port 'repairs of this in the Atlantic? The Mate could like a good trip coming up on I cated to the many seamen's ship. Now being on board the get a job in the shipyards after here. We leave tomorrow, the ! wives who sit at home all over does a ship carry? Ranger (Alcoa), I see quite a all the welding at .sea he did tenth. the world waiting for their sea­ 1. 3 difference'. It's a pleasure to work with faring men to come home. that trip! 2. 4 On the City of Alma—running That ship was sure hot on a good outfit and our recent 3. 5 J. F. Wunderlich. Jr. Far East and to Europe — the the Manila-Shanghai run - in raise was indeed appreciated. 1 4. 6 maintenance of the reefer boxes June, 1947, with no air circulat­ paid $7.65 for a handkerchief 9. What is known as a Sou'wes­ was a complete foul-up for a ing and a shortage of fans. and tie! Late Brother's Wife month. How five Engineers can ter? One incident marred our pre­ My last three trips on the have what we of the crew called Alma, were on the Marshall Plan vious trip: An Oiler caused a Thanks Pennant Men 1. A pair of shoes "dropsy"—which meant that the run. Our boilers just about blew, rumpus in the messhall down in 2. Sea boots hind-quarters dropped whenever but the Chief Engineer noticed the Islands, and one of the Deck For Kindness Shown 3. Rain hat it ranged over anything to sit the panel board on his inspec­ gang slugged him. He said, "1 To the Editor: 4. Rain coat on—how they could all have it tion below, and claimed that he thought you said stand up, not 10. Who is known as the Pearl Enclosed is the message re­ shut up." saved the day. Diver on a ship? ceived from the wife of Brother RETIRED BOOK, But the trip was enjoyed by Again in Now Orleans, the 1. Bosun mo.st, and was surprisingly quiet boilers were fouled up. Water John W. Worsham, who died on WANTS THE LOG 2. Wiper ran dry and the red-hot boiler for a "rum and coke" run. August 27, 1948 on the Alcoa 3. Dishwasher TO CONTINUE tops had the city Fire Depart­ 1 hope you can run this in Pemiant enroute from Norfolk 4. Purser the LOG. ment boys busy. To the Editor: to Baltimore. (Answers to Quiz on Page 13) James B. Elliott So it's a little different on this Please place it in the LOG. I have - been receiving the SEAFARERS LOG for sometime Frank "Red Sully" Sullivan now and have been obtaining a Ship's Delegate great deal of knowledge and en­ joyment from it, but now I am The LOG has received several letters recently, asking for To fhe Edilor: 4- 4. 4retired in good standing. Will a clarification on Stewards Department men painting. The I would like to make a cor­ the Union assume that my rights To the Crew of answer is: NO! THEY DON'T! rection on the story regarding to receive the LOG have been The Stewards Department has plenty to do to take care SS Alcoa Pennant; my Ruskin scholarship which cancelled after terminating my of their own work without taking on a job entirely alien to appeared in the LOG of Sep­ active membership? There are no adequate words their normal duties. This matter was clearly discussed on page tember 10. I definitely was not to express my deep and sincere I am bringing this to your at­ four of the LOG for March 26 by New York Patrolman, delegate aboard the -SS Marina, tention in order that you may appreciation for your kindness Freddie Stewart; but just for the record the LOG has again and being an OS, I have never cancel my subscription if I am and thoughtfulness at the time checked with the Headquarters office and here is the dope: been department delegate aboard no longer entitled to it. of my husband's passing. The Union has fought to free the Stewards Department SlU-contracted vessels. I was, Thank you for such fine serv­ from the responsibility of painting in addition to their regular My thanl^s to Frank Sullivan however, delegate aboard the two ice in sending out the LOG. duties. At the same time the Union has obtained many im­ for the message of consolation, Isthmian vessels I sailed during Fred F. Steppe provements in the working conditions within the Stewards and the flowers were indeed the organizing drive. (Ed. Note: You will be re­ Department which allows for a fair proportion of overtime. beautiful. Irwin Suall ceiving the LOG regularly as So, to protect your working conditions and your contract do I convey my heartfelt thanks Book No. 34500 before. It is the policy of the ydur own work, and let the other departments do theirs—which to all of you. (Ed. Note: The LOG stands Union to continue sending the includes all of the painting! Mrs. Mellise Worsham corrected.) LOG to retired members.) Cook Jilts Alma For Easy Life On Ranger Correction StemrJs Department And Paint �TBE SSMFABSRS LOG Pa0e Twtive Okays Ras Tanura Club; Suggests Union Pressure For Improvements Saptomber . ^The Voice Of The Sea' By SALTY DICK There are also several men in that maintaining our Union Hir­ To the Editor: Joe Kowloskis is one sailor ians speaking their own tong­ ing Hall, and Union security is who was always unhappy. He ues? I never forget the time I read the article on Ras Tan­ need of medical attention. We intend to present the beef uppermost in everyone's mind. thought the whole world was when I was in Persia and a ura in the June 25th LOG, so I to the Patrolman when we get Should strong economic action against him. I hope he has sailor said: Why don't these - know that you will be anxious to back to the States, for we believe be necessary to maintain the changed. In '42 I sailed on the so-and-sos speak English? We hear about the new seaman's that when Isthmian is aware of gains we have already won, such Alcoa Banner to North Africa. at the time were the trespass­ club there. what is going on—and especially measures would have the com­ While in Safi, an OS took a ers and we couldn't speak their The Arabian - American Oil when they see the overtime we plete backing of these particular dare and ate some fried grass­ language. Live and let live! ' Company has opened a building are putting in for the Agent's ships' crews. hoppers and became very sick. What Stewardess went to Tex­ for seamen where you may write The prevalent feeling on these failure to supply passes and I wonder if he has ever tried as for a rest and when she ar­ letters, play cards and checkers, ships Is that the contract with launch service as other ships are again... Jean Millet, Chief Ba­ rived back needed another va­ • etc. It also has a snack bar with sandwiches and soft drinks—but getting—they will jar this agent Isthmian is not being lived up to ker for one trip, proved to be cation? She's walking" like a in good faith by the majoVity of the best we ever had. Being a no beer! There is also a sand-lot out of his complacent mood. Isthmian officers. To put in a permit man, he had to go to the cow-girl.. . What Quartermaster WANTED: LOGS ball field (four feet of it), as legitimate hour of overtime is Hall to register. While there he went to the races determined to well as very salty and oily water beat them? The following day The LOG office could make like pulling their eye-teeth. was Shanghaied and taken to he had to stay in because he to swim in. things a little brighter in this the Cavalier. Our loss is their was short of funds ... Tq Paul ASKS HARMONY According to the steward in god-forsaken part of the world, gain. Good luck, Jean. charge of the place, ARAMCO by sending some LOGs, c/o BaGonsorchik (New York Dispatch­ I would like to ask the officials has elaborate plans for a sea- wada Seamen's Institute, Aba- and the membership to continue The Chief Purser. Joe Wyble. er): Whatever became of that . men's canteen, the present place dan, Iran, as there is not a sign to foster the idea of closer and has gone on a vacation to old couch in Number Two Stone being only a trial. I am inclined of news to be had out here. They more harmonious feeling be­ Mexico. While there he will Street, where all the drunks fell to believe, however, that it will should be addressed to SIU tween bookmen and permits. attend Spanish classes. He will asleep. Remember when you take 'some prodding before they crewmembers in care of the Many of these permits are return soon. He's the fellow blew your cork because they get started in these plans. Since above address, for there are stronger Union men than some outside of whose room a pair were using your office as weU? many Isthmian ships hit this many English and Panamanian of our bookmembers (as demon- of lady's slippers were found Those were the good old days— • port, it no doubt will be the SIU tankers that make this port. sti-ated in the UFE beef) and (on ship board). Just an acci­ or were they? I also remember that will have to carry the ball We obtained four copies of the abide more closely to the males dent ... Keep a sharp lookout when I saw Paul taking his if improvements are made. LOG (our first bit of SIU news than do the later. The permits of for the sneakers who register ph^ysical (during the war) and At present there are four Isth­ since we left the States, May 29) today are the books of tomor­ for a job before they payoff. saying: The army doesn't want mian ships in port; The Kenyon from the Steel Apprentice pn row. Let's enforce Rule Number five me. A short time later he. was Victory, the Steel Apprentice, August 2nd. Brother, they were Here are some of the SIU and of the Shipping Rules ... Just on the high seas as a seaman! the Winthrop Marvin, and the so hungrily devoured that yoU'd SUP men in Ras Tanura at pres­ learned that cola drinks will xAnniston City. The Steel Age think it was a 30 percent wage ent: softm your teeth. I put a left us a few days ago for the increase or that Dick Tracy was' Gay Drew, Bosun on Anniston tooth in a jar with coke so States. in the hands of Annie Orphan. Gity. Andy Anderson, Paul Good­ I can see the results. A den­ All you could hear all day was man, Frank Soriano," Tommy tist told me 7-Up was still PLAY BALL! Griner, Pete Gunderson, Jimmy worse. The crews of the Anniston City "next," or "after you!" A healthy Our Galley Boy, a few trips (Bull Wiper) Rogers, Porky and the Steel Apprentice join sign, indeed—a most healfffy ago, sneezed and lost his false Lashbrook, Louie Brain, and forces every evening to corral sign. teeth. The boys certainly teased To the Editor: Charlie Buscarella. Before closing, I'd like to in­ the crew of the Kenyon Victory On the Steel Apprentice are him for the rest of the trip... into a ball game, with the crew form the Headquarters officials, Would you please forward the Bill Garrity, Butch Cox (Bosun), Smitty was seen on a riverboat as well as the entire member­ of the Marvin looking on. So far LOG to my home address so that with a gal. By the look in his the Kenyon Victory has suffered ship, that on a person to "person !^ick Isauski, Johnny Kostelok, my mother can read it. I know Grenchy (BR), and Jimmie Grif- eyes you could tell he had a two defeats, 12-2 and 10-9; but canvass among ,the crews of she would like it very much, romantic feeling. She looked fen of the Kenyon Victory. they did manage to win a scrub these Isthmian ships, I found that as I also do. I have only been good, too... R. M. is a fellow Bill Dbrann game, 6-4 (We just wanted to Union spiidt is very high, and who you will always see with here for about three months bait them!) a smoking pipe in his mouth— now, and haven't missed reading Throughout the games lots of yet he doesn't smoke ... Please it. My father-in-law keeps it for • fun has been had by all, and true remember this: No matter if you me when I come home from SIU sportsmanship has prevail­ come from the East Coast, Great work at night. ed. We would like to have some My late husband, Edward WatLakes, West Coast or Gulf Area, pictures taken for the LOG, but ter Bolehala, was killed on the you are all members of the same rules allow no cameras on the To the Editor: been able to see each and every Union. Let's not be clannish. SS Newhall Hills last year. May premises. Five will get you ten one of you, for some are out to Remember, we must stick to­ 24. I would very much like to I wish that I were better able sea now; but thanks a million, We manage somehow to get some hear from one who was a very to express my feelings toward and remember me if I can ever gether to be strong. pictures! good friend of his at the time of One bad situation here at Ras our good Union, the SIU, and be of service to any of you. The ' What do you think of the his death, whose name, I be­ new look? These women wearing Tanura is the Isthmian Agent (as to all of our Brothers. ten donors were Frank H. Wal­ lieve, is Andy Shark. I am leav­ Two months ago my mother ters, Thurman Hyatt, Wendell long dresses look like potato ing for home next month, so I if we didn't have enough trouble with the Isthmian finks). While was rushed to the Norfolk Gen­ L. Zeeb, S. S. West, Arthur sacks walking the streets. I'm would very much like to hear he cleared our ship, the Annis­ eral Hospital and underwent two Johnson, William Shaw, Carl the type who likes to admire from him or anyone else who ton City, and the Kenyon Vic­ serious operations. The doctors Hatarson, R. Wallace, H. Parks, beauty. What type are you? ... was acquainted with my hus­ For a good cup of java try the tory, he failed to come back with were calling for blood so fast and David H. Massie. ' Preview Restaurant in New Or­ band, before I go. money for a draw—and this is that I 'did not know just what Mrs. M. Bolehala My mother will be leaving the leans. Some times you can take to do or where to go for help. our fifth day in port! 66 W. Rambo Street sugars (girls) out of there. hospital this week, and she sends Then I remembered my Union. Fortunately, one of our crewBridgeport. Penn. hef love to my sea friends. Heard rumor where Missis­ members had a double sawbuck, I asked fc r donors and ten also so we weren't too bad off, but Brothers gave their blood. When Tha^s again. Brothers, and L sippi is taking some ships out c/o Mrs. H. Clough the Kenyon Victory had to ped­ I was in the Norfolk Hali that hope this letter will get in the of the boneyard. We can use 2 Creek Street dle smokes at a loss in order to day, everyone was anxious to LOG and all of you will know them...Why can't seamen, ac­ Forest Lodge customed to all languages, tol­ buy cokes and sandwiches at the do anything he could to help. just how I feel. Sydney, Australia erate Brazilians or Argentin­ "Red" Guy N. Haslelt I am sorry that I have not snack-bar after the ball games. Widow Wishes To Contact Husband's Pal BA 1848 Member Thanks SIU Donors For Saving Mother's Life , m mmB iios?(r/{L KEPT MC OJAlTWr 3YtiS. AMD ^ /AOS. Fb-«. Nay sn>«g r££rn. ^Bur i Vooiio —I (A/AITED COULpM't •miK PiAiN wmfour iggm-KEPr yjOoF/ LIKE WAT— �Friday. Sepletnber 17, IMS THE SEAFARERS LOG Pag* TUriMtt m RICE DIET FOR THESE RICE MEN The 20-Degree List By BOB McCULLOCH Here's a true story, old shipmates -® And all of you salts from near and far, Of a trip I never will forget That started at the river bar. We all have weathered many a gale. Even the channel's fog and mist. But I'd rather ride a hurricane Than a scow with a 20-degree list. It was on a Friday morning. That we left Vancouver's pier, Loaded to the guts with lumber, But nary a case of beer. The lines were coming from the dock> Being hauled in fore and aft, When the dirty rustpot took a list-— We all thought that she was daft. The crew all beefed to the captain; They said, "Sir, We can't proceed; If we ever hit a blow out there. A prayer is all we'll need." The skipper replied with anger, "Like a bunch of sheep you bleet; After we take fuel in Pedro She'll come back on her feet." Twenty degrees we were listing As across the bar she sailed; The pilot piled off in a hurry. For his heart had almost failed. The lumber was stacked to heaven. The cook was sore as hell, For the stew was all over the range When they rang the dinner bell. It was a four-day run to Pedro And somehow they got us fed; But did you ever oil an engine While standing on your head? The decks were sloping badly. The seas were touching the boats. The deck gang hollered loudly, "We're a bunch of mountain goats.' But somehow we made it to Pedro, In spite of the company lug Who loaded us like the Tower of Pisa Just so the boss would him hug. Around, the board ipeeting table Til bet the jokes were told . About the brave but stupid sailors Whose work lined their pockets with gold. Their ears would have been closed to the cry If ever we had been sunk. And their dreams v/ould be undisturbed By. a specter sailor trapped in his bunk. I hope they are buried far inland. Deep in some mountain cave, So they will never enjoy the privilege Of sharing "the sailor's grave." So, shipmates, you've heard my story, Just as true as I can tell, Of one way they make their money— I'd sooner make mine bell to bell. Crewmembers of Alcoa's SS Henry M. Rice are proud of Ihe shark fhey caught on the bauxite trail. Front row, left to right: R. Steigman. G. Esteve, M. Short and J. Brady. Second row: G. Thornhill, L. Malone, J. HartUng, Sparks and A. Medina. Third row: W. Clark. O. Rappana. Q, Allan. N. O'Kray and S. Barras. On top: C. Horton and G. Thrasher. Picture is the properly of Pedro Ceirreo. SS Henry Rice Crew Finds Trip Beefless, Thanks Greatly To Tip-Top Chief Steward To the Editor: We are paying off in a few days, and we, the crew of the SS Heni*y M. Rice, Alcoa, find it fitting at this time to say a few words of hi^h praise for our Steward, George Thornhill, and our Chief Cook, Orville Payne. Those two have combined their devoted efforts to. keep their de­ partment in a harmonious mood throughout the ti'ip. The result has been that we have not had a single chow beef during the en­ tire voyage. At each port we hit we knew that we could coimt on Thomhill's determination to get the stuff to which we were entitled in such quantities that there was no danger of running out. Nor is there any stuff left over in the storerooms waiting for an­ other trip. deal. With no culinary beefs and the only beef in the Deck Department being that there is too much overtime it is no won­ der that we are coming as "The Queen Mary of the Bauxite Highway." The most recent scuttlebutt around is the sad news about the Another man worth mention is draft which has quite a bit of Captain Roxy "How Much Do the population aboard worried. rumor making the You Want" Tallon, Master, who Another really went out of his way more rounds is that our "alma mater" than once to be sure we were is heading for the boneyard. We not on the wrong end of any hope this is not true since a few of the boys are planning to make the next trip. We note that a lot of Seafarer? have been sending in pictures the hospital. They are a very and stories of the big sharks efficient and cooperative gang. they catch here and there. We Just a good bunch all around, don't want to be left out. En­ and we sme think a lot of them closed is a photo of one we for being so nice to us. caught in Barahona. Guess I'm almost out of gab We looked all over for a for now, so I'll ring off. I just camera big enough to get the want to say thanks again for the whole thing in one picture. The generous contribution from that best we could do was this one great crew on the Steel Pier. which leaves out part of the That new contract sure is "de head. The darned thing was so berries!" heavy and big that we had to E. M. Mabie break out the jumbo gear to get it on deck. One more thing before we sign off concerns the shoreside guards in Rouen. Michael Rossi, our To the Editor: whip-cracker, came back from The American Bar, in the Dock ashore, took off his suit and Sud section of Buenos Aires, has bunked in. At seven in the his shown us their appreciation of morning he awoke to find papei-s gone. our patronization by throwing a suit and all his •t But thei-e was a guard. He barbeque for the crew of this ship. We had all we wanted to stood right outside the door watching the gangway all the eat and drink on the house. The American Bar is one of time. It was impossible for the the very few bars in BA where suit to have gone through the a seaman can go without the porthole, so we were left with fear of being clipped. There is one conclusion—but no proof. only one thing wrong with this If you should ever hit there bar: They haven't any issues of it would be wise to watch your the SEAFARERS LOG. gear even though there is a In view of the circumstances, watchman at the gangway. Don't we, the crew of the SS Mosoil, think that we think it was the would like to have the LOG sent guard. We asked him and he to the American Bar. said, "Who Me? Me no Steal!" C. J. Hill Maybe you guys can figure it Deck Delegate out. Stanley J. Banas. (Ed. Note: A bundle of Ship's Delegate LOGS will be sent regularly to -George L. Esteve, the American Bar as sug­ Deck Delegate gested.) Drydocked, Thanks Steel Pier Men To the Editor: Just a few lines to let every­ one know what goes on up here in "Beantown." I'm hung up out here in Brighton with a hellova sore knee after falling over a deck chair on the Steel Pier! (You're damn right I was sober — I wouldn't have hm-t myself if I had been Ijftlf shot!) I would like to acknowledge my appreciation to the boys on the Steel Pier. They are one of the finest bunch of fellows I ever sailed with. D6 you know how much "lettuce" was picked up and brought out to me by Brother Fazakenly? Not, a damn hit less than fourteen good American greenbacks. Jees, I liked to dropped dead when I counted it! Hell, I'm do­ ing better than a lot of guys that work ashore. OKAYS STAFF While I am at it, I will say a word about the staff out here at Quiz Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Moon Koons 35 Degrees Butcher's Block Radio Operator Drinking Fountain Southeast Water line 5 Navigation lights Rain hat Dishwasher Mosoil Crew Asks LOGS For BA Bar �THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Fourteen Friday, September 17, 1948 Maiden Victory Was A Happy Ship Before being tied up in the West Coast beef, the ' boys of the Maiden Victory—Waterman ship operating in the intercoastal trade—^niade one last trip to the Ease Coast. While in San Pedro for bunkers, Stewards Utility Martin Blackwelder rounded up the boys at work or play and caught these snapshots. The Maiden Victory then made her run to the East Coast, with stops at New York, Baltimore and Charles­ ton, and returned to San Francisco again, w;here she is now strike-bound. Ordinarily, the Maiden Victory takes in the West Coast ports of Frisco, Seattle, Aberdeen, Coos Bay. When she will again, the boys of the Maiden would like to know. ilitlil®'•msisiiip-v pllilS ' . I'-' • • 1 '' d * Pc' ; - i,.'.' - pr 1 . Murphy (left), FWT on the Maiden Victory, and Moore. OS, are wreathed in smiles. Pos­ sibly it is the San Pedro sun that has put them in this good humor. Or. perhaps they have just heard about the SIU's new two-year contract. lliliiiiiiiiili, 5:;S»i®S:!4S¥^ r i v® x'.-; , '.,3 mmmt .* 1 ' 1 gSS-A;:--.;;: ' 'm mm •; -. ^ - ^ I The man sitting adone on the bollard is Martin Blackwelder, Stewards Utility, who sent the pictures to the LOG. On the right, Herbie Freedman, OS, flashes a hearty Seafarer smile that makes him a first-rate subject for any portrait photographer's camera. _ sc' " I 0^ • Ronnie Wisham, DM (above), spreads some paint on the Maiden's side. Below, Moore (right) and an unidentified Brother seem ready for a friendly wrestling match. L ' '^ I 5 •• i iiiiiiii w • Seafarer Blackwelder (right) failed to Identify the man with him in this picture. How­ ever, if this and the other oTidenoe on the page are correct, the boys on the Maiden Victory were having a pretty good time untib they were locked-out in the West Coast beef. �Friday. Seplember 17, 1948 THE SEAFARERS 9a9».Fiila«n LOG SIU BROTHERS WHO GIVE LIE TO NMU CLAIM Gangway Watch During the Isthmian organizing campaign, the NMU used as one of its propaganda weap­ ons the claim that, should the SIU win the fleet, all Filipinos .would be barred* from SIU membership. The Filipinos aboard Isthmian ships didn't fall for the line and most of them voted for SIU representation. Here are a few of these Brothers, now in the SIU, who give the lie to the NMU. The Brothers are, left to right, front row—Felix; E, Dayrit, Lock Kumhing, Fidel Lukban, Wong Yau, Sabino Intigra, M. Boyles. Second row—Leoncio Ocol, Joseph Luuhiwa, Y. Tsang, Kow Cheung, J. P. Macahilas, John Hassin. SIU HRLLS SIU, A&G District BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St William Rentz, Agent Calvert 4539 BOSTON ...276 State St E. B. Tilley, Agent Bowdoin 4465 GALVESTON .... 308'A—23rd St, Keith Alsop, Agent Phone 2-8448 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St Cat Tanner, Agent Phone 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 523 Bienville St E. Sheppard, Agent Magnolia 6112-6113 NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. Joe Algina, Agent HAnover 2-2784 NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. Ben Rees, Agent Phone 4-1083 PHILADELPHIA. . .614.16 No. 13th St. Lloyd Gardner, Agent Poplar 5-1217 SAN FRANCISCO 85 Third St. Steve Cardullo, Agent Douglas 2-5475 SAN JUAN, PJR.....252 Ponce de Leon Sal Coils, Agent San Juan 2-5996 SAVANNAH 220 East Bay St. Charles Starling, Agent Phone 3-1728 TAMPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. R. H. Halt, Agent Phone M-1323 HEADQUARTERS. . 51 Beaver St., N.Y.C. ^ HAnover 2-2784 Unfortunately, we have re­ ceived complaints from various Every now and then on var­ companies from time to time, ious ships, the question arises in that in certain ports these' the Deck Department concern­ watches were hot being stood. ing who is going to stand the This must be corrected — the gangway watch. We all know by watches must be stood. this time that our agreement The men who are required to calls for gangway watches in stand them should be on board all ports, except for those places at the alloted time. In case a where the company has a prior man has other plans, he must contract with the ILA. make an arrangement with an­ These gangway watches, when other sailor—with the approval stood by +he sailors, constitute of the Chief Mate. Whenever a beef comes in of a split of forty-eight hours over­ time on all weekends, and an a man missing his watches, the extra twenty-four hours on all crew should take a proper holidays. It is that much more action against such a culprit. We feel that these watches are take-home pay—and it took a good deal of negotiating to get an important addition to every sailor's earnings. Every member it! Now that we have the section must do his part to protect them covering gangway watches in or the entire membership may our agreements, it is the duty of suffer. We are sure that the sailors all Deck Department men to are pretty well aware of their see that they are stood. The usual procedure is for all duties during the standing of hands in the Deck Department, gangway watch—in other words, with the exception of the Car­ the combined duties of Watch­ penter, to split these watches man and Quartermaster, without equally on weekends, so that the payment of penalty over­ all will have an equal chance time. Any other work done while on this watch will be paid in at the overtime. The Bosun is included on these accordance with the agreements. So let's see those watches watches in order to equalize the stood, without a miss! We all top-man overtime for him. stand to gain more income from them. Louis Goffin Minutes Of A&G Branch Meetings In Brief (CoHtimied from Page 7) istered, and 118 shipped. J. E. Kirchnef was obligated. Under Good and Welfare there was much discussion on general shipp i n g situation. The proposed method of registration drawn up by the Headquarters Registration committee was discussed at length. One minute's silence for departed Brothers. Meeting ad­ journed with 120 members present. t t * NEW YORK — Chairman, Lindsey Williams, 21550; Record­ ing Secretary, Paul Hall, 190; Reading Clerk, A1 Kerr, 29314. journed 8:20 P.M. members present. with PERSONALS 1,232 ship. Under New Business a motion carried to adopt the pro­ gram of economy — cutting ex­ KENNETH MAHSTON NORFOLK — Chairman, Ben penses to the bone—as outlined Send your address to Bill An­ Rees, 95; Recording Secretary, by the Agent. Motion made for drews, Whitman, Mass. James A. Wynn, 30783; Reading the Brothers present to try to i Clerk, J. A. Bullock, 4747. convince other member, whom ROBERT C. MELOY The Norfolk finaqpial reports they might meet, of the need for .Tohn W. Wai-d is on the Hil­ dated August 28 and September passing the General Fund Assess­ ton, Bull LinCj headed for the 4 read and accepted. New Busi- ment. Motion to accept and con­ Mediterranean. He would like cur in the Agent's plan of or­ you to write him. ganizing Virginia Ferries. Motion t t ^ carried to elect a Balloting Com­ JERRY PALMER mittee to take care of the voting Contact Don Brown, care of on the Genei-al Fund Assess­ A1 Bernstein, Blackstone Hotel, ment. Brothers John Nugent, 340 O'Farrel, San Francisco, ness of other Branches. read and William Hatcher, Get-aid Nance, California. accepted. Agent Ben Rees gave John Dixon, Melvin Libby, Hor­ X t X a report on the Special Agents ace Mobley, Ulus Veach were JOSEPH TOMPSON Conference. Motion made to ac­ obligated. Under Good and Get in touch with Kenneth R, cept the Agent's report in its en­ Welfare several members dis­ Hennig at 1150 N.E. Lenore St., tirety and give him a vote of cussed the poor outlook of Nor­ Portland, Oregon. He asks that thanks. The Dispatcher reported folk shipping and the necessity you leave your address with 291 registered, and 72 shipped. of a program of economy for the Linda. He stated that shipping ja-. very Port of Norfolk. Meeting ad­ X X X slow, with lots of men on the journed at 9:15 P. M., with 163 DONALD EUGENE KNOWLES beach in this Port, and advised bookmembers and 128 permits Your mother is anxious to no one to come to Norfolk to present. hear from you. Minutes from the Great Lakes and SUP Districts were not re­ ceived. Canadian District min­ utes filed. Under New Business, motion carried that the Stewards Department rules in the Isthmian contract be clarified. Motion that we instruct our Negotiations Committee, if at all possible, to insert clauses into all contracts HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. guaranteeing the shipping of Phone 5-8777 Chief Stewards off the board. PORTLAND ......111 W. Burnside St. Beacon 4336 Discussion brought out that the RICHMOND, Calif. .-...257 5th St. maker of -the motion referred Rating Old Rate New Increase Phone 2599 specifically to Isthmian SS Com­ SAN FRANCISCO 59 Clay St. $270.00 ' $295.00 $25.00 Douglas 2-8363 pany. Various Brothers spoke on 270.00 295.00 SEATTLE 86 Seneca St. this issue and it was pointed out Bosun 25.00 Main 0290 that to finally achieve conditions (new rating) 231.50 WILMINGTON 440 Avalon Blvd. in Isthmian, it will still take a AB 220.00 225.50 5.50 Terminal 4-3131 period of time, because of the AB Maintenance , 235.00 243.50 8.50 fact that we just recently ac­ OS ! ! ^ 185.00 196.00 11.00 quired this company, and that OS Maintenance 185.00 220.00 35.00 BUFFALO 10 Exchange St. they had been non-union for 30 Electrician 350.00 361.00 11.00 Cleveland 7391 years before we took them over. Chief Pumpman 290.00 305.50 15.50 CHICAGO, III 3261 East 92nd St. All hands agreed, however, that Engine Maintenance - 2nd Pumpman 265.00 305.50 40.50 Phone: Essex 2410 , (nev rating) (new 269.50 CLEVELAND 2602 Carroll St. we must constantly work with 2nd Pumpman Main 0147 the thought in mind of bringing Oiler : 220.00 225.50 ' 5.50 DETROIT 1038 Third St. all contracts up to as high a FWT 220.00 225.50 5.50 Cadillac 6857 point as possible in every re­ Wiper 208.00 220.00 12.00 DULUTH. 531 W. Michigan St. 285.00 296.00 11.00 Melrose 4110 spect. Motion carried. The Sec­ Steward TOLEDO 61.5 Summit St, retary-Treasurer's verbal report Chief Cook i.. 265.00 207.00 2.00 Garfield 2ll2 to the membership was made 2nd Cook- Baker 230.00 237.50 7.50 and accepted. The Secretai-y- Galleyman 185.00 196.00 11.00 Treasurer's financial report was Messman 185.00 190.00 5.00 The Dispatcher re­ Utility MONTREAL.-. 1227 Philips Square accepted. 185.00 190.00 5.00 VICTORIA, B.C 602 Boughton St. ported 488 registered, and 432 V Empire 4531 The overtime rate for unlicensed personnel receiving less than $228,23 per month shall be shipped. The meeting stood in VANCOUVER. . 565 Hamilton St. ^ Pacific 7824 silence for one minute for de­ $1.15 ber hour.' Ratings earning $228.23 or more per month shall receive $1.45 per hour. parted Brothers. Meeting adSECRETARY-TREASURER Paul Hall DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZATION Lindsey Williams ASSIST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS Robert Matthews J. P. Shuler Joseph Volpian SUP Jifeiv Tanker Wage Srale Gt. Lakes District Canadian District Ml �Page Sixteen THE SEAFARERS Friday, September 17, 1948 LOG WE mmid UNIFORM REei^TRATION RULf^ The Registration Committee recommends the following registrar tion procedure for the Deck Department: Members shall register in three groups. A man can throw in for any job in the group in which he is registered, if he has the Union's required qualifications. When men are not available in one group, qualified men registered in the next lower group may throw in for the job. Second Electrician Unlicensed Jr. Engineer—^Day Work Unlicensed Jr. Engineer—^Watch Plumber-Machinist Chief Refrigeration Engineer First, Second, and Third Refrigeration Engineer Chief Storekeeper Evaporator Maintenance Man Pumpman, 1 and 2 Engine Maintenance Group / — Day Workers Group II DECK DEPARTMENT Each man must be qualified for the job he throws in for and have necessary endorsements. At registration time his qualifications shall be checked. Ordinary Seamen who cannot obtain AB tickets because of physi­ cal defects—such as coloj>blindness, etc.—may, upon proving that they have sailed three years as Ordinary out of SIU Halls, register in this group. Bosun Bosun's Mate Carpenter ^ Deck Maintenance Watchman—Day Work Storekeeper Group H — Ruted WuUh Stunders Quartermaster Able Seaman Car Deckman Watchman—Standing Watches Group III — (hly Ordinories On Wutch Deck Engineer Engine Utility Oiler—^Diesel Oiler—Steam Watertender Fireman—^Water tender Fireman Group III ~ _ Wiper STEWARDS DEPARTMENT The Registration Committee recommends the following registra­ tion procedure for the Stewards Department: Members shall register! in two groups. A man can throw in for any job in the group in which he is registered, if he has the Union's required qualifications,; When men are not available in one group, qualified men registered, in' the next lower group may throw in for the job. Group I — Ruted Men ENGINE DEPARTMENT The Registration Committee recommends the following registra­ tion procedure for the Engine Department: Members shall register in three groups. A man can throw in for any job in the group in which he is registered if he has the Union's required qualifications. When men are not available in one group, qualified men registered in the next lower group may throw "in for the job. Group / Each man must be qualified for the job he throws in for and have the necessary endorsements. At registration time his qualifications shall be checked. Chief Electrician Each man must be qualified for the job he throws in for and have the necessary endorsements. At registration time his qualifications shall be checked. Chief Steward—Passenger Second Steward—^Passenger Steward Chef ' ^ Chief Cook Second Cook Night Cook and Baker .' Third Cook Group II — Messmen Utility Messman Messman REAP m mm l)N0EI?5TAND fflEM , iii•;i i:..., � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1939-1949 Description An account of the resource Volumes I-XI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 17, 1948 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. X, No. 38 Description An account of the resource HEADLINES GENERAL FUND LEVY GETTING MEMBERS' OK SIU SIGNS 5 TANKERS TO TOP PAY ARMY MAKES NO PROGRESS IN MOVING COAST CARGOES CLSU ENTERS RANKS OF SIU IN CANADA NLRB TO DECIDE UNIT FOR NEW CS ELECTION HOW REGISTRATION RULES COMMITTEE DID ITS JOB REFUGEES FROM REDS GET AID ON HIGH SEAS ELSU ENTERS RANKS OF SIU IN CANADA SHIPPING SLOWS FOR PORT MOBILE;MEMBERSHIP OKAYS ASSESSMENT ORE SHIPS LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR GOOD SHIPPING IN BALTIMORE'PORT SAN JUAN STILL MAINTAINS TOP SHIPPING FROM THE SIXTH BOSTON SEAFARERE ARE AWAITIING WEEKLY EDUCATIONAL MEETINGS STRIKE KEEPS FRISCO SHIPPING AT STANDSTILL MICHIGAN'LITTLE T-H' LAW RULED INVALID NEW YORK SHIPPING HOLDS STEADY DESPITE TRUCKING TIE-UP SEA TRADER STOWAWAY WINS SUPPORT OF CREW;TOPSIDE TAKES DIM VIEW CEW-OFFICER FUND ENABLES BISHOP TO REACH III MOTHER CREW'S COLD BOX SERVES SUDS TO COOL HEADS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/17/1948 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1948 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/110dc41fa292fd27b027fe0c49da8d8f.PDF 6352e8f10ef069bf884f3ea0817bdeff PDF Text Text ;v!.-i>.;-yi^ ] SlU'S POSITION •Story on Page 2* SEAFARERS LOG '•Al•i • .. > OFFICIAL.ORGAN OF TH E 8 E A PA R E R S I N TE R N AT I O N AI UNION * ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT * ATTT^* i •-Js i ^ '• 5 SUICIDE f Story on Page 3 r i \-':ri. '• .} .V'f' "• *''v.' f i- •i r-i' f 3::i# :^i- '^S'vi'-* P-iii.". r lnt'4 . I' School Days. •.;W- m''! .'•;>•.,' ftAV I Ki. ,i , sity in upstate NY to pick up his studies under a 1954 SIU scholarship award, Sea­ farer Ed Larkin ^ight) visits Union headquarters with D. B. Wodhriger. di­ rector of the US Student Program iqf the Institute of Int'l Education, to show ofij! wbrkihgs of SIU hiring hall. Larkin re^ cently completed study under HE grant at Coleg Harlech, Wales. He is one of three Seafarers to win the $6,000 SIU award this y6ar. A member's son won the fourth one, '': ' RA##Af* Lafc Thon T'wlce postponed, the annual Del Sud picnic finally came . * off as planned with scores of Seafarers and their families in New Orleans taking part. Sponsored by the SIU crew on the Del Sud, the affair featured music by Papa Celestin's famed jazz band. (Picture Story on Pago 4.) �m \ ' • SlU Welfare Plan Is 'Best In Industry' SEAFARERS Tag* Tir» LOG NY State Study Of Welfare Proves SlU Fund Benefits High, Cost Low The Seafarers Welfare Plan scored an impressive victory this week when its program of benefits to seamen was proved to be the most far-reaching and unique in the maritime industry and its administrative costs among the lowest. This striking achievement in behalf of the men aboard SIU ships was the re­ sult of an intensive study of 135 union welfare plans, including the Seafarers Wel­ fare Flan, by the New York ^Union was leaving no stone un­ aries are in all major US ports, State Insurance Depart­ turned in its drive to bring even inland and sometimes abroad. benefits to seamen. Among Prior to the. public hearings the ment. The Seafarer Plan greater the pioneering provisions are the superintendent of insurance stated cooperated fully in the study headquarters recreational facilities, that the general average of admin­ despite the fact that there the lowcost meals in the Union- istrative expenses seemed to be exists a serious question as to owned cafeteria, the facilities for 10 percent and any fund that ran whether the State body had a legal right to do so. The announced pur­ pose of the study and the public hearings this week was to present a report to the New York State legislature. Out of the study , came the revelation that the beneficiaries of the SIU plan receive what is probably the broadest and most complete program of benefits in union welfare. Probably the most striking aspect of the Seafarers Welfare Plan revealed at the state's hearing was the unusual type of benefits for seamen under the plan. In addi­ tion to the benefits of $2,500,000 for death, disability, maternity, scholarship, unemployment and hospital, the new and pioneering area of direct aid to seafarers was obviously a surprise to the State. Moreover, it was clear that the laundry, showers and sleeping— all of which are in process of being extended to the other SIU halls throughout the District. In accordance with the pol­ icy of the SIU on all matters involving the membership and the Union, this matter will be presented in full at the next regular biweekly meeting on September 22 for discussion and action. In the four year period since its inception the plan has averaged a cost of 7.7 percent in administra­ tion expenses, despite ever expand­ ing its field of coverage. In addi­ tion the Plan has unusual problems peculiar to only a maritime union inasmuch as its seafarer-benefici- The Press Reported I'^r11^:1'\ The State opened ite hearings to all newspapers and wire services. The hrief proceedings on the Seafarers Welfare Plan was treated in a variety of ways by the various newspapers in accordance with their respective attitudes toward unions. Inasmuch as the daily newspapers were unahle to obtain the full story of the Flan because almost none of the facts were allowed to be brought forth at the public hearing, the SIU's story has been printed. The facts and figures in the story were sworn to by Union and management trustees in private hearings held by the State Insurance Department prior to this week's one-hour public hearing. Because of its traditional policy of objectivity and avoid­ ance of sensationalism, the New York Times account of the hearing was the most accurate. Here is the complete verbatim report relating to the Seafarers Welfare Plan carried in the NW York Times of September 16. "... a union accountant testiunion's own treasury and its tied that the Welfare fund main­ welfare fund came in for criti­ tained by the Atlantic and Gulf cism from Mr. Gelb. He disclosed district of the Seafarers Inter­ that the union had bought land national Union, A.F.L., had spent adjacent to its Brooklyn head­ $4,583 la.st year to buy member­ quarters for $125,416 and sold it ship in four golf and luncheon to the Welfare fund at a profit clubs for its administrator, form­ of $59,584. The property is to er Assistant Secretary of Labor serve as the site of a hotel for Robert T. Creasey. seamen on the beach. "Mr. Creasey, who became "Mr. Gelb also questioned an bead of the fund covering 13,000 arrangement under which the seamen at the beginning of last welfare fund pays a union-owned year, served for two years as a corporation $3,000 a week to un­ member of the sub-cabinet in the derwrite losses in the union res­ Truman Administration. Before taurant and $1,500 a week to accepting the Federal post in maintain a television, card and October, 1950, he had been an pool room next door to the union international vice president of hiring hall. the Communications Workers of Union Sold Land to Fund America, C.I.O. "The testimony showed that "Union officials defended all the Seafarers' fund had paid the arrangements as necessary $2,600 to the Winged Foot Golf- to meet the unique requirements of unemployed workers in the Club in Westchester, $603 to the Congressional Country Club in maritime industry. They said the Washington, $698: to the Down­ fund had distributed $2,557,710 in benefits since 1950, had a town Athletic Club in this city surplus of more than that amount and $682 to the Whitehall Lunch and had spent only 7.75 per cent Club here. In addition, the fund on administrative costs. This is allowed Mr, Creasey $2,439 for travel and other incidental ex­ less than one-quarter of the ratio maintained by most of the funds penses. His basic salary was not that have been under state scru­ brought out. tiny this week.*' "The relationship between the ••ptoiAer 17. I*ft4 What Is Adniiliistrative Ex|iense? The cost of operating a welfare plan li called the administrative expense. There are two types of welfare plans: 1. The self-insured plan, which performs all of its own administra­ tive functions and maintains its own adequate reserves. In the selfInsured plan—such as the Seafarers Plan—the administrative expenses are a true and accurate picture of the actual costs of operations. This is not the case in plans insured by insurance companies. 2. The insurance company type of plan also has administrative expenses, similar to the self-insured plan, but in addition, the plan pays, in the form of premiums, a portion of the insurance company's own administrative expense—a profit for services rendered. The administrative expenses of the self-insured plan cannot be compared with the insurance company plan without keeping these principles in mind. For example, if a self-insured plan has adminis­ trative expenses of 10 percent, this is the actual expense of operating the plan. However, if the insured plan reports four percent for adminis­ trative expenses, you can safely assume that its administrative expenses would be in excess of 14 percent inasmuch as the insurance premiums, brokerage costs and other expenses of Insured plans must be added to the original administrative costs for a true picture. Also, in a self-in­ sured plan, the plan itself retains the benefits of the nionies it has and can Invest them for income, such as in the case of the Seafar­ ers Plan, which has earned $99,000 from its investments. In an insupd plao an insurance con^pany would haye gotten this money. above 25 percent was "not well administered." The 7.7 percent adminstrative expense of the Sea­ farers Plan is therefore consider­ ably below this average. required him to meet and associate of maintaining recreational facili­ with people in the maritime in­ ties. These facilities provide es­ As an example of the Sea­ dustry as well as visiting various tablishment and maintenance of farers Welfare Plan's excellent plans in several cities for compari­ small apartments and dormitories set-up, certified public ac­ son purposes. He also incurred for sleeping, laundry rooms con­ counts estimated that had the part of these expenses in visiting taining washing machines and plan allowed the funds pro­ many areas of the country to view ironers, plus shower rooms for sea­ vided for seafarers to be put proposed sites for new welfare farers at SIU headquarters. In into the hands of an insurance projects. addition, other facilities main­ company, the additional cost The management and union, tained are pool rooms and shuffleper year would have been trustees felt that these expenses board plus other recreational items $110,000 and represents an in­ were necessary for the fulfillment for the use of seafarers on a 24crease of SO percent in admin­ of his job and directed him to hour a day basis, seven days a istrative costs. take these steps. The union trus­ week. tees said that these expenses were State Raises Question The furnishing of recreation fa-^ At the public hearings this week proper. We felt that Mr. Creasey's cilities to union members it admit­ one hour was devoted to the Sea­ role as impartial administrator re­ tedly not new and peculiar to our farers Welfare Plan. Despite the quired that he meet and associate Union. Other unions have built a complex, broad and unusual set-up with shipowner representatives in range of such facilities, including of the Seafarers Welfare Plan, the the places where they congregate. hotel quarters in union-owned State would only permit the three We also felt he should visit as structures, although they are sus­ issues of which they were critical many plants as he possibly could tained and erected by welfare to be discussed in the open hear­ to study their method of operation. funds and recognized as legal and ing, although the complete records Likewise, we expected him to properly in the scope of welfare and all aspects of the Plan were com^to the Union halls and meet benefits. studied by the State staff. Sub­ with the Union officials and mem­ Union trustees further point­ sequently these three issues were bers at the place where they were ed out that to anyone not fa­ the sole basis for newspaper re­ always available. This he has done. miliar with the maritime in­ ports of the Seafarers Plan, a The trustees feel that the issue of dustry,. and the way of life for situation which did not allow in­ the recorded and authorized ex­ the seaman, tiiat these facili­ terested parties to become ac­ penses of the administrator was ties are a sailor's dream come quainted with the extensive provi­ irrelevant in light of the fact that true. These mean that a sea­ they were incurred in carrying out sions and benefits seafarers receive farer—whether one of the oldthese job-connected functions. from the Plan. timers on pension or a man On the purchase of the prop­ many miles from home—^if he The three issues criticized were erty for the hotel site, which so desires, can have a place a profit of $59,584 made by the lies behind the SIU headquar­ ..to live and sleep, shave, show­ SIU membership-owned Seafarers ters, the shipowner trustees er, wash and iron his clothes, Building Corporation, a Subsidiary pointed to the fact that they . meet his friends and enjoy top owned solely by the SIU mem­ had approved the purchase of recreational facilities — all bership. The profit came in the this property at a fair market through the provisions of the the sale of property adjoining the value of $185,000—which was Welfare Plan. These facilities Union hall in New York to the home out by real estate ap­ are constantly available to at Welfare Plan for the purpose of praisal. (Continued on page 17) erecting a hotel and housing The Union's emphatic position on project for seafarers and their families; 2) the weekly underwrit­ its sale was that it will continue ing by the Plan of $4,500 for serv­ to act in the best interests of its ices arising out of recreation, membership and will certainly see Sopt. 17, 19S4 Vol. XVI. No. 19 welfare and cafeteria operations a profit that will accrue to the benefit of the Union and its mem­ for' the membership, and 3) ex­ As I See It . ..Page 6 Page 16 penses which were allowed to the bership wherever, It can—as , long Burly . . .Page 8 impartial administrator by the as the purchaser gets full value Crossword Puzzle received. The Union is of the Editprials . Page 9 Board of Trustees. opinion that where a profit for the Galley Gleanings ......... Page 13 The latter item" concerned Ro­ membership of the Union is due, bert Creasey, the Fund's adminis­ the Union would not be fulfilling Inquiring Seafarer ...... Page 8 trator, who had served as assistant its obligation to its membership Labor Round-U°p ......... Page 8 secretary of labor under former unless it realized such profit', as in Letter of The Week....; .Page 9 Letters ..Page 16 President Harry Truman. Mr. this case. Maritime ............... Page 8 Creasy had been chosen for his There is nothing unique about Page 8 post by the board of trustees of this attitude in theory or in prac­ Meet The Seafarer.. the Plan. "The trustees went out­ tice. The State did not claim that Notices, Personals .......Page 17 ...Page 14 side the industry to select an im­ any individual connected with the Off Watch . Pages 12, 13 partial administrator. Although union or with the shipowners re­ Port Reports ..Page 14 Creasey has never been an official ceived any personal gain as a Quiz or a member of any seafaring result of this transaction. The SIU History Cartoon .... .Page 6 Page 15 union, nor has he been connected State'appeared, to base this criti­ Sports Line. ...Page 9 with any steamship company, his cism on the- fact that a union Vote of Thanks job as Assistant Secretary of Labor membership -owned corporation Washington News Letter.. Page 7 Welfare Benefits Pages 18, 19 made him well qualified. had made the profit. . Welfare Report .Page 18 Question Job Expenses Recreational Facilities Your Dollar's Worth Page 5 In the remaining criticism con­ Publlshtd biwaekly at tha headauartara The State questioned $7,000 in expenses incurred by, the adminis­ cerning the Welfare Plan, the of tha Seafarars International Union, At­ A Oulf DUtrict AFL, »7S Fourth trator at se\en hotels, clubs and Union trustees pointed out that lantic Avanua, Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel. HYacinth restaurants and in various cities in $1,500.00 per week was underw,^ 9-MW, Entered at tecond class matter at the Post Office In Brooklyn, NY., fulfilling that part of his job which ten by . the plan for the purpose under the Act' of August 24, 1912. SEAFARERS LOG �1- -v.-"' I", Septeqil^'eit': SE AF iUERS SlU'ilCrews Help Build Korean Hospital Fund. Seafarers on ten ships that were in Pusan up to the latter part of July have contributed $1,630 to a $100,000 fund-raising campaign designed to improve hospital facilities in the LOG '[ ./''•V \ ' '. ' -• "- ' Pare 'are* Maritime Unions B Ask US To Stop transfer 'Suicide' Korean port. The drive, initiated-f ^^— . by the Army Transportation Corps, million people. Only 16 of the collected approximd^Iy $45,000 beds are' for general medical care, from the thousands of US troops the rest 'being for maternity cases stationed in the area and $6,978 or children. The average Korean WASHINGTON—Bitterly assailing the Maritime Adhiinistration's easy trans­ from 43 ships that were in Pusan citizen then, has no chance what­ harbor. soever to get in-patient hospital fer policy which has enabled 20 dry-cargo Libertys to go ui^der foreign flags since Analysis of the figures shows care when seriously ill. mid-August, the SIU and other sea unions in the Conference of American Mari­ that SlU-manned ships were the As a result of the drive and other most generous contributors to the assistance being given by the US time Unions have appealed to President Eisenhower for direct intervention be­ fund, particularly in light of the it is hoped to increase the number fore it is too late. Under a recent ruling by the US Maritime Administration fact that the list included several of hospital beds to 551 by next half of the entire US tramps large MSTS transport ships that year. have crews of several hundred SIU ships that have contributed ship fleet is now fre^ to trend" of foreign-flag trans­ Bluestar, Purplcstar and Greenstar men. to tlm hospital drive as of July 26 fers before the US merchant (Traders). All are going under The drive was initiated ibecause are: Ocean Lotte, Afoundria, Coe transfer to foreign registry. marine is completely crippled. either Liberian or Panamanian The request to the White Noting that six formerly SIU- registry. Pusan has only 166 hospital beds Victory, Hurricane, Madaket, Alaoutside of facilities maintained by, wai, Cecil Bean, City of Alma, House demanded that the Gov­ manned ships were included in the the military for a population of a Bienville and Alcoa Planter. ernment halt the ^'suicidal total, SIU secretary-treasurer Paul Hall pointed out that some 40 more Libertys, several of them, crewed by Seafarers, were likely to be approved for transfer in the next few weeks. "This notion that the condition of the US merchant fleet can be built up by encouraging the ship­ owners to operate their vessels under foreign conditions and in open competition with American •m tonnage is one of the worst the In an apparent effort to 'deep-thinkers' in the Maritime bolster its strength in its feud Administration have come up with the SlU-affiliated Broth­ with." Hall declared. erhood of Marine Engineers, the "They'll drive US ships right out of US ports and hand over all CIO Marine Engineers Beneficial the traffic to foreign bottoms. Association has moved to ally itself They've already got most of it with the corrupt old International Longshoremen's Association, ousted now," he added. from the AFL last September. Critical Report MEBA, beset by unemployment The Union criticism of the MA and other difficulties, took the first transfer policy was bolstered step September 8 when MEBA earlier when the Georgetown Uni­ Local 33 gave an outright donation versity's School of Foreign Service of $20,000 to the old ILA, and at issued a project report on US the same time Earl King, the lo­ maritime needs and urged an out­ cal's business manager, announced right halt of transfers to Panama. he expected other locals to follow The University study cited tne fact suit during the MEBA convention that Panama • had become the opening this Tuesday in St. Louis. fourth-ranking world power in The Local 33-ILA alliance, both "merchant shipping, completely out King and the ILA's president. Cap­ of proportion to its size and re­ tain William V. Bradley, said, was quirements, at the expense of the for the purpose of "mutual help Biggest tanker ever buillrin the US, the 45,000-deadweight-ton World. Glory pays a courtesy call at US-flag industry. on the waterfront" and both an­ New York before sailing to the Persian Gulf on her maiden voyage. Dwarfing the tugboat at the far It noted too that when "World nounced they would seek to extend left, the giant tankship is larger than the liner Anaerica. and will be. operated under Liberian registry War II broke out, nu.ny countries it by creating a new portwide mari­ by World Tankers Co., owned by Greek shipping magnate' S. Niarchos.' She is typical of the new sea­ which had counted on foreign time council. going supertankers which are outclassing the US-flag fleet, tonnage Jieing available to serve Thumbs Down By CIO their defense needs first had to But at the moment, except for build their own vessels because no foreign tonnage was available. As MEBA, no support of the plan has a result, 16 nations have developed come from any CIO group. NMU their own merchant fleets since president Joseph Curran has mad# no comment, while CIO president the last war," the report added. In defending its transfer pro­ Walter Reuther—who once said the gram, MA officials contend that the ILA could not get into the CIO US would not suffer at the out­ with an M-4 tank—announced that WASHINGTON—A study just completed by Georgetown University's School of Foreign break of another war, because for­ he intends to look into the alliance that "I will do everything in Service has added new fire to the mounting battle over the Government's ship transfer eign tonnage could be utilized in and my power to drive the unholy ele­ the place of American bottoms. policy. ments out of labor." in the past would seem The report urged the~US to emergency. The MA view has been |:egistration.of foreign ships under Experience At the same time King an­ to refute that idea, the Georgetown that ships could be mustered her flag was to "increase state nounced that there were no strings bar American-owned vessels quickly to serve US defense needs revenues." It pointed out that the study indicated. to the local's gift, so it is likely from going under Panamanian out of available foreign tonnage. Panamanian fleet is way out of 'Not Responsible' that the old ILA, still financially registry and served to bolster the In its appeal to the President, strapped, will use most, if not all, Countering this idea, the George­ proportion to its size and needs demands of the SIU and other and that few of her ships are CAMU charged that the MA "is of this money to carry on its fight maritime unions that President town groupjtraced the growth of owned by her own citizens. not fulfilling its responsibilities" against the AFL's International Iherchant shipping in Wotld War Eisenhower take a good look at the A large portion of the report effects so far of the Maritime Ad­ II,'when many countries which had was devoted to a discussion of the to develop and maintain a strong Brotherhood of Longshoremen, ministration's easy ship transfer no shipping of their own were un­ ways and means utilized in 66 na­ US merchant marine under the which is continuing its fight to bust 1936 shipping law and declared the ILA from the port. The MEBA able to recruit foreign tonnage for policy. tions with active merchant, fieets that the State Department was membership's Junds are thus a their own needs and thus first had Twenty Okayed to support the growth and develop­ actively lobbying "for the foreign Operators of 20 dry-cargo Lib­ to start building at that critical ment of their shipping industries. merchant marines and against our subsidy*to such ILA leaders as Tony Anastasia," who once broke a time. erty ships have been given the Its conclusions on this score un­ fleet." CIO strike in New Jersey. The result, the report noted, derlined the fact that the US was green light to transfer their ves­ Figures relied on by the unions The IBL immediately announced was that 16 countries which had sels since. mid-August and permis­ one of the few countries to pro­ in their message to the Chief Ex­ it would have no part of an alli­ sion for 40 more to swing over to no merchant fleets before the war vide outright subsidies to ship­ ecutive noted that while in 1946 ance with an organization expelled foreign-flag operation is expected today have substantial tonnage, ping, and was one of the compara­ the US fleet represented 51 percent by the AFL, and James Egan, sec­ and 14 others have increased their .shortly. tive newcomers- to the subsidy of the total world deadweight retary-treasurer of the IBL's port In announcing its conclusions, fleets considerably. Competition in field. tonnage, by the end of 1951 it had council, said: the University group which took the world shipping market has France and,Great Britain have a dropped to 32 percent. Today, "This is a boughtlfriendship. It part' in the shipping study took thus been increased accordingly. history of subsidies for shipping US-flag ships in active service is a smart move by the Marin# Revenue Is Sole Concerif what amounted to a hard swipe at in . some form dating back 150 account for only about ten percent Engineers to buy picket lin# the Maritime Administration's con­ Detailing the growth of the years. The tone of the report hint­ of the world tonnage figure. strength from the racket-ridden tention that despite the transfers Panamanian fleet to its present ed that it might be well for the US SIU ships involved in the trans­ ILA. But the engineers better which were now. depleting the state as the fourth-ranking world to consider the aid provided by fer operations to date include the watch out that they're not being ranks of the US merchant fleet, power in merchant shipping, the other nations for their shipping in­ following: General Patton (Na- betrayed. The ILA will take their the US would have sufficient ton­ report said that Panama's only ap­ dustries if it hoped to revive its tiojial Waterways), Trojan Seaman $20,000 but how long will they stay nage to call on in the event of an parent interest in fostering the own. (Troy), Strathport (Strathmore) and out if the engineers go on strike?" She's US-Builty But Liberia Claims Her Union Fight On Transf^ers To Panama Wins New Ally MEBA-ILA Pact Faces CIO Probe •'M -ifi -• '".''alL . �if0'!)HSSlBBM!||jjsiBiSiiftRP!®E!?^j'^S?^"'«^ Fiffe Fov t' •.' • "' ' '" , "••5,., ; » * Sevlember. ScBlemlK 17. 1954 SEAFARERS lOG NEW ORLEANS—After twp previoxis There were games, prizes, rides in the postponements caused by unusual sched­ public Aniusement park, hot dogs and soft uling that sent their> ship coastwise ttf drinks for; the children. The adults had Texas ports,-crewmenibers of the Del Sud • itheii- sharp of fun, too. The program in(Mississippi) held their annual picnic at dAided dancing to the music of Papa CelesAudubon Park here August 21. tih*s famed Dixieland jazz band and a base­ With mpre than $l,p00 fccumulated in ball game between the SIU Beachcombers the ship's fund for tlie -aiTair, nothing was - and the New Orleans Police Department, lacking in the way of refreshments and with thp Beachcombers scoring an 8 to 3 entertainment, for friends and" families of victory. Of course, there was beer, sand­ the Del Sud crew and Seafarers on the • wiches and fried chicken a-plenty for all beach who attended the picnic. hands. - What's a picnic without prizes? Here James E. Noonan-, ship's dele­ gate, rewards Gail Bourgeois with doll for winning foot race, while other contest winners proudly-display trophies. With Lou Anderson as starter, the McCloskeys, M.H. and A.A., are set to go—somewhere. Henry Kirsch heads for home in Beachcombers' 8-3 victory over NO Police Department team. f'"' ApparenUy mighty pleased with results of their efforts are the committee on arrangenients for the picnic. Left to right, are Joseph Laeu liOius OLeary, Emil Herek and James Noonan. , ^7 • ' • "7 '• ' • • • • • -7 'iui' • • • ' Even at 2,. Debra,. daughter of_ crewman J. A. Bernard, is in her, cups—Dixie;, of courae. ^ f;-"! j;'' ri : • AsV'. 'And this armful is 18-monthsoW BettyJo, having a time with 7 |v ^ 77 ^ >'lV '7"A/7 ''7 ojv.vjiri V :-V "'.A' �I -iC/I-•^^.'iepteiart^ MM&P Pact SEAFARERS pel Norte Crew Resumes 'Navigator' To Pension .Seeking greater economic secur­ ity in lieu of wage increases, the East and Gulf coast members of the Masters, Mates and Pilots, A^, have begun contract negptianons with 4he shipping, com­ panies. The present contract expires at midnight, September 30. • The MM&P's chief target this year will be a pension, according to Captain C. T. Atkins, union president. Also on the agenda will be union proposals for reclassify­ ing personnel on Mariner ships, tightening working rules and im­ proving working conditfbns, and increasing security in the hiring hail program. ' The union is also seeking an in' .crease in the present 21 days of vacation annually. The negotiations cover 40» com­ panies operating passenger and dr>'. cargo vessels on both coasts, and set the pattern for virtually the entire American-flag cargo and passenger fleet. i 'Page ilv* LOG IIS Boosts Old Age $; Seafarers To Benefit Significant increases in bid age benefits under the Social Security law, particularly for people who retire after this year, are provided in the amendments to the Social Security Act passed by Congress. The-* — increases in benefits range of them will get $162.80. The fol­ frorn a low of $5 a month for lowing are some sample charts on Aboard the Del Norte (Mississippi) SIU crewmembers edit the first edition of the "Navigator," crew's newspaper which is'resuming pubUeation after having been suspended for a year. Members of^ the staff are (i-r), Chino Sosa, BR; Editor Jack Dolar, BRj and Harold Crane, 2nd cook. Pfa, 'Siren' Seen, Not Heard MIAMI—Probably most of you guys in the SHJ have heard of the sirens. They're the beautiful gals who supposedly take sunbaths on the rocks, and who wreck ships by luring the sailors toward them with sexy- songs and come-hither looks. Well, maybe you think this ^ business about the sirens is one, at that, to hear them tell it. just another legend of the sea. At any rate, passengers, crew But it ain't, and you can take it from the SIU crew of the Miamiberthed Florida (P & O). 1954 Model The Florida crew's siren is a streamlineol model wearing .bikihi bathing' suit. She didn't do any singing"—except later to a judge—and she didn't make the Florida founder. But she sure did rock the boat. . This episode happened one night twcr weeks ago when the Florida, •cruising up Biscayne Bay toward hdr berth in Miami harbor, passed the M^cArthur Causeway, one of the major links between Miami and Miami Beach. And there, frolicking around in cording to the spectators, must the water, was the siren, clad only have been made from Ihe skin^of in a leopard-skin bikini which, ac­ a leopard baby—and an incubator and officers all scrambled for the railing, so that eyewitnesses in the crowd which had meanwhile gath­ ered on the causeway swear the vessel actually listed. Later, after cops and a life­ guard had gotten the moonlight mermaid ashoi'e, she turned out to be a 26-year-old strip-tease artist, named Patrona Bugg, who decided on a swim after finishing her stint at a Miami Beach nightclub. Modestly draped in a blanket, Patrona later appeared before a judge who told her she'd get 10 days in jail if she continued with her antics, so it's doubtful that the Florida crewmen will see her again. However, some of them are stiii Bugg-eyed. men already retired at the lowest rate of pay up to a maximum of approximately $35 a month in­ crease for a man and his wife re­ tiring in 1955 or later. Ceiling Increased Increases are also provided for widows and their children from the present ceiling of $168.90 a month to a maximum of $200 a month, making a comfortabie an­ nuity for a famiiy. Further, the new law favors the man working in a fluctuating in­ dustry' like seafaring because it discounts the five worst years a man may have had as far as total earnings go^^ This tends to boost the monthly rate of benefits. Can Still Work For those oldtimers who like to keep an oar in the business, the new law has a feature which per­ mits them to earir up to $1,200 a year without loss of their benefits. The old law limited them to $75 in any one month. In other words, thie oldtimer can now make a cou-, pie of trips a year and still collect every cent due in Social Security benefit, providing his gross pay­ off doesn't go over $1,200 in the year. SIU disability pay does not count toward this $1,200 ceiling. Single men now on the rolls used to get from $25 to $85 a month. Under the new rate, start­ ing in September, they will get from $30 to $98.50 ^ month. ' The increases are''$5 a month for most men, up untii the $70 figure. If a retired man has a wife over 65, he used to get anywhere from $37.50 to $3.27.50 a month. Now he will get from $45 to $147.80 or a raise of from $7.50 to $20 a month. The same types of in­ creases go all the-way down the line for widows and children. Future Retirements The biggest increases in bene­ fits go to men who retire from 1955 on,-provided their average earnings were $350 a month or better. They will get a maximum of $108.50 compared to the old top of $85; ~And if they are married to a woman who is over 65 the two YOUR DOLLAR'S SEAFARERS GUIDE TO BETTER BUYING Tips On Washing Machihes iss^k the new rates. Worker (Single) Already Retired Old New $25.00 $30.00 40.00 45.00 55.00 . 60.00 70.00 78.50 85.00 98.50 Worker And Wife Already Retired Old New $37.50 58.40 80.00^ $45.00 67.50 90.00 105.00 117.80 127.50 147.80 Seafarers already on the retire­ ment roils will get their increases automatically with their Septem­ ber checks. Men who have not yet retired can find out what they are entitled to by contacting any So­ cial Security field office. 700-Ton Ship Going Overland To Vt. Miiseum .SHELBURNE, Vt.—If all goes well, the 700-ton steamship Ticonderoga — the last sidewheeler to operate on Lake Champlain—will shortly move overland for two miles to its finai resting place in a museum. . Due to be scrapped three years ago, she was saved when a civic group intervened and a museum operator here bought her. Plans now call for the ship to bd moved into the. mouth of the LaPlatte River, on Lake Champlain between the Vermont-NY border, where a basin will be dug large enough to float her. The ship will be raised to land level by pumping in water from the river, then floated onto a "cradle" built on railroad tracks. From there, the Ticonderoga' will be propelled by motor winches mounted on trucks and moved to the museum. Written exclusively for THE SEAFARERS LOG. by Sidney Margolius, Leading Expert on Buying many people is to use too much. You don't need as much chines, thus bringing their cost down to $240 or less. of a synthetic detergent as you may have been accustomed Otherwise, there are several private-brand automatic A good washing machine can be a boon to a Seafarer to use when using soap powder. Using a little more washers of good quality that sell for $240 or less. These on board ship and to his family at home. But judging detergent not only does not make the suds more efficient. are the Sears Roebuck Kenmore, which is made by and from letters to the LOG, sometimes these back-saving but in fact reduces tl\e efficiency of the determent. Con­ is identical to the costlier Whirlpool, the Montgomery machines seem to act like temperanaental devils, with trary to popular notfon, a lot of suds do not make a Ward Wardamatic and the AMC washer ^old by many frequent breakdowns and costly repairs. Hofisewives, too, cleaner wash, and may damage the machine itself. In department stores. Too, some of the nationally-advertised encounter these difficulties. ^ some drum-type automatic washers, heavy-sudsing deter­ makes have a deluxe and a standard model, with a price To get successful service you need to (1) select an gents should not be used at all. 'This type of machine difference of $20 for what is basically the same machine efficient make, especially in the case of automatics which creates so much siids that they tend to wash the grease except for the trim and a few other relatively unimpor­ are more complicated and more subject to breakdown off the motor bearings and other parts. Heavy-sudsing tant features. than wringer machines, and (2) follow certain procedures detergents should be avoided especially in homes tha^ Of the so-called "apartment washers" for small homes, J(n using the machine, both to avoid repairs and get have septic tanks or cesspools. / most complete is a special Whirlpool automatic which is maximum cleaning ^efficiency. Comparison-Shopping Washers only 24 inches high but has eight-pound capacity (manu­ Much of your silccess with a washer depends on your Wringer machines are becoming obsolete though they facturer's rating). Amorife smalier but non-automatic own handling of it. It's particularly' important not to do a good washing job, since they have the agitator, and washers are the Monitor, which can fit under a sink or overload and to follow the manufacturer's instructions thpj wringer itself helps to get the wash clean. But most in a closet and has four-pound capacity, and the similar |s to operating time for, the washing process, and also, people sinnply prefer the greater convenience of the auto­ four-pound washer sold by Montgomery Ward; td use the proper type of detergent. You sometimes have . matic, even though an automatic requires a greater hot For small families, washers of 7 to ^ pound capacity •to take with a grain of ^alt the., manufacturers' claims Water supply and entails more repairs. may be satisfactory, but for larger famines *the 9- or 10. as to capacity of their machines. Tests hav# shown that Among the autoniatics, those that use aii agitator for pound sizes are advisable, especially since it is important automatic washers wash cleaner and'vdth less strain on washing generally get clothes cleaner, although they are .imot to load washers to the full capacity claimed. ' . the machine if the load contains no moire than tw64arge harder on the articles being washed than the tumbler or For home use, unless you have a 50-gallon hot-water or heavy articles like-dungarees and sheets, with the drum type washers. #nls for an automatic washer, it may be advisable to balance, small articles. The load should be kept down >Most of the good automatics with agitator mechanism get the "suds-saver" feature with an automatic since you to no more than .7 to 8 pounds even though the manu­ carry iist prices of about $300, including Maytag, Whirl­ can. reuse the suds water. facturer sayS the capacity is eight Jor'nine pounds. Make sure any washer you buy has been approved by>. pool, Apex, ABC, Hamilton, Norge, Thor and Easy. Now­ Synthetic detergents are generally mor^ effective than adays you can often get discounts of 20-30 per cent from and carries the seal of Underwriters Laboratories, show­ soap powder 'tvr v, joshing machines, but the tendency of independent dealers and discount houses on these ma­ ing it has passed safety tests. 'ii . �pawstt . ' SEAFARERS LOG • > r^.. - ^K.cri. GOVERNMENT OUTLAWS COMMUNIST PARTY: How New Laws Affect Communists of native-born Communists are not contemplated because it is not likely that any other country wduld agree to take them. THE COMMUNIST-CONTROLLED WEST COAST LONGSHOREThere are many other penalties resulting from men's union and its leader, Harry Bridges, are following up their sup­ loss of citizenship. A man who is expatriated be­ port of the so-called Independent International Longshoremen's Asso­ comes, an alien. Like all aliens, he must ciation by tightening up the lines between the two organizations. This legal political party. It has been outlawed. His at­ register,inbeeffect, fingerprinted and keep the Government is in accordance with the step-by-step procedures of Communist party tempts to control labor unions face new stumbling advised of his whereabouts. He can't get a pass­ plans for influencing the destiny of the East Coast dockworkers who blocks. He risks death if he becomes a spy, and port to travel abroad. Many professions are limited are not in the AFL Internaticnal Brotherhood of Longshoremen. prison for sabotage. As Seafarers and others who followed the organizing campaign of by state laws to citizens, so he would be barred. He It's going to be harder for a Commimist to hide cannot vote, run for office, or hold most public jobs. the AFL longshore union will recall, the Bridges union poured heavy and when he's caught he may lose his US' citizenCommunists who flee are going to-have more trou­ money into the old ILA and produced and distributed thousands of I = ble hiding, beeause the penalties for harboring a pieces of slick, .expensive propaganda smearing all the forces which fugitive have been increased by the new laws. *When were in the fight to provide longshore workers with a decent, demo­ In the final days of Congresii several laws two Communist leaders fled Vecently, the heaviest cratic union dedicated to serving the best interests of its membership. were enactc^d restricting individual Communists punishment that could be given fpur persons ac­ The SIU, which played a prominent role in this important battle, came and the Communist Party of USA. In the com­ cused of harboring them was only six months in in for a m^or share of the smears from the pens of the Communist ing months these laws will be the subjects of prison. Now, harboring a fugitive can bring up to party propagandists. much debate and legal action as to whether or On the day that the 'old ILA was certified as bargaining agent, after five years in prison. not they violate the Constitution. Here is a sum­ squeaking through by some 200 votes out of approximately 18,000 cast, If a Conununist jumps bail, he now. not only for­ mary of these new laws. Reprinted from US feits his bail money, but also can be tried for jump­ officials of the Communist-dominated Bridgea union went to work im­ News & World Report, an independent weekly mediately to solidify their-relationship with the old ILA. The date was ing bail, which is made a separate crime. news magazine published at Washington, DC. . Communists who won't talk, who inyoke the Fifth August 27, when Bridges representative Pete McGoldrick met in New Copyright 1954. Amendment when called to, testify before a con­ York with representatives uf the Brooklyn section of the old ILA. . Mc­ gressional committee, a grand jury, or a court, can Goldrick pledged continued, complete support of Bridges organization ship. He can be made to talk, or go to jail, if he to the old ILA, and the ILA officials told McGoldrick they wanted the tries to hide behind the Fifth Amendment. A Com­ now be compelled to talk or risk prison. This can closest working relationship between the ILA and Bridges' outfit. be accomplished, under the new laws, by granting a munist must register with Federal authorities. In addition, the ILA officials promised that if the West Coast union With all these new laws coming suddenly into reluctant witness immunity from prosecution. With had" to call a strike to win a contract for the stewards they are seeking force, many people have come to expect sudden and this immunity, he no longer , can incriminate him­ to represent, the old ILA \rauld support it 100 per cent. dramatic results—a quick and sweeping round-up self so has no legal i-ight to keep silent and .can be Not the least significant of^thd exchan;ge,of support between the two of Communists throughout the country. This, how­ punished if he does. groups was the statement by th^ ILA leaders that they had "the high­ Department of Justice officials consider this im­ est respect for the ILWU international officers," which, of couise. In- , ever, is not going to happen. Although the Communist Party bas been out­ munity procedure one of their ^strongest new eludes Harry Bridges, The top official. lawed; it still is no crime simply to be a member. weapons. The best .source of information about Com­ The authority for these meetings is the Bridges union itself which Eveiyone who joined is not to be herded into jail. munist conspiracies is one of the conspirators.. If recorded it in a special supplement of the ILWU publication "The Dis­ Nor are a lot of American-born Communists going •one of a ring can be induced' to talk, the rest of patcher, and circulated only among shipboard .personnel. , to be deported. And the Communist newspaper, the the ring may be convicted. In the partnership with the old ILA the Bridges organization and Pension Loss Posslblo Daily Worker, probably will not stop publication. the ^ommunist Party see an opportunity that they have not had a Federal employes who try to hide-behind the Fifth chance to enjoy since the SIU smashed their Committee for Maritime Tougher Penalties Amendment now can be cut off from their retire­ Unity in 1948. They see now a chance tqxiause tie-ups with a guarantee What will happen to Communists is simply this: —by ILA officials at least—that East Coast long^bremen would go out It's going to be harder for a Communist to operate, ment pensions, as well as their jobs. Pensions, under the new laws, also are denie^ to and support a cause sponsored by a Communist-dominated and con­ from now on, and the penalty will be greater if he Federal employees convicted of crimes involving trolled maritime union. is caught conspiring against the US. Bridges has long been seeking to corral West Coast steward de­ Death penalties are now provided for spies, even their official positions or disloyalty to the US. This in time of peace. Formerly, only wartime spying re­ provision hits directly at Algqr Hiss, former State partment personnel into his longshore union in a move'to solidify thesulted in capital punishment. The Rosenbergs could Department official who was. convicted of perjury Communist position on the waterfront. He has been bitterly resisted not have been executed if their spying hadJiot been in dep ing that he passed information to the Soviets. by our West Coast affiliate in the Seafarers International Union, the done in time* of war. -The new law, moreover, elim­ Hiss will soon be eligible for parole-^-and without AFL A{arine Cooks and Stewards organization. While Seafarers and others who are elert to the maneuvers of the inates the old 10-year statute of limitations and this law would draw a Federal retirement pension. Communist Party on the waterfront have viewed Bridges role of acting Saboteurs face new and tighter laws, brought up makes it possible to prosecute a spy any time he is as a guardian for the old ILA In its proper perspective, it is un­ to date to include sabotage by. means of radioactive, likely that veryangel discovered. many people outside of the seafaring or maritime fields biological or chemical agents. Sabotage laws now For many other offenses likely to be committed have paid too much attention to this development. It is now becoming by Communists, the statute of limitations has been apply in times of "national emergency" as well as clearer and clearer that there was nothing casual about the Bridges de­ extended from three years to five. This not only in times of war. sign, that this was cold-bloodedly a party maneuver to strengthen Printing equipment used by Communists must Bridges pqsition against its most vigorous and successful opponents— gives the Government more time to apprehend a criminal, but permits officials to hold up his arrest now be registered, and its location disclosed. This our own Seafarers International Union-^-and all of its affiliated mari­ if they are not yet ready to disclose the identity of requirement was-passed after Investigations by Con­ time districts. This is obviously a situation that will bear close watch­ their informer. gressional committees reyealed secret, underground ing. The SIU has fought too long and too hard to crack all Communist. printing facilities. Can Lose Citizenship Party efforts to disrupt the very vital US maritime industry, '^e can Red-led labor unions are hit by one of the'major all watch for continued proj^ganda barrages.against the SIU by the Citizenship can be taken away from a Communist convicted of advocating the overthrow of the US new anti-Communist measures. Now, when any la­ Communist Party and its agencies, such as the West Coast Longshore­ Government by force and violence. This can be done bor union is found to have been Infiltrated by Com­ men's Union and their new-found allies In the old ILA, oh the theory • even if the Communist was bom in the US. munists, it can be barred from using the National that if they can discredit our union they will strengthen their own posiCan he be deported, then, as an undesirable alien? Labor Relations Board to -obtain a bargaining elec- tiot). Unfortunately for them our organization can stand on its record. Theoretically, yes. Actually, however, d^rtations They can not (Continued fn page 17) Life for a Communist in the United- States is going to become more difficult and more dangerous, as a result of new laws passed by Congress. The Communist now finds himself with no Cartoon History Of The SIU Demoeraey lu Jketion N0.72 ll' 2--' In December, 1949, after informal discussions by ^ SIU. members, the Union threw open the pages Of the SEAFARERS-LOG for a full-scale membership discussion ef men aboard ship taking a vacation after one year M the same vessel This provided for han^g the 1»^ in truo Scafarcni' fashloiL The debate continued until April, IMO, when the' Although temporarily tight shipping was given as proposal was put before the SIU membership in all one of the reasons for the proposed rule, opponents branches. The outbreak of the Korean War even. pointed out the SIU Job situation was better than in unions which had such a ride. Meanwhile, Seafarers;<4| •lA^iually killed^most'of the support for the rule, but the democratic procedure followed had kept all Sea* and their families pitenedrlnto tko . debate and iarerr well informed about die vacatioa issue. argued the merits ef tbo jtfbjK>scd plan pro and con- �iMeinber 17, ItM I;"';:'/, •• SEAFARERS LOG - . . ^ '/ ,\if- ^ • " • • - Page Seven SlU NEWSLETTER Sea Today Is Tame To Oldster from WASHINCTON NEW ORDEANS—Looking back over more than a half-century of seafaring, William Johnson, newly qualified for the SIU's $25 weekly disability plan, says life at sea today is "peaches and cream" compared to the old days^ "It has been a long, hard"*"! •«,';• I struggle to get what we have' In the postwar period the domestic seinnent of our merchant marine today," Johnson recalled. has been particularly weak, failing to recover its prewar standing. This "Now things are the way they has been an important foss^inasmuch as the domestic fleet formed a large part of the merchant marine before the war and was most readily available for emergency mobilization. However, on the other hand, the tonnage of dry cargo ships employed In the noncontiguous trades (Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, Midway, Wake) has increased steadily and prospects of continued" grrfwth are considered good. should be and we should work hard through the Union to keep what we have gained." Johnson, who lives quietly here with his wife in their comfortably furnished home, says he is "sitting pretty" on his disability pay, which t t it figures out - to around $108 a A special Congressional subcommittee is about ready to look Into mbnth, plus his $68 monthly in the matter o^the termination of US passenger ship operations to Alaska. Federal old age benefits. After many years of service, the Alaska Steamship Line is ready to take Nevertheless, he finds it hard to Its two passenger ships out of service. adjust himself to a life of ease One reason for this is competition from Government-owned vessels after many active and exciting operating to Alaska. The company would be in position to. continue years of following his profession its passenger ships if the Military Sea Transportation Service and aboard a variety of ships, both sail other Govei'nment agencies would divert more passengers from, Gov-, and steam. ernment ships to the vessels of Alaska Steamship Company. However, Gets fidgety For Sea the government agencies are flatly refusing to cfo this. ; "He frets all the time about The situation* eventually attracted the attention of Congressmen for shipping," said his wife, "but 1 tell the Paciflc Northwest area and resulted in demands for a Congressional him he has earned the right to look-see at the problem. settle down and enjoy life ashore." Seafarer William Johnson, recently-qualified recipient of the Sea­ A native of the Virgin Islands, 4 t Sfarers disability benefit, poses with Mrs. Johson at^.their New As of the beginning of this year, some 346 ships, owned by Americam Johnson signed on his first sailing Orleans, home. Johnson figures he's "sitting pretty" with the $108 companies, were operating under foreign flag. Seventy-two more ships, ship while still a boy. His early per month from the Welfare Fund and his $68 per month social as of January of this year, were being constructed by these same com­ years at s^a were spCht on deck. security benefit. He finished out his sea-going ex­ panies for foreign-flag operation., • These 418" vessels are 34 percent df the privately-owned US-flag fleet. perience in the steward depart­ Of the 418 ships under foreign iflag, 340 are tankers. Of these 340 ment aboard SlU-contracted ships. "We had to know more seaman­ tankers, -285 are owned by the 5 large American oil companies ship in the old sailing days," John­ Gulf, Socony, Standard' Oil of NJ, Standard Oil of California, and Texas son recalled. "We also had to Oil Company. ^ , endure some miserable conditions and working hours that began be­ Between 1948 and June 1953, American-flag ships in our liner services fore dawn and kept a man out on^ (scheduled opei'ations) received $274 million for the carriage of for­ deck until long after sunset," eign aid commodities. The majority of ships in liner services are mem­ Keeping cool in the summertime is no trick for one Sea­ The 72-year-old Seafarer is bers of steamship conferences of which member owner's of foreign-flag proud of his record as a trade vessels charge the same rates as American lines. Therefore, if all of unionist. He had been a member farer out of Alabama—^he's just gone off and gotten himself these cargoes were carried in foreign-flag liners the cost to our Gov­ of the old ISU for many years a horpestead in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska. Seafarer ^ ernment would have been the same. Thus, the shipment of foreign-aid before transferring over into the J. A. Mcintosh paid off the-t cargoes aboard our liners does not in any way increase the cost to our SlU as one of its pioneer members. Greece Victory in San Fran­ extreme continental climate of the Government. He proudly points to a scar over cisco on May 28 and has' been interior." Of the $267 million paid for carriage of liquid foreign-aid cargoes his left eye, reminder of a wound a-settin' on his claim in the Chu­ In terms of hard, cold facts (and since 1948, $138 million was paid to American-flag tankers. However, suffered in supporting an ISU beef gach foothills ever since. they are sort of cold), the Weather only $17 million of these Cargoes originated from US ports. The re­ in 1919, as a badge of his militancy The 24-year-old Seafarer," who Bureau record shows that the maining liquid cargoes carried by American ships originated in for­ in helping win the conditions en­ sailed with the SlU for two years, January average temperature in the eign ports and, therefore, American tankship owners lifted them at joyed by Seafarers todaj'. wrote the LOG Anchorage area is 11.2 above zero the world market rates. that he is staking Fahrenheit while in June the aver­ • iCt tSi> 4" out his property age is 57 degrees, with the lowest Government'agencies have determined that a shipbuilding program with the help of reading ever being 36 below zero. a good-sized pay­ _pf about 60 ships a year is necessary to keep the shipbuilding industry In other words, in the wintertime off .and special at sufflcieht str^gth to provide a nucleus of manpower capable of ex­ the temperature averages far be-? pansion in case of war. preference given low the freezing levei which should to veterans under be cool enough for anybody. It is estimated that such a program would cost about $400 million Acts'of Congress. yearly, excluding national defense features, such as added speed, etc. Cool Enough Normally, a per­ Probably a substantial part of this cost would have to be borne toy the Writing in the balmy days of son has to live on midsummer, Mcintosh makes the Govei-nment in thfi..form of construction subsidies and allowances for Mcintosh the homestead national defense featured, place sound most attractive. His plot for three years to acquire title description of the homestead is Even if the Government's total share were to amount to $200 million to his 160 acres, but since Mcin­ enough to water tlifi, month of any •nnually, this would be less than 1 percent of current and projected tosh did a two-year hitch in the ambitious rod and gun man. Fish annual expenditures for all other programs of national defense. Those Seafarers who muttered The shipping and shipbuilding industries still have a long way to to themselves at one time or an­ Navy he can get full title to the and game abound and apparently there's little to worry about in the go to get proper attention to their needs and importance in any other "now if 1 owned this scow property with a year's residence. Consequently, Mcintosh expects way of game wardens, licenses and emergency. • ^ wiii be iirterested to know to go back to shipping when his limits. if 4" 4" that there are 11 ships afloat.owned year's residence requirement is "1 have been doing some fishing Skips in active operation under the US flag declined by 292 during by the seamen who man them. met, although as he writes "Alaska for rainbow trout," he writes, the year ending June 30, 1954. These are Italian-flag vessels will be my permanent home." which are really fine eating, and ! Of this number, 167 were privately-owned and 125 Government- owned by the. Garibaldi Societa Homesteading in Alaska is pret­ you have-to run the moose out of Cwned. — Cooperative di Navigazione, a co­ your camp. It is considered com­ ty much the same as it's been since ! This slackening in shipping activity closely followed the ending of operative that is owned solely by the Homestead Act was passed by monplace-to find fre^h bear tracks 4he war in Korea in July 1953 and had not been entirely arrested by merchant seamen. One of the cooperative's ships, Congress in 1862 to settle the wild around your cabin in the morning June 30, 1954. the 26,000-dead,weight ton super­ and wooly West. Fees for the land and to stop and blow your horn on 4. • 4 o 4^ selected for homesteading by the the back roads to make the young Since enactment of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 down to the tanker Giuseppi Giulietti, was in Interior Department are purely spruce chickens get out of the New York harbor last week on a end of 1952, a total of 247 ships were built under the construction sub­ nominal—$10 for making an ap­ way." sidy feature of that law. The total subsidy amounted To about voyage from Aruba. As indica­ plication and $1.50 for each 40Mcintosh comes originally from tion of the cooperative nature of $426,185,833. the ship's ownership it carries a acre tract entered. That plus some Gulfport, Mississippi, where frost However, under existing conditions, the'provisions of the 1936 Act manning scale of over 50 men, lesser costs is the whole thing, in mid-winter is an uncommonare not now proving very effective in encouraging ship construction whereas most foreign-flag tankers coming out to slightly more than enough occurrence to rate front in this country. At the present time not one ship Is being built under page prominence in the local news­ of that size would .get by with at 10 cents an acre. the construction subsidy provisions of the 1936 Act. Seafarer Mcintosh's homestead papers. His family lives in Ala­ least ten men less. " 4" 4" 4" All shares in the cooperative are is situated west of the booming bama now. It must have been one . Latest offlcial tabulation on the strength of our merchant marine owned by seamen. The organiza­ Alaskan town of Anchorage, a cen­ of those Alabama July heat waves shows that on, September 1 the US privately-owned fleet totalled 1,215 tion's board of directors consists ter of the fishing industry on the that made him think of moving to vessels (1,000 gross tons and over only), of 15,157,999 deadweight tons. of officers and men of the mer­ south-central coast. It's not too Alaska. This total was divided into 788 dry cargo and passenger-carrying ves­ chant fleet. far from the famed Matanuska Val­ sels of 8,246,162 tons and 427 tankers of 6,911,837 deadweight tons. Aside from the question of own­ ley development that was opened I Twenty-six privately-owned US ships currently are under time char­ ership, the ship is operated under up by the Government in 1935 as ter t^-the MSTS, while another 25 Government-owned ships are being the authority of The captain as any a means of aiding destitute US ten­ If a crewmember quits while fperated by private companies for^he account of MSTS. privately-owned ship would be, and ant farmers looking for their own a ship is in port, delegates i As of the same time, there were 29 Gbvemment-owned vessels under the crewnaen are members of the land. are asked to contact the hall The Department of the Interior bareboat charter to private operators with 4 scheduled for redelivery Italian seamen's union. The only immediately for a replace­ basic difference in mode of opera­ describes weather conditions in the to the Government, leaving a net of 25 vessels. ment. Fast action on their part tion is that a shipboard commmlt- Anchorage area as "relatively will keep all jobs aboard ship tee has to approve food provision­ mild" in winter, and goes on to say filled at all times and elimi­ ing lists, which makes for better "tlm climate is a favorable com­ nate the. chance of the ship provisioning thim t$ available on bination of the temperate coas^tal sailing shorthandedL. other foreigii-flag ships, ' climate of southern Alaska .and the 5— 'Bama Seafarer Stakes Land Claim in Alaska Crews Live It Up, Man Own Ships Fill That Berth •i i I 'ij •I �PateEislits ''! ]j" I I' '^'i •• I' SEAFARERS LOG An English company has just revealed the sale of its third ship this year to the Russians. The latest addition to the Soviet merchant marine is the 10,000-ton Stanburn, built in 1951. Earlier, the Stanhope Steam­ ship Company announced the sale of the Stanhope, also built in 1951, and the Stahpool, a new ship . . . Five ships operated by Osaka Shosen Kaisha, Ltd., a Japanese outfit, will-launch a new cargo service be­ tween Yokohama and West^Africa late this month . . . Traffic through Question: What's your idea of a the Suez Canal reached an*all-time high during the first six months of 1954, as a total of over 50 million net tons of shipping used the water­ good bosun? (Asked of deck de­ way. British shipping accounted for one-third of this figure; US tonnage partment men.) for about three percent. . ^ • Tony Bender, AB: I think a good ' 4" 3^ l" The Greater Baton Rouge Port' Commission has'announced plans bosun should know how to perform every job on the for a new 2.5 miliioq^ bushel.terminal grain elevator as part of extensive deck. He " should new port facilities for Baton Rouge, La. The grain terminal toget^r be able to show with a new dock for grain ships and barges is expected to be compleud a man what to by next July , . . Seven lives were lost when the escort tug Abeille No. do, if necessary, 4 was swamped by the 'Panamanian iiner Atlantic in the port of Le and he should be Havre, France, last month. The mishap occurred when tugs guided able to do any­ the 20,553-ton Atlantic into the harbor entrance. She was en route thing he asks an­ from Rotterdam to Quebec .. . The Navy has launched.the USS Glacier, other man to do. largest and most powerful icebreaker^'ever built in the US, at Pascagou-, He should also la, Miss. The 8,300-ton vessel will be a model for future vessels of Its Mm know how to keep type. the mate Ifi his place. This last is . 4i • 4> Cunard Line's giant Queen Mary did an unexpected turnabout in very important. I 4 4 4 mid-ocean on her last trip to New York when a lookout at the stem S. F. Manard, AB: 1 think that thought he spotted someone struggling in the water. Several turns in the area and 4 count of the passengers and crew indicated an error, experience and tfte ability to han­ however, so the liner continued on its course . . . Rear Admiral H. J. dle men are the .^ Tiedemann is retiring Oct. 1 as chief of the Office of Mai-itime Training two chief _ re-' of the Maritime Administration. He supervised the training of thou­ quirements for a " sands of seamen during World War II . . . September 8 marked the good bosun. How­ 20th anniversary of the fateful fire on the cruise ship Morro Castle, ever, simply be­ \off Asbury Park, NJ, which cost 124 lives. The major tribute to the cause a man has disaster has come' in the development of the many ship safety laws a long record of seatime under his which followed in its wake. • belt doesn't nec­ 4 •4 ' President Eisenhower has signed a bill to deepen and widen the essarily give him Hudson River as far north as Albany,-NY, at a cost of nearly $32 the ability to Biiilicn. The work cn the 145-mile route from New York city to the state 4iandle men. Thes,e two things are ' capital v,ill deepen the -present 27-foot channel to 32 feet to accom- not always relatecf 4 4 4 mod.-'te more deen-sea shipping . . , The French Line will place the John Janbeyi, AB: The ability He de Eranre and tlie Fi.andre on the profitable Caribbean run for to handle men is the No. One re7 seven special cruises out of NY this winter. In addition, the Antilles quirement for a b:;s been scheduled for one cruise out of Galveston and another from good bosun. I New Orleans . . . With nearly 300 ships already under its house flag, should know be­ ll:e -Tnglo-Iran'an Oil Company has just added two more, just launched cause I sailed as in Great Britain. The duo are the 32,000-ton British Sovereign and bosun myself on the lC,OGG-ton Eriiish Patrol. three ships dur­ ... 4 '4 4 ing the war, and Idled in mid-ocean about 810 miles southeast of New York, the 2,062I know that a tcn Norwegian tanker Elisabeth Amlie has been taken under tow by a good bosun must NY tug whiclr went out to meet her and bring her into Newport News. know how to han­ The vessel, bound from Houston to a European port, was disabled by dle the men work­ a broken camshaft ... An American seaman who confessed under questioning to having jammed a wrench and a connecting rod into ing on deck and he must^ also know the steering mechanism of his ship, the 10,000-ton Liberian freighter how to handle the mate. 4 4 4 Cris, has started serving a year's term at hard labor in the Canal Zone Christopher Karas, AB: A good, penitentiary. The sentencing judge commented that the sabotage was probably committed under the influence of liquor . . . Recognizing\that bosun needs "a good personality. the US merchant marine is our "fourth arm" of national defense) the His job is mostly recent American Legion convention iir Washington added its support a matter of un­ to the campaign for a strong, modern US merchant fleet to replace derstanding men,, and handling obsolete World War II .vessels. them, and that is why personality is so important. It is the bosuns with good per­ sonalities who ACROSS DOWN 16. Ugly old 38. Salnte: Abbr. understand their woman The Baltic 1. Uncle 42. Garbage men the best, and who are able to 20. Ceylon export Member of 2. Period of time 44. Born deck dept. 21. Con.secrated handle them the best. 3. Rainbow 46. Island off Gailiard 4. Arrive: Abbr. Informed 5. $1 bill 6. Member of engine dept. 7. 8. 17. Headed the line 9. " 18. "Call me 19. Aleutian island 10. 11. SI. Where Antwerp is Near East 12. 13. 14. 15. North Dakota: 22. Taking water from dory 23. Possess 24. Kind of 25. monkey 27. A constellation28. Made of mesh 31. Eisenhower's 35. plane One: For. Williams of baseball Spooky On the docks Jap herbs Female horses Island in NY Bay Requires Bottom of ship .Subversive group: 2 wds. Scotland Allen of baseball 49. Lake cargo 51. Burmese tribe 52. Part of a fish 53. Household god 54. Kind of cargo 55. Obsei^ve 48. (Puzzle Answer On Page 17) '9 14 17 Sea eagle Bart of "to be" 10 M 4 4 4 Frank Natale, AB: A good bosun must understand two things. He must understapy his job and he must understand the men. It's hard to say which of these things is more Important, since they both go hand in hand, but I know that any man "who wants to be a gopa bosun must possess both of these qualities. September 17, 1954' -• MEET SEAFARER /. ' GENARO A. LOPEZ, W^per When Genaro A. Lopez first man ^ips. On .these ships he. landed in New York from his na­ made runs to the Persian Gulf and tive Puerto Rico, in 1939, he had the Mediterranean without en­ one ambition—to see as much of countering real danger. But final­ the world as he could. ly, in the Caribbean, the war That «mbition has since been caught up with him .with a ven­ largely fulfilled. For, thanks to his geance. membership In the SIU, Lopez has Lopez, was at this time sailing as since beep in everj^fjuarter of the fireman ^aboard the Afobndria, and globe. when Ibis ship was torpedoed just What's more, Lopez has the SIU south of Cuba, Lopez found himto 'thank for benefitting him In ^'elf adrift for a day and.a half in other ways. When, for instance, his a lifeboat, along with other Afounfirst daughter. Myrtle, was born dria crewmen. almost two years ago, Lopez and Finally, the crew was picked up his wife collected the usual mater­ by the Coast Guard (kn^ brought to nity benefit of $200 plus a $25 US Havana, but because of the war­ savings bond in the baby's name. time transportation difficulties they And right now Lopez has just ap­ could not immediately be returned plied for his second maternity ben­ to the States. As a result, the en­ efit, thanks to the' birth of another tire crew was'put iip in a hotel in daughter, Olga, on July 19. Havana for three weeks, until they Lopez, whose childhood love for could be flown to Mobile. ^ the sea was sharpened by his first Promptly Ships Out Again trip to New York, as a passenger, Upon his arrival in Mobile, Lo­ didn't have long to wait before starting to fulfill his dream of see­ pez went down to New Orleans, ing the world. Soon after his ar­ promptly shipped out again, and rival in this country"^ie went down continued to ship steadily through-oyt the war years. to the SIU hall in Baltimore and In 1951, Lopez left the sea long obtained a trip card, and a^er that he made a number of short runs enoi^gh to get married and estab­ lish a home in Bayamon, Puerto on the De Soto and other ships. Rico. Then he went back to the Obtained Book In 1940 ships again and sailed without in­ The following year, 1940, Lopez cident until his last trip aboard the obtained his full book membership Bull Line Liberty ship Arlyn, when in the Union, in New Orleans, and he developed a severe pain in his he's been sailing steadily ever since side and leg and had to get off the —to South America, to Europe, and ship in Puerto Rico and seek treat­ to Asia, in peace and in war. ment at the USPHS out-patientLopez' first runs, after he re­ clinic in San Juan-.ceived his book, were primarily After a month of "treatment with the Mississippi Shipping Com­ there, he was discharged as fit-for pany, and on the Del Norte, Del Mundo and other Mississippi ships duty arid returned to New York to he made numerous runs to South ship out again. A short, stocky, energetic look­ America, shipping at that time in ing man with a youthful appear­ the steward department. After about two years of this ac­ ance which belies his 43 years,. Lo­ tivity, however, Lopez decided a pez talks animatedly about the sea change was in order, so he re­ and his love for it is apparent in turned to Baltimore and began his conversation. When asked, for instance, if he shipping out of that port in the was looking for a coastwise or an engine room. The US was already ihvolved-'ln offshore run, he shrugged. "Coast­ World War II by that time, and ^o wise, offshore," he said. "What's Lopez found himself sailing in the the difference as long as it's on the war zones, primarily aboard Water­ water?" UUIOR ROUNDA strike by 150 bus drivers and mechanics tied up ^transportation in Spokane, Wash-, last week, as members of the AFL Street, Elec­ tric Railway and Motor Coach Op­ erators stood firm on demands for an 11-cent hourly pay boost and other benefits from city lines... The CIO United Steelworkers Union has won a five-cent wage hike plus improved insurance.<and pension benefits for 20,000 workers in 36 plants of the American Can Co. 4 4 4 similar increase from Westinghouse on the eve of a strike in 20 cities. 4 4 4 4 4 4 » , Back In the air after a 25-day strike by 1,200 pilots in the Air­ lines Pilots Association (AFL), American Airlines is now threat­ ened with a walkout by 6,300 main­ tenance workers and stock clerks in the CIO Transport Workers Union. The dispute is over the layoffs of ground crews at the end of the pilots' strike. The American Federation of La-bor is due to open its 73rd annual convention in Los Angeles on Mon­ day, Sept. 20, with President Eisen­ hower expected to be among the featured visitors." Although there is no precedent for the President's attendance at a labor conclave, he is likely to make an appearance anyway, as he will be in the city the same week addressing a GOP group. . Meeting in Atlantic City, the AFL United Textile Workers con­ vention voted to raise monthly un­ ion dues and to wage an all-out or­ ganizing drive in the South. Dele­ gates amended the UTW constitu­ 4 4 4 James Tarrant, AB; I think that tion to boost dues to $3 for each of experience and the ability to han­ the union's' 100,000 members. They had been set at $2 to $2.50 per dle mep are the month, depending on the local. two main require­ Union president Arithony Valente ments of a good said the increase was an Vorganibosun. In particu­ . ' "4. • 4 ''4 zational, necessity" because UTW The ' governors of Washington lar, the bosun was operating Ih the. red. and Oregon have put for vard- c must know how to handle the • , . , -4 - 4 4 . - proposal..to end. the Pacific North' Sonie 100,000 General Electric Ws't. luipber i^trike, in which .somh mate. I think that workers have gained a pay boost 100,000 AFL and CIO loggers went a good part of averaging five cents an hour and but on June 21, but the plan to set the success of other benefits following four up a fact-finding board not any rpn, for a .months, of pegotiations by the CIO. met..with much favor. Principal wor^pg .^eaman,, depepdg how well the bosun can handlp il^iteopa^tionaLtUnjon.; ef „E1^9trjiciEil , imlon jidemand' js la fwage iiikez of 'Workers. Meanwhile, IUE.-y?^n •/ �:z->: gieirtemttef 19M^ StApAkkkS LOG Fa**' Can'hha See We're Busy?!! SlBAFAlllWS^tOG ^ptwniMf 17,-1«54 •' Vol. XVI, Mo. IV Publi^ed filweekly by tbe Seafarers loternational Union, Atlantic & Gulf District, AFL,.675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32. NY. Tel HYaclnth 9-6600, Cable Address: SEAFARERS NEW YORK. PAUL HALL, Secretary-Treasurer V"-• J ' .'i Editor, HERBEBI. BRAND; Managing Editor, RAY DENISO;^; Art, Editor, BERNARD SEAMAN; Photo Editor, DANIEL NILVA; Staff Writers, HERMAN ARTHUR, IRWIN SPIVACK, At MASKIN, Gut/ Area Reporter, BILL MOODY. ' ; Appeal To The President .ViJ, •iff- iM'- .;E • lit- fi-' I' :%. Unable to head off the Maritime Administration in its blind r attempt td "save" the US merchant marine by permitting fat chunks of it to go under "runaway" foreign flags and still compete with Arnerican shipping, the SIU and other sea uhion^ have put the issue squarely in the lap of President Eisenhower. • > An appeal for direct intervention by the White House has already been dispatched by the Conference pf American Maritime Unions in the hope that the Chief Executive will act before it is tdO late. Twenty dry-cargo Liberty ships have been okayed for transfer to foreign flags since mid-August and the list is due to get much longer in coming weeks. The Union argument is that the Maritime Administration is pursuing a peculiar course which, if unchallenged, will cut the US-flag fleet down to a size which imperils not only possible emergency defense requirements but the continuing life of the shipping industry altogether. The Government ship agency has not even imposed a ban to keep the trans­ ferred ships from re-entering US ports and competing with American-flag operators for cargoes. •" Intervention by the President would indicate a genuine ~ interest in'maintaining a strong US merchant fleet. Commis­ sions and boards to study ways and means to build up the US-flag industry may find nothing left to build on if the present suicidal trend is allowed to continue. 4" 4" t ^ Backs Stewards^ Shipping Set-Vp To the Editor: Recently, in its "Letter of the Week" column, the SEAFARERS LOG printed a letter by Harry L. Franklin about various conditions among SIU stewards. I am writing this because I do not agree with many of the state­ ments that Brother Franklin made in his letter. For instance. Brother Franklin says it stands to reason that, other things being equal, the man with the longest service should be the most efficient man for a job. % take this to mean that Brother Franklin thinks the steward who JUDGING FROM THE LATEST on as "chief librarian" and "assist­ I has been in the ship's minutes from the Cubore ant librarian." The steward depart­ Cullison SIU the longest (Ore), all is well on that vessel, ment has put it to Sweeney to is the most efficient steward. check with headquarters on how I do not agree with this. Because with special mention of the fact the "extra passenger money" called a man has been going tp sea for that "all departments agree on for by the contract should be split a good many years does not-neces­ keeping the laundry and recreation up among the galiey gang and he's sarily make him the best qualified rooms clean." These items are dutifully done so. man for a key jvb aboard ship, often a point of dispute on some A deck department man, sailing vessels, but the Cubore apparently as AB, Sweeney hails from NW No seaman takes his pleasures lightly, and the Seafarers and in my many years of seafaring has the problem licked. I have seen both good and bad Favibault, Minn., and was born on the cruise, ship Del Sud who finally staged their annual men Ship's delegate W. W. Cain also there 35 years ago this past Juno. in these key jobs. picnic recently—after not one but two postponements due Also, Brother Franklin says that noted briefly that "everything is 4 4 4 to unprecedented changes in sailing schedules—are obviously when a steward ships as a cook running very well BESIDES A HEARTY VOTE OF no exception. By all accounts, the festive affair in New or baker, "he is a demoted stew­ in all dep^trtOrleans was a huge success and will likely be repeated for ard." This is something'else I do ments," and this thanks to the steward department years to come. agreeable state of "for meals well prepared and good not agree with. Under our rotaryaffairs is not only service to go with them," the Sea­ These "little things" are important, since Seafarers, after shipping rules, a man is entifled to ship in the rating he is qualified a credit to him farer-crew of the Sea Comet II all, are like everybody else. Nobody likes to see the best- for. If a member is a certified and his fellow (Seatraders) had a special note of laid plans laid low, and the Del Sud crew acted accordingly -steward and wishes to ship as A delegates Steph­ praise for the skipper of the vessel in seeing them through. en R. Wagner also. steward, he registers in Group One Minutes of a recent ship's meet­ (deck), Harry The Del Sud, affair, as it finally came off, gave evidence and waits his turn for a job. If he ing reported that the "crew went ships as a cook or baker that Is Schultz (engine) of the care, resourcefulness, thoroughness and enthusiasm Sweeney and Wflliam T. on record to give with jvhich it was planned and executed. And for this much his choice, and he ahould remem­ a vote of thaiiks credit is due the members of the committee on arrangements ber that he wasn't Shipped as a Rose (steward) but to the entire and appreciation critic, but to do the "job he took crew. and the crewmembers who wholeheartedly backed them-up. off the board in the hall. to Captain SterCain's success* also possibly stems ritt for his full But it is one thing to plan and another to maintain faith Should Cut The' Mustard from the fact that he is living up cooperation with when it seems that through the quirks of chance those plans I also say that a man should not to his name ("W. W." stands for the crew." Such may never materialize. That sort of setback is the test of as a steward If he cannot cut Woodrow Wilson) • and is carrying outright praise perseverance which turns the plan—the blueprint—into the ship the mustard in all steward depart­ on the tradition of one of the from the unli­ reality. ' ment ratings. This is in reference better-known US presidents and crew for The moral here is that the spirit which finally produced to Brother Franklin's -statement statesmen. He hails-from Balti-- censed the master of a Hughes the affair is typical of that exhibited by-Seafarers for the that a good steward does not make more these days and began ship­ vessel must be ping with" the SIU from there in deserved, although the minutes did many more momentous happenings which helped shape the a good cook, and vice versa. Brothers, many certified stew­ February, 1952. Cain sails on deck not provide any bill of particulars. SIU of today. Years ago only a dreamer—or worse—could conceive of things as they are now, of the benefits and con­ ards at times ship in lesser ratings and was born 31 years ago tomor­ 4 4 4 in the steward department, and I row, Sept. 18, in the state of Ken­ ditions that are almost commonplace today. Now they are think THE LAST MEETING OF THB that the present rotary lihip- tucky. very real, and the future—it is hoped—will be even brighter. ping system is a good SIU policy. Savannah SIU branch had an allii, 'X> Hats off, thenj to the undaunted Del Sud picnickers. Little If a man wants a steward'^ job, let Savannah crew of Seafarers on the PUTTING HIS KNOWLEDGE rostrum handling the reins as things mean a lot. him buck the shipping list or else it it 4" register in a group where there is of the SHf .contract to use where officers of the meeting. Heading up it can dp a lot of good, John R. the regular bi-weekly membership a faster turnover. Brother Franklin also mentioned Sweeney has been unanimously gathering in the port was J. E. that there is now congestion in elect^ ship's delegate on the Floyd as chairman, R. B. Bennett, Seafarers have a tradition of generosity and offering help stewards' ratings. At present you George A. Lawson (Pan Oceanic), secretary, and J. C. Hughes, read­ to others that is already commonplace dn many parts of the will find congestion in all ratings which is enroute to Sasebo, Japan. ing clerk, all of whom were cred­ world as well as on their home shores. A recent instance —deckt engine and steward—but A relative newcomer to the SIU, ited with a fine job. of this was unfolded in the far-off port pf Pusan, Korea, where even.so we SIU meq get jobs. It who joined in New York, in April, Floyd, who sails on deck, was 27 Sweeney left the Atlantic Re­ years old last month and was born authorities are in the midst of a fund-raising campaign that may not be a job in the highest 1953, fining fleet last year to become a in the nearby state of South Caro­ rating we are qualified for, but it's seeks to improve hospital facilities in the area.. shoreside SIU organizer in the lina. He joined the SIU in New a job. A progress report on the drive, which is about half over, I say keep the present shipping tanker drive. York in May, 1948; One of tho indic-.es that the crews of ten SlU-manned ships which were system in the steward department. His contract know-how is appar­ early members of the Union, who in Pusan during July reacted generously to the fund appeal. I also say that in my many years ently coming inltandy, and Swee­ joined up in Savannah in Decem­ Despite their compai'ative small numbers, their contributions of seafaring I have seen many ups ney, as a former Atlantic tanker- ber, 1938, Bennett was bom March surpassed those of several large MSTS transports with crews and downs in the maritime indus­ man and onetime member of the 1, 1919 in the state of Georgia. Ho of several hundred men each, and this undoubtedly added try, and I confidently believe that Fleet Council, governing body of also sails in the deck department, our SIU rotary shipping system is Atlantic's "company union," well shipping as AB. Immeasurably to the pleasure of helping, the cause. Hughes is onother South Cara» the" best system for getting seamen appreciates the opp<frtunity to air , The main point, however, is that Seafarers take it upon jobs I have ever seen, not only for a beef when Ih* occasion calls for lina native, who was born there IS themselves to help out others whenever they can. To a sea- stewards but for men in all depart- it. A current sore point on the ves­ years ago. He ships as chief .cook naan» almost rmybody can be classed as an "unfortunate" if menti. sel Is tho fact that the two lady and joined tho SIU in Mobflo la work out >ut his years on land. • Frank Cullisoa • pasaengers being carried are signed 1946. Vote ^ Thanks •'-'A I \ Picnic And Progress ^ m" j;i'. II- W-y^' Ife- m- P |g|;i||;:^^,has;t9v An SIIJ Tradition '^1 •^1 <. I �Wage Ten •• - - -'l"' • ,v uv \ ••' ":: ir i., SEAFAMEAS LOC ••*•'•••. . ' - aeptembgr.lT.'MM'/. • 1#-: • If-',. La •fc'- • ' •- - • • • I ..-•"I'v/-' '• > '' : B'v;: The last 16 years, since the birth of thi^ SIU, has seen a profound change in the sea­ faring man. While previously he was char­ acterized as a "drifter" with* no roots or ties to" the land, today — and for several years' now — he has come to be recognized as a responsible citizen of the community, with a family, a good job and very often a home of his own. ' • Seafarers credit this change in their way of life to their Union. Improvements and increased wages on the ships have had their effect on conditions ashore. Years ago, his payoff — small as it was — was drained away on transient pleasures and he was forced to ship again as the only means of survival. Things are much different today. The greiCt majority of Seafarers, like 28-year old Jim Lamb, AB, are married men who regard the seagoing life as the best way to provide for themselves and their families. Nearly 1,400 of them have received the $200 SIU maternity benefit paid by the Union upon the birth of a child in the nearly two and a half years since this benefit began. Some have already collected it twice in this .period, and plan to go on and raise large families. Typical of the seamen of today. Lamb and his wife, Jeanne, own their own small home in the suburban community of Levittown, Long Island, 4n New York Stater Married but five months, they just recently, moved in and are decorating the place on their own. Garden, young trees line the home of Seafarer Jim Lamb, AB, and his wife, Jeanne, in the pleasant Shipping for the past 12 years in the deck suburban community of Levittown, Long Island, in New York. department on SIU ships, Jim is putting his on-tbe-job skills to work at home as far as painting and minor carpentry jobs are con­ cerned. His wife, now completing training . as a nurse,, helps aut. Between thern, they expect to see the job through with little trouble. ** Lamb doesn't like the hurried life of the city. When he's ncft working — l^e's on the^ Yorkmar (Calmar) right now — he^Spends • his leisure time fixing up his garden or just relaxes in the pleasant surroundings of his home. Moreover, he admits this place is just a stop-gap. One of these days he hopes to buy a piece of property in the country somewhere and build it up just the way he wants it. Mean­ while, he's happy where he is. Born in France and raised in England, Lamb first began sailing from England. After Painting the bathroorn is easy when both An AB, with lots of painting know-how, Jim he wound up hospitalized in Canada one trip, Jeanne and Jim turn to 'on the job. finds the job at home a cinch, N he got a berth on an SIU-A&G ship, the Ironclad (Waterman), bound for Russia in March, 1942. The ship was lost on the rocks near Archangel, but he sailed the rest of the 'War without incident, living in NY between ' trips. He shipped out of New Orleans for . " • three years, but prefers to sail with Isthmian on C-3s so he came back to NY. Originally he bought the house in Levit­ town as an investment and rented it out, but when he. married Jeanne they took the place over. Although she's not too keen on his going to sea all the time and would rather - he'd take a shoreside job. Lamb acknowl­ ife-i'edges that most of the things he has today fe-- are due to his being a Seafarer, so he intends to keep sailing for a while yet. , , He lik6s sailing. 'TVs a good, easy life, es9 pecially when ^y^ single^, and it's nice to have a couple of grand after a payoff," he : - Outside of house get»a gding-oycii4ooj«He'e »'«'<^»r^' '*^i^' -^offeetime'> oomes: fashci^^ anj- provides ^a fS-v' - .r- not^. ."I^ dioii't^ think I'th. be iquitting for - a .^n,^^-ewned.thepkee-for--tWo>yeai^f'f«fi^?i4ac4^^^.«*¥iid*««4M»akria«th«^««deeoi«tkJ^^ . J... :-V.- 'V'-' -• MJ-:.. 'Jm- �foong peach tree in garden of the Lamb home gets Jim's careful attention. Inside house, Mrs. Lamb turns attention to regular house-cleaning tasks. He checks mail book for letters from his former shipmates and friends. .' ^ 'M •r. a I'S '-Ix rrunks; ^oxes- irt foripeb living quartws' ere^moved into the house end stored ewey.' Jipi^Snd Jeanne rtv )iiun^b.a{«<<t^cal-of. many' H^wlyt-mamed deaferas w have their own homees^^^ f« siv,-,v^, Lamb turns in baggage check .for his gear. inHe't now on the Y^orkmar • (C«lmar)4 •• �• ••' • • ^ :"•;. -•.t' 8«|ieBi0er 1T< 19M' PR-' PQltr ttEPORlS. >....... Baltimore: py '^' Pr' Shipping Levels OK But Beekmen Get Jobs to protect the Union In the current lawsuit against the Sea Chest.* During the past two weeks we had no payoffs or sign-ons here, but in transit were the Alcoa Puri­ tan and Alcoa Runner (Alcoa); Steel Apprentice (Isthmian); Robin Mowbray and Robin Hood (Seas Shipping), and Warrior (Water­ man). All of these ships were in good shape. In the USPHS Hospital at pres­ ent we have C. R. Flowers, Earl Congleton, George Leckler, Her­ bert Bumpas, Russell Jackson and James Armstrong. Ben Rees Norfolk Fort Agent Mobile: Bwlarkfiig tabor Day In New Orleans LafayeHe Will Garry Inda-Chiaa Bafagaas Shipping In this port during the Shipping in this port levelled off during the past two weeks and I past two weeks can be considerec believe we have now reached fair, with some 173 men shipped to ebbtide. During this period we regular jobs and 124''men shipper shipped 166 men to regular jobs to various relief jobs in and aroimd and three men to standby jobs, the harbor. Despite six ships lay­ but registrations for the period exceeded this amount by about 100 ing up, we stilT managed to get men. Even so, however, there was quite a few offshore jobs out of the no hardship on bookmen, and haU. there were jobs available for all ^ Ships paying off and signing on those who regis­ during this last report period were ' ti tered and who the Claiborne, Lafayette, Monarch cared to get out. Lake Charles: of the Seas and Warhawk (Water­ During the last man); Pelican Mariner "'(Bloomtwo weeks we field), and Alcoa Cavalier, Alcoa had the following Pointer, Alcoa Pilgrim, Alcoa ships paying off: Boamer and Al­ Suzanne, Mae coa Clipper The affairs of this port are and Ines (Bull); (Alcoa). running along smoothly. We had a Chiwawa (Cities In transit dur­ payoff for the Council Grove Service); Robin Sjoberr ing tbis period (Cities Service)- on September 8, Mowbray -(Seas were the Del with one beef sent to headquarters Shipping); John B. Watei-man Monte (Missis­ (Waterman); Steel Worker (Isth- for a ruling^ an^ also an article sippi) and . De beef on the Bull Run (Petrol mlan); William H. Carruth (TransSoto, Bienville Tankers), but all other beefs were fuel); Pennmar, Oremar (Calmar), .and Iberville and Marore, Chilore, Feltore and settled before the payoffs. We also (Waterman). • had a little misunderstanding with Cubore (Oi-e). One of the Signing on were the Oremar and the skipper of the Warhawk (Wa­ ships that, we paid off here— terman) over filling out the crew. " Marymar (Calmar); John B. Water­ the Lafayette—was chartered by man (Waterman); Chiwawa (Cities He wanted to take the ship out the MSTS to be used as a mercy short to Mobile to lay up, but we Snapped at the Labor Day celebration of the AFL Central Trades Service), and Cubore, Marore, convinced him that this was not ship hauling refugees out of the and Labor Council in New Orleans are Paul Barker (left) and A. Chilore and Feltore (Ore). Indo-China area, and will probably P. Harvey, Council president. Barker, chief speaker at celebration, In transit wfere the Steel Fabri­ the thing to do, and the ship/went be in this service from six months is attorney for New Orleans SIU, which Ts affiliated with Council cator and Steel Seafarer (Isth­ out with a full crew. to a year. The Lafayette left here Besides the "Council Grove, along with Marine Aliied Workers, SUP and MFOW. mian); Mobilian, Chickasaw aiid in ballast headed for In(io-(5hina, Antinous (Waterman); Robin Sher­ which paid off and signed on again, where she is scheduled to go into wood (Seas Shipping); Alcoa Pu­ and the Warhawk and Bull Run in drydock andjie fitted out to carry transit or for payoff: La Salle, Seattle: ritan and Alcoa Runner (Alcoa); transit, we had the following ships the refugees. There is also a possi­ Mobilian, Citrus Packer, Warrior, Southern Cities (Southern); Evelyn, in transit here during the past two bility that- in the near future the Wiid Ranger, Chickasaw and An­ Ines and Marina (Bull); Santore weeks: MSTS vOill charter several other tinous (Waterman) and Alcoa Salem Maritime, Bents Fort, ships for this same kind of semce. Patriot, Alcoa Pioneer, Alcoa Po­ (Ore), and Bethcoaster (Calmar). Paoli, Bradford Island, Logans laris, Alcoa Pennant, Alcoa Corsair Receiving Hospital Benefits First Payoff fot Pelican • Fort, Winter Hill and Chiwawa Shipping in this port during the In the hospital, receiving bene­ (Cities Service), and Del Aires When we paid off the,Pelican and Alcoa Cavalier (Alcoa). For fiur Seafarer of the Week past two weeks has be£n fair, and fits, are Elmer Lamb, Vincenzo (Mississippi). Mariner here, it was for Her firgt Russo, Elmer Hansen, Steven trip since coming out of the ship­ we nominate E. L. (Jack) Bates, although the outlook for the future Leroy Clarke Boides, Robert Wingert, Anthony Lake Charles Port Agent yard at Pascagoula and making a who is known to his friends as is not too good, it looks as if the Maiello, Clyde Ward, Franklin six-months run to the Orient. 'Gator Mouth." Bates. This nick­ lumber strike here is about over 4" 4 3) Oilman, Gorman Glaze, Eugene There she lost approximately a name comes from his, booming and that may improve the situation. During^the last report period Plahn, Edward Yeamans,- Jessie Tampa: third of her original crew from voice which can be heard from Clarke, Frank Palyor, 'Samuel sickness and accidents. When she bow to stem on any day of the we signed on the John C. (Atlantic Mills, Jimmie Heifer, Edmond paid T)ff here, however, she was in week. Bates is married and makes Carriers) and paid off the Amersea Cain and Delvini Broduer. pretty good shape. There were his home in Louisiana but is ship­ (Blackchester), Liberty Beli (Tramp some beefs and some performing ping out of Mobile for a while. He Cargo) and Seacomet II (Ocean -We also have quite a few old• Shipping has. been pretty good in the steward department, but usually ships as chef on the pas­ Carriers). timers on the beach at this time, -In"transit were including Lou Brown, one, of in this port for the past two weeks, these were all settled in SIU style senger ships, but. will ship as stew­ ard or chief cook on the freighters the Longview with one payoff and sign-on and at the -payoff. The ship is tenta­ our better-known stewards; John Victory (Victoiy tively sche.dbled to go to a ship­ as well. While on the beach his Taurin, our ace quartermaster; the usual run of coastwise ships. Carriers), FairPaying off and signing on was yard in Texas and there is some favorite pastime- is fishing in the Pete Solberg, FWT deluxe, and port .. and Yaka Alfred Sjoberg, one of our real The Cabins (Mathiasen) and in doubt abmt her making another Louisiana swamps and he claims (Waterman) and oldtime bosuns. There are also transit were the Southern States trip. However, in view of the trou­ he is pretty good at it. Calmar, Alamar Oldtimers now -on the beach quite a number of others who make (Southern) and Iberville, De" Soto bled situation in the Formosa area and S e a m a r Baltimore their regular port to and Chickasaw (Waterman). The anything can happen, and she herb Include L. Smith, M. J. 'Kar(Calmar). Iberville called here twice. might go out again instead of lay­ levec, H. Graham, Robert Broadus, ship from. For our' Sea­ E. C. Vitou, D. Bissett, F. Reyes, The Cabins signed on with no ing up. Earl Sheppard farer of . t h e S. Word, G. Perdome, H. S. Curry, trouble and the in-transits were Baltimore Port Agent As far as shipping prospects for Barton Week ,we have also in good shape. C. B. Ivey and Henry Koppersmith. the coming two weeks dVe con­ • $1 ^ J, selected Seafarer Jesse L. Bar­ Ray White Cal Tanner cerned, we have the following ton, who joined the Union in Tampa Port Agent Norfolk:' ^ Mobile Port Agent ships due to hit the port either in May, 1946, in Galveston. Barton,' who is 50, worked as a long­ shoreman in Houston before be^ ginning to ship, and now sails as bosun.- He is married and makes At the last membership meeting his home in Bellingham, Wash. in this port, the port agent spoke Besides Bartbn, men on the about the effect of the "50-50" bill beach-here now include R. Vicker^ on coai shipments, in the port of man, S. Cqllison and Jack Stough.. Shipping Figures August 25 to September 7 Hampton Roads, from which most In" the hospital are B. Burk, E. of the • 10 million tons will be REG., REG. REG. TOTAL SHIP. SHIP. SKIP. TOTAL Cannon, H. Harvey, H. Harrell,^;; shipped. He pointed out that al­ PORT DECK ENGINE STEW. BEG. DECK ENG. STEW. SHIPPED K. Ming and G. Basson. Boston 19 6 12 37 12 8 10 30 though the bill signed by President Jeff Gillette Eisenhower does not become a law New York m 1I8 110 349 102 97 77 278 Seattle Port Agent until January 1, 1955, this coal Philadelphia 19 20 25 64 15 ^10 14 39 must be delivered by June 30, Baltimore 109 , 91 46 246 68 . 57 41 166 1955. He also said activity in the 9^ 8 10 27 1 ^ 3 7 coal charter market, even by for­ I Norfolk Savannah ..;.... 6-. ; *8 9 28 8 4 3 10 eign ships, wiU boost the charter Regular membership meet­ price for coal to the point where Tampa 14 ' 20 18 62 6 » 4 ^15 ings in,.8lU headquarters end, American ships can compete. Mobile 54 47 60 ' 151 A8 88 62 173 at all branches are held every. • Back Up Sea Chest New Orleang 77 50 62 ^189 48 46 44 ^ i38 second Wednesday night at , At the meeting, the members Galveston 84 25 'S4 83 - 21 21 7 49 7 PM. The schedule for the. also discussed the Itea Chest. They next few meetings Is as follows: Seattle 80 ' , 22 10 62 28 ' 11 13 52 unanimously-gave a-vote of thanks Sept. 22, Oct. 6. Oct. 20. SanPrancisfo 51 « 8iliw 21 19 5 4» and cpnfldence to all the Union All SeaZareni registered OA officials who made the Sea- Chest • Wilmington 9 8 ' 5 19 . 8 ^ li 20- ' the shipping list are required possible^ and tw'yowered them to to atteng the mceltngs, IR ' take whatever dtMa mra neceswiy Port Affairs Smooth; CS Tankor Signs On Lumber Strike's EnJ May Improve Shipping Goaslwisa Ships Keep Port's Business Good Members Back Up SlU In Sea Chest Aetien A & G SmPPMNG RECORD Meeting Night Eveng 2 Weeks tlSf" '.'t-"'• .'Vi �~m^-. Sewtembcr 17, SEAVAkERSLOC .... PORT REPORTS Boston: Hall Recnperatiag Affar'Carol'liifs Our SIU hall here Jn Boston Is DOW recuperating froin the effects of the recent Hurricane Catdl, thanks to the help 6f Brother E. Olson who helped us restore the hatch on the roof after Carol sent it spinning to the street. Brother James Penswick passed away in the Brighton Marine Hos­ pital oh August 29. The SIU/ sent a floral wreath to his services and the port agent attended them. The Union also sent a floral wreath to the services held for Brother Robert Pebk, who died in Africa while aboard the Robin Trent.' Brother Penswick Peck was buried in "Winslow Cemetery with full military honors as he had Ibeen in the Navy and was a member of the American Legion. Shipping Slow Shipping continued to be slow in this port during the past two weeks with only the. Ann Marie (Bull) and Winter Hill (Cities Service) paying off and signing on. The Ann Marie is on continuous articles. , ' In transit during this period were the Steel Seafarer and Steel Rover (Isthmian); Robin Hood and Robin Doncaster (Seas Shipping), and Antinous, Hastings and De Soto (Waterman). Brothers Donate Blood Brother Tom Fleming called the hall aij^ asked me to express his gratitude to the brothers who do­ nated blood to his wife, who is very iff. The ^rothejs who gave blood were J. Rubery,'G. Williams, T. Cummings and C. Meloon. Among the men on the beach now are J. Rubery, whose last ship was the Orion Comet; P. Gradozzi, whose last ship was the Seatiger, and W. Cutter, whose last ship was the Queenston Heights. * In the marine hospital are J. Petrusewicz, F. ' Alasavich, W. O'Brien, A. Snider and J. Herrold. James Sheehan Boston Port Agent to the mid-section of the dis­ credited old ILA and coiild be a step in the right direction for the. ultimate reorganization of workers not in the AFL along the Philadel­ phia waterfront. Paid Off Four Ships During the past two weeks we paid off the Marina and Dorothy (Bull), Republic (Trafalgar) and Logans Fort (Cities Service), and signed on the Republic and Logans Fort. In transit' were the Southern Cities (Southern); Steel Fabricator, Steel Seafarer and Steel Rover (Isthmian); Suzanne (Bull); Robin Mowbray (Seas Shipping); Marymar and Pennmar (Calmar), and Antinous, Hastings and John B. Waterman (Waterman). A. S. Cardullo Philadelphia Port Agent 4" $1 4* Savannah: Happy Grewmen Foaad On In-Trapsit Ships Bull Run, OS Tankers Pay Off And Sign On Shipping has been slow in this port during the past two weeks. We paid off the Bull Run- (Petrol Tankers) and the Council Grove and Fort Hoskins (Cities Service) and signed on the Bull Run and Fort Hoskins. In transit were the Alexandra (Carras); Afcoa Pegasus '(Alcoa); Seatrains New York, New Jersey, Savannah and Texas -(Seatrain); City of Alma, Bienville and Arizpa (Wa­ terman); Steel i Recorder (Isthmian); Mae (Bull); Council Grove ^Cities Service), and South­ Laffoon ern Districts (Southern). There werg a few minor beefs on some of these ships but ^ they were all squared'away to the sat­ isfaction of the crews. E. La Soya is waiting here for^a Seatrain, while J. Mathews is out of the hospital and ready for action again. Bill Laffoon will be ready for action in a couple of weeks after .an operation. Still in the hospital are D. Fisher, W. Edwards, S. J. Smith, J. Leston, C. B. Young, K. A. Hellman, M. A. Plyler, I. J. Torre and W. W. Currier. Keith Alsop Galveston Port Agent Shipping has been average here during the past two weeks. We paid off and signed on the Cai'olyn (Bull) and in transit were the Southport (South Atlantic); Seatrains Louisiana and Georgia (Seatrain); Robin Kirk (Seas Shipping); Wacosta (Waterman), and Southern Districts (Southern). The Seatrains Louisiana and Georgia each called here twice. When the Robin Kirk was.here in transit she SjUre had a happy crew aboard her and the crews of the 4" 4» other ships seemed just about^as New Orleans: happy, with not a beef among them. ' , Joined Union In '45 For our Seafarer of the Week we nominate J. E. F'oyd who joined the Union in December, 1945, after finishing a year of col­ lege. Floyd says he thinks the No. 1 feature of the Union is the Wel­ fare Services program, and that this fact was brought home to him recently when he broke his leg aboard the Southwind and found the collection of his maintenance and cure made easy because of the Welfare program. On the beach here are J. H. Maxey, R. W.- Thomas, L. A. Dewitt, G. G. Parker and J. Brown. In the marine hospital are R. F. Roberts, L. F. Swegan, J. H. Mor­ Plii/ode/phio.-* ris, A. F Meadows, R. C, Shedd, J. T. Moore, W. C, Sanders, E. Carrollton, J. Littleton, P. Bland. C. G. Truesdell, B. W. Brinson, A. 'W, Lima and W. J. Wolfe. Shipping in this port has been Jeff Morrison below level, and there are no pay­ Savannah Port Agent offs or sign-ons in sight that might possibly relieve the situation In the near future. During the past week, however, we have had a few tankers and we hope this will be the beginning of the tanker movement in the port. We feel reasonably sure that we SIU, A&G District may get a fair share of these tank"- BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. ers hauling their winter fuel car­ Earl Sheppard. Agent Mulberry 4S40 276 State St. goes. We are also watching with BOSTON James Sheehan, Agent Richmond 2-0140 interest the progress of our nego­ GALVESTON ....' .21st Mechanic tiating committee's current talks Keith Alsop, AgenC. Phone 2-8448 on tanker contracts, and have LAKE CHARLES, La 1419 Ryan St. Phone 6-5744 every hope that our committee will, Leroy Cldrke, Agent 1 South Lawrence St. bring these talks to a successful MOBILE Cal Tanner, Agent Phone 2-1754 conclusion. NEW ORLEANS : 523 Bienville St. Lindsey Williams. Agent ' Tugboat''yictpry t Magnolia 6112-6113 We would also like to inform NEW VORK...'.. 675 4tb Ave.. Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6600 the^ membership that the IhternalSi7-129 Bank St. tion'al* Brptherhhod of Longshore- NORFOLK ten Rees. Agent • Phone 4-1083 PHILADELPHIA 337 Market St. meUj^ AFL, has met wit^ success in S. Cardullo, Agefnt ' Market 7-1635 their .origanizational -drive among SAN FRANCISCO 45Q Harrison St. T. Banning, Agent Douglas 2-5475 the tugboat workers in this area. Marty Breithoff. West Coast Representative This victory for the AFL long­ PUERTA de TIERRA, PR Pelayo 51—La 5 Colls. Agent Phone 2-5996 shoremen, in conjunction with the Sal SAVA.NNAH 3 Abercorn St. Jell Morrison, - Agent Phone 3-1728 Br^herhqod of jjarine Engineers, SEATTLE .. ' 27on 1st Ave. make the tugboats in'thi^aSga ,?«- Jeff GiUette, Agent Elliott 4334, .. 1809-1811 N., JFranklln .SI, tjggjy.AFJl'r^ tnisJa a^nkher. blow TAMPA Hay White. Agent -^Pnoae 2-i3a» mmm. i> • w i wwn Tankers Herald Start Of Winter Shipping Galveston: 41 ing Plek-Uii Sssn in§ Hexl 2 Weaks Shipping has been generally poor in this port during the past two weeks, but it has not been too bad for bookmen. During the next two weeks, however, we expect things to pick up considerably, as we have nine ships due in here for payoffs. We have learned that the Alcoa Clipper and other Alcoa passenger ships are going into drydock, and that the company intends to call the men back in accordance with the shipping rules, so that the old crews can go back to the ships. Payoffs And Sign-Ons During the past two weeks we paid off the Steel Recorder (Isth­ mian), Del Sol (Mississippi), Iber­ ville (Waterman) and Transatlantic (Pacific Waterways). We signed on the Del Aires and Del Monte (Mississippi) and Transatlantic. In transit were the Alcoa Cor­ sair, Alcoa Pennant, Alcoa Cavalier and Alcoa Pilgrim (Alcoa); Del Monte am] Del Aires (Mississippi); Seatrains Georgia and Louisiana (Seatrain), and Claiborne, Fairisle, Monarch of the Seas, Bienville, Mobilian and Morning Light (Wa­ terman). All of the payoffs and sign-ons were good, with only minor repair and other beefs reported. Llndsey J. Williams New Orleans Port Agent 4 San Francisco: Good Outlook Is Seen For Western Shipping Shipping in this port during the past two werfts has been slow. The outlook for the future, however, is good. Although we had no payoffs dur­ ing these past two weeks, and al­ though we had ./.isauiaafc'* only one sign-on, we did have six in-transits which all took some men, and today the Kyska (Wa­ terman) took crew, w h i c ir helped out con­ siderably, so that Johnson the bookmen in this port have been able to move pretty rapidly. We are supposed to have two or three ships coming in' here this week but they may possibly be diverted. As far as we know the Ocean Lotte (Ocean Trans.) and Young America (Waterman) are due in here now. The ship we signed on during the last two weeks was the Longview 'Victory (Victory Carriers) and in transit were the Seamar (Cal­ mar), Steel Vendor and Steel Age (Isthmian) and Fairport, Madaket and Yaka (Waterman). . Brock First Bookman The first book issued by the Ad­ missions Committee on the West Coast went to Jack Dempsey Brock. This brother was obligated at our last meeting and we all offer him our sincere coiigratulations. Men on the beach here now are H, Johnson, W. Parks, P. Robert­ son, C. McKee, J. Sheldon, J. Syrles, C. Lawson, V. Valencia, D. Pierce, H. Hutchins, G. Gates, A. J. Begg and W. Brown. In the hospital are Charles Brown, R. Rivera, P. S. Yuzon, W. Singleton, J. Perreira, C. Neumaier, O. Gustavsen, B. M. Foster, B. A. Eerman, J. Childs and A. Flores. Tom Banning San Francisco Port Agent New York: Political Winds Blow -So Does Hurricane The hottest thing in New York right now is the political situation and, as usual, we are doing what we can to help out our friends m their respective bids for election or reelection. There is some keen competition for a lot of the local and national offices. We had an unwelcome visitor up this way last week. One of those Florida hurricanes hit it up in this area and left a half billion dollars in damage and 27 dead. Most of the damage was in Long Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts, but there was considerable flood damage and lights and telephones out in New York City. Shipping has continued to be good here in New York for all ratings except stewards, who are moving slowly. Rated black gang men are able to ship at will, with the dispatcher having to plead with firemen and oilers to take the jobs. All of the ships hitting here in the past two weeks have been in good shape with a minimum of beefs. Keep up the good work, boys, as this is the way We like to see them come in. Paid Off 24 Ships During the past two weeks we paid off 24 ships, signed 7 on for­ eign articles and serviced 17 intransits. The following were the ships paid off; Warrior, Hastings and Penin.sula Manner (Waterman); Jefferson City Victory (Victory Carriers); Lone Jack, Beats Fort, Salem Maritime, French Creek, Paoli and Bradford Island (Cities Service); Steel Fabricator, Steel Seafarer, Steel Apprentice and Steel Archi­ tect (Isthmian); Rosario, Angelina and Franee.s (Bui]); Robin Hood (Seas Shipping); Greece Victory (South Atlantic); Mary Adams (Bloomfield); Barbara Frietchie (Liberty Navigation), and Sea­ trains Savannah, Louisiana and j Texas (Seatrain). Signing on were the Lawrence 'Victory (Mississippi): Steel Fabri­ cator, Steel Apprentice and Steel Architect (Isthmian); Robin Mow­ bray (Seas Shipping); Jefferson _ City Victory (Victory Carriers), and Mary Adams (Bloomfield). The in-transits were the Alcoa Ranger (Alcoa); Chickasaw, Mo­ bilian, De Soto and Antinous (Waterman); Kathryn, Beatrice and Ann Marie (Bull); Seatrains New York, New Jersey and Georgia (Seatrain); Bull Run and The Cabins (Mathiasen); Steel Worker and Steel Rover (Isth­ mian); Alexandra (Carras), and Bethcoaster (Calmar). Claude Simmons Asst. Sec.-Treasurer J" JWilmington: 4 V WILMINGTON. Calif 505 Marine Ave. Ernest Tilley, Agent Terminal 4-2874 HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave., Bklyn SECRETARY TREASURER Paul HaU ASST SECRETARY-TREASURERS Robert Matthews Joe Algina. Claude Simmons Joe Volpian William HaU SUP HONOIUL.0 FORT WILLIAM 11814 Syndicate Ave. Ontario Phone; 3-3221 PORT COLBORNB 103 Durham St. Ontario Phone: 5591 TORONTO, Ontario 272 King St. E. EMpire 4-5719 VICTORIA. BC 617V4 Cormorant St. Empire 4.531 VANCOUVER, BC 298 Main St. SYDNEY, NS Pacific 7824 304 Charlotte St. Phone 0:>4C BAGOTVILLE, Quebec . . 20 Elgin St. Phone: 545 THOROLD, Ontario 62 St. Davids St CAnal 7-3202 QUEBEC 113 Cote De La Montague Quebec Phone: 2-7078 SAINT JOHN 177 Prince William St NB Phone: 2-52.32 16 Merchant St. Phone 5-8777 PORTLAND 522 N. W. Everett St. Beacon 4336 RICHMOND. CAUF 257 5th St Phone 2599 SAN FRANCISCO. 450 Harrison St, Douglas 2-8363 Great Lakes District SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave Main 0290 ALPENA 133 W Fletcher WILMINGTON 505 Marine Ave. Phone: 12;iBW Terminal 4-3131 BUFFALO. NY 180 Main St. Phone: Cleveland 7391 NEW VORK 675 4tb Ave., Brookl.vn 734 Lakc.'^ide Ave., NE STerling 8 4671 CLEVELAND' Phone; Main 1-0147 DETROIT 1038 3rd St. Canadian District Headquarters Phone; Woodward 1-6857 MONTREAL ...'..834 St. Jahies St. West DULUTH 531 W- Mlchig.anSt Phone Melrose 2-4110 -• PLateau 8161 3261 B. 02Qd St HALUvyu N.&.,.,,.....I2^gHo.lU^SL SOUTH CHICAGO. Phone; £»ek 5-3414 Alcoa Planter Sign-On Helps Shipping Here During the past two weeks ship­ ping was not too good in this port, but we did have the Alcoa Planter (Alcoa) pay off and sign on here and this helped us out consider­ ably. This ship was due to pay'off in Seattle, but due to engine trouble they sent her here. The payoff was clean, and when she signed on again it was for a run back to the Far East. In transit here during the past two weeks were the Steel Vendor and Steel Age (Isthiriian); Fort Hoskins (Cities Service); Seacliff (Coral); Yaka and Gateway City (Waterman), and Massmar (Cal­ mar). — / ... Ernest:-.Tjllcy • ' Warouigtem Port Agent ' "-•4: 1 •;v| • - Si .cS •m •J .. iil '• �{I'. Fan FrartecB ' SEAFARERS ' LOG Kicking In To This Ships Fund Is A Reaf Lip-Smacking Pleasure ——:— •( September 17, 19S4 OFF WATCH This feature is designed io offer hints and information on hobbies, new products, developments, publications and the like which Seafarers There are some SIU ships where accumulating a ship's fund is a pretty painful process, may find helpful in spending their leisure-time hours, both ashore and frequently with some unwilling crewmember saddled with the task of chasing after his aboard ship. Queries addressed to "Off Watch," SEAFARERS LOG, shipmates to collect a buck or so. And on these ships, the-ship's fund generally veers 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NY, will be answered in the column or by mail, wherever possible. •' ' pretty close to the red when"*^ Seagoing Jazz enthusiasts with has often wondered how to dress it isn't actually in it. an LP phonograph at their disposal up the sometimes-unattractive end•This isn't so on the Seatrain ipay find their pleasure in any or grain of a plywood table or cabinet Louisiana. Not only is the ship's all of four 12-inch long-playing without a great deal of work will fund substantially in the black, records -issued recently featuring be happy to learn that a Seattle and not only have the crew figured the work of Duke Ellington. One firm has come up with an answerout a painless process of kicking in disk, "The Music of Duke Ellington to the problem. "Wpod Tape" is a —they've even made the process Played by Duke Ellington (Co­ finishing material for plywood enjoyable. lumbia)," contains reissues of some edge^ that is supposed to go on as According to Walter Mueller, of his best work from 1928 to 1949, easily as a band-aid. It is actually the ship's treasurer, the Louisiana's including his original recordings of a thin slice of veneer three-quar­ fund—^which now "Sophisticated Lady," "I Let A ters of an inch wide and as Ipng stands at over Song Go Gut of My Heart" knd as you want it, and is made in fir, $250 — comes ''The Mooche." The others are birch, walnut, oak and Philippine from the pro­ more current items: the "Duke mahogany. The stuff comes with' ceeds of a coke Ellington Seattle ^Concert (Victor)" its own pressure sensitive adhesive; machine which dating back to March, 1952; "Elling-' and stays on for good, making the the men bought ton '55 (Capitol)" featuring virtual­ plywood look like clean solid wood. early last year. ly the same band, and "Memories And it can be painted. You can Even with cokes, of Ellington (Norgran)," headlin­ buy it at retail lumber yards for selling for a ing Johnny Hodges, who' was a aljout 12 cents a foot, or order Nick Wuchina, who took this photo, didn't identify the sleeping nickel a bottle, Mueller mainstay of the Ellington group direct' from Puget Modem, Inc.^ Seafarer, but he's shown here aboard the Waterman C-S|i AfoUndria, the machine not Seattle. some years back. during a recent run to the Far East. only provides enough to keep the " is, is, is, ^ X ship's fund solvent, but also Photography fans who are shop­ Here's a tip from a reieent "Field enough for extras for the men and Stream" for those who carry ping for a new tripod may be from time to time. maps of their fishing and hunting interested in a new gadget called Last Christmas, for instance, the territory vnth them on trips. You the "Shoulderpod," which is a crew voted themselves a two-weeks can make them last a lot longer camera-steadying device fitting bonus of cokes for free—an enter­ by giving them a coat of water­ right on"'the shoulder. Operated prise which resulted in the con­ proof varnisli, which will protect by a pistol grip, it features an, suming of s6me 54 cases. Film them from rain and atmospheric adjustable platform, a curved, From time to time the LOG receives stories about Sea­ moisture and keep them crisp and aluminum piece shaped like a half! rentals for the movie projector, a new electric iron, and flowers for farers who claim to be champ fishermen, but we think this readable longer. U, which can taken apart for the funeral of a deceased brother one tops 'em all. It concerns Frank Wald of the Yaka (Waterstowing in a gadget bag. As such, , is, ^ are some of the other uses to Seafarers who went through it might be .just the thing for the — t^man), and according to one of which the money has been put. Japanese submarine attacks in Seafarer with little storage room Where's H is Visa^ shipmates, Frank lands the World War II might find some aboard ship. The item has been Originally Cost $250 big ones without even hook­ ing them. In fact, they hop right fascination in reading about what put on the market for $7.75 by The coke machine, Mueller re-, went on at the dishing-out-end of Monu Inventions, Box 11, Engleout of the water into his lap. ports, originally fost $250, of which . . .. Writing from Cristobal, Canal things during the Japanese . sub­ wood. Col. half was paid for through dona­ marine campaign from 1941. to Zone, oiler Tom Scanlon, of the tions - and the rest through the A neat trick on howJ:o~ make Yaka, relates Wald's exploits as 1945. "Sunk" is the brief title nf profits made on it. The coke costs a book written by Mochitsure your tools make life easie1r*for you follows: about 80 cents a case—80 cents in "We have several. fishermen Hashimoto, who is said to be one is for the carpenter who uses'a steel Galveston, 81V^ cents in New Or­ aboard this Waterman rust bucket, of the only four Japanese U-boat rule for measuring lengths of board leans—and the crew pays a man but we have one who takes the commanders to survive the war. or the like,-.'You tan make a steel 20 cents a case to handle it and cake for a fish story that really The book will first be published on riile easier to read by rubbing 'it take care of the machine. That Sept. 27 by Henry Holt and Com­ with a piece of chalk and then happened. makes about a buck a case.pany and can probably be obtained wiping it with a cloth. The chalk "While tied up at the dock Jn Mueller estimates the crew buys Miami, Frank Wald, the electrician, or ordered through any bookstore. will remain ' in the depressions around 50 cases orcoke every two made by the niimerals and save a is, ^ a, decided to try his weeks during the winter and about The do-it-yourself craftsman who lot of eye strain. luck, so he went 70 cases, during the summer. At a onto the dock nickel a bottle, this figures out to during his lunch about $14 of clear profit every two LOG-A-RHYTHM: hour. weeks. ~ "He was fishing Mueller says the Louisiana's with a thin glass scheme wouldn't be possible with­ 4 hole, small hooks, out the cooperation the crew gets a 10-pound test from their port engineer, captain By M,. Dwyer line and no gaff, According to Manuel R. Costa, and chief mate. But as it is, the and no one paid this pup was picked up by Scanlon Idea is a real money maker. crewmen of the French Creek much attention to Also, Mueller says, the idea isn't him until someone saw him kicking (Cities Service) in Yokosuka, private property, so any of the a good-sized kingfish around on the fellows on coastwise ships who Japan. Appropriately enough, dock. want to pick it up are at liberty to he's named "Yoko." Note the "Anyway, In a few minutes he do so. life jacket "Yoko's" wearing. had a good-sized audience, but no­ body could figure out how he could hook a three-foot fish, weighing about 30 pounds, with such light gear. "Finally Frank admitted that he (1) Mr. Brown gave a .party for 100 employees. He promised to didn't hook the fish — it jumped give $5 to every woman present and $10 to every man. Half of the right out of the water onto the men did not come, but all the women did. How much money did Mr. dock. 'And It almost scared the daylights out of me,' he said." Brown give away? This may sound like quite a tall_ (2) Vice President Richard Nixon is a former US Senator from the fish story, Scanlon writes, but it state of: (a) New York, (b) California, (c) Alabama, (d) Illinois? actually happened Just that way. (3) We all have a patronymic. Wbat is it? (4) If you lived in England, when would you prefer a pram to a tram? (5) What territory is the largest possession of the US? (6) An artillery battery which divided its fire between two targets For obvious reasons the LOO recorded three times" as many hits on target one as on target two. If Sit beside a firelight, hold your loved one close tonight. cannot print any letter or ten percent of the shells fired failed to hit either target and a total For you've sworn no more to roam and she's happy'cause you're home!. other communications sent in of 280 shells were fired, how many shells hit the second target? Watch the embers twist and turn, telling your soul not to yeam^ by Seafarers tmless the author (7) Which is heavier: a pound of cork or a pound of balsa wood? , For the carefree sailing-days and the seaman's merry ways. • signs his name. Unsigned, (8) What Spanish explorer discovered Florida: (a) Hernando de Think not pf a distant shore calling you forevermore, ianonymous letters will only Soto; (b) Vasco de Gama, (c) Ponce de Leon, (d) Ferdinand MageUan? 'iSeacon liglits that gleani and shine—you'll forget all these tn time. wind up in the waste-basket Seagult cries and foam and spray, watches stood and sailing day. (9) What heavyweight who defeated Max Baer combined the study If circumstances justify, the Dawn at sea, clear blue sky you'll remember with a sigh. of Yoga with his regular training? LOG will withhold a signature Sit beside a firelight, hold yourjoved one close tonight. on request, but if you want it (10) What Government agencies do these initials refer to: (a) GPO As quietly ypu sit and stare, yoU will see your ghost-ship there. printed in the LOG, put your (b) FDIC, (c) ICC, (d) FTC? . ' •And your telltale heart will yearn for the day when you return^ , game. Ml it , <Qaii Answers on Page 17^ For your heart's no longer free once it's given to the sea,. J ^ Seaman Doesnt Co Fish, They Co After Him \ Yearning Quiz Corner Sign Name On LOGEieiters r? si V)".'- d �-Sevlember 17. 1954 SEAFARERS Pate Fifteen LOG Gets Royal Boot As Queen's Yacht Hogs The Dock If you hear anyone these days referring to the crew of the Lawrence Victory as "dis­ placed persons," it's because the Mississippi Victory -ship was nearly booted out of her berth at Goose Bay, Labrador, by the royal yacht of England's Queen Elizabeth. Bv Spike Marlin Unless there is some radical change between now and the end of the season, it's quite obvious that the leading batsman in the American League will be Ted Wil­ liams. But because of a technicali­ ty in the regulations and because American League pitchers fear him so much, Williams will not get the official batting championship. The rules book says that a man must have at least 400 at bats to be granted recognition as a batting champion. Ordinarily it is a fair enough rule because it judges a champion on the basis of a full season's performance and at the same time makes allowance for games missed because of injuries or illness. Normally, the average hitter will have his 400 at bats in about 110 to 115 games. Broke Collarbone In Williams' case, a broken collar­ bone he suilerea on his first day oi spring training kept him out of action for the first month. Then hardly had he gotten back into shape when a siege of pneumonia caused him to miss many more days of playing time. The result is that Williams has missed 37 games, or approximately 14 of the season. That alone would not be sufficient to keep him from the batting title. The irony of it is that he has been walked over 100 times this season by opposing pitchers, and since bases on balls do not constitute an official time at bat, he will -lose out on the championship accordingly. Almost any other ballplayer in the league appearing in the same number of games would be certain to have the minimum 400 at bats needed to qualify for the title. Can't Hurt Williams isn't helped either by. the weakness of the Boston line-up this season. With the Red Sox pitching failing to hold up, oppos­ ing teams are happy to put Wil­ liams on base, figuring that the free passes can't hurt them too much. All this points to an oft-stated fact—that the method now used in figuring batting averages is far from an accurate presentation of a hitter's worth. Anytime a man gets on base 100 times a season through walks it should be refiected in the batting figures. It would be only justice for Wil­ liams to get the formal recognition of the title because of his remark­ able comeback after a second tour of duty in the Marines during the Korean War. Despite his injuries" and his age, he still remains base­ ball^ best and most dangerous hitter, barring no man in either league. „ The Red Sox, who are going nowhere this year, are trying to give Williams a better crack at the title by batting him second in the line-up. But chances are extreme­ ly slim that he will pick up the necessary at-bats that way. Al­ though he was never the most popular ballplayer in the game, it's too bad that Williams won't get the recognition he deserves in the twilight of his career. This, according to crewman Pedro Garcia, took place as 'Round-The-World Bound the result of an unscheduled encounter between the Lawrence Victory an^ the royal yacht, which was carrying the Queen's husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, on his reApparently "cent visit to Canada. enjoying their "While cruising into the harbor 'round-t h e-world at Goose Bay," Garcia writes, "the Lawrence Victory was brought to trip .aboard the a n unexpected Steel Recorder halt by the (Isthmian) Queen'^ royal " are (front, 1-r): yacht, escorted W. Masterson, by a British cruiser. carpenter; AB "Anyway, we Russo, deck . is dropped the hook delegate, and and stood by Pettipas, bosun; , while the "sea­ going Cadillac" (rear, 1-r): Garcia tied up, but we AB "Frenchy" didn't realize^ then the events thatMartineau, ship's Shadow Boxers were, about to take place. The delegate, and yacht took up a little too much dock, and when we tried to dock, AB G. DeGreve. we found that the Lawrence was about 10 feef too long. "Then," Garcia reports^ "it start­ ed. As we eased up alongside,the dock, our stern tore off part of an old extended wharf. And . since we were smack up against the dock, we couldn't maneuver the vessel away from it without the-, help of tugs. For about two hours we tried to get the ship in and finally the captain, who no longer had any hair to pull, asked the -There may be seamen sailing under the SIU banner who skipper of the royal yacht to kindly have fallen into the habit of taking for granted the gains shift 15 feet further up. Silhouetted in the light of a " 'Why,' asked the yacht's cap­ their Union has gottea for them over the years, and who Hawaiian moon. Seafarers B. tain, 'are you leaving already?'" believe that the evils their Small (left) and D. Diaz make .The reply of the Lawrence Vic­ Union has successfully elimi­ recent letter to the LOG by Franz an interesting picture as they Pietrak,. who describes himself as tory's captain, Garcia reports, is get in a little boxing practice unprintable, but the skipper of the nated are now as extinct as a a Bremen-born seaman who has aboard the Wacosta (Water­ sailed on German and other Eu­ royal yacht must have gotten the nickel glass of beer. man) off Honolulu. Photo was idea, because he finally shifted the The fact is that the evils elimi­ ropean-flag ships for many years. taken and submitted to the yacht and the Lawrence Victory nated by American maritltne trade . Bremen, Hamburg and other LOG by Luis Ramirez. was able to dock properly. unions still exist in other parts German ports are real paradises for Garcia says that he has nothing of the world, and give ready proof the German shipowners and ship­ against the Duke of Edinburgh, that shipowners are always ready ping interests, Pietrak says. But but he dobbts that the meeting be­ to take advantage of seamen when for German seamen the German tween the royal yacht and the there , is ^0 strong trade union to waterfront is a veritable hell on earth, and the German seaman has Lawrence Victory did anything to oppose them. improve /% glo-American relations. This fact was brought hbme in a only the choice of shipping out for The LOG opens this column as an exchange for stewards, cooks, from $20 to $80 a month or starv­ bakers and others who'd like to share favored recipes, little-known ing to death on the beach. cooking and baking hints, dishes with a national flavor and the like suitable for shipboard arid/or home use. Here's Seafarer George D. Trade Unionism Weak The plight of the German sea­ Hudson's recipe for "flank roll." man Pie^ak attributes directly to Foreign-type cooking doesn't always go over big with those the lack of trade union strength in who are strict in their liking for strictly American food, but the German maritime industry. Either the seamen are not organized there are lots of exceptions. One of these is obvious by the at all, or they are members of the favor shown for an ItalianGerman / Seamen's Union which style "flank roll" which Sea­ small amount of meat tenderizer gives them no protection at all. farer George D, Hudson, chief can be used also. Then take the The German Seamen's Union, cook, usually dishes out nnce a trip. raisins, meal and pickles, and "You can't serve it much oftener spread them over the meat as you Pietrak says, is very sihiilar to the old, corrupt International Long­ than that," Hudson, an SIU mem­ roll it. After the rolls are tied, roast shoremen's Association in this ber for the past them slowly in a 350 degree oven country. ~ The members are re­ 14 years, com­ for about 45 minutes. While this is quired to pay dues, but . they get ments, _ "because going on, make a sauce with some no reports on finances, they have you've got to save of the olives, the chopped up no real voice in the union's affairs, up the flank beef onions and peppers by first brais­ and there are very few membership that you cut out ing them in oil and then adding from time to time meetings. the tomato puree. Now add the until you've got In Bremen, for instance, he says, meat to the sauce and simmer for there has not been a membership enough to feed a about 90 minutes more. Top with hungry -crew." A meeting in the past two years: • the rest of the sliced olives when veteran of 18 Hudson Pietrak's advice to American sea­ years at sea, Hud­ serving. men is twofold: (I) Be apprecia­ son says the following recipe will tive of the gains their American do quite well for a crew of 40. Union Has trade unions have gotten for them, Here's what you need: 32-35 and (2) be vigilant to guard these pounds of flank beef, 2 lbs. of Cable Address gains, for eternal vigilance is the raisins, 1 box of cracker meal, 14 Seafarers overseas who want price of liberty. lb. of chopped mixed pickles, 1 to get in touch with headquar­ American se^en also, Pietrak quart of green olives, 6 onions, 6 ters in a hurry can do so by thinks, should fight to their utmost green peppers, and Worcestershire cabling the Union at its cable to prevent the transfer of US ships sauce and tomato paste to suit the address. SEAFARERS NEW to foreign flags, or they may flnd taste.^ YORK. those ships being manned by crews To make It, first soak your'meat Use of this address will as­ who work for the same coolie in Worcestershire sauce for sev­ sure speedy transmission on wages and under the same sub­ eral hours, turning meat around all mess^es and faster serv­ standard conditioBS that the Ger-. now and then 'to make-sure the ice for the men involved. man seamen do. flavor la evenly distributed. A The German Seaman's Lot — It Ain't A Happy One 4^ rial1 •"i -i: -r't ' �n^'5|T.C^, rase iSlxteeiS :5 SEATARERS LOG ,• ifc •t ••:;•, ' r-' r & r- j;- t^rew Maheo SMU Ship Clean Ship -j-:' ;-^ -v-' ', ^ • L E T T EES CreetiSiV th'Xemtemitdiand To the Editor: To the Editor: On Friday, August 20, we, a full I am stationed at an Air Force new crew from the Mobile hall, base in Newfoundland dnd wish arrived at the ore docks to take you would send the LOG tome. I over the Seacloud (Seatraders) had the LOG sent to mo-j/ihea I But as we stood on the docks and To the Editor: was drafted last To the Editor: looked at this rusty, brokendown Just thought I'd drop you a line fall, but I've Recently I have been hearing refugee from the boneyard, some to let you know the SIU shipboard and reading quite a few comments been transferred of the guys wanted to go back to libraries are great.-They are well asking the SIU to start a hospital­ around so much the halL, diversified in content, are both ization plan which would cover a that it's lost Finally, however, we got to­ educational and entertaining, and seaman's entire family at a rate track of me. gether and decided to take a look they help many men to pass away he could pay monthly, quarterly or However i expect at the^topside and quarters first. their leisure hours in a manner to spend the rest yearly. Believe me, this ship wais the that is really productive. of my time in the Since 1946 this family has car­ worst I'd seen since 1936. The Army here. I think my former shipmates, ried a hospitalization .policy on messroom, which at one time was John CIrrosa, Fred Bruckner and I don't'get a which we paid $52 a year for six painted pea chance to s e e Jerry Messaris also must enjoy years, or $31.^ through 1952. In green, looked many of my bid SIU buddies up these libraries very much, because MILEFSKI AND REO 1953 the-rate was increased to $78 like the fire room I have seen them do considerable a year, making a total of $448 we here, but las'tVeek the San Mateo on a limey coal Victory was in and It sure was reading on long trips. have paid to date. burner, and all good to have someone to talk over I have also seen Ynates and en­ Only $15.50 Is Used the rooms and the old—and better—days with. gineers who like to read these During this period we only had passageways George A. Burke' books, and I think that having To the Editor: $15.50 worth of hospital expenses, were in the same I am sending you a picture of (Ed. Note: Your change of .ad­ them on • board helps promote so you can see that $442.50 of-what shape. ^' harmony between the licensed and me and the Reo truck in which I we paid in has heen/unused. Now, dress has been noted.) Anyway, after made a trip from New York to Unlicensed personnel. 4> 3^ I r-. looking the ship Phoenix, Ariz., which I am now if this were an SIU hospitalization Johnston Sir Charles over, we went making my home. I had a wonder­ fund, this money could be working into a huddle and decided to let ful trip and saw some pretty^ capital for Seafarers and their 4> 3) <4 families. the skipper know in no uncertain country. . 7t there are other fathilies as To the Editon terms that "an SIU ship is a clean Please print this picture In the I believe that we of the SIU have fortunate as ours has been, this .ship." LOG and tell all my old shipmates As a result, we all made, plent>' I am now making the cactus coun­ unused money could grow into a" now advanced so far in our wages of dough per man cleaning the To the Editor: try my home, but I'll be in New large amount, and the premiums that in our future negotiations we hold from Friday to Monday, and York sometime this fall for a visit.. miglit be lowered periodically. But should concentrate on more im­ I was shocked indeed to learn4-' the fund would remain for the use provements on the ships On which there was also work for anyone Until then, I'll say, "Adios." of all patients certified by the we have to live six or eight months who wanted it on the way to Gal­ about the death of "Moon" Kouns, Alonzo M. (Tiny) Milefski and I know we have lost a fine a year. Union. veston. brother who was always on the For one thing, I think we ought Our SIU, Which has always been In Galveston we got new innera leader and pioneer, is just the to have better rooms, with larger spring mattresses and an agree­ union side of any beef. A number of oldtimers in the union to take this progressive step. lockers.'and dressers to 'put our ment to start sougeeing and clean­ clothes in, and I don't think there ing for the rest of the year. So if SIU have now passed away, and Evelypne Y. Siebert To the Editor: ought to be more than two men any of you Seafarers see a ship I think that we I hope you will print these few 3) 4) 3^ in a room. that's shiny and bright out in the can best remem­ lines to let-my friends and old Says Men Need Rest Far East some day, you'll know ber and honor shipmates know 1 will be back with them by keeping I also think all the ships should it's the Seacloud. them around October 1. It's been up the good fight be air-conditioned, especially those L. S. (Johnny) Johnston a long time since May 24, 1953, for the things that run to the tropics. I say a 4" 4- 3^ when I paid off the Coe Victory. To the Editor: they stood for. man will work better if he gets a I want to Jhank Welfare Services I sure would appreciate it if good night's rest, and he can't do It was mostly for helping me, but time was the you'd send me the LOG, since I've this in a place like the Persian these oldtimers only factor that " could really heard practically nothing about Gulf if the ship isn't air-condi­ who taught us straighten out my troubles. So, the Union since I retired my book tioned. To the Editor: the meaning of Booth until I register, good sailing to when Uncle Sam sank his hooks It was gracious of you to com­ real trade un­ As far as money goes, remember mend the members of our Eastern ionism and without them there all. into me. Right now I'm on that it costs money to wait on the William Frank Air Lines' family for the help they would liave been no OT, paid vaca­ Okinawa, ajid according to the beach for a ship that's running tb were able to give Seafarer Wil­ tions or other benefits. ' 3^ 4> 3^ ' Army brass this a cool climate. Also, although liam MacDonald when he lost his is the "keystone many men don't want the hot In signing off, I would like to seaman's papers on one of our of the Pacific." weather runs, the Union has to fill say to you, "Moon," wherever you planes recently. But I sure wish these jobs and it would make it may be, that we country boys from Such a fine expression of appre­ I was off it. a lot easier if the ships were airTo the Editor: ciation for the kind of service we Homewood all loved you, apd we I remember conditioned. I wish to extend my most heart­ will always be good union men and hope we give all of our passengers W. (Bill) Mitchell felt thanks to the SIU Welfare the days when I will, I am sure, encourage all of do our share in carrying on the Services Department, and also to used to run down fight. our staff members to do a better John Arabasz, SIU representative Calmar and Ore Alton Booth job for all of our customers. in Baltimore, for the financial and for being such We would like to reprint your 3) ' 4' 3) personal assistance given me in the bum feeders, but Olvero LOG article in our own house or­ recent deaths of my infant son I know now that To the Editor: gan so that all of our employees and my husband, Bernard Carroll. even an ore boat is. paradise com­ I would likq to express my grati­ concerned can get l;hat "pat on the I would appreciate it If you pared "to the Army. And when I tude to the crew pf the Atcoa Piiback" that Seafarer MacDonald would publish this letter in the get back to sba I'll be the easiest- grim, but it is hard for me to put suggested. To the Editor: LOG so that I may publicly extend going guy you ever saw, and never my feelings into words when I am William Van Dusen beef about the food again as long so choked with emotion over the « Speaking for th(^ officers of this my, sincere thanks. as I live. 3) 4* 4> (Mrs.) Clara E. Carroll ship, as well as ourselves, we would recent death of my mother. Typhoon Grace just had us like to give credit to the steward 4< 4< 4> Had it not been for this crew of cooped up here for four days, and fine Seafarers, whom I consider to department for the excellent meals I can tell you those C-rations be real shipmates, I would not served during this voyage. weren't very appetizing. To the Editor: have been able to fly home from Chief cook T. W. Beatty, cook Incidentally, I'm anxious to find San Juan, Puerto Rico, to be with We, the crew of the French and baker Bill Hand and third cook To the Editor: out if they've finished the new hall my family ia bur hour of sorrow. Creek (Cities Service), would like Percy went all out in preparing the I wish to express my apprecia­ to inform you of the fine service very best, and messmen Seims, La tion and thianks to ship's delegate in Baltimore because that's where I think there has never been a given to us by the White Top Cab Barbere and Smith served all meals Angelo De Amico and the crew- I generally ship from, finer gang of men than thosePfc. Manuel L. Olvero Co. of Linden, NJ. This outfit is in an atmosphere of real SIU con-' members of the De Soto for their aboard, the Alcoa Pilgrim, and I - V • \ courteous and on the ball, and geniality, under the supervision of donations and expressions of sym­ • (Ed. note: Your name has been only hope I am able to spend the rates a vote of thanks. that well-known oldtime steward, pathy following the death of my added to the LOG mailing list. It rest of my sailing days shipping William Adams Tom Toma. mother on August 18, ia, hoped the new Baltimore hall with crews such as this one. Ship's delegate Crew of Alexandra Patrick C. Flaherty mil be ready for iisejn October.) J. E. Roberts, Jr; ^ Hails Shipboard Library^s Value Hospital Plan Given Support Cactus Country is His Home Now Ivs-' .. l-^-- l ' Air-conditioned Ships Are Asked Work For Union To Honor ^Moon^ Will Sail Ayain After Lony iMpse i:;:. I-,I- Even Ore BoaCs Food Tops Army's . Airline dhes Article Mh LOG Widow Thankful For Welfare Aid SIU Crew Helps Ease His Sorrow J Alexandra Meals TopSi Crew Says Taxi Co* Rates With CS Crewmen Burly Cites Kindness Of De Soto Crew The Lonq And Short Of it By Bernard Seaman �•cvtonbcr 17, ItSi . (Continued Irom page 2) _. least a thousand unemployed seamen at any liven time. Also questioned by the State, because of its unfamillarlty with the industry, was the $3,000 per week which the Plan provides to underwrite the losses of operating the cafeteria at SIU headquarters. Through this set-up the seafarer is able to obtain a meal "on the cuff" when he is unable to pay. "When he is able to pay he can pur­ chase a low-cost meal, further re,duced by a 25 percent discount if ..he purchases a meal book. This same discount applies to a seaman receiving a meal book "on the cuff." The result of this program is. that never again will there be tl^e need for a seaman to go hung^, for even though SIU shipping is the best in the industry, there are times when a man, through circumstances, is unable to take a ship. The SIU maintains that it is the providing of benefits such as this that makes the SIU outstand­ ing the field of welfare benefits. • "The Union further libted that it is currently extending benefits to eligible seamen in Boston, Phila­ delphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savan­ nah, Tampa, Mobile, New Orleans, Lake Charles, Galveston, Seattle, San Francisco and Wilmington. The highlighting of the Welfare Plan's sound administration, its low cost of operations, its superior­ ity over insurance company admin­ istered plans and its unparalleled benefits for the membership is a isource of great pride to seafarers. Claude Simmons, SIU As­ sistant Secretary - Treasurer and Chairman of the Welfare Plan's Board of Trustees, said, "If there was any question in anyone's mind up to now, that the SIU had the best Plan for SEAFARERS IPG ft>g« Plaii Is 'Best In Industry' Table Shows Seafarers Plan Has Low Cost, High Benefits •oafaroro' Walfaro Plan Cemparatlvo Schadulo of Contributlena' Rccolvod and Banofitt Paid 1950-1954 VZAR 1850 ' CONTRIBUTIONS 8 492,628.25 1951 1952 1953 >•••••••••••• 1954 to 8/31/94 aooeoileaaa* •'•••••••• 842.763.79 t.... 2,054,720.79 .. 2.096,957.89 .. 1,161.988.80 Total .. 86,649,059,44 Typo noath Hospital Unemployment DiaabiUty ....', Maternity Training School Echolarship 1950 .910.000.00 21.733.00 .0•<>-O-O-0- 1951 8138,166.66 79,790.00 29,875.00 -0-081,179.29 -0- 831,733.00 8279,010.99 . , ADMINISTRATI V« EXPENSES 8 23.316.63* 39,351.99 159,043.23 205.323.17 88,431.44 BENEFITS 9 31.733.00 279,010.99 724,286.34 889,676.60 633,004.07 82.557.710.96 Racapltulatlen of Banaflft Paid PERCENTAGE 4.7394 4.6794 7.7494 9.7994 7.6194 8515,466.46 1952 8312,118.15 176.202.00 163.771.19 4,195.00 68,000.00 , -0-0- 1953 1330,811.15 163,165.00 230,571.40 24.525.00 136,600.00 -04,004.05 87^4,286.34 9689,676.60 7.7594 1954 to 8/31/54 8268,842.83 108.685.00 153,000.00 26.425.00 70,800.00 Total $1,059,938,79 949,575.00 677,217.59 55,145.00 275,400.00 31,179.29 9,256.29 -O8,251.24 8633.004^)7 * In 1950 tha flrat payments wera allowad to build up for a reserve and initial equipment was purchased. Payment of benefita began late in 1950. ASSETS OF SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN ON AUGUST 31, 1954 Ossli .Assets US Govt Bonds......; 1,980,707.82 Real Estate ............ ..... 942,916.57 Other Assets, ......... 119,060.97 Total Assets 3,790,826.21 aeamen in existence, the final proof is In. "We all have a right tp be proud of tijis., tremendous accomplishment," Simmons said, "and what we have learned as a result of the welfare study is a solid. endorse­ ment of the SIU's vigorous pro­ gram and campaign for a system of benefits for SIU men that would be second to none, in maritime, at least. Once again, the SIU estab­ lishes that men aboard its ships enjoy the best in the industry, "We will continue to push for the expansion of benefits and to pioneer for the maximum in wel­ fare : protection for 'our people," Simmons declared,, "We don't re­ gard the payment of a hospital or death benefit as the only thing of concern to a welfare fund. We believe that we should provide benefits for seafarers beyond the very narrow scope of helping a man only when he's sick Pr his widow when he's dead. "Just because some people may not regard an empty belly as the problem of a union, doesn't mean that our Union will ignore this as a problem that must be met. Even the shipowner today has recog­ nized this as a welfare prob­ lem by voting unanimously to provide these benefits," On a point generally rigid in most welfare plans—the matter of eligibility—the Seafarers Union in­ sisted at the time the Plan was formed that an absolutely lenient arrangement be established. As a result, a seafarer needs only one day of work aboard an SlU-contracted ship in a period of one year to become eligible for the many benefits, and only seven years aboard SlU-contracted ships for the $108 per month old-age disability-tpension benefit. This benefit was won for all seafarers —regardless of age 'because of the high accident rate amon^ seamen. Unlike any other union, the SIU Plan is paying old age or disability to men in their early 30's and up to 92 years of age. This benefit is paid as long as a man is unable to work—the rest of his life in most cases. Likewise the hospital bene­ fit is paid as long as a man is hospitalized—whether 13 weeks, 413 weeks or forever—a provision no other known plan provides. With very few exceptions, all plans administered by insurance com­ panies limit benefits to 13 weeks. The Plan's scholarship provision —four scholarships per year at $6,000 each is the highest in the nation. As a result, seafarers or their children are now studying to be doctors or . lawyers when they otherwise would have been unable to afford a higher education. The maternity benefit of $200.00, plus a $25 bond from the Union, is the highest and the first of its kind in the maritime industry; Under the rules insisted upon by the Union, no official or em­ ployee of the SIU can qualify for any benefits of the Plan by virtue of his association with the Union. Every man must qualify as a work­ ing seaman in order to be eligible for the Plan's benefits. As was reported in a recent issue of the SEAFARERS LOG, soon to be ih action, will be another aspect of the Seafarers Welfare PlaUr-, the training ship Andrew Furuseth -—which will enable seeifarers to train for upgrading themselves and improving their earning capacity. It is significant to note that of the 113 unions reported at the AFL convention last year, the SIU was in the top 16 in total money paid in welfare benefits to its members. This despite the fact that the SIU is among the smallest unions in the AFL and was being com­ pared with unions some of roVERNMENT OUTLAWS COMMUNIST PARTY: 1 geyftetp ^ How New Laws Affect Communists .11 (Continued from page 6) tion. Twenty per cent of the workers In a shop can force an immediate election to oust the infiltrated union and select a.new one. The effect of this is to enable loyal worker^s to get rid of the Communist leaders who have taken over their union. The possibilities of sabotage In llefense industries are greatly reduced,"" ! Department of Justice officials have announced ihat they plan early moves against four suspected unions, > .General outlawing of the Communist Party, while getting -the most public attention, tiSSikely to turn^ out to have little immediate effect. How this law may work ifi practice is still in doubt. It was whipped up hastily without Administration backing , in the dos­ ing days Of the sessions. >. ' ' The law' declares thst the SO-called Commuhlst ^wty is no real political pady at all, hut "sh ciiL'^ -a? m 92.557,710.90 The above figures show the tremendous payments paid by the Seafarers Welfare Plan and the low administrative cost, which is approximately only one-fourth that which would be' charged by an insurance company. No SIU official or trustee received a penny of these funds; they all went'for benefits to seamen. which have between a half million and a million members. The State Insurance Depart­ ment's study of welfare plans in­ volved approximately 135 union plans, one of which was the Sea­ farers Plan. Presiding over the study is Alfred Bohlinger, State Superintendent of Insurance. Chief Counsel to the department in the current study is Sol Gelb, an as­ sociate of Governor Dewey for the past 20 years. The SIU has been among those unions which has. publicly taken a position supporting studies of welfare plans designed to improve their operations. The trade union movement has acknowledged that some union funds are not welladministered. However, the scope of investigations into unions gen­ erally, is broadening. For example, the Seafarers Sea Chest corpora­ tion, which at its inception was hailed far and wide for taking steps to curb ship chandler abuses in the sale of inferior slopchests to seamen at high prices, now finds itself the target of an anti-trust «ERSONAX.S Tom Richardson Contact Tore Wickstrom at 1035 S. Beacon St., San Pedro, Calif. 4" ifc Richard Norgren Frank Ron Edward J, Leitch Contact Joseph F. Mannion, at­ torney, at 690 Market St., San Francisco, regarding Lester B. Knickerbocker, late seaman on the Maiden Victory. iif t) B, O, Carpenter Urgent you contact your cousin, Nola Poythress, at 6019 5th St., Norfolk 2, Va, i i if Ray Oswald Tillett Your mother, in Wanchese, NC., is very anxious to hear from you. suit by the Department of Justice, The political atomsphere at pres­ ent indicates that the pressure is being put on trade unions and will take form in the shape of increased investigations by various bodies, from the East to the West Coasts, As a matter of fact, a Congres­ sional committee has announced that it will begin combing unions in hearings scheduled to open shortly in Los Angeles; As a result of the New York State study of various union welfare funds, which was the first in which the SIU was a partici­ pant, it has been firmly established that the Seafarers Welfare Plan is outstanding both in pioneering new benefits and in giving to sea­ farers the maximum in welfare coverage. The Union is encouraged by this fact and will continue to devote its energies to further ac­ complishments for seafarers in the area of welfare benefits. John F. Castrononer Get in touch with Welfare Serv­ ices at headquarters immediately, 4" 4' 4 The following men are asked to contact the Sea Chest at SIU head­ quarters as soon as possible: Ron­ ald Barnes, B-528: Julio Colon, C-629; James H. Walker, W-376: William Walker, W-207; H. Wil­ liams, W-92. i if i Quiz Answers (1) $500. (2) (b) - California. (3) A family name. (4) When you were small enough to require the services of a baby carriage. A tram is a bus. , (5) Alaska, (6) 63. (7) Neither; they each weigh a pound. (8) (c) Ponce de Leon. (9) Lou Nova, (10) (a) Government Printing Jimmy Office, (b) Federal Deposit Insur­ Ruby is now living at Lilla's, 505 ance Corporation, (c) Intersfate Adele St., Apartment B. Commerce Commission, (d) Federal i if if Trade Commission, Lyle (Bill) Williams Get in touch with Henry Peace at 25 Peyton Place, San Antonio, Puzzle Answer Texas. strumentality of a conspiracy to overthrow the Gov­ ernment of the United States." It takes away the par­ ty's legal rights. So the party can't nominate candi­ dates for Congress, But no avowed Communists have been elected to Congress in recent years, anyway. 4" 4" 4Even if the party can't own property, the Daily Robert J, Golder Worker, although an organ of the party, has separate Your mother is ill and asks you ownership. to write her c/o M. Fanelli, 228 All Communist Party members, under the new New Britain Ave., Hartford, Conn. law, are made subject to the Internal Security Act of if ' if if 1950 and required to register their* names with the Wlllibm Malcolm Federal Government. However, the Communist Par­ Contact Mrs. Dolores Adamsbn^ ty already, has been declared' a '^Communist action" t 4i 4i group under the Internal Security Act and ordered William Glick to register the names of its members. Contact Howard Glick. The party still is fighting this order In court, and i. if i, Hans Kelleneck no names have yet been registered. Communist lead­ Get in touch with Mrs. Hershey ers have served notice thd they will make a similar regarding your person^§£Lects. court light against the hew Tawii • SSQ SgJSiilBD aiSD QQIS QCSBiaS SUSS [siQaisnsinsD BSB •B . QDQB . SSBanifiCZS QS!Z]111S BBS ISBBIB QBBS SSd SSQSS DBS snsis ssss (snB aSSDS SBQBSlSaS QDSB&Q SS izasis). asasDSBBS SQS SBQDO& ^SS BSS SBDCS^ [^BiS •i �' Pace Eiirihteea SEAFARERS '!^l>teuliier'^i7ri$54 - i LOG E A A R E R S 5 SEAFARERS WELFARE, VACATION PLANS REPORT ON lENEPITS PAID Ta Prap No. Seafyre Receivine Benefits thi. Period Average Benefita Paid Each Seafarer Total Benefira Paid ihia Period WELFARE, VACATiOM BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD Recoverinc now at Staten Island USPHS hospital. Seafarer Matt! Ruusukallio recalls Memorial Day outinc which led to mishap. Error in Judciny depth of lake caused him broken neck. hr' USPHS Has Uast Say On Duty Slip -:•"' ';^-r.1 -• Under the SIU contract, US Public Health Service doctors have the final say on whether or not a man is fit for duty. If there is any question about your fitness to sail, check yvith the nearest USPHS hospital or out-patient clinic for a ruling. Decided To Take Swim Before long, though, Ruusukallio decided swimming was in order and apparently either neglected to ask about the depth of the adjacent lake or figured it looked safe enough. It wasn't, however. He leaped off the diving board and landed in only a couple of feet of water, breaking his neck in the process. Rushed To Hospital His condition was found to be serious enough to require speedy hospitalization, and Ruusukallio was taken to Monmouth Hospital. A few days later, with the pros­ pects of a long hospital stay and a husky hospital tab facing them, his wife called the Union hall in New York to ask if the SIU could help them out of their fix. sentative told her over the phone, and advised her that, as a seaman, her husband was eligible for treat­ ment at US Public Health Service facilities. A few phone calls later, the Union had arranged with hos­ pital officials at Staten Island to have a USPHS doctor at nearby Cape May examine the injured Seafarer. He in turn recommended that Ruusukallio be transferred to the Staten Island facility. Ambulance Came Shortly thereafter, a USPHS am­ bulance ^cked him up, and af­ fected the transfer. RuusukalHo is now recovering from his injury in the company of SIU shipmates, but his experience emphasizes once again the importance of contacting SIU Welfare Services immediately in sucH cases. The Union is con­ stantly alert to act in these situa­ tions, but it can't act unless it's advised of the circumstances right away. f-- ' m-:l m ":i^nr". All of the following SIU families 17, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Augustus George Williams, born will collect the $200 maternity Eddie Melone, 839 Ainslie, Chi­ July 25, 1954. Parents, Joseph F. benefit plus a $25 bond from the cago,, Hi. Williams, 2318 Royal Street, New Union in the baby's name: Orleans,*La. " ' .4" it 4» Mary Costin, born June 23, 1954. Robert Dennis Fioyes, born Au­ t 4^ it gust 6, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Ronald Lester Jenkins, born Mrs. Robert Fioyes, 813 Wells- Costin, 25 Albion Placb, Charles- June 24, 1954. Parents, Mr. and town 29, Mass. worth Street, Mobile, Ala. Mrs. Lester Jenkins, Route 2, t Smithdale, Miss. Diane Gregorowicz, born July Johnny/ Wayne Bartram, born 4> 4^ 4> July 15, 1954. Parents, Mr. and 28, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Romie Gardner, bom Au­ Mrs. Virgil Lee Bartram, Box 1703, Felix" Gregorowicz, 49 Quincy gust 7, 7954. Parents, Mr. and Street, Passaic, NJ. Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Hobert L. Gardner, 15V^ Vine 4> it 4^ Street, Nashua, New Hampshire. Bernadette Marie Kennedy, bom William C. Price, born August 4* 4^ 4^ 10, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. July 14, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Steven Kostegen, born July 26, William H. Price, 332 Mt.' Vernon Mrs. Wjliiam Kentredy, 1 Old 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Avenue, Portsmouth, Va. Annapolis Road, North Linthicum, Stefan Kostegen, 22 Talbot Street, Md. 4" 4" Maiden, Mass. Karen Jane Wo'rsley, born July 4^ 4^ 4^ 4^ 4i> 4i 26, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Albert Kreiss, born June Patrick Henry Donnelly, born Joseph W. Worsley, 104 Delmar, 8, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. July 21, 1954. Parents, Mr. and San Antonio, Texas. Clyde Kreiss, 178 Edgewater Park, Mrs. Henry B. Donnelly, 4131 Bronx, NY. t 4> Prytania Street, New Orleans, La. Jenney Annie Puchalski, born -it 4i 4^ August 14, 1954, Parents, Mr. and Richard Schulz Jaynes, bom . Mrs. Kasimir Puchalski, 108 W. July 28, 1954. Parents, Mr. and 4Sth Street, New York, NY. Mrs. Harold Jaynes, Box 346, 4" 4" t North Woodstock, Grafton, New Joyce Helen Parker, born June Hampshtre. 8, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. 4> 4> 4> James W. 'Parker, RED 5, Box Wilson Jicklong Chiang, born 414A, Muskogee, Okla. May 10, 1954. Parents, Mr. and t i. t, Mrs. Ling.S. Chiang, 1553 Leaven­ Sherry Jean Carl, born August worth Street, San Francisco, Calif. 3, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. 4> 4^ 4> . Jerry L. Carl, 605 Ercoupe Court, Kenneth Michael Greggs, born Midwest City, Okla. July 9, 1954. Parents, Mr. and 4" 4" "4 Mrs. Clarence Greggs, 702 East Eva Margaret Melone, born July Street^ Sparrows-Point* McL' V. ,, La ygtitiaeJisoEtiuL. leal Ik WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID PREVIOUSLY Hoapital Benefita Paid Since lulv 1. 19i0' Death Beacfita Paid Siace lulv I. lOTO* Diaabilitv Benefita Paid Siace May 1. 1952 * Maternity Beaefita Paid Siaca April 1. mi Vacation Benefita Paid Since Feb. 11. 1W2 » Total « Data BeaeKti B«..- 0eH 4S£tite -a^asE SSL AS. S-CoSKo- 3A WELFARE, VACATION PLAN ASSETS Cash on Hand Vacation Welfare _ . , Vacation Estimated Accounta Receivable — US Government Bonda (Welfare) Real Estate (Welfare) Other Assets - Training Ship (Welfare) TOTAL ASSETS oo /9A//a SS f.9S'o.ya SA. St Josis ix CIESBZGB COMffiNT^t Slnee the Ino^tlon of the Welfare Plan, a total of 30731 hospital benefits had beaa.pald aa of July 1954* Brokoi down by years, they are aa foUowai »50 benefita 3104, baiefita for '51 waa 5707i fdr «52 it vaa 8lt)4j for '53 it vaa 7415 and for the period of Januazy thru July 1954 it ia 6401. Death benefita aiime the inoeption of the plan have been 527. Mitemity benefita paid by the plan ainoe the Ixb* oeption of the benefit total 1342, SukmiUsd i; /.•JAS- 0^ Msfefnitv Benefif It's wise when taking a "jump in the lake" to make sure there's enough lake there in the first place for'swimming «nd diving. Those of us who neglect this precaution generally have reason to regret it, and the situation of Seafarer Matti Ruusukallio, now at the Staten Island USPHS hospital, is a"^~~ ——; case in point. they decided to spend'the holiday Surely enough it could, a Wel­ How Ruusukallio got to the weekend in proper fashion at a re­ fare - Services Department repre­ sort. Since Long Branch is close by, they journeyed there easily enough and prepare'd to enjoy a three-day stay. Pteth Beoefiitt. Diaabilitv Baaafif Dip In 'Lake' Proves Costly hospital is obvious by now, but how he got to Staten Island is another matter. He originally started out at the Monmouth Memorial Hos­ pital in Long Branch, NJ, after he suffered his mishap and that's where SIU Welfare Services came inlo the picture. It all began when Ruusukallio, who lives with his wife in Hoboken, NJ, came off the Seatrain Texas (Seatrain) about two weeks before last Memorial Day, May 30, and Hoipital BeneBf 9::13.T.S4..~......»..»......> AI Kerr, AtsfslMt Administrmtoe �SEAFARERS S«piciiib«r 17, 19S4 SEEDC THE SEAFARERS With WALTER SIEKMANN Everybody who has been sailing with the SIU knows that the Sea­ farers take care of their own. That's one of the reasons why the Wel­ fare Services Department was established in the first place. But aside from the services that are given the membership by the department, you can be sure the crewmembers on the ships don't let any grass grow under their feet when it comes to helping shipmates In need. At -Welfare Services we hear many times how Seafarers have gone out of their way to assist one of their buddies. Just in this particular Issue we have two items about the crew of the Robin Hood and the men of the Valchem which go right down the line in this tradition. We certainly think these brothers rate a bow for the trouble they have taken and the consideration they've shown. $ ^ Our new arrivals in the Staten Island hospital these days include a number of brothers who have had to be readmitted for further treat­ ment. Brother Dave Furman, who sails as cook and steward, has spent quite some time in the hospital in recent months. He's had to go back in to get additional care. Seafarer Luis Salazar went back in on August 24 to have another operation on his right arm and see if the doctors can't put it back in topnotch shape again, while Brother Francis Beaumont 3vas readmitted for further care and treatment on August 26. , • Seafarer Isaac Antonio injured his back while working in the galley on the Seagarden and had to Furman be taken into the hospital for repairs. Antonio, who makes his home in New York City, was galley utilityman on the Liberty ship. Santo Lanza, who was AB on the Robin Sherwood, came down sick on that vessel and went in for treatment on August 25, 1954. Harold Moore, steward on the Alcoa Partner, had to leave the ship and go into the hospital on August 27 for a little surgery. Moore comes from St. Paul, Minnesota, way out where the Missis­ sippi River begins. Frank Collins, who was utility messman on the Alice Brown, had to get off and go in for treatment on August 31. Collins is a New York City resident. Convalescing from a bad cut on the leg, Joe Novo. sel, who was carpenter on the. Robin Hood, is home in NY drawing his $56 a week in maintenance and cure. Meanwhile, he's a regular visitor to the hall with his young son. Guillermo Nunez, one of the Union's top-notch electricians, had to get off the Lanza Steel Seafarer in NY and is now convalescing from a sprained back suffered aboard ship. Seafarers In Hospitals USPHS HOSPITAI, NEW ORLEANS, LA. Milford Alexander Seifert Hamilton Thomas Ankerson Earl Hodges WUliam Aplln James Hudson James H. Bales John Kennedy Charles Bean DecU Kerrigan Perry Bland E. G. Knapp Charles Brady Leo Lang William Brewer Jesse Lyles Charles Burton Oscar Madere K. McCrary Owen Butler Sebastian Cartegal George Porter Lester Carver John Rehm W. E. Reynolds George Champlin S. Cope Edward Samrock John E. Sanders Emile P. Davies Edward Saul Serio M. Desoso Joseph Dionne John Silkowskl Jack N. Dows R. L. Skiimer •Walter Smith Eric Eklund Andrew Stauder Thomas Fields Ml C. Caddy J. D. Thomas Lonnie R; Tickle Nathan Gardner Jack Gleason Faustino Torres George Graham J. E. Ward Ray Green Ernest Webb Luis Gutierez USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON, TEXAS Hubert Cantwell Jose Leston Warren Currier Murray Plyler Walter Edwards Harold Rosecrans Stanley Smith G: E. Ekelund E. Spaulding Duane Fisher 1. J. Torre Karl Hellman Charles B. Young A. G. Knighton USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VA. C. R. Flowers Alvah Jones RusseU Jackson George Lechler USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WASH. Edward Cannon John Kackur Woodrow Drake V. K. Ming Gilbert EUer 'Bruce Monroe F. FohdUa N. B. PhUlips Howard Harvey G. Rosson Sverre Johannessen SEASIDE iwEMORIAL HOSPITAL LONG BEACH. CALIF., George Quinones ' VA HOSWTAL LONG BEACH, CALIF, James W. Simmons USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NV Horace Gaskill , Hussen Ahmed EsteU Godlrey Paul Albano Earle Goosley FeyrI Ammoni John Haas Isaac Antonio John Horn ; • Ottho Babb Christopher Bobbe Fleming Jensen.. Jsaak Bouzim Noral Jorgensen , Vincent Jones George Coleman Klement Jutrowskl Ervin Crabtree Santo Lanza Estuardo Cuenca France DeBeaumont Nils Lundquist James MaeCrea John J. Doherty Delaware Eldemire Perfecto Mangual Paige Mitchell Frederick Farrell George Flood Harold J. Moore Andrew Franklin Harvey Morris David Furman Raymond Myers Nicolas Nomikos Charles Sanderson T. Papoutsoglov Stanley Sargeant George Pitour William Sargent Alfredo Rios George Shumaker Jose Rodriguez Warren Smith Matti Ruusukallio James Waldron Luis Salazar USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH, NY Fortunato Bncomo Frederick Landry Frank Bemrick James J. Lawlor Claude Blanks James R. Lewis Robert Booker Francis Lynch Jar Chong Joseph McGraw John Driscoll A. McGuigan Matthew Gardiner David Mcllreath Bart Guranick Frank Mackey John Haas Eugene Nelson Thomas Isaakson Harry Tuttle John Keenan Renato Villata. Ludwig Kristiansen Virgil WUmoth USPHS HOSPITAL BRIGHTON, MASS. Frank Alasavich William F. O'Brien Frank Albano Joseph Petrusewicz John Herrold Andrew Snider COOPER HOSPITAL CAMDEN, NJ Julius Fekete USPIIS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Charlie Brown Charles Neumaler Henry Childs Jow Perreira Bernard Eerman Robert Rivera Aurelio Flores W. S. Singleton Benny Foster P. S. Yuzon Olav Gustavsen ST. LUKES HOSPITAL NEW YORK, NY Marcie Boyles VA HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. Leonard J. Frank NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH BETHESDA, MD. James H. Harker SAILORS SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND, NY Joseph Koslusky USPHS HOSPITAL CHICAGO, ILL. Anton Prusaitis USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH, GA. Paul Bland John Morris Benny Brinson James Powell R. CarroUton Edward Searcey W. Gilbertson Randolph Shedd William Lee Leslie Swegan Albert Liriia G. C. TruesdeU Jimmie Littleton G. W. Wilson J. T. Moore USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. William Anerino' lohnis Loukis Algot Bogren Tony Mastantino Steven Boides Samuel H. Mills Jessie Brinkley Frank Paylor Jessie Clarke Eugene Plahn Thomas Cox Joseph Roberts Francisco Cuellar Vincenzo Russo Franklin D. Gilman Adolph Sadenwater Gorman Glaze Russell Simmons Kenneth Lewis Robert Wingert Daniel W. Lippy tag* Nineteen LOG Crew Gives Record Player To Hosp. Patients at the Manhattan Beach Public Health Service hospital are now enjoying an assortment of popular record items on a Webcor record player presented to them by the crew of the Robin Hood (Seas Shipping Co.). Seafarer Bill Liston, galley- ^ over their ship's fund to tients at many hospitals to enjoy man on the Hood, turned the turning the hospital membership in the extra comforts and conveniences player over to the Welfare event of their ship laying up. they would not otherwise have been Services Department for delivery to the hospital with the best wishes of Seafarers on the Hood. Liston explained that the crew purchased the player and records for its own amusement in leisure hours. When it appeared that the ship was going into lay-up tempo­ rarily, a shipboard meeting was held on what to do with the prop­ erty. Decided At Meeting It was decided then that it should be turned over to the men at Manhattan Beach to help them pass the time at the hospital, and Liston undertook to deliver it to headquarters. The player Is a self-contained unit with its own speaker and a three speed changer which can handle both long-playing and standard speed records. The whole unit is enclosed in a carrying case and the records have a carrying case of their own, which means that it can be set up anywhere in the hospital. Other Donations A number of other SIU crews in the past have made a practice of donating similar gear to the hospitals or, in many instances. The practice has enabled pa­ able to have. 4\ '^1 ,v-)l <'"i - ^1 1 Seafarer Bill Liston (right) shows Walter Siekmann, director of Welfare Services, three-speed automatic record player that Robin Hood crew has donated to patients at the Manhattan Beach USPHS hospital in Brooklyn, NY. Honor Deceased Shipmate In Plaque Sent To Mother It's been five months since Seafarer Henry Core died of injuries received in a fall from the Val Chem (Valentine), but his shipmates have not forgotten him. This week Wel­ fare Services, made arrange-— ments to deliver a bronze bourne, and got the necessary plaque to Core's mother in clearances to have his body cre­ Melbourne, Australia, expressing the sentiments of the crew about their late shipmate. The plaque is simply inscribed, "In Memory of Henry Core, a good friend and shipmate. Crew of SS Val Chem." The Val Chem was at its New York terminal when Core fell off Reproduction of the plaque pre­ sented by shipmates of Henry Core to Core's mother In Aus­ tralia. . the ship onto a barge and suffered severe injuries. He was rushed to the hospital, and although he re­ ceived several blood donations from SlU Welfare Services, the doctors were unable to save him. Subsequently, Welfare Services contacted Core's mother in Mel- We Goofed! An error in the hospital re­ port- furnished by the SIU Welfare Plan office for the Sept. 3 issue of the LOG had Seafarer Edwin Rushton listed among' the patients -in the Staten Island USPHS hospital, although Rushton has been out of there since Aug. 13. Apologies to him for the error and any inconvenience caused by it. mated and his ashes scattered at sea in accordance with his last wishes. The last rites took place aboard the Steel Vendor (Isthmian) on an outbound voyage from New York City. Since there was no regular fu­ neral in the conventional sense, crewmembers of the Val Chem de­ cided that the best way to commemoratq their former shipmate was by having a plaque made up and sent to his mother in Aus­ tralia. The crewmembers de­ signed the plaque themselves, and then asked the Welfare Services office to have the work done on their behalf. Arrangemen t s were made to Core have the plaque made up in the style that the crew wanted it. It is being shipped to Core's mother as evidence of the fact that Core was a good Seafarer and a good shipmate during the time he sailed SIU. Core, who was 26, was a member of the deck department and had been shipping on SIU ships out of Galveston since 1952. for SIU"! MEMBERS! ANPSWOReWeAK- ffmATtxmmm ToASouWKdERALLATSRBCIAU Se40J^PRICES your SEA CHEST SHORE WEAR t SEA GEAR SEA GEAR i SHORE WEAR at SIU HEADQUARTERS 675-4th AVE. BROOKLYN The deaths of the foUoicing sea­ his wife, Dorothy Lowther of farers have been reported to the Bunker Hill Ave., Stratham, NH. J, if Seafarers Welfare Plan and the George John Piraino, 34: A $2,500 death benefit is being paid member of the engine department, to their beneficiaries: sailing on SIU ships since Nov. 14, Wallace Lowtlier, 58: Brother 1951, Brother Piraino died of acci­ Lowther died of a heart condition dental gunshot wounds at Kann Hospital, Marshall, at Stratham, NH, on Aug. 7, 1954. Memorial A member of the SIU since Jan. Te.xas, on July 4, 1954. His place 26, 1946, he had been sailing in of burial is not known. He is sur­ the-deck department; His place of vived by his wife. Hazel Piraino of burial is not known. Surviving is Box 82, Holly Ridge, Miss. L-li' TiXj* �f, • SEAFARERS : s SI;: • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL • . ; • ^ I' • iU i- ' i if' ' hi y iHifiyyvyy: • • 'J » J ^ 1- : i1 f • • ' - 1 . • • ' :; V ^ n<y-riy ' ' • I• J - ;ii i : ^ ' J 1 v!: N': • i-(-: V • H . - J s ' '-•'y • K; . •y. -Ip-:! . ^ :• h rr' .; • ? its' • J . J.-" - ^•' ^. r 7*. > -•' DISABILITY Under the SlU-negothted and SlU-won disability benefit, you are the best-protected seamen in the world. Whether you are an oldtimer or have only a few years in the industry, you are cov­ ered by the finest disability provision—and the only one of its kind—in the maritime industryi Your disability benefit pro­ vides— • HIGHEST PAYMENTS IN THE INDUSTRY As long as you are unable to work you will receive $108 per month—the highest paythent in the industry, • BROADEST COVERAGE IN THE INDUSTRY All men who qualify—regardless of age—shall receive the benefit for as long as they are unable to work, y • SHORTEST SEATIME REQUIREMENT i I- I „ " l-V; You need only, seven years seatime aboard SlU-contracted ships to qualify—the easiest requirement in the industry. 1 ; ..f- • AND. AT NO COST TO YOU u V The enHre cost of the Seafarers Disability Benefit is. borne by contributions to the Welfare Fund by the! SlU-contracted steamship companies. You do not hove to contribute one penny of your wages for this protection to you. The Seafarers Disability Benefit—nalong with the many other benefits of the Seafarers Welfare Plan—makes you the best-protected seamen in the maritime industry* " Seafarers Int'l Union � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1950-1959 Description An account of the resource Volumes XII-XXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource September 17, 1954 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XVI, No. 19 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU WELFARE PLAN IS 'BEST IN INDUSTRY' THE PRESS REPORTED SIU CREWS HELP BUILD KOREAN HOSPITAL FUND MARITIME UNION ASK US TO STOP TRANSFER 'SUICIDE' MEBA-ILA PACT CIO PROBE UNION FIGHT ON TRANSFERS TO PANAMA WIN NEW ALLY ANNUAL DEL SUD PICNIC MM&P PACT TALKS KEYED TO PENSION US BOOSTS OLD AGE $; SEAFARERS TO BENEFIT FLA. 'SIREN' SEEN NOT HEARD 700-TON GOING OVERLAND TO VT. MUSEUM HOW NEW LAWS AFFECT COMMUNISTS SEA TODAY IS TAME TO OLDSTER 'BAMA SEAFARER STAKES LAND CLAIM IN ALASKA CREWS LIVE IT UP, MAN OWN SHIPS APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT A PICNIC AND PROGRESS AN SIU TRADITION SEAFARER-HOMEOWNER KICKING IN TO THIS SHIP'S FUND IS A REAL LIP-SMACKING PLEASURE SEAMAN DOESN'T GO AFTER FISH, THEY GO AFTER HIM SIU SHIP NEARLY GETS ROYAL BOOT AS QUEEN'S YACHT HOGS THE DOCK THE GERMAN SEAMAN'S LOT - IT AIN'T A HAPPY ONE SIU WELFARE PLAN IS 'BEST IN INDUSTRY' DIP IN 'LAKE' PROVES COSTLY CREW GIVES RECORD PLAYER TO HOSP HONOR DECEASED SHIPMATE IN PLAQUE SENT TO MOTHER Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/17/1954 1954 Periodicals Seafarers Log http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/126b23936033b19af9c017256568c8b8.PDF ada08c86b05fa022d7df95af4b2d021e PDF Text Text SEAFARERSmOG OFFICIAL GROAN OKTHI SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES /VND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO SlU Membership OKs New Pact With Go's Story On Page 3 SlU Provides Food^ Shelter For New Orleans Storm Victims ^ \ Story On Page 2 Four Canadian Seafarers Lose Lives in Ship Blast . Story On Page 2 Senate Unit Slates Hearing Of 50-50 Puling On Red V/heat .Story On Page 3 AFL-CIO Position On Soviet-Bloc Wheat Shipments The Evils Of Strikebreaking— A Cure Proposed ^See Page 8 See Page 13 �WMdrAnEMM too Par^ Ti^ flHsptcmlicr 17; «M» SlU New OffaoM Hall $h§ffan Yfefftnt Damage Heavy As Hurricane « Betsy Batters New Orleans By Paul Hall One of the American operators' justiflcations for the use of runaway flag ihlps la that the runaways are under the "effective control" of the NEW ORLEANS—The SIU hall here was pressed Into service as a safe refuge and United States and will be available to this nation in the event of war refugee center for many of the people made homeless or forced from their homes when or naticHial emergency. Events over the past five years and, In particular, hurricane Betsy ripped through this port on on September 10 with ISO-mile-an hour winds recent events In Vietnam have proven that this theory of "effective control" la highly questionable. that battered the levees and-* ;—^ caused extensive flooding of damage. A new auto.mated cargo another naval vessel was later Recently, newspapers across the country carried stories pointing vessel, 99 percent completed, was found beached with heavy hull out that the Department of Defense's argument that this country can the city. depend upon the merchant ships of its allies in war-time has received torn from a Todd Shipyard drydock Hundreds of New Orleans cltl- by the storm and later found float­ damage. Two Victory ships recent­ a heavy setback. This referred to an instance where the crew of lens were sheltered and fed In the ing In the Mississippi River with ly broken out of the reserve the Greek-flag freighter Stamatios S. Embiricos refused to sail from SIU hall, which also served as an her sides heavily damaged. The dry- fleet for Vietnam duty were severe­ California to South Vietnam. In another case, the Mexican-flag freighter. El Mecicano was ordered by her Government to unload emergency medical center where dock was found still later a short ly damaged. her cargo that had been headed for Vietnam because of a Mexican way from the repair yard—^upside "shots" were administered to help Nearly every vessel docked at law which prohibits a Mexican ship from entering a war zone. Mexi­ down. prevent the outbreak of disease in commercial piers suffered damage can officials explained that they were merely following the dictates Other nearly completed vessels when they, or nearby vessels, broke of their law and that the decision was in no way influenced by antithe storm and flood ravaged city. also suffered extensive damage in loose from their moorings in the U.S. or pro-North Vietnam feelings. and out of nearby shipyards. One high winds and were bashed In addition, many free-world ships are carrying vital cargoes to vessel was found beached a few against each oUier. Due to a breakdown of com­ North Vietnam. Senator Birch Bayh recently stated that, "Free-world miles away from her yard with her munications with New Orleans ships brought 74 cargoes to North Vietnam during the first six months sides badly banged up.. Another because of the storm damage, With such extensive damage to broke loose and sank in one of the so many vessels, shipyards in the of the year," and yet the U.S. Government continues to use these full details of the SIU role in deepest parts of the river during area are geared for much overtime foreign-flag vessels in Its shipping trades. It is a sad fact indeed that aiding storm victims cannot the storm. Another broke loose and work to get them back in shape to our service men in Vietnam must depend on these foreign vessels for be included in tbis issue of the supplies. It is a clear ease of two ends against the middle, with the promptly turned over. One vessel LOG, but will be carried in a put to sea again. United States caught In between. We have warned against the above which broke loose was found on future issue. possibilities for years but unfortunately, our words have fallen upon top of the Mississippi port's levee. Damage to the Port of New Or­ r A Navy destroyer under construc­ leans and its facilities is expected deaf ears. In expectation of the tropical tion was capsized by the storm, and to run into millions of dollars. If the State Department would only look back to the summer of 1960 storm, emergency food supplies when the Cuban crisis was at its peak, further evidence of the had been stockpiled by the Union inadequacies of our "effective control" policy would be quite striking. at, the hall to aid storm victims. At that time, Castro seized American and British oil refineries and Many families made homeiess by agreed to import Russian oil to supply them. Russia's only problem high winds and flooding lived in was that she did not have the tanker tonnage necessary for shipment the SIU hall until they could re­ so she immediately put quite lucrative offers before the world ship­ turn to their homes or move in owners. Needless to say — her offers were snapped up. Even though with friends or neighbors. only a few of these ships were runaways, it clearly points out the ineffectiveness of U.S. control over their operations. One way the Hurricane Betsy was the worst runaways got around the demands of our State Department was to maritime disaster ever to hit the shy away from Cuban trade and instead charter their vessels to carry Port of New Orleans. Almost every MONTREAL—Four SIU of Canada crewmen and the chief Soviet oil to other countries, thereby releasing Soviet ships to make ship in the port sutfered some sort of damage. It is estimated that engineer were killed Sept. 14 when the four-month-old, Cuban runs. over 300 barges were lost during 8,000-ton Canada Steamship Lines freighter Fort William The "effective control" plan shows other glaring inabilities when the storm and many towboats sank capsized and was ripped by*one looks at the possible effects of our break of diplomatic relations and have not been found. Twelvewith Panama. The question posed here is just how can the U.S., without foot waves were reported in the an explosion alongside a dock Barber of Toronto, Chief Engi­ diplomatic ties, expect Panama to accept the U.S. "effective control" neer. river. in Montreal harbor. theory? We cannot expect foreign nations, hostile or not, to do our Three of the 15 other men bidding. We cannot rely on good will! SIU Ship Damaged The victims included Claude aboard were taken to the hospital. The SlU-manned Seatrain Loui­ LaRoche of Quebec City, Second Several were treated at the scene. As a further point, even the loyalty of the foreign crews on some of siana, which pulled out of New Or­ Cook, Dennis Beaudoin, 33, of Cap the runaway ships is extremely questionable. In October of 1961 the Most escaped the inferno of Chairman of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, leans to take refuge in a nearby De La Madeleine, Que., A.B., Jean river, was struck by a sulphur barge Charles Menard, 32, of L'lslet, flame that towered 200 feet over Senator Magnuson .wrote to Secretary of Defense McNamara, calling at the height of the storm. The ex­ Que., O.S., Arnold Urstadt, 43, of the waterfront by clambering the runaway fleet a "mercenary merchant marine." tent of the damage she suffered has Desboro, Ont., Porter; and George across the port side of the wheelThere is no such thing as "effective control." It has been proven house, which was level with the not yet been decided but she was again and again that when the chips are down, the United States dock when the ship settled onto able to proceed under her own her starboard side. Some leaped cannot depend on runaways in times of emergencies. One of the basic power after the storm. reasons for American power in the world today is her self-sufficiency. Cruikshank into the swift current of the St. Many ships suffered extensive If we are to succeed we must increase pur dependence on our own Lawrence River. To Help Guide shipping. The only vessel really under the "effective control" of The 488-foot-loiig, closed-deck America is an American vessel flying the American flag and manned Health Parley , Great Lakes freighter turned over by an American crew. AFL-CIO Social Security|and blew up about 4:30 A.iVi., an Director Nelson H. Cruik- ^ hour after she cleared the Seaway shank has been named by ^ from Hamilton, Ont., and tied up President Johnson to serve g at Shed 65 in the east end of the on a committee of health ex- l| port. perts to make plans for the > She had been plagued all the coming White House Con- > way from Hamilton by an inabil­ ference on Health. ity to maintain proper trim. At the same time the PresShe carried a deck cargo of Ident announced that dates || 1,400 tons of steel and a huge for the conference had been H wheeled float used in highway moved from November 30 transportation of heavy construc­ and December 1 to November ^ tion equipment. 3 and 4. | Her 'tween-deeks load was a The group which includes % mixed high-volume, low-weight former Secretary of Health, H cargo that included some 300 tons Education and Welfare Ma- ( of powdered carbide—a chemical which in itself is not explosive, rion Folsom, will serve as an but which becomes a highly ex­ executive committee working plosive gas when mixed with with the conference officers water. —Chairman George Beadle, president of the University Water had been pouring Into of Chicago, and Executive the hold where it was located for Vice Chairman Boisfeuillet several minutes before the blast. Jones, president of the All four cargo doors on the Woodruff Foundation, Atlan­ starboard side had been opened ta, Ga. preparatory to unloading. Two on the port side were open for ven­ The President urged the tilation. committee to "bring together Force with which Hurri­ Sinks 30 Feet at this conference the best cane Betsy ripped through minds and the boldest ideas The deck cargo slid overboard New Orleans area is to deal with the pressing as the ship capsized. She sank 30 shown in this photograph Still smoking, thei SIU of Canada-contracted Fort William health needs of the nation" feet to the muddy bottom, her (Canada Steamship Lines! lies on her side in shallow water of barges- thrown up on and urged it to "set new masts bent grotesquely against goals for acheivement in the the dock. flush against a dock in Montreal harbor after being ripped top of a levee of the field of health." by an explosion. Four members of the SIU of Canada lost Only her portside half—the Mississippi River north of their lives in the blast. (Continued on page 17) the city. Four Canadian Seafarers Killed In Ship Expleslen �rfleptombw 17. 1MB SEAFARERS Meany Issues Statement On Red IVIieal Sales Pure Tteef LOG SlU Membership Ratifies New Pact With Companies AFL-CIO President George Meany "set the record straight" on the federation's views on shipment of grain in U.S. vessels to Communist bloc nations in a 2,000-word state­ ment which he urged alK members of the Senate to not feasible, the not-less-than-50read before acting on an percent provision was incorporated amendment to the farm bill which would void present regulations Meany wrote each senator that during discussions to eliminate the present requirement that 50 per­ cent of grain sold to Communistbloc nations be shipped in U.S flag ships "my position has been falsely stated." The full text of the Meany state­ ment appears on Page 8. Revidwing in detail the facts regarding the original application of the 50- percent principie to Soviet wheat sales in the fall of 1963, and establishing the role of the AFL-CIO and its affiliated maritime unions in the matter, Meany made it clear that organ­ ized labor had cooperated with President Kennedy in setting up the wheat sales and the method of transportation. "The AFL-CIO is ready at any timke to cooperate fully in any effort to find a better method of achieving the objective sought by the 50 per­ cent American flag requirement, he wrote. "We are strongly opposed to any misguided effort to resolve the issue by the arbitrary and ruth­ less elimination of that require­ ment." The bid to eliminate the 50 per­ cent rule, currently contained in a Presidential executive order, came in the Senate Agriculture Commit­ tee where an amendment to repeal the provision was added to the gen­ eral farm bill. No Reference Contained The measure as passed by the House did not contain any refernce to the 50 percent American bottoms order, nor was any attempt made to repeal it. Meany also sgnt a letter to all members of the Senate strongly opposing an amendment which would take away the authority of the Secretary of Labor to de­ termine the need for importing foreign labor and give it to the Secretary of Agriculture. The letter declared that the amendment "would seriously un­ dermine the wages, working condi­ tions and protections which have been achieved for American farm workers." Meany urged defeat of the amendment or "any other amendment affecting farm labor and the orderly processes of our government." In his statement on wheat ship­ ments Meany declared "I made no demand or request of any kind upon President Kennedy" in con­ nection with the original wheat sale and "I placed no terms or con­ ditions of any kind upon the coop­ eration and support of the AFLCIO in this matter." He noted that in April 1962 he had publicly urged that the U.S. give foodstuffs to the people of the Iron Curtain countries, contending' that "hunger knows no politics." The AFL-CIO president wrote the senators that when Kennedy announced the Soviet wheat sale, he said all of the wheat would be shipped in American vessels if they were available. Later, when it was determined that this was into the executive order. Meany noted that the maritime unions "did not protest this reduc­ tion." The dispute which led to cessation of grain loading was caused by the successful efforts of two grain dealers to "further re­ duce the participation of American vessels by securing waivers of the 50 percent requirement through various contrivances. . . ." Meany said he entered this con­ troversy at the request of Pres. Johnson and helped w'n an agree­ ment from the maritime unions which he noted was hailed at the time in the Senate by then Senator Hubert H. Humphrey and Senator Gearge McGovern (D-S.D.). The settlement of the dispute was was followed by the creation of a Maritime Advisory Committee which is functioning and reviewing various aspects of cargo prefer­ ence, flag quotas and maritime policy generally. "It would be a tragedy," Meany (Continued on page 4) Seafarers studied copies of proposed new SlU contract with shipowners at membership meeting in New York before voting to ratify pact. Seafarers in East, Gulf and West Coast ports also voted to ratify the new contract. Terms of a new contract covering deep sea freighlship. tankers and passenger ships have been ratified by members of the Seafarers International Union's At­ lantic Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. The action by the mem- * bers will receive increases in an increase in the overtime rate bership was taken at meet- their basic monthly rate of pay, of pay, stand-by rates of pay, room meal allowances and other i n g s held Wednesday, ranging from $18.04 for entry and monetary benefits. ratings to $37.17 for higher ratings. The able-bodied seamen will re­ As a result of the agreement, ceive monthly increases of $23.41 the rate of vacation pay for SIU bringing his new base pay to seamen will be increased from $392.58. $800 a year to $1,000 annually. The agreement also provides for Among other gains included in the new agreement, is a time-off provision that provides that crewSIU Urges No Decisions Until All Views Are Aired members on ships in coastwise and nearby foreign trades will get a day off at the end of each thirty (30) day period. Crewmen in foreign and intercoastal trades will get a day off at the end of each voyage. The Union is continuing its study on the subject of the present WASHINGTON—The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in an executive session pension plan which now calls for earlier this week, voted to hold a hearing on the ruling, instituted by the late President $150 a month to be paid to re­ Kennedy and later endorsed by President Johnson, that at least 50 percent of any U.S. tired Seafarers. The new contract will expire on wheat sold to Communist-^ June 15, 1968. mand that the Agriculture Depart­ of view. Also respectfully call to countries must be carried in ment and other government agen­ The SIU Pacific District Unions your attention that this as well as American-flag bottoms. other issues affecting future of cies strictly adhere to the pro­ are continuing their contract talks The 50-50 stipulation on U.S. visions of the nation's cargo pref­ with West Coast operators. Nego­ wheat sold to the Red nations has American-flag fleet are presently erence law which provides that a tiations are also continuing be­ come under attack from wheat- under study by President's Mari­ minimum of 50 percent of govern- tween the SIU Great Lakes Dis­ state Senators. The hearing before time Advisory Committee. These trict and its contracted companies. (Continued on page .12) the Senate committee, a committee issues are so interrelated that we spokesman said, would be directed believe it would be most unwise, at a resolution introduced by and not in the national interest, Senators Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) to attempt to deal with them piece­ and George McGovern suggesting meal." that the requirement is contra­ Ground rules governing the dictory to trade treaties which the hearing before the committee have U.S. has with 30 friendly nations not been announced, but it is ex­ MONTREAL—More than 500 Canadian and American and calling for an investigation. pected that discussions would get trade unionists attended a dinner here on September 11th into both the legal and subsidy A telegram to the committee aspects of the 50-50 stipulation on that marked the chartering of the St. Lawrence and Tribu­ from SIU President Paul Hall on behalf of the AFL-CIO Maritime Red wheat sales, and also include taries Port Council of the-*Trades Department, of which Hall discussions of policy regarding the Province of Quebec. The is also president of the Maritime is President, and the Seafarers In­ whole American shipping situa­ Council was chartered by the Trades Department was a principal ternational Union, urges that the tion. Maritime Trades Department of speaker at the ceremonies. He Dropped From Farm Bill committee make no determination the AFL-CIO. welcomed the formation of the until all parties who would be Chairman of the dinner was new Port Council and stressed the The Senate Foreign Relations affected by such a determination Committee became involved in the Jean-Paul Menard, head of the effectiveness that the council will have the opportunity to expre.ss issue of cargo preference require­ Montreal Building Trades Coun­ have as an instrument of union their views. The telegram says, in ments in grain sales and govern­ cil and Montreal Central Labor cooperation in the interest of mari­ part: ment-generated cargoes when Council, time and its allied trades. Te.\t Of Telegram these issues were pulled out of _the In addition to Menard, the new Louis Laberge, the president of . . Because of the crucial na­ Administration farm bill as a Re­ officers of the port council include the Quebec Federation of Labor ture of this issue and the impact sult of vigorous protests by the vice-presidents, J. Wallus, presi­ also spoke to the assembled guests which any decision could have on SIU and other American maritime dent of the Montreal Hotel and and said that he was confident that Employees Union, the newly-formed port council the stability of the American mer­ unions that the Agriculture De­ Restaurant chant marine and its future, par­ partment must clarify its inten­ R. Greene, president of Team­ would be a great aid to all the ticularly at this critical time, we tions toward the U.S.-flag mer­ sters Joint Council No. 91, workers involved. respectfully urge that no determi­ chant marine before passage of the and P. Doucet. Don Swait, the sec­ Peter McGavin, the executiveretary-treasurer of the SIU of secretary of the Maritime Trades nation of this matter be made Agricultural Bill. until all parties who would be In addition, 29 Congressmen re­ Canada will serve as secretary- Department presented the new involved and affected have had an cently took the floor during debate treasurer of the new port council. charter to Port Council President opportunity to express their point I on the Omnibus Farm Bill to de-l SIU President Paul Hall, whoi Menard. September 15th, at all union halls in East, Gulf and West Coast ports. Under terms of the new agreement, SIU crewmem- Senate Unit To Probe 50-50 Ruling On Red Wheat Safes New Port Council Formed In Canada �S' A SEAFAHekS Pace Fear hoc Senate Labor Committee Urges Repeal Of 14(b) 17. IflfS By Earl (Bull) Shepord, Vice-President. Atlanftc The Senate was urged by its Labor Committee to repeal Section 14(b) of the TaftHartley Act and restore to workers and employers in 19 "right-to-work" states authority Good Luck To New Port Council I was proud to be one of the SIU representatives attending the re­ to negotiate a union shop. ficlals to gain dictatorial econom­ cent ceremonies in Montreal marking the formation of the St. Law­ competition among atates for In­ In its formal report to the dustry and would establish "a uni­ ic and political power through rence and Tributaries Port Council.|am certain that the new Port Senate, the committee major­ form federal rule governing union force of federal law." Council will be of great benefit to all Canadian maritime workers. ity took sharp exception to security agreements." Fannin was Unable to get any The boys around the hall were all glad to see P. Rivero who is back other conunittee member to join in after taking a ship to Baltimore for lay up. Brother Rivero says that his dissent. But the committee's he is anxious to pick up a vessel heading for Viet Nam. The bonus other four Republican members all money looks good to him. Van Whitney passes the word on that he submitted "individual views" on the picked up a berth aboard the RV Bertha Anne. This is the research issue. vessel now running from New York to Bermuda. Van claims that he These ranged from Colorado Sen­ will be doing research for the Company while at sea, but he intends ator Peter H. Dominick's position to do some research of his own when the ship docks in Bermuda. that states should have a right to Frank Cannella is back in New York after sustaining an injury that restrict union security to the asser­ cut short his voyage aboard the Del Norte. The Del Norte usually tion by New York's Jacob K. Javits sails to Brazil and Argentina, but on this run it stopped off in Puerto that 14(b) should be repealed, but Rico where Brother Cannella was forced to leave ship, ^"rank is back that other changes in the Taft-Hart­ with us now and he will spend some time here recuperating. William ley Act should be adopted to bal­ Sargent is saying hello to a lot of his old friends around the Hall while ance the action. Separate views he waits for the RV Sea Scope to be overhauled in the yards. Bill was were also submitted by GOP Sena­ aboard her when she went into drydock. When completed, the Sea tors Winston L. Prouty (Vt.) and Scope will sail from New York to « George Murphy (Calif.). the West Indies. to get a bosun job cn a ship head­ The committee chairman, Sena­ M. Arroyo is just in off the ed out for the Far East. Taking in A secret ballot referendum of Seafarers in all SIU Great tor Lister Hill (D.-Ala.), did not Robin Goodfellow which went the sun, he feels the SIU has come any of the minority views, al­ into temporary lay up. She'll Lakes District ports will be held on the question of a pro­ sign though he had voted against the soon be back on her regular a long ways as far as the welfare posed increase in Great Lakes District membership dues. bill. and vacation plans are concerned. schedule with Brother Arroyo on Under the terms of the^to $30 per quarter, effective The committee devoted a large board. Also around the hall for a Boston constitution and the report of January 1, 1966. It explained that section of its report to a discussion look-see at the board is E. FigShipping activity in the port of a five-man rank and file com­ the need for increased dues was of the issue of religious objectors neroa who piled off the Detroit, Boston has picked up quite a bit his "home" for the past few mittee, the secret balloting will created by the higher cost of to union membership and the with the crewlng of the Robin commence after October 1, 1965. Union operations to provide maxi­ amendment adopted to deal with months. Gray, but the pace is expected to the problem. Off the Steel Architect and The proposal for a dues increase mum job security and protection slacken somewhat in the next The unanimously adopted anxious to pick up a slot aboard period. originated in the form of a resolu­ for Great Lakes District members. another Isthmian ship, M. Rosen­ tion adopted at the regular SIU (The full text (rf the resolution is amendment, sponsored by Sena­ thal is telling everybody that the John "Jack' Flaherty is strutting Great Lakes District membership embodied in the report of the tor Wayne Morse <D.-Qre.), al­ Far East runs are the greatest around the hall and passing out lows such persons to cmitribute constitutional committee on page meeting held in Detroit on Sep­ cigars in honor of the baby girl an amount equal to union dues things since "portholes." tember 7, at 2 P.M. It was then 5.) to a non-religious, tax-exempt J. Walker is a welcome sight his wife just gave birth to. While Secret Balloting carried at subsequent meetings in charity designated by the union. around the New York Hall these accepting the hearty congratula­ all Great Lakes District ports held Secret balloting on the proposed The National Labor Relations days. He is recently off a two- tions of his mates. Jack is keeping on September 7 at 7 P.M. dues increase will be conducted in Board would have responsibility month run on the Trans-Globe. a weather eye peeled for a slot After the wind-up of voting, a accordance with the SIU Great for screening exemption claims on a coast hugger. As a new Philadelphia five-man committee of Seafarers Lakes District constitution. This for legitimacy. father, he wants to stay close to was elected in Detroit to study the provides for the election of rank Shipping continues to move at a home. The comnvittee noted in its re­ proposal and prepare a report with and file polls committees in all fair pace in the port of Philadel­ ils recommendations, including Great Lakes District ports where port that representatives of reli­ phia and the job situation is ex­ Off the Cabins and sorry to see gious sects asking special treatment voting procedures for a secret ref­ voting is conducted each day. his old ship go ..off shore, deck pected to remain stable in coming "indicated that they are not op­ erendum ballot of the SIU Great inaint. Frank Faulkner is waiting Serving on the five-man con­ posed to the repeal of 14(b) and do weeks. Lakes District membership. The to grab the next coastwise to hit Robert Kwiathowski who just report will be submitted to the stitutional committee were Law­ not seek to become "free riders" in the board. In the meanwhile. rence Tremblay, Book No. 9668, got off the Spitfire said that he the sense of seeking to evade the membership for final considera­ Tommy is sampling some of those tion at the next general member­ William Bateman, Book No. 1664, financial expenses involved in join­ hated to see this ship lay up as gift cigars that have been circu­ Harry Buccilli, Book No. 12518, ing a union. it was a "little gold mine" for ship meeting which is scheduled Henry V. Howard, Book No. 3943, him. Bob will rest upon the lating around the hall. "Pretty for September 20, 1965. The committee expressed confi­ good," he says. and Dezsi Gazse, Book No. 11265. dence that most cases of religious beach until one of his favorites In issuing its report, the com­ hits the board. John Gala is happy to be out objections can be resolvefi through mittee cited the applicable pro­ of drydock and showing his ffd voluntary agreement between the Back in Philadelphia after eight visions of the constitution and an­ to friends around the hall. John, union and the individual so that the months on the Oceanic Wave, nounced that the proposal for a problem of administering the ex­ Jack Pierce is still hoping that the who last sailed aboard the C. S. dues increase had been accepted (Continuea from page 3) emption clause "won't assume dis­ World Series will be held in Philly Baltimore as wiper, is currently by the membership, subject to the wrote, "if the functions of the proportionate magnitude." so that he can catch a few of the waiting to grab the first job to hit secret ballot referendum. committee were destroyed by an games while he is on vacation. the board. Where NLRB certification was The resolution proposes an in­ ill-considered action by the Sen­ Jack has been an avid fan since Norfolk crease in dues of $10 per quarter, ate, under the illusion that the necessary, the committee said, the he was a boy. board could use "respected private raising the current dues from $20 nullification of a constructive Shipping here has been very citizens" rather than its own staff Baltimore good during past few weeks but understanding will succeed in get­ to verify claims based on religious Shipping here has been very job calls are expected to drop off ting ships loaded with American grounds. good and the prospects for the slightly In the next period. wheat." Sept. 17, '65 Vol. XXVIf, No. 20 coming period look even better. Kosta Haigimisos is back on his He reviewed the long record of During the last period we had feet after an accident aboard the Official Publication of the SIUNA Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters labor support for farm programs 4 pay-offs, seven sign-ons and 11 Globe Progress put him in the District, AFL-CIO to increase income and security for ships in transit. At present in the hospital for a short while. Kosta, Executive Board farmers, including wheat subsidies, Port of Balltmore there are three down from Philly, is already back P.^UL HALL, President saying "we have never complained Calmar Liberties waiting to crew aboard the Qlpbe Progress and CAL TANNEB EARL SHEPARB Shipments of iron ore, coal of the cost, though workers, in­ ^ up along with the Robin Good- shipping out. Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President i''- and grain on the Great Lakes LINDSEY WILLIAMS cluding merchant seamen, bear a AL KERR fellow and Steel Advocate which Sec.-Treas. Vice-President full share of the tax burden." He ; during July were the highest Off the Globe Progress and are also in port without crews. AL TANNER chalked up in that month for BOB. A, MATTHEWS added: looking for a run to the Phillipines Vice-President Vice-President the past eight years, Elmer W. Carter, who has been is Stephen Araies who usually HERBERT BRAND "In face of the generous outlays H sailing SIU in the deck depart­ sails as chief cook. Steven wants Although grain cargoes Director of Organizing and by all of the American people in H dropped slightly from the ment for about 26 years, paid off a taste of that good Island sun­ Publications the Pennmar to get some work shine. Managing Editor: MIKE POLLACK; Asst behalf of the welfare of wheat || all-time record peak of July Editor: NATHAN SKYER; Staff Writers- growers and exporters, continued j 1964, coal hit an eight-year done -in the USPHS hospital and John Davles got a good break. ROBERT ARONSON, ROBERT MILGROM: Art consideration of the welfare of is now ready to go again. Elmer He piled off his last ship and ^ peak for the month this year E''itor: BERNARD SEAMAN. American maritime workers and of hopes, that his next ship will be sitepped right on the Globe Prog­ and iron ore shipments rose our national security also would as good as the Pennmar because ress which is. headed for Holland. by almost 1 million gross seem valid under a governmentthe crew and officers aboard were John's wife and family make their tons. subsidized and sponsored wheat tops. He also has high praise for home in Holland and he is look­ The report, compiled by export program." the treatment he received in the ing forward to spending some the Lakes Carriers Associa­ USPHS hospital and for the SIU time with them in Rotterdam. Published biweekly at tha-headquarter tion, pointed out however If the federal government finds of the Seafarers Internaflonal Union, At welfare plan which he says is the lantic. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters that a wheat sale to the Soviet that although grain cargoes Vincent Sherwood claims that District, AFL-CIO, (75 Fourth Avenue, best anywhere. nearly matched last July's Brooklyn, NY, 1H3J. Tel. HYaclnlh 9-6600. Union is possible and desirable, he must have set some kind of Second class postaga paid at fha Pest Meany wrote, "the mutual prob­ record of 2,414,663, only 8.3 Sailing in the deck department record for shortest time spent on OffVca In Brooklyn, NY, under,.tha Act percent of the grain moved of kug. 34, 1911. lems and needs of both wheat since 1944, Jack Geller just paid the beach. Vince got off the Bein U.S.-flag bottoms. 1X0 growers and maritime workers can off the Manhattan to take his vaca­ loit and, two days later shipped be accomplished." tion. On his next run. Jack hopes (Continued on page 7) the phrase "right-to-work" to de­ scribe state laws prohibiting the union shop. "This description is not correct , . . these laws create no right . . . no job guarantees," the report said. Repeal of 14(b) would not result in either "compulsory unionism" of "invasion of states rights" as op­ ponents have charged. But it would, the committee majority declared, remove a source of "bitterness" in Fannin Lone Supporter Of the conMnifctee's 16 members, only Senator Paul J. Fannin (R.­ Ariz.) openly supported laws ban­ ning the union shop. To Fannin, who succeeded to Barry Goldwater's seat in the Senate last November, the Housepassed repeal hill was the result of a "lone, expensive propaganda campaign hy organized labor of- 5/1/ Gf. Lakes District To Vote On Dues Hike Wheat Sales SEAFARERS L^G Great Lakes July Cargoes Set Record �fafiwattr IT, UM MEArAHMRM £0« Fag« FIT* Report Of Great Lakes District Constitutional Committee On Proposed Duet Increase Septembw f, 1901 Ibvlntf t>ee]i duly olectad In aecordanc* with th« proylaionj of tho Constitution, at tha General Memberehip Mooting held in Ihe Port of Detroit on September T, 1008 •t 1 P.M., we, the Committee, submit this report and recommendations. Article XXVIII of the Conetitution reads as followsi AMENDMENTS Section 1. This Constitution may be amended in the following manner: Any proposed amend­ ment shall be submitted toa regular meeting at any Branch. When submitted to a Branch, it shall be forwarded to Headquarters from where it shall be distributed to the various Branches for further action. When any proposed amendment has been submitted to the various Branches, it shall be read, recorded in the minutes, and referred to a committee on Constitution, consisting of at least five (5) full book members for consideration. The proposed amendment shall be con­ sidered in connection with the report of the Committee and any amendment to the amendment that may be offered. If the proposed amendment or a substitute there­ fore, be endorsed by a majority of the membership at the Branches, it shall be referred to a Referendum vote of the Union to be taken in conformity with Article XXVII, and if upon such vote it shall have received a majority of the votes cast (excluding blank and disqualified bailots) it shall be declared adopted. If approved by a majority of the valid ballots cast, the amendment shall become effective immediately upon notification by the Headquarters Tallying Committee to the Secretary-Treasurer that the amendment has been so approved, unless otherwise specified in the amendment. The Secretary-Treasurer shall immediately notify all Ports of the results of the vote on the amendment. RESOLUTION "WHEREAS, tha SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UN­ ION OF NORTH AMERICA, GREAT LAKES DISTRICT, AFL-CIO, has traditionally maintained a position of leadership in the maritime industry in the establishment of benefits, services and security for its membership and "WHEREAS, the SIU has consistently maintained an effective organizing program that has resulted in the maximum job security and protection for its members, and effective Union operation, with the best job to mem­ ber ratio of any Union in maritime and "WHEREAS, the Union is continually striving to develop new programs and activities to maintain its members' job security and "WHEREAS, in order to achieve these objectives, the Union has been most active in organizing and has main­ tained a program in order to safeguard the membership's interest and security, and has pursued its objectives before legislative bodies and agencies throughout the Government and "WHEREAS, these problems grow ever more complex each day because of the state of the industry and the complexities of present-day union operations in evmy area and "WHEREAS, every member recognizes that it is essen­ tial to the well Iming of the Union and the entire membership to maintain and expand the Union's services and activities in every area affecting our job security and "WHEREAS, the cost of all materials and services, legal and otherwise, has been steadily mounting in the industry and "WHEREAS, the members of all other maritime unions have recognized and dealt with these problenu of rising oosts by providing increased income for Union operations and "WHEREAS, it now becomes imperative that we do likewise in the Interest of maintaining job security and full protection for the membership of this Union and continued effective Union functioning, NOW THEREFORE BE IT "RESOLVED that the dues Of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Great Lakes District, AFL-CIO, be increased by ten dollars (|10) per quarter from the present twenty dollars ($20) to thirty dollars ($30) per quarter effective January I, 1906 and BE IT FURTHER "RESOLVED that the present Initiation fee of $173 be increased to $300 and BE IT FURTHER "RESOLVED that Article HI Section 4 be changed, making it mandatory that all members' dues be not more than three (3) months in arrears before considered in bad standing and not more than six (6) months in arrears before suspension and BE IT FURTHER "RESOLVED that Article VIII Section 1 and 2 be deleted and replaced with "An arrears in dues shall be computed from the first day of the applicable quarter, but this time shall not run (a) while a member is actually participating in a strike or lock-out, (b) while a member is an inpatient in a USPHS or other accredited hospital, (c) while a member is under an Incapacity due to activity in behalf of the Union, (d) while a member is in the Armed Services of the United States, provided the mem­ ber was in good standing at the time of entry to the Armed Forces, and further provided he applies for reinstatement within 90 days after discharge from the Armed Forces" and BE IT FURTHER "RESOLVED that Article IX Section 1 and 3 be changed to conform with quarterly dues collection and BE IT FURTHER "RESOLVED that Article XI Section 4 be amended requiring port agents to act as chairmen at all General Membership Meetings and BE IT FURTHER "RESOLVED that Article XIII Section 8 be amended requiring an election committee composed of three (3) full book members, namely one (1) judge and two (2) clerks with an additional three (3) full book members composed of one (1) judge and two (2) clerks as alternates and BE IT FURTHER "RESOLVED that Article XV Section 11, paragraph 3 be amended increasing port petty cash revolving funds to a total of $500 and BE IT FURTHER "RESOLVED that Article XIX Section 11 be amended to "The appeals shall be heard at Union Headquarters on the date tha committee is elected" due to the fact that the Constitution presently says night and Regular Membership Meetings are held during the day and BE IT FURTHER "RESOLVED that Article XX Section 5 and Section 11 be amended making all fines not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) and BE IT FURTHER "RESOLVED that Article XXIII Section 7 be amended changing the per diem allowance to twenty-five ($23) per day due to Increased travel and subsistence costs and BE IT FURTHER; "RESOLVED that Article XXIV Section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 7 be deleted from the present Constitution because Project Sealab II LA JOLLA, Calif. — Project Sealab S la underway right now, 203 feet below tha Pacific Ocean near here. After being beset by numerous difficulties, not tha least of which was the vagaries of ocean weather and currents, the experiment in which men are to live and work on the sea fioor for 45 days under pressure 6Vi times that on land, began on August 29. In one of the .first experiments conducted from the 57-foot cigar-shaped steel cylinder, aquanaut M. Scott Carpenter, a Navy Lt. Commander who also won fame as an astronaut, talked by radio with Lt. Colonel L. Gordon Cooper as Cooper passed by more than 100 miles above the earth in the Gemini 5 spacecraft. The experiment went off well and both voices came through loud and clear — although Carpenter's voice sounded high pitched and nasal, a little like Donald Duck, as result of the high pressure and special atmosphere of the capsule beneath the sea. Sealab 2 is' primarily a test of how well men can live and work for extended periods beneath the sea. Three teams of divers are scheduled to spend 15 days each in the capsule. Carpenter is slated to stay down for 30 days. Experiments are to include taking specimens of sealife, an attempt to establish the first underwater weatlier station, and the salvage of a sunken Navy fighter airplane. The major experiment however, involves seeing how the men and equipment stand up under the rigorous undersea routine as they go about their assigned tasks. No Easy Task The Navy is rapidly learning from Sealab 2 that the sea is a tough environment for both men and machines. The initial lowering of the capsule to the sea floor was delayed several times by problems which kept cropping up, the last of which occuring when a bee-hive shaped communications and power pod was wrecked during lowering after a sudden surge of ocean currents smashed it against the bottom, cracking its con­ crete shell. The pod was raised again and a new shell constructed hurriedly at a nearby Naval electronic laboratory. • Since swimming down the 200 feet to the capsule in scuba diving ge&r, the aqua­ Ibese olausee are no longer applicable due to provisions la tba Soafarera Welfare Plan covering all members with hospitalization and burial benefits, retaining Section 8 and BE IT FURTHER "RESOLVED that Article XXVII Section 1 be amended to read "Headquarters may order (be balloting continued during the time period delineated by a number of succes­ sive regular meetings not exceeding three (3) provided' that no member shall be entitled to vote more than onco upon the same proposal," in order to clarify this clause and BE IT FURTHER "RESOLVED that the By-Laws bo amended under Section 6 changing the charge for book renewal from one dollar ($1) to ten dollars ($10) and BE IT FURTHER "RESOLVED that if the membership approves this Resolution it shall be submitted for a secret, referendum ballot In accordance with the provisions of the Constitu­ tion, and BE IT FINALLY "RESOLVED that if the membership approves this Resolution, the secret vote shall commence no earlier than October 1, 1965." Fraternally submitted, Bernard Baker, Book No. 8200; Henry V. Howard, Book No. 3943; Frank Rajkavich, Book No. 12455; Lawrence Tremblay, Book No. 9668; William Bateman, Book No. 1664; Gilbert D. Blazek, Book No. 11054; Harry Buccllli, Book No. 12518; Fred J. Famen, Book No. 2109; Pete Drewes, Book No. 10623; Don Cubic, Book No. 12418; R. HolUngsworth, Book No. 11602; Jack Bluitt, Book No. 12263 Headquarters has made available to us teletype com­ munications indicating the results of the voting on the resolution in all of the Great Lakes District ports con­ ducted at the General Membership Meeting held Septem­ ber 7, 1965 at 7 P.M. It is the finding of the committee that a majority of the membership in the Regular Membership Meetings held in the Great Lakes District ports voted to accept the proposed amendment to the Constitution as embodied in this resolution referring the resolution to this committee. The committee does not desire to recommend any changes, substitutions or dele­ tions in the proposed amendments. The committee recom­ mends that the proposed amendments included In this report be submitted to the membership for final considera­ tion at the next General Membership Meeting scheduled for September 20, 1965 in accordance with Article XXVHI of the Great Lakes District Constitution. This committee further recommends that this report be distributed to various branches. The committee further recommends that after final action has been taken on this report that a secret 31 day referendum ballot be conducted by Headquarters in accordance with Article XXVII of the Constitution. The committee notes that Article XXIV Section 2, 3, 5 and 6 have already been deleted from the Constitution by referendum vote of the members on January 25, 1960 due to the fact that the Great Lakes Seamens Welfare Plan has been operative for several years; therefore, only section 1, 4 and 7 need be included on a referendum ballot due to the fact that these sections are no longer applicable since the inception of the Great Lakes Seamens Welfare Plan, now known as the Seafarers Welfare Plan. Lawrence Tremblay, Book No. 9668; William Bateman, Book No. 1664; Harry Buccilli, Book No. 12518; Henry V. Howard, Book No. 3943; Dezse Gazse, Book No. 11265 Living Beneath The Sea Proves To Be A Tougher Job Than Scientists Expected naut* have been beset by one problem after another, both physical and mechanicaL For example: • Nine of the 10 men are suffering from painful ear infections. • Some of the protective "wet suits" the men wear when working outside the capsule have proven inadequate, resulting in paralyzing coldness that forces the men to break-off work sessions. • An invasion of stinging scorpion fish has been harassing the aquanauts and adding to the apprehension caused by the ever-present danger of sharks. • Leaks have developed in the capsule's steel port covers. • A possibility has developed that the capsule might slip off its shelf, breaking its "unbilical cord" which links it with the mother ship on the surface. • Curious changes have been observed in the blood chemistry of several of the aquanauts as well as symptoms of incipient hypertension. • The high helium content of the capsule's atmosphere has destroyed 10 TV cameras and inhibited continuous observation of the aquanauts by means of a closedcircuit television setup with the mother ship. Sealab's atmosphere is 85 percent helium, 11 percent nitrogen and 4 percent oxygen. In spite of these adverse conditions, the aquanauts are proving that they can work beneath the sea with a high degree of efficiency. Constant checks are being made on their physical condition and a great amount of data is being compiled which should aid in setting up future projects. Equipment is being tested artd, defects and shortcomings noted to aid in the design of better, more dependable underwater equipment. One of the project's more interesting experiments is slated to begin soon, when the aquanauts are joined outside the lab by a trained porpoise named Tuffy. It U hoped that the undersea creature, noted for its intelligence and special training, will aid the aquanauts as a guide and by handling hoses and other equipment. �Pace Six SgAFAMEMS LOG (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only in the SIU Atlantic Gulf Lakes and Inland Waters District) August 28 to S^tem^r 10, 1965 Coinciding with the departure of summer is the usual downward drift of overall shipping activity at this point in the year. The falloff was reflected by the fact that 1,177 men shipped out during the past two weeks, a decrease of 135 seafarers from the earlier period. Although a seasonal decline is to be expected, it was no doubt compounded by the effects of Hurricane Betsy. The storm battered the Gulf ports toward the end of the period and therefore reduced the totals of men shipped, which are counted from August 28th to September 10th. Increased military shipments to Viet Nam continues, and acts as a buffer against any sharp drops in men shipped. This situation was most noted in San Francisco where a shortage of all ratings in the Deck and Engine departments was reported. 213 men shipped out of this port, an increase of 81 over last period, and placed San Francisco second to New York in men shipped. New York, shipping 230 men was off slightly from the previous period. Baltimore improved its performance, shipping 124 men, 12 more than previously. Mobile was the bright spot in the Gulf, where 111 seamen obtained jobs. This amount represented a 50% rise over the earlier period. Although Houston and New Orleans shipped slightly more men, 136 and 127 respectively, these totals represent drops from average levels. Along with the dip in men shipped was an even greater fall in men registered. A total of 985 Class A and Class B seamen, or 220 fewer than last period, registered during the period. The largest drop occurred in the Engine department, with Deck close behind. A class breakdown reveals that Class A accounted for 51.3% of all men shipped. This figure represented a decline of almost 1% from the earlier period. The loss by Class A was taken up primarily by Class C seamen who shipped 169 men. This amount represented 14.4% of the total. ' • Class B shipped proportionally more than last time with most men sailing from the Engine department. The number of men registered-on the beach declined to 3,520, off 95 men. The drop resulted because fewer men registered than shipped this period. Total shipping activity decreased by 25 to 197. Most of the total was composed of In-Transits. There were 117 In-Transits, 45 Payoffs and 35 Sign-Ons. Ship Activity Siga la Oat Traai. Te?AL lettea 9 New Yerk.... 13 0 4 4 20- 4 39 1 II 22 Pbilodelpklo.. 4 4 laltiaiora .... 7 Norfolk 4 S 4 5 14 Jockionvlllo.. 1 0 Taaipa MoMlo • 4 0 2 II S 3 12 « 9 4 1 4 13 12 13 1 II 12 Now Orleaaa.. 2. 4" Houitoa Wiimlngtoa .. 0 14 Son Francisco. A 5 13 24 Sooltio ...... 2 1 4 7 TOTALS ... 45 35 117 197 DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A1 Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Registered CLASS B GROUP 3 ALL 1 2 15 9 3 3 67 20 42 5 10 4 5 1 18 4 6 8 10 4 5 1 7 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 15 8 6 1 38 18 17 3 19 12 35 4 2 4 2 0 9 13 24 46 1 5 6 0 99 138 34 1 271 Shipped CLASS AI Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C TOTAL Shipped Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B1 GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 1 2 S ALL A B C ALL 1 2 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 13 9 1 1 21 4 5 9 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 9 4 0 12 24 0 3 2 3 5 1 10 12 23 21 36 25 90 91 138 25 254 6 63 1 25 0 0 2 2 63 6 8 16 2 36 49 91 0 9 3 2 0 0 12 2 14 14 17 3 6 8 1 12 0 2 0 0 0 0 8 39 0 3 24 27 1 6 4 11 10 24 2 11 10 23 0 1 1 24 23 1 48 28 57 13 1 0 93 19 56 83 8 8 0 4 7 1 4 0 10 14 3 5 6 0 1 0 0 0 6 4 0 9 1 0 3 24 0 8 14 22 9 0 2 4 3 1 0 1 0 1 2 3 1 5 6 1 0 1 0 1 .3 11 7 3 20 3 6 16 1 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 3 2 7 0 0 0 0 1 4 1 2 1 3 2 1 6 10 17 9 12 1 1 32 12 1 60 4 3 5 32 2 1 0 0 45 22 32 6 6 18 28 9 19 2 10 13 0 6 15 14 25 0 0 0 0 19 25 44 61 72 11 144 4 4 1 0 43 57 104 23 8 15 2 7 16 0 0 0 13 10 25 1 2 2 25 16 2 43 68- 75 13 156 3 39 38 8 80 7 0 1 1 2 2 3 0 2 24 0 4 0 1 3 3 7 12 24 4 14 9 3 0 3 3 6 7 14 1 0 12 17 19 41 2 6 6 5 17 23 41 14 23 1 78 23 56 3 9 17 5 5 23 10 5 2 9 1 15 1 7 0 2 2 1 0 3 5 3 4 16 7 3 44 3 11 11 25 4 11 26 22 18 4 54 73 1 138 2 8 58 59 1 125' 95 132 23 1 250 11 14 29 1 45 250 138 45 1 433 369 489 96 1 945 45 224 238 1 507 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS A 1 Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 1 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 3 0 10 0 2 0 1 2 3 2 8 0 1 0 2 2 9 34 49 5 19 30 8 27 37 6 6 2 5 20 34 9 7 0 13 0 4 4 3 3 2 0 10 5 1 6 0 2 14 0 9 1 11 2 5 14 3 11 2 16 0 13 7 20 3 9 3 5 0 8 0 3 6 2 5 1 2 0 3 6 4 0 2 0 4 0 4 0 4 2 0 4 0 3 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 1 3 7 6 12 6 13 3 5 1 3 21 1 6 3 2 5 16 23 1 14 8 23 3 12 15 2 12 10 24 0 7 12 13 1 26 0 14 21 8 31 1 14 11 26 20 3 2 2 0 0 3 2 9 0 0 5 4 4 1 1 1 2 9 1 18 4 9 8 16 13 13 1 27 -4 12 3 6 22 10 0 3 6 1 3 1 4 1 6 1 8 3 2 11 6 51 112 17 Ifioo 11 87 46 1 1441 51 124 14 1 189 17 92 58 1 167 TOTAL Shipped Registered On The Beach CLASS Ai CLASS B GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 1 3 ALL A 2 B C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 0 12 4 0 0 0 10 2 0 2 11 0 5 4 3 1 78 51 121 12 184 4 7 37 1 2 4 84 7 38 32 74 0 6 10 1 22 0 0 0 4 0 30 0 7 8 13 21 0 1 16 87 5 0 1 20 1 51 0 22 24 22 24 46 0 0 1 1 5 12 6 1 6 11 3 7 13 20 1 21 2 0 0 2 4 3 2 9 1 6 0 1 5 5 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 3 0 5 3 3 3 21 13 0 0 37 3 6 19 6 4 29 1 16 9 1 2 3 15 24 0 3 42 33 95 13 58 4 54 43 110 0 1 1 59 30 2 31 26 2 71 4 105 5 46 38 89 8 11 3 0 9 2 11 22 5 10 4 19 2 4 4 10 19 27 0 12 7 22 19 68 11 31 2 44 1 7 7 15 0 0 1 1 8 11 1 1 20 3 23 3 29 0 8 * 1 12 24 22 11 50 189 167 50 1 406 158 400 69 1 626 27 206 196 1 429 4 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Bos NY Phil Bal Nor Jae Tam Mob NO Hou Wil SF Sea TOTALS Is 1 11 5 3 1 0 0 1 2 2 2 4 1 33 Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 1 1 2 3 ALL 1-s 1 2 2 3 ALL 1 ? 3 ALL 7 0 2 1 3 0 1 1 1 6 0 1 2 2 0 1 1 43 2 14 13 5 13 14 2 10 30 0 16 1 6 10 5 11 13 0 1 3 4 0 5 5 1 7 7 2 3 0 0 0 0 7 1 7 18 0 2 10 12 5 18 7 5 20 1 1 16 3 2 1 1 5 1 1 6 8 0 '3 2 6 1 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 1 0 3 5 2 3 2 0 24 0 4 4 4 2 16 0 24 1 6 3 13 17 0 21 22 2 4 5 12 23 0 0 17 24 2 10 6 6 2 10 14 0 17 3 12 4 3 6 3 10 1 1 1 5 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 3 5 0 0 0 9 1 10 24 0 0 3 3 3 13 7 7 4 8 28 0 0 2 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 _12 1 1 0 2 3 1 49 37 59 1 178 10 7 70 1 8' 29 38 26 72 1 165 6 11 82 1 99 Shipped CLASS C GROUP CLASS 1 2 3 ALL A B 0 0 1 1 6 1 0 0 16 16 30 16 0 0 7 2 2 3 0 0 1 " 1 20 18 0 0 0 0 6 3 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 24 4 0 1 0 1 23 17 0 0 5 17 12 5 2 1 3 6 5 0 1 0 31 32 28 7 2 0 4 6 3 12 3 3 68 I 74 165 99 SUMMARY DECK ENGINE STEWARD GRAND TOTALS TOTAL Shipped Registered Registered SHIPPED SHIPPED CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 123 ALL 123 ALL 123 ALL 123 ALL ^138 34 271 8 58 59 125 95 132 23 I 250 11 54 73 I 138 51 112 17 I 180 11 87 46 144 51 124 14 I 189 17 92 58 I .167 82 37 59 I 178 10 7 70 | 87 67 26 72 I 165 6 11 82 I 99 232 287 110 i 629, 29 152 175 ] 356 213 282 109 J 604 34 157 213 J 404 Registered On The Beach CLASS A ClASS B GROUP GROUP 8 ALL 1 C ALL 1-s 1 2 2 3 ALL 7 0 8 1 1 3 0 0 2 0 1 62 45 19 30 67 161 6 40 16 6 28 16 12 12 2 6 8 28 0 1 15 2 71 4 39 13 4 37 45 24 15 19 1 4) 9 1 4 1 6 12 1 3 18 22 4 1 2 0 4 4 2 1 7 2 1 1 1 6 1 1 2 1 2 0 2 3 47 2 1 29 7 0 13 15 16 8 16 41 37 1 14 16 66 133 3 5 83 91 5 34 46 13 25 26 110 5 13 44 62 9 ,4 19 1 2 6 11 4 5 6 6 50 1 9 32 67 11 11 8 20 0 8 9 1 7 22 1 2 21 24 21 5 6 38 :276 1 843 74 1 338 186"121 119 244 1 670 29 Registered On The Beach TOTAL SHIPPED CLASS B CLASS A SHIPPED CLASS C GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP 2 3 ALL 2 3 ALL 1 B C ALL 1 1 2 3 ALL A 45 250 138 45 I 433 369 480 96 945 45 224 238 | 507 14 29 50 189 167 50 I 406 158 400 69 626 27 "206'196 I 429 24 22 74 165 99 74 I 338 307 119 244 670 29~ 38 276 343 3 68 9 41 119 169 604 404 169 jll77{834 999 409 2241 101 468 710 J1279 �MKMAer IT, IMS SEAFARERS Fug* Serum LOG Sutvgy Shows U.S, Fleet Also Oldest U.S.-Flag Tankship Fleet Bill Would Bar Ships In N. Viet Trade In 4th Pla€e, Still Falling By Col Tanner, Execatlve Vice-President Support continue* to build up In Congress for the campairn to bar free world ship* that trade with Communist-North Vietnam from •isitinc U.S. ports. The latest sponsor of this boycott legislation Is Senator Birch Bayh (D.-Ind.) who introduced a bill recently which would prevent such idiips from stopping in U.S. ports and would penalize shipping companies which permit vessels under their control to trade with the Hanoi government. In introducing his bill, Senator Bayh charged that ships flying the flags of free world countries continue to deliver supplies to North Vietnam while American lighting men are giving their lives to defend the embattled southern part of the country from a Communist take­ over. "No freedom-loving nation should seek to profit from trade which could result in the death of boys seeking to defend freedom," the Indiana senator declared. Senator Bayh's timely bill is a welcome addition to maritime labor's campaign to rule U.S. ports off limits to vessels trading with an avowed enemy of this country. Congressional support for such a measure has been rapidly growing, and Representative Paul Rogers (R.-Fla sponsor of similar legislation in the House, reported recently that at least eight other congressmen are backing his bill. Maritime labor's campaign for the passage of this legislation Is getting invaluable assistance from the International Longshoremen's Association which has publiply sworn to boycott any vessel stopping at a U.S. port after trading with the Vietnamese communists. Repre­ sentative Rogers has provided a list of free world ships that are in the North Vietnam trade to the ILA, whose boycott campaign extends from Maine to Florida. The SIU has also thrown its support behind the campaign to prevent ships aiding the Vietnam communists from enjoying the fruits of U.S. trade. The drive for the boycott bills gained momentum when the House Foreign Affairs Committee adopted an amendment to the Foreign Aid Act which would prohibit U.S. funds going to nations which permitted ships or aircraft under their registry to trade with North Vietnam. By Al Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer Prepare Now For SIU Scholarship Seafarers all over the country have been watching their children troop back to school during the last few weeks. Many nise SIU men who are parents of teenagers are already turning their eyes toward nezl June and beginning to make plans for their children's education beyond the high school level. These are the members at the union who rightfully want to do their utmost to iMko sure that their sons and daughters can take every advantage that the future has to offer. It is to SIU parents such as these, that we once again point out th* wonderful opportunities available through the Union Scholarship Benefit. For parents who want the best possible Insurance for their graduating teenagers, it is never too early to begin planning to compete for this benefit. Five scholarships are awarded each year to Seafarers themselves or the children of union members. The scholarship awards are each worth $6,000 for four years of study at any college or university in the U.S. or its possessions in whatever academic field the winners decide to major in. Competition for the scholarships is conducted by the Maritime Advancement Program. In the last issue of the LOG, a feature article described the characteristics of the winners of the 1964 SIU scholarships. Th* survey showed that all five displayed 4 high academic ability, willingness factors in making the awards, ap­ to go all out to achieve the high plicants would bo advised to goals they set for themselves and make their arrangements for tak­ th* desire to be of service to their ing them well in advance. Teen­ own communities and the nation. agers can check with their high The SIU Scholarship Benefit school counseling offices for in­ was set up to help young people formation about the tests or like these. The union feels that should write Educational Testing it is its obligation to make sure Service, Box 592, Princeton, N.J. that both its own members and Seafarers or SIU parents inter­ their children have the maximum ested in' making application for to develop their talents to the the Seafarers Scholarship Benefit point where they can make the should write to the Marine Ad­ world a better place to live. vancement Program, 17 Battery Place, 19th Floor, New York 4, Now Is The Time New York. One of the most important rea­ To briefly review the require­ sons for starting to think about applying for the scholarship ben­ ments for eligibility for the schol­ efit at this time is that all appli­ arship awards, a Seafarer himself, cants, are required to take the or an applicant's father, must have college entrance examination at least three years actual covered which is given several times a employment with companies signa­ year all over the country. Since tory to the SIU Welfare Plan in these tests are one of the crucial (Continued en page 10) The United States tanker fleet has declined to fourth place in the world rankings dur­ ing the period between 1955 and 1964 while the Soviet Union was increasing the size of its tafiker fleet by 33 percent, according to a recent survey of a major oil company. The study found that the U.S. operators actually own tank­ vealed that the 422 takers totalling U.S., which possessed the 8.8 million tons which make up the ers totalling 24.2 million tons, the world's biggest and most American-flag fleet were only a study disclosed. Besides the 8.8 modem fleet of tankers at the end of World War II, is now ranked be­ hind Liberia, Norway and Great Britain. The tJ.S. now operates the oldest of the world's principal fleets, with an average tanker age of 14 years and one month. The study computed the average age of the world tanker fleet as seven years and seven months. Red Fleet Rises While the U.S. tanker fleet was sinking deeper into the doldrun^ during the last ten years, Russia was busy increasing the size of own fleet by more than ten times. The U.S.S.R. is now ranked 11th in the world tanker standings. The study found that the Soviets bad 175 tankers, totalling 2.7 million dead­ weight tons, and had an additional 600,000 tons either under construc­ tion or on order. The U.S., on the other hand, was revealed to have the lowest tanker growth rate of any of the major fleets in the world. The U.S. fleet increased its total tonnage by only 4.4 percent in the period studied, according to the survey. The study reported that while the size of the U.S. fleet remained vir­ tually at a standstill, the world tanker fleet was increasing at al­ most twice thfe average in 1964 that it had in the previous ten years. Total world carrying capacity rose by 13 percent to 85.1 million dead­ weight tons. Big Size Trend The trend toward larger-sized tankers continued during 1964, ac­ cording to the survey. The average size of vessels under construction was 53,300 tons, a rise of 3,700 tons over the year before .Average tank­ er size in 1964 was 25,000 tons. In 1955, at the beginning of the period studied, tankers of up to 29,999 tons made up 94.6 percent of the world fleet. At the end of the decade tankers of this size ac­ counted for 43.1 percent of the fleet. The study also disclosed that the average speed of tlie world fleet had increased in the last ten year's. Ten years ago 81.2 percent of the world's fleet had speeds up to 15.9 knots per hour, while in 1964 it was found that 56.3 percent of the world's tankers could sail at 16 knots or more. Runaway's Lion Shore The survey's statistical tables re­ fraction of the tankers under actual ownership of U.S. interests. Large tanker operators in this country have been registering their vessels overseas and sailing them under runaway-flags to evade U.S. taxee, wages and safety standards. Scientists Use Old Ammo To Blast Over-Age Ship CAPE CHARLES, Va.—It will take exactly 8,500 tons of surplus and defective ammunition to blow the 10,000-ton Liberty Ship Santiago Iglesias out of the Atlantic, 77 miles east - northeast of Cape"*" will be opened to start her toward Charles. the bottom. Hydrostatic fuses — The explosion, scheduled detonators set to go off when » for sometime late this week, is part of Operation Chase IV, a sub­ division of the United States Up­ per Mantle Program which is con­ ducting a geophysical survey of Ahe crustal structure of the con­ tinental shelves of the East and West Coasts of North America. Aside from disposing of faulty ammunition and an outmoded ves­ sel, the blast will provide infor­ mation to scientists studying the nature of the geological formations through which the shock waves must travel. Researchers use seis­ mic devices to chart the direction and intensity of the waves from which they calculate the complex geography of the shelves. The last "shot" was set off on July 15 when 5,000 tons of old explosives was used to send the 6,073-ton freighter Coastal Ma­ riner to the bottom in the same waters. The 423-foot Santiago Iglesias was broken out of the Hudson-Re­ serve Fleet late last month and loaded with old ammunition at the Naval Ammunition depot. Then the old Liberty freighter was towed by the Navy to Cape Charles under escort of the 205foot oceangoing Coast Guard tug Tamaroa. Both the Navy and the Coast Guard will stand watch at a safe distance while the ship is being blasted out of the water. Before the Santiago Iglesias is destroyed, the vessel's sea valves SIU Clinic Exams -All Ports EXAMS THIS PERIOD; July 1 -July 31, 1965 Port Boston Baltimore Jacksonville Houston New York Norfolk Philadelphia Tampa ..<'•••••' San Francisco New Orleans. Mobile TOTAL. Seamen million tons registered under the U.S. flag, 6.7 million tons are op­ erated under Liberian registry; 3.1 millicm tons tinder the Panantanian flag; 3 million tons under the Brit­ ish flag, and 2.6 million tons under the flags of other nations. Wives Children TOTAL 9 107 13 123 410 68 43 12 115 306 92 3 35 1 13 41 0 13 5 0 2 8 0 28 0 11 33 0 9 5 0 24 15 12 170 14 147 484 68 65 22 115 332 115 1,298 121 125 1,544 pre-designated depth is reached— will touch off the blast at 1,000 feet. The Atlantic is 5,000 feet deep at that location. Lt. Commander Richard A. Blackford, executive officer of the Tamaroa, who was present at the demolition of the Coastal Mariner, described the explosion this way: "It was as if giant hands grasped the ship and shook her. As the shock wave was passing, the white and black plume of water burst from the bubble, soaring to a height of about 1,000 feet, only to slowly fall back from whence she came. And then the sea was silent again." Atlantic (Continued from page 4) out again in the Globe Carrier. Fortunately, he got a chance to say hello to some old friends be­ fore taking off. Puerto Rico The American Communications Association Local 10 has won an election to represent Western Un­ ion Cable and Wireless Ltd. in Puerto Rico. The New York based union also represents employees of R.C.A. here. At least 19 labor organizations representing Federal employees on the island have agreed to band together into a Federal Council of Government Employees of the Post-Office,-Customs and a num­ ber of other Federal agencies. Puerto Rico President Commis­ sioner has endorsed a bill to ex­ pand unemployment compensation but urged the House Ways and Means Committee to analyze care­ fully the problems it would create for the island commonwealth. BasUio Maldonado dropped by the hall with his son Basil to say "hello" to all his friends. This is Basilio's first vacation in the is­ land in 25 years and we all hope he enjoys it. He certainly deserves It. Steve Marrero and Angel Gar­ cia keep the domino game hop­ ping while tliey wait for a ship to their liking. Reuben Negron and Isldro Gonsale* are back on the beach after a long stay on the Alcoa Trader. �Pare Eiffht SEAFAkkRlS L6G ^tenber iV, MM Meany Statement on Wheat Shipments The followinp it a statement by AFLCIO President George Meany on the tubject of wheat shipments to the Soviet Union. URING THE PAST two weeks, a num­ D ber of accounts have appeared In the press, purporting to describe the circum­ stances surrounding the adoption of the requirements that at least 50 percent of all wheat sold to the Soviet Union must be shipped on American vessels, where available. These accounts have invariably mis­ represented the position and role of the AFL-CIO and of myself in this matter. They seem to have relied upon speculation or biased second or third-hand reports, for none of the reporters or coluihnists under whose bylines these stories have appeared have bothered to inquire as to the facts or to check the accuracy of their state­ ments concerning the AFL-CIO position with the AFL-CIO itself. In view of the current effort by some members of the Senate to cast the AFL-CIO in a "dog in the man­ ger" role and to arbitrarily revoke the application of flie flag preference principle, I believe it is important to set the record straight. As regards the original application of this principle to Soviet wheat sales, the facts are these: 1. I made no demand or request of any kind upon Pres. Kennedy in connection with this transaction. PriOr to the con­ summation and announcement of the wheat sale. Pres. Kennedy did inquire as to my views on the advisability of selling wheat to the Soviet Union. I advised him that I would favor such a step, because of (a) the humananitarian aspect of wheat as a foodstuff, and (b) the value of such a transaction in dramatizing the superior performance of the American system in meeting human needs, as against the So­ viet system. Contrary to recent press accounts, 1 placed no terms or conditions of any kind upon the cooperation and support of the AFL-CIO in this matter. Backed Food Sharing As a matter of fact, in April of 1962, I had publicly urged that the United States give foodstuffs to the peoples of Iron Curtain countries, contending that "hunger knows no politics." 2. At a press conference in October of 1963, Pres. Kennedy made the first public announcement of the Soviet wheat sale, at which time he stated that all of the wheat would be shipped on American vessels, if available. It is my impression that this decision was motivated in large part by the desire to realize maximum value to all segments of the American economy from the transaction. A Labor Dept. representative did confer with officials of the Intl. Long­ shoremen's Association at that time and received a commitment of full cooperation on this basis, despite the historic reluctance of East Coast long­ shoremen to handle goods consigned to or originating in Communist na­ tions. 3. Subsequently, upon the representa­ tions of the Commerce and Agriculture Departments, it was deemed not feasible to carry out the objective of using Amer­ ican vessels for the entire shipment. The provisions governing the use of American vessels was thereupon reduced to not less than 50 percent, where available, and this provision was contained in Pres. Ken­ nedy's executive order. 4. The maritime and longshore unions did not protest this reduction. The dispute which caused the cessation of loading of grain ships arose as a result of the suc­ cessful efforts of the grain dealers (Con­ tinental Grain Co., and Cargill, Inc.) to further reduce the participation of Ameri­ can vessels by securing waivers of the 50 percent requirement through various con­ trivances which disqualified American vessels, which were in fact ready and able to carry the cargo, and substituting foreign-flag vessels on grounds that no U.S.-flag vessels were "available." The use of foreign flag vessels In this Instance did not reduce the price paid by the Soviet Union for the grain. The transaction was consum­ mated on the basis of a fixed price for the wheat delivered at Soviet ports. The net effect of the substitution of foreign flag vessels was to increase the proceeds of the sale to the dealers. The protest action by the maritime unions was directed entirely at these private corporations who, for reasons of their own profit, were engaged in under­ mining and nullifying the policy and assurances of the President of the United States. A prime example of the devices employed by these companies and their agents in engaging vessels for this trade was the disqualification of large-capacity, deep draft ships, although these ships were the most efficient and lowest cost bulk carriers under the American flag. Subsequent investigation clearly showed that the grounds advanced for excluding such ships were spurious and that their use was entirely feasible. They were in fact used to complete the wheat shipments following the settlement of the dispute. 5. I entered this controversy only after being requested to do so by Pres. John­ son in February of 1964. In cooperation with Sec. of Labor Wirtz, I then inter­ ceded with the maritime and longshore unions in the effort to find a fair and reasonable basis for ending the dispute. A considerable amount of persuasion was nescessary to induce these autonomous organizations, concerned with a problem vitally affecting the welfare of their own industry and membership, to abandon the course of direct action and to resume work on this cargo on a basis which, to a very large extent, left the future disposi­ tion and resolution of the grain shipment problem to the good faith and sense of justice of public officials. The circumstances and basis of settle­ ment were fully and favorably reported at the time and are matters of public record. The Congressional Record of Feb­ ruary 25, 1964, beginning on page 3412, contains a full and complete exposition of the matter by Vice Pres. (then Senator) Hubert Humphrey. The relevant excerpts of the Congressional Record is attached. It includes the remarks of Sen. McGovern, in an exchange with Sen. Humphrey, which Indicated his complete approval, at that time. 6. It is important to note that the understanding which led to the resump­ tion of wheat shipments to the Soviet Union in 1964 set forth an orderly method for the continuing review of government policy concerning cargo preference, flag quotas and maritime policy generally, in­ cluding any future changes in government policy relating to U.S.-flag participa­ tion in the shipment of wheat to the Soviet Union. For this purpose, a Maritime Ad­ visory Committee, composed of govern­ ment officials, representatives of maritime labor, the shipping industry, and the public at large, was established by the President. This committee is functioning and has submitted a number of' recom­ mendations on maritime issues which are currently under consideration by the Ad­ ministration. This committee was intended to create a channel through which th« problems of maritime labor and management might be presented to the appropriate officials of govern­ ment, with the public interest fully represented. It was hoped that this would provide an orderly and con­ structive alternative to the method of direct economic action, which the maritime unions have too often found the only effective way to attract attention and gain consideration of the serious problems affecting the livelihood of their members. The maritime unions and the AFL-CIO have, to date, participated cooperatively in the work of the committee in that spirit and with that hope and intention. It would be a tragedy If that hope were shattered and the function of the com­ mittee destroyed by ill-considered action by the Senate, under the illusion that the nullification of a constructive understand­ ing will succeed in getting ships loaded with American wheat. 'Blocking' Charge False As regards charges by certain Senators that the AFL-CIO is now blocking . the consummation of a hypothetical grain sale to the Soviet Union, the allegations are false. Contrary to reports that have ap­ peared in some press accounts, the AFLCIO was not responsible for the removal of language in the Administration farm bill which would have nullified a flag quota on wheat shipments. I know of no such language and do not believe that there ever was such language since it would not be necessary to accomplish the purpose if the Administration saw fit to do so. The AFL-CIO was not, at any time, consulted in the drafting of the farm bill and did not see it, or any part of it, until its introduction in Congress. lif there is any current desire on the part of the Soviet Union to purchase wheat from the United States on any terms I am not aware of it. I have not discussed the prospect with Pres. Johnson or any other official of the Administration nor have my views as to the desirability of such a transaction at this time been sought. If my views as to the desirability of a wheat sale to the Soviet Union should be sought, they would be the same as those I expressed to Pres. Kennedy in 1963. If the President i^hould decide that it Is in the best interest of the United States to pur­ sue such a course, the AFL-CIO would support that decision, and we would cooperate, if asked to do so, in at­ tempting to work out any reasonable new arrangements which might be necessary to facilitate it. In so doing, however, we would argue that the abandonment of the legitimate Interests of the American merchant marine and of the public interest in the merchant marine is neither justified nor necessary to accomplish this objective. Seamen, as well as wheat farmers and the stockholders of Cargill and Continen­ tal Grain Co. must eat, and it is wholly unnecessary and destructive to attempt to drive a wedge between the interests of farmers and workers, as some now seek to do, to resolve this issue in a manner fair to both. Seamen face the same problem in competition in a cheap world market, where standards are below Ameri­ can levels, as wheat farmers do. Both American siiips and healthy American farms are essential to the welfare of the nation, and neither American farmers nor American sailors should be expected to reduce themselves to Hong Kong stand­ ards. The American labor movement has long supported every effort to bring income parity and a better way of life to those who seek a livelihood in agriculture. The AFL-CIO has continuously sup­ ported substantial federal outlays to raise farm income through the price-supporting loan program, stockpiling and subsidized agricultural commodity sales. In addition, we have aided passage of federal programs to expand farm credit, help farm coopera­ tives, conserve the soil, accelerate rural electrification, insure crops against dam­ age, and other measures to improve rural education, health and housing. We have never complained of the cost, though workers, including merchant seamen, bear a full share of the tax burden. Taxpayer-supported aid to wheat grow­ ers, to assure them a fair price for their product and profitable sales at home and abroad, has been substantial. We have supported subsidies to as­ sure wheat price maintenance through the government loan mechanism. We have supported the various govern­ ment subsidies which seek to increase wheat consumption both at home and abroad. We have supported the taxpayer-financed direct wheat export subsidy which is necessary to bring wheat export prices down to the world market level because other subsidized programs have succeeded in keeping the domestic wheat inice up. According to the Dept. of Agriculture, the total costs of operating U.S. govern­ ment wheat-related support activities in fiscal 1964 exceeded $1.8 billion. The export subsidy to commercial wheat exporters is made necessary by the gap between the lower world market wheat price (at which American exporters must sell) and the higher supported U.S. domestic price (at which they must buy). This subsidy also includes cost factors involved in transporting the wheat to U.S. ports of exit. In fiscal 1964, the wheat export subsidy totalled $97 million. To described the sale of wheat to the Soviet Union, therefore, as a purely priv­ ate "commercial" transaction is highly inaccurate and misleading. $140 Miiiion Involved I am informed that the Soviet Union paid $140,200,000 to Continental Grain and Cargill, the two exporting companies that handled the 1963-64 wheat transaction. This was the price paid for delivery at Soviet ports and included the cost of partial delivery on American ships. The direct U.S. tax-supported export subsidy on the sale was equal to 31 percent of the delivered price, or about $43 million. This does not include, of course, the pro­ rata indirect cost of other U.S. subsidies involved in supporting the price and sale of U.S. wheat. This export sudsidy was equal to about 66 cents on each of the 63 mil­ lion bushels sold. By way of contrast the additional cost of transporting part of this wheat on American ships averaged out to less than 8 cents per bushel for the total shipment. In face of the generous outlays by all of the American people in behalf of the welfare of wheat growers and exportei-s, continued consideration of the welfare of American maritime workers and of our national security also would seem valid under a governme;nt-subsidized and. spon­ sored wheat export program. It is the view of the AFL-CIO that, if the federal government finds that a wheat sale to the Soviet Union is possible and desirable, the mutual problems and needs of both wheat growers and martime work­ ers can be accommodated. If the freight rate differential is, in fact, the only barrier to such a transaction, and if its consummation is deemed a matter of over­ riding national interest, there are various ways in which the problem can be approached which would respect the legitimate interests of all parties and would not entail the betrayal of one vital segment of our economy by another. Subsidy Change The freight differential might be ab­ sorbed into the export subsidy as some of the costs of rail shipment to U.S. ports now are. The Administration now has v before it a proposal from the Maritime Advisory Committee, supported by the un­ ions, for a change in the maritime subsidy program which would enable bulk car­ riers to compete at or near world market freight rates so as to reduce or eliminate any added cost to exporters or to the farm program where American vessels are used, whether in a ,shipment to the Soviet Union or in the P.L. 480 program. These and other alternative ap­ proaches merit serious consideration and discussion. Any effort to arbitrairily abolish or negate U.S.-flag protection, without putting a better plan or procedure in its place, can lead only to the most harmful conse­ quences. The AFL-CIO is ready at any time to cooperate fully in any effort to find a better method of achieving the objective sought by the 50 percent American-fiag requirement. We are strongly opposed to any misguided effort to resolve the issue by the arbitrary and ruthless elimination of that requirement. �Ijtftciii^ IT, mi By Frank Drouk, Wnst Coast Rcpresnntatlv* Coast Shipping Looks Good ThB SlU-Pacific District contracted American Mail Line has been given the green light by the Maritime Administration to call for bids to build three new cargo liners. MA officials said they were still studying a request by the company for authority to build a fourth Uner. The three new vessels will be among the largest subsidized berthline ships to fly the U.S. flag. The new ships will be about 40 feet longer than the 560-foot Mariner-class cargoliners which have been built in recent years. The vessels will have an 60 foot beam, weigh 12,000 gross tons and will have room for 12 pasengers. The MA decision permits American Mail to begin the third phase of its fleet replace­ ment program begun in 1961. SIU men in the San Francisco area are just beginning to get used to the sight of seeing hovercraft skim across the waters of the bay between their downtown berth and the airports of the two cities. The craft, which "fly" over the water on a cushion of air, are making ten round trips a day. as a one-year test of their feasible use. Transit experts are watching the results of the experiment to see if the "jet skimmers," as they are called here, have the answqr for big-cift^ traffic problems. catching a ride to the war zone San Francbee Shipping in the Bay area is still bonus area are advised to regbter moving along at a very good clip, as soon as possible. We can assure and there b a heavy, demand for you here, that you won't have long almost ail entry and regular rat­ to wait since nine out of ten shipe ings. Any members Interested in are Vietnam-bound from here. Oidtimers W. A. Warren and E. Di Parsly have shown up in the San Francbco hall to look for a good shuttle run to the Far East. Warren b keeping his eye peeled for a sharang job, while Parsly b holding out for a DM slot. Brother H. Donovan told us that he's had enough time on the beach and will be hunting steward department opening in the near future. WASHINGTON —The AFL-CIO M. Steinsupie was shooting the has issued a warning to America's breeze about the old days with us senior citizens that a new racket before shipping out on the Santa has sprung up aimed directly at Emelia as bosun. He b another big them. booster of the shuttle runs. Howard Federation Social Security Di­ Webber, who has been shipping as rector Nebon Cruikshank has bosun on the Yorkmar stopped by charged that confidence men are to say he will make two more invbiting elderly citizens soliciting tercoastal trips before leaving the for enrollment in the medicare ship. He claims a Seaman can't catch any dolphins on those new program for a price. C-4s because they travel too fast. Such offers are eompletely Webber says hb next deep water ftaadulent, be said, and urged trip will be to the Far East. anyone solicited to report at once to the Federal Bureau of Seattle Investigation or to local law Shipping has made an excellent enforcement officers. improvement in Seattle, and will There are no door-to-door en­ continue to hold up in the coming rollments or application fees for weeks. Union men with FWT and any of the medicare programs, oiler ratings can just about have Cruikshank pointed out. Those their choice of jobs in thb port. presently receiving social security, Payoffs during the last two weeks railroad, retirement or Civil Ser­ included the Achilles and Antinons. vice pensions will receive informa­ James Fisher says he b waiting tion and enrollment cards auto­ for a Far East mm so he can take matically by mail from the Social advantage of where the money is. Security Adminbtration, he said. Fbher, who ships as AB, last sailed All others 65 and older should seek on the Express Virginia. Another advice and counsel at their local oldtimer who remembers what a Social Security Administration sailor had to put up with before office, he said. the Union came along is Hollis Hoff. Cruikshank recalled that labor Hollb piled off the Overseas Joyce, was virtually alone in the medicare and tells us that he'll nab the first fight for a long time, starting in chief cook's job that comes along, 1945. But as the need mounted no matter where it takes him. and public awareness of the prob­ Wilmington lem spread, religious organiza­ The shipping picture in Wilming­ tions and other groups Joined the ton in recent weeks b bright and drive, he noted. sunny and is expected to remain ex­ The result was "a rising tide of general support which finally cellent for the coming period. The made ibelf felt in the Congress," St. Lawrence took a full crew and 11 vesseb stopped in transit during Cruikshank said. His statements the last two weeks. Men with deck, came during the weekly radio in­ terview, Labor New.^ Conference. engine and other ratings are urged to register to meet the quickening Cruikshank .predicted that pace of traffic. threats by some doctors to boycott Charles Kath had some bad luck the medicare program will not and has been laid up on the beach materialize. for the past several months. Right "We think the medical profes­ now. he's chafing at the bit to get sion in the United States b made hb FED so he can grab the first up largely of men who have a de^ oiler's job that hits the board. Alsense of responsibility to their fonse Monahan, who is holding patienb," he said, pointing out dowii an oiler's job on the Achilles, that boycotting the program would dropped by the hall to say hello mean "refusing to serve their and pick up some OT sheets and patienb." LOGS for the crew. Alfonse, signed "Thb, American doctors have on in Boston, reporb he b looking never done, and I don't think they forward to the end of the voyage ever will," he added. , when he wili, '^ke a,^^or]t,Yacatiqn., Racket Keyed To Medicare Bilks Elderly S^AFAREHtS Ff NIM LOG US. Drops Plan To Buy Polish'Built Fishing Boats WASHINGTON—Strong criticism by congressional supporters of the American ship­ building industry has forced the U.S. Department of the Interior to abandon its plans of ordering two new fishing trawlers from shipyards in Poland. Maritime labor and other segments of the U.S. shipping industry joined congressional mercial Fisheries of the Interior them abroad, would hurt, rather critics of the proposal in Department. Under the terms of than help, the country's declining charging that the Government ac­ tion would further depress the bad­ ly slumping U.S. shipbuilding in­ dustry. Leaders in the congressional fight against the Interior Depart­ ment's plan included Representa­ tives Edward A. Garmatz (D.-Md.), Thomas Downing (D.-Va.) and Sen­ ator Daniel Brewster (D.-Md). Con­ gressional foes of the plan empha­ sized that the government should be concentrating on building up the U.S. shipbuilding industry, rather than further depressing it. The proposal to order Polbhmade fishing boats was originally cmiiceived l«r the Bureau of Com- the plan, the new vesseb would have been leased to American fish­ ing operators. Investigation Dropped Strong opposition to the idea came from the House Merchant Ma­ rine and Fbheries Committee on which Representative Garmatz b the ranking Democrat. The Mary­ land congressman said his commit­ tee would no longer investigate the proposed foreign-yard order of the fishing boats after the government announced it had dropped the plan. Garmatz admitted that the U.S. fishing industry needed the new, modem trawlers, but he charged that the government's plan to order Strike Support Increased Sheet Metal Workers Aid Kentucky Strikers BOWUNG GREEN, Ky.—The Sheet Metal Workers have stepped up support of local production and maintenance workers on strike since June 7 for a first contract at the Detrex Co. plant here. The union's general execu­ hers. The union won a National Labor Relations Board election tive board meeting in New last October after a first loss was York City, voted $50,000 to help finance the fight of the 188 strikers to support their families and with­ stand a hostile management and town government. The union abo established picket lines at the Detrex home office and plant in Detroit, and at the firm's second largest plant in Ashtabula, Ohio, where members of other unions have cooperated with the pickete. The Bowlirig Green plant fabri­ cates industrial sheet metal and commercial dry cleaning equip­ ment. Organization Director Ed­ ward J. Carlough of the union said the firm "ran away from another union in Detroit, seeking cheap labor and cheap conditions" but will be ftquired_ to negotiate "a decent labor contract with us or they can keep going all the way to Antarctica." set aside. After long negotiations, it rejected a "final" company offer of 2 cents an hour each year for three years. Since the strike started, as many as' 32 policemen at a time, out of a total force of 42, have been on duty at the Detrex pbnt, each carrying an ax handle. One day a city dump truck arrived with a load of hot tar and municipal workers spread it in the area where pickets have been permitted to stand, according to Representa­ tive Thomas Reid of the union. •The police were later withdrawn by the mayor. Reid charged that the mayor, police and the Chamber of Com­ merce have cooperated to help Detrex mangement in ib effort to break the strike. Businessmen warned the strikers that loans would be recalled, mortgages fore­ closed and credit refused, he said. Wives working in other planb have been advised they could lose their jobs unless the strikers return to work, Reid was told. The Detrex management fought off organization successfully fw 10 years and enjoyed the tax-free favors of the town government, along with extraordinary police But members of 14 unions have services, according to union mem' taken a turn on the picket line and the newly formed Bowling Green Central Labor Council has voted strong backing. Only a few of the striking work­ ers have yielded to company and business pressiu-es. One strike­ breaker was killed and another in­ jured when a saw hiade shattered from improper use at the plant, according to union sources. The striking union expressed appreciation to the Kentucky State AFL-CIO and the Kentucky Labor News for extraordinary services. Executive Secretary-Treasurer Sam Ezelie of the state labor body, pledged continued labor support at a rally of strikers and their fami­ lies in, Bowlii^g Green. , ship construction industry. "They should be built in the United States, with United States funds, in United States shipyards," he de­ clared. In attacking the Interior Depart­ ment's plan to order new fishing bottoms from behind the Iron Cur­ tain, Representative Downing em­ phasized the neglected status of the American shipbuilding industry. He pointed out that 18 U.S. shipyards had closed down during the past ten years in addition to two Navyoperated yards. Buy Plans, Build Here Downing heavily criticized the government's contention that it was to the advantage of the U.S. to or­ der the Polish vessels, since that country possessed one of the most advanced trawler-building indus­ tries in the world. The Virginia representative shrugged off this justification when he recommended that the U.S. could buy plans for the new trawlers from Poland and build- the vessels in American yards. He also drew a parallel to other government backed plans under which the Navy Deparment has pro­ posed to order several non-combat vessels from British shipyards. Downing announced he was against all of these build-abroad ideas ad­ vanced by the government. "I be­ lieve the Administration should be considering proposals to protect and promote our shipbuilding in­ dustry," he asserted. Senator Brewster charged that the Interior Department's plan was only the forerunner of a govern­ ment policy of building and pur­ chasing ships overseas. "Govern­ ment programs which have started are not easy to stop," he warned. New Florida Port Handles Phosphates PORT MANATEE, Fla. — The rapidly growing demand for ship­ ping facilities to handle Florida's burgeoning phosphate export busi­ ness is creating a new $15 million seaport in this Gulf city just south of Tampa. Florida's phosphate trade skyrocketed this year after new sources of the mineral were discovered in the northern section of the state. The port of Tampa, which has been serving as the shipping point for the state's phosphate industry in past years, found its facilities severely strained as export volume literally exploded when the new mining sites were opened. Ship traffic grew to the point where vessels waiting to pick up cargo often encountered ten day waits until they could be loaded. Traf­ fic in the port's rail yards also be­ came seriously congested because of the heavy increase in exports. Faced with this monster-sized traffic headache, two railroads serving the port decided to con­ struct a new port complex nearby. The Manatee County Port Authori­ ty is now building a new phosphate terminal which will handle bulk shipments of the mineral which will arrive by rail. �Somber 17> IMS SEAFAnSRS- LOG: Pare-Ten Key Ruling Clarifies Use Of Radar By Robert A. Matthews, Vice-President, Contracts. & Bill Hall, Headquarters Rep. New International Rules To Curb Sea Collisions New international regulations for preventing collisions at sea went into effect this month. Drawn up at the fourth International Conference for Safety of Life at Sea, which In order to improve ti;.s preparation and aervinr of food aboard was held in London in I960,* SlU-contracted vessels, the SIU Steward Department Guide is printed the new regulations apply to position of the other vessel," under Rule 16, "sufficiently to relieve a in full below. all public and private vessels vessel of the duty to stop her en­ (1) Menus are to be prepared daily, on main entrees at least 24 hours in advance. Standardization must be avoided. (2) The chief steward is to issue all daily stores when practicable and must control all keys. Storerooms and iceboxes are to be kept locked at all times. (3) Maximum sanitary and orderly conditions must be observed in all steward department facilities such as galley, messrooms, storerooms, etc. No smoking in the galley at any time. No smoking by any steward personnel while serving or preparing food. (4) White jackets must be worn by messmen at all times while serving. T-shirts may be worn while preparing for meals. Galley gang to wear white caps, cooks jackets, white or T-shirts during hot weather. Caps to be paper or cloth. Cooks jackets to be % length sleeves. However, white or T-shirts may be worn by messmen during hot v.eather. of the U.S. including motorboats, while navigating on the high seas. Other provision of the 1960 con­ vention went into force in May. These dealt with improved safety standards for ocean shipping. The new anti-collision rules center on the use of radar, and de­ fine the obligations of a vessel underway at sea in reduced visi­ bility conditions under the Inter­ national Rules of the Road. gines and navigate with caution when a fog signal is heard forward of the beam." In short, a radar sighting is not sufficient to be considered an as­ certainment of position. Another recommendation pro­ vides that information obtained from radar "is one of the circum­ stances to be taken into account when determining moderate speed." Rule 16 allows a power-driven vessel to take "early and substan­ tial action to avoid a close-quarters situation" when, before "hearing the fog signal of another vessel or (Continued from page 7) (5) Only qualified food handlers are to handle food and all personnel sighting her visually," the poweroutside of the steward department are to be kept out of the galley at driven vessel picks up another addition to having ninety days em­ ship on the radarscope forward ployment time in the year prior to all times. applying, as well as one day in the of her beam. (6) All entrees such as meats, fowl, and fish. Including ham and six month period prior to applying. The new ruling points out that bacon for breakfast, must be served from the galley, and when practical, A Seafarer must be under the in restricted visibility the radar vegetables should also be served from the galley. range and bearing alone "do not age of 35 but this age limitation (7) All steaks and chops are to be grilled to individual order. How­ constitute asc^tainment of the may be waived for the active sea­ man having completed one or more ever, chops may be grilled thirty minutes ^rior to serving, when years in an accredited college or necessary. Meats and roasts must be carved to order. university during the three-period immediately preceding his applica­ (8) No plates should be overloaded and only non-watery vegetables tion for this benefit and provided v.ill be served on the same plate with the meat or other entree. Other he has maintained an average in vegetables to be served on side dishes. high school or college in the top one-third of his class. Applicants -(9) At least two men of the galley gang must be in the galley during who are dependent children of meal times. The steward is to supervise the serving of all meals. Either Seafarers must be unmarried when t ie steward or the chief cook must supervise the meals when in port. they apply, otherwise they are not Steward to be aboard and responsible to check voyage stores when they considered dependent. Marriage, GENEVA—^The free trade un­ after the scholarship is awarded jie received. ions of the world support "all will not effect the scholarship. (10) Salads, bread, butter and milk are to be placed on the table not possible measures" to expand the more than five minutes before the serving and only on tables where trade and speed the development Adopted children of eligible sea­ needed. of the emerging countries but want men are also able to apply for the (11) All coffee served for meals and coffee time is to be made in to participate actively in the ef­ benefit, provided they have been fort, Bert Seidman, AFL-CIO Eu­ adopted for at least five years electric percolators when practicable. prior to making application. (12) No food, including vegetables, is to be thrown away after meals ropean economic representative, Extra Study without the consent of the steward or the chief cook. Use left-overs said in a statement to the United Nations Trade & Development as soon as possible, not to exceed forty-eight hours. The Scholarship awards may be Board here. used for post-graduate study in (13) Such items as sardines, boiled eggs, sliced left-overs roasts, Seidman testified on behalf of those instances where the Schol­ such as pork, beef, ham, etc., potato salad, baked beans, besides the the International Confederation arship award winner completed ordinary run of cold cuts and cheese are to be served for night lunch. of Free Trade Unions. his under-graduate work prior to The night lunches are to be cut and placed by the 2nd cook or 3rd cook before retiring. "A few countries included trade having used the full four years of his scholarship award. However, (14) Hot bread or rolls to be baked daily when practicable. Cakes union representatives in their in each' case of this type, where .delegations to the UN Conference or pastry to be served at coffee time as much as possible. on Trade & Development and at the Scholarship award is to be (15) Stewards must keep a record of all menus for reference. least one has done so at meetings used for post-graduate work, the Trustees must agree in advance (16) Ground coffee for the black gang to be drawn from the steward of this board," he pointed out. . to the award being used for that within the steward's working hours and not from the pantry. purpose. In addition, eligible de­ Participation Urged pendent children of pensioners (17) Typewritten copy of the daily menu to be furnished the galley "To assure the active interest are eligible to participate in the force. and support of the trade unions in scholarship award program. MONEY DUE all aspects of international trade In the event that a seaman wins Hercules Victory — Disputed Overtime: Edward Jensen, Robert and development, we urge govern­ Smith, George Stanley. ments to accord trade union rep­ one of the Scholarship Awards his welfare eligibility is automatically Valiant Hope — Transportation: Thomas E. Hanson, Edward Edinger, resentatives the opportunity to extended for the effective period participate in national delegations Donald Kershaw. to international bodies concerned of the scholarships, based on the St. Lawrence — Subsistence: Nicholas Sakellarides. with international trade and de­ eligibility he had at the time of his application for the scholarship. Ames Victory — Ralph L. Jones. velopment." In the selection of the scholarship He took note of views expressed winners, the following persons all Niagara — Disputed Overtime: Richard Heckman, Francis M. Greenwell: Lodgings: William Knapp, Warren Weiss. earlier by ICFTU President Bruno of whom are connected in some Storti that some governments ap­ official capacity with a university, Natalie — One (1) day's wages: James N. Boone, Spiros D. Cassinis, pear to fear the emerging coun­ are the trustees: Jose Ortiguerra, Frank G. Valerie. tries can develop economically Dr. R. M. Keefe, Dean of Ad­ Transorleans — Disputed Overtime: Seymour Sikes. only at the expense of the work­ missions of St. Louis University. ers in developed countries. In­ Penn-.CaiTier — Disputed Overtime: Earl Reamer, Walter Smith. Dr. C. D. O'Connell, Director of stead of being "reluctant" to sup­ Seatrain New York — Lodgings: Pedro Agtuca, James Gleason. port "bolder and more effective Admissions of the University of Elena Lisa — Transportation Differential: James W. Higglns, John action," he maintained, labor in Chicago. both types of nations will back Dr. F. D. Wilkinson, Research David Vidrine. "all feasible efforts," especially if Associate, Howard University. the problems of adjustment that Dr. B. P. Ireland, Northeast may arise are tackled "imagina­ Regional Director, College En­ tively and resolutely." trance Examination Board. Recognition of the need for ad­ Miss Edna Newby, Assistant justment measures, he said, is the first step toward assuring support Dean of Douglass College. for steps aimed at broadening the Dr. E. C. Kastner, Dean of Reg­ export opportunities of the devel­ istration and Financial Aid, New oping countries." York University. Benefits Unions Seek Active Role In Trade Talks look-1 WiTHE UMIOM SJSMl QUESTION: What is th« strangest thing that you saw pulled out of the sea in the years that you have been sail­ ing? • Joe Fried: I was on a tanker in the Persian Gulf when I saw a sucker fish hauled in on a crewmember's line. When he landed on deck, his bottom looked like a blown-up vacuum cieaner bag. He put up a big fight after he grabbed the raw hamburg­ er we were using for bait. After he quit struggling, we cut him up for shark bait. 4" 4" 4" Juan Leiva: The most unusual sight I ever came across are the schools of por­ poises that keep jumping out of the sea in our ship's wake. I al­ ways get a big kick out of watch­ ing the female porpoises and lis­ tening to them cry like babies. 4i Olaf Seln: I once got a 120-pound Spanish mackerel on the end of a line I had over­ board on a run off the coast of Bra­ zil. I left the line overboard while I stood watoh in the engine room, and the guys came down to tell me I had a bite. We pulled hino aboard and the whole crew got two good meals out of him. 3^ 4" Jeff Davis: I remember when my fellow crewmembers once thought they spotted a floating pool of ambergris, the stuff whales heave up and is collect­ ed to make per­ fume. Everyone on board thought we'd be rich If we could collect the stuff. When we went to scoop up our valuable ambei'gris, it turned out to be a bunch of seaweed and other slush. 4" 4" 4" 4» 4* 4" Frank Bradley: I was on the Hast­ ings when we spotted a group of Cuban fishermen who were hanging on to their cap­ sized boat for dear life. They had been drifting from Cuba for five days and were the coldest, hun­ griest people I ever laid eyes on. We picked them up and headed into Tampa ^here we turned them over to the immigration people. Gus Malensky: Some of the crew on the Steel Advocate were fishing off the coast of Indonesia when they hauled in this six - foot snake-like thing that began to wriggle all over the deck. The two guys who hauled it in tried to get a hold on it. But, they couldn't slow the thing down, and it jumped over the side before anyone could stop it �Pag* Elenn- Scvtenber IT, Uti "Monkey WrtncA" Freshmen House Democrats are going down the line with the "Great Society" programs of President Johnson. A survey by Congressional Quarterly shows the 71 Democratic new­ comers have backed the President on 89 percent of 12 important votes seiected by CQ and as of August 4 on 83 percent of ail 66 roll call votes on which the President took a stand. The average new northern Democrat supported the President on 95 percent of the 12 key votes and 87 percent on the overall total of 66 roll calls. The 12 new southern Democrats supported LBJ with 60 and 68 per­ cent scores respectively. These scores were fairly high mainly because of new southern liberal congressmen like Grider and Anderson of Tennessee, Farnsley of Kentucky and Johnson. of Oklahoma, all of whom ran up 100 percent scores of support on the 12 key votes. Among new Republican congressmen, lowest support for the Presi­ dent came from southerners Buchanan (Ala.), Callaway (Ga.) and Walker (Miss.), representatives of the arch-conservative GOP new breed in Dixie. All voted against 11 of the 12 measures tabulated by COPE. Of the more than 50 freshmen who were endorsed by COPE in the 1964 election, only 11 gave the President less than 92 percent support on the 12 key issues. Of these 11, seven supported him on 83 percent of the 12 votes. On the 66 roll calls, only eight of the labor-endorsed freshmen representatives gave the President less than 80 percent support. Three of the nine newcomers supported in 1964 by the conservative Americans for Constitutional Action (ACA) voted for only one of the 12 "Great Society" measures. Three others cast votes for only two. All the ACA-endorsed freshmen supported the President 50 percent or less on tlie 66 roll-call votes. 4" The United Republicans of America, one of the new rightist GOP splinter groups, was the first of the bunch to rush into print with a "purge list" for 1966. URA released a list of 77 Democrats it wants to see dumped next year. Most of them, it hardiy needs saying, are all-out liberals. URA called the 77 "rubber stamps, puppets and robots of the Johnson ad­ ministration." But right-wingers don't stop at whip-lashing Democrats. Another G.O.P. splinter, American Conservative Union, tore into a group of Republicans, hinting another purge list. In its July-August newsletter, ACU chastised, without naming, the 21 GOP congressmen who voted for repeal of Taft-Hartley Section 14(b). It accused them of forming an "unholy coalition with liberal Demo­ crats and union bosses . . ." Despite their disloyalty, ACU said, the 21 "should not be read out of the party" although "they have read themselves out of any right to leadership in the national party." One paragraph after not reading them out of the party, ACU hinted they ^ould be voted out of It. It suggested these 21 may face stiff primary opposition in 1966 because they have "stretched the patience of grass roots Republicans beyond the breaking point." The so-called "right-to-work" law moved a step closer to its unlamented disappear­ ance from the field of U.S. labor_ relations recently when the Senate Labor Committee gave approval to the repeal of section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act. In reporting the repeal measure favorablj', the Senate committee gave one of the best explanations to date why the words "socalled" appear before the misleading slogan "right-to-work." The report rightfully as­ serted that these state laws prohibiting the Wages increases totalling f 17 mil­ coming White House Conference union shop create neither "rights" or "job lion were won for 70,006 members, on Health which will be held on guarantees." according to a recent report of the Office Employees International Un­ ion. The union said that clerical workers under union contract had benefitted from an average salary increase of 5 percent. When this pay rise is applied to last year's average wage of $95 per week, a raise of $4.75 per week was com­ puted. The OEIU declared that non­ union clerical workers received al­ most $800 per year less than workers under collective bargain­ ing agreements. - ^ ^ ^ The New York AFL-CIO Union Label and Service Trades Councii presented its fourth annual Union Labei Award of Merit to President Thomas W. Gleason of the Inter­ national Longshoremen's Associa­ tion and Jay Kramer, chairman of the N.Y. State Labor Relations Board. The awards were made in conjunction with the celebration of Union Label Week. 4 4 4 President Lyndon Johnson has appointed AFL-CIO Social Security Director Nelson H. Cruikshank as member of a committee of health experts who are planning ah up­ November 3 and 4. In making his call for the conference. President Johnson urged the committee to gather the best minds and boldest ideas "to deal with the pressing health needs of the nation." 4 4 4 Philadelphia school teachers won raises averaging $850 for 11,500 employees in the school system as they successfully completed nego­ tiations for their first contract with the city's Board of Education. The contract included a reduction in the size of classes, increases in salary schedules and a decrease in the number of steps within the pay schedules. 4 4 4 Workers at Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah chose the Govern­ ment Employees as their exclusive bargaining representative in a se­ cret ballot election. The 9,600 em­ ployees at the base, will become the AFGE's largest single bargaining unit. The union will represent ainK>st all civiUan employees with the exception of supervisors, cer­ tain professional workers, tempor­ ary workers and a few specially exempted employees. The senators also paid a great deal of attention to the mischief in the national economy wr.ich R-T-W laws have caused. The committee found that repeal of 14(b) would put an end to the dog-eat-dog struggle for new industry by states with low wage structures and below-average schedules of employee compensation. If 14(b) was to be wiped off the nation's lawbooks, much of the bitterness resulting from this competi­ tion for new plants and business would come to an end. The committee found there was another excellent reason why 14(b) deserves repeal. If state R-T-W legislation were no longer legal, unions would find that they would receive equal treatment in all 50 states.when they negotiated union security agreements, the senators declared. The Senate Labor Committee is to be com­ mended for urging the repeal of 14(b) in its forthright report. This unfortunate leg­ islative provision has instigated nothing but friction and mischief under cover of a law which was supposedly passed to harmonize labor relations for all Americans. A Friend In Need Hundreds of Louisiana residents fleeing from the fury of Hurricane Betsy last week found safe, dry refuge in the New Orleans SIU hall. As the savage storm left an in­ credible trail of destruction across the city and the southern part of the state, the refugees found a welcome, temporary home, hot food and other comforts which are typi­ cal of SIU hospitality. While the storm-tossed refugees from Hurricane Betsy were pleasantly surprised by this example of the Union's hospitality and assistance, SIU members and all union members recognize the responsibility that they have to the community. Seafarers, of course, do not have a mon­ opoly among American trade unions on pro­ viding timely help to people in distress. News columns are consistently filled with examples in which union members provided the assistance which got citizens back on their feet after disaster had struck. Only a few months ago unions which are members of the California AFL-CIO col­ lected well over $80,000 to aid victims of the disastrous floods which hit the state earlier in the year. This is but a brief example of the kind of action which unionists take when disaster strikes. �SEAFARERS Pare Twelre LOO Measure Providing Coliege Aid To Students Passes Congress •eptonber 17, 196S By LIndsey Willfams, Ylce-Presldent, Gulf Area WASHINGTON—Legislation to break down financial barriers to a college education passed both the House and Senate by one-sided votes. Both the House and Senate meas­ SIU Hail Shelters Storm Victims ures include scholarship aid, low-cost loans and an expanded work-study program to Hundreds of refugees fleeing from Hurricane Betsy found shelter make higher education pos--tIn the New Orleans SIU hall as the tropical storm raged through the sible for youngsters from Committee and then when his at­ The immigration bill, put off for Gulf Area, killing close to 200 people and wrecking more than one low-income and middle-in­ tempt is to set up the depart­ a week because of Dirksen's objec­ billion dollars worth of property. The SIU New Orleans headquarters come families. Other portions of the legislation provide funds to enable colleges to expand and im­ prove their facilities. The House bill, carrying a firstyear price tag of nearly $650 mil­ lion, was passed 367-22 after an unsuccessful Republican attempt to knock out the scholarship pro­ gram. A companion bill — similar In scope but differing In details — breezed through the Senate, 79-3, just a few days later. The fiveyear, $4.7 billion bill had moved to the floor with the unanimous endorsement of the Senate Labor Committee. While the higher education bill was moving through Congress, the Administration won another major victory as both houses cleared a conference report establishing an eleventh Cabinet department—the Dept. of Housing & Urban De­ velopment. The new department will coor­ dinate the government's housing and mass transit programs and pro­ vide for the first time a single toplevel agency to tackle the special problems of the nation's cities. Solid Majority In political terms, congressional approval of the new department symbolized the solid working ma­ jority the Administration has had in this Congress as compared with previous years. President Ken­ nedy was twice rebuffed when he sought to set up such a depart­ ment in 1962—first when legisla­ tion was blocked In the Rules ment by executive order was rejected in the House, 264-150. By contrast, this year's bill cleared the House, 217-184, and won 57-33 approval in the Senate. A third high-priority Adminis­ tration bill—to scrap the 41-yearold "national origins" quota system for immigration to the United States — was temporarily delayed in the Senate Judiciary Committee. But its supporters were confident of the votes to bring it to the floor and pass it. The delay resulted from a tech­ nical objection by Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R-Ill.). The GOP leader admitted frankly that he was holding up the bill In an effort to pry loose his proposed constitutional amendment to allow one house of the state legislature to be apportioned on factors other than population. Dirksen took a licking last month when he tried to bypass the committee and tack his proposal on an unrelated bill. He fell well short of the two-thirds vote needed for a constitutional amendment. His latest strategy la to seek to have the bill cleared by committee and on the Senate calender for the second session—with his assurance that he won't try to bring it up during the remainder of this ses­ sion. He said he thought he had a promise of sufficient votes in the Judiciary Committee to do this. But on the first test, the motion was defeated on an 8-8 tie. The Connector-A Ship That Had Its Ups & Downs One of the oddest ships ever built was the Connector. When riding motionless in calm water, the Connector looked like any other ship. In a swell however, she resembled a giant snake that undulated on the surface, broke up Into several parts and then came mysteriously together again. To those who knew the ship these strange antics were not surprising, for the Connector was actually composed of three separate, detachable sections loosely hinged together. The vessel represented an early attempt at speeding up turnaround time. Built more than a century ago in England, the Connec­ tor sailed for about nine years in the coal trade from British north-east ports to London. The idea behind IS the Connector was to be Dow//-' able to detach a portion of the vessel for unloading, at­ tach another full section destined for another port to the power units, and put to sea again without being de­ layed by unloading proce­ dures. Even a century ago the idea of an articulated ship was not new. Such a vessel was designed for the Empress Catherine of Russia almost two centuries ago. What the Empress wanted was a ship in which she could travel down the winding Dnieper River. A naval architect devised a system of barges connected so they could snake around the bends in the river, but the' design was never tried. The Connector was eventually broken up before ever reach­ ing the eighteen-section length which its backers say is still feasi­ ble today. A British shipping group and a Japanese shipbuilder are seriously considering the possibility of reviving the curious design in a modern formi. mAT tion, differs from the House-passed bill in one major respect. It would impose, for the first time, a ceiling on immigration from Western Hemisphere countries. A similar proposal was narrowly defeated In the House. The existing quota s.vstem, based on the "national origins" of Ameri­ cans in 1920, had been labeled "shameful" by President Johnson and denounced by the AFL-CIO as "ethnic bigotry." Both the House and Senate bills would set an overall ceiling on immigration in any one year, with a limit of 20,000 from any one country. A House-Senate conference will be needed to reconcile the higher education bills passed by the two houses. The House bill provides "oppor­ tunity grants" of $200 to $800 a year, financed through funds added to the National Defense Education Act, for youngsters with "academic or creative promise" and "excep­ tional financial needs." Loans for Students Government-guaranteed loans would be available to students from families with incomes under $15,000 a year; the government would pay the Interest on the loans while they were in college and half the interest thei-eafter. Other sections of the House bill double the existing college con­ struction aid program, expand work-study programs, put added money into university extension programs Including adult educa­ tion, provide funds for college libraries and grants to help small colleges improve their standards and facilities. Senate Unit Probes 50-50 (Continued from page 3) ment-generated cargoes be carried on American-flag ships. Although wheat-state Senators are arguing that the 50-50 require­ ment on Red wheat sales has been responsible for the failure of this country to sell wheat to the Com­ munist-bloc since 1963, it has been pointed out by top Government officials that the Russians have not even approached the U.S. this year for wheat purchases, nor are they likely to because they are not nearly as badly in need of food­ stuffs this year as they were after the disastrous crop failures of 1963. In this latest attack on the 50-50 requirements, the wheat-state Sen­ ators have once more brought up the charge that these requirements have threatened to disturb the trade treaties which the U.S. has with some 30 foreign nations. The SIU and other maritime unions have often pointed out however that many of these foreign nations themselves have similar restric­ tions stipulating that certain per­ centages of certain commodities must move on their own vessels. was designated as a hurricane center as heavy winds and floods tore through the port city. At the height of the storm, three freighters were tossed adrift In the river with no crews aboard. New Orleans is still digging out from under the ravages of what has been one of the worst hurricanes In Gulf history. Shipping in the Gulf area has been moving well with the exception of New Orleans which was hard hit by Hurricane Betsy. The job out­ look for the next period is bright in all ports. The AFL-CIO Labor Day celebration, held in the New Orleans Sea­ farers Hall, was a huge success, drawing a crowd of more than 600 people. The Maritime Trades Department of New Orleans and vicinity played an active role in this year's turnout and several guests from other Gulf ports attended the function. Labor Day festivities are celebrated annually at the SIU Hall. The crewing-up of the Brigham Victory (Bloomfield Steamship) failed to materialize when the ship was retqwed back to Mobile. Originally the Brigham Victory had-f—= —— been towed to New Orleans for on the beach through the World drydock. At present, the port of Series and then he'll be ready for New Orlemis does not have any anything. ships being repaired for seiwice in Lester "Speedy" Peppet, a 24Vietnam. year SIU veteran, has been keep­ New Orleans ing busy/while on the beach by Shipping in the port of New racing his Corvette Sting Ray on Orleans has been proceeding on the Houston Dragstrip in Dickin­ the slow bell. Hurricane Betsy cut­ son, 'Texas. When the right ship ting sharply Into job activity. The turns up. Speedy says that he will Sabine, a T2 tanker,, crewed up here break all records getting back to recently and shipping is expected to the hall to sign on. pick up in the coming weeks. Piling off the Bethtex where he The crewing up of the Sabine sailed as an AB Deck Maintenance came just at the right moment for on a coastwiser, Fred Gerber is several members who are ready and telling his buddies that he's look­ raring to go. Making the ship on ing for a job as bos'n or dayman the same day that their cards were on a good money super tanker. running out were Heniy Smith and Louis Brown, one of our old Walter Rigby, both men sailing as time stewards, has been on the ABs in the deck department. W. J. beach for quite a while resting up Tregembo pulled the boatswain's and getting over his illness. slot aboard the Sabine. Mobile Among some of the oldtimers Mobile shipping has been mov­ shipping out on the Sabine's first American Bulk Can-ier run were ing at a fair pace and is expected Matt Gechenko, AB, Z. Ching, stew­ to improve in coming weeks. Sev­ ard, and Russell Beatrous, 3d cook. eral ships are headed this way for The boys say they are looking for­ Alabama drydock repairs. ward to a fine SIU trip. John Kelsoe is back around the On the beach after a rough trip hall after a five-month Eastern to North Europe is Nick Maire. run on the Rachel V as deck main­ Nick had a 44-day card when he tenance. John is waiting for a made the Natalie, but one-trip was good deck job while relaxing in enough. Ready to ship, but look­ his home town of Mobile. ing for something other than After several months as oiler North Europe this time out, he's aboard the Inger, Claude D. Berry watching the board. says that he's just about ready to 'Just the opposite," was the go again and he's not particular word from Brother Percy Kennedy where he's headed. Shipping out who just finished a 120-day trip of the Gulf Area for the past twen­ on the Steel Surveyor. "It wa.s a ty years, Claude makes his home good ship and a good trip," Percy in Lucedale, Mississippi with his says. "There wasn't a single hour's wife and child. Alonzo W. Morris says that he's disputed overtime or a single log on the ship when she paid off here looking for a baker's job on his in New Orleans." Percy is ready next run. He last sailed aboard again and looking for another long the Mayaguec as chief cook on a trip. He says he sort of has his five-month trip. While watching eye on some of that bonus money. the board, Alonzo is getting in some rest time on the beach here. Also on the beach and exchang­ Getting in some time with his ing greetings with some of their friends around the hall are Tom wife and family, Robert J. GaiiaGarrity who is off the Del Norte, han is ready for any run going and Bill Walker fresh off the Erna anywhere in a group one deck rat­ Elizabeth. Looks like both boys ing. Last off the Claiborne on a are waiting for a Delta Line ship. Puerto Rico voyage. Bob has been shipping out of the Gulf since its Houston inception. Shipping has been moving at a Charlie Shirah says that he will fast clip in Houston and is ex­ spend some time with his wife and pected to pick up even more steam kids in Mobile before sailing. He in the next period. We have a few last shipped as a steward aboard ships scheduled to come in for the Kyska. payoffs and the port of Houston is still in need of rated black gang men. lHTHeHCSPlTALf^ Among the oldtimers around the hall is deckhand Joe Gavin who has been sailing SIU since 1943. Joe's last ship was the MV Tamara Guiiden where he put in a sixmonth stint. Joe says he will stay CMsmAlL IIUMBPIAmY^ �•flVlealMr 17, lt«f SEAFARERS LOG Pare Ttairteen The Evils Of Strikebreaking History has shown the professional strikebreaker to be a disruptive and often dangerous enemy of the society in which he lives. A bill (S-1781) introduced by Senator Harrison *WUliams (D.-N.J.) is aimed at bringing an end to this anti-union practice. A brief history of strikebreaking is contained below. D OPE ADDICTS, rapists, arsonists, thieves, sexual perverts, thesa are typical examples of the types of Individuals who line up to answer ads reading: HELP WANTED — STRIKEBREAKERS. Re­ cruited from the ranks of society's outcasts, the typical strikebreaker doesn't have to worry about having hia services refused by a choosey employer. For the employer who hires the professional strikebreaker has only one purpose in mind—^to break a union and turn the clock back on his workers' pay, security and working conditions. A bill which would protect American communities from the ravages of these often lawless and degenerate individ­ uals has been introduced into the Senate by Senator Har­ rison Williams (D.-N.J.). If enacted, the bill (S-1781) woiild prohibit and make unlawful the hiring or recruit­ ing of professional strikebreakers in interstate labor disputes: would prohibit persons or agencies which spe­ cialize in supplying strikebreakers (commonly called strikebreaking agencies) from supplying scabs in inter­ state labor disputes; and would assure that employees recruited to work in plants where such disputes existed were informed that a dispute existed and that they would be taking the place of an employee on strike. James Farley was the first Strikebreaker King, reigning from 1899, whon he broke a bitter strike of the Brooklyn transit workers, to 1905, when he sent his army of finks and nobles to fight the Son Francisco trolley strikers. Pearl L. (Red Demon) BergofF claimed Farley's crowh in 1906, and for many years he continued to supply professional strong-arm men and guards, armed and unarmed, to break more than 300 strikes. Competition for the business was very keen and there have been well over 2,000 professional strikebreaking agencies since 1900. The history of American trade unionism graphically shows that the appearance of strikebreakers on the scene of ,a labor dispute is invariably accompanied by an outbreak of violence and other criminal acts. Citing the long, sordid record created by the use of strikebreak­ ers, Senator Harrison Williams (D.-N.J.) said earlier this year, "The record of these investigations are replete with evidence showing that many such professional strike­ breakers had criminal records." Terror For Hire An employer who stoops to hiring the kind of thugs who make up the ranks of the country's strikebreakers knows exactly what he is buying. Since his purpose is to break the union which is seeking a contract with him, he can count on the strikebreaker to provide the terror tactics, violence and sabotage necessary to challenge a strong labor organization. A professional strikebreaker or scab is usually defined as a person who earns his living by repeatedly offering his services in place of employees involved in a labor dispute. While this dry definition will satisfy a lawyer or dictionary writer, it fails to reveal the terrible price paid by trade union members and the general public for the ugly work of the professional scab. Denounced By Novelist Jack London, who proved himself a friend of labor In many of the books he wrote at the turn of the century, described the strikebreaker in his classic book "The Scab." "A scab," London wrote, "is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where the others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles." In another description in the book, London said, "After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire. He had some awful substance left with which he made a s tab." Growing more savage in his denunciation of the scab, the famed author declared, "Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas Iscariot sold his Savior for 30 pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for promise of a commission in the British army. The modern strikebreaker sells his birthright, his country, his wife, his children and his fellow men for an unfilled promise from his employer, trust or corporation." Jack London's fiction gave the nation a vivid picture of the vicious character of the strikebreaker, but police and court records in the cities where they do their dirty work give even a more graphic picture of the kind of scum they represent. Non-Musical Beat The wholesale recruiting of a small army for strike­ breakers during a bitter newspaper strike which occurred recently in Portland, Oregon left the city's police blotter studded with disgraceful examples of the typical scab's savage, asocial behavior. The local, court record shows that one of these hard-worktng strikebreakers got his kicks by beating his wife with a trumpet. A Portland magistrate gave the horn-wielding scab 120 days in jail after learning that the beating occurred when the wife had returned from the hospital where she had gone to recover from an ear injury she suffered during a previous set-to with her violent spouse. more trouble they created, the bigger the bill they could hand to their employers. Freeloading 'Rats' This historical record demonstrates how the appearance of strikebreakers on the scene of an otherwise-peaceful labor dispute can completely disrupt the routine of a community. However, professional scabs also prove to be a costly expense to the towns and cities where they operate. Their appearance inevitably creates a need for increased numbers of police, depriving ordinary citizens of the protection they normally receive. In addition, the asocial, violence-prone strikebreaker adds to the com­ munity's crime problems and creates a heavier burden on the local courts. These costs represent only part of the burden caused by the appearance of strikebreakers. Community services, which are paid for by local taxpayers, are used free by the professional scabs who usually never contribute « •ingle dollar in taxes to the municipal treasury. A more serious example of the kind of men employed to strikebreak in Portland was the case of 19-year-old Vincent Mullen. Mullen, who admitted using marijuana, was charged with brutally attacking a 16-year-old high school girl, leaving her half-conscious with a broken jaw and minus several teeth. He is now serving a 15-year prison sentence for rape and attempted murder in addi­ tion to a concurrent three-year term for a safe cracking conviction. Double Dirty Work Other strikebreakers, who did their dirty work in Portland and made the city police department's "wanted" list at the same time, included an auto thief who was returned to town by Salt Lake City officials to face trial for attempted assault and bank robbery. He is now serving 'a four-year term in state prison. The destruction of unions and the breaking of strikes became a thriving and big business early in the century. Employers' associations became common. The National Association of Manu­ facturers was launched. Organized campaigns against unions were carried on by open shop associations and Chambers of Commerce throughout the country. Agencies were estab­ lished which, for a consideration, supplied to corporations "finks" (strikebreakers), "nobles" (armed guards) and spies. The role of the professional strikebreaker in being the center of violence on a picket line has become notorious in labor history. Police records of countless strikes are filled with incidents where professional goons, acting as strikebreakers, assaulted peaceful pickets without any provocation. Frequently, these attacks go far beyond mere assault to shootings and stabbings. In Clinton, Ohio for instance a strikebreaker was fined $500 for shooting tear gas shells into a crowd of citizens near a struck plant. The striking union member, on the other hand, is at an extreme disadvantage when he encounters strikebreakers. If the union-busting tactics of his employer succeed, he is out of a job and is forced to start collecting unemployment insurance, creating a further burden on his community. The strikebreaker on the other hand, counts on his employer to pay most of his living expenses, and so can mail his checks out of town, and not spend a penny in the local economy. Thus, both the local tax­ payer and businessmen are forced to pay a dear price when the professional scab makes his unwelcome presence felt in a community. Probers Exposed Record The report on strikebreaking prepared b.v Senator Wil­ liams points to several Congressional investigations into acts of extreme violence by thugs and scabs. One of the most infamous of these probes dealt with the famous strike at the Carnegie Steel Company at Homestead, Pa. in 1892. Congressmen heard the grim story of how armed Pinkerton strikebreakers shot and killed innocent pickets in-one of the country's most brutal labor disputes. Investigators from the Federal Government also un­ covered evidence of scab-inspired violence during the Southern Colorado Coal strike of 1913, the Tug River West Virginial coal strike of 1920, the strike of the Michigan copper miners in 1913 and the Southern lUinois coal miner strike of 1912. House Labor Committee Investiga­ tors condemned violence instigated by professional scabs which injured a large number of workers striking against the Pressed Car Company's plant at McKees Rocks, Pa. Commenting on this sordid record. Senator Williams declares; "The record shows that they (the strikebreakers) were used to stir up violence, and that they were prin­ cipally incompetent drifters whose major utility was an effort to depress the morale of strikers rather than to carry on the business of an enterprise." Incite Picket Violence In a now-famous investigation into strikebreaking activ­ ities conducted by Wisconsin Senator Robert LaFollette from September, 1936 through April, 1938, a Senate committee concluded that the use of strikebreakers and scabs was a major factor in picket line violence. LaFollette's committee exposed the brutal activities of a number of notorious strikebreakers appropriately named "Phony Lou," Weasel Benny," "Stinkfoot," "Benny the Fink" and other underworld characters high on the honor roll of the professional scab. . Scabs No Bargain One of the harder things to understand about the strikebreaker business is why an employer will go the expensive extremes of hiring professional scabs. Not only must he pay strikebreakers a good deal more than his regular workers, in addition to. picking up the tab for their living expenses, but he also knows that their production will be considerably inferior to the trade union craftsmen he normally employs. To the innocent outsider, hiring a strikebreaker often appears to be an act of vindictiveness, where a boss is willing to pay almost anything to break a union. A close look at the facts proves nothing could be farther from the truth. A financial gimmick known as strike insurance is the device which employers use to force long strikes, hire professional scabs ana nreak a union — all at no loss to their annual profit balances. Strike' insurance, which is supposed to provide a business with funds to compensate for losses caused by strikes or lockouts, can become a lethal union-busting weapon with a built-in invitation to take advantage of its coverage. In addition to the bill introduced by Senator Williams, . the campaign to outlaw professional strikebreaking by legislation has also been proceeding on the state level. Ten states, including New Jersey, Massachusetts, Dela­ ware, Maryland, Washington, Louisiana, Rhode Island, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Hawaii have passed such laws. At least 45 separate- communities have outlawed importing professional scabs in states from coast to coast. The 1961 Convention of the AFL-CIO unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the passage of antistrikebreaker laws at the state and local levels. The The Wisconsin senator's committee report also spot­ convention declared such laws as deserving the whole­ lighted the treacherous work of private detective agencies hearted cooperation of the entire U.S. trade union move­ who then served as professional strikebreakers. It reported' ment. Delegates at the convention urged all labor feder.ithat the so-called detective agencies often stirred up tions at the state and local levels to work for the enact­ violence themselves, working on the assumption that the ment of this legislation. �Fare FMuteea SEAFARERS^ LOG Joblessness Rate Unchanged During July And August WASHINGTON—The nation's job picture showed little change between July and August, with the seasonally adjusted jobless rate holding at 4.5 percent, the Labor Depart­ ment has reported. The leveling off in August occurred after the unemployment rate fell from 4.7 percent in June to-*4.5 percent in July, reaching whites. Their Jobless rate aver­ ment in the Job picture so far in the lowest point in nearly aged 8.5 percent for this year, 1965, the Labor Dept. made the down from 9.9 percent for the point that this was the first time eight years. same period last year and the first since 1957 that the jobless rate In releasing summary job fig­ time their rate has fallen below has consistently stayed below 5 ures for August, the Labor Dept. percent. In seven years of highsaid that while most changes were 9 percent since 1957. In compari­ level unemployment, the rate had son, the white rate declined from about as expected, there was "some improvement" for teen­ 4.7 percent last year to 4.2 percent. twice dipped to 5 percent but The August Job report also bounced up again well above the agers. blue collar workers, nonshowed continued improvement in 5 percent level. whites and full-time workers. The rate for married men—a key labor force time lost, the most The 5 percent barrier has been breadwinner group — worsened, complete measure of how effici­ effectively broken this year. The however, as it moved up from 2.3 ently the nation is utilizing its jobless rate dropped to 4.8 percent percent in July to 2.6 percent, manpower since it counts time in January and moved up to touch same as a year ago. lost by the unemployed and those 5.0 percent in February. Since Total unemployment fell by on part-time. Labor force time then the rate has been: 4.7 percent 3.50,000—about the expected sea­ lost fell to 5.1 percent in August, in March, 4.9 percent in April, 4.6 sonal decline—1o 3.3 million, the down slightly from July; a year percent in May, 4.7 percent in June report said. The total is 400,000 ago it was 5,7 percent. and an eight-year low of 4.5 per­ lower than in August 1964, the In discussing the solid improve­ cent in July and August. department noted, with nearly half tiie reduction occurring among those unemployed 15 weeks or longer. Of the 3.3 mijlion unemployed, some 875,000 are teen-agers. Their numbers were reduced a little more than expected in August as the jobless rate de­ NEW YORK—Once again, New York City is looking toward clined from July's 13.2 percent to 12.4 percent, its low'est level in the sea for help in time of need. With one of the finest more than three years. harbors in the world, the City has always depended on the The non-white jobless totaled sea for much of its wealth and"*" 700,000 in August, down by 175,- power. Her busy docks have A number of major problems 000 from a year ago. The jobless long drawn ships, cargo, tour­ stand between New York and a rate for this category fell sharply ists, trade and profit to her shores. nuclear de-salting plant. In the from 9.1 percent in July to 7.6 And now, in the depths of a crip­ first place, finding a site for the percent in August, equaling an pling drought. New York is turning plant would be a ticklish business. eight-year low recorded last May. to the sea for a new kind of wealth Consolidated Edison recently had to abandon its plans to construct Blue Collar Jobs — fresh drinkable water. a nuclear power plant in Queens For blue collar workers, the un­ The problems standing in the because residents, fearing a nuclear employment rate also improved way of making sea water usable are accident, turned thumbs down on sharply, dropping from 5.5 per­ great. But they are being overcome. the atomic installaUon. Similar cent in July to 5 percent in Encouraged by the President's fears are bound to be expressed by August. A year ago, the blue recent approval of a $185 million anyone living near a nuclear plant collar rate was 6.2 percent. This saline water conversion measure. site. But the plant would certainly showed * "continued and substan­ New York City is presently co­ have to be in or hear the city to be tial job gains among operatives operating with the Interior De­ practical. and non-farm laborers," the La­ partment and the Atomic En­ A second problem is posed by bor Dept. said. ergy Commission to study the feas.i- the fact that the 2.5 million kilo­ The jobless rate for full-time bility of a nuclear desalting plant workers also improved, from 4.4 that could supply a major part of watts produced daily by the plant percent in July to 4.2 percent in the city's water needs. Although would put the city into the electric utility business on a large scale. August. a plant could not be completed in It might not be ea^ to dispose of On the employment side of the time to meet current drought de­ that much power. picture, the total number of job­ mands, it would guarantee the Disposipg of the salt is yet an­ holders declined by 600,000 from city's future needs. other problem. Dumping huge the all-time July high to 74.2 milAncient Process amounts of salt into the ocean . lion in August. Employment in The nuclear process of desali- would play havoc with marine life. agriculture fell more than usual b ." 500,000 to 5.1 million, the report nizaion is actually a souped-up Money Problem 1 led. Non-farm employment fell version of the ancient distillation process. A huge nuclear reactor Probably the biggest problem of slightly to 69.1 million. would produce steam to run an all is that of dollars and cents. Since August 1964, total employ­ electric generator. Then the steam ment has risen by 2.1 million, the would be used to boil sea water. Nuclear electricity would cost 15 Labor Dept. pointed out. The The vapor produced by the boiling mills a kilowatt hour, and the water over-the-year rise reflects gains sea water would condense as pure would cost 35 cents for 1,000 gal­ of 900,000 jobs for teen-agers, 750,- usable water. The proposed New lons. New York now pays less than COO for women and 500,000 for York plant would produce 250 four cents a kilowatt hour for its electricity and only 12 cents per men. All the gains exceeded the million gallons of water a day. 1,000 gallons of water. labor force growth in each cate­ Like a similar plant planned for gory, the report said. Five years ago, desalting water Los Angeles, after which it is cost $5 for 100 gallons, in plants Adult men benefitted most, the modeled, the New York installation report said, showing a job gain would produce electricity as well that produced only a few thousand 200,000 greater than their labor as water. A desalting plant alone gallons a day. Plants now in opera­ tion produce several million gal­ lorce expansion. would be too expensive, but a nu­ lons a day at $1 for 1000 gallons. Counted in the employment clear plant that produces both Federal officials say they could totals are some 2,3 million part- water and electricity is considered halve that cost in larger plants. time non-farm workers. Their to be economically sound. It would Drought - Proof produce 2.5 million kilowatts of total was down 100,000 from electricity daily. year ago and was at the lowest Despite the difficulties involved. August level since 1956, the report Other Plans New York has not heard the last added. There are other plans for de­ of water desalting. "The one great Comparing the unemployment salting sea water in the works. merit of the process," announced picture so far in 1965 with the Engineers are working with mem­ a federal official, "is that it is same period in 1964, the Labor branes that allow salt to pass drought-proof." Dept. observed that the jobless through while retaining the water. In a city alarmed by the pros­ rate has averaged 4.7 percent this The plan is promising but is still pects of parched fields, thirsty mil­ year, down sharply from the 5.3 in the research stage. lions, and slowed-down industry— percent average for the first eight Another desalinization meth­ a city afraid that long-term changes months of last year. od freezes salt water Into saltin its weather patterns could mean perpetual drought, this final con­ free ice crystals. These are The report said the economic ex­ sideration may weil outweigh all then washed and melted to pro­ pansion has made inroads into the duce pnre water. others. unemployment problem of non- New York City Eyes Sea For Fresh Water Source and Fred Famen, Secretary-Trcasnrer, Great Laket Seaway Season Under Discussion St. Lawrence Seaway officials from Canada and the United States will open discussions later this month on whether to lengthen tho season of tho long waterway. The route normally operates from the first week in April through the first week in December. A longer season is one of several plans the two nations that built the seaway are considering to increase the earnings potential with more cargo business. DETROIT Immediately after Labor Day, the Bob-Lo boats put to the dock for the winter. The Ste. Claire proceeded to the American Shipyard in Lorain, Ohio to undergo repairs. The Seafarers' International Union, Great Lakes District Negotiating Committee has scheduled the next meeting with the Great Lakes Association of Marine Operators for September 15, 1965. DULUTH Ore shipments from Lake Superior up to September 1 of this year Increased more than 2.3 million tons over the same period in 1964. Gains were registered by the Duluth Messabl and Iron Range Railroad In Duluth, the Great Northern and Soo Lines in Superior. The Soo line at Ashland shipped 273,461 tons before the dock was closed for the season this year,^ compared with 196,957 to Septem­ and as soon as the man in question ber 1, 1964. The Soo line does not is considered fit for out-patient plan to reopen the Ashland Dock. treatments, he will then become Vessel arrivals and departures in the responsibility of USPHS. the Duluth-Superior area up to Under the present circumstances, September 1, this year, totalled and since Chicago only has US­ 3,6is7 compared with 3,463 in the PHS out-patient service, arrange­ same period a year ago. ments have been made so that if a man reports to the U.S. Public FRANKFORT Health Service, he can now give The extra summer help has been his union affiliation and it will be­ paid off now that tourist business come part of his record. This will has slowed down. allow the agents and Welfare to "Senator" Fluff, who has been be in first hand contact with the home on leave from the USPHSH member, particularly if he is returns there tomorrow and hopes transferred for in-patient services. to get a fit for duty so he can get IMPORTANT: Should any man back on the water. (SIU) have to enter a private hos­ pital under emergency status or BUFFALO otherwise, then he should arrange A rush of grain to the Port of Buffalo is providing business for as soon as possible with the nurse some elevators that did not re­ or aid to notify the U.S. Public ceive a single cargo this year. The Health Service. As soon as he is Electric Superior and Concrete able to be moved he will be moved by the U.S. Public Health Service Elevators recorded their first water shipments this week. There to a USPHS facility at no cost' either for transportation or the appears to be no immediate end to hospital fee. When entering a pri­ the rush which reportedly has vate hospital he should a^o give been prompted by efforts of local his union affiliation. (Union sffiliport officials and legislators who should be given to VA hos­ have been trying to get the gov­ ation pitals also.) ernment to utilize more Buffalo Should a marine worker go to elevators for storage purposes. the Chicago U.S. Public Health CHICAGO Service for out-patient treatment, Shipping in this port for the and it is found he needs hospital­ past period has again been boom­ ization, at. that point he can request ing and with no let up in sight. a transfer to another USPHS hos­ A meeting was held last week pital. He will be limited to the with the Medical Officer in charge Detroit Hospital or the New Or­ of the Chicago Marine Hospital, leans Marine Hospital, USPHS will along with the Administrator, Mr. also pick up the cost of trajnsportaRoy Gardiner, and Mrs. Lehman, tion, which can be designated as who is in charge of records. The air, rail or bus, depending on the man's condition. new doctor and his staff show a The U.S. Public Health Service sincere willingness to cooperate with Maritime workers. Listed be­ is also contracting three or four low are some of the things dis­ private hospitals in thg Chicago cussed that should be of great im­ area to accommodate any overload portance to SIU sailors entering of in-patients. Veterans Adminis­ this port and seeking medical and tration hospitals are only con­ tracted to handle 31 beds (marine), surgical attention: All SIU members know that and in the event of an overload prior to entering a hospital it is of patients during the winter months, these other hospitals will necessary to contact the U.S. Pub­ be available. lic Health Service on out-patient A meeting was held in Chicago status, prior to being hospitalized. In the event a sailor goes to the last week with Gartland Steamship out-patient clinic in Chicago and Company relative to pending dis­ needs in-patient services, the putes. All disputes were settled USPHS will afford all transpor­ and will be reported. tation to. whatever hospital he CLEVELAND is sent to. At this point, the With the season going down the designated hospital is the Veter­ ans Administration Research Hos­ home stretch, shipping has still not pital on East Huron Street in Chi­ slowed down any. Jobs, are still cago; The U.S. Public Health being. called into this office as Service will be on check with the though it was just' the start of the Veterans Administration Hospital, season. �SEAFAKEK9 %Oa Par« Fifte«a SEAFABERS PORTS OP THE WORLD Called the Gateway to Southwest Japan, the hill-rimmed port of Kobe stretches east and west along the shores of Osaka Bay, A city famed for its natural beauty and its historic landmarks, Kobe boasts a thriving shipbuilding Industry, a modern shopping center, and innumerable spectacles of interest to the visiting Seafarer. Vessels of the SlU-manned Victory Carrier Lines make regular runs to this busy Japanese port. A little ways inland from the busy harbor is the ancient Shinto Ikuta Shrine, originally called Kamibe (Keepers of the Gods) from which the name Kobe is probably derived. South of the Shrine, Kobe's most popular amusement and nightclub district displays its flashing lights and crowded entertainment centers. Further south, and to the cast, are the movies, restaurants and shopping areas. The principal shopping streets are Cenre Gai and Montomachidori, both of which run parallel to the waterfront. Here, bargain - hunting Seafarers may purchase high-quality cameras, binoculars, pearls and other valuable objects tax-free, customs authorities supplying the necessary forms on request. Some large department stores maintain an interpreter service for their customers. The city's suburbs offer a host of attractions for the curious Seafarer. At the eastern end of Kobe, Mount Rokko juts 3,057 feet into the sky. Here, in season. Seafarers may indulge in swimming, skating and skiing. North of the harbor, halfway up the wooded peak of Futatabisan Park, is the 8th-century Buddist temple Dairyuji. Close-by, there is a lake with boating facilities. An absolute must for the visiting Seafarer is the famous all-geisha spectacle Miyako Odori. It is performed in the nearby town of Kyoto. Also not to be missed, if time allows, is Takarazuka, site of a recreation and opera house where classical Japanese drama is acted by an all-female company. Transportation is simple and convenient in Kobe. The city maintains a network of bus, electric railway and cable rail­ way lines. There is also a fleet of officially licensed taxis which charges reasonable rates. The Mission to Seamen in Kobe provides a canteen, films, billiards, and other facilities. The Mission will, on request, arrange football matches, book tours, get tickets for shows in neighboring towns, and arrange trips to the mountains. Taking a brief time-out from their pier fishing, two of Kobe's "younger set" smile a greeting to one of the SlU vessels that docks in the port (left). Passing through Kobe's busy harbor, an endless stream of industrial and manufactured exports are shipped to foreign ports the world over (right). The SlU - contracted Steel Maker includes Kobe on its regular schedule of stops (bottom). SlU - manned Isthmian ships are also frequent visitors to this thriving port. �SEAFA,B,EK9 Fwe SizfccB LOG. Business loss PiodicfeJ Waterway Tax Will Hurt, Steel Towns Are Warned WASHINGTON — The major steel producing areas of western Pennsylvania, Chicago and Birmingham stand to lose a vast amount of their present commerce if a waterway fuel tax proposed by the"* Johnson Administration 13 that foreign competitors would put into effect, the nation benefit greatly from the higher was warned recently. A study released by the National Waterways Conference predicted Expedition Fails To Find Noah's Ark It rained for forty days and forty nights, and the earth turned into a raging sea as the vengeful heavens flooded the globe with the waters of wrath. Such is the Biblical account of the flood that destroyed every liv­ ing creature on earth save for those that Noah carried off, two by two, in his ark. And, predictably, it rained again recently when an expedition seek­ ing to uncover the ark attempted to scale rugged Mount Ararat on the Russian border of eastern Turkey. According to many Biblical schol­ ars and geographers, the ark should be buried somewhere beneath the tons of ice and snow that cap the 16.946-foot mountain. But so far this year, all attempts to conquer Mount Ararat have been defeated by an onslaught of bad weather. The latest expedition, led by amateur American explorer John Labi, was forced to call it quits when a 10-man team was forced down by savage snow and rain­ storms. "It was a terrible experience," Libi said from his base in Isstanbul."But I'm not giving up." Trapped By Storm Three members of the expedi­ tion were trapped by storms when they left the shelter of their camp in a futile attempt to rescue an Australian doctor who had disap­ peared on the frozen slopes. Battered by hail and freezing rain, the trio finally made their way down a perilous precipice and around the foot of the mountain before regaining camp. "They were gone for 33 hours and I was convinced that they had been killed," said the 69-year old Libl who had climbed to the 15,000-foot level before he and his men were driven back by a violent storm. Chased by Bears This is Libi's fourth attempt to dig up the ark in the wilds of Turkey. In four previous tries he has been injured in an auto acci­ dent, suffered falls from mountain ledges, been laid up with pneu­ monia, stopped by a revolution, and even chased by wild bears. Undaunted and undiscouraged, Libi hopes to reach the peak of Mount Ararat when the weather clears. If the ark could make it, Libi figures, so can he. Museum Solves Sea Riddle It was a curious object — a tear shaped stone about seven and a half Inches long and fiva Inches wide. It was in the possession of Mystic Seaport Museum at Mystic, Connecticut for several years al­ though nobody could figure out what It was — th^ only knew It must have some connection with New England's whaling history. Then along came Dr. John W. Draper of St. Luke's Hospital at Mystic, who was Intrigued by the relic, suspected Its true nature, and offered to give it a medical analysis. His offer was accepted and the mystery was solved. Dr. Draper went to work on the relic with various chemicals and costs to U.S. producers. This would have an adverse effect cm the na­ tional economy, and would also have an adverse effect on the em­ ployment situation in these highly industrialized areas. The Administration has pro­ posed a waterway fuel tax initially raising the cost of fuels by 20 per­ cent. This would apply to all ves­ sels under 15-foot draft that oper­ ate on the traditionally toll-free waterways. This so-called "user' tax has been proposed by the last several Administrations — both Democrat and Republican — but have each time been rejected by Congress. RaU Rate Rise ^ The study predicts that a rise in the cost of moving cargoes on the inland waterways would result in an immediate increase in rail rates as well, based on the railroads' practice of boosting their rates anytime a water carrier competitor is either forced out of operation or forced to raise its cargo rates. The railroads are pushing for adoption of the waterway tax. an X-ray machine and then an­ Pointing out the importance of nounced his conclusions. waterway carriers to the steel"It's a whale's kidney stone," producing areas, the study notes he told the Mystic Museum's cur­ that in 1963 more than 182,000 tons ators. of steel mill products were car­ The stone Is composed mainly ried on the Warrior-Tombigee of magnesium, which Dr. Draper Waterway that serves the Alabama attributes to the relatively high steel city of Birmingham, in ad­ concentration of magnesium In the dition to a million tons of iron ore, sea water and marine forms upon chrome and manganese to serve which the whale fed. the mills. The museum doesn't know where During the same year about the stone originated, but now as­ 886,000 tons of pig iron, mill prod­ sumes that it must have been ucts and pipe were carried down brought into the country by a sea­ the Illinois River from Chicago, man who found the stone while most of it destined for the Gulf processing a whale aboard ship Coast. years and years ago. Cud Chewing Crowd Rides Luxury Liner SAN FRANCISCO—^The passenger-cargo liner President Polk, whose corriders once echoed with the sounds from gay bon voyage parties, will new be serving-a lower class of clientele, following its sale> by the SIU Pacific District- The new owners promptly regis­ contracted American Presi­ tered the former passenger-cargo dent Lines to a Liberian corpora­ tion. The typical sounds made by the liner's former passengers on their round-the-world cruises, such as the clicking shuffleboard pucks and the sweet strains of dance music will now be replaced by the grunts and bellows of the new coarser customers, who couldn't care less if they were never in­ vited to sit at the captain's table for dinner. Liner Downgraded The Polk's new owners have crassly cast the vessel's tradition of first-class passenger service aside, and relegated the onceproud liner to the status of a low­ ly cattle carrier. In wiping out the last vestiges of the ship's former luxury accommodations, the new operators have changed its name to the Gaucho Martin Fierro. The sale of the 492-foot Polk to a South American corporation for $8 0,000 was approved recently by the Maritime Administration. liner under the Liberlan-flag, which serves as one of the world's chief havens for runaway opera­ tors. The new cattle boat will sail between Argentina and Italy or between U.S. gulf ports and Italy. The sale of the Polk was ap­ proved as part the American Presi­ dent Line's ship replacement pro­ gram. The company has three high-speed eargo-liners on order to replace its older tonnage. The three 12,393 ton vessels of the Master Mariner class are being built by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company at San Diego, Caiif. One of the new cargo-liners will be named to re­ place the President Polk and an­ other- to take the place of the President Monroe. Pres. Mtmroe Launched Launching ceremonies for the new President Monroe were held recently in San Diego, and deliv­ ery of the new vessel is scheduled for late December, 1965. , ( Stewart & Ed MoeMy Headquarters Representatfves Strong Union Needs Active Members We have received an interesting letter from Brother A. N. Wert which contains a lot of good advice for every member of the Seafarers International Union. Brother Wert declares that every Seafarer must do his utmost to guard and protect the Union's hard-won gains. He emphasizes that every SIU member should keep always on the alert and do his part If our Union Is to remain the best and strongest In the country. Commenting on the SIU constitution and our contracts with the ship operators. Brother Wert writes, "Both of these measures have further strengthened the structure of the SIU and are proof of what can be accomplished by membership solidarity and honest and compe­ tent leadership. "All the conditions, wages and welfare plan provisions won in our contracts have given the SIU the well deserved reputation as one of, if not the best union for seamen In the world. Today, we are looked upon as leaders in the field of maritime labor. "However, there are those in our Union who seem to take the SIU and its hard-fought gains for granted, and who, by their actions and attitudes, tend to undermine our organization. Of course, these charac­ ters form only a very small minority of our membership. "Some ot Hie actions to which I ain referring are idle and Irrelev­ lawed^ and mates held responsible ant talk at union meetings; drink­ for Injuries they inflicted on sea­ ing to the point of being unable to men. turn to on ship; missiiig of watches In the days when the West Coast and missing ship; sloppy and in­ Seamen's Society was organized expert performance of duty, and scurvy was still common on mer­ carelessness resulting in the de­ chant vessels, and crowded, poorly struction of ship's property. ventilated 'tween deck foc'sles "We have fought hard for the were the rule. Crimps and greedy conditions we enjoy today. Every masters worked hand in hand to SIU brother should remember that shanghai hapless seamen and keep merely keeping our books in gpod them perpetually In their debt. standing, attending meetings, vot­ Average wages at the time were ing and pulling occasional strike about $20 to $30 per month. duty is not enough to make us good The Seamen's Society didn't sur­ Union members. vive for any length of time, but its "The important thing is make place was taken by a more endur­ our organization work at all times, ing organization In 1885 which was especially while we are employed. to grow into the Sailors Union of This can only be accomplished by the Pacific under the guiding hand diligence to duty, by sober and of Andrew Furuseth. West Coast competent performance of those seamen in those years attempted to duties, by taking only those jobs get the vicious shanghaiers and which we can handle, by maintain­ brutal bucko mates and masters ing a clean and cooperative ship, prosecuted for the inhuman treat­ and most of all, by seeing that ment for which they were infa­ those around us observe these mous. Out of 100 cases of extreme cruelty reported to the authori­ same rules. "The SIU Is a powerful and ef­ ties, only one mate on the Western ficient organization. It will remain Belle was dealt an official rebuke like this only as long as we keep when he was forced to pay a $25 it that way, and make sure that fine. The organization also took every member works to do his part up the long, thankless struggle for in keeping it strong. There Is no a 12 hour day and overtime pay. room for those who are not with The days when U.S. maritime us all the way. Remember, we labor was going through its in­ didn't always have it this good. fancy seem far away to us now. Every Seafarer should keep in It should be plain to every Sea­ mind that you only get from an farer that the only way we are organization what you put into It." able to enforce, our contract con­ The significant point about ditions is because of our strength, Brother Wert's letter is that he is unity and dedication of the entire 100 percent right In his comments. SIU membership. History tells us that the first seamen's union was bom 99 years ago In San Francisco. Merchant seamen In that port organized the Seamen's Society for the Pacific Coast on January 11, 1866, thus SAN FRANCISCO — SIU beginning the long struggle to win Pacific District - contracieu recognition for the sailor as a frei Matson Lines' newest vessel, man and citizen. the Hawaiian Monarch, has As the first American maritime joined the Matson fleet. One labor organization saw the light of of the largest dry cargo car­ day, seamen were held In bondage riers in the American mer­ aboard the ships they sailed. The chant fleet, the Monarch can maritime laws of the time permit­ carry containers, bulk car­ ted a master to beat, wound, starve goes and automobiles. or imprison his crewmembers. A The vessel is the first of ship's captain could do almost any­ two jumboized ships being thing he wanted to In the name of added to Matson's Californiadiscipline and the courts would Hawaii fleet. Her sister-ship uphold him unless it could be is to be called the Hawaiian proved he acted without "justifi­ Queen. They were lengthen­ able cause." ed by adding 110-foot midIn actual practice, the master body sections to 630-foot could deal out any punishment he former troopships. chose, as long as It was "justified" The Hawaiian Queen Is ex­ In his own mind. It wasn't until pected to join the Matson maritime labor began to make Its fleet In about six weeks. voice heard in Washington In 1898 that corporal punishment was out- Matson Adds New Vessel in Hawaii Service �OS S E AT AR ETR S IOG Tug Pensioner Longer Season, Toll Hike? Seaway Administrators Study Ways Of Boosting Revenues fy Joseph B. Logue, MD, Medical Director Breast-Feeding Reported Beneficial As reported in HEALTH BULLETIN, medical researchers are reportlnr new and convincing evidence that breast-feedinr has deflnite advantares over bottie-feedinc, but they don't seem to be gettinr their message across. Only two out of every five American inothers give their babies the opportunity to breast-feed. The result may bo that bottle-fed babies are missing out on natural protection against such disorders as colic, diaper rash, allergies, colds, staphylococcus Infections and even polio. rac* ScTCBtceaf Si""' Representatives of tlie St. Lawrence Seaway from Canada and tlie United States will shortly begin consideration of extending the season of the 2,200 mile waterway beyond the first week in December clos--* ing date. Joseph McCann, the future. The Standard Research American administrator of Institute of California is making a study for the U.S. on future traffic prospects which will help officials come to a decision on a toll increase. The crux of the seaway offi­ cials' concern with increasing The May issue of NUTRITION NEWS reports two studies which earnings is the law under SIU Inland Boatmen's Un­ indicate that breast-fed infants are more resistant to polio infection. which the vast waterway proj­ ion m • m b • r Benjamin ect was built. This law re­ Drs. R. J. Warren, M. L. Lepow, O. E. Bartsch and F. C. Bobbins quires that the $361 million Baum (left) received his uncovered evidence that breast milk contains a substance which construction cost must be paid first regular monthly $150 neutralizes polio virus. Other researchers have also reported the off in 60 years, and toll collec­ pension check from SIU rep presence of such a substance in human milk, but failed to detect it tions to date have proved in­ Joe Trainor recently at sufficient to meet this dead­ in cow's milk. Referring to studies comparing resistance to infection the Philly hall. Baum has line. in bottle-fed and breast-fed infants, NUTRITION REVIEWS pointed worked aboard tugs in If cargo traffic continues to out that breast-fed infants are more resistant. "It can be concluded Philadelphia Harbor for grow on the waterway, optimistic that breast-feeding is of importance in this respect," the journal said. almost 30 years and was seaway officials foresee a lessening Skipper of the tug Potco of the need for higher tolls. Other researchers have also been playing up the benefits of mothers' (Marine Towing Com­ Total Capacity Up milk. Health Bulletin reported recently that Dr. Daniel Stowens of pany) just prior to retiring. the University of Louisville School of Medicine believes that cows' Original estimates based on the seven locks in the seaway system milk may be responsible for many unexplained infant deaths. Babies were that 50 milliori tons of cargo are allergic to certain protein elements in cows' milk and as they could move througli the waterway grow older extreme allergic reactions may result, he says. Even a in a year. However, continued short period of breast-feeding, followed by bottle-feeding with cows' progress in traffic movement has boosted this estimate to 65 million milk, may afford some protection and eliminate the source of allergy. tons per year. Seaway experts Dr. Stowens concludes. think that this peak capacity will (Continued from page 2) They were directly over No. 8 be reached within the next ten Two Brooklyn pediatricians have also presented arguments for years. breast-feeding. Drs. Joseph B. Pincus and Isaac F. Gittlman claim hull glowing red hot and bulging door when the hold exploded. "I was looking at Menard's back that calcium deficiency caused by formula diet high in phosphorus almost two feet at midships from Since cargo traffic is expected to often leads to infant convulsions. "Breast milk appears to give com­ the pressure of the fire that con­ a couple of feet ahead of me one rise significantly, officials from tinued to rage within her . for more second—and the next he was plete protection," against calcium deficiency during the first three both countries are studying the weeks of life, they report in the NEW YORK STATE JOURNAL OF than three days—was above gone." Horton said. "He just idis- possibility of twinning some of water. appeared." MEDICINE. the system's single locks. Canada Horton went into the water, his has already begun work on addingVictims Slept As in most medical questions, there are two sides to the story. waist-length rubber jacket and Many physicians continue to recommend bottle-feeding because they All but Menard were asleep one leg of his pants torn away by another set to the remaining sin­ feel there is not enough evidence to support a claim of superiority for when the ship went over. Menard the blast. He was picked up un­ gle locks on the Welland Canal. breast-feeding. Some supporters of breast-feeding have even switched had been awakened by John Nor­ hurt by another vessel tied up to the opposite point of view. Recently, L. J. Borstelmann, Ph. D ton, 23, the A.B. on watch, and astern. and Drs. John Fowler and Angus McBryde of Duke University said, had been following him to the Stability Problem "Our earlier belief that breast-feeding is medically and psychologically 'tween-decks, where they had The Fort William was built by better for the child has not been sustained by accumulated evidence." been ordered to try to close the the Davie Shipyard at Lauzon, cargo doors. In another study, Drs. Richard E. Davis and Rene £. Ruiz of the Que., was launched in April and The membership of the Sailors They got only as far as the was put into service by CSL in Universities of Missouri and Kansas Schools of Medicine knocked down deck, where the steel was begin­ Union of the Pacific has been May. She had completed only the theory that breast-feeding is a prerequisite for successful per­ sonality development. Studying four groups of 20 children who had ning to go over the starboard aide. four round-trip Great Lakes voy­ notified that the regular, secret been fed by bottle, breast, cup or a mixture of methods, the scientists They climbed over the port rail to ages. unionwide election of officers will could find no effects of any particular method on the children's later the gunwale bar, and tried to On her fifth, the run from the be held beginning December 1, make their way forward. Lakehead Port after which she academic achievement, physical characteristics or personality style. was named to Hamilton, with calls 1965, and continuing through Jan­ Arguments over which method of infant feeding is superior will at Sault St. Marie, Sarnia, Wind­ uary 31, 1966. no doubt continue unabated for some time. Mothers traditionally sor and the Welland Canal Port Nominations for regular office make up their own minds on breast or bottle-feeding, and the health of Thorold, was without incident; in the SUP for the 1966-67 term question is only one of the factors they consider in making the decision. but from Hamilton to Montreal of office will be made at Head­ (Continued from page 24) the voyage was one of well- quarters and in all Branches at Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Com­ founded anxiety for the crewmen. the regular meeting in October pany. The ship developed a five- (Oct. 18), 1965. Babin joined the SIU Inland degree list to starboard as she left AH persons who wish to run Boatmen's Union in the port of Hamilton. for office must have the neces­ Houston, Texas, where ho sailed as "They seemed to be trying to sary qualifications and accep­ an engineer. Born In Louisiana, he straighten her up, but were hav­ tances in the office of the Secre­ makes his home in Noteo, La. He ing trouble," said ordinary sea­ tary-Treasurer or the Committee last sailed for the National Marine man Jim Strickland, 27, of Burnt on Candidates at Headquarters, Service. Island, Nfld. 450 Harrison Street, San Francis­ Reck sailed as an AB after "At T A.M.," said Chief Cook co, Calif. 94105, before midnight joining the SIU In the port of Tony Kerouac, 43, of LoretteviUe, of Nov. 14, 1965. New York. Bom in Mississippi, Que., "all the dishes on the Cap­ All Ports Ballot he now makes his home with his tain's table flew off to starboard wife Virginia in Mobile, Ala­ and crashed." Balloting will take place in all bama. He last sailed aboard the Kerouao was saved because his SUP halls, in San Francisco, Seat­ Alcoa Marketer. television crashed into a bulkhead tle, Portland, Wilmington, Hono­ Mourn joined the SIU in the port when the ship went over and lulu, New Orleans and New York. of Philadelphia where he sailed as awakened him. The four men The election will fill the official chief electrician in the engine de­ other than Menard who died, were positions in the SUP, as prescribed partment. A native of Borge, Nor­ asleep in rooms next to his. by the Constitution and member­ way, he and his wife Annie now ship action, for a two-year term of make their home in Long Island office. The jobs are: SecretaryCity, New York. His last voyage Treasurer, Assistant Secrelarywas aboard the Puerto Rico. Ti-easurer, Dispatcher, First Pa­ trolman, Second Patrolman, Third Stun>p sailed as a member of the Seafarers are advised to se­ Patrolman, Tanker Patrolman, SIU Oldtimer Nathan Dixon (left), who has been a member engine deipartment after signing on cure a master's certificate at since the earliest days of the Union, picks up his first regular with the SIU Inland Boatmen's Un­ all times when they become ill each at San Francisco. ion in the port of Baltimore. Bora Or injured aboard ship. The At Seattle, Port Agent and a monthly $150 pension check from SIU rep Al Bernstein at in Baltimore, Maryland, he and his tight to demand a master's cer­ Patrolman: at Portland, Port New York headquarters. Dixon, who makes his home in wife Genevieve continue to make tificate verifying illness or in­ Agent and a Patrolman; at New Brooklyn, last sailed aboard the Steel Architect and plans their home there. He last sailed jury aboard a vessel is guaran­ York, Port. Agent and a Patrol­ to make good use of his spare time now that he is in retire­ for the Baltimore Towing and teed by law. man; at New Orleans, Port Agent; ment by taking care of his home and property. Lighterage Company. at Honolulu, Port Agent. m*"' the Seaway, estimates that if the waterway's season is extended for two more weeks, • million extra tons will be added to the total cargo volume carried over the route this year. One of the principal reasons why an extension of the Seaway's operating season is being consid­ ered is that both Canada and the U.S. are concerned with raising the waterway's total earnings through more cargo business. Mc­ Cann reports that this season's total cargo volume as of the first week of December will be 45 mil­ lion tons, an increase of 5.4 million tons over the previous year. Toll Hike Studied The countries are also studying the possibility of raising tolls. in Blast Claims Four Canadian Seafarers SUP Sets Vote Date SIU Pensioners New SIU Pensioner Get Certificate'^ Before Leaving �sBAr 'Awmnm 90# Pa«» Elgfttees MrL-CIO Pfes/c/»nf Mtgny^f Igfegf Cains At Home Called Best Weapon Against Communism The progress made In America for Americana during the past year is the nation's strong­ est possible weapon for meeting the threat of Communist aggres^on, AFL-CIO President George Meany told a nationwide audience in a Labor Day radio broadcast. Meany contrasted "the most^ sweeping series of social im­ 'perhaps, on som» futuro Labor among the natloas of th« world; Day, a speaker will be a'We to com­ and that In tbo next two decades, provements," enacted since the memorate the triumph of peace tho bright expectations of 1945 will Ui Ligbbih^ Was Tlireat To Tan Sailing Ships Th® tall-masted wooden sailing ships of th» past faced numerous dangers each time they put to seat Storms, shoal waters, reefs—all took their tolL One danger faced by early sailing ships gets littl» pub-' previous Labor Day, with "a con­ licity however—^lightning. lightning, attempts were made to tinuing increase in Communist ag­ and freedom, not <MI the baittle- at last be fidllUed." eliminate this danger aboard ship. No one knows how many Early attempts gression in Viet Nam" during the field but In the hearts of men." Belrnst held out "tho very real at conducting light­ sailing vessels were destroyed by same period. Such a hope may be visionary, possibility" that In the near future ning safely down the; mast and lightning—either dismasted and The United States is involved in he conceded, but he maintained unemployment may "engulf this left to founder in heavy seas or harmlessly into the water were not Viet Nam for one reason only, he he would have sounded far more affluent society and plungo tho set afire and burned to the water- too successful however. told an NBC audience—"we prom­ visionary if at the close of World nation into another economic line. A lightning conductor for ships ised to help the South Vietnamese War II—^two decades ago—^he had abyss." was devised'by an English scientist Official Journals of the British to maintain their freedom and described the U.S. of today, "its "I want to make- onb thing navy from 1799 to 1815 Indicate consisting of long linlm of W-lnch degree of affluence, its sweeping their rights under the Geneva Ac­ clear," he- added. "I don't believe social progress, the continuing this Is' going to happen; but I do 150 reported instances of lightning diameter copper rods with eyelets cord." damage to. vessels. There were 100 at each end which could be joined eradication of once-terrible dis­ The Geneva Accord, which eases, the inspiring determination believe—or, to put It moresitrongly- cases of masts being destroyed, together by rings like a chain. As stopped the fighting in 1954, in­ to wipe out poverty, the rapid ap­ I know—that it can happen unless one out of every eight ships was a storm approached, one end of cluded a proviso for a free election proach toward unlimited educa­ preventive measures- are- promptly set afire in some part of tho rig­ this chain was to be hoisted to the taken." in which the Vietnamese could tional opportunity/' ging or sheets, and an estimated top of the tallest mast and the clioose their own government. But Beirne cited thie growth in the 70 seamen were killed and 130 lower end thrown Into the sea. world Spirit Sought the Communists in North Viet labor force and the cut in Jobs re­ wounded—all through Ugbtning, It was a nice try but didn't work Nam have refused to carry out "So, as we look ahead," Harri­ sulting from automation, and com­ There are no records for merchant too well. The air spaces between tiieir agreement and, instead, have son said, "as we continue our mended collective- bargaining gains, ships but they must have suffered the links broke the electrical con­ been found guilty by international course toward a more perfect so­ the expansion of education and at least as much damage. tinuity so that the device was not investigators of "inciting, encour­ ciety in America, let us hope that training and the "concept of broad a good conductor, and hoisting it Early Attempts aging and supporting" action a new spirit, a new surge of true public assistance" ..to economically up and down was a dangerous After Benjamin Franklin dis­ business. Many sailors were killed against the South Viet Nam gov­ brotherhood — an international hard-hit areas as steps toward played the electrical nature of by lightning whUe hoisting tho ernment, he said. consensus, if you will—develops meeting the iwobtem. lightning protection to the mast­ Such Communist duplicity and head. aggression, Meany said, threaten the country's domestic record. But, Successful Methods he added; The basic idea was a good' one "Just as the magnificent tri­ though, and it was adaptations of umphs of American astronauts the same idea which finally pro­ By Sidney Margolius have demonstrated to the world— vided dependable lightning pro­ both free and slave—the ultimate tection for ships. In some oases superiority of free science, and of bands of copper about 1^-inoh the free union labor that built The "durable press" garments also can be bought thick and anjrwhere from two to The higher living costs you have to pay this fall, what tlie scientists designed, so especially for food and clothing, have more than with stain and water-repellent finishes such as five-inches wide were fastened does the domestic record of the wiped out the benefits from the recent reduction Scotchgard and Zepel, which add to their usefulness. along the mast and down to a last year demonstrate the ability Otherwise, some of the children's "fashions" being copper plate on the keel. Other of a free society to reach toward in excise taxes on cars, household appliances, TV sets, toiletries, handbags, etc. offered this year are likely to cause some family systems included wire ropes and man's highest aspirations. copper cables. Fr,om the 1850's on, problems and money waste; The customary creeping inflation has become a lightning damage at sea ceased to Prospects Bright trotting inflation in recent months. Some specula­ WOMEN'S COATS: Look for the first coat sales be a problem. "We in the labor movement have tion has been observed in wholesale commodities as of the year on Columbus Day, with increasing cutThe development of iron-clad; often said that America's best market speculators sought to take advantage of the price offers thereafter. Judging from one survey, weapon in the worldwide struggle Viet Nam conflict. But in general, the largest single if there's anything America's housewives need, it's ships and later steel.hulled and' for human freedom is America's factor behind the cost-of-living rise is meat prices. a good winter coat. The survey found that about steel masted vessels ended the lightning problem completely on own example. On that basis alone These are running about 10 percent higher than last —despite the perils in Viet Nam year. That fact provides a warning to watch meat half the women questioned had; not bought a coat merchant ships. ~ Yachts with and elsewhere—the prospects are buying carefully this year if you want to stay even. in four years or more, and 82 per cent had not wooden masts still carry lightning bought one in two years. protection however. brighter today than they have been Another pro'blem looming up-ahead Js the-whop­ for many years. Therearegood values available in cloth coats ping increases in shoe prices scheduled for this "This country is stronger, richer coming spring. Manufacturers have announced this; year due^ to the ftirther advancement of syn­ and freer than ever—better able shoes will go up $1 to $2 pair. They attribute thetic blends. One of the best buys, In this writer's to meet whatever challenge may the forthcoming increase to higher prices of hides oirfnion-, ir the-so-called "stadium coat" which has been improved in styling so that it is quite;; dressy arise. and leather. too. Stadium coats are available In the $50-$85 "And because of that, because Here are tips in October buying needs: range in 50 percent polyester and 50 rayon, lined America has again proved" that CHILDREN'S CLOTHING: The rapid .spread of with plush and with a plush or fur collar. In close democracy works, that the genius of a free people is equal to any "durable press" materials into various types of weaves such as garbardine, stadium coats also are problem, I am certain that the children's- garments makes available a genuine water-repellent enough to serve as raincoats. tides of freedom are on the rise money and work-saver for moderate-income fami­ THE CAR MARKET: Over a million 1965 cars Novelists are- always' writing throughout the world, as they have lies. In fact, this department sees little point in were still unsold in September even as the auto about the "leaden" skies of stormy buying any other kind of clothing for children, risen to new heights here at home." industry started to produce the 1960 models. This or adults for that matter. days at sea. Experimenters- at offers car seekers an opportunity to get reduced Other Labor Day radio address­ That is, if you buy the right kind of "durable Stanford' University have now de­ es were made by AFL-CIO Vice prices on the 1965 models, although not all types Presidents Walter P. Reuther ort press" or "permanent press" garments. These are or makes are available in the annual model-year veloped a" stainless steel beach the ABC network; George M. Har­ made of fabrics which are treated and then baked clearance. and windless waves to go with the rison on the Mutual network, and to keep wrinkle-free and keep their press and FOOD BUYING CALENDAR: Beef prices will leaden sky. Their ptupose Is to Joseph A. Beirne over the Colum­ creases even through machine laundering. But if level off this fall as supplies Increase seasonally, learn more about wave action to the fabric is all cotton, the curing process tends to bia System. although prices will remain above a year ago. Look better forecast hazardous condi­ Reuther declared that the "great weaken the fiber. The most satisfactory type is a for better values in hamburger and meats for challenge" before the family of blend of cotton with polyester fiber (Dacron, Kodel, stewing, due to heavy slaughter of cows. Supplies, tions at sea. man "is the decision to use the Fortrel, etc.). The synthetic polyester adds strength. of fed beef, which provide the higher grades of The windless waves are gener­ Well-made garments of such blends do keep their steak and roasts, are smaller. Best values are ated by a piston mechanism in a power of the 20th Century techno­ logical revolution for his peaceful pre.ss in laundering, and do not need ironing, in broilers and turkeys, with both in heavy supply this 115-foot glass-walled tank in the purposes and not for his self-de­ this department's experience. year. Another cost-cutter is the current big pro­ University's Hydraulics Labora­ struction." Often such garments are made of 65 per cent duction of cheeses, which can help replace some tory. The sloping beach at one Dacron and 35 cotton, or 50-50 Kodel and cotton. of the meat in your family's menus. Responsibility Pointed Out end of the tank is simulated by "Durable press" now is available in boys' and men's stainless steel lathe shavings in America must a.ssume the re­ Get New Consamer Book Free slacks and shirts, and girls' blouses and dresses. metal baskets. sponsibility" to provide political This year's yearbook of the U.S. Agriculture The prices are reasonable enough. For example, and moral leadership to shift the If necessary, realistic wind Department is devoted entirely to very-useful con­ waves can be produced also by. world power struggle from a nu­ boys' and men's durable-press slacks of 65-35 clear arms race to a "positive polyester and cotton are available in the $5-$6 price sumer information. It is called "Consumers All." means of a fan that can generate contest" between competing social range, and shirts, at $3-$5. Girls' jumpers and Even at the price of $2.75 charged by the Govern­ winds up to 50 miles-an-hour. systems, Reuther said. He ex­ dresses, even with pleats that need no ironing, are ment Printing Office (Washington, D.C. 20402), t'his The experimenters hope that 496-page hard-cover book is a bargain. pressed confidence that "our sys­ being offered in the $8-$ll range. knowledge they may gain on how tem of freedom, built around the In buying such wash-and-wear garments, look for But you probably can get a free copy from your waves are built up and break upon values of the worth and the dig­ good construction too. especially smooth seams with Congressman if you act quickly. All members of the shore may someday be put to nity of each human being, will be good overlap. Some of the cheaper wash-and-wear Congress have a number of the yearbooks for free practical use in forecasting storms equal to the challenge!" shirts and blouses made of synthetic blends tend distribution. Write to^ your Representative for a at sea-and designing better ships, copy. harbors and breakwaters. Harrison held out the hope that to pucker at the seams. • • J? • 1 i **. October Buying CaJendar Stainless Steel Keaeb To Aid Wm Studies �SSMFAMMiS L0€ rage NIeeleea Notify Union On LOG f/MI As Seafarers know, copies of each issue of the SEAFARERS LOG are mailed every two weeks to ail SIIJ: Ships as well' as to numerous clubs, bars isnd other overseas ^ots where Seafarers congregate ashore. The procedure for mailing the LOG involves calliqg all SIU steamship companies for the itineraries of their ships. On the basis of the information supplied by the ship oper­ ator, four copies of the LOG, and minutes forms are then air­ mailed to the agent in the next jiorL Similarly, the seamen's dubs jget various quantities of LOGs at every mailing. The LOG is sent to any club when a Seafarer requests it by notifying the LOG office that Seafarers con­ gregate there. As always the Union would like to hear promptly from SIU ships whenever the LOG and ship's mail is not delivered so that the Union can maintain a day-to-day check on the accuracy of its mailing lists. MT. VERNON VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Aug. 22—Chairman, Ted Jones; Secretary, Alfred J. Severe. No beefs reported by department delegates. Ship's delegate requested crew to be quiet as some of the crewmembers as*- sleeping. It was discussed that everyone should work together at fire and boat drills. NATALIE (Maritime Overseas), wAug. 21—Chairman, V. J. Schrage; Secre­ tary, J. w. Sumpter. Some disputed OT in engine department. Vote of thanks to all department delegates, also vote of thanks to steward de­ partment for job well -done. Crew requested to be silent as crewmem­ HALCYON PANTHER (Halcyon), Aug. 18—Chairman, E. J. Thibodeaux; 'Secretary, Frank Kustura. Brother Stevens to serve as new ship's dele­ gate. $3.25 in ship's fund. No beef reported by department delegates. Discussion on keeping natives out of midship house. MANKATO VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), Aug. 15—Chairman, Charles P. Moore; Secretary, John R. Johnson. No beefs reported by department delegates. Temporary ship's delegate resigned. Brother Herbert E. Collins, elected to serve as new ship's dele­ gate. POTOMAC (Empire Transport), Aug. 22—Chairman, Frank Pasaluk; Secre­ tary, W. P. Rinehart. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. bers off watch can't sleep with the noise. OVERSEAS ROSE (Maritime Over­ seas), Aug. IS—Chairman, Leo Wills; Secretary, John Doyle. Discussion about the three fans that were re­ ceived out of the five that were promised. $50 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck and engine de­ partments. Motion made to have new washing machine installed. Also have T.V. repaired. COLORADO (Waterman), Aug. 28— Chairman, Richard Vaughn; Secre­ tary, J. Prestwood. Ship's delegate reported most repairs have treen made. Some disputed OT in deck de­ partment. Discussion on crewmem­ bers being improperly dressed when coming into messhall. Crew requested not to pick ice off coils in crews re­ frigerator so as not to puncture coils. PONCE (Sea-Land), Aug. 24—Chair­ man, N. Bentz. 8 and C card men asked to report to patrolman concern­ ing time spent on ship. $1.83 in ahip's fund. No beefs or OT dis­ puted in any department. HASTINGS (Waterman), Aug. 15— Chairman, James Du Bose; Secretary, John Wells. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Repair list to be made up and turned into department heads. Beefs to be taken up with patrolman. Motion made to amend retirement plan, to raise the $150 month to $300, with 15 years basic seatime, regardless of age, or 20 years regardless of age. Motion made that UF>on the death of a retired member, one-half of his $150 a month be paid to his widow as long as she does not re-marry. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for job well done. . ERNA ELIZABETH (Albatross Tank­ er), Aug. 14—Chairman, Billy Brewer; Secretary, Peter Patrick. Discussion on OT draw during voyage, headquar­ ters to contact company and Cap­ tain concerning same. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Mo­ tion made to have 15 years sea time on SIU contract vessels for retire­ ment, regardless of age. PUERTO RICO (Motorships of Pu­ erto Rico), Aug. 28—Chairman, W. M. Janisch; Secretary, JL Aragones. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Vote of thanks to steward de­ partment for job well done. Contact patrolman about cleaning and recementing water tanks. Vote of thanks to ship's delegate for excel­ lent job. Vote of thanks to ordinary seamen for good sanitary work done. GENEVA (U.S. Steel), Aug. 15 — Chairman, Angelic Meglio; Secretary, Leoncio Calderon. Ship sailed short two men, one man hospitalized in Miami. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. Crew asked to re­ turn cups to sink. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. T.V. antenna to be fixed. MERRIMAC (OrienUI Exporters), Aug. 1—Chairman, L. P. Hagman; Sec­ retary, Ken Hayes, ship's delegate extended vote of thanks to crew for making his job easy. Steward de­ partment reported that beef on linen will t>e taken up with patrolman on arrival. Vote of thanks to radio op­ erator for communication on strike information. DEL NORTE (Delta Steamship), Aug. 24—^Chairman, Robqrt Callahan; Secretary, Bill Kaiser. Some disputed OT in Deck department. $278.48 in ship's fund. Crew is asked to replace foods used by them at night. HURRICANE (Waterman), August 1 —Chairman, J. A. Browne; Secretary, R. Hannibal. Ship's delegate reported that everything is O.K. Deck dele­ gate reported that there are several hours disputed OT beefs in his de­ partment. He also stated that the crew is dissatisfied with the way the chief mate is running the deck de­ partment, and the very unsanitary conditions he is creating resulting in safety hazards. Company safety di­ rector will be contacted upon arrival in New Orleans, La. Vote of thanks was extended to the Ship's delegate and to the steward department. . RACHEL V (Vantage Steamship), Aug. 28—Chairman, Leon E. Foskey; Secretary, Robert Aumiller. Brother Parker S. Holt was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Dis­ cussion was held on the fujjiigation of the ship after unloading the lumber. D. Wagner, ship's (ielegate aboard the Elizabethport (Sea-Land Service) reports that the crew has initiated a raffle to raise money to repair the TV. At last report, all chances were sold and the decks were buzzing with rumors of the outcome. "At this point, it's anyanybody's ballgame," says savs^^ Brother Wagner. "Even the cheese .makes the toaster difficult Duty has been won by the follow­ prize is mystery. Nobody to clean .property. Seafarers have ing .galley crews: knows wbat it Is jret, but it's sure to be a dilly. We figure that ^a raffle is the best way to r.aLse money. Every­ body is willing to take a chanee," Wagner asserts. 'ffi«8ide s, the boys are anxious for the TV to get b a c.Ji on the beam. They've Wagner been missing some of their favorite programs. Wagner was too modest to mention the fact that be received a vote of thanks from the entire crew for his job as -delegate. "Brother Wagner did a bang-up juh," said Meeting Secretary R. MlLs, the Seafarer who passed along the Information. 4" t 4" Meeting Chairman L. P. Hagman reports that the crew of the Merrimao (Oriental Export) ex­ tended a vote of thanks to the ship's radio operator for keeping them informed on the latest devel­ opments during tlie recent mari­ time strike. "He was extremely cooperative and kept us up on the latest news at an inconvenience to himself," Hagman says. 4 4" 4" According to ship's meeting chairman W. W. Perkins aboard the Alice Brown (Bloom field Steamship), the crew voted a spe­ cial acknowledg­ ment of thanks to the steward department for the fine SIU job they have done to date. All the Perkins men aboard praised the quality of the fine food turned out by the chief cook and baker. The third cook also came in for a large portion of praise, especially for the terrific vegetables he put on the table. "Even by SIU standards," says Brother Perkins, "the job turned In by the Alice Brown galley gang was outstanding. It was a real pleasure sailing with them." 4" 4 4" Something has been toasting and roasting aboard the Tamara Gullden (Transport Comm.). De­ spite the summer heat. It's not the men that are burning, and It's not the sun that's behind It all. It seems that the men have tumbled on to a device for making snacks a little tastier and more appealing. What they have been doing is, taking ordinary cheese sandwiches, putting them into the toaster, and, before you can turn around—out comes grilled cheese sandwiches. But since the melted been artced :to cool their culinary imaginations. Rubbing their stom­ achs ajid already mournfully rem­ iniscing about the good old days when bread was toast and cheese was melted, crewmembers say that they will comply. "Too had" says ship's delegate W. Powell. "But who -knows, maybe they'll think of smnething else. Those hoys are plenty Inventive." 4 4 4 Retired Seafarer Fred Harvey passes along his regards to all his Union buddies. Brother Har­ vey is making a land voyage around the country. His intention is to stop and visit all the places of his youth. "Memory is a funny thing," he says. "I just feel I have to see all those places again. 4 4 4 Seafarers aboard the Del Norte (Delta Steamship) are having dif­ ficulties with their movie pro­ jector, according to delegate Peter Gonzalez. "Our projector broke down before we docked at Rio de Janiero," he re­ ports. "But we were imable to Gonzalez get the projector repaired -because It would have taken too long to get a special customs pass to get the machine ashore. Since we could not get anyone to come aboard to make the repairs, we still have two films that we have not yet been able to see. We are thinking of put­ ting our projector on a 'pool', Gonzalez says. "At any rate, we'll inquire and see what the best deal is." 4 4 4 In another shipboard election, E. W. Nicholson was elected to the ship's delegate post aboard the Portmar (Calmar Steamship). Brother Nicholson is the right man for the job," declares meeting chairman Lester Lapham. "He'll make a fine ship's delegate." 4.4 4 Topa Tops (Waterman Steam­ ship), Hurricane (Waterman Steam­ ship), Mount Washington (Victory Carriers), Del-Mundo (Delta Line), Ocean-Evelyn (Maritime Overseas). Fanwood (Waterman), La Saiie (Waterman), Dei. Aires. (Delta), Steel Scientist (Isthmian), Les Angeles (S e a - L a n d), Tamara Gullden (Transport Comm.). 4 4 4 Meeting secretary J. W. Sumpter of the Natalie (Maritime Overseas) reports that the crew has awarded an all-hands vote Of thanks to each and every dele­ gate aboard. "The delegaes of each department each did a terrific SIU job," S umpter announces. It Sumpter makes a voyage that much easier and more pleas­ ant when the delegates' are on their toes and there is a real apirit of cooperation throughout the crew. Also, Brother Sumpter re­ ports, "the crew extended a vote of thanks to the steward depart­ ment for their hang up job on this run." 4 4 4 4 4 4 Seafarers aboard the Ponce (SeaLand) awarded a special vote of •thanks to the members of the ship's steward department. "The galleymen did a terrific job under trying and adverse conditions," reports meeting chairman H. Bentz. Seafarers aboard the Overseas Rose (Maritime Overseas) have turned their hands to interior dec­ orating. Crewmembers are blinking and shaking their heads in sur­ prised disbelief at the face lifting job that the vessel is undergoing. One of the brightest spots newly in sight is the colorful set of cur­ tains that now graces the mess hall. "Looking good," is the considered opinion of Leo F, Mills, ship's dele­ gate. "It's always nice to see the hoys take an interest in the ship's appearance, and when an SIU crew takes a hand, there is nothing that they cannot do," Mills said. The hoys sailing aboard the Steel 4 4 4 Seafarers aboard the Rio Grande Director (Isthmian) report that they have elected W. A. Walsh to (Oriental Exporters) regretfully an­ nounce the death the ship's delegate post. "Brother of Brother HosWalsh was chosen by popular ac­ tetter. Brother clamation," announces meeting Hostetter died chairman T. C. Jones. "We all while the Rio agree that he's the man to handle Grande was cross­ the post." ing the Interna­ 4 4 4 tional Date Line, Chow time is pleasure time any­ and he was buried time an SIU galley crew Is man­ at sea. "He was a ning the messhall. Big bellies and fine shipmate, and Reosko big smiles are the mark of an he sailed in the SlU-cooked meal. This week's true SIU tradition," repoits ship's Seafarer's Gold Medal Galley delegate A. Reasko. "All the men Award for Chow and Service are going to miss him. Services on Above and Beyond the Call of board were attended by all hands." TO BURuy. B/azy •riMB ME SEES PISH ME SETS -!& THIHKIN(5 OF M/S OU> UOMB — MAMm -me MeiSMAmf �Par* Tireatr SEAFAMERS lOG Seafarers Carry The Mail For Brave Amateur Sailor "When I saw that tiny red sail bobbing off the starboard bough, I thought that I was dreaming," says Seafarer Epifanio Rodriguez, one of the first SIU orewmemberi aboard the Steel Vendor to spot Robert Manry's 13%-foot sailboat Tinkerbelle in the middle of the North Atlantic recently. "We were miles from the sight of land," Rodriguez says. "Nothing that small should have been anywhere near us." Apparently Rodriguez and hie shipmates weren't the only ones shaken up. Manry recently stunned the entire world with his recordbreaking, 78-day solo crossing of the Atlantic. Most people didn't think that the valiant little Tinkerbelle was capable of completing the harrowing 3,200-mile voyage. "We didn't know what to make of sighting him," Rodriguez says. "Most of the men thought that he was lost or adrift. The first engi­ neer tried to throw him a line. The captain asked whether he was In need of assistance. We all figured he was in trouble of some kind." But Manry refused all aid. Seafarers Jesus M. London (I) and Epifanio Rodriguei read Laughing, he told the SIU crew last issue of LOG for latest details on Robert Manry's record' that he was a month out of Boston and that his destination was Fal­ breaking Atlantic crossing. Rodriguez met Manry when mouth, England. his vessel, the Sfeef Vendor, pulled aongsid* the now famous "I couldn't believe it," Rodriguez Tinkerbelle in mid-oce^n. says. "I thought ho was either kid­ "1 was watching TV with my wife ding or crazy. Some of the crew requested us to mail some letters thought that he was raving from for him. We passed him the bag when suddenly there was Manry and he passed his mall. Including landing In England. I had told my sun and exposure." a letter to the captain and crew wife about running Into him at sea Heavy Seas explaining his voyage and marking and we were both surprised as all The Steel Vendor lost three his course." heck that he did It. I thought fM" hours trying to get alongside the sure that he'd go under." When the Tinkerbelle and the tiny Tinkerbelle In very heavy seas. Steel Vendor parted, Manry took Most of the Steel Vendor crew "The weather was very rough," pictures of the freighter and wished was of Rodriguez's opinion. Only Rodriguez says, "and there were the Seafarers aboard the best of one single Seafarer disagreed. heavy seas. The caiptain wanted to luck." "The first engineer waa laying pull alongside to make sure that "1 don't understand it," Rodri­ odds that Manry would make it," Manry wasn't lost." guez says. "There he was trying to Rodriguez recalls. "The engineer Finally directly alongside, Man­ cross the Atlantic in that little was from Boston and he said that ry asked for a course reading. He splinter, and he was wishing us any sailor setting out from "Beanwanted to be on 43, but he was on good luck. He was the one who town" could complete any voyage 41—two points off. needed the luck and we were the he set his mind to. Boy, was that "We gave him the reading," re­ ones who should have been taking engineer proud when we learned that Manry made port." ' ports Rodriguez, "and he corrected pictures." his course. All and all, he was pret­ About one month later, Manry Oddly enough, Rodriguez and ty close." landed his tiny sailboat In Fal­ the rest of the Steel Vendor crew In establishing communications, mouth, England, where he received ran into another ocean-going sail­ the Steel Vendor herself had to al­ a hero's welcome from 20,000 boat on their run. While passing ter course in the rough North At­ cheering onlookers, including his through the Suez Canal, they wife and 14-year-old daughter. came across a small French sail lantic. that had made Its way from France Tinkerbelle Time Rocking And Rolling to India. "We were out of Alicante and still can't believe that he made headed for New York," Rodriguez it,""1Insists Summer Sailors the shooked Rodriguez. relates. "As far as 1 can determine, "It's hard enough making that "This one had an easier time of the Tinkerbelle was less than 3 North Atlantic crossing in a full It," Rodriguez says. "The boat days out of Boston — but that's figuring by steamship time, not sized ship, much leas a rowboart was about 18-feet long and was with a sail. The Atlantic gets pretty carrying a three man crew—one Tinkerbelle time. There's a big rough. In fact, Rodriguez remem­ of whom was a woman. As they difference. Manry was out about a bers, "it was blowing pretty hard passed through the Canal, we month." when the Tinkerbelle and the could see them drinking beer and Offered provisions and assistance, Steel Vendor parted company. For­ taking the sunshine. 1 wouldn't Manry would accept only a small, tunately, the wind was in his favor. have minded being along on that waterproof bag which he used to But you should have seen that lit­ one myself," he laughs. transfer some mail from the Tink­ tle boat rocking and rolling on the As for Manry's voyage, Rod­ erbelle to the Steel Vendor. waves." riguez is glad that he missed that "We asked him again if he need­ Rodriguez was home when he one. "I've been a member of the ed or wanted anything," says Rod­ learned of Manry's successful land­ SIU for six years and I intend to riguez. "He refused all help but ing. keep right on doing all my sailing aboard SIU ships," he says. Seafarer Did It Rodriguez and a fellow Seafarer Jesus M. Landron—a 24-year vet­ eran of the deck department— recalled that an SIU brother made the Atlantic crossing on two sepa­ rate occasions in a small sail. "His first name was Ollie," Landron recalls, "but I can't reniember his last name. He sailed with me oh the Robin Trent. 1 know he niiade the Atlantic at least twice,^ and both times in sailboats under 20-feet long." Rodriguez is impressed, but still not tempted. "1 heard about Ollie," he says. "But that stuff is definitely not for me." Septenbw 1T« IfffB lOO-A-RHYTHM. Seascape By Bob Lee I remember that last day tee spent on the beach, October had darkened the sand. The water teas hard, reflecting the eky. You played with a shell In yowr hand. Your friend waited alone by the car. The wind teas tossing her hair, I saw it blowing dark and wild. Though her arms and neck were bare:. The sky bloodied the horizon. Two fishermen stood on the shore. You tossed the shell away, and said, "I don't love you anymore." "The fishermen stood quiet. A boat passed out in the bay. You kicked at that rough brown sand. And moved two steps away. It was already almost evening. Winter was in the air. Seaweed littered the barren beach, I could smell the salt in your hair. In the distance, your friend was waving, A gull wheeled in the sky. You followed the bird's arcing circle. With a casual lift of your eye. "It's cold, but it's only October," I said. You shook your head and smiled. Then turning, you looked away again. We were quiet for a while. (All afternoon I'd been waiting, For you to tell me you were going away. Watching the sun grow pale in the sky. Like a bitter circle of crumbling clay.) "Only October," I said again. You shivered and closed your eyes, "We'd better go back, it's getting late." I wondered if you'd cry. All the way back to the boardwalk. Our feet sank into the sand. Making each step a slow-motion frame. From a nightmare film caravan When we got to the car, you stumbled, I caught your arm as you felU Your friend laughed and eagerly asked, "Did you bring me back any shells?" SAVANNAH (Seatrain), Sept. 1 — Chairman, Bocco Matarangoloi Sec­ retary, Julio Evani. Brother Raul Iglesias to serve as new ship's dele­ gate. Vote of thanks to steward de­ partment. The raising of a ships fund was suggested. Car-deckmen ask for a warning system to be in­ stalled, especially In bad weather. Whistle warning system suggested. meeting held (July 28, 1965). The chief engineer was to ration watar, he claims that the craw was wasting it. It is known that the faucets are in need of repair. Chief englneor claims he will not pay OT. Ship's delegate has taken this matter up with the captain; the captain fesls that the chief engineer is only trying to aggravate the crew. PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), Aug. 15—Chairman, H. Longzynski; Secre­ tary, J. a. Lakwyk. No beefs reported by department delegates. Brother Herbert Longzynski was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Request made that communications and head- STEEL FABRICATOR (Isthmian), Sept. 1—Chairman, Wallace; Secre­ tary, Tom Gordon. Ship's delegate re­ ported that alleyways, toilets and showers should be kept clean at ail times, also control the roaches in the crew quarters. No beefs reported by department delegates. Washing ma­ chine to be left clean after usa and ready for the next user. Ship's dele­ gate to see chief engineer about hot water pressure on washing machine. SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Seatrain), Aug. 22 — Chairman, M. Laureanoi Secretary, C. James. Ship sailed short four men. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. Motion was mad* to throw left over food stored in ic* box longer than two days. Had dis­ cussion about baker not wanting to work OT. quarters report be sent to Bombay, India. KySKA (Waterman), Aug. 23—Chair­ man, W. R. Kleimoia; Secretary, Ray Hodges. 58 In ship's fund. No beefs reported, by department delegates. Vote of thanks to steward department. Motion made to see patrolman about condition of lifeboats. See patrolman about ice-box latches needing re­ pairs. STEEL KING (Isthmian), Aug. 29— Chairman, Harold Long; Secretary, Al­ fred 0. Allain. Some disputed OT in deck department otherwise every­ thing is OK. The washing machine pump needs fixing, will take matter up with the chief engineer. RIO GRANDE (Oriental Exporters), Aug. 22—Chairman, A. Reasko; Secre­ tary, G. Lothrop. $32 In ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. Motion made to have ship fumigated. Crew was asked to re­ place their cots and not to leave them on the deck. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land Serv­ ice), Aug. 27—Chairman, 0. Wagneif Secretary, R. Mills. Money was col­ lected to have TV repaired. The water cooler In the lower passageway needs repairs. Crew requests another fan be installed in same passageway. Ship sailed short 2 men this trip. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Vote of thanks extended to ship's delegate. Crew asked that the night lunch be changed to cold beef and cold pork. PENN VANGUARD (Penn Shipping), July 18—Chairman, John Homer; Sec­ retary, G. Trosclair. Brother Homer elected to serve as new ship's dele­ gate. Motion made to have ship fumi­ gated for roaches and rats. Special CANTIGNY (Cities Service), July 30 —Chairman, Michael 'Doherty; Secre­ tary, John P. Forsythe. Ship is short of utensils, cups etc. for meal set­ ups. All beefs to be brought up to Skipper by delegates. �U. lt« SBAFAREmS rw« LOG •'Barna Seafarers Find Indian Voyage Lacks Spice By William Calefato Take a hefty sack of butterbeans, add a pinch of black pepper, stir in some spicy red ketchup; then sprinkle liberally with homesickness, a Far Eastern run, and an SIU crew sailing out of Mobile. That recipe is bound to produce a heck of a Seafaring yarn espe­ cially if the ship concerned 4happens to be the Rachel V drink champaigne in a ship's mess- solved. bound from Mobile, Alabama hall. to Madras, India. Most of the Mobile crew aboard the Rachel V could trace their ancestry back to the hardy pioneer stock that cleared the wilderness and settled the American Colonies 300 years ago. So, when somebody opened a bottle of ketchup and the compressed gas escaped with a noise like an exploding cannon, no one was frightened—only cu­ rious. An oiler put a quick stop to guesses about a blown gasket be­ low. No. This noise in the mess hall was differ­ ent. And it couldn't have been somebody opening a bottle CdefcrtO o f champaigne, because—^well, because they dom't A quick inspection of the ket­ chup supply revealed that preced­ ing crews had used most of the contents of each bottle. Then the near-empty bottles were put back in the messhall cabinet and for­ gotten. No one knew the differ­ ence because, from the outside, the bottles still looked full. Pop, Hiss, Whoosh But, in time, the tomato acid formed a gas within the bottles. This gas became so compressed that a loud pop ensued when the cap was demoved, followed by a hiss. Anyway, the crew reasoned, maybe the steward could replen­ ish the ketchup stores in India. That is if they made ketcup in India. Or If they even raised t'maters In India. Peppery Crew Meanwhile, another problem arose. There was only white paper on the tables. No Spicy black pepper. Perhaps an ordinary crew could make due with white pepper. But not a Mobile crew. Mobilians are raised on the rip snortin' black sneezin' kind. The steward promised to get some black pepper in India. But The ship's delegate promised the gentle disposition of the na­ that something would be done to tive Mobilians began gradually to rectify the situation. The steward smoulder. was summoned and, after weigh­ Here it was, only a week out of ing the facts, he said: "Well, if it's Mobile, and the crew was facing no good, toss it over the side." the grisly fate of going all the way The immediate dilemma was to Madras and Calcutta without enough ketchup—or black pepper. The breakfast eggs and potatoes always tasted better with ketchup —and black pepper. And suppose the steward put hamburgers on the menu? Can't eat hamburgers without ketchup—or black pepper. The Mobilians resigned them­ selves. Nothing could be done out at sea. But on arrival at Madras —ahh, perhaps . . . Jelly Yes, Jam No Seafarers on the Rachd V liked Sfax. It Is a neat, clean port and the natives were very courteous to visitors. Tho building In the background Is a museum. "But," Brother Calefato, explains, "My wanderlust was very strong In Sfax and I didn't get a chance to visit many of the historic buildings." Thanks Union For Pension To the Editor: I would like to express my thanks and appreciation to the Union for the $150 monthly fits see to it that we are pro­ tected and safe. Not having to worry about bills and financial pressures at this stage of the game is a Godsend. With the Union benefits behind me, I. know that it will be smooth sailing from here on in. Fraternally yours, J. D. Pearson 4. 4^ ^ Then one morning it was dis­ covered that there was no more strawberry jam. Marmalade and Jelly, yes, but no strawberry jam. Mobilians can live without ket­ chup, even without black pepper. But strawberry jam—why that's like being deprived of corn bread, or grits. Unbearable. Mobilian fury comes slowly and surely, like a stalking bobcat. The crew immediately rushed to the storeroom to check the state of the most essential staple of an Alabama diet. Grits. Grits? Well, there was enough grits, the steward thought. But this was a Yankee steward. The Mobilians were wary. l%at first hectic week of the voyage to India brought the usual talk about borne and family. The mess hall chats were full of the expectation of being back-in Mo­ bile in time for the early June har­ vest. The butterbeans would be ready. And so would the collard AB Carl Pierce (i.) and AB William Lee relax on deck as the Rachel V lies off Sfax, Tunisia. Both Pierce and Lee are from Mobile, Alabama, as were the majority of Rachel V crewmembers. The Alabamans displayed typical southern patience and forbearance during the sometimes trying voyage. greens and other native Alabama dreds—^but the Seafarers concen­ vegetables. trated on only one. Com bread. "Boy, I'll be back just right for Whenever someone offered a those luscious butterbeans," said recipe for good cornbread, some­ one messman in a tone that echoed one else said that he had a better with nostalgic ectasy. "And those one. Corn bread recipes were ex­ collard greens will be fresh cut on changed that had been in families liie plate. Man, give me a plate of since the pioneering days. It made those collard greens and butter­ the Mobile boys feel closer to beans, and I don't want anything home. else." Mobilians live close to nature. From the shadows a voice The simple things of life are treas­ drawled: "Keep talking, boy. I'm just itching to get back to my corn ures to these men who have not stalks. Timin' it just right. Be yet lost their close association to back for that old June harvest. Get the soil. They maintain their asso­ me a great big batch of mustard ciation with things that grew from the land, and with the wild ani­ greens and ..." mals that they ti-ack as hunters. And so it went. Every member 'Bania Rebels of the crew dreamed of something to go home to. Butterbeans and The Seafarers manning the collard greens were more than jusjj Rachel V both proved and dis­ plants to them. They were sym­ proved many fables concerning the bols of the land that had nurtured crews that sail out of Mobile. Most them, on which they lived and of the Rachel V's Mobilians didn't where they had grown up. And it even mind being called "rebels." was the ocean that separated the "Hell," they admit with a ready Seafarers from their home. smile, "that's what we are. Why The edibles that were discussed should we mind?" were all of the natural kind—all Their most outstanding quality crops that the crew had sown and harvested with their own hands. is the quiet patience with which Com products were an especially they face all hardships, including popular topic of conversation. No perhaps the worst in the sailing one knows how many foods are profession—being in want of the produced from corn—perhaps hun- simple things in life while on the high seas, far from home. Seafarer Thanks SIU Brothers AH letters to the Editor for publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the iuritcr. Names will be withheld upon request. pension check that I will be receiving for the rest of my life. My wife and I are especially grateful for the help we have received in our hospital and doctor bills for the past six months. The SIU pensions and bene­ To the Editor: I wish to thank all the SIU crewmembers aboard the Rio Grand and express my apprecia­ tion for the help they extended to me when I was laid up in Sfax, Tunisia and forced to miss the Rachel V. It certainly is a pleasure and an honor to be associated with Union memb«<s like ours. In the SIU, the fraternity of the sea is a reality. Fraternally years, Andrew Reasko Natlve Tunisians go about their business In the shadow of tho Casbah Wall. Many SIU veterans will remember that in tho old days it was wise to enter the Casbah only with a reliable "pilot." "Now," reports Brother Calefato, "all comers are greeted with a smile, even when languages are mutually misunderstood." The nearer they got to Madras, the nearer they would be to home, the Alabama crew calculated. To be happy in India is a rare re iction among most Seafarers. And yet many of the Mobilians ex­ plored the city with a zest that old Seafarers like Magelan and Columbus must have experienced when they have made their dis­ coveries. Even in Calcutta, the crew found time and place enough for enjoyment. Straight Dope Then something awful happened. It was not just one of the daily rumors you constantly hear > n tramp ships. This was the "straight dope from topside." The Rachel V was not returning to Mobie after all. It was heading for North Africa. , Disaster. And yet, if this h.M not occurred, it probably would never have come to light that Mo­ bilians are gifted with that rare power called "built-in morale." �SEAFARERS Pa*e Twenty-iy® LOG All of the following SlU families have received maternity benefits from the Seafarers Welfare Plan, plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name: Christine Pose, born July 28, Bryan Manuel, born August 9, John Riddle, born July 12, 1965, to the John A. Riddles, New Or­ 1965, to the Ervin Manuels, Ober- 1965, to the James L. Poses, Point Clear, Ala. lin. La. leans, La. •fc 4" t 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Danny Leon Shaper, born July Randall Witherington, bora April Steven Sorensen, born July 13, 13, 1965, to the Robert H. Wither- 8, 1965, to the Danny L, Shapera, 1965, to the Ejvind Sorensens, Chickasaw, Ala. Brooklyn, New York. ingtons. Daphne, Ala. 4 Danilo Benitez, Jr., bom July 12, Francis Floyd Cain, born June 20, David Langlols, born January 19, 1965, to the Gary V. Cains, Mobile, 1965, to the Danilo Benitezs, 1965, to the Eugene W. Langlols, Tampa, Fla. Ala. Duluth, Minn. - 4 4 William Raley, bora August 6, Dean Kidd, born June 24, 1965, Annette Marie Valladares, born to the Gerald R. Kidds, Baltimore, 1965, to the Marion J. Raleys, Dau­ June 9, 1965, to the Claude Valla­ phin Island, Ala. Md. dares, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Roy L. Seals, bora June 18, 1965, Trudie May Miller, born July 27, Karl Norman, born May 24, 1965, • 1965, to the Gerald D. Millers, Al­ to the Howard L. Seals, New Or­ to the Ragner H. Normans, Livonia, leans, La. pena, Mich. Mich. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Leonard Schlau, born July 22, Mila Serrano, born July 5, 1965, Rose Marie DeDominicis, born to the Felix L. Serranos, San Fran­ 1965, to the Leonard A. Schlaus, Buffalo, New York. cisco, Calif. July 30, 1965, to the Francisco De­ 4 4 4 Dominicis, New Orleans, Louisi­ 4 4 4 Charles Makarewicz, born July ana. Deborah Groen, born June 1, 1965, to the Jacobus Groens, Mobile, 13, 1965, to the Richard R. Makare4 4 4 wiczs, Baltimore, Md. Ala. Migdall Espada, born June 20, 4 4 4 4 4 4 Arthur Howse, born July 13, 1965, to the Generoso Espadas, Karen Blumlein, born July 30, 1965, to the Robert Blumleins, Mid­ 1965, to the Arthur Howses, Peto- Jersey City, New Jersey. skey, Mich. dle Village, New York. 4 4 4 Lorie Denlse Costine, born 4 4 4 4 4 4 Bridget Bishop, born June 16, August 3, 1965, to the Edward L. Russell Davis, born July 31, 1965, to the James W. Davis, Jackson­ 1965, to the George A. Bishops, Costines, Tampa, Florida. Fairhope, Ala. ville, FJa. The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported to the Seafarers Welfare Plan (any apparent delay in payment of claims is normally due to late filing, lack of beneficiary card or necessary litigation for the disposition of estates): Edwin D. Whitehead, 42: Brother Byrd Olton Buzhee, 64: Brother Buzbee died of natural causes on Whitehead died of natural causes on July 18, 1965. July 22, 1965, at A member of the the New Orleans Union since 1958, USPHS Hospital. he sailed as a A member of the messman in the Union since 1945, steward depart­ he sailed in the ment. He was bur­ engine depart­ ied in the Long ment. He is sur­ vived by his wife Island National Cemetery, Long Nancy Elvira. Island, New York. Place of burial was the Rose Hill Cemetery, Hills­ He is survived by his wife V. Hazel borough County, Tampa, Florida. Whitehead. 4 4 4 Bobby Ray Norris, 34; Brother Norris died an accidental death on May 21, 1965. A member of the deck department, he joined the SIU in 1953. He was buried in the Mt. G i 1 e a d Church Cemetery, Cabarlus County, North Carolina. Surviv­ ing is his mother Mrs. Nellie Sellers. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Mitchell Jackson Hinman, 67: Brother Hinman succumbed to heart failure on July 28, 1965, at the Nam Hospital, Nassawadox, Vir­ ginia. A member of the deck de­ partment, he joined the SIU in 1960. He is sur­ vived by his wife Carrie. Place of burial was the Parksley Cemetery, Parksley, Virginia. John Rekstin, 71; Brother Rek4 4 4 stin died of accidental causes on Henry A. Anderson, 61; Brother July 29, 1965, at Anderson died of natural causes on Bellevue Hospital, June 23, 1965, at New York, N.Y. the King's County A member of the Hospital, Brook­ Union since 1938, lyn, New York. A he sailed in the member of the deck department. Union since 1939, He is survived by he sailed in the his friend Eliza­ engine depart­ beth Francen. ment. He was bur­ Place of burial ied in the Cedar was the Cyprus Hills Cemetery, Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. Arlington, Virginia. Surviving is his sister Mrs. Virginia Newton. 4 4 4 Elmer Frederick Morris, 46: 4 4 4 Brother Morris died of injuries sus­ Aulsy Mansfield, 38; Brother tained in an acci­ Mansfield died of heart failure on dent on JLwe 17, April 27, 1965 at 1965, at the Gulf St. Mary's InfirmCoast Hospital, a r y, Galveston, Baytown, Texas. Texas. A member of the SIU since A member of the 1960, he sailed as Union since 1957, a millright. He is he sailed as a first survived by his assistant. He is Wife Julia Augsurvived by his ness Mansfield. wife Kathleen. Place of burial was the Forrest Place of burial Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston, was the Calvary Cemetery, Galves­ ton, Texas. Texas. ^ptember 17/iMS All hospitalized Seafarers would appreciate mail and visits whenever possible. The following is the latest available list of SIU mea in the hospital: USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Edward Boles, Jr. Robert Burton C. R. Coumas Earl Cronsell Richard Donovan D. Fols B. Gibson Clifton Goodwin J. Hilton T. Humal William F. Jordan Edward Lee J. A. Mitchell D. K. Moller Oliver Myers J. G. Napoleonis . J. Novak Kurt Olsen Chas. w. Palmar S. Pereira T. Pereira J. P. Polsney Jose Rodriguez R. Roeder W. G. Schoenbum F. Soils W. Sudnick J. E. Townsend D. Trevlsano C. Triantaflllo Carl Wayne Arthur Wllfert USPHS HOSPITAL DETROIT, MICHIGAN T. Ahmed Francis Anderson Theodore Bills Raymond Connolly Bill Cowan Paul Jones George Koehler Marcus Langston John McCllnton John Macko All Mohamed James NIchol Ferris Oakley L. Pluff Henry Stryczek S. K. Shiflett Albert Spooner Alfred Talaska USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON, TEXAS Charles Copeman R. M. George H. Grove R. H. Henry W. C. Schaefer L. L. Williamson E. C. Veamans USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VIRGINIA Jerome Casper John Gurganus William T. Dough Alvin R. Mabe Know Your Rights FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters In Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic. Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered In accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. AU these agreements specify that the trustees In charge of these funds shall consist equally of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and avail­ able In all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained In tne contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mall, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman. Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place. Suite 1930. New York 4. N.Y. Full copies of contracts as t-eferred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available In all SIU haUs. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and In the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official. In your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any Individual In the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from pub­ lishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or Us collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September. 1960. meetings in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested In an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone In any official capacity In the SIU unless an official Union receipt Is given for same. Under no circumstance should any member pay any money for any reason unless he Is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to , require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or If a member is required to make a payment and Is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months In the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitu­ tion. In addition, copies are available In all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with Its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer Is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges', trials, etc.. as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU mem­ bers at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role In all rank-and-file functions. Including service on rank-and-fiie committees. Because these oldtlmers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and In the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If 'any member feels that he Is denied the equal rights to which he Is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers Is the right to pursue legislative and political ob.1ectives whichwill serve the best Interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitutional right of access to Union records or Information, he should Immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters by certified mail, return receipt requested USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA C. C. Anderson Charles Hazelton Lawrence Bartlett Henry Jorgensen John R. Burku Charles H. Kath Joseph E. Gardner Nils S. Larsson John Colonna Leon D. Lucas Henry Dell'Orfano James Mooro Edward Fernandas P. R. Ojera R. E. Fisher George T. Wilson Johnny W. Givens Ding H. Woo Percy A. Gray USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA George E. Anuts Cleon Mixon Lucien Allaire Willis O. Moncrief Edward Brevier Charles L. Monks Gregory J. Burns Vincent Monte Ardell Burkett Hoke Massour John A. Buttimer Clarence Osbom Mallorv .1. Coffey Clarence Page Jose Deus P. J. Scanlan Leon Duhon R. G. Sheffield Edgar FreimanS E. R. Smallwuod James G. Gautreau Francis E. Smith Pieas T. Martin Francis N. Sperry R. A. Medicus T. C. Thompson Ethel Messonnier Rafael L. Torres Chas. J. Mitchell Frank Vivero John Misaki-^n Elaska Weems Edward L. Wells B. E, Pamell Earl L. Wicker John J. PoweK John Wynne Douglas Robbins R. M. Rutledge USPHS HOSPITAL BRIGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS Edw. Broussard USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH, GEORGIA S. J. Poole USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Charles Anthony Roy Rayfield Lowell Bailey Harry Reynolds Floyd Barnett William Riddick M. Gillispie Joseph Sierko George Harris Earl Smith Daniel Hill Paul Strickland Charles Tyree Eric Johnson Nick Murtin Walter Walsh Andy Noah George Warren James Portway George Williams Anthony Zulinski Estiban Oquindo USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WASHINGTON E. S. Brinson F. Narte Rufino Felipe Homer Nichols Bain GIfford A. M. Palmqulst John Hales Raymond Ruppert Pedro Julio Lyn Sears Charles Lane USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH,TEXAS Willie Adcock Thomas Lehay Benjamin Deibter Abraham Mander Abe Gordon Max Olson SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Daniel Gorman William Kenny A. Gutierrez Harry MacDonald Edwin Harriman U.S. SOLDIERS HOME HOSPITAL WASHINGTON, D.C. William Thomson VA HOSPITAL HOUSTON, TEXAS Thomas Manion VA HOSPITAL WEST HAVEN, CONN Paul Kolesnick R. VA HOSPITAL BROOKLYN, NEW YORK McCutheon Phillip VA HOSPITAL PHILADELPHIA, PA. Jeffers VA HOSPITAL LONG BEACH, CALIF, R, Arsenautt VA HOSPITAL HINES, ILLINOIS Oscar Kvaas VA HOSPITAL ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN Robert Asbahr PUREAIR SANATORIUM BAYFIELD, WISCONSIN Theodore Galazen BROOKLYN STATE HOSPITAL BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Roberto Diaz Sign Name On LOG Letters For obvious reasons the LOG cannot print any letters or other communications sent in by Seafarers unless the author sigiiS ilia name. Unsignerl anonymous letter.s will oniv wind up in the waste-haskci If circumstances justify,, the LOG will withhold a signature on request �Septcttbcr lT; IMS Vac* Twcpfr-VfeiM SEAt^ARERS ZOG Schedule of Membership Meetings UNION SlU-AGLIWD Meetings Regular membership meetings tor members of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are held regularly once a month on days Indicated by the SIU Constitution, at 2:30 PM in the listed SIU ports below. All Seafarers are expected to attend. Those who wish to be excused should request permission by tele­ gram (be sure to include registration number). The next SIU meetings will be: New York .. Philadelphia Baltimore ., .... Oct. 8 ...Oct. 11 ...Oct 12 Detroit Houston New Orleans Oct. 13 Oct. 4 Oct. 5 Oct. 6 Mobile ^ » West Coast SlU-AGLIWD Meetings SIU headquarters has issued the following schedule for the monthly informational meetings to be held in West Coast ports for the benefit of Seafarers shipping from Wilmington, San Francisco and Seattle, or who are due to return from the Far East. All Seafarers are expected to attend these meetings, in accord with an Executive Board resolution adopted in December, 1961. Meet­ ings in Wilmington are on Monday, San Francisco on Wednesday and Seattle On Friday, starting at 2 PM local time. •Wilmington Oct. 18 San Francisco Oct. 20 4- Great lakes SIU Meetings Regular membership meetings on the Great I.akes are held on the first and third Mondays of each month in all ports at 7 PM local time, except at Detroit, where meetings are heia at 2 PM. The next meetings will be: Detroit Sept. 20-2 P.M. Alpena, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Duluth, Frankfort, Sept. 20—7 P.M. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union Regular membership meetings for IBU members are scheduled each month in various ports. The next meetings will be: Phlla .Oct. 5—5 P.M. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) .. Oct. 5—5 P.M. Houston ... .Oct. 11—5 P.M. Norfolk Oct. 7—5 P.M. N'Orleans ...Oct. 12—5 P.M. Mobile Oct. 13—5 P.M. RAILWAY MARINR RECION Regular membership meetings for Railway Marine Region-IBU members are scheduled each month, in the various ports at 10 AM and 8 PM. The next meetings will be: Jersey City Oct. 11 Philadelphia Oct. 12 Baltimore Oct. 13 Norfolk Oct. 14 TUO AND REGION DREDGE Regular membership meet­ ings for Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region IBU memlers are scheduled each month in the vari­ ous ports at 7:30 PM. The next meetings will ue: Detroit Milwaukee Chicago Oct. Buffalo tSauit Ste. Marie .... . Oct. Duluth Cleveland Oct. Toledo 11 11 12 13 14 15 15 15 (For meeting place, contact John Mero, 1644 West 3rd Street, Ash­ tabula, Ohio). 4 t - "Lee" brand tires (United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum & Plastic Workers) S> if - Eastern Alt Lines (Flight Engineers) if if S> H. I. Siege! "HIS" brand men's clothes (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) 4" t Sears, Roebuck Company Retail stores & products (Retail Clerks) Seattle Oct. 22 S Seafarers and tneir families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are prodi"-"' under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the APL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) 4» United Industrial Workers Regular membership meetings for UIW members are scheduled each month at 7 PM in various ports. The next meetings will be: New York Oct. 4 Baltimore Oct. 6 Philadelphia Oct. 5 ^Houston Oct. 11 Mobile Oct. 12 New Orleans ........Oct. 13 • Mcatlnss hald at Laaor Tampla, Nawport Naws. t MaatIng hald at Labor Tampla, Sault Ita. Maria. Mich. t Maaling hald at Galvaston wharvat. if if if Stitzel-Weller Distilleries "Did Fitzgerald." "Old Elk" "Cabin Still," "W. L. Weller" Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) if if if J. R. Simplot Potato Co. Frozen potato products (Grain Millers) if if if Kingsport Press "World Book," "Childerafl" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) if if if Jamestown Sterling Corp. Southern Furniture Mfg. Co. Furniture and Bedding (United Furniture Workers) 4» if .JEmpire State Bedding Co.' "Sealy Mattresses" (Textile Workers) if i, if Pepsi Cola Company (Soft Drink Workers, Local 812) t it 4" White Furniture Co. United Furniture Workers of America ^— Leon E. Foskey You are requested to contact your mother Mrs. Bessie Foskey Murrell at 201 S. Mauldin Avenue, North East, Maryland 21901. if if if Raphael R. Maldonad You are requested to contact your children Raphael II, Emily Jayne, and Elizabeth Ann at 23123 EVERY MONTHS If Riiy SIU (hip has no library or needs a new supply of books, contact any SIU hall. YOUR SIU SHIP'S LIBRARY Moving? Notify SIU, Welfare Seafarers and SIU families who apply for maternity, hos­ pital or surgical benefits from the Welfare Plan are urged to keep the Union or the Wel­ fare Plan advised of any changes of address while their applications are being proc­ essed. Although payments are often made by return mail, changes of address (or illegible return addresses) delay them when checks or "baby bonds" are returned. Those who are moving are advised to notify SIU headquarters or the Wel­ fare Plan, at 17 Battery Place, New York 4, NY. SIU Atlantic, Guff, Lakes & Inland Waters JACacSONVlLLE 2608 Pearl St.. SE. Jax ELfiin 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler Si. FRanklin 7-3584 MOBIUE 1 South Lawrence St. HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jacksun Ave. Tel 529-7546 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S 4th St Tel. DE 6-3838 NORFOLK 115 Third St. 622-1892 TAMPA 212 Hornson St Tel. 229-2788 GREAT LAKES TUG I DREDGE REGION REGIONAL DIRECTOR Robert Jones Dredg* Workers Section ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Richard L. Tillman BUFFALO 84 henrletta Ave. Arthur Miller. Agent .. TR 5-1536 CHICAGO 2300 N. Kimball Trygve Varden. Agent .. ALbany 2-1154 CLEVELAND 1420 W 2.5th St. Tom Gerrity. Agent ... 621-.5450 DEIROIT 2308 Hubbard St. Harold Yon, Agent TA 5-5723 DULUTH 305 W. 5th St. Paul Greco. Agent RA 2-3732 SAULT STE. AIARIE Address mall to Brimley. Mich. Wayne Weston, Agent BRimley 14-R 5 TOLEDO 423 Central St Leslie Willard. Agent 243-6859 PRESIDENT Paul HaU EXECUTIVE VIC®-PRES1DENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Lindsez William* Al Tanner Robert Hatthewi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES BiU HaU Ed Hooney Fred Stewart BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. Rex Dickey, Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 177 State St. Ed Riley. Agent Richmond 2-014U DETROn 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. VInewood 3-4741 HEADQUARTERS .... 675 4th Ave., Bklyn HYacintb 8-6600 HOUSTON 5804 Canal St. Paul Drozak. Agent .... WAlnut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St.. SE., Jax William Morris, Agent . . ELgin 3-0937 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. Ben Gonzales, Agent FRanklin 7-3564 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Louis Neira. Agent HEinlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. Buck Stephens. Agent . Tel. 529-7546 NEW YORK 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6600 Tug Firemen, linemen. NORFOLK 115 3rd St. Gordon Spencer. Acting Agent 622-1892 Oilers ( Watchmen's Section PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th SL ASSISTANT DIRECrrOR Tohn Fay. Acting Agent DEwey 6-3818 Tom Burns SAN FRANaSCO 350 Freemont St. 1644 W. Third St. Paul Gonsorchik. Agent ttOugi.as 2-4401 ASHTABULA. 0 John Kero, Agent WOodman 4-8532 Frank Drozak. West Coast Rep. 18 Portland St. SANTURCE PR 1313 Pernandez Juncos BUFFALO Stop 20 Tom Burns, Agent TA 3-7095 9383 Ewing, S. Chicago Keith Terpe, Hq. Rep Phone 723-8594 CHICAGO ESsex 5-9570 SEATTLE 250.5 1st Ave. Robert Affleck. Agent 1420 W. 25th St. Ted BahkowsU, Agent .. MAin 3-4334 CLEVELAND MA 1-5450 TAMPA 312 Harrison St. W Hearns. Pro-Tem Agent Jeff Gillette. Agent . 229-2788 DETROIT-TOLEDO 14595 Regina, WILMINGTON. Calif 505 N. Marine Ave. Byron Kelly. Agent AUen Park. Mich. Frank Boyne. Agent TErminal 4-2528 386-6264 DULUTH Box No. 66 Great Lakes South Range, Wis. SECRETARY-TREASURER Ray Thomson. Agent... . Export 4-43S3 LORAIN. O. 118 E Parish St. Fred J. Famen Sandusky. Ohio ASSISTANT SECHETARV-TREASURER "arold Rutlisatz, Agent MAin 6-4573 Roy Bondreau MILWAUKEE 2722 A. So. Shore Dr. ALPENA 127 River St. Joseph Miller. Agent SHerman 4-6645 EL. 4-3616 SAULT STE. MARIE .... 219 Brady St. BUFFALO. NY 735 Washington John Bernard. Agent MElrose 2-8963 TL 3-9259 TOLEDO 2706 106th .=1. RA 6-4823 CHICAGO 8383 Ewing Ave. Owen Cone, Agent So. Chicago. UL SAginaw 1-0733 Rivers Section CLEVELAND 1420 West 25th St. ST. LOUIS. MO 805 Del Mar MAin 1-5450 L. J. Colvis, Agent CE 1-1434 DULUTH 312 W. 2nd St. PORT ARTHUR. Tex 1348 7tb St. RAndolph 2-4110 Arthur Bendheim, Agent FRANKFORT. Mich. .. 415 Main St. RAILWAY MARINE REGION MaU Address: P.O. Box 287 ELgin 7-2441 99 Montgomery St. HEADQUARTERS 10225 W. Jefferson Av. HEADQUARTERS HEnderson 3-0104 River Rouge 18 Mich. VInewood 3-4741 Jersey City 2. NJ REGIONAL DIRECTOR G. P. McGinty Inland Boatmen's Union NATIONAL DIRECTOR ASSISTANT REGIONAL DIRECTORS Robert Matthews E. B. PuJver R. H. Avery BALTllWOhE.. 1216 E, Baltimoie Sit GREAT LAKES AREA DIRECTOR EAstern 7.<"no Al Tanner NORFOLK 115 Third St. BALTIMORE ....1216 E. Baltimore St 622-1892-3 EAstern 7-4900 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S 4th BOSTON 276 State St DEwe: 0-38)8 Richmond 2-C140 HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn United Industrial Workers HYacinth 9-6600 BALTIMORE 1216 E Baltimore St. HOUSTON 5804 Canal St EAstern 7-4900 WAlnut 83207 BOSTON 276 State St. Richmond 2-0140 HEADQUARTERS 675 4tb Ave Brooklyn HYacintb 9-8600 HOUSTON 5804 Canal St. WAlnut 8 3207 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St. SE ELgin 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W Flagler St. FRanklin 7-3564 Marigold Avenue, Torranie, Cali­ MOBILE .....1 S. Lawrence St. fornia. HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. if if iPhone 529-7546 Richard Geiling NORFOLK IIS Third St. Phone 622-1892 3 You are asked to contact your PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4tb St. wife Mary at 665 George Street, DEwey 6-3818 TAMPA 312 Harrison St. San Francisco, California. Phone 229-2788 r if if if William Mastoukas You are requested to contact your sister Mrs. Mary Romano at 426 18th Street, West Brooklyn, New York. 4 4" J" Frank Flint Sr. You are asked to contact your son Frank Flint Jr. at 8 Hollyway Road, Mailey Pack, Maryland. ^ $1 Michael Iwasko, 1-46 You are requested to contact Mrs. Ernest Neville at High Street, New Boston, New Hampshire. if if Harvey M. Lee You are asked to contact Mrs. Elizabeth Andrews at 1704 Wardwood Drive, Mobile, Alabama, Phone: 479-9875. if if if Juan Tabisnla, ex-SS Midland You are requested to contact at­ torney John C. Brazil at 80 Wall Street, Suite 525, New York City, Telephone: HA 5-7688, Pick Up 'Shot' Card At Payoff Seafarers who have taken the series of innoculations required for certain foreign voyages are reminded to be sure to pick up their inoculation cards from the captain or the purser when they pay off at the end of a voyage. The card should be picked up by the Seafarer and held so that it can be presented when sign­ ing on for another voyage where the "shots" are required. The innoculation card is your only proof of having taken the re­ quired shots. Those men who forget to pick up their innoculation card when they pay off may find that they are required to take all the "shots" again when they want to sign on for another trip. �LOG SEAFARERS OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO r - •; Foreign-Flag Crews Refuse To Carry U.S. Vietnam Cargoes Fifteen SIU Oldtimers Added To Pension Ranks The U.S. Government's reliance on the theory oi effective control as an assurance of being able to move vital cargoes Lowe Whitehursr Miller De La Pena Gallagher Gates in time of national emergency in spite of the declining capacity of the U.S. merchant^ Fifteen additional SIU veterans have joined the growing ranks of Seafarers already fleet, took a severe beating in sel, the Island Skipper, also refused enjoying the security of lifetime $150-monthly pension checks. The new pensioners are to carry American military cargo John O. Miller, 58, Thomas Lowe, 61, Guy Whitehurst, 62, Edward T. De La Pena, 73, Hugh recent weeks. to Vietnam. Gallagher, 39, Wiley B.>The first instance came when the Challenges Theory Gates, 74, George C. Curley, lina, he lives in Beaufort, N.C. He U.S. Defense Department put a The SIU, other maritime unions, 65, Richard Wilfred Tuggle, last sailed aboard the Kyska. cargo of badly-needed construction American shipowners and others equipment, material and general Ai-my equipment bound for Vietnam aboard the Mexican-flag freighter El Mecicano. The Mexican govern­ ment promptly ordered the cargo unloaded again, citing Mexican law which prohibits any Mexican ship from entering a war zone. The car­ go had to be unloaded and re-loaded aboard a Greek-flag vessel, the Stamatios S. Embiricos. No sooner had the cargo re-load­ ing begun however, when the Greek crew made it known that in spite of a $10,000 bonus which was of­ fered to them, they would not sail with a U.S. cargo bound for Viet­ nam. The cargo had to be unloaded once more, and this time placed aboard an American-flag vessel for delivery. are pointing out how these recent incidents make a mockery of the U.S. government's insistance that so-called effective control is truly effective. They have made clear that once a vessel la registered un­ der a "flag of convenience" and sails with foreign crews instead of American crews, there is no way of effectively controlling its use. The vessel, with its carrying capacity, can be denied to us and made avail­ able to our enemies at any time. The fact that the American mer­ chant marine has already been al­ lowed to decline to the point where it is unable to take care of Ameri­ can interesits—both military and commercial—is well-known. The defense Oepartment, which has consistently downgraded the necessity for maintaining a strong American merchant marine by pointing to what it called its ef­ fective controls of foreign flag ves­ sels and to air movements of mili­ tary supplies, is now apparently searching desiperately for ships, American-flag ships with American crews, to carry its cargoes. 62, Arthur Leroy Anderson, 72, Nord M. Pedersen, 70, George Flood, 60, Gervaise J. Babin, 69, Warren Heck, 63, Haakon J. Mourn, 59, and James F. Stump, 65. Curiey Miller joined the SIU in the port of Norfolk, Virginia and sailed as an AB. Born in North Carolina, he and his wife Nettie presently make their home in Baltimore, Maryland. He last sailed aboard the Alamar. Lowe sailed as a (Veckhand after joining the SIU in the port of Boston. A native of England, he now makes his bome in the city of Boston, Mass. His last ship was the Colorado. Whitehurst signed on with the SIU in the port of Baltimore where he sailed as an FWT in the engine department. Born in North Caro­ Only a few days later another military cargo bound for Vietnam wa;. held up when the crew of an­ other Greek-flag ship, the Marilena P, refused to put to sea with it. An American-flag vessel under charter to MSTS had to be diverted from other duties to take this cargo. In still another instance, the Greek crew of a Liberian-flag ves- Cites Free World Ships In Viet Red Trade The Expert De La Pena sailed in the engine department after joining the Union in the port of Baltimore. A native of Spain, he presently makes his home in Baltimore with his wife Martha. His last ship was the Bethtex. Gallagher joined the SIU in the port of Galveston, Texas, sailing as a member of the deck depart­ ment. Bom in Michigan, he lives in St. Ignace, Mich. He last shipped out aboard the Steel Age. Gates sailed as a member of the steward department after signing on with the SIU in the port of New Orleans. Born In Louisiana, Tuggle Anderson Senator Urges Action Against Ships Trading With Viet Reds WASHINGTON—^Pressure is building within Congress which may force the Administra­ tion to act against Free World shipowners who are hauling cargoes to Communist North Vietnam. Senators and Representatives are growing increasingly critical of the fact that the governments of our allies • continue to allow their mer­ months of this year. British-flag Reports have been cited that chant ships to carry vital sup­ vessels accounted for 60 percent Free World merchant ships carry Seafarer Bela Szupp (left) gives some free advice while Dan A. Brass lines up a shot on the shuffleboard table at the Balti­ more hall. Szupp, who sails in the steward depart­ ment and deckman Brass were at the Baltimore hall recently waiting for a iship. plies and equipment to North Viet­ nam which may be used against American soldiers fighting there. Protesting the fact that many of these merchant vessels also call at U.S. ports and that other ships flying the same flags are even car­ rying U.S. cargoes to South Viet­ nam, Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) made public a list of foreign-flag ships that have called at both North Vietnam ports and U.S. ports this year. Drafting Bill The Senator said he Is presently drafting a bill to ban all the ships of any company trading with North Vietnam from entering U.S. ports. He said he will introduce the bill despite opposition from Adminis­ tration leaders. Bayh pointed out that according to the list he had compiled. Free World ships brought 74 cargoes to North Vietnam during the first six of these cargoes with Greek and Norwegian-flag ships next in line. Would Impose Ban The legislation proposed by Sen­ ator Bayh would establish a ban on these ships in U.S. ports, also similar to that imposed on ships trading in Cuba. Bayh reported that although British vessels lead, the list of Free World ships trading with North Vietnam, the British government recently asked Washington to re­ fuse a permit allowing an Ameri­ can firm to sell radio equipment to Indonesia. Britain presently has a beef with Indonesia. ". . . It seems rather inconsistent to me for the British to decry a potential American sale of goods to Indonesia when the British, more than any other nation, are guilty of .shipping goods to North Vietnam, a nation which is openly and flagrantly threatening world peace," Bayh said. about 45 percent of North Viet­ nam's seaborne imports and 85 percent of its exports. In addition to Bayh, Representa­ tive Paul Rogers (D. Fla.) has in­ troduced a bill (HR 6154) which if adopted would close United States ports to the ships of any nation that permits its merchant fleet to transport supplies to Communist North Vietnam. Calls For Boycott The Florida Congressman is also calling upon the State Depart­ ment to declare a boycott which would forbid the operators of these ships from carrying governmentgenerated cargoes. The SIU, the ILA and other maritime industry groups are sup­ porting passage of the Roger's bill. The ILA has pledged itself to boycott these vessels should they appear in any U.S. port from Maine to Texas. Pedersen Hood he makes his home in the city of Vivian, La. His last ship was the Del Santos. Curley joined the SIU Railway Marine Region in the port of New York where he sailed as a mate. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, he and his wife Minnie make their home in West New York, New Jersey. He last sailed for the New York Central Railroad. Tuggle sailed as a deckhand after joining the SIU Inland Boatmens Union in the port of Norfolk, Virginia. Born in Blackstone, Vir­ ginia, he lives in Trevillians, Virginia. He last sailed for the Gulf Atlantic Towing Company. Anderson signed on with the SIU Inland Boatmens Union in Chicago, 111., where he sailed as a linesman. Born in Illinois, he makes his home in Chicago. He last sailed for the Great Lakes Towing Company. Flood joined the SIU in the port of New York where he sailed as a member of the steward depart­ ment. A native of Bermuda, he and his wife Sarah presently make their home in New Orleans. His last ship was the Steel Scien­ tist. Pedersen sailed as a dredgeman BabIn Rech Mourn Stump after joining the SIU Inland Boat­ men's Union in the port of Chicago. Born in Illinois, he lives in Chicago. He last sailed for the (Continued on page 17) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource September 17, 1965 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU MEMBERSHIP OKS NEW PACT WITH CO’S SIU PROVIDES FOOD, SHELTER FOR NEW ORLEANS STORM VICTIMS FOUR CANADIAN SEAFARERS LOSE LIVES IN SHIP BLAST SENATE UNIT SLATES HEARING OF 50-50 RULING ON RED WHEAT AFL-CIO POSITION ON SOVIET-BLOC WHEAT SHIPMENTS THE EVILS OF STRIKEBREAKING – A CURE PROPOSED DAMAGE HEAVY AS HURRICANE BETSY BATTERS NEW ORLEANS FOUR CANADIAN SEAFARERS KILLED IN SHIP EXPLOSION SIU MEMBERSHIP RATIFIES NEW PACT WITH COMPANIES SENATE LABOR COMMITTEE URGES REPEAL OF 14B REPORT OF GREAT LAKES DISTRICT CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE U.S.-FLAG TANKSHIP FLEET IN 4TH PLACE, STILL FALLING U.S. DROPS PLAN TO BUY POLISH-BUILT FISHING BOATS MEASURE PROVIDING COLLEGE AID TO STUDENTS PASSES CONGRESS THE EVIL OF STRIKEBREAKING NEW YORK CITY EYES SEA FOR FRESH WATER SOURCE SEAFARERS PORTS OF THE WORLD – KOBE WATERWAY TAX WILL HURT, STEEL TOWNS ARE WARNED SENATOR URGES ACTION AGAINST SHIPS TRADING WITH VIET REDS Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/17/1965 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXVII, No. 20 1965 Periodicals Seafarers Log